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| J luge Bomber Leads Nazi Raid E itish Warships Open Fire On F ench West African Port Of I ikar; De Gaulle Gives Order } nch Cabinet An n r.ces France Will * K ply to Force With Fo-ce"; Nazis Said T > ingr To Gain Con trol of Dakar, s-. 23.-- v-\P) —British . • 'c.in 1'iiing on l>akar. Airiean port. today. (. ha: !i\ flv Gaulle, i-nehiv.-n sti!i fighting gave the order from British tlagship. u was !: v-i;'lly t-imght. e linnet deeided tiiat d "ivplv to force with meed here yesterday • iu!i warships, three of and three destroyers. > arrived at Dakar e>n ,.t.t >h:ps alter passing t . -ute from Toulon with >>.•'11. had bee.; prevent v.arships from leaving. . : the ministry of mfor :ieed that General rie . t\i .it i >;.!;ar with a "free . i- "his :i ;rning. Ki ench" ft »ree. accom Bntish force, met resist* - lUiaiion is not as yet a ministry statement ; ii st I out following Germans were mak ::orts to bring Dakar . evidence of :n the recent move warships front thv statement ad Nc Hope That Honeycutt May Be Alive .He. Sept. 23— (AP)— . ■ . - and Coast Guardsmen rations today to pull an • ::\>m its muddy grave in Georgia v.ump alter pe tnat Brigidair Gen v- U". Honeycutt and two > survived its crash. Honeycutt. 57, cotnman F.' t Lragg, Captain George :;»»-year old piiot. and Cor •xrt Scn:nitz were aboard :..ch left Fort Bragg late Jacksonville. :t. la>t reported Friday Savannah. Ga., was found . y attei a two-day searcii > -re arc.y and Coast i:ies participated. diatus Quo secretary Hull Voices disapproval of United -States at Indo-China Situation. :ington. Sept. 23.- f AP> Sec Iliili declared that the " »» in Indo-China was being 'b-ough duress. and once again ■ d th»« disapproval of the r! States. •'"i iormal statement at his < "(it< !'-fuv or. the entrance of ' ii iiitary forces into the ' far eastern colony. • ' are transpiring so rapidly I:;do-Chinese situation that it " ible to get a clear picture f.'.inu te- to-m: nute develop fI ;I! said. "It seems obvious, that the status quo is being »:d that this is being achieved dure-s. The position of the Stat- > in deprecation of such • e has been repeatedly stat • ility of new American <• .*:ieasures which would re •iap.in arose as a result of the Japanese military forces in '■;i Indo-China. ed persons said these re might take the form of (••ntrols ovei exports of on and other materials f; nas been a large pur London Store Wrecked by Bombs C. P. Cubic photo Shattered by Nazi bombs, this department store in London was thoroughly wrecked by the high explosives which German raiders dropped in the shopping district. Photo was cabled from London to New York. Two Die In Blast At Army Arsenal Bam more Files Suit For Divorce! Los Angeles. Sept. 2!>.—(AP)— John Barrymore filed suit tor divorce today from Elaine Barric. in another of the domestic breakups which have become historic. He charged the New York brunette1 with causing him "grevious inental suffering and great bodily injury.'' The nature of the latter was not j specified. Orient Has j Record Crop Of Tobacco \ Washington. Sept. 2'3.— (AP)—fur ther losses of American export to bacco markets were foreseen by the Agriculture department today in ad vises from the Orient that China. Manchuria and the Japanese empire had produced a record crop of 317. 000,000 pounds of flue-cured tobacco. The department said that tins! crop, combined with carryovers; somewhat larger than a year ago, indicated a substantial decrease in imports of American leaf and stem by the Orient in the 1940-41 season. During the 1939-40 season such ■ imports amounted to 75.000.000 pounds. ;>] 1 of it to China. Chinese imports during the 1940-41 season, iContinued on page two) Employees at Arsenal Were Packing Away Fuses of World War Shells-" A Dangerous Job At Best". Dover, N. —Sept. 23.(AP)— Two persons were killed and eleven injured today in an explosion at the United States Army Picantmny ar senal. It was the second fatal munitions blast in the Dover area within a lortnight, the explosion ot a smoke less powder line at the Kenvil plant ot the llcrcules Powder Co. Septem ber 12 having taken 50 lives. Colonel A. S. Buyers, public re lation.-. officer at the arsenal, said the explosion oceurrcd as employees were picking apart fuses of World war shells—"a dangerous job at best." They were in a building about oil feet by 5(J leet in size and set apart for this operation. Each em ployee was protected by screens which apparently prevented serious injury to any of those hurt. Buyers said lie thought there were only 13 persons in the structure. The blast caused "some damage" to the build in?;. it was reported. A military board began immediate investigation to determine the cause ot the blast. Coioney Buyers said it apparently occurred when fulmi nate o! mercury used in the fuses "let go." The operation was to recover the metal part of the (uses which would then be loaded with fresh explosive unci used again. The injured included three women. Opinion In Raleigh Is Paul Leonard's "Goose Is Cooked" By Willkie Stand Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotei. Raleigh. Sept. 23.—Raleigh's reac I tion t<> the bolt to Willkie of J. Paul i Leonard. Fair Tax Association secre tary and the state's most persistent ! foe of the sales tax. is positive, though brief. "His goose is cooked." is the sum and substance of opinions expressed regarding Paui'ij plea fur Democrats to follow him in support of the G. O. P.'s presidential nominee. Nobody questions the Leonard courage and sincerity: but his J'lop has more than raised grave doubts of his political sagacity—it has def initely convinced politicians and po litical observers here that Mr. Leon ard as a factor in North Carolina's (Continued on Page Two) I Air Siege Of Britain Intensified "Monster" Bomber Is Accompanied By Fighters at Terrific Heights; British Fight ers Drive Raiders Back to France. London, Sopt. —f.W)—A "twilight" raid of Grrman bomb ers apparently was ds;.:rv d l:y Prifis'i fighters ovrr London to nisht \\itilo Kmjj Goore VL c» bortint? (bp proph: <••!' !» mpire to cosTfld^nce, said Ihcy bad many reasons to h«* rni-oiirar;rd. The flight of Gernr.iv.>: was aj> r.artmMy mot by BrH/ b ti -rs high in the clouds over London. Any fighting was ;»ld.Je:i irom ground observers J»y t.'i" c!o:ids, but normal pursuits \v» r? r;:um cd in the capital even Lei'orc the kin? had finished his broadcast to the empire. About the same time- the British ministry of information d'.clart d that last night and early today the Brit :.h bomber command I.ad carried out raids on nine German invasion lia.es in Holland, Belgium una France and scored hits on an alumi num works, a supply train and rail ways in the Dresden area. London, Sept. 23. — (AF; —Nazi raiders, paced by a "monster" bomb er. roared over England's coast again today and some reached London, sending its millions underground twice after dawn and spattering the western part of the capital with bombs. Vigorous anti-aircraft lire quick ly cleared the skies, however, and most ol' the invaders were believed to have been turned back by British iighter squadrons before they reach the capital. Authortative reports .said five raid continued on Page Two) Supply Bill Passes House Washington, Sept. 23.—(AP)— A supplementary supply bill carrying among other things a $D3,D()U,0UU item for training defense workers and $80,000,000 for construction of new military and civil pirpnrts was approved today by the huii:;c approp riations committee. The bill's total of $208,733,728 cov ered a variety of items. Of this amount S207.-175,727 was in direct cash appropriations and $61,258,000 in contract authorizations lor which Congress would have to provide funds later. japs Enter Inch-China — Some Skirmishes Re ported As Troops Seek to Cut China's Supply j Routes. j Tokyo, Sept 23.—(AP)—Japanese [army and navy units, bent on an j attack on China's "back door" sup ply routes, have entered French In do-China. the Japanese government announced today, under the terms of an agreement signed in Hanoi, j "8 >me skirmishes" were reported to have occurred during the entry last night, but a joint naval and military communique said "these were to be expected and will be over shortly. The advance will pro ceed smoothly." Domei. Japanese news agency, said Japanese troops overcame resistance :ind we!"' advancing south toward Hanoi without further fighting. resistance along the bol der and , elsewhere was said to have been: overcome during the night with In-' do-Chinese forces driven back. (j)suaik&h FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday, followed by show - ers in mountains Tuesday after noon or night; slightly cooler. rtiish Refugee orth "Murder" London Press Kidnapped Baby Is Unharmed Marc .de Tristan. Jr., three-year-old son of the wealthy Count and Connies? de Tnslan of Hillsborough. Cal . \v;is returned unlianned to hi? parents last night alter having been kidnapped and held lor S100.000 ran som since last Friday. Hunters overpowered and captured a German alien, Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbrioch. with the child in his possession in the California mountains. The child is shown above in a recent photo, with his mother (inset). Kidnapped Cmld Is Returned Unharmed Hull Describes Ship Sinking As "Dastardiy Act" Washington. So?)!. — (!)!') — Secretary Hull today character ized (he torpedoing of a British refugee ship with the loss of -• lives as a "most dastardly act." Commenting on the disaster, fatal to 83 children being brought to Canada, Hull said "1 am sure there will he no division of opinion in this country that it was a most dastardly act." Legionnaires Open Annual Boston. Sept. 23—(AP)—Amid pa triotic fanfare, the 22nd annual con vention of the American Legion to day heard a declaration by Presi dent Roosevelt that this nation mu«t protect "our American way of life" against "any form of aggression which may endanger it". In a message read by National Commander Raymond J. Kelly to a colorful uniformed throng in the flag-drape dBoston arena, the Presi dent said: "We now find abroad serious con flict between those who wish for peace and free government and those who wish to destroy it. That tr-t of strength has gathered fivro nd whether we like it or not Hd^v :l constitutes a threat against the pence (Continued on Page Two) Alien German, Ac cused Abductor of Baby Marc de Tristan, Held in Secret Spot; Hunters Capture Man and Save Baby. Hillsborough. Cal.. Sept. 23.— (AP)—William Jacob Muhleii broich, seized in the quickly solved de Tristan kUIuap ease, was held today for scrutiny of federal agents who sought to learn if he might have been in volved in the unsolved Malison abduction in Tacoma. Wash. FB! men indicated they were comparing features and charac teristics of iWuhlenbroieh with the few facts known about the .swarthy, beak-nosed man who in December, 1937. abducted Charles Matt.son, 10, of Tacoma, Wash., and left the boy's body, nude and beaten, in a thicket in newly fallen snow. Since lhat day officers have continued an unrelenting search for the kid naper-slayer. Hillsborough. Cal.. Sept. 23.—(AP) —Unharmed. Baby Marc do Tristan. Jr.. was sale in the arms o: his tilled i rapturously happy family today, while tight lipped Federal Bureau of Investigation men held his accused abductor, the alien German Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich, in some secret spot. | Joy reigned in Hillsborough, whose ; residents last night turned out by | the thousands to roar a Hollywood .welcome as Count Marc de Tri-tan proudly boro his son up a long path to the waiting mother. On a grimmer note. Chief of Po lice C. M. Hirchcy id "T tlvnk that more than one pr:- •> was 'n volved in thi; kid>. ipninri .•nri i > tContinucd on pajje iwuj Government An nounces Today Sink ing Last Tuesday of Vessel, With Death Toll of 293 Persons, 83 of Them Children. London, Sept. 23.—(AP)—The sinking of a British refugee ship with a toll of 293 persons, 83 of them children. ennnite to Canada stunned Britain today and brought headlines of "murder*' in the London press. The government waited until to day to announce the tragedy of al most a week ago, to give welfare workers opportunity to notify the children's parents in London. Liver pool and Middlesex after exhaused survivors were brought to a northern port. The ship, her name undisclosed, was torpedored 000 miles west of Eng land and sank in a stormy sea within 20 minues after she was attacked at Id p. m. last Tuesday, the announce ment said. Of 400 men. women and children aboard, only 113 were brought back alive by a warship which reached the scene at dawn. The stories of heroism and horror they told indicated that many per ished in the tremendous explosion of the torpedo. Scores more were lost from wave tossed lifeboats or died l'rom ex posure. The government said the chil dren. from 5 to 15 years old, were the first lost in child refugee re movals that have taken 3,000 others to safety Another evacuee ship was reported torpedoed last August, but all 320 children aboard were saved. In Berlin, official German circles described the story of the sinking of a British refugee ship as a "tear jerker" intended to get the United States into the war on Britain's side. It was said officially that no pas senger vessel identifiable as such had been torpedoed by any German u-boat or plane either within or out side the announced blockade zone. Tremendous Fires Started In London Berlin, Sept. 2:5.— (AP) —"Tre [ mendous lire ." so great they were I visible from the French coast were 'spread in the center of London by I waves ol Nazi night raiders, inform ed .German sources reported today. Piccadilly Circus and the Regent I'ark district in the heart of the Brit I isii capital as well as commercial [docks along the Thames river were I hit, it was p-ported. * ! In a daylight coniimiation of the 1 assault, de eiibed by the high com 1 mand as "full trei'glh" air raids, [they said 17 I5riti h planes had been sliol down <i far today in "severe air fights" over southern F.ngland. Four German planes have not returned, [ they acknowledged. The high command also reported (Continued on page two) Draft Rules 'into Effect President Roosevelt Signs Two Volumes of Rules and Regulations For Draft. Hvde Park. X. Y., Sept. 23.— (AP)—President Roosevelt ordered into effect today two volumes of rules and regulations for operations of the first peacetime conscription in American history. That action followed his request to the 48 governors to organize the draft systems in their respective states and to recommend to him im mediately per.-or s to be named stat« directors of selective service and member* of loral classification and ' lection boards. The "book of instructions" for (Continued on Page Two)
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