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Served By Leased Wire Oi The ’ Total Net Paid ASSOCIATED PRESS STAR-NEWS CIRCULATION With Complete Coverage Of Yesterday . 18,773 State and National News ?ame Day Last 'ear- 1^73 VOL. 71—NO- 309 _ZZZZZZZZIZ! WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1941 _ FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 VIEWS AIR RAID FACILITIES HERE—Brig. Gen. Walter H. Frank, commander of the Third Interceptor command, Third Air F orce, U. S. Army Air Corps, pointing at the huge operations map, Wednesday night inspected the air raid center rapidly nearing com p'etion in the basement of the Wilmington postoffice. With General Frank are, left to right; Lieut. Arthur Jierce, the general’s aide; Maj. H. B. Hinton, assistant intelligence oiiicer. Third Air Force; General Frank, and Conrad Walden, communications expert of the Southern Bell Telephone Co., presently attached to the Third Air Force. * * * * * * * * * Gen. Frank Well-Pleased With Air Raid Setup Here C COMMANDER PITS QUARTERS \ : Hihigcon Urged To Take FuH Part In Coming p Fdaneuvers The man upon whose shoulders I J ly re; ts the air defense of *he c e south—an area extending' f a Virginia to WSW Mexico— ; ved in Wilmington Wednesday <• ernoon for a first-hand inspec 1 n of air raid warning facilities in this strategic defense center of ti 1 Carolinas. He is Brig.-Gen. Walter H. Frank, commander of the Third Interceptor Command. Third Air Force, U. S. Army Air corps, of Drew Field. Tampa, Fla. And, what he saw in the base ment of Wilmington’s post office, v ere for the last several weeks scores of Army and civilian work < ; have converted empty space i: ■ the nerve-center of air defense i tare miles in North and South f r hundreds of thousands of C olina, pleased him mightily. A magnificent job has been done here,” the general declared as he inspected the facilities oy which, soon, civilians will be (Continued oil Page Two; Col; 6) 2nd Canadian-Pacific Train Wreck Within 24 Hours Takes One Life NORTH BAY, Oct. 1 — UP) —One T “nger was killed and at least (. ' employe injured when two Ca nadian Pacific railway trans-conti r.ental passenger trains collided at P ninsula, 04 miles west of White 3liver, at 5:35 p. m. (EST) today in the second Canadian train wreck viihin 24 hours. Railway officials here said the ac cident occurred when train No. 3, T ’. onto to Vancouver, collided with eiHtbound train No. 4 when it over ran a switch at Peninsula. In the wreck yesterday, a brake nan was killed and 41 persons were injured when the Montreal-Quebeck express “Viger” struck a split rail at 7." miles per hour, pitching half the (ars into or on the banks of the nearly dry bed of the Maskinonge liver. FATHER REFUSED CUSTODY OMAHA, Oct. 1.—OP)—Joseph W. fl'ubtj'l, who denied in court that 3 had offered to sell his daughter, .1 tan, 10, for $25 or a piano, was re 1 isf-d custody of the child today._ Freighter Flashes SOS After Being Torpedoed Off Coast Of Ireland CAPE ELIZABETH, Me., Oct. 1.—OP)—Maritime circles reported an SOS late today from an unidentified freighter, which radioed it had been “torpedoed by submarine on surface’’ off Ireland. A rebroadcast of the call from a Canadian station at Camperdown, Nova Scotia, led to first reports that the call came from a point off the Ca nadian coast. A second unidentified freight er was reported radioing that it was “in action with subma rine’’ and maritime circles were of the opinion that the shooting duel was taking place in approximately the same po sition off Ireland from which the SOS came. TEMPERS FLARE AT SPY HEARING Federal Judge Rules Out Defense Questions On FBI Activities NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—UP)—An ob jectionable line of defense ques tioning about the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s failure to appre hend British agents while rounding up German-Americans almost re sulted in a fistfight today between government and defense attorneys at the trial of 16 men charged with espionage conspiracy. Federal Judge Mortimer W. By ers ruled as inadmissable a series of Walsh’s questions regarding the agents. . , , . The government introduced in evidence about 30 scraps of paper found in the pockets of Paul Scholz, a defendant, at the time of his arrest last June 28. One bore the legend “Pac Fleet Again Back to Pac ocean”; another the post-office box-number of Fred L. Ludwig, identified by the govern ment, as a spy suspect apprehend ed in Spokane, Wash., and now awaiting trial in Manhattan; and still others carried the names and addresses of several defendants accused, with Scholz, of transmit ting defense information to Ger many over an outlaw radio in the Bronx.__ _ Impolite British Seadog Prefers AWOL To IVledal! PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1 — <fP>—The second time since his arrival in the United States, •he rowdiest sea-dog in His Majesty’s Navy went A.W.O.E. today and stood up well-wish ing ladies who wanted to make him an honorary member of President Roosevelt’s Falla S°* ciety of Canines. Adding another to a long list of violations of all rules of dis cipline and good order, Stinker Shrapnel sneaked ashore from 'he British cruiser Manchester and disappeared into the unex plored byways of Philadelphia. The Aid for the Allies com mittee gathered in headQuar ters to await Shrapnel, a veter an of Dunkirk, whose canine ancestry is as obscure as his whereabouts today. They reasoned that as a vet eran he is entitled to member ship in the Falla Society, en listed for the fight for democ racy, and named for the Presi dent’s Scotty, Falla. Members of the committee began to wonder where they mi|ht get a more reliable dog to accept the medal for Shrap nel, in absentia. This point of etiquet was be ing debated when Capt. Harold (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) CHURCHMAN FLAYS NYE, ASSOCIATES Fight For Freedom Leader Declares Methods Very Similar To Hitler’s NEW YORK, Oct. l.—UP)—Bishop Henry W. Hobson, national chair man of Fight for Freedom, today ac cused Senator Nye (R-ND) ?>f "at tempting to silence by threats and intimidation every group in Ameri can life that dai-es disagree with that handful of hecklers and heilers you represent.” Bishop Hobson, in a prepared statement, said Senator Nye’s Mon day speech here “threatened an American business leader just as Adolf Hitler threatened German business in 1932.'’ (Nye declared in the speech that unless Lewis Douglas, official of the New York Committee to Defend America and head of the Mutual Life Insurance Co., maintained silence on national defense policy, he would be hailed before a senatorial investiga tion into his business concern. The senator quoted Douglas as saying that “if Hitler should win the war, (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) Clouds Over City Form Perfect ‘V For Victory’ Nature put in her bit for the Wednesday night. Two streaks “V for Victory” campaign of clouds came together in such a fasiiion to form a perfect V in the western skies over Wil mington. The phenomenon first was reported by H. B. Griffin of the Seaboard yards._ Soviets Pledged Full Aid Trade Of War Implements For Raw Materials Set By Tri-Power Talks CONFERENCES END Stalin Expresses Gratitude To Britain’s Beaverbrook And Harriman Of U. S. MOSCOW, Thursday, Oct. 2.—I® —The United States and Great Britain agreed to fill virtually every Soviet need for war supplies in exchange for mountains of Rus sian raw materials at the con cluding session last night of the three-power conference. The conference closed two days ahead of schedule after only three days of sessions—probably the shortest international council of such dimensions ever held. For the United States and Great Britain, W. Averell Harriman and Lord Beaverbrook promised: “To place at the disposal of the Soviet government practically every requirement for which the Soviet military and civil authori ties have asked.” In return, said the communique issued by Harriman and Lord Beaverbrook, “the Soviet govern ment has supplied Great Britain and the United States with large quantities of raw materials urgent ly required in those countries.” Arrangements were said to have been made to“increase the vol ume of traffic in all directions.” The United States-British com munique declared that Premier Stalin “expresses his thanks to the United States and Great Britain for their bountiful supplies of raw materials, machine tools and mu nitions of war.” The Soviet communique stressed the “atmosphere of perfect mutual (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 4) CITY MAY TIGHTEN ‘DRIVE-IN’ RULES Complaints Of Noise Bring Action; Wallace Urges Building Inspector Tightening of regulations govern ing unsightly and noisy drive-in eat ing stands and a proposal that the city retain a "competent and quali fied'’ municipal building inspector highlighted Wednesday’s session of council. The drlve-in issue, precipitated sev eral weeks ago when City Manager James G. Wallace appealed to drive in stand operators to tidy up their premises and to dscourage horn blowing patrons from excessive noise, was discussed informally dur ing council meeting with all mem bers present agreeing that more rigid regulations may be the solu tion to the problem, a source of con stant complaint from residents near the stands. The matter of a building inspector was broached by Manager Wallace, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) Secretary Knox Says U. S. Sweeping Nazis From Sea * KNOWN AS “the flying grandmoth er,” Mrs. Wallace Cohoe, 61, of Riv erdale-on-the-Hudson, N. Y„ is shown after flying to New York to offer her services to the Civil Air Guard. The organization is composed of pri vate fliers who will patrol their home regions in event of war. —(Central Press Photo) HIGH CZECHS FACE NAZI DEATH SQUADS Gestapo Presses Program To Stamp Out Alleged Plot Against Reich BERLIN, Oct. 1—Ml—The Nazi picked premier of the Czech pro tectorate of Bohemia-Moravia, two more Czech generals and an un determined number of other per sons were shot or condemned to death today in stern and continu ing suppression of what the (Ger mans “term'll treasonable plot. The generals, described by a German spokesman as brigadiers, were the fourth and fifth of the general rank to be executed since the Nazis announced they had smashed a conspiracy to over throw German rule in the pro tectorate. The announcement that they had been shot followed by a few hours the news of the death sentence of Gen. Alois Elias, the Bohemia Moravia premier. He was con demned by a German court at Prague for “preparation for high treason and abetting the enemy.” DNB said he had made a “full confession.” His property was seized. In its swift action to round up and root out all elements connect ed with an alleged plot to throw off German rule, the Gestapo to day also held 256 Czechs for “in vestigation.” There was no information wheth er any of these already had been placed before firing squads, but 88 Czechs, including a number of generals, educators and other (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) TEMPERATURE HITS 90 ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 1.— (iP)—Bathing suits blossomed today on Atlantic City beach as the tem perature soared to 90 degrees. U. S. ARMY WITH VAST SUPPLIES ARRIVES TO GARRISON ICELAND --- * By DREW MIDDLETON REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept. 27. _(Delayed) —W—A field force of the United States Army—infantry, artillery, and engineer, signal, ord nance and medical units—has ar rived here with vast supplies of equipment and materials to make this one of the most formidable fortresses of the North. The Americans brought what their commander, Maj. - Gen. Charles H. Bonesteel, called “some interesting equipment’ skies snowshoes and Garand au tomatic rifles for every man—to take ovef camps built by United States Marines and British forces. Maj.-Gen. H. O. Curtis, com mander - in - chief of the British forces and general officer com manding the British troops on the islands, continues in command of all soldiers, including the Ameri can contingent. General Bonesteel, a lean, lanky veteran bf the last great war, told me aboard one of the transports: “We are here for hard and seri ous business. I want to impress Auto Crash Near Linville Takes Life Of New Yorker NEWLAND, Oct. l.—IM—Henry R. Linville, about 80, of New York City, was killed and his brother-in law, Morgan Branson, of Coates ville, Pa., escaped with only minor bruises when the car in which they were riding left Highway 221 five miles east of Linyille this after noon. ' 1 that on everyone. There is no time for fooling.” The American disembarkation was carried out with precision. While General Bonetseel was met ashore by General Curtis, men struggled quietly all day, pulling the equipment of modern warfare from the holds of the great trans ports. Huge cranes lifted trucks, tele phone poles, cement mixers, guns, the latest fighter aircraft, from the big transports to the docks. Orders were shouted in the chill ~ WEATHER^ FORECAST: North Carolina — Partly cloudy Thursday and Friday, not much change ir. temperature. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday): (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 73; 7:30 a. m. 72; 1:30 p. m. 85; 7:30 p. m. 77: maximum 85; min imum 71; mean 78; normal 70. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 96;,7:30 a. m. 96; 1:30 p. m. 67; 7:30 p. m. 85. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches: total since the first of the month. 0.00 inches. Tides For Today: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington - 7:17a. 7:47p. 2:24p. Masonboro Inlet_ 5:19a. 11:25a. 5:48p. H :52p. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville at 9 a. m. Oct. 1, 9.18 feet. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) September air. A keen breeze blew rain from the sea across the docks. Oaths of a familiar American fla vor rolled up as infantrymen and artillerymen labored to take the equipment to the new camps of the waiting Americans. “Damned glad to be on land,” some American soldiers said. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2] NAZI AIR ARMY ATTACKS CRIMEA Reds Report Gliders Shot Down In Attempts To Seize Peninsula FRONT STABILIZED Great German, Rumanian Losses Reported Over Long Battle Line MOSCOW, Thursday,. Oct. 2.—W) —Nazi airmen employing gliders were shot down yesterday in the Black sea area, presumably the Crimean peninsula, and at least 260,000 Germans and Rumanians have fallen in their attempt to crack the defenses of Leningrad and Odessa, the Russians an nounced today. Red land troops since last week had reported smashing Nazi efforts to storm the Perekop isthmus ap proaches to the Crimea. The ref erence to gliders immediately re called to observers here the Ger man use of those airplane-towed vehicles in the successful invasion of the Greek island of Crete. Icy winds and snow struck the Ukraine for the first time yester day, and the post-midnight com munique today reported continued fighting along the entire front. Intimating that the north and central fronts are tending toward stabilization, dispatches by Red Star, the army paper, said the Soviet defense was holding firmly (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) 9TH WILMINGTON SHIP KEEL LAID Yard Officials Now Expect 8,000 Employment Peak To Come In March ■ —■ - — ■ ' Employment at the North Caro • lina Shipbuilding co., yards south • of Wilmington at Sunset Park will ; reach its peak of between 7,000 and 8,000 men and women about March 1, 1942, it was announced Wednesday as the ninth keel was laid. Although the nine ways of the yard now are filled insofar as keels are concerned, employment is far short of the anticipated peak figure to be attained by next spring, yard officials said. It was explained that normal progress of work would not, at the present time, neces sitate the full employment. The first keel wa| laid approx ■ imately 60 days after work was begun on the yards in February— the 77-acre site at that time being a semi-swamp, thickly forested with water cypress and pine trees. Work on the first ship has been progressing on schedule, it was said, but no date has been set for launching. 2 Tide Change Rips Off Capsized Tug’s Stack Hard luck which began last week with its capsizing while • moored at the foot of Princess St., continued to dog the tug Cambria Wednesday when the vessel’s smokestack suddenly was broken as a changing river tide pressed the tug against a piering. Dallas Orrell, owner of the Cambria, estimated the dam age of Wednesday’s accident at $500. PAMELA HOLLINGSWORTH Babe in the Woods BLOODHOUND PUT ON GIRL’S TRAIL *_ Chalices Dimming Rapidly For Finding Child Lost In Woods CONWAY, N. H„ Oct. 1.—(/P)—A bloodhound was headed tonight into the dark, cold woodlands where more that 300 men are searching for five year-old Pamela Hollingworth, lost since Sunday. The dog led the fourth night search as U. S'. Forest Ranger Jacob Ryerson said that chances of finding the child alive were “about at the limit of reasonable hope.” Ryerson said a second bloodhound was expected to be brought from New York tomorrow. A former convict taken in c is tody by police in Boston after New Hampshire authorities asked to question him concerning the child’s disappearance returned voluntarily with two sheriffs tonight. Capt. Edward J. Keating of the Boston police said the man had de nied knowing anything of the girl’s disappearance. EX-GOV. RIVERS, WIFE ATTACKED Assailant Commits Suicide When Cornered By Po Not Badly Hurt LAKELAND, Ga„ Oct. I'.--(IPl Former Gov. E. D. Rivers and his wife were attacked and beaten in their home here tonight by a white man, who, Patrolman Howard Davis said, later shot and killed himself when overtaken at a tourist camp near Valdosta. Davis said the man carried an identification card bearing the name of H. W. Bikle, 38, New York City. He said a note was found in the man’s purse which said, "I had no design against the life of the former) governor of the state” and that his motive in the attack was for politi cal reasons. Sheriff J. F. Studstill of Lake land said the man gained admit tance to Rivers’ residence by posing as a representative of the Federal Communications commission. Neither the former governor nor his wife seriously were hurt, the sheriff said. REFINERY EXPLODES CLEVELAND, Oct. 1.— UP) — A pump-house operator in Standard Oil Co.’s refinery No. 1 received slight burns about the face and hands to night in an explosion which caused a brief fire. THESE ARE FOUR OF THE ELEVEN ME N who parachuted to safety when a U. S. Navy patrol bomber was forced down in the Caribbean sea near St. Eustatius island. They are shown on arrival in San Juan, Puerto Rico, aboard another patrol plane, which picked them up on the coast of St. Eustatius. Three other men who made the leap are missing. Left to right: Anthony Creider, 24, of San Diego, Cal.; Harry P. Brown, 24, of Phoenix, Ariz.; Ernest G.£ooper, Jr., 30, of Denton, Md.; and Joseph Amocjeo, 30, , of Brooklyn, N. Y.—(Central Press Photo), - * Ji HITLER LOCKED IN JRON RING’ Actual American Fighting At Sea Not Disclosed By Chief Of Navy NATION MUST LEAD Bar Association Warned Country To Take Hand In Future INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 1.— (.T) — Secretary of the Navy Knox told the American Bar Assoeiaton today, "we are already sweeping the Ger man pirates from the North Atlan. tic, and bringing to England the products of the arsenal we have set up here.” He didn’t disclose any evidence of actual fighting by the United States Navy since the Sept. If, orders to the Atlantic fleet to shoot on sight, but he added: "Eventually we (the British and American navies) shall lock Nazi Germany up in an iron ring, and within that ring of seapower, she shall perish.” The Navy chief continued: “But when we have defeated Hit ler, and destroyed the Nazi bid for world dominion, we must set up conditions which will prevent the rise of new Hitlers. Here in Amer ica, must lead the "way to peace, to a restoration of the reign of law.” The United States, he said, “must' provide both the major power and (Continued on Page Three; Col, 1) MOTHEROFGOLF. STAR ALSO DIES Gun Wounds Fata} To Mrs. Miiey Few Hours After Marion’s Funeral LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 1.—W)— Mrs. Elsa Ego Miiey, 50, died to day of bullet-wounds only a few hours after the burial of her slain daughter, Golf-Star Marion Miiey. Thus, investigators’ hopes of solving the mysterious shooting of the two women through further statements of the mother were frustrated. Mrs Miiey died at 5:30 p.m. (CST) in St. Joseph’s hospital, three and a half days after sh ewas wounded and her daughter killed. At the bedside were a brother, Frederick Ego of Buffalo, N. Y„ a sister, Mrs. Amelia Schaller of Cleveland, O., and a close friend, Mrs. Walter Dickey of Fort Pierce. Fla. Her husband, Fred, had just left the hospital. Early last Sunday, Mrs. Miiey gasped a story to police that two masked intruders had attacked her attacked her and her daughter in their apartment at the swank Lex ington Country club. Then sh e lapsed into a coma from which she never recovered. Marion’s father leaned heavily on the arms of two of his brothers as he made his way haltingly into the church. Behind him walked two of h daughter’s close friends from the topmost ranks of America’s women golfers, Patty Berg and Helen Dett weiler. 1 Police-Made Films Trip Operator Of Nudist Club LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1.— (*>—Po lice-made movies showing 40 ot 50 nude men and women on terraced lawns and in a swimming pool resulted in the conviction today of Mrs. Lura Glassey, 40, on a charge of violating a municipal ordinance against nudism. Mrs. CDassey’s’ attorney contend ed the ranch was a private club and that the ordinance did not apply. Municipal Judge Leo Aggeier set Oct. 15 for sentence and hearing on a pie I for probatiop. 1 100 Sailors Feared Lost In Caribbean Hurricane SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Oct. •A5) — One hundred sailors aboard four vessels comprising the fishing fleet of the British island of Grand Cayman were believed tonight to have lost their lives in the hurricane which swept the Caribbean sea last week-end. COURT CLERK STRICKEN / RALEIGH, Oct. 1—CP)—Edwarf Murray, 56, clerk of the State f preme court for the last eight ye' died tonight, following a hey' tack, 7
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