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' ~__ " . .1 -- --;-STORY IN COL. ON* Served By Leased Wire Of The associated press ph Complete Coverage Of Slate and National News --- _ ESTABLISHED 18671 Second Airliner Crash Claims 20 Lives 20 Killed In Second Kir Crash American Airline* Trans port Falls, Burns On Buf falo To Detroit Flight none escape Would-Be Rescuers Driven Away By Fierce Flames From Wreckage ST, THOMAS, Ont., Oct. 30. //pi -1 An American Airlines llane flving through drizzling L] from Buffalo to Detroit crashed and burned on a farm rear here tonight, and the 17 passengers and crew of three all were killed. flHit Lieutenant Foster of the Boy al Canadian Airforce said there were no survivors. Foster, who is connected with the Air Force school at Fingal, near the scene of the crash, said the plane ^ 5as burning some time after it fell. He plane was a 21-passenger Douglas. It fell on a farm near the Dawrence station at about 10; 3 0 p m IEST) less than 24 hours after a A'orihwest Airlines plane crashed Dear the Fargo, N. D., airport, kill in? 14. The plane was flying through a drizzling rain. Rescuers who ran to the scene were unable to. help be cause of the fire. Thompson Howe, first to reach the plane, said; “I was at the barn when it fell. (Continued on Page Four; Col. 2) FOUR INJURED IN ESCAPE TRY Bystanders Slightly Hurt By Buckshot Fired At Fleeing Convicts ASHEVILLE, Oct. 30.—W—Four persons were recovering tonight iom wounds suffered whep a-con vict guard fired two loads of buck shot from a shotgun down Oak st. n front of David Millard High school Wednesday night about 6 o'clock in an effort to halt an escaping prisoner. Meanwhile, Pwggy prison camp officials were reported to be conducting an in vestigation into the shooting. The guard who fired the shots was C. A. Aldrich. Physicians are expected to per form a minor operation tomorrow (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) Arrest Hinted Soon In Clewis Hit-Run Automobile Death Coroner Asa W. Allen announced Thursday night a verdict that E. C. Clewis, who was fatally injured ™ing the latter part of Septem »er in a mystery hit-and-run auto* ,ile accident, met death by an automobile drive by parties un known. Investigating officers, however, Wunated that they had a "hot «ue and it was predicted that an rrest would be made within the tw° or three days. The inquest was resumed Thurs J after a delay of several weeks officers continued their in stigation. 2 JMHJTO ROYAL FAMILY ^Capetown, Union of South Af fa mil '-(^—The Greek royal their u. in niSht clothing from h,.-, burning residence at West .^J^Rondebosch, tonight. 2 Iragic Story Of Death Miraculous Escape In Which 14 Died . MOORHEAD, «ves,. a, veteran flying for the ordeal of telling official investigators what happened during those agonizing moments today in the fatal, flaming crash of his Northwest Airlines transport plane. ©ENTITY OF FIVE DEAD ABUSHED Airline Releases Complete List Of Passengers On Ill-Fated Transport MOORHEAD, Minn., Oct. 30.— —Only five of the 14 charred bodies taken from the wreckage of a Northwest Airlines plane which crashed in flames near here early today had been identified definite ly tonight while tentative identifi cations had been made of two more. Definitely identified are the bod ies of: Miss Helen Ford, 33, Fargo, N. D., L. C. Carr, Highland Park, 111., employe, Chicago NWA office. Clark W. Farnp, 45, Grafton, N. D., business man, Alden Onsgard, 25, co pilot, Minneapolis. Miss Bern ice Blowers, stewardess, Wel come ,Minn. Tentative identifications have been established for E. A. King, Fargo, N. D., businessman, and Mrs. Jay Packard, Atlantic City, N. J. The passenger list announced by Northwest Airlines also included: F. R. Lowell', Springfield, Ohio, sales manager for the Superior Engine division of the National Supply co. R. W. Ramsey, 47, North Can ton, O., president and general manager Ramsey Lumber co., Aultman, O. W, A. Metzger, 39, New York, -* * (Continued on Pnge Three; Col. 2) AIDE OF SABATH LINKED© TRIAL Jury Informed $200,000 Given Investigator Of Committee NEW YORK, Oct. 30—<£*>—The name of Murray Garsson, described as an employe for the Sabath Con gressional committee which investi gated the movie industry, figured today, in the extortion trial of Wil liam Bioff, west coast labor leader, and George E. Browne. Bioff and Browne, president of the International Alliance cf Theatrical Stage employes (AFL), are on trial in federal court on charges of ex torting 3550,000 from major movie producers in violation of the rederal anti-racketeering act. Bioff claimed to have collected 31,000,000 from film officials in work ing as a messenger for Nicholas M. Schenck, head of Loew’s, inc., and testified Schenck told hiim the mon (Continued on Page Four; Col. 5) Japanese Repatriation Liner Arrives In U. S. ______ i’ SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30.— UF>— The liner Tatuta Maru, requisi tioned by the Japanese government to return Americans from the Ori ent and repatriate nearly 1,000 Jap anese living in the United States, arrived from Yokohama today. The big ship brought 15 Ameri cans and Europeans and 332 Amer ican-born Japanese. rnysicians declined to permit Capt. Clarence Bates, 41, a 10,000 air-hour flier to talk about the 2 a.m. disaster that killed 14— everyone on the liner, except the pilot. Victims were 12 passengers, the stewardess and co-pilot. Whether, as unofficial outside observors believed, the ship gath ered ice quickly in slipping down through fog and mist to freezing ground temperatures will not be known until Bates talks. Also eagerly awaited were details of Bates’ exit from the plane. He presumably either was th r o wn from the cockpit or crawled from the wreckage which caught fire almost immediately. - George Gardner, vice-president in charge of NWA operations, said he was assured Bates was recov ering rapidly from shock and minor injuries. Gardner, other NWA of ficials, Civil Aeronautics authority representatives and local author ities, as well as the aviation world, awaited the direct details of the (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) BRITISH SMASH AXIS SHIPPING U. S.-Constructed Hudson Bombers Used In De vastating Sweep LONDON, Oct. 30.—W)—British airmen flying American • made Hudson bombers last night sank or damaged seven Axis ships at Alesund, Norway, an important German supply base for the north Russian front, left a fish oil fac tory in flames and machine gunned troop barracks, the a i r ministry said tonight. Other planes sweeping over northern France tonight attacked shipping off Boulogne and Le Havre, and fired hangars ar Mor laix airdrome. Docks at Brest were attacked last night. The British lost one plane in tonight’s offensive, but none was lost at Alesund, which was de scribed as “the most devastating shipping attack ever made by a single squadron.’’ One pilot said, “We flew through a snowstorm, but conditions were perfect over Alesund. “I saw five ships lying close to gether north of the harbor. I dived on one and released bombs from 30 feet and know that I scored a hit. Later I saw it in flames.” Another pilot said “The burn ing ships in the harbor outshone the moon, and I am certain that the harbor is blocked now.” 1 e -— Church Elder Accused Of Sending Poisoned ‘Vigor’ Pills In Mail LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30:—UPl— Oscar Albertson, 43, San Pedro blacksmith and church elder; was accused today in a county grand jury murder indictment of sending poisoned pills through the mail to John Kmetz, 54, a county gar dener. The widow, Mrs. Esther Kmetz, who was Kmetz’ second wife, has expressed confidence in Albert son’s innocence. Kmetz collapsed and died soon after swallowing two tablets from a,box bearing the name of a fic titious firm and representing them as good for restoring a man’s vigor. Construction On Seven USO Buildings ^ This Sector Reported On Schedule thi, s ™ction of TJSO buildings in it, ectlon of the state is proceed schorl, imost wi,hout exception, on Blade tI, accoiding t° a report Spee- tt'ursday by Lieut. Alden at e ’ constructing quartermaster EatMu ^avis, who has been dele s',,!3?’ the War department to Undo the Pcoiects. dubs e. a y 0 r a b 1 e conditions, Jack “ Wilmington, Swansboro, Southno'?1'6’. Morehead City and 15 th„rt’ wil1 be finished by Dec. At \Tp„ °^lginal completion date, ceepjno Bern> condemnation -pro the rlnWere necessary to acquire comnleti Slt6,' Consequently, the chapP L °tn date there has been ">=eti to Dec. 25. •nin^to? Wil,1.be two clubs in Wil ’ wnile each of the other communities mentioned will have one, making a total of seven for the district. The War department is building and equipping the clubs and, by the time the seven are finished, will have invested $382, 500. The buildings are divided into two types—Type A and Type K, the principal difference being that Type A structures will be larger than the others. Both clubs in Wil TRAIN INJURIES FATAL HICKORY, Oct. 30.—UR—'W. Clark Thompson, 43, of Alexander county, was fatally injured today when his automobile and a west bound southern passenger train collided here.' 2 mington and the ones at Morehead City and Jacksonville will be of the former type, and Type K clubs are being constructed at Southport, New Bern and Swansboro. Briefly, here is the status of building operations in the various cities, according to Lieutenant Spees: Wilmington—Workmen are ex pected to finish razing the existing structure at Second and Orange sts., where the club for white troops is to be erected, Friday. Foundation for 'half of the new building was being'poured Thurs day. It was considered inadvisable to build the wing authorized for this building, and as a result the (Continued on Fore Five; Col, 1). Nazis Bite Deep Into Vital Area Troops Penetrate Crimea After Months Of Bit ter Opposition MOSCOW HOLDS OUT Russian Position Viewed As Generally Better Along Wide Front BERLIN, Oct. 30. — (IP) — Silent on the battle for Mos cow, Adolf Hitler’s headquar ters claimed today a relentless advance southward into the Crimea after some of the fiercest fighting of the war and a broad new push east ward to the upper Donets river. Establishment of a Donets river line would mean that the invasion of the Ukraine had carried nearly its length of about 800 miles from west to east since the war with Kussia started, June 22. The break into the Crimea over the narrow Perekop isthmus open ed the way for the Germans to fan out over the “good tank coun try” to the south. The Perekop isthmus is a low lying marshland with solid footing for only 12 miles or so near the west coast. Centered on this good footing was a trench system five miles long with complementary de fenses. The Germans spent weeks feel ing out the defenses before the final assault was launched. They spotted camouflaged artil lery in half-buried fortifications, (Continued on Ease Tour; Col. I) DEGAULLE REPEATS CALL FOR STRIKE Petain Government Orders Severe Punishment For Radio Listeners LONDON, Oct. 30.—Ufl—General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French today broadcast a second appeal to Frenchmen iifr the occupied and non-occupied homeland to stand erect, defiant and silent, at 4 p.m, tomorrow (10 a.m. EST.). He said it would show they were “preparing for vengeance under France’s tattered flags.” “There is not a single man wom an or child in our homes, among our friends or among our enemies who does not understand the tre mendous importance of this for midable standing to attention,” he said. “For this is a war of morale and the hope of victory alone sus tains the efforts of peoples. In ris ing up with head erect facing the enemy, France is unshakable in her fraternity.” - The demonstration was asked by De Gaulle to protest German exe cution of hostages at Nantes. FOREIGN RADIOS BANNED VICHY, Unoccupied France, Oct. 30. — (A>) — The Petain regime, cracked down today on the spread, (Continued on Page Four; Col. 1) HI! SERGEANT! Meet Sgt. Philip J. Parish, who has just been promoted in the Wilmington police department by the Civil Service commission. He will be transferred from his pres ent post as radio operator to duty in headquarters during the day. Sergeant Parish joined the force in 1937, but he had prior experi ence as a law enforcement officer while deputy sheriff and assistant chief -of police-at Carolina Beach. FDR Orders Troops To Take Over Struck Plane Parts Firm In N. J. DEATH BLOWS THROUGH ARKANSAS—13 KILLED Kindling wood is all that was left when a tornado tore through Hamburg, Ark., de stroying 30 homes and killing 13 persons. Shown'above are some of the homes blasted by big wind, with not even one wall Standi ng.—Central Press Phonephoto BOND COMMITTEE TO STUDY PLANS Group Meets To Consider Payroll Deductions For Defense Purposes The city and county Defense Savings committees were in joint session Thursday afternoon to con sider what methods to use m com plying with the Treasury’s request Eor payroll deductions by firms and corporations to stimulate sale af defense bonds and stamps. May ar Hargrove Bellamy presided. Recognizing that one plan which would be satisfactory in one plant would be unacceptable in another, a steering committee was appoint ed to draft a variety of proposals and to consult with John L. Mor ris, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce with the purpose of placing the operation (Continued" on Page Three; Col. 4) AUTO FATALITIES MOUNT STEADILY 27,860 Killed In First Nine Months Of This Year CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—(2P)—Ameri cans who keep an eye on the war zone slaughter overseas could di rect their attention tonight to a sizable slaughter in their own* country. The National Safety Council in formed them that 27,860 men, wom en and children lost their lives as, a result of motor vehicle ac cidents in the United States dur ing the first three quarters of 1941. The toll for the nine months was 17 per cent greater than during a similar period last year. During September 3,770 persons were injured fatally on streets and highways. It was the 14th con secutive month to show an in crease over the corresponding month of the previous year but the size of the increase—14 per cent—was the smallest since last January, , • The urban safety leaders, with their annual death rate per 100, 000 population as computed by the council, were ranked this way at the end of the first nine months of 1941: - . • • • Group one (more thn 500,000 (Continued on Page Four; Col, 4) Eight Motorists Fined For Overtime Parking Officers cited the payment of $2 fines each by eight motorists Thursday for overtime parking on Wilmington streets as a reason why automobile drivers should in spect the signs carefully before leaving their cars in order not to violate the city’s overtime parking ordinance. Most of the fines paid Thursday were levied against cars left parked overtime in 60-minute zones. 2 OPM Orders Drastic Dixie Power Slash Reductions Range From 5 To 30 Per Cent; Tide Water Co., Wilmington Affected WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—(JP)—The Office of Produc tion Management ordered an immediate blackout of orna mental and unessential lighting in the southeast today, and announced that an electricity-rationing program for southern industry would begin Nov. 10 unless heavy rains ended the region’s water shortage. 2 ARMY PILOTS REPORTED SAFE Missing Airmen Sighted In California Mountains; Rescuers En Route • • FRESNO, Calif., Oct. 30.—— Two army pilots, lost during a storm from a formation of 19 planes last Friday, were found alive beside a camp firG in the Mount Whitney region of the High Sierra the army reported tonight. They were spotted by an army searching plane. No sign of their planes was seen. A relief plane was dispatched tram the Fresno Army Air base to drop food and blankets to the pair, found at a rugged spot 90 air line miles east of Fresno, and 20 miles from Hume, where the last road into the wilderness ends. A ground party, including medi cal officers, was ordered to the scene but was not expected to reach the men before 10 a.m. or later Friday. The operations officer at the air base said the men, observed from the air, were readily identified by their uniforms, plainly visible, along with army gear scattered on the ground. A third flier, missing from the (Continued on Page 20; Column 3) WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina—Considerable cloudi ness, occasional rain extreme west por tion Friday apd, over central and west portions Friday night; warmer north and west portions Friday; Saturday showers. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7 30 p; m. yesterday.) (By IT. S.’ Weather Bureau) Temperature 1:30 a. m, 52; 7:30 a. m. 50: 1:30 p. m. 74; 7:30 p. m. 67. M&ximum 75; min imum 49: mean 62: normal 61. Humidity 1:30 a. m. S8: 7:30 a. m. 92; 1:30 p. in. 61; 7:30 p. in. 72. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. rn. 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month 0.65 inches. Tides for Today (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.) High Low Wilmington- 6:51a . 1:32a 7:16p 2:00p Masonboro Inlet - 4:57a 11:05a 5:21p 11:23p Sunrise 6:31 a. Sunset 5:30 p. Moonrise 3:44 p. Moonset 3:16 a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville at 8. a. m. 9.25 feet. .(Continued on Page Five; Col. I) ii issueu a mandatory oraer ior immediate creation of a giant pow er grid connecting 40 publicly and privately owned systems in 13 states, in order to bring power from areas having some surplus into the drought-stricken industrial region. Donald M. Nelson, priorities di rector, said the orders were de signed to insure full and uninter rupted operation of defense plants despite rapidly mounting demand for energy and a prolonged drought which has reduced the supply of hydro-electric power. The power-rationing program covering seven states will not af fect small residential and com mercial users unless they use en ergy for the prohibited purposes. All other industrial and com mercial users who use more than (Continued on Page 7; Column 4) Two Seamen Face Court On Kidnaping Charges Preliminary hearing was sche duled to be resumed in Recorder’s court Friday for Jack Mauldin and A. C. Parker, seamen, charged with kidnaping Betty Judd and Iris McDaniel several weeks ago. 'I'he two were arrested in New Orleans and returned here to face charges, but their case, when called before Judge Alton A. Len non, was continued. 2 NINE CZECHS SENTENCED BERLIN, Oct. 30.—Uf)—Nine Czechs were sentenced to death by a court martial at Brunn (Brno) yesterday, DNB reported tonight. AH were declared to be members of a “group organized for illegal resistance” to the Germans. iERSE DECISION DECLARES NATION NOW ‘IN DANGER' Army Will Direct Plants Following Long Dis pute With CIO COAL STRIKE OFF Lewis Ir tructs 53,000 Miners To Return In 17-Day Truce WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-^ (/P)—President Roosevelt to night ordered the Army to take over the Bendix, N. J., plant of Air Associates, Inc., manufacturers of vital air plen parts. The plant has been harassed by labor disputes since a strike of CIO-United Automobile Workers started on Sept. 30. The President directed Secretary of War Stimson to take over opera tion of the plant and retain control as long as my be required in the interest of national defense. Mr. Roosevelt accompanied the announcement of the taking over of the aircraft factory with the terse statement that:. “Our country is i • danger." Mr. Roosevelt said: “The board (Defense Mediation board) made extensive efforts to ar range for a termination of the strike, but the company refused to (Continued on Page Sixteen; Col. 1) BAILEY SUPPORTS ARMED SHIP BILL North Carolina Senator Urges ‘Shooting’ To Make Seas Safe WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—(A>)— Calling for drastic revision of the Neutrality act, Senator Bailey (D. N. C.) asserted in the Senate to day that American ships and their right to sail the high seas must be proected if it takes “shooting” to do it—“If it takes every battle ship we have got to defend them.” Provisions of the Neutrality law which, prohibit the arming of mer chantmen and keep them out of combat areas and belligerent ports must be rescinded, he told the Senate, as a matter of “self-pro tection,” of “self defense,” and of “self-respect.” The tall North Carolinian arose to answer a challenge flung at (Continued on Page 20; Column 2) Felon Leaps To Death From Hospital Window STATESVILLE, Oct. 30.—(.T)— Hinson Lee Heffner, 42, of Alexan der county, a Federal prisoner, plunged from the fifth floor of the Davis hospital tonight and was killed. Heffner, in the county jail here awaiting transfer to a Federal prison to serve seven months for violation of the liquor laws, became acutely ill this afternoon. He was admitted to the hospital. Two guards were in the room with Heffner when he plunged through a window screen and fell upon the pavement. Attorney General Denies City Show Permit Powers -i. . ■ . ■ - .A The death knell was sounded here late Thursday to a proposal to permit the operation of carni vals in Wilmington city limits in the face of opposition of the board of county commissioners. A ruling from Harry McMullan, attorney-general of North Carolina, received: by City Attorney William B. Campbell, upheld the county board’s contentions that the coun ty is the final authority' in issuing a permit for a carnival in New Hanover county. The ruling, made in a telegram, in effect held that: 1—The permit cannot be issued unless the county approves it; ■2—The carnival cannot operate under a permit issued by the city alone, and, 3—Provisions of the act ol 1919 (governing the issuance of per mits for carnivals in New Hanover county) are applicable to munici palities, as well as counties. Mr. Campbell, in announcing re ceipt of the attorney general’s rul ing, said: “So far as the city is concerned, this ruling apparently ends the matter. I do not see that anything further can be done.” Officials of the Wilmington Jun (Continued on Page Three; Col. I) JEWS IN GHETTO BERLIN, Oct. 30.—(.S’)—Most of Riga s 80,000 Jews were forced .into a ghetto there on Oct. 25, according to the newspaper Deutsche Zeitung in Ostland, which is published at the former Latvian capital.
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