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Served By Leased Wire Oi The F ^ ^ Total Net Paid ASSOCIATED PRESS ■■■ 1^4^4444^14 |25%T^4'4^ STAR-NEWS CIRCULATION Mtaz,?1 innonriuy ”icur |s^s VOL, 74—NO. 289____v___ WILMINGTON, N.XL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9,1941 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 186? County Budget All Set $1,413,564 Approved by New Hanover Commission for 1941-42 Year The $1,413,564.58 budget for the 1941-42 fiscal year was given final approval yesterday by the New Hanover county commission in the same form it first was presented several months ago by Thomas K Woody, clerk. The total repre sents a slight increase over that of last year. Final action came in the form of a resolution for appropriation of funds, introduced by Commis sioner Harry Gardner and second ed by Commissioner George W. Trask. It was approved unani mously. The finished instrument repre sents only minor changes, with the total remaining the same, but some increases were made in var ious departments, with money to meet these boosts taken from the emergency fund. Major items listed in the new budget, and the funds for the vari ous departments follow: School buildings, $500,000; gen eral iVd, $175,796; old age as sistance. $93,540; school supple ment. $241,525; dependent children, $40,800; county aid and poor re farm, $18,658; hospital fund, $20, 000; health fund, $18,594; port commission, $8,860; salary fund, $35,428 school fund, $80,229 school books, $12,000; school pensions, $4, 427; welfare department, $22,155; county home building fund, $2,897; bond funds—county home, $2,581 courthouse, $14,775; ferry, $2,509: schools, $90,806. The funds are to cover operating costs of the entire county until next June 30, plus governmental costs from July 1 of this year to date. Included in the budget, and an item which drew the fire of Com missioner R. F. Coleman, is $500 which will be split jointly between the city governments of Wrights ville Beach and Carolina Beach, for advertising of the resorts. Mr. Coleman claimed that the county appropriation of these funds (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) BERLIN HEAVILY BOMBED BY RAF Germans Admit Long Raid Worst of War; Many Blazes Reported BULLETIN NEW YORK, Sept. The British radio quoted an of ficial Berlin broadcast to the ef fect that the RAF bombed Berlin again during the night for the second nocturnal assault in a row, LONDON, Sept. 8.—LB—British Pilots, attacking in coldly furious commemoration of one of Britain’s most tragic nights, beat at Berlin for hours last night and early to day in a raid officially termed the heaviest ever delivered upon Hit ler’s capital. It was payment, in the red, familiar coin of fire bombs and ex plosives, for the first mass air at tack on London on the night of Sept. 7-8. 1940, an assault of eight hours and 18 minutes that by Brit i?h count cost the Nazis 65 planes. Twenty British bombers and one ^Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) SHEfS BEAUTIFUL—She's blonde —she’s “Miss America, 1941.’’ Wearing the nation’s No. 1 beauty crown, Rosemary La Planche, 19, of Los Angeles, Calif., stands be side the trophy that tells the world she outshone local beauties from all over the country at the annual Atlantic City, N. J., beauty pag eant. Twenty-four thousand spec tators cheered at her coronation. GERMANS OUST HANNOVER JEWS Civil Disorders Spreading in France as Anti-Nazi Sentiment Flares Up HANOVER, Germany, Sept. 8. —(#1—German authorities began herding Hannover’s Jews into the mortuary hall of the Jewish ceme tery here tonight, following the mayor’s order evicting them from their homes on 24-hour notice. Scores of men, women and chil dren were conducted to this fast crowding provisional abode. The eviction orders also provided for the sale of their property, the pro ceeds to be turned over to them “at a given time.” The orders cited, as one reason for the ousters, a book written by “the Jew Kaufmann in New York,” (presumably “Germany Must Perish!” by Theodore N. Kaufman) demanding “steriliza tion of all Germans and employ ment of German soldiers as coo lies in foreign lands.” In Newark, N. J., Theodore Kaufman called the reference to his book “a flimsy pretext for an other of the innate cruelties of the German people.” 1 FRENCH UNREST SPREADS VICHY, Sept. 8.——More than 100 Jews, including Pierre Masse, former minister of justice, and Theodore Valensi, a former dep uty, today were reported arrested as hostages by German authorit ies at Paris in new reprisals for growing disorders against the oc cupying power. Vichy no longer tried to conceal the gravity of strife in the Ger (Continned on Page Two; Col. 8) ★ ★★ ★★★ ★★★ ★ * * * ★ ★ ES RUIN SPITZBERGEN COAL ^ ... - — ■ ■■ ■ ■— ■ I I — I - . — — — — W l v 'V 1 1 vpfuable Ore Lost To Nazis Daring Expedition Invades Far North Outpost in Spectacular Dash LONDON, Tuesday, Sept. 9.—UP)— Canadian, British and Norwegian troops have made a spectacular 2,500 mile round-trip expedition by sea to the Norwegian Archipelago of Spitz bergen ni the Arctic Circle where they smashed valuable coal mines coveted by Germany, it was an nounced today. The raid on the group of islands 500 miles- north of the Norwegian mainland was unopposed. British ships removed some 1,000 Norwegian miners and their families, the men promptly enlisting in the Norwegian froces in Britain. The announcement did not disclose when the expedition led by a Canadi an officer was made. Nor, was it revealed whether an allied garrison was left on the islands, which are ice-bound most of the year. The landing was made by troops armed for instant action, but mem bers fo the ejjpedition said not a single follower of Maj. Vidkun Quis ling, the Norwegian Nazi leader, was found in the islands. Nor were any Germans stationed there. This was the second British descent on Norwegian territory since the withdrawal before the Nazi occu pation. An expedition landed on the Lofoten islands in March and de stroyed whale oil factories. There wils no interference from German {bombers either on the voy age to Spltzbergen or at the Archi pelago itself, members of the expedi tion said. The war office statement said: "For various purposes it was re cently decided to send a military force to the Arctic. “In the course of operations which were carried out without enemy in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) AAA URGES GAS BAN BE IFTED Senator Downey Charges Railroads Not Able to End Sabotage WASHINGTON, Sept. «.—(*— The American Automobile Associa tion urged a Senate investigating committee today to recommend discontinuance of the night-time ban on gasoline sales in eastern states, but a spokesman for filling station operators asked its con tinuance. Meanwhile, in a step to facili tate the use of railroad tank cars to bring petroleum east from the southwestern oilfields, the Asso ciation of American Railroads ap plied to the Interstate Commerce commission for authority to make consideration of the application. At the Senate committee hear ing, however, Senator Dwoney (D. ation, had “overjudged what the railroads can do.” Pelley’s state ment that 20,000 tank cars were available to move gasoline to the east, Downey said, was based on (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) Russians Rout Eight Nazi Divisions Of 115,000 Men From Smolensk Area mubLOW, Tuesday, Sept. 9.— (fl — . ^ed army proclaimed today as its greatest victory of the war •Sainst Germany the routing of LONDON, Tuesday, Sept. 9. ~ &'i~A dispatch from a spe C!al correspondent of the Brit ish news agency Reuters re ported today that it is certain , Germans have not encir ated Leningrad. The Germans have approach. ed tairly close only from the southwest, Reuters said, but not ' 0Se enough for practical large-scale shelling. lKoon132* divisi°ns totaling about , men in the Smolensk area the central front. > Gerfnans were smashed in vici "°5y datGe that ended in a Vh 0£*^d for Soviet arms yesterday • *n Red army units regained the Y MOSCOW RAIDED -/ MOSCOW, Tuesday, Sept. 9.— — German air formations struck at Moscow early today for the first time since Aug. 27 and a Soviet communique said only two of the raiders broke through the defenses. An alarm was in force for three hours. town of Yelnya, 40 miles east of Smolensk, an official announcement said. This was the first time in more than two years of European war that Hitler’s men have been driven out of any major position, once they had taken a foothold. On both ends of the front, mean while, counter-attack after counter attack by the Red forces appeared to be relieving pressure on Lenin grad on the north and Odessa and Kiev in the south. Ferocity of the struggle on the central front was matched on the north where Marshal Klementi Voroshilov’s armies stubbornly were defending Leningrad, three weeks after the Germans declared the second Soviet city “under di rect threat of attack.” The exact location of the fighting on the approaches to Leningrad was not given, but today’s com munisue said guerrillas were operating in the rear of the Ger mans in the vicinity of Luga, a rail junction 80 miles south of the Bal tic city. The Russians, broadening their aerial offensive, reported a Red air force raid on Bucharest Sunday night and repeated assaults upon (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) FOUR AMERICAN AIRMEN bound for service with the RAF were drowned but these were among the saved when their ship, en route to England, was torpedoed. The rescued men are shown after being landed at an unnamed British port. Pictured are (left to right) Norman Echord, Missouri; Tom Griffin, Mississippi; Jack Gilliland, Kansas; James Jordan, California; and Rivers Grove, Georgia.________ COUNTY TO BACK LIGHT RATE CUT Joint Meet With City Coun cil Asked to Study Tide Water Power Slash Prospects that the city of Wil mington and New Hanover county may join the State Utility com mission in pressing the Tide Water Power Co. for a reduction in power rates in eastern North Carolina was seen yesterday when the coun ty commission instructed the clerk to arrange a joint meeting with the city commission tomorrow morning at 9:30 o’clock to discuss the matter. The county action followed re ceipt of two letters, one from Cy rus D. Hogue, local attorney, and the other from Horace Pearsall of the Wilmington Oil and Fertilizer co., requesting that the commis sion join in the action when a public hearing is set. Commissioner Harry Gardner told the commission that it could not well refuse the requests be cause it would be “breaking faith in the trust placed in them by the people who elected them to of fice.” In his letter, Mr. Pearsall stated that he had made an individual study of the case, and found it of merit, and said that he also had contacted the city council by letter, urging action. The commission agreed that some move should be taken by the board and it was proposed that it, after conferences with the city, hire an attorney to appear with counsel of the utility commis sion in Raleigh when the hearing is called. Mr. Hogue pointed out that it long had been an established fact that the company here was charg (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Lumberton Girl Drowns As Boat Capsizes Near Tarheel Ferry; 6 Saved ELIZABETHTOWN, Sept. 8. — Carldene Ivey', 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lvey, of Lumber ton, was drowned yesterday near the Tarheel ferry on the Cape Fear river when the motor boat in which she was riding capsized. Eugene Bordeaux, operator of the boat, pulled four small children, who were riding in the boat, to safety and the father of the Ivey child saved two, but lost his daughter. Seven were riding in the boat. The body of the little girl was recovered late yesterday. Negro Youth Rides Bike Into Car; Face Lacerated Robert Chadwick, negro youth, received severe lacerations of the face yesterday afternoon when he rode his bicycle into the side of a car driven by Miss Hester Struthers. The driver picked up the injured youth and took him to James Walker Memorial hospital where he was treated and later released. She was absolved of blame. i New Hanover Enrollment At 9;704 For First Day First - day attendance at New Hanover county schools, although 977 above the closing enrollment of last "year, nevertheless fell be low expectations, H. M. Roland, superintendent, revealed Iasi night. Total first-day figure was placed at 9,704 pupils. In explaining the drop in yes terday’s registrations, the school chief said that in many instances families have not returned from summer vacations, and that chil dren of these families are expect ed to bring enrollment to the an U. S. BOMBSIGHT GIVEN TO NAZIS Federal "Attorney Asserts Details Furnished by Espionage Suspect NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—(iP>—U. S. Attorney Harold M. Kennedy, opening the trial in Brooklyn Fed eral court of 16 men charged with participation in a huge German spy ring, declared today that par ticulars of this nation’s treasured Norden bombsight had been given to Germany in 1938. He said in his address to the jury that Hermann Lang, a defend ant who was final inspector for the Norden company, went to Ger many in that year. "We will prove,” Kennedy de clared, "that while there he fur nished particulars about the bomb sight; that after he returned he continued to feed out information on the bombsight. We will prove that his compensation on deposit in Germany is some 10,000 marks.” Defense counsel denied that their clients had participated in any con spiracy or that fhey violated any laws in sending any information to* Germany. A government witness, William Gf Sebold, 42, testified that Ges tapo agents in 1939 threatened “Pertig Machen”—which he trans lated as preparing him for burial —because of his reluctance to dis close American aviation secrets. in a separate case ir Manhattan today, a Federal grand jury in dicted Mrs. Helen Pauline Mayer, 25, o f Ridgewood, Queens, on foreign power by obtaining infor mation about United States army camps. - 2 Aeronautics Board Hears U. S.-Africa Airline Plea ■ & _ ^WASHINGTON, . Sept. 8.—— The Civil Aeronautics board held a secret hearing today on the ap plication of Pan - American Air ways for authority to operate a plane service between the United States and West Africa. No de cision was announced. Just prior to the hearing, the board announced that “inasmuch as much evidence contains secret information affecting national de fense, it will be received in execu tive session?’ ticipated 11,000 figure within the first two weeks of the semester. Everything was carried out yes terday with a minimum of trouble it was said, and officials found that teachers and classrooms had proved adequate to the initial de mands. Any crowded conditions in school buses and classrooms as the reg istration increases, Mr. Roland said, would be eased as rapidly as possible. He expressed the hope that parents of children who be lieve that such an over-crowded condition exists, will report it to the principal of the school or to the county board. Of the total increase in enroll ments yesterday, 815 were white children, with the negro registra tion going up only 162. Six thousand 483 white pupils were registered yesterday as against 3,221 negroes. Registration, a c c o r d i ng to schools, follows: New Hanover High school 1674; Isaac ear 707; Hemenway 571; Bradley’s Creek 264; Catlett 272 Wrightsboro 356; Cornelius Har nett 228 Forest Hills 295; Sunset Park 232; Tileston 874; Winter Carolina each" 170 Williston Industrial 1273; Willi ston Primary 667; Middle Sound (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) Fort Bragg Artillery Brigade Ends Opening Phase of Field Tests HICKORY, Sept. 8.—(d1)—The 13th Field Artillery Brigade, en route to Pisgah national forest and back, completed the first phase of its journey about 6 p.m.,' today and made camp on the western edge of Hickory. The brigade left Fort Bragg at 8 a.m., on its 600-mile road march. The first staff car reached here about 3:40 and not until more than two hours later did the last of the 4,000 men and 500 vehicles ar rive. 1 SHERIFF GIVEN NEW PATROLMAN Walter Horne, Jr., Appoint ed to Law Enforcement Staff by the County Walter Horne, Jr., yesterday was named by the county commission as patrolman on the staff of Sher iff C. David Jones, the appoint ment to become effective Monday. The addition now brings the staff of the sheriff’s office to an all time high. The selection was made by the commission, on the recommenda tion of Sheriff Jones, from a list of three names submitted by the Civil Service board. Others on the list, and whose names will be held to fill any vacancies in the future, were W. E. Singletary of Wrights ville Beach and J. F. Jarrott of 307 Greenfield St. At the same time, the commis sion, again acting on the advice -of Sheriff Jones, passed an $80 monthly fund for the operating ex penses and upkeep of the county patrol car until Jan. 1, at which time the county will decide def initely whether to furnish all mem bers of the sheriff’s office with county-owned cars or sell the one car now owned and force the dep uties and patrolmen to supply their own transportation. Under the latter method the dep uties would receive an allowance. The move was taken when Sher iff Tones told the board that he had been unable to find any worth while men who were willing to take the job of $140 per month and provide their own automobiles. Commissioner Harry Gardner told the group that he believed the action taken was rank dis crimination against those in the department who for years have been furnishing their own cars and who are continuing to do so. He said that some arrangement should be worked out at the earliest pos sible moment when the county could pay the men sufficient sal aries to meet their expenses, or else the county should buy cars enough for each man to have one. Family Retainers To Bear Mrs. Roosevelt To Grave HYDE PARK, N. Y„ Sept. 8.— (A1)—Men from the family estate will bear Mrs. Sara Delano Roose velt, 86-year-old mother of the chief executive, to her grave to morrow, just as another gener ation of workmen did her husband befor- he*\ Simple Episcopal services, omit ting a eulogy, will be held at 2 p.m. (EST) in the big, comforta ble library of Mrs. Roosevelt’s ancestral home. Heads of nations throughout the world, American officialdom, and plain, common citizens continued to tax communications facilities with messages of condolence. Mr. Roosevelt was alone today with his family and with his grief. An American flag flying at half staff from the Franklin D. Roose velt library, near Hyde Park House, was the only visible evi dence of his sorrow. The final arrangements for the funeral emphasized the chief ex ecutive’s desire for privacy. He preferred that not even his closest friends be present to share his bereavement, so attendance will be restricted to relatives and to those who live on the 12,00 acre estate. White House officials placed be fore him, reluctantly, papers de manding his immediate attention. One official remarked, “His job goes on.” The Rev. Frank R. Wilson, rec tor at St. James, will conduct the services. A choir of eight voices will sing two of Mrs. Roosevelt’s favorite hymns, “Abide With Me,” and “O Love That Will Not Let Me Go.” The last request of the Presi dent’s father was that men on the estate be his pall-bearers. The de cision to follow the same pro (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) r Air Bomb Hits War Aid Ship State Department Officials Say Crew Saved; Identity of Attacker Unknown WASHINGTON. Sept. 8.- Iff) - The State department said tonight it had been informed the American freighter Steel Seafarer was sunk b. an airplane bomb in the Red Sea, Sept. 7. The department, in answer to inquiries, said the nationality of the plane was unknown. All mem bers of the crew were saved. The information, the department said, was sent to Washington by tb.3 American minister at Cairo. Egypt, Alexander Kirke. Shipping records available here showed the Steel Seafarer as owned by the Isthmian Steamship Co. It was assumed she was one of the string of American ships carry, ing goods Lo the British in the Mid dle East since President Roosevelt declared the Red sea to be out of the combat zones from which American flag vessels are barred. Shipments from the United States to the Middle East via the Red sea have been under way a little more than four months. On May 9, the Maritime commit* sion disclosed that arrangement* had been made to start the first shipments. By the first of July, the flow of supplies to Egypt had reached the rate of almost * ship a day. The first cargoes included a fast, new type of 13-ton army tanks, bombers, pursuit planes, guns, am munition and other military sup plies. The report on the sinking fol. lowed by five days a duel between the United States destroyer Greer and a German submarine off Ice land . Earlier this summer, the Ameri can freighter Robin Moor, en rout* across the South Atlantic, was tor pedoed by a German submarine. Her crew and passenger* were saved. The Steel Seafarer was a 424. foot ship of 5,719 gross tons, built in 1921 at Kearny, N. J. JAPANESE STUDY GREER INCIDENT Newspaper Opinion Divid ed Over Responsibility For Attack on Craft ' \ TOKYO. Sept. 8.—(A1)—The ques tion of who fired first in the U. S. S. Greer-Nazi submarine sea duel assumed prime importance in the Japanese press today as leaders of public opinin weighed the chances of the incident involving Japan in war. Article .1 of the Tripartiee pact among Japan. Germany and Italy obligates signatories to aid the others if “attacked” by an outside power. Press opinion was divided be tween those blaming the United States for the incident and those was the aggressor. The arms-dominated orran, Ko kumin, led press comment on the Greer incident with the observa tion it meant Germany now felt able to take a positive attitude to ward the United States. The news paper added, however, that con tradictory American and German versions of- who egan the duel made it doubtful'what Japan’s ob ligations would be if the incident were extended. WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina: Continued warm-and fair, except scattered thundershowers (a mountains Tuesday afternoon or night; Wednesday partly cloudy, scattered thundershowers, cooler west portion By Wednesday night. _(By U. S. Weather Bureau) — _ (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday). Temperature 1:30 a. m. 77; 7:30 a. m. 78; 1:30 p. U, 91; 7:30 p. m. 81; maximum 93; mini* mum 73; mean 83; normal 78. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 88; 7:30 a. m. 88; 1:30 p. sl 47; 7:30 p. m. 80. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7S0 f, m. 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month 0.48 inches. (Continued on Page Two; Col^lf
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