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-mmtmm -lM—. Served By Leased Wire Of The %J44+ + \ + 4 ^ 4 Total Net Paid M=Sr| Mumttt0t0« Uumratr* max lifei VOL. 74—NO. 288 WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1941 _FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 Red Attackers Run Nazis From Road To Moscow •- w_ german losses reportedheavy Berlin Admits Resistance Terrific; Mud Bogs Down Hitler’s Blitzkriegers BULLETIN BERLIN, Monday, Sept. 8.— i/pl _ A squadron of British bombers reached Berlin in the course of attacks on north and northwest Germany during tile night, it "as stated officially today. MOSCOW. Mondsy, Sept. 8.—UP) ^Russian forces, on the counter offensive by land, sea and air have driven the Germans from a vital highway leading to Mos cow delivered "massive” aerial hows at the Nazis and captured a submarine in the Barents sea, it was reported today. The Red armies hold the initia tive on a broad section of the western front, it was announced here, with some of the fiercest fighting of the war, now in its 12th week, "taking place "around the clock” on the mud-churned, fog shrouded battlefield before Lenin grad. Today’s early morning war re port said Red airmen yesterday backed up the embattled land forces with one destructive attack after another upon the Germans at the front and ranged far beyond the lines to hammer home telling raids on Nazi airdromes. The captured German submarine was identified by the official an nouncement as the U-73, one of Germany’s largest. Accounts of the determined Rus sian efforts to smash the Nazi threat to Leningrad indicated that tremendous losses were being in flicted upon Hitler’s invaders. The counter-attacking force com manded by Col. Donskov was said in an account of Izvestia, govern ment newspaper, first to have blocked a German thrust across a river and then to have taken the offensive. The Germans lost 1,500 dead and wounded in the one ac tion, the paper reported. (Although the river was not named, it may have b een . the Neva, which flows from the south western corner of Lake Ladoga at Schluesselburg, through Lenin grad to the Gulf of Finland. The Germans have announced that the railway line from Schluesselburg, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) NAZIS CLAIM U. S. FORTRESS DOWNED British Dispute Assertion American-Built, 4-Motor Bomber Has Been Lost BERLIN, Sept. 7.—(fPt—The Ger mans tonight claimed to have shot down on the Norwegian coast a four-motored fortress plane, but acknowledged that British forays against Norway and Germany Sat urday night caused a number of deaths and did damage. (If this report is confirmed, it would mean the RAF has lost its first big America - built fortress plane—huge bombers which have carried out substratosphere raids on German objectives. Thus far only one fortress bomber had been reported seriously damaged and it "as said to have been attacked while flying lower than usual.) A DNB dispatch said that the four-motored plane was shot down m an attack on the OSLO area and that two of the fortress’ crew taken prisoners. Hie Germans reported sinking 'our freighters, totaling 30,000 tons, Saturday night in the battle (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) hmy, Railroads Slate Maneuver Supply Talks Raleigh, sept. 7.—w—t h e ron of moving supplies to the M,000-odd troops who will engage r ''’ar games along the North arolina - South Carolina border /ext n;or,th will be discussed here morrow by officials of three rail r?a , and rig. Gen. James L. mk of Atlanta, Fourth Corps n? ■ Quartermaster. . Rciais of the Seaboard, South aJ“t Norfolk Southern railroads WlU be present. 1 soithern building up f,1BAVIM0RE> Sept. 7.—UP)—The Manufacturers’ Record said today *ra„, southern construction con cf ,Q,.for the first eight months «,,,, . reached a figure higher Cnn any. aunual total on record, onstruetun totals for August ine thPlrCed at $434,131,000, rais tinn ,le 'January-August accumula , ">n to $1,957,411,00^ PRETTY AND PERT Jessie Matt hews, English state and screen star, has arrived in New York to help entertain service men with songs and dances and to generally help boost the morale of the soldiers and sailors.—NEA Photo. NEW C. OF C. HEAD ARRIVES IN CITY John L. Morris Impressed by Defense Potentialities of Local Businessmen Wilmington, in the opinion of John L. Morris, new executive sec retary' of the Chamber of Com merce who arrived here last night, has more possibilities than any other city in the south. Mr. Morris, who admitted that he had had no time to look over the real city from every view point, said that he was ready to assume his post today and start bringing to the manufacturers of the city their share of the national defense contracts which are wait ing for the small businessmen of the nation. “From what I’ve seen of the city,” he said, “there should be be scores of defense contracts here, and to start, I’m going to go out after these. “There is other work to be done here, but it will take time to give the city a thorough study and to really get down to developing the potentialities which abound here.” Citing as one of the fundamen tal needs of the city the full de velopment of Wrightsville Beach, the new Chamber chief said that he foresaw the possibility of this beach becoming a second Miami and said that he felt certain that things could and would be done during his administration toward that point. “I can hardly wait until I can bring my wife and children up. It will be grand to sink my teeth in another job where I can start building from the ground up,” Mr. Morris concluded. 2 British and Iran Peace Discussions Bogged Down TEHERAN, Iran, Sept. 7.—(A— The Iran government today failed to issue a statement at the regular session of parliament of peace ne gotiations with Britain and Russia, thereby indicating the terms pre sented by the allies last Friday had not been approved. 2 1 War Fronts In Brief BERLIN, Sept. 7.— (/PI—As a “sign of the destruction of Soviet power in the Baltic,” the official German news agency today an nounced that 65 Russian transports and 27 warships were sunk by the German navy and air force in the Finnish gulf last week. MOSCOW, Sept. 7.—(#)—The Red army newspaper, Red Star, de clared today that 7,200 German planes had been destroyed. Of these, it added, more than 2,000 were wrecked aground. HELSINKI, Finland, Sept. 7 — Finish troops resumed their offen sive northeast of Lake Ladoga three days ago after a long pause and have advanced nearly 50 miles, a Finnish communique an nounced today. MOSCOW, Monday, Sept. 8.—The Soviet bureau of information is sued the following communique early today: “During Sept. 7 our troops continued to fight the enemy along the entire front. On Sept. 5 our air force destroyed 23 Ger man aircraft in air combats and 1 on airdromes. Our losses were 11 aircraft. In the Berents sea the German U-boat U-73 was cap tured.” CAIRO, Sept. 7.—The RAF’s Middle East communique today said: “Libya: Heavy bombers of the RAF attacked shipping along side the Spanish quay at Tripoli during the night of Sept. 5-6. A medium-sized merchantman was hit by bombs and many direct hits were obtained on the quay. Other RAF bombers raided a num ber of objectives in Cirennaica.” ROM!E, Sept. 7.—The Italian high command issued the following communique today: “On the land fronts of North and East Africa there is nothing of importance to report. British planes bombed Tri poli without causing any victims and dropped several shrapnel bombs near Catania without vic tims or damage.” , ! BERLIN, Sept. 7.—The Hitler headquarters issued the following (Continued on Fage Three; Col. 6) Hanover Schools Set Will’ an enrollment of 11, more than last New Hanover county will swing open their doors at 8:45 o’clock for one of the greatest semesters in the his tory of the county. Both white and negro teachers have been advised over the week end to expect the largest classes they ever have had and were urged to see that all pupils are treated with equal care. Forty-two men teachers have been added to the staffs to date, with others expected to be hired as the year advances. H. M. Ro land, county school superintendent, has said that the estimated enroll ment ..3 will increase by 500 per month for the next three months at least, making a total of some 3,000 new students before the turn of the year. New-class rooms have been add ed to every school in the county in an effort to care for the new pupils until such time as funds are made available by the federal government .. under the Federal Works Agency to erect three more schools. In addition to the new teachers, it has been necessary to form three new bus routes to care for those children of families which have entered the city for employment at the North Carolina Shipyards. Mr. Roland, i n announcing everything in readiness for the opening of the schools today, said that all of the schools would oper ate on daylight savings time until Sept. 23, at which time the nation as a whole reverts to Eastern standard. Meanwhile, a special invitation was extended to all parents of children who are to enter schools here for the first time this year to come to the schools today with their children in order that all necessary information may be ob tained with the least possible trou ble. Majority of those pupils who will be entering for the fihst' time this year registered last Saturday. While the greater part of the sessions at the schools today will be taken up with routine matters, it was ex pected that full class schedules would be instituted tomorrow. _« INVASION PORT FIRED BY R.A.F. Hugf Blazes Reported Rag ing in Boulogne After Attack by Raiders LONDON, Monday, Sept. 8.—UPI— Tv i German-held French “inva sion” port of Boulogne was alight early today with fires started by massed RAF raiders and the Nazi anti-aircraft batteries tossed up one of the heaviest barrages yet seen from this side of the Dover Straits. The raid started around mid night. This assault followed a Sat urday night attack upon a synthe tic rubber factory at Huls in the Rhineland, where the air ministry reported large fires were set by bull's-eye scoring British planes, and daylight Sunday offensives over the channel and northern France in which three RAF fight ers were lost. While this raid was in progress, the Nazis struck back, bombing a southeast coast town, the north east coast) East Anglia, a town in the east of England and north east Scotland. Some casualties were reported in the southeast coast town where two taverns were wrecked by di rect hits and a large number of houses and shops were damaged by German dive-bombers. 2 LATE NEWS FLASH SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 7. — UP) — Earthquake shocks were felt here at 7 fl3 and 7:15 p. m. (PST) tonight, but a quick survey indicated damage no more severe than a few broken dishes. They were much lighter than the quake of June 30 in which walls of several buildings were cracked. Tonight’s shocks also were felt in Ventura and Lom poc. SENATE CALLS MOVIEMOGULS Group Will Probe Charges of Film Propaganda for U. S. Entry Into War WASHINGTON. Sept. 7.-W)— Men of prominence in the motion picture industry will be called up on by a Senate committee this week to answer accusations- that the films have been used to spread propaganda favoring United States entry into the war. Hearings, scheduled to open Tuesday, also will cover allega tions that the radio industry has engaged in propaganda for war. Chairman Clark (D.-Ida.) of the five-man investigating group said today the first witnesses would be Senators Nye (R.-N. D.) and Clark (D.-Mo.), bitter critics of admin istration foreign policy. The two senators will be fol lowed by leaders of the film in dustry, including Nicholas Schenck, Harry Warner, Barney Balaban, Darryl Zanuck and Alexander Kor da. Chairman Clark said he had no immediate plans to call any actors or actresses, but added that this might be necessary if a n y films were found to contain war propaganda. The House will continue its va cation for another week, but a joint committee of Senate and House members is scheduled to start Wednesday to re-write the $3,383, 900,000 tax bill passed by the Sen ate Friday. The Senate made many ghariges in the measure passed by the House, including a reduction in personal income tax exemptions, but, despite these changes, Sen ator George (D.-Ga.), chairman of the joint committee, expressed the view that a final bill would be agreed upon in a few days. The Interstate Commerce sub committee which will conduct the propaganda investigation is com posed largely of senators hostile to President Roosevelt’s foreign policies. In addition to Chairman Clark, the members are one (D. Wash.), McFarland (D.-Ariz.), To bey (R.-N.H.) and Brooks (R.-Ill.). On the other hand, Wendell Will kie, a supporter of the President’s foreign policies, will serve as coun sel for the film producers. The subcommittee was named after Nye and Clark of Missouri had asked for an investigation of charges that the multi-million dol lar film and radio industries had attempted “to influence public sen timent in the direction of partici pation by the United States in the present European war.” Since appointment of the group, Nye and Clark have amended their original request to include charges of monopoly in production. All American Shipments Not Implements of War WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. — — Not all of the space in ships leaving American ports is filled with imple ments of war. The commerce department report ed today that exports during the first six months of this year included $353,834 worth of wick lanterns; $587,734 of padlocks; $557,789.of false teeth; $328,901 of horseshoe nails; $627,162 of chewing gum; $457,913 of toothbrushes; $423,240 of lipsticks, and $371,618 of coin-operated phono graphs. Home-Made Boat Upsets; Brother and Sister Drown WINTHROP, Mass., Sept. 7.—UP) —UP)—Twelve-year-old Charles Mc Laughlin saw his small brother and sister drown today while he hung crying to the home-made boat they had ali helpel to bliild. George, 10, and Theresa, 8, drown ed before police who rescued Charles could reach the overturned boat— made in the McLaughlin backyard from pieces of an old rowboat that the boys had nailed together. Military Police Quell Southside Near - Riot Of Civilians, Soldiers Military and Wilmington police last night were called to quell a near-riot between negro soldiers and civilians, but the military police had quieted the disturbance before it reached proportions warranting ci vilian police action. The disturbance started outside the Ruth hall where a negro dance w as in progress Pipeline Dispute Develops Admiral Land Flays Plan as Requiring Steel That Is Needed (or Ships WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.-UP1-A bitter dispute over proposed con struction of the world’s largest oil carrying pipeline was developed to day between high-ranking defense and administration officials. Critical opposition to the project, intended to meet what the office of petroleum coordinator says is a gasoline and oil shortage on the East coast, came from Ad. Emory S. Land, chairman of the Mari time commission; Ralph W. Budd, defense transportation commission er, and spokesmen for the rail road and ship industries. Supporting the project were Sec retary of Interior Ickes; Ralph K. Davies, acting petroleum coordina tor, and many of the large oil companies. The dispute came into public at tention at hearings by the special Senate committee investigating pe troleum shortages. Senator Malo ney (D.-Conn.), chairman, said that the Senate group may be forced to take part in the pipeline controversy. Davies, former official of the Standard Oil Co., of California, told senators that a pipeline 1,800 miles long, extending from Texas and Louisiana oil fields to the eastern coast, could end the gaso line and oil shortage caused by diversion of tanker ships to Eng land and the navy. He said that a crude oil line would bring 250,000 barrels daily to the East, or considerably more than some of the estimates on the daily shortage. Davies said that major oil companies were willing to finance the “longest and larg est” pipeline at an estimated cost of $80,000,000 and that surveys al ready had been completed with (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) REDS ‘BANISH’ VPLCA GERMANS Stalin Orders Population to Siberia to Prevent Possible Sabotage MOSCOW, Sept. 7.—The re moval to Siberia of the population of the Volga region, settled by Ger mans in» the 18th century in the reign of Catherine the Great, was ordered tonight by the Soviet su preme council. It said the move was made upon the discovery of "tens of thousands of diversionists and spies among the German population there who are prepared to cause explosions in these regions at a signal from Germany. The order provided for the resettle ment project to be carried out as soon as possible under supervision of the national .defense council head ed by Premier fftalin. -s, Russian ‘Ghost Voice* Continues to ‘Haunt* Nazi News Broadcasts NEW YORK, Sept. 7.— UP)—1The Germans, in a maneuver to elude the Russian “ghost-voice” inter rupting their news programs broadcast for home consumption, were reported by the BBC tonight to have shifted from a long-wave to a medium-wave station, but still didn’t shake the kibitzer. The British broadcast, heard here by CBS, said tonight’s Nazi broadcasts were sent from a me dium-wave station at Breslau in stead of from the powerful Deutschlandsender station near Berlin. “But, the mystery voice followed them and cut in while the news was being broadcast from Bres lau,” the BBC said. “The inter ruptions were faint, but sufficient to make the German announcer rush through the news without pause.” ] LaGuardia Mayoralty Foe Will Appeal Invalidation NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—(£>)—John R. Davies, former president of the National Republican club, said to night he would appeal a court de cision ruling him off the Republican primary ballot in the mayoraty cam paign. Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora ruled Davies’ petitions invalid last night, leaving Mayor LaGuardia unopposed for the party’s nomina tion. Justice Pecora described the petitions as “saturated with fraud.” MEYER pi LONDON LONDON, SepjL 7. — (TP) — Eugene Meyer, proprietor of the Washington Post, arrivyi ii London today and said he hoped tjo meet British labor leaders during l^is visit. MRS. SARA ROOSEVELT, 86-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF PRESIDENT, DIES INN Y MRS. SARA DELANO ROOSEVELT, mother of America’s President, died yesterday morning at the age of 86. Mr. Roosevelt was in Hyde Park, N. Y., preparing an address when death came. The above photo shows Mrs. Roosevelt in her New York city home with Artist Douglas Chandor, who painted her portrait to be presented to the President’s Hyde Park Memorial Library.—Central Press Photo. U. S., British Pull Noose Around Greer Attacker By DREW MIDDLETON REYKJAVIK, Sept. 7.—(A>)— (Passed by field Censor)—British and United States warships criss crossed the tufhultous North At lantic today, hunting the German submarine which clashed last Thursday with the U. S. destroyer Greer. The U-boat has a “slim chance,” according to one American naval officer. He expressed little doubt that it already had been damaged by the Greer and that its crew was weary from 72 hours of dodg ing depth charges dropped by planes and destroyers. SEN. NYE FLAYS GREER INCIDENT North Dakota Solon De clares U. S. ‘Unmoved’ by Presumed Torpedoing TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 7.—UFI— U. S. Sen. Gerald P. Nye (R. N. C.), declared today at an America First committee rally that the United States’ “130,000, 000 people were hardly moved by the submarine attack that seems to have been made on an Ameri can destroyer.” The non-interventionist senator, charging that President Roosevelt and administration leaders had led this nation to “the precipice of war,” expressed hope the President would postpone com ment on the engagement between the destroyer Greer and a Ger man submarine until the “hours of anger’’ subsided. The “hours of anger,” Nye said, were being experienced to a far greater degree by Mr. Roosevelt than by the average American cit izen. Upbraiding the administration’s lend-lease policy of providing bil Nye told a police-estimated crowd of 2,000 in Cadwalader park that England “takes our steel ingots and makes them into things to sell to the world.” “They (the British) are beating us blind today in our trade with South America,” he said. Nye said the United States would remain out of war only if the rank and file persisted in saying “no, no, no” to moves which he said were intended to draw this nation closer to actual participa tion. 1 WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina: Partly cloudy, scat tered thundershowers in north and west portions; cooler. <By XT. S. Weather Bureau) (Meteoaological data for the 4 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday). Temperature 1:30 a. m. 75; 7:30 a. m. 74; 1:30 p. m. 92; 7:30 p. m. 83; maximum 94; mini mum 71; mean 82; normal 75. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 89; 7:30 a. m. 84; 1:30 p. m. 35; 7:30 p. m. 63. , Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month 0.48 inches. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Many British and American na val officers here say they believe the submarine, which was attacked by the Greer, was sunk in the action with the American destroy er and the Berlin announcement, indicating that it escaped, was in tended to cover the loss. Another theory is that the U boat was damaged but not sunk by the Greer and that after diving to escape the destroyer, it sur faced during the night. Its com mander then may have taken a desperate chance and wirelessed his account of the engagement to the German submarine base at Brest. It was considered doubtful that the submarine had yet made port. To do that, naval observers said, she would have to do most of the trip submerged, following a tor tuous course to escape the hunters. It is surprising that a submarine should attack a destroyer. Destroy ers are built to fight submarines and the latter have little chance of victory unless their first torpedo hits the mark. If this fails, the submarine’s only chance is to dive and play dead. Once its position is known its chances of survival become pro gressively slimmer as more sur face and aerial craft enter into the search. NAZIS SHOUT ‘LIC’ BERLIN, Sept. 7.—UP)—Germany, after energetically accusing the U. S. destroyer Greer of an unpro voked attack on a German sub marine, had nothing more to say (However, a Berlin radio broad cast heard in New York called (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) 499,000 Workers in U. S. Given Employment in July WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—OP)— Paul V. McNutt federal security administrator, announced today that 499,000 defense and non-de fense jobs were filled by the state employment services during July, an increase of six per cent over the previous month and 62 per cent over the same month last year. Job placements during the first seven months of this year totaled about 3,000,000. The total for the same period in 1940 was 1,900, 000. _2 Dies Says Henderson’s Top Aides Communistic WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—UP)— Chairman Dies (D.-Tex.) of the House committee on un-American activities made public tonight a letter to President Roosevelt charging that at least four of Leon Henderson’s aides in the Office of Price Administration had express ed Communistic views. Recalling that he had accused Henderson, himself, on the House floor of recent connections ‘‘with several of the front organizations or transmission belts of the Com munist party,” Dies concentrated his latest attack on these subor dinates: Robert A. Brady, head consul tant of OPACS at $7,500 a year salary. , His wife, Mildred Edie Brady, principal specialist in consumer education at $5,600. Tom Tippett, assistant chief of the rent section at $5,600. Dewey H. Palmer, $20-a-day con sultant. E. J. Lever, principal field rep resentative of the labor division of the Office of Production Man agement, with a $5,600 salary, also was accused of being “affiliated with outstanding Communists.” Even before general publication of Dies’ letter, Henderson called a press conference at his dffice, said he had learned of the letter and wished to issue a reply. (Continued on Page Three; Col^T) SON AT BEDSIDE AS END ARRIVES White House Delays Vital Broadcast by Chief Ex ecutive to Thursday HYDE PARK, BN. Y.. Sept. 7.— (ill—Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, 86, who lived to see he ronly son become president of the United States, died today at the ancestral Roosevelt home overlooking the Hudson river. Death came at 11:15 a.m. (EST) o' an acute circulatory collapse resulting principally from her ad vanced age. The first intimation HYDE PARK. Sept. 7.—<**>— Soon after the announcement to day of the death of the Presi dent’s mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, messages of condo lence began streaming into the temporary White House at a rate of more than 100 an hour. Tele graph offices had to reserve spe cial wires. of her declining health came last Friday when Mr. Roosevelt left Washington for Hyde Park to visit his mother whom, he said, he wished to undergo a physical checkup. Mrs. Roosevelt died while her son—the 32nd president of th e United States—was preparing an address of major importance to the world scheduled to be broad cast from the White House in Washington tomorrow night. It was announced officially that the address, expected to deal with the new tension in German-Ameri can relations, would be postponed until 9 p.m. (EST) Thursday. It will be carried from the White House by major American net works and rebroadcast to the world in' 14 languages. Dr. Scott L. Smith, family phys ician, announced that Mrs. Roose velt had been unconscious for 12 hours preceding her death and that her condition had not become alarming' until Saturday evening. Even at her advanced age she was extremely active, attending many charitable functions and state occasions. She had spent the summer at her cottage on Campo bello Island, New Brunswick, leav ing Aug. 31 for Hyde Park. Both the President and his wife were with his mother when she died* They had spent last night at her bedside. Her greatest joy was her son, whom she referred to occasionally (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) FM EXTENDS BRAZIL GREETING President Cites Fundamen tal Sympathy on Anniver sary of Freedom WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Ml— President Roosevelt hailed the “fundamental sympathy of spirit and purpose” between the peoples of Brazil and the United States to night in a message of greeting to that South American republic on the anniversary of its i ndepen dence. The chief executive told the Bra zilian people, too that no nation was safe from the “aggression and conquest now grinding hithreto great, happy and peaceful nations into the most abject misery and poverty,” and added, “never was the world more in need of a rees tablishment of the ideas of peace and justice for which Brazil has so constantly stood.” Mr. Roosevelt’s message was read in Portuguese in his behalf by Carlos Martins, the Brazilian ambassador, on a short-wave radio broadcast to Brazil.
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