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1^7By Leased Wire 01 The [ W * j+tf + I TolaI Ne! Paid associated press + I \W+W rfT 1^44 J LI LI 1 >4*4^4 4'4x+ w-% 4* star-news circulation jfazaz?1 j UUUliyUlU MluUUiy luX yf)L74 NO. 216_____ -_WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1941 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867 C. Port Check-Up Launched |]jers Announces Later Meeting In Atlanta To Press Claims GOVERNOR TO AID Bellamy, Hewlett Expected To Join Broughton In Plea For Cargoes The South Atlantic and ru]f ports committee of the Southern Traffic league, seek jncr ways and means of stimu lating inter-coastal shipping, will meet in the near future, probably in Atlanta, it was announced Thursday night by j t Hiers, secretary of the Wilmington Port commission and chairman of the emer gency committee. A date for the meeting is ex acted to be set shortly, Mr. Hiers =aid stating that the committee would have the two-fold objective of: 1—Exchanging shipping in formation between port lead ers of South Atlantic and Gulf ports to the end of attracting increased tonnage of freight to water carriers. 2-To petition the United States Maritime commission for the al'ocation of coastal vessels to the South Atlantic Gulf route as quickly as de fense requirements permit. The committee has been assem bling freight shipment figures and contacting southern states manu (Continued pn Page Three; Col. i) ilii CHIEF REPLACED Command Shakeup Takes Place As Armies En gage In Maneuvers CAMDEN, S. C„ Oct. 9.—OP)—A division commander in the Caro lina maneuvers lost his job today, only the fourth day of the two month field test of the First Army. Maj.-Gen. Clifford R. Powell, well known in New Jersey politics, was replaced as commander of the 44th division. The action, by Maj.-Gen. Lloyd B. Fredendall, commander of the Second Army Corps and with the approval of Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, Army commander, came a few hours after a colonel, two lieutenant-colonels and two majors of another division in Fredendall’s corps of the 29th (Maryland-Vir ginia-District of Columbia)- had teen replaced. First Army headquarters an nounced it was “believed” all the officers were over the age-limit the War department set for their grades. Like General Powell, all were assigned to “special duty” at headquarters pending reassign ment. The Second Corps is com posed of the 44th, 29th and 28th (Pennsylvania) divisions. Prior to the start of the First (Continued on Page Three; Col. -3) DOVER COAST SHELLED DOVER, England, Oct. 9.—W)— German long-range guns shelled the Dover area after dusk tonight. Obervers said the shells came from the Cap Gris Nez battery where Gashes could be seen. SPLINTERS AND MERE FOUNDATIONS were all that remained of homes wiped out by a tornado which struck the outskirts of Kansas City, Mo. The entrance in center background is what was left of a church. Foundation in right foreground is that of the Lukas home in which two died—Central Press Phonephoto. FDR Asks Neutrality Repeal To Crush Germany’s ‘Madmen’ Roosevelt Highlights WASHINGTON, Od. 9.—<iP)—Pertinent sentences from President Roosevelt’s message to Congress asking revision of the Neutrality act: The pattern of the future—the future as Hitler seeks to shape it— is now as clear and as ominous as the headlines of today’s newspaper. We know now that Hitler recognizes no limitation on any zone of combat in any part of the seven seas. He has struck at our ships and at the lives of our sailors within the waters of the Western Hemisphere. It is an imperative need now to equip American merchant vessels with arms. We are faced, not, with the old type of pirates, but with modern pirates of the sea. It is time for this country to stop playing into Hitler’s hands and to unshackle our own. • . ^ We cannot, and should not, depend on the strained resources of the exiled nations of Norway and, Holland to deliver our goods, nor should we be forced to masquerade American-owned ships behind the flags of our sister republics. I say to you solemnly that if Hitler’s present military plans are brought to successful fulfillment, we Americans shall be forced to fight in defense of our own homes and our own freedom in a war as costly and -as devastating as that Which now rages on the Russian front. We will not let Hitler prescribe the waters of the world on which our ships may travel. The American flag is not going to be driven from the seas._ 22-Year-Old Wife Gives Birth To Triplets; Mate ‘Bewildered But Happy’ LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 9.— (/P)—Twenty-two-year-old Mrs. Ruth Oehrle gave birth to trip lets—two girls and a boy—to day. Her- milk-truck driver hus band, Roy, 21, was “bewilder ed, but happy” over the event. The first girl weighed 3 pounds, and and a half ounces, the second, 2 pounds, 15 and a half ounces and the boy, 3 pounds, 3 and three-fourths ounces. Chinese Claim Capture " Of Vital Jap-Held Base CHUNGKING, China, Oct. 9.—(-S’) _A Chinese communique said to night that two columns of Generalis simo Chiang Kai-Shek’s troops had entered Ichang, main objective of the current Chinese offensive, after recapturing 11 strategic points in its environs. The communique said Ichang, the westernmost point of Japanese pene tration, now was partly occupied and that Chinese forces might soon be in [ complete oontrol. AIR BASE SITE DATA ASSEMBLED District Engineer’s Office Prepares Information On Two Tracts * Detailed plans, maps, specifica tions and pertinent information concerning surrounding areas of the two Southeastern North Caro lina sites proposed for an Army Air corps bombardment squadron base are being assembled for Air corps consideration by the Wil mington office of the United States Army Engineers. The data concerning the- two proposed sites—one in Brunswick county, the other between Bur gaw and Watha in Pender county —is expected to be forwarded-Fri day or Saturday to Col. Jacob Wuest, commander of Mabry field, Tallahassee, Fla., headquar ters for the bombardment division of the Third Air Command. Col. Earl I. Brown, Wilmington district Army engineer, under whose supervision the field data is being compiled, said Thursday that final decision regarding a choice between the two proffered sites would lie with Colonel Wuest and other Air corps officers. Discussing the two sites, Colonel Brown said that each met the gen eral specifications laid down by the Air force for a bombardment (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) Five To Seven Police Officers To Be Added To Force In Next Week Five, and possibly seven, addi tional policemen are to be added to the city force within the next week or 10 days, Police Chief Charles Casteen revealed Thursday night. Should the seven join the force, it will mark the first time in months that the recently-enlarged depart ment has been at full authorized personnel of 62 men. Nine officers were added to the department last week, four as re placements for men retired, and five under terms of council authorization giving the city greater police pro tection. The newest additions will come from rolls of the Wilmington Police and Fire Civil Service commission. HELSINKI RAIDED HELSINKI, Oct. 9.— UP) —This Finnish capital had a 20-minute air raid tonight, marked by heavy anti-aircraft fire at low angles. ACT ‘CRIPPLING’ U.S. WAR EFFORT Forthright Message Urges Congress 0. K. Arming Of Cargo Vessels WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—Mt-De nouncing the Nazis as “madmen” and “modern pirates,” President Roosevelt today asked Congress to wipe out “crippling provisions” of the United States Neutrality act. First of all, he asked repeal of that statute’s ban on armed mer chant ships, “as a matter of im mediate necessity and extreme urgency.” To this, he added a request that Congress give its “earnest and early attention” to a second amendment, rescinding the provis ions which forbid American vessels to enter belligerent ports and spec ified combat areas. Mr. Roosevelt’s recommendations went to the capitol in a directly and forcefully worded special mes sage, which as a literary product alone, some were saying, would rank with the best of his state papers. It piled argument upon argu ment in an apparent endeavor to (Continued on Page Four; Col. 3) ANNUAL CHARITY DRIVE OUTLINED Association Group Sets Up $5,000 As Goal For Campaign i * -r .- . Preliminary plans for the annual drive to raise funds were made by the Associated Charities board at its quarterly meeting Thursday.- • J. E. L. Wade has been named to head the campaign, while Mrs. Alfred Sternberger will serve as general chairman of the various committees soon to be organized. Quota for the drive, which will be conducted from Princess St. headquarters, Oct. 27 to 30, is $5, 0n0. Presided over by the Rev. San key L. Blanton, president of the board, Thursday’s meeting includ ed monthly and quarterly reports by Mrs. L. O. Ellis, executive sec retary. Associated Charities, one of the oldest semi-private case-working agencies in the Southeast, receives appropriations from county and city governments, but according to Mrs. Ellis, the amounts are in sufficient to carry out the work, which includes investigations re garding hospitalization, medicine, water and eye-glasses for school children. At the present time, Mrs. Ellis added, the agency’s monthly aver age is 225 families in need of di rect relief and 325 families in need of some service. Trapped Parachutist Becomes A Screwball ANGOLA, Ind., Oct. 7.—UP)— George Hopkins, the 30-year-old Texas parachutist who dropped d,own on a rock spire near Sun dance, Wyo., and spent six nights there before he was res cued, has been mailed a member ship card in the Angola chapter of the Screwballs of America. The card, mailed by Chief Scribe Kenneth Hubbard at the direction of Chief Screw Charles Griffin, entitles Hopkins to all privileges of the parent chapter of the organization. Senator Reynolds Weds Walsh-McLean Heiress North Carolina Solon, 19 Year-Old Bride Leave For Miami, Florida Washington, oct. 9.—on— Robert Rice Reynolds, 57-year-old horth Carolina senator, today married 19-year-old Evalyn Wash ington McLean, his fifth wife. The ceremony was private, per ormed by a municipal court judge "Friendship,” the fabulous ome of the blond heiress to the sh-McLean fortune. Only rela x‘v® present was Mrs. Evalyn brid ^c^ean' mother of the Reynolds wore a double-breasted tray, checked suit and the bride brown spangled dress, decorated a corsage of orchids and roses. The couple left immediately by Fl» f°r a honeymoon at Miami, tn * anci Havana, Cuba, planning tal St°P en route at Raleigh, capi Clty of Reynolds’ home state— (Continued on Page Nine; Col. 2) j SENATOR REYNOLDS . i. Bridegroom Fifth Time Nazis Say Red Lines Crumpled Soviet Admits Position Is Desperate A* Germans Press Steadily On ARMIES ENCIRCLED Civilians Join Beleaguered Soldiers In ‘llth-Hour’ Try To Stem Tide BERLIN, Oct. 9. — (JP) — The German high command declared tonight that the last fully effective Russian armies remaining on the whole of the eastern frqnt were now fatally encircled in two areas along the center before Moscow, and Adolf Hitler’s military spokes men formally proclaimed the setting of the Soviet star. The great victory, which Hitler in a special order of the day had called “the most essential condi tion for peace,” now had been at tained, these authorities asserted. While there still was much bloody fighting to come, they add ed, “the military decision has fallen.” . Three Red armies, officially de clared as without any leadership, were reported facing destruction in the region of Bryansk—about 220 miles below Moscow — along with other units entrapped about Vyazma, some 125 miles west of the capital. Returning direct from the east ern front to announce what vari ous Nazi sources called the be ginning of the end for the Soviet forces, Dr. Otto Dietrich, Hitler’s personal press chief, estimated that Russian divisions encircled at the center totaled from 60 to 70. A Russian division at full strength numbers about 20,000 men and on the basis of this figure, it was stated that the total number of Red troops put out of action might be /as high as 1,400,000. '*On the assumption widely held in German quarters that the col lapse of all European Russian ar mies was imminent, an authorita (Continued on Page Nine; Col. 3) * UiUUJHH AEWSPAPLKWOMAN Mrs. Louise Daniels has been named women’s editor of the Navy department in Washington and will direct a campaign to tell wives, mothers and sweethearts of Navy men what their loved ones are doing.—Central Press Photo 2 SUSPECTS HELD IN MILEY MURDER Pair Seized In Fort Worth Agree To Waive Rights Of Extradition PORT WORTH, Tex., Oct. 9.—UP) Det. Capt. A. E. Dowell said tonight that two suspects in the slaying of Marion Miley, prominent golf-star and the fatal wounding of her moth er, Mrs. Fred Miley, at Lexington, Ky., were under arrest here and would be returned immediately to Kentucky. Dowell said he described the men to Sheriff Ernest Thompson of Lex ington in a telephone conversation and that Thompson replied: "They’re the men we’re looking for.” Thompson said he was leaving at once for Fort Worth to obtain cus tody of the men, who signed waivers of extradition. Miss Miley, 27, was killed instant ly and her mother was wounded fatally when two men, their faces masked with handkerchiefs, broke into the Miley aplartment at the Lexington Country club Sept. 28. Police had theorized that the pair were after receipts from a Saturday night dance at the club, which was managed by Mrs. Miley. The golf star w«as shot when she went to the aid of her mother. Pro-Nazi President Of Panama Removed Arias Flees Into Cuban Exile After Decree* Forbidding Arming of Merchant Vessels PANAMA, Panama, Oct. 9.—(A*)—The Nazi-minded President Arnulfo Arias who ordered “no guns” on U. S. ships flying the flag of Panama was summarily ousted while in Cuban exile today and replaced by a government immediately pledged to “decided support for democratic principles. An urgent cabinet meeting was called for tomorrow with the “no guns” order reported to be on its agenda for reconsideration. Arias fled by plane to Colombia Tuesday, soon after the “no-guns” order of last Monday complicated the Neutrality law repeal debate in Washington, and proceeded from there to Havana, where he was located today. ’ ' The second vice-president of Pan ama, the first eligible successor to Arias who could be reached im mediately, was sworn in as presi dent. For three hours he headed an interrgnum government in prob ably the shortest term ever. Then the cabinet he formed call ed in Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, justice minister and physician of pronounced pro-democratic lean ings, and handed him the presi dency. Officially, the new government (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) WEATHER * FOBECAST: Nortl} Carolina—Partly cloudy and warmer with showers late Friday after noon west portion and over central ana east portions at night and Saturday morning; cooler Saturday and in west portion Friday night. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday): _(By U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: _ 1:30 a. m. 74; 7:30 a. m. 66; 1:30 p. m. 80; 7:30 p. m. 75; maximum 82; minimum 65; mean 74; normal 68. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 99; 7:30 a. m. 70; 1:30 p. m. 60; 7:30 p. m. 72. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches; total since the first of the month, 0.15 inches. Tides For Today: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Masonboro Inlet_10:26a. 4:23a 1: :08p. 8:37p. Masonboro Inlet_10:26a. 4:23a 10:44p. 5:46p. Sunrise 6:13a; snnset 5:45p; moonrise 9:24p; moonset 10:43a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville at 8a m, Oct. 9. 9.90 feet. (Contlnned on Page Five; Col. 3) Food Poisoning Hits 151 Soldiers During Carolinas Maneuvers CAMDEN, S. C., Oct. 9.—(0— Public relations headquarters of the First Army said tonight that 151 soldiers of troops at tached to the First Corps head quarters, now in the field near Chester on maneuvers, were sent to the base hospital at Fort Jackson for food poison ing. None of the men was re ported seriously ill. The poi soning was attributed to eating food from improperly lined containers not issued by the government. * EX-GOVERNOR DIES LIBERTY HILL, S. C„ Oct. 9.— (0—John Gardiner Richards, gov ernor of South Carolina from 1927 to 1931, died today at his home here after several months of ill ness. He was 77. Dealers Say Gas To Be Exhausted Within 1 Week Community Urged To Join In Cry To Washington For Ban Lifting If you want to drive your car after Oct. 18, you better had wire your senator and representative today! Such was the decision Thursday night of more than a score of Wil mington filling station dealers gathered in the Tide Water Power Co. assembly hall to discuss the issue of the critical gasoline shortage facing this community. vigorously warning local moior-i ists that the present cry of “gas shortage” is not a cry of “wolf” Bruce Cameron, chairman of the meeting, told dealers that distribu tors were sitting on the brink of a real catastrophe, over which they had no control. “It’s a hard point to make,” Mr. Cameron, said, “but for the good of all concerned, and particularly to awaken the people of this com munity to the fact that a real shortage—under the present OPM quota system—really does exist, I wish that every station in town would run completely out of gas by the 18th and refuse to sell an other gallon.” While these appeared to be harsh words, Mr. Cameron cautioned that unless an easement on quotas was received here within the next few days, such was a distinct prob ability, and said that his station— the largest in town—would be with out supplies on Oct. 18. The speaker’s projected trip to Washington, along with that of J. W. Hughes, was cancelled late Thursday evening when it was learned they could not get an au dience with Dr. James W. Frey (Continued on Page Twelve; Col. 5 HOUSING PROBERS TO CALL HILLMAN Senate Committee Studies Report Employer Of CIO Labor Lost Contract WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—(A>)— Senators investigating a behind the-scenes labor controversy over defense housing, decided today to call Sidney Hillman, associate di rector general of the Office of Pro duction Management. Chairman Truman (D.-Mo.) of die Senate Defense investigation committee said Hillman appeared to be the t only person in OPM “who knows anything about” fail ure to award a $979,000 defense housing contract in Wayne county, Mich., to a low bidder who em ployed workmen affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organiza tions. f. j. turner, uetroit manuiac turer, who testified his bid was more than $400,000 under any oth ers on the low-cost housing pro ject, told senators he had been un able to get a go-ahead signal from the Federal Works administration. A Hillman assistant, Joseph Kee nan, former secretary of the Chi cago Federation of Labor (AFL) has said that he advised FWA that AFL building tradesmen in the Detroit area were talking of striking if the contract went to Currier. In addition, the FWA says a three-man board of review in OPM has recommended against giving the contract to Currier. This board was set up to pass upon griev (Continued on Page Four; Col. 4) Wife Of Suicide Mate In Critical Condition DURHAM, Oct. 9. — <iP)»— Mrs. Frances Conway Andrews, 24, who was shot in the abdomen last night by her husband, Charles Elmore An drews, 26, remained in a critical con dition at a local hospital tonight. Andrews, who shot and killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Claudia V. Con way, 46, at the same time he shot his wife, later committed suicide by shooting. LEGION PRESSES PLANS FOR FAIR Agricultural Exhibitions To Be Prime Interest, Spokesman Says Nonplussed by recent action of the New Hanover county board of com missioners denying permission to conduct a combined county fair and carnival, Wilmington Post No. 10, American Legion, Thursday was making plans for a gala fair at Legion field sometime in November —a fair minus those attractions al ready termed “objectionable’’ by a majority of the county board. Elnphasis will be on agricultural and educational exhibits, according to preliminary plans under discus sion. Amusement attractions will be confined to rides and non-gamb ling concessions. Bingo, it was mderstood, also is being considered is one of the fair’s attractions. “The American Legion believes that a well-rounded agricultural and educational fair with innocent, clean amusements will prove successful,” a Legion spokesman said. “The post is in urgent need of money to meet its obligations, and it is the concensus that a fair is the one likelihood of bringing us out of the red ink,” he continued. An early meeting of the post’s fair committee Is scheduled, it was safd, at which lime definite plans will be formulated for presentation to the post’s full membership. DIXIE TO FEEL POWER SHORTAGE Charlotte Parley Is Called To Discuss Imminence Of Civil Rationing WASHINGTON, Oct. .9.—UP)—'The Federal Power commission said tonight “civilian curtailment” in the use of electric power in the Southeast, center of aluminum and other important defense produc tion, might become necessary due to a power shortage caused by protracted drought. A conference of state public service commissions and utility en gineers of the area was called for Tuesday, Oct. 14, in Charlotte to consider the power problem. Commission engineers said they were apprehensive t h-a t the drought, if continued, might af fect power production “even more adversely than that which pre vailed in 1925 and 1939 which were the worst years on record.” With cut rain, they said, acute condi tions might be expected by Nov. I in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and in the other southeastern states by Dec. 1. Connecticut Aviator Killed Over England THOMPSON, Conn., Oct. 9.—UP*— Plight Commander Andrew Mame loff, 29, former barnstorming avia :or from this town, was killed in ac tion yesterday while serving with the Eagle squadron of the Royal Mr Force, a member of his family said tonight. Chamber Industrial Committee Opens Major Drive For New Manufacturing Following the lead of its execu tive secretary, John L. Morris, the industrial committee of the Great er Wilmington Chamber of Com merce Thursday night launched its most far-reaching campaign in the history of the organization. W. W. Storm, vice-president of the Wilmington Iron Works, and; chairman of the committee, urged that each of the 16 members take a personal interest in one of the six projects of the group, which were indorsed unanimously at the meeting. Purpose of the gathering, in the words of Mr. Storm, was “to for mulate plans for the acquiring of prime and sub-contracts for de fense in the immediate future and to secure sufficient new and fi nancially capable manufactures in the immediate area to cushion against any possible ‘depression’ at the conclusion of the emergency ‘boom.’” ✓ Prime principles of the program as adopted Thursday night were: 1— Expand industrial activi ty over the entire trading area, comprising a radius of 50 miles. 2— Further the output and Colonel Richmond Makes Wilmington ROTC Visit • A brief, informal inspection of the junior ROTC unit at New Hanover High school was made Thursday by Col. Henry R. Richmond, officer in charge of ROTC activities- in the Fourth Corps area, who paid a short visit to Wilmington. business of all present manu facturers before any competi tion is brought in from the outside. 3— Plan for sufficient manu facturing and agricultural in terests in the area to cushion against any unemployment problem that might possibly arise • after the emergency. 4— Bring into Wilmington - and its trading area as many prime and sub-contracts on de fense work as possible. 5— Maintain a list of all prospective new industries seeking sites, and work toward the end that they may estab lish plants and factories in this (Continued on Page Nine; Cel. 3)
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