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Served By Leased Wire Oi The Total Ne} Paid ASSOCIATED PRESS Sunday Star-News Circulation Wiih Complete Coverage Oi Last Sunday .16,470 "J , I Mart. Same Sunday last year 11,953 Stale and National News Increase /. * _ 4>5i7 __' _- WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1941 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. goy Killed InFlaming Car Crash Howard Coleman, Shipyard Worker Of Wilmington, Burned To Death two make escape Cousins Of Victim Break Glass; One In Hospi tal Badly Injured WHITEVILLE, Oct. 26. — Howard Coleman, 18, ship p'd employee of Wilmington, ‘ as burned to death at 1 o'clock this morning when the automobile which he was Living overturned and burn , „ear Pleasant Plains lurch on highway 130 six . miles southeast of Whiteville. . ' His two companions, Royce Regis . . and Woodard Register, cousins of Coleman, escaped from the flam ins wreckage of the automobile. Poyce however, is in the hospital 1,'ere suffering from serious injuries. Woodard Register was treated at the hospital for minor cuts and bruises, but later was released. The accident is said to have oc curred when Coleman drove into thick fog and his car failed to take a curve, overturning in a ditch by I the side of the road. I Royce Register told Coroner J. D. I Sikes that he kicked the glass out I .j[ one of the car windows and pulled f himself and Woodard Register to I safety. AH three of the young men were employed at the North Carolina Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) MANY SEEKS FRENCH SLAYERS Prisoners Of War Offered In Trade For Informa tion On Agitators WHY, Oct. 26.—(iPIVichy lead ers announced today they had rea son to believe that the Germans would free prisoners of war whose families give information or help in tracing anti-Nazi terrorists in France. Efforts continued, meanwhile, to save the lives of 100 French hos tages marked for death at Nantes and Bordeaux unless the actual slayers of one German officer at each city are apprehended. Fifty hostages have been executed al ready for each killing. The deadline for 50 hostages in the Nantes case is midnight to morrow and for a like number in ‘.he Bordeaux case it is Wednes day midnight. POLITICS FORBIDDEN BERLIN, Oct. 26. —(fP)—City of ficials of Nancy in occupied France lave been forbidden to engage in political activity, “either on or off nm unc'er threat of dismissal, , B reported today in a dispatch mom Paris. The order, pronounced by the mayor. requires city officials and employes to sign a statement as suring that they “are neither Com munists nor De Gaulle (Free r.™c;1 * supporters” and that they ui follow loyally Marshal Petain’s directions. The move was regarded in some “ , m quarters as intended to fore ,, compliance with the five-min “f standstill strike called for Fri ((.yJ)y Gen- Charles de Gaulle, 'he Free French leader. general killed London, oct. 26.— <*>> —a general Oitenbacher, identified Hie commander of a German ?" tU'tsioii, luis been shot down IM i''s Plane over the Moscow .10111 and lias died of the result IIIR injuries, the Moscow radio J'l'Ported tonight. THREE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS of Alexandria, Va., accused of a hitch-hike slaying, are led into Bel Air, Md., court for arraignment. They were held without bail for grand jury action in the murder of Grainger G. Browning, of Mount Olive, N. C. Left to right, are Herbert Cox, 16; Sheriff Bennington; Ida May Price, 15; Mrs. Bennington; Leona May Cunningham, 14.—Central Press Photo. New Tokyo Premier / Says ‘No_Retreat’ Speech Interpreted As Definite Warning Japan Will Adhere To Expansion Plan TOKY(X Oct. 26.—(fP)—Premier Gen. Tojo declared in an Osaka speech today Japan “must go on and develop in ever expanding progress—there is no retreat!” This must be Japan’s course, the new chief said, even though “world environment is changing so quickly we cannot tell what ARKANSAS STORM CLAIMS 4 LIVES Small Communities Swept By Tornado; Troops Aid Rescue Work RUSSELLVILLE, ARK. Oct.— (!jP)(—At least four persons were reported killed by a tornado that swept through part of Dardanelle, Fottsville and a small rural com munity known as Okedoke south of Russellville late today. Sheriff John Forehand said he saw a white man, a white v/oman and her baby, who had been killed in the Okedoke community, and a negro woman who was killed at Dardanelle. He said he did not learn the names of the victims. Acting at the request of Gov. Homer M. Adkins, Maj. Gen. Wil liam Hood Simpson of the 35th division tonight dispatched a de tachment of troops from Camp Robinson to Dardanelle. Troops sent to the area included a composite infantry company of about 150 men, a platoon of 40 engineers, two officers and 16 men with two ambulances. Governor Adkins called state po lice from Little Rock, Fort Smith and Clarksville to escort the soldiers and assist in relief work. From first reports, it appeared the main force of the blow struck in Yell country, south of the Ar kansas river from here. All tele phone lines were down to towns in that section. BROOKLYN WOMAN KILLED JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 26.— (A>> — Miss Lillian Weitzman, 50, of Brook lyn, N. Y„ died in a New Bern hos pital of injuries suffered in an automobile accident early today. irate Georgia Students Ask Curb On Talmadge ATLANTA, Oct. 26.— UP))— Storm s studems of the Georgia Uni that "<i, system demanded today -ne legislature convene in Exeefncy session and curb the l'IVe Power of educator-oust S UOV. Eugene Talmadge. Jast^fSe demonstrations of the e, .. 0 weeks climaxed public ipr.,1011 that followed Talmadge’s 1 *°“ of Dean Walter D. Cock __“e Education school of the dar aide dies EmihT2N’ 0ct 26 —Mrs: Wnp. rances Baxter Hurd, 67, MatkL yice-President of the )i 1h Society of the Daughters ^terd eriCan Revo^u^on» died * Universiyt of Georgia on the Gov ernor’s charges that the Iowa-born educator advocated co-education of the races. Cocking was ousted four months ago. Since then, Talmadge adher ents have sung . his praises for “driving racial equality out of the university system.” While long time patrons of higher education in Georgia caustically have accus ed the governor of “witch-hunting” and injecting politics into edu cation. Only a few days after the fall semester started, University of Georgia students swarmed togeth er and hanged Talmadge in effigy. They followed this up with a 70 (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) ires m store. ~ ' “Naturally difficulties will arise,” said Tojo, speaking as home minister, a portfolio he holds in addition to the premiership. "But, if Japan’s hundred mil lions merge and go forward, noth ing can stop us. If this state of preparedness is completed, diplo macy becomes an easy affair. Wars can be fought with ease.” “Nothing can surprise me,” he went on. “No international pres sure can disturb me. “Unity! Unity!—That is what makes people one and a whole, solving all problems.” Linking his international and do mestic policies, he said: “If the policy to which Japan is committed is to be enforced in the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) GUN BATTLE FATAL TO WHITE, NEGRO Two Exchange Point-Blank Range Shots In Argu ment Over Money RALEIGH, Oct. 26.—(#)—A filling station operator arid a negro were killed in a point-blank gun battle early today at the latter’s home, 10 miles east of here, Deputy Sher iff T. P. Lumsden reported tonight. He identified the victims as Sam Griffin, 37, the station operator, and Walter Body, 47 negro, who rented a house from the white man. ' ", ' Body, shot through the heart and wrist, died instantly. Griffin died at about 10 o’clock this morning in a Raleigh hospital from a shot gun wound in his side. Lumsden said witnesses told this story: Griffin went to Body’s home to collect some money, and was told he would not get it. Griffin re turned to his own home, got a pistol went back to the negro’s house and asked him to come out side. The white man then went to the door and pushed it open and was shot by the negro before he could enter. Griffin fired back, returned td his car, leaving a trail of Mood. Nazis Claim Bombim; Of Russian Kremlin BERLIN, Oct. 26.—(/P)—Bomb ing of the Kremlin, home of the Soviet government,' was reported today by the German high com mand. (Kuibyshev dispatches have said Premier Stalew still was in Moscow with the military heads defending the Russian capital). The news stimulated Germans, who commented that their air force had “delivered dynamite right to the Soviet headquar ters.” Reds Fall BackFrom Vital Base Stalino, Important Donets Basin Industrial Cen ter, Abandoned MOSCOW LINES HOLD —t— Repeated German Assaults In Center Of Far-Flung Defenses Hurled Back MOSCOW,.Monday, Oct. 27. — (A5) — Abandonment of Stalino, important Donets basin industrial center, after several days of violent fight ing in which German losses were placed at 50,000 officers and men was announced early today by the Soviet information bureau. On the Moscow front, said the communique, strong German coun ter-attacks west and southwest of the capital were repulsed with heavy Nazi losses yesterday. It re ported day-long fighting of gigan tic proportions throughout Sunday in the Mozhaisk and Maloyarosla vets areas, 57 and 65 miles to the west and southwest. Continued heavy fighting still rages in the regions of Kharkov, 140 miles north of Stalino, and Taganrog, on the Sea of Az^v, 40 miles west of Rostov on the Don, the Russians said. NAZI DRIVE CHECKED KUIBYSKEV, Russia, Oct. 26.— (Jl—Soviet big guns firing point blank at charging German tank col umns have checked a new Nazi penetration of Red Army defenses southwest of Moscow, front line dis pitches reported tonight. These artillery rehemoths were declared literally blasting to a pulp the roads over which the Germans thrust their salient. After repeated (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) CANADIAN FLIERS BOMB AXIS SHIPS Wide-Spread Sea And Land Raids Staged Against German Objectives LONDON, Oct. 26.—lW))—The Royal Canadian Air Force Coastal Command squadron, which in its first month of operations is said to have damaged at least 30,000 tons of German shipping, added three more Nazi vessel to its total in fierce early-morning attacks off the Netherlands coast today, the air ministry announced. After the Coastal command had made its morning attack, Blen heims of the Bomber Command, with fighter-escort, returned to strike at Axis shipping off the Dutch coast in the afternoon. During the day, British offensive patrol flights were made over north and northwest France, and objectives in the Dieppe, Cher bourg and Brest areas were at tacked, a communique said to night. Earlier, squadrons of British fighters had swept over northern France, “but few enemy aircraft were seen,” the statement said. Wounded Hitchhiker Continues To Improve The condition of George Pries ing, 14-year-old hitchhiker shot by E. W. Shepard at Holly Ridge fol lowing a robbery of Mr. Shepard’s home, was reported as improved by attaches at James Walker Me morial hospital Sunday night. The youth, removed to the Wil mington hospital Friday for medi cal attention, was reported to have spent a quiet day Sunday and his condition was declared to be “sat isfactory.” 2 NEWS FLASH CLANTON, Ala., Oct. 26. — (/P) — At least 14 persons were burned to death and eight others were believed dead to night in a wrecked and flame - enveloped JMont gomery-Birmingham bus, which caught fire after striking a bridge four miles south of here. Night Policeman B. R. Plyler said the bodies were burned ^o a crisp, but officers at the scene thought 22 had been taken from the wreck. At the Spencer Funer al home here, attendants said only 14 bodies had been removed. None was identified. George Easterly, pas senger in a car which was following the bus, said it struck a concrete railing and “fire ran all over it in a few seconds. “We could see the pas sengers running and screaming as the fire spread. It was all over in a few minutes.” Eight persons, includ ing the bus driver, were in Central Alabama hos pital here, most of them seriously burned. AMERICA FIRST BAN DEMANDED ‘Violence And Bloodshed’ Feared If La Guardia Fails To NEW YORK, Oct. 26 De claring that violence and blood shed would result from the Ameri ca First committee rally scheduled for Madison Square Garden Thurs day night, three civic groups to day appealed to Mayor F. H. la Guardia to stop “this outrageous meeting from occurring.” I A telegram signed by Dr. C. S. Weissf 'harfor of Uncle Sam’s Di gest; Samuel Nieman, president of the Sons of Liberty, and Joseph Goldsmith, president of the Tax payers union of New York City, added that “observers at other meetings of America First groups found in the audience notorious Frontists, Nazis, hate-breeders and Fascists, also traitors to our coun try.” Charles A. Lindbergh, Sen. Bur ton K. Wheeler (D.-Mont.) and John Cudahy, former ambassador to Belgium, are to apeak at the rally. Meanwhile, station WOP. replied to charges made by the New York chapter of America First that the three major networks had refused “proper and adequate” coast-to coast radio time for the Thursday session by releasing a letter from Henry Mooberry, the committee’s (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) Police Chief Casteen Warns Bike-Riders To Remain Off Sidewalks Warning that riding bicycles pn city sidewalks is a violation of the law, Police Chief Charles H. Casteen Sunday night called on Wilmington youths to discon tinue this practice immediately or face arrest. “W’e have received several complaints,” he said, “and one or two accidents have been re ported recently. “Unlesr, the riding of bicycles on sidewalks is stopped at once, we will cite the riders and hole them intp court.” Chief Casteen also warned automobile drivers against park ing their cars on plazas or park ways between the curb and side walk. WINDSORS BACK IN N. Y. NEW YORK, Oct. 26.— OP) —The Duke and Duchess of Windsor re turned to New York tonight after a week end at the Gladstone, N. J., estate of C. Suydam Cutting. Associated Charities Open Campaign Today Workers in the annual financial campaign of the Associated Chari ties meet at 9 a.m. Monday at the Woodrow Wilson Memorial hut, corner of Fourth and Princess sts., to launch the organization’s $5,000 appeal for funds. Chairmanned by James E. L Wade, the canvassers have been drawn from the various churches. Each church has fc^een asked to furnish a team. Mpst of the teams had been chosen by Sunday night and were ready to initiate the three-day drive. Mr. Wade and the Rev. Sankey Lee Blanton, president of the As sociated Charities, asked every worker to be on hand promptly at W 9 to receive cards and instruc tions. A desk with a campaign official in charge will be kept available at the Wilson hut throughout the drive. The following list of canvassers was announced by Mrs. Alfred Sternberger, chairman of commit (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) COHAN IMPROVING NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—«A>»— A blood transfusion was given to day to George M. Cohan, 63, veter an actor and producer who was operated on for an abdominal ail ment, Oct. 18. Physicians desribed his condition as “most satisfac tory ” 5 FDR Urges Lewis To Call Off Ordered Mine Strike DMW CHIEFTAIN SILENT ON PLEA TO AID DEFENSE President Roosevelt Says Vital Steel Production Must Go On CONFERENCE SET Myron C. Taylor To Meet Union Leader In Pri vate Discussion WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.— (/P)—President Roosevelt ap pealed for a second time to night to John L. Lewis to call off a strike in the vital cap tive coal mines that supply the sinews for steel, but the United Mine Workers chieftain made no move to reply. The White House made public a letter in which the president told Lewis that Myron C. Taylor, for mer chairman of the board of the United States Steel corp., would meet Lewis Wednesday “to see if you and he in private and personal conference can work out a peace ful solution of the problem.” Mr. Roosevelt, in asking Lewis Friday to keep the 53,000 miners at work in the steel company-owned captive pits, had suggested the Lewis-Taylor conference. Lewis re plied yesterday that he was ready to meet with Taylor, but that he did not feel warranted in calling off the strike which started last midnight. , Since the mines do not operate Sundays, first effects of the walk out probably will be manifested to morrow morning. The miners are seeking a union shop, under which all workers would have to join the UMW. The president told Lewis he was (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) SABOTAGE HINTED IN $500,1:3 FIRE FBI Agents Start Probe Of Blaze In Import ant Defense Plant PORTLAND, Me., Oct. 26.—(A*)— Possibility of sabotage in the $500, 000 early-morning fire in the de fense-busy Southworth Machine co. main plant, which is engaged in making airplane parts, was being investigated tonight. Pearce J. Francis, state insur ance commissioner, said that 10 days ago one of the fire extin guishers at the plant was found to contain stone, sand and “other for eign matter.” Federal Buresu of Investigation agents were called in to investi gate the fire. The Southworth plant held $1, 000,000 worth of defense orders for small parts for Curtiss-Wright air plane motors. Officials said that machinery used at the factory— precision-tooling equipment diffi cult to replace—plunged into the basement of the brick-veneered building as the main floor. col lapsed. Seven employes were in the fac tory when the fire broke out and Francis said they would be ques tioned. «' TRAFFIC VICTIM DIES ROANOKE RAPIDS. Oct. 26.—(IP) —E. B. Davis, 56, of Roanoke Rap ids, died tonight of injuries he re ceived last night in a traffic accident near here. WEATHER FORECAST: North Carolina—Cloudy and warmer with showers in mountains Monday afternoon and night; partly cloudy and colder Tuesday. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday): (By V. 8. Weather Bureau) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 52; 7:30 a. m. 50; 1:30 p. m. 73; 7:30 p. m. 65: maximum 73; min imum 48: mean 60; normal 62. Humidity: 1:30 a 111. 99; 7:30 a. m. 68: 1:30 p. m. 45; 7:30 p. m._64. 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 Wilmington_ 3:04a. 10:22a. 3:41p. 10:57p. Masonboro Inlet- 1:06a. 7:13a. 1:48p. 7:58p. Sunrise 6:27a; sunset 5:23p: moonrise l:19p. Cape Fear riTer stage at Fayette ville at 8 a. m., Oct. 2«, 8.91 feet. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) FOL1 R-MON iHS-OLD DAWN wails her misery and lone liness from a crib at St Vincent’s Orphanage in Chicago. Brother Richard, 2, stands by to comfort her, but he is lonely, too. They and two other children were abandoned by their young mother after she had made desperate and futile attempts at securing them food and shelter.—Cen tral Press Phonephoto. FDR Praises Navy; Urges U. S. Unity Chief Executive Says Fleet ‘Fit, Ready’ To Do Part In Defending Americas WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—(A5)—A call for all Amer icans to sacrifice their personal, sectional and group inter ests “in order that we may remain united and unconquer able” was issued by President Roosevelt tonight in a letter ushering in the nation's celebration of Navy Day tomorrow. Auuresseu 10 secretary K.nox, the letter was made public by the Navy.' department, which, in co operation with the unofficial Navy League, had arranged for scores of naval shore establishments to ob serve Navy Day with suitable dem onstrations of their part in de fense. Mr. Roosevelt alluded to the vastly expanded sea operations of the Navy by mentioning “our fleets far out in the Atlantic and Paci fic” and the forces that support them “in our far-flung bases.” The chief executive will speak on a program beginning at 10 p. m., EST and to be broadcast by all networks. The president said, in his letter to Knox that while the country had celebrated Oct. 27 — Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday—as Navy Day for the last 19 years, “this year we go further and expand that ob servance to ‘Navy and Total De fense Day,’ a change whose sig nificance will be clear to all right thinking Americans.” “You know and I know that such modification implies no change in spirit from past anniversaries,” Mr. Roosevelt wrote Knox. "Rath er, it strengthens that spirit in identifying it with the responsibil (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) Two Believed Perished In Air Rescue Attempt PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Oct, 26. —(IP)—Livingston Wernecke, Bei Ue ley, Calif., mining man, and Pilot "Chuck” Gropstis, San Francisco flyer, were believed to have died last Tuesday in attempting to land their pontooned plane on the nar row waters of Clam Passage to aid two fellow Americans whose plane had crashed earlier. The two in the other plane. Pilot Boddings of Seattle and Harry Sher man, Portland. Ore., escaped with head injuries. . Wrecks of both planes were found Saturday, ending a four-day search that extended the length of the British Columbia coast. CITY WILL HONOR U. S. NAVY TODAY Mayor Bellamy Calls Upon Wilmington To Offer Defense Homage Wilmington joined with the rest of the nation Monday in paying homage to the American Navy. The day was set aside in a Navy day proclamation by Mayor Har grove Bellamy following a request by the Army and Navy Affairs committee of the Greater Wilming ton Chamber of Commerce J. W. Jackson chairman. Calling attention to President Roosevelt’s declaration of a na tional . eergency and to the fact that the Navy now is employed in the dangerous operation of pro tecting U. S. rights arid commerce on the high seas, Mayor Bellamy said it was particularly 'fitting al this time not only to pr y tribute to the traditions and glories of the past, but also to acknowledge our gratitude to the men of our Navy of today who are performing such valiant service in behalf of our country.” Wilmington post No. 10, Ameri can Legion, through Commander Robert Strange, joined Mayor Bel lamy in asking that Wilmihgton ians properly, observe Davy Day GREATER LOVE ATLANTA, Oct. 16. — (/PI — Two-year-old Donald Neil Barron accidentally fell into a backyard fisli-pond and drowned. His mother, Mrs. Seward G. Barron, found him. Clutched in the boy’s arms was his pet puppy, a little bull dog. 5,000 See Impressive Field Mass At Davis -*• ■— ^ _ First Pontifical Field Mass in donor of the Feast of Christ, The King, was held at Camp Davis Sunday morning at 10 o’clock with approximately -,000 soldiers, sail ors, Marines and civilians present. The 93rd CA (AA) band and sol diers of the 93rd, 94th, 95th, and 96th marched from their respec tive areas and assembled at the .heater on C Ave., where His Ex cellency, Bishop Eugene J. Me Guinnes, D. D., the Bishop of Ra leigh, and his assistant, the Rev. John A. Brown, secretary to the bishop, headed the procession which then marched to the Service club where the Sacred AHar was erected. The march started from the thea a r ter with the band of the 93rd play 1- g, followed by the honor guard, which was composed of members of the 93rd, then Bishop McGuin ness, dressed in the robes of his office, assisted by the Revk Browr. and the Rev. Herbert Gallagher, O. F. M., vice-commissary of the Commissariat of the Holy Land, Franciscan Monastery, Washing ton, D. C., crucifier, acolytes; crozier, mitre, bugia, book and (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) NAZIS SINK CRUISER BERLIN, Oct. 26.CPI)—Germafi dive bombers have sunk a British light cruiser in the Mediterranean off Bardia, DND stated tonight • \
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