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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29

and 1t was estimated Is Of them sur.
rendered.
But there was no sign Of any
weakening in the Allied determine.
ton to carry the war on the new
front.
The Allied armies still fighting in
the north consisted (here three
words were censored) of the British
ex~peditionary force and several
French divisions which rushed into
Belgium May 10 at the start of the
German invasion.
They started retreating May Is
with the Belgians covering their
northern flank in a vain effort to
form a junction with the central
French army on the somme.
The Germans turned their often.
s1ve against the northern armies in a
smashing campaign to occupy the
important French industrial region
around Lille, take command Of the
English Channel and free their full
forces for a final drive.
At the moment of the Belgian sur
rendered the Allies still held much of
Flanders and the coast on a line
south from Belgium through Menin
to Douai and west through Stomer
to Calais. Within that pocket they
held the Port of Dunkerque, France.
With the Belgian capitulation
opening their northern flank, their
position was acknowledged to be
"critical."
Dunkerque and the Belgian ports
above it, among them Ostend and
zeebrugge, were left shorn of effec.
tive defense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
MAXWELL AIDES
MOVE UNCERTAIN
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or Horton, despite the fact that
Maxwell himself is supporting
Broughton in the second primary
campaign .
Just where the campaign di-
rectors Of the fourth man in the
race, L. L. Gravely, would turn
also was in doubt. 1t was said
that an announcement of their
plans, as well as those of Max
wells state manager, might be
made known tomorrow.
One prominent Broughton sup
porter claimed that the State Re-
venue Department would favor
Broughton. Maxwell took a leave
Of absence from his post as Re
venue Commissioner to seek the
gubernatorial nomination.
Paul Grady, who ran sixth in
the gubernatorial race, today join
ed Maxwell in expressing the hope
that there would be no second
primary-which has been assured
by Horton with a statement to
reporters that you boys are going
to have something to write about
Il promise you that"
Grady, without mentioning
whom he would support in the
second primary, said that it was
his considered opinion that the
overwhelming majority of our peo-
pie are opposed to taxing them
selves another 500, 900 for a Sc
cond primary to satisfy any sell
fish ambition on the part of any
individual candidate or group of
politicians supporting such candid
ate."
1T appears that the voters of
North Carolina spoke in a decisive
way last Saturday as to h e i r
choice for governor of North Carol
ina," Grady commented. ut is evil
dent that a preponderant majority
of our people are thinking n o W
more in terms of their personal
and economic security than the
continuation of any further politi-
cal campaign. -.
what North Carolina needs now
is unity and harmony. 1t is my
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
BRITAIN
BRITAIN PREPARES
TO DELIVER BLOW
CONTINUED from Page Oney

Those who expected a British at
tempt to battle south through the
German seward salient pointed
out this would be supported by the
French, already pounding at the
| southern line of the salient. Such
a move would permit the Allies to
reform along the new front of
the somme and Aisne rivers.
To escape by sea, the trapped
troops would have to guard their
withdrawal by rear guard action
| and grope northwest for whatever
| channel ports might vet be open.
Once there, evacuation could only
be successful under the concen-
trated protection Of Britain's navy
and air force. Troop ships would
be subjected to heavy bombing.
A military spokesman said the
BEF would find it almost i'm
possible to reorient their front to
meet attacks from every direction
at once"
He added that most of the force
is in northern France, cut off by
the German pincer movement, but
they are not all there"
The significance Of that state
ment was not explained.
Morale and discipline Of the trap
ped troops was described as good.
Doggedly, the British steeled
themselves at home for attempted
invasion or attack from the air.
H. G. Wells, author and his
torian, urged the war council to
give every aid to the force in
Flanders and commented:
1T those at home a divert a
few bombs-so much the better.
The London Times said "this
island does not expect immunity.
Its people are braced to take their
SHARE"
Preparations Rushed
On every side preparations for
home defense were rushed. Police
continued a roundup Of fifth
column" suspects. The war cab
met sat in emergency session with
the prime minister. Men of % and
$500, 900 in all-were called to
the colors to raise the army to
the 5000, 900 mark. England was
divided into 300 self = controlled
food areas. Patrols to guard
against parachute troops were
strengthened.
Air raid alarms along the south
east coast gave point to the fears,
but reinsurance came in reports
that no damage was done and one
raiding plane was shot down into
the sea.
The government said 5000 chill
dren previously sent out from
London would be moved again
this time from small communities
along $50 miles of England's east
coast. They will be taken inland
from parts Of Suffolk, Essex, Kent
and Norfolk.
Claiming destruction or damage
of % German planes, al air min
istry communique said Raj fight
ers and bombers "have been do
ing their utmost" to relieve Ger
man pressure IN the Allies in
northern France.
The announcement said "all of
our aircraft returned" from wave
after wave Of attacks over the
lighting line. Meanwhile, bombers
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29

GERMANS TIGHTEN
LINES AFTER KING
LEOPOLD GIVES UP
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they would not again fight tn,
homes upon giving assurances thai
the ywould not again fight the
Reich.
Such a course would have this
double value: it would unburder
Germany and put new hands tc
work where needed.
The Germans branded Reynaud's
criticism as "synical, swinish, dast
arly, perfidious in the highest de
gree" In the same breath they
acknowledged that the Belgians had
fought furiously to the last under
a hing who was willing to go to the
front with his men,
He smelled powder, the Nazis de.
clared, in contrast to the Belgian
politicians who opposed his act OF
surrender.
What About British?
Turning on the British, an au.
thorized spokesman asked:
What did you do at Andalsnes
and Namsos? referring to the Brit.
ish withdrawal from those Norwe.
gian ports under German fire, leav-
ing many Norwegians embittered.
Looking to future progress the
Germans pointed out that Belgium
c~apitulated and the Polish CAM
paign was completed in IS days
each.
Already, it was declared, the
Nazi's peppery mosquito fleet of
was in the English Chan
mel sinking ships ten to 100 times
their size while shore guns were
in place to threaten a direct long
range bombardment of England.
To the Berlin populace the Bel
gian c~apitulation was n Of the
most cheering events of the war.
Radios played all of Germany's
favorite war and marching songs
a brief bulletin was broad
cast.
Strategists declared that the deep
penetration into France had endang-
cred the communications of the
Maginot Line itself, while the Ger
man army could take in a single
stride a little thing Ike the Eng
lish Channel.
German submarines and speedb5at
attacks were reported under way
against every British effort to ex-
tend relief from the sea.
In the streets of Berlin today
this chorus of the "Enggelland" song
echoed:
For We Sail Against England"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
WAR INTERPRETIVE

lied Belgium as a Nazi puppe t
king. Nazi spokesman in Berlin
say he may have saved his throne.
IT so, the judgment the world al
ready is passing upon him consti-
tutes a price few men in history
have been willing to pay for the
bauble Of kingship.
Yet the capitulation of Leopold
seems only to have fastened an
end to the battle in Flanders that
already seemed inevitable. Failure
to close the small gap between the
French armies on the Somme and
those which were located in the
Arras-Cambria pocket of the Elan
ders battlefield virtually doomed
the armies in the north. Only yes
terday it a reckoned less than a
20 mile jump along the Peronne-
Bapaume-Arras highway. Now it
seems double that span.
Yet it is there, or down the
Channel coast bristling with Nazi
armored legions, that the Franco
British army still fighting in Fland-
ers must drive to win free. London
observers seem to think such a
drive will be attempted.
An attempt to evacuate the flow
er of Britain's army and Frances
finest mobile divisions from Fland-
ers would be a terribly hazardous
undertaking-as is shown by Brit
ish eyewitness accounts of t h e
evacuation of British troops from
Boulogne by sea-. That involved a
mere handful of men by COMPARE
son to the huge Allied army re-
naming penned up in Flanders,
already cut off from any adequate
embarkation ports.
Hours must disclose what course
Allied leadership has chosen, or
what French armies to the south
and east still might try to do to
rescue their comrades in Flanders.
But it will be a miracle of first
magnitude if they are saved from
an%nlhllatlon or surrender.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29

blasted again at military objec-
tives in Dusseldorf, Dortmund,
Duisberg, Hamburg and Cologne,
Germany.
Thirteen British planes ere
reported missing after other raids
at Stavanger and Narvik, Norway.
The British told of bombing and
notwithstanding a German air.
drome at Stavanger and Destroy
ing enemy aircraft near Narvik.
At the same time, the air arm
Of the British fleet struck hard
blows at German positions or the
French and Belgian coasts. Bat
teries and transports were bomb
ed and troops scattered by ma
chine-gun fire.
The admiralty announced Ger
nan bombers sank the naval
trawlers Melbourne and Cape Pas
saro, on which four lives were
lost.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
MISS ELLIOTT ACCEPTS

GREENSBORO, May %. R-
Miss Harriet Elliott, dean of wo-
men at Woman's College of the
University of North Carolina today
in a personal telephone %conversa-
ton with the president, accepted
the appointment as woman mem
Der of the n%eational dewense coun-
sci, and will leave tomorrow night
for Washington for a conference.
Miss Elliott has for years been
active in Women's work, since 1913
a teacher of political science at
Woman's College, and active in the
suffrage fight for many years be-
fore women received the vote. She
has continued her interest in the
national affairs since becoming
dean of women at the college in
1885, particularly wherever it
touched women. This year she has
been called to Washington as a
member of the White House con-
ference on children in Democra-
cy;'' and as one Of 100 women in
vited to discuss the problem of un-
employment among young women
in America.
This year Miss Elliott has also
served as president of the North
Carolina social service conference,
and chairman of the legislative
committee of the American Asso-
ciaotin of University Women.
A native of Carbonate, Illinois,
Miss Elliott has made her home in
Greensboro since she Joined the
women's faculty in 1918. In 1886
she served as a member of the
platform committee of the demo-
cratic party from North Carolina;
and in 1882 and again in 1896 she
served as delegate-at-large from
North Carolina to the democratic
conventions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
GARNER IS GIVEN
TEXAS 46 VOTES
o~.,,ocratic Convention Mark
~ By FIST Fights And
Angry Shouts

~.co. TEX, May 2s-R-Tex
Nh.v' John Nance Garner wor
~ o s",.'s &s votes to the Demo
ts National Convention today
a'f' rurultous assembly where
$3.50 freely and angry shouts
1s.d out she words Of the key
N.Y. brought to order by
Gov. Pat M. Neff of Waco,
a.rdsnt O. Baylor Univer.
gN A. unruIy delegates quickly
~ into line behind Garner
is us harmony forces.
f9 ss"Towtng the pattern drafted at
he harmony agreement
-,,shsd. the convention un-
VIZ ~inn,,lv endorsed the admins.
sn.. =; President Roosevelt and
as.s,.d that the delegation do
au,s,ns to embarrass the presid-
en- Tho delegation, bound by the
iH' wi. was instructed specifi-
UNIV 1a11, MOT to participate in n y
ssn ..Roosevelt" or stop Roose-
,sn" movement at the Chicago
'0 p.,oIutions. unanimously adopt
,s,issd the splendid accom-
,,,.nu OF the Roosevelt admin
iS,,aor, termed the Presidents
;.sa.rsh,p "matchless" and lsud-
- a. cooperation Of the vice
~e.Idsnt w.h Mr.. Roosevelt.
~. convention elected Maury
u,sh.s Of Dallas, active Garner
srno,tsr, as permanent chair
W., Earlier. with the auditorium
,all in an uproar. Garner forces
we're able to seat George A. But
I.r n Houston as temporary chair
msr. But the voting was pune
ms,ed by loud shouts of dis
,~n,royal from delegates favoring
,,1tr,eht instruction for a third
Isrm for President Roosevelt.
Police broke up numerous fights
" near fights. A banner declaring
I'VE want Roosevelt" was des-
roved. A storm of boos swept the
auditorium as Elliott Roosevelt,
I'm of the President, introduced
HE keynote speaker, Mayor Tom
Miller of Austin.
Miller's voice. as he praised
President Roosevelt but offered
The name of Texas John Nance
Garner for the nomination, could
be heard only a few feet from
The rostrum.
Earlier in the day Miller, al
though a leader of the original
third term organization in Texas,
was involved in a clash with
Maury Maverick, mayor of San
Antonio and ardent third term sup
porter. The two gave different YER
sions Of the affair.
Miller asserted Maverick made
an insulting remark to him $50 I
hit him.
Maverick said Miller started it"
by aiming a blow at him which
missed. He declined further COM
rnent.
Witnesses agreed the two may
ors pushed each other around"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer

The collapse of Belgian resist
ance to Germany, under orders of
nerve-racked young King Leopold
already disoWned by his ministers,
mas all but robbed half a million
rranco-Brltlsh troops in Flanders
OF hope of escape. Only a military
miracle could save them from a
f~ast-closing German trap.
They marched into Belgium at
the call OF the king who has now
abandoned them to their fate. Pin
ned IN a narrow triangle, they are
hghtlng a desperate and seeming
ly hopeless battle. There seems no
way out but to try to cut their way
south, to attempt a flight to sea
that could become a CHASTITY dis
aster-or to surrender. 1t is doubt
1ul that even a vast French Of
fensive, rumored to be in prepar.
alton on the Aisne-Meuse front,
could save them.
That is the situation brought to
an urgent crisis in Flanders by
the act of Leopold III of Belgium,
successor to a hero father. His
order of capitulation to his army
caught even Germany unawares.
He emerges as a tragic figure.
the focus of the accusing eyes Of
much of the world.
1t is a story of stark betrayal
OF his Allies that Premier Rev.
maud of France has woven about
the name Of Leopold of Belgium.
Against the will of his ministers
and without much warning to the
Franco-British allies he summoned
to his aide with brave words less
than three weeks ago, he ordered
Belgian troops fighting CALAMITY
on the vital north flank of the Al
lied line in Flanders to lay down
their arms. Through that gap are
pouring Nazi forces which are a
terrible added threat for hundreds
of thousands of Frenchmen and
Englishmen thus abandoned to
their fate.
Even the German victors, out
Wardly applauding Leopold as hav-
ing taken the only sensible"
curse to save his armies from
annihilation, disclose their true es-
innate of him with cynical hints
that he may still rule a German
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
FRANCE
FRANCE GAINS in
PUSH TO RESCUE
TRAPPED ARMIES
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\SoAAsAAAuSu
lent which reaches to the sea: but a
military spokesman acknowledged
their resistance was Extremely diff
ficult."
British and French air force extern
sively bombed German air fields and
communications to relieve the north.
ern army of German pressure, a war
office spokesman said.
Thus the outcome of the war now
turned on the central front, below
the b%roadened nazi corridor, along
the Somme and Aisne rivers and
down the main Maginot Notifications
to the east.
Neutral observers believed that if
General Weygand found he had time
he would strike within the next Sc
hours. The blow was expected to
come midway between Rethel and
Montmedy on the Aisne. These
sources said he must strike now Or
lose not only his trapped divisions
but risk the shock of a German
thrust in the Rethel area, which
might cut under the Maginot line to
Reims and Paris.
Reynaud Breaks News
The news OF the Belgian surrender
was broken to the French by Pre-
mier Reynaud in a radio broadcast
after a solemn night of sessions Of
both the French and Belgian
cabinets.
1t provoked a storm of rage
against Leopold, whose three child
rem, Princess Josephine Charlotte,
-; Prince Baudouin, 9; and Prince
Albert, S, were reported safe in a
chateau Somewhere in France" The
whereabouts of Leopold himself
were not known here.
Belgium's refugee cabinet in Paris
issued a proclamation stripping the
monarch of his functions, took over
his power and ordered a new army
to be formed to fight on the side of
the Allies.
1t was problematical, however,
whether the Belgian government
could muster a force of such size as
to be of any benefit to the British
and French.
Leopold was commander-in-chief of
the Belgian army and his order to
surrender Internationally ended the
resistance of the great body Of his
forces. The Belgian government in
France therefore has control over
only the great mass of it's refugees,
mostly women and children, and but
little fighting manpower.
personal Treason"
The French "a minister called
Leopold's act one of personal trea-
son" at the moment the Allied north
ern armies were meeting success in
communicating the Germans.
French morale apparently remain
ed mistaken in the face of the SET
back.
We've been betrayed from within
nd betrayed from without but We'll
win just the same" appeared to be
the general-voiced reaction.
A war ministry spokesman said
the Belgian army, almost in it's en-.
tirety' had given itself up as prison
ers to the Germans. He placed the
number at 300, 900 men German
o put the figure at close to
$780, 00.)
The Belgian army had IS divisions
at the beginning of the campaign
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
DEFENSE CABINET
NAMED BY F. D. R.
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gasoline and other items to finance
the huge defense program.
Earlier in the day, the Presi.
dent and prominent members OF
congress had agreed to ask for
enactment of new defense taxes
yielding S $1,000, 900, 900 or more in
the next five years, and to re.
guest that the existing $45, 900, OO0,-
900 limit on the national debt be
raised to $48, 600, 600, 900. It W a S
disclosed that under the plan, 49,.
600, 00o, 900 of national defense OBJ
legations would be floated, to be
paid off in five years.
The officials did not decide at
that time what form the new taxes
should take but later conferences
brought forth word that the bill
probably would include the new
income tax, applicable on 1910 in
comes of individuals and copora-
tons. A taxpayer who would pay
$1,000 under present law would
find his tax bill raised to $1,1O
under the new law.
Other Items
Other items in the proposed bill:
an increase in the gasoline tax
from / cent to l IL cents a gallon;
an increase of 81 a barrel in the
S. rate on beer; an increase in the
liquor tax from $2.25 to $3'a gal
lon and an increase in the Gig
arctic tax from So to $3.50 per
1000.
All other excise taxes would be
increased by a fiat 10 per cent of
the existing tax. Such taxes in
clude levies on tobacco (other than
c%igarettes), cosmetics, jewelry,
playing cards, etc.
The total increases would be cal
culated to raise $683, 600, 900 an
nually.
Senator Vandenberg R-Mich)
predicted that Republicans gener-
ally would approve the idea of ar
ranging to finance the defense pro-
gram at once. although he added
that there might be sharp dis
agreement" on details. Chairman
Harrison O-Miss) of the senate
finance committee expressed the
opinion that the tax and borrowing
program could be enacted
congress adjourned by June "a,
when the republican national con-
vention is scheduled to met.
Goes to Old Act
In appointing the national de-
tense commission, President Roos-
evelt went back to the World War
National Defense act, signed in
August, 1917. This authorizes the
of a national defense
council consisting of six cabinet
with a national defense
commission of seven operating I'M
der it to do the actual work of in
dustrial, labor and consumer CO.
AS it works out in this instance,
Mr.. Roosevelt advised
correspondents that they could for
get about the cabinet council. This
led to a general view that the COM
mission would function under the
presidents immediate supervision
and report directly to him.
The commission, Mr.. Roosevelt
said, is to have no president, but
will have a secretary, William H.
McReynolds, an executive assist
ant to the president, whose task
will be to act as liaison man be-
tween the members and to coord-
mate information coming in to the
commission. The first meeting will
take place Thursday at the White
House.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
There's a Difference

1t is common error to speak Of
the black rae in Australia as Bush.
men," The African Bushmen are Of
Negro stock, but the Australian
Bushmen are white settlers who
work in the "bush", or uncleared
SectiOnS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
FIGHTER SAILS

BELEM, Brazil, May 2S-R -
The German freighter Koenigsberg,
6,466 tons, sailed out to sea today,
her commander declaring he believed
that if he could get on the high sea-
he could take his ship with its $780,.
900 cargo of rubber through the Al.
lied blockade.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
UNRESTRICTED

DALLAS, Tex, May rs Up -
Texas republicans voted to send an
uninstructed delegation to the ms.
tional convention. The delegation
was picked at the party's state con.
vention today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
FEDERAL OFFICIALS
SILENT ON FIFTH
COLUMN REPORTS
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He said the situation is far more
serious in Wilmington, as well as
in other cities, than most people
realize.
~ it becomes necessary we will
choke the Cape Fear with the car
nsset Of those who seek to inter-
Ars with our freedom and safety"
Moore quoted from one of the
'cltys older citizens"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29

purpose to follow this course and
1 sincerely hope that my friends
will join me in this purpose to
save the state and its tax payers
the expense and dissension incid-
ent to a second primary" 4
Maxwell and Gravely headuuar-
tiers were preparing to close, while
the rooms of Horton and Brough-
ton were busy with plans f o r
launching vigorous campaigns for
the second primary June %.
The other enthusiastically
Mayor Thomas E. Cooper of Viii
mington, who finished fifth, and
Arthur Simmons of Burlington,
who was last-did not maintain
active headquarters here.
County board Of election met to.
day to tabulate the returns, and
the State board of elections pro.
badly will meet here next Monday
to canvass the entire vote. There
had been no contest filed with the
State board-in sharp contrast to
two and four years ago, when
many had been lodged by this
time.
Unofficial returns from 1874 of
the states 1913 precincts h a v e
given Broughton 143, 267 votes, Hor-
ton 103,920, Maxwell, 98,476,
Gravely go, 1868, Cooper 80, 641,
Grady 1913, and Simmons 2,455.