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Evening star., 1940-10-06

"a W - = i''tStN'
men to be killed" arrived as
refugee on the American Export
liner EXcalibur.
Passengers said FeuchtWanger
made his way to safety with the
help of an underground" group of
young Americans engaged in aiding
German-b born refugee writer's and
artists escape French internment
camps
The rescues were being made. the
passengers said, because terms of
the French armistice with Germany
required France to return all po-
litical enemies of Germany to that
country, where friends feared they
would meet death.
Put on WOmen'S Clothes.
Describing the escape of Feucht-
wanger, whose citizenship and prop
erty were taken from him by Nazi
Germany after his writings an
gered Reich officials, fellow passen-
gers said he had been held in
French camp at Mines, near the
Spanish border.
They said the 56-year-old writer,
author of Power" and other novels,
was supplied feminine garments by
an American ambulance driver and
put them on under water while
bathing near the camp.
The passengers-whose informa-
ton apparently was based on CON-
versations with Feuchtwanger and
his friends-said that when French
guards halted the ambulance driver
and his dripping companion, the
driver boldly said
I'VE are American citizens. This
woman fell into the river"
The two then drove by the guards
into Spain.
kidnapped by Friends"
More cautious in discussing the
details of his escape. the diminutive
writer himself merely said he had
been kidnapped by American
friends" Whisked across the Spanish
border, then taken to Lisbon, Portu-
gal, where he boarded the Excalibur.
He told of travelling under a pseu-
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Sewer Jobs Cost Cut,
w. P. A. Official Saws

Steadily increasing efficiency Of
the District of Columbia Works
Projects Administration has resulted
in reduction in costs for 372 local
sewer Jobs, totaling 1922 miles
built by w. P. A. during the last
fiscal year. Paul Edwards. District
administrator. said yesterday.
Work Projects Administration
costs. a report showed, were re-
duced by STA per linear foot and
the District sewer department S
costs were reduced by II cents per
linear foot for sewers 10 inches in
diameter as compared with costs
during the preceding fiscal year,
Mr.. Edwards said.
Evening star., 1940-10-06

lean Bar Associations, the Patent
Law Association and for many years
belonged to the Washington Lodge,
No. IS, OF Elks.
Surviving are two sisters. Miss
Virginia S. Benjamin and Miss Ir.
wing c. Benjamin. both of this city:
brother, Frederick Jay Benjamin
Of Chicago. and niece. Mrs. Rich.
ard v. Ebert OF Boston.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Nv the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. Oct. 5.-Fellow pas
sengers of Lion Feuchtwanger,
famous German novelist, told today
how he made daring escape from
a French internment camp in wom-
ems clothing smuggled to him by a
young American ambulance driver.
Feuchtwanger, self-described as
the mo. / man on the Nazi list of
Evening star., 1940-10-06

A lifesaving vest for seamen on
duty has been invented in England.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
HiIIwood Group to Meet

The Hillwood CVa) Citizens As
sociation will meet at pm Monday
at the home of the secretary, Miss
Clara Cherry, 304 Hillwood avenue,
to act on a proposed new consti-
tuition and consider report on bus
conditions by a special committee.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Citizens to Elect Slate

Election of officers will mark a
meeting of the Greenbelt Citizens
Association at pm. Monday at the
Elementary School. Abraham Chas-
anow, Rolfe A. Sauls and Lyman
L. Woodman are nominees for
president.
Evening star., 1940-10-06
Lecture on Forest Lure

DR.. H. N. Wheeler, a forest ofiicer
since 1905 and chief lecturer of the
United States Forest Service. will
give an illustrated lecture on the
Lure of the Forest" at 8 pm. We'd
nesday in the Agriculture Depart
ment auditorium, Constitution ave-
nue. between Twelfth and Four
teenth streets NV.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
TWO FORTS HELD
BY FRENCH LEGION
Attack After Attack By
Nazis Is Flung Back
In Beau Geste'

LES VERRIERES, On the
French-Swiss Frontier, June o.
R-A thousand desert-toughened
fighting men of the French Foreign
Legion, with their backs to the
Swiss frontier, held two mountain
forts today for the fifth day against
heavy German assault.
They are cut off from other
French troops. Completely sur.
rounded, they fought on as a Beau
Geste"-and because fighting is the
tradition of the Legion.
The forts where they have re.
pulsed attack after attack are LIE
Joux and PEcluse, across the from.
tier from this usually sleepy Swiss
town. The peasant folk call the LIE.
gionnaires les joyeux-the joyful
ones-and keep as far from the forts
as possible.
Nazi swastikas have flown for
five days over the nearby forts of
P%ontarlier and lie Larmont mountain
several miles to the north which fell
to the Germans without a struggle
after Premier Petain of France an
nounced he was asking the Germans
for terms of peace.
The German commander at Pom
tarlier received a telephone call
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
Petain?s Enjoys To Negotiate
Separate Peace With. II Duce;;
Terms Called Hard, Honorable
FRENCH FIGHTING ON
Rome Says Terms Include
Occupation Of Channel
Ports By Nazis
FLEET NOT MENTIONED

June %. -
B-The French government
announced officially late to-
night that France and Ger
many had signed an armis-
tice providing "hard but hon.
orable" terms.
eff the terms had not been
honorable, France would
have been ready to fight on
in her colonies" French
sources said.
The price Adolf Hitler de-
manded for peace, however,
will not be announced off,
cially until after France
reaches an agreement with
Italy and the cease firing
order is given.
Heavily Censored
In a heavily censored dis
patch, it was disclosed that
the government remains for
the moment at Bordeaux,
the provisional capital.
From that headquarters, official
.-J---.. .,;1 Etf.oeL Eraroh
troops were holding firm along
the Alpine frontier-beating back
attacking Italians from Mont Blanc
to the sea despite the menace of
German pressure from the rear.
The Germans were pictured as
pushing a spearhead down the
Rhone valley behind the frontier
defense forces, slowly, steadily,
despite valient resistance.
The high commands night COM
munique indicated that while the
fighting was less severe, it con
tinued in local combats all along
the front.
The Germans apparently were
pushing forward with advance and
scouting units.
A war office spokesman said the
tired poilus "are continuing a des-
perate but not useless fight"
Their resistance during the tense
hours in which emissaries of their
government discussed with the Ger
mans the terms of armistice was
said to have enabled France to
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
DIAL TELEPHONES
PUT IN USE HERE
City Officials Take Part
In Midnight Ceremony;
Numbers Changed

With a simple ceremony and a
60-second interruption in service,
Wilmington's telephones were
changed from the manual system
to the new dial exchange last mid
night.
The cutover- eliminating
months of work and planning by
the Southern Bell Telephone COM
pany - went through without a
hitch and it appeared early this
morning everything was working
perfectly, according to officials of
the company.
Mayor Thomas E. Cooper start
ed the affair by throwing a switch
which in turn signalled men stat
toned at various points throughout
the county to make necessary me-
chanical adjustments. And it was
all over in a minute.
j.. E. L.. Wade, city commits
sioner of public works, made the
first long distance call through the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
NOT REVEALED
Fighting Will Cease Six
Hours After Italian
Truce Is Signed
|NAZI DEMANDS MET
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER

BERLIN, June 22.-(R-
France made a final surren-
der to victorious Germany
tonight, signing in the For
est of Compiegne a peace
based upon the broad dictate
laid down by Adolf Hitler.
It was an armistice still
conditioned, however, on a
second capitulation-to Italy
and tonight men fought on
in a conflict that was a war
no longer.
1t was an agreement that
will bring a real armistice
only after the French have
made their terms with Pre-
mier Mussolini.
Six Hours Later
Six hours after the notice OF
s@sisy second armistice have been
received by the Nazi high command,
the guns will cease to speak.
In the same old railway car in
the Compiegne Forest where the
Kaiser's delegation bowed in de-
feat to Marshal Ferdinand Foch on
Nov. II, 1918, two ranking gener-
erals at $50 p. m. (11:50 a. m.
r. S. To- put pens to the French
surrender of 1910.
The weary French delegation took
a plane almost Immediately for ali
undisclosed city in Italy to begin
their conversations with Mussolini.
This French surrender at an old
and bitterly remembered scene Of
German defeat-the railway car in
the forest-was signed by Col. Gen.
Wilhelm Keitel for Germany and
by General Charles Huntziger for
France.
Just what France had agreed to,
at the end of a short and bloody
struggle which in 43 days left half
her country in German hands, was
not disclosed pending the Italian
negotiations.
But when Hitler took his dictate
to them yesterday he stated in a
preamble to his detailed terms
three broad conditions that must
be met. France was to agree to:
Halt any form Of resistance.
Give guarantees" to Germany
to help her wage war on the his
toric French ally, England.
Submit to a new" peace in Eu-
rope which would be designed
above everything to help to wipe
out the wrong done to the Ger
man Reich by force" in the last
war.
The fuehrer was not present at
today's session.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
Miss Taylor Is Crowned
As Miss New Hanover
AERO CLUB MEETS
Show Here And Races
At Beach Will Feature
Program Today

Miss Hilda Taylor, of Whining
ton, last night was crowned miss
New Hanover County" after win
ming a beauty contest, held as part
of the Aero Weekend Ball
!Lumina, and the right to represent
New Hanover county in the state
wide beauty contest to be held
there later in the second section OF
the annual Water Carnival OF
Wrightsville Beach.
The beauty contest was held a,
the opening of the ball which was
the highlight Of the first day OF
the Carolina Aero clubs tour.
Miss Hazel Smith was second in
the contest. Other entrants were
Miss Frances Coughenour, M S S
Anna Feenstra, Miss Lucy Rogers,
Miss Orma Jean Willis and Miss
Dorores Willis.
Judges were Mr.. and Mrs. JIM
my Nall, the former CAA inspect
or in North Carolina, and MIR. n
Mrs. ]. L. Hamilton. Mr.. Hamilton
is an official of the Carolina Aero
club.
The Aero ball was attended by
members of the Aero blue, tn e
Disabled American Veterans, VINO
are holding a convention in WI
mington, and the Mutual Life In
surance agents of the state, who
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

The fate of Frances overseas
empire is of greater concern to
the world at large than even the
fate of her feet, now reported in
British hands.
There are definite limitations up
on usefulness to the British of the
French fleet-fourth in size among
world navies. Lacking the industry
ashore that creates and maintains
it, no fleet would reamin an ef-
fective fighting force beyong the
exhaustion Of its available stores
of ammunition for it's guns and
spare parts for it's complicated me-
chanisms
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
WESTBR00K Will,
HEAD n. {. DAV
L. C.. Walker Is Elected
Vice-President; Meet
Closes Tomorrow

Norwood S. Westbrook, of Will
mington, was elected state COM
mander of the Disabled War Vet
Grams of North Carolina at a meet
ing of the 18th annual convention
in the Crystal restaurant yester-
day afternoon. He succeeded
George E. Pickett, great grandson
of General Pickett of Gettysburg.
L. c. Walker, Burlington, was
elected senior vice commander
and c. A. Dickson, Charlotte, was
elected Junior vice-Commander.
Frank Sasser, veteran service oil
vision of the North Carolina de-
partment of labor, was the guest
speaker at the meeting yesterday
afternoon.
A resolution was adopted by the
convention approving a recreation
al project to purchase a site near
Wilmington for the use, health and
rehabilitation of disabled veterans
and their families Of North Caro-
lin.
A board of trustees, composed OF
six men, was elected in accord
ance with the new bylaws to ad-
minister and handle all business
transactions of this project.
Westbrook, newly-elected COM
mander, was appointed chairman.
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
Scharnhorst
|Torpedoed By
Sub
26,000-Ton Nazi Battle
Cruiser Also Bombed
By Warplanes
rs BADLY DAMAGED
British Also Claim Large
Italian Sub Captured
In Gulf OF Alden

LONDON, June 22.@R-British
naval and air units, seeking to
avenge the sinking of the 22,5Oo-
ton aircraft carrier Glorious, way
laid the. 26, OO0-ton German battle
ship S]charnhorst off Trondheim
ford and badly damaged her. the
admiralty said today.
Shortly afterwards the admiralty
announced that a large Italian sub
marine, attacked with depth
charges in the gulf of Alden, had
surrendered to the British trawler
Moonstone.
Spied Leaving Fjord
The communique on the Scharn-
horst said the b%attleship, reported
damaged early this month shortly
after she and her sister ship, the
Gneisenau, sank the Glorious in the
North Sea June 8, was spied by a
submarine leaving the ford.
"The battle cruiser" the COM
munique said, twas clearly or
passage to a safe port where she
could repair the damage sustained
when hit by at least INT heavy
bomb during an attack by the air.
craft of the (British) fleet air arm
on June 49,"
The Scharnhorst was under
heavy escort, but the submarine
launched a torpedo regardless, and
it struck her. The Royal Air Force
coastal command was notified and
torpedo bomber aircraft opened up
The Scharnhorst momentarily es-
capped, but a destroyer was hit.
Two of the British planes failed
to return.
An hour later, said the British
communique, despite the escort Of
~destroyers and a guard of at least
Sc Messerschmidt fighting planes
the coastal command planes again
attacked and scored three direct
bomb hits.
1.-TWO struck alongside numbers
one and two gun turrets. The other
was full on the stern, from which
a great quantity of debris rose in
the air." the communique said.
The admiralty said the Scharn-
horst was damaged in Trondheim
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
French Must
Aid Nazis
In Fight

LONDON, June 23-(Sunday)
-R-The French peace nego-
tations r expected to have their
first meeting with the Italians
Monday, Exchange News, a
British agency, reported from
Bordeaux early today.
Official circles in Bordeaux
were said to believe it would
take two or three days to reach
a settlement.
It was said also that French
authorities expected Germany to
influence a reduction in Italy's
claims against France
The French government pro-
poses to stay in Bordeaux, the
news agency said, and would
not return to Paris unless the
Nazi-captured capital was a
free city and mot controlled by
German bayOnets."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23

Navy Base
Raided

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, June
22@R-Four Italian air raids
on this Allied naval base were
beaten off today by the anti-air-
craft guns of the British and
French fleets.
Four o fthe attacking bomb
ers were shot down.
Coastal batteries joined in a
heavy bOmbardment of the
enemy squadrons.
Bombs fell in the harbor, but
hit no warship, and over the
city's s%eafront.
From Dodescanese
The raiders-apparently from It
aly's Dodescanese islands across the
Mediterranean-came in waves
which were driven back by the co
operative action of both fleets.
(Italian planes also bombed Jib.
uti, French Somaliland, several time
today, but there were no ~casalaltie
~ ~
and NO AAown damage. No
bombed the day before.)
The attack led to predictions Egyp
that might quickly declare war OF
Italy.
Two persons were killed and 2;
including two Italians-were in
jured in the raid, a British nava
communique said.
These civilian casualties appar
emily resulted from the fact tina
anti-aircraft fire and fighter plane.
forced the raiders to veer eastward
along the waterfront.
Only last night French official
sources predicted that Frances bis
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
Hitler Renews Pressure
In Battle For Britain

is IAN ideal subject for attack in
that it is a "setup'' for quick de-
structive air forays and for block
AIDE.
The news service added: ENGLAND
is being defeated by n of its own
weapons, blockade"
Moreover, every hour of delay in
the French decision at Compiegne
forest helped the German army to
make the French military position
more hopeless, German sources salo.
'"The armistice is going hand in
hand with the final collapse OF the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
Tax,
Funds Bills
Also Passed
rl Knox To Be Summoned
To Give His Views On
Entering Conflict
|lIEF BILL PASSED
undertaking Action,
Surprising All, Paves
Way For Recess
By The Associated Press

Ry The Associated freSS
rssHINGTON, June 22-R-
uNN. 900. 900 warship c%onstruc-
In urogram to make the Amerl-
AN navy the greatest assemblage
/ qa power the world has ever
known was voted by the House to-
Esv after scarcely two hours de-
a
HE swift action, together with
Ii congressional approval of a
10000. 900 tax defense bill and
H768. 913, 9O8 emergency appro-
r;tion for the army and navy,
npd attention at the capitol with
7rs of strong opposition within
senate naval committee of con-
natiOn of Colonel Frank Knox
nnation to be secretary OF the
~,
Knox is Summoned
he naval committee voted at a
Md session to ask Knox to ap-
"a, before it for questioning on
zriews toward United States po-
" and the war. One member,
bio said he favored approval OF
be animation. told reporters that
q normal poll indicated that if
vote we're taken today the noml-
ftm would be rejected, IL to ..
Whether or not the committee
proves the nomination, this
mber said, may depend on
tox's statement of his attitude
ward possible United States IN
|%Tention in the European war.
The navy expansion bill swept
Trough the house with a chorus
ayes on a voice vote. The
Continued m Page Two: Col. a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
War Interpretive

The greatest danger that Britain
faced with French defeat was that
both the French fleet and an I'M
impaired French industrial estab-
lishrnent to repair and munition it
would fail into Italo-German
hands. Given that, German or ltal-
ian crews could be quickly i'm
provised and trained in the use
Of French naval apparatus to make
that fleet a deadly added menace
to England.
In British hands, the French fleet
is to be of less value. While pro-
viding crews either Of British sail
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
Sen. GLASS, g.,
WEEDS MRS. MEADE
Virginian And Bride, so,
Postpone Wedding Trip
A. Glass Is Ill

WASHINGTON, June o. Up -
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia and
Mrs. Mary Scott Meade of Amherst,
Va, were married at Amherst at
4:30 p. m. (E.S.T.) today.
Mrs. Glass is the daughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Landon
Scott and widow of Robert Amber
Meade.
The wedding was a quiet ceremony
at Ascension Episcopal church. The
Rev. Re Barney Phillips, rector of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
fRv The Associated Press)

BERLIN, June %. - England is
..rine for storming," well-inforned
Nazi quarters said tonight.
As this view widened in Germany
the days communicate told OF in
creased pressure against England
from the air and on the sea-.
Nearly 100 bombers roared over
En,1;sh coast communities last night
in another, mass demonstration OF
.;r mower. They will GO back.
The German press emphasized tnat
odeo,,ately-based planes need not
fear sea power.
The news service Dienst Aus
7.,+sob1and declared that England
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23

LONDON, June 23-(Sunday)-GP
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill, expressing British "grief and
amazement" at Frances acceptance
of German armistice terms, appeal
ed today to all Frenchmen wherever
they may be to aid the British fight
against Germany as the only hope OF
Frances eventual restoration to lib
erty.
Declaring that the British govern
ment could not feel that a free, in
dependent and constitutional French
government could have submitted tt
the German armistice, Churchill ap
pealed to Frenchmen over the heads
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
WOODRING

WASHINGTON, june 22.-R
Former Secretary Woodring
told the army in a farewell mes
sage today that progress IN
building up defenses should
continue with regard first and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
DOCTORS TO OPEN
SESSION AT BEACH
Symposium OF Obstetrics,
Pediatrics Scheduled
At Wrightsville

A symposium on obstetrics and
pediatrics, arranged by the state
board of health, will open this aft,
ernoon at the Ocean Terrace hotel,
Wrightsville Beach, and will last
through Monday evening.
Prominent obstetricians and pc.
diatrists from throughout N t h
Carolina, as well as others from
adjoining states, will discuss the
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
ENUMERATION

WASHINGTON, june 22.-R
Rep. Mccormack O-Mass) IN
troduced in the house today a
resolution to ex0nerate the late
Brig.-Gen. William Mitchell Of
charges made at court martial
which preceded his resignation
from the army.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
REFINERIES

NEW YORK, June 22.-R-
ALI retInerles in france have
been destroyed or so seriously
damaged under direction OF
French military authorities as to
render them useless until re-
built, the Oil and Gas journal,
a trade publication, said today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
ILL

FLORENCE, Italy, June 22.-
R-MyrOn G. Taylor, President
Roosevelt's personal representa-
tive to the Vatican, continued IN
a serious condition here tonight
of an illness which began several
days ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
FLIGHT

MIAMI, Fla, June 22.-tR-
Jewish refugees who arrived
here on the French steamer
Winnipeg told today of a har-
rowing flight before the advanc-
ing German army.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
SAFEGUARD

WASHINGTON, June 22.-t#
Legislation requiring the fin
gerprinting Of all persons en-
gagged in "manufacture, process
ing or delivering" of all goods,
including war materials, for use
of the United States govern
ment was introduced today by
Rep. Rich (R-Pa.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23

NEW YORK, June 22.-R)-
Communist and Mai Bund'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
WAR

members will be purged from
WPA rolls here before July L,
Lieut.. Col. Breh0n SOmeryelI,
local WPA administrator, an
n0unced today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23

No. 10.oe- ''oia. sulSeL 1.Iap, MooAA
"'Vop; moonset S:Sa.
Es atbsshri,NGTON, June %. - (R -
ii I, ,oa bureau records of temperature
I'm "alall for the "a hours ending 8
hss u, III the principal cotton-growing
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-23
WEATHER

u TOhECf1bI
sfth Carolina and South Carolina
aFuF cloudy, rising temperature Sun
~ Monday partly cloudy.
chronological data for the "a hours
@~Es $3.50 p. m. Yesterday.
"a, Temperature
"% a, m. &c; 7:3G a. m. 70; 1870 p.
ssase' $50 p. NJ. "A; maximum 70:
F~~am IL; mean 70; normal Is.
I'm Humidity
10Y a: m. II; 1870 a. N. 50; 1:30 p.
II; $50 p. IN. 40.
T,.,. Precipitation
,m aSal for "a hours ending 1880 p. M,
\. ii Total since first of the month,
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Served by Leased Wire of the
ASSOCIATED PRESS
With Complete Coverage OF
State and National News
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