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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-22
Bart Logan Nominated
By N. {. Communists

RALEIGH, May III Up The
North Carolina state convention of
the communist party today nominate
ed Bart Logan of Greensboro as its
candidate for governor.
Logan, state secretary Of the COM
munist party, said in accepting the
nomination that our party must con.
duct it's election campaign in such a
way as to contribute to the progress
of labor and the farmers and help to
unite the progressive forces behind a
program of struggle against war and
against Wall street robbery Of the
people,"
The convention instructed its dele
gates to the national convention to
support Earl Browder as the com.
munist presidential candidate and
James W. Ford for vice.president.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-22

flank of the German westward
thrust in the Arras vicinity on the
Scarpe river. And unquestionably
French troops are being rushed
from the south to mass east and
west along the Somme river.
A definite new French front ap-
pears available via the Somme-
Aisne line from the Channel to the
main French Maginot line.
What is happening north Of the
slender corridor Germany has
forced westward to seize tn e
Amiens-Arras pivots is not clear.
Berlin again pictures the French
Brltish-Belgian forces there racing
to Channel or Belgian or North Sea
ports for safety. While they remaln
intact and adequately supplied,
those forces, estimated in Berlin
at more than a million troops, r
a constant menace to the German
units south of them. French forces
coming up from the south behind
the Somme menace the new and
still uncertain Nazi westward sal
lent on the opposite side.
1t appears unacceptable that
France must strike S soon some
where along the line in a desper-
ate effort to readjust the situation.
If she does not, and if Germany
makes good her thrust to cut Al
lied forces apart to the Channel,
Hitler may launch a psychological
"blitzkrieg," aimed at the will Of
France to continue the fight.
There is a hint of this in reports
from American correspondents
now at Hitler's field headquarters.
Louis Lochner, Associated Press
correspondent, stresses the view
there that it is England against
whom the Nazi attack is aimed,
not France.
It seems possible a Hitler
summoned the foreign pressmen to
his field post of command not only
to witness Nazi military triumphs;
but to disseminate word that he is
~ PAA w W 11lohC pCdSS WIFI
France if she will give up her tie
with England.
To back up that conjecture
comes fresh word daily from Rome
that Italy is wavering closer and
closer to entry into the war. Con-
solidation of the German grip on
the English Channel might we'll be
the key to Italy's decision to take
the plunge. 1t could also serve tc
give a Hitler gesture of peace to
France added force in the minds
of the French public.
Premier Reynaud's stirring ap
peal to French patriotism was
tinged with desperation.
If a miracle is needed to save
France, I believe in miracles" he
said.
There was a hint, too, that hi
gravely feared some new German
blow aimed at French morale ane
Franco-British solidarity.
These two great people:
(France and Britain) are united
he said. France cannot die"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-22
FRANCE
MANY CIVILIANS
LEAVING PARIS
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open waters, and about rs miles west
of Arras and Amiens.
Heavy rumbling like distant thun'
der, such as that heard during the
World war, ratified teacups and win
dows across the channel in the Brit
ish east coast towns of Great Var
mouth and Gorleston. Old-timers re-
called the artillery fire heard on
windy days during the World war.
The British expeditionary force
was bearing the brunt of the battle.
The troops of Lord Gort, field COM
mander, were installed in the coastal
sector fighting with rifles and ma.
chine-guns against German planes
and tanks in a last stand to keep
the Reichsfehr from taking control
of the channel.
Farther east, the French were re-
ported still holding out at Cambria,
behind the German advanced lines.
There was no mention in Paris OF
any Germans reaching the hanne
itself.
Situation Grave"
The French called the situation
Extremely grave but said that with
their troops holding Cambria, east
of Arras, and the British battling
the Germans in other sectors, the
Allied command vas confident it
could "re-establish' it's lines.
General headquarters have been
ont of communication for 48 hours
with General Henri Giraud, COM
mander OF the Mouse area, and a
war ministry spokesman said he
could neither confirm Dr. deny Ger
man reports that Giraud had been
captured.
One report said General Giraud
escaped in a tank. Some members
of his staff were taken prisoner.
The war ministry spokesman said
he believed the French still held
Abbeville itself, but that Il can give
no official confirmation"
German motorcycle units thrust
along roads to the west of Arras
and Amiens behind advance bonn
bardments and machine-g u n n j n g
from Nazi planes.
Other roads radiating from the
French towns. filled with refugees,
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REYNAUD APPEALS
TO FRENCH, OTHERS
TO RALLY TO CAUSE
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Reynaud declared there need be
no further disaster IF each SOL
der realizes his enormous task
and the millions of sons of
France realize their future is at
stake"
His announcement indicated
that the Germans had negotiat-
ed a 25-mfle advance within the
past "A hours in their drive to.
ward the English channel for a
frontal assault against Britain.
In addition to Amiens and Ar.
ras, the German high command
reported its troops also had cap
tured Abbeville IL miles from
the channels open waters, and
a French military spokesman
acknowledged some German
troops had reached the Abbeyille
region.
I'VE must make immediate de.
cisions," Reynaud declared.
This is not the frst trial we
have met and surpassed.
France can not die! If a
miracle is needed to save
France, l believe in miracles
because l believe in France!"
Concept Shattered
Reynaud admitted that France
classical concept of war had beer
shattered by lightning motorized
raids and use of parachutists.
Explaining the disorganization O
the army assigned to hold the lin,
of the Meuse river in Belgium, h,
asserted that French divisions il
that sector were less numerous"
The best troops had been sen
farther into Belgium, making i
"easy' for enemy mobile units t,
knife their way into the Meuse area
These thinned-out French forces
badly trained and badly entrench
ed" were asked to stand up to tn,
massed assaults of the German arm
ored divisions, and vital bridges wer
left intact to the advantage of tn
invaders, he went On.
When the Germans entered tn,
Netherlands, Belgium and Luxen
bourg, Reynaud said, the Frenc.
were forced to move forward to NEE
them on the outer line of the Frencl
prepared Notifications along the Bel
gian border.
1t was then than the German
launched their attack, forcing tn
advancing army of French Genera
Andre George Corap to WITHDRAW
from advance positions in Belgium
to the line of the Mouse.
Referring to incredible faults
which he said were evident in tn
war departments direction of oper'
lions before he took over, Reynau
singled out the Mouse situation q
an outstanding example.
French divisions were reduced l
that area because the river ha
been considered a "redoubtable Of
stacle," he asserted. Then he cried
You understand now the disaste
the total disorganization of the Cora
army"
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BRITAIN
BRITAIN MUSTERS
POWER TO SAVE
EMPIRES HEART

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Churchill, after the first ses-
sion of the house of commons
attended with his new ministers,
was received in audience at
Buckingham palace by King
George.
The navy, on which the first
shock of any lightning attack
would fall, disclosed the loss of
the ~9,550-ton cruiser. Effingham
and the minelayer Princess Vic
toria with 81 men and officers
feared lost. The Effingham,
first cruiser officially listed by
the British as lost, went down
after striking a rock off Nor.
way.
To add to the picture, an author.
lied spokesman said four British
merchant ships totaling 1856 tons,
n Allied vessel of 316 tons and
three neutral ships totaling 5,737
tons had been sunk "by enemy &C
ton in the week ending May IL.
This afternoon terrific anti-air.
craft fire was heard twice off the
southeastern coast as airplane motors
droned overhead. "Everything shook
and trembled," coastal residents said.
The average Briton viewed the
plight of the British expeditionary
force as pretty bad, but they'll pull
through"
The public found reinsurance in
afternoon newspaper banner head.
such as Enemy attacks beat.
en- off" and "Nazis fail in new at.
tempts to cross river
Correspondents who had accom-.
panied the B. E. F. have returned to
England, therefore Britons were
without any direct word from the
front from these sources.
Far more reassuring to the aver
age Briton than the statement that
the B.. e. F. is fighting on posi-.
lions dSSlSneQ' TO 1t was the faith
in the navy as a bulwark against
This first line of defense against
any attempted German blitz blow is
Britain's home fleet with bases at
Chatham and Ports
mouth, skirting the channel.
Even without many wartime aux.
the home fleet is three times
as large as the entire German navy
and is supplied with anti-submarine
and anti-aircraft ships. The admiral
ty in addition has called for all pri-
small craft of more
than 80 feet to aid in coastal defense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-22
TRACK CAPTAINS NAMED

CHAPEL HILL, May 21- Up -
Dave Morrison of Plainfeld, N. j.,
nd Bill Groves of Spartanburg, S.
), we're elected tonight co-captains
t North Cardinals 1941 track team.
Morrison is a half-miler and Grow
$ a Splinter. Morrison placed Sec
ind in $50 conference meet last
week.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-22
GERMANY
GERMAN SOLDIERS
REACH ABBEVILLE
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tn battle Of desperation" the Ger.
man advance southwark toward
Parls appeared, from the high COM
mand's report, to be moving on
schedule, though that schedule SEEM
ed less spectacular.
Reports from the field said the
ElHel tower was clearly visible to
the advance troops who moved south
from Laon IL miles to reach the
olse-Aisne canal and, further east,
completed the occupation of Rethel.
Al their point furthest south, the
Germans thus are about so miles
from Paris.
Etched in clearest outline for
Germans by military spokesman
and by the press, however, was the
picture of the battle being carried
toward England.
The plunge of the German army
from the Cambrai-P eronne front to
Aboevllle, 70 miles from the English
coast, was said by Nazis to have put
the German army in position for a
battle to destroy the British expedi-
tionary force.
Force Thwarted
This force is considered thwarted
in Its attempt to reach the channel
ports for homeward flight lin the
delusion that the British Isles are
~invincible."
The massed German air force now
is bombarding the seaports of Zee.
orugge and Ostend, Belgium, and
Calais and Boulogne in France
above Abbeville, to cut off this path
of escape.
Then comes England's turn, the
press warned.
England need not worry" said
Der Angriff, organ of Propaganda
Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels. "She
herself will have to pay with hel
own money, IN her own soil, for the
bill she has run up!' a
At several points past the further
most penetration of the imperia
German armies during the Worlt
war, the German troops now are de
clared by military sources to hav,
raced a total of 24O miles since the,
first crossed the Belgian frontie.
May 9.
Some days they have made break
throughs of As miles and their spec,
has average 20 miles a day.
Wedge Broadened
Late today, Germany militar,
spokesman said, the German wedg
toward the channel was steadil.
broadened by strong forces. The,
declared that any attempt of tn
Allies to break through was boun'
to fail.
i, A German %brideghead over tn
Somme at Amiens, to the south, wa
declared established, and lines wer
being pushed further north.
Military experts said the Ger.
man strategy had enclosed the Al
lies in a circle within a circle.
They ddrew this picture of the A
lied predicament:
While combined Allied and NORTH
ern forces as a whole are bottle
up between the Somme and tn
east coast, one Belgian-French arm
in the Valenciennes sector of north
ern France is surrounded within
the greater enlightenment.
They said that estimates abroa
of a million Allied soldiers sew
up in this pocket were mot to
great"
Especially in the Valencienne
area, which is heavily wooded, tn
French and Belgians were acknoW
lodged to be making desperate e1
forts to break through the Germal
lines southwark.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-22
- GIVES ARMS
T. ~ PROGRAM POLICY
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continued HUM
.s;ective, he added, was to
ch'ls 's5nvbody-capital or labor
-i.:'.s country as a whole is united
The stpnse question, he assert
the s, as fast as the news comes
I'd a-s the other side the more
j. fo:. K He remarked that he
ricd II. !, i The correspondents pres
Nc' -sad of what was going on:
s Many Fleeing
sue million women and
ro:ss " md a few old men are
| :hilFrn inward by any available
lrciHS w. oO0 mile front, he said,
road o OIL airplanes are machine
g-niag .o2otrv, he continued, re.
The , sy Of the implications OF
si7e' we ne did not proceed to say
g%'r,o No. implications were, but his
WHIT 'l as,io,Isly was tn t events
point n ;D, and that method of
NJ, Ia u me need for a vast anna
~. MORAN.
n e. ypossevelt turned aside quer'
NJ ,sd NTH the possibility Of a coali-
is 't .o%ioet which would include
top ssnt Republican figures.
Et Oh, or,ise the war and defense
Ur'' IN Washington today was:-
new Limit Removed
~ The house military commit
W ,o.ed unanimously to remove
Tee , tu'tU Of G.OoO planes which pre-
ne ne. ' low imposes upon the strength
y ~ he army air corps.
~ ~ The house naval committee
vowed legislation designed to
s.<oJ S' IN the naval construction
E ssr II first, however, struck
pr, a provision for relaxing the
ss,raum labor standards for gov
a,noant contractors. The bill in
,~,Isd provision for the navy to
s~neI any civilian workers suspect
% If svbvcrsive activity or intent,
r,ear6l.ss Of civil service status.
Similar provisions were written
into army legislation also,l
a, Senator Pepper D-Fla) in
,ro1uced a resolution which would
,,Soriae the president to !
Names and aircraft equipment OF
IN army 70 the Allies, in order to
,road assistance to them in the
present crisis .,
o The navy ordered all of its
Establishments to expedite the de-
trrse program, by putting on addi-
tnsl shifts and employing $4,000
more civilian workers within three
months,
On the subject of the hours of
workers employed on defense pro-
dvchon. Mr.. Roosevelt S a d he
vould like to see the work week
stabilized at 40 to AZ hours, with
bust as little overtime work as
possible. Rather than the latter, he
thought it advisable that the I'M
employed be put to work.
The whole question c a m e up
snen a reporter asked for COM
bnent on a recent statement by
l0nn L. Lewis that the CLIO would
endeavor to organize the workers
l the aircraft and other defense
Industries. Mr.. Roosevelt merely
Replied that that would be legal,
but, after a pause, went on into his
Statement on both labor and CAPT.
tsl.
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COOPER DECLARES
SITUATION GRAVE
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nique," he went on, "small bodies
of the German army have suc-
ceeded in penetrating to great dis
tances, but they are small bodies
only and the successes that they
have achieved involves them in
fearful danger"
He went on, then, to warn the
British against "the danger of ru-
NOR" declaring:
II experienced such a good ex-
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War Interpretive
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the seizure of Amiens and Arras,
or even of Abbeville, within 10
miles of the Channel, by steel-tip-
ped Nazi lunges. If that French
ninth army has been eliminated
before it could be backed up to
hold the Amiens-Arras line, a dan
gerous breach has been effected.
The road to the Channel is open
and England in immediate peril OF
direct cross-Channel attack.
Yet it is still a arrow gateway.
North and west, British, Belgian
and French forces which appear
trapped in the Belgian pocket are
still dangerous. There are intima-
tons from London that part of the
British army in Flanders has al
ready about-faced to menace the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-22
TROOPS ARRIVE

OTTAWA, Canada, May 21.-R-
The defense ministry announced to.
night that a new contingent of
Canadian troops has reached Eng
land. They are auxiliary troops and
further reinforcements for the first
Canadian overseas division.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-22
TO AWARD SCHOLARSHIP

GREENSBORO, Nal 21.- Up "A
one-year scholarship to the Agricul.
tural and Technical college here will
be given to the negro All club boy
who completes the best project rec
ord this year, R. e. Jones, negro
All club specialist of the N. C. State
College Extension service, said to.
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-22
SEERSUCKER COVERS

Seersucker is an excellent mate
rial for blanket or comfortable COW
ers, since it is beautifully washable
and requires nc ironing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-22

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WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, May 21.-R-Weath-
er bureau records of temperature and
rainfall for the "a hours ending s p. m,
IN the principal cotton-growing areas
and elsewhere:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-22

A large proportion of our but
Ions are made from fresh water
nussel shells.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-22

The normal annual honey pro-
duction in the United States is
16O, 600, 900 pounds.
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BULLETINS

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forces hAd successfully counter
attacked Germans south - Sc
dan. On the Aeass river ffsat
near thu Belgian border
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fislslsy is..iay thai Gsrmaas h@d
lost about ! 1000 planes On ths
Freoeb front asases Nay 10.
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Witness Defends
Mrs. Burleson

COLUMBIA. :. Counsel for
Mrs. May Walker Burleson at her
trial on charges of numbering her
successor in marriage Friday re-
sumes questioning Mrs. J. II.
Means, of San Antonio, Texas,
who wept while describing the de-
PENDANTS love for Col Richard {.
Burleson. army artillery expert.
Mrs. Means said late Thursday
that when the colonel asked Mrs
Burleson for a divorce. she de-
clared she wanted TO remain Mrs.
Burleson forever and IF he were
discharged from the army and
had to live in a hut beside the
road. I'd want to go with him. .
The witness began To sob and
trial was recessed until Friday.
Mrs. Means had said that Mrs.
Burleson beca A rsyine
maniac" because Of the divorce
action. The defense contends that
Mrs. Burleson was not in her night
mind when she walked into a
cafeteria here March s and shot To
death Mrs. Isabelle Bnrleson, the
eoloners second wife.
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Reduce CHARGE
AgainsiWoman
Accused Slayer
Freed on Bond

A charge of murder against Mrs.
Mandy Lazette. 81. confessed STAY
er of her husband. George LaZette.
the morning of May -, was car
ried into superior court Friday
but reduced from first TO second
degree.
On a showing by the accused
woman's attorney. James Selden.
that she IL in III health and needs
county hospital care. Presiding
Judge Ernest NJ. Card entered an
order Friday morning setting bond
at $4,000 and allowing her re-
lease when IL Is posted.
She was released at 1:20 when
bond was posted
Deputy Prosecutor Dewitt {.
Rowland, who flied the charge.
said investigation of the killing
showed no evidence of premedita-
ton to bear out the first degree
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In an attempt 10 reiaferee
their men On tho coast.
II was said that the detaehments
were small and that many OF their
units had been destroyed.
The general situation In the
Boulogne and channel port areas
generally was confused because OF
numerous running fights between
German detachments and Allied
forces, the military informant said.
The progress Of German de-
tachments toward the channe,
WAS described rather ~ an
escape through Allied fire
than an advance In force.
The Allies. II was said. had now
reduced from IS TO Is miles the
gap between their armies between
the Somme at the Arras area after
taking Arras and extending their
front to the Arras- anaume road.
Heavy fighting Continued in the
valeneiennes-cambrai region ths
Escaut river. the military spokes-
man said. and the Allies had met
with local successes and failures
alike. The general situation had
iemsined unchanged throughout
the night. he said.
The war office analyst an
nounced that the Germans had
bombed the city of Meta. be-
low Luxembourg In the Mag
mot line. and he said that
the French had Immediately
bombed . German city In re-
prisal.
There was no confirmation. he
said, that the Germans had bombed
Strasbourg. on the Rhine. which
was evacuated at the start of the
war. II Strasbourg had been hit,
he said. IL was probably by Ger
man artillery fire rather than by
planes
Premier Paul Reynsud eon-
frrred with Gen. Maxine we,-
Eand. commander -in-chief of
the Allied forces, and Mr. Ron
aid Campbell. British smbss-
sador.
Discussing the battle Of Elan
ders. a military informant said
that there had been some local
French successes. Several small
German detschments which pre-
viousiy had taken bridgehesds on
the south side OF the river were
wiped out. he said. and the French
had now penetrated into the sub
urbs OF Amiens.
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Governor 5 Absence
Irks Young Demos

sEA1TIf Gov Giafsnes ID
Martin can 20 jump IN tbs isks
according 10 President Lloyd
shofstt II tns King County Young
Mems Democratic eluS for failing
10 attend the groups luncheon
Thursday.
4 don't believe tho governor has
been here since has Desn elected.
shorsli said He has been invited
10 every banquet Ne havs mad 70
far a. I'm concerned be sili osyss
BE- invited sgain
Don G Abel pubic s@fsies com.
missioner. defended the governor
a. a hsfd-workink executive Mo
gets 10 his office Al 8 % > m.
Abel Indicated fbs governor
might have somstbing - say ~
six Or eight weeks assa1t esHs
for his political future
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Mechanics Picket
Olympia Garages

OLYMPIA -Pickets paraded be-
fore closed doors Of Olympia auto
dealers Friday - negotiators tried
TO settle a dispute over eonsecu-
tive hours OF work for mechanics.
The union wanted q guarantees
that a mechanic would be given at
least four hours Of consecutive en-
ployment when called on the Job. II
was said employers already had
granted the union = III percent
wage increase and shorter work
week but unions wanted the furth-
er concession before going back 10
work Most larger garages closed
when plekets we're called out
Thursday