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U. S. CANADA TO
ESTABLISH JOINT
DEFENSE BOARD
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And the mention of personnel
and material opened up an even
wider field of conjecture on wheth-
er the two countries, through the
Joint board, would develop strategy
Tor using men and armed might
under a unified command in case
Europe's war seemed likely to
spread across the Atlantic.
The Roosevelt-MacKenzi K in e
statement gave members of the
PRESIDENTS. party a definite con.
vlctlon, moreover, that the admin.
stration firmly intends to blanket
Canada under the protecting folds
OF the Monroe Doctrine.
The chief executive declared
yesterday that Canadians are a
part of the Americas the same as
the people of the United States.
The understanding on continental
defense took on extra significance
from the fact that England, the
only European nation still holding
OUT against the powerful German.
Italian war machine, is being sub.
Jected to death dropped from the
skies by waves of bombing planes
and is preparing for an invasion
Part at Border
MI. Roosevelt and Mackenzie
King, two old friends brought to-
gether again to consider the wars
serious repercussions in NORTH
America, parted at this border
town after long hours of discussing
what they termed mutual prob
lens of defense in relation to -
safety of Canada and the United
States"
Mr.. Roosevelt left for his home
at Hyde Park, N. Y, by specia
train. Mackenzie King departed
for his capital, Ottawa, by motor
car.
The two had dined together las
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MALONEY DRAFT
PLAN BELIEVED
MAKING GAIN
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been advocated by opponents of
CONSUMPTION.
Senator Adams (D-Colo) forecast
today that congressional approval
OF the Burke-Wadsworth bill would
add another billion dollars to the
more than $40, 600, o0o, 900 already
appropriated or authorized for ma.
tional defense by the present con.
gress.
Adams, chairman of a senate an
priations subcommittee considering
a $5,0O9, o0o, 900 supplementary out
lay for the army and navy, said a
billion dollars would be needed to
pay, house and feed the 400, 600
conscripts who would be called to
active service this fall and the 400,
600 expected to be summoned next
spring.
This expenditure would be in ad.
dltion to appropriations provided
for in the supplementary bill be-
fore Adams committee. This mea.
sure, passed by the house, contem-
plates the acquisition of equipment
for an army of 1000, 900 men, 300.
900 larger than the army's an
nounced goal Of 900, 900 men under
arms by January.
Some other legislators said pri.
vately that Adams estimate of the
cost probably was conservative" ~
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night, then sat up late in tn
Presidents railway car. They had
additional opportunity to talk this
morning before attending memor.
ial services at nearby Lisbon for
the World War dead of che 18th
division of the Pennsylvania Ma.
tional Guard. ~ .
Secretary of War Henry L. Slim
son, who held the portfolio of sec
cretary of state in the Hoover ad.
ministration, sat in on part of the
conversations. So did Jay Pierre.
pont Moffatt, United States mini
ster to Canada, who came down
from Ottawa with the Prime Mini
ster and rode back with him.
Important Meeting
It was a conference devoid of the
usually diplomatic formalities, but
it was nevertheless, a m e 6
which gave every appearance of
leaving a permanent imprint on
the history of North America.
The agreement lent itself readily
to an Interpretation that a mutual
assistance pact might be in the
making.
Since the days of George Wash
ington, the United States tradition
ally has SHE'D away from ZEN
tangling alliances" with any ma
ton, ever when peace prevailed.
The setting up. of a joint defense
board with Canada, an active parti-
cipant in the European conflict,
thus represented a novel step in
American foreign policy, parti-
cularly since it will be a perman-
ent board.
That the step was taken t h
full premeditation was apparent
from the fact that the chief exec
utive had announced in Washing
ton Friday that conversations had
been in progress with Canada for
hemisphere defense.
At the same time, he announced
that conversations were going on
with Britain over American &C.
QUESTION of sites for air and naval
bases on British possessions in the
western hemisphere. The partic.
lcular objective of this diplomatic
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FREAKS IN POWER
WILL Be PR0BED
r,oineer Scheduled To Make
Investigation At Onslow
And Hurst Beaches

JACKSONVILLE, Aug. ia
J n1 Electric company engin-
GENE will arrive here the first OF
eef week to investigate and deter
the the remedy for frequent in
lnl..u munitions of electrical service on
ls. and Hurst beaches, accord
onsl " Horace Cotton, REA super
htendent.
corvice at the beaches since the
pa began furnishing power there
H. admittedly been below STAN
pa. .srd FUSES have been, blown as
,;ct1v as ten minutes after new
enes were installed.
Mr. Cotton said the reason for
.a freouent Interruptions is that
III. .n lines are exposed, and prevail
;na winds deposit salt on the ar
III. uasters. The salt sheet makes a
18th through which power can flow
p Pound the arresters and blow fus-
Service last week was compare
+;rp1v satisfactory, however, it was
s.id' the hard rains keeping the
ssIt washed off the arresters. 4
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BRITISH WARSHIPS
HIT ITALIAN PUSH
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i NkO AK
age to enemy troop concentrations
and supplies.
The stone fort at Capuzzo, long
held by the Italians, is not far
from Bardia and 80 miles inland.
It was shelled heavily, the defend
ers fleeing, British reports said.
Capuzzo was taken by the British
early in the war, but later fell to
the Italians. British explained their
strategy was to let the Italians
keep the fort but repeatedly bomb
and shell is defenders.
They made the Italians pay dear
ly for their tenancy, they said,
systematically blasting every at
tempt to bring water, food, NUM-
tons and other supplies for the
native troops and Italian regulars
in the garrison which, according
to the British, was half-starved and
short of water.
simultaneously they forced the
enemy to use precious supplies
boarded for the offensive against
Egypt. 3
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MAKES REPORT

OTTAWA, Aug. Is. Up Prime
Minister W. L. Mackenzie King re-
turnde to Ottawa this afternoon from
his overnight defence conference
with President Roosevelt at Ogdens-
burg, N. Y, and reported at once to
the Earl of Athlone, governor-gen'
eral.
It was assumed the prime minis
ter's call at Rideau Hall was to &C:
quaint the governor general Of the
agreement reached with President
Roosevelt to set up a permanent
joint board on defense for the north.
ern half of the western hemisphere.
Before Mackenzie King left Otta'
wa yesterday to keep his appoint
ment with the President, he called
at government house for a talk with
the governor general.
Until late this evening the prime
minister was in telephone confer,
ences with several of his cabinet
colleagues, including ministers of de-
tense, air and navy.
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MARTS SET
TO START SALES
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five warehouses can accommodate
1900, 900 pounds.
Tabor City-Clearing weather gave
growers a better opportunity to
bring their tobacco to market. The
quality Of that on the floors was
good.
Lake City-The Jugs and primlngs
on the warehouse floors were a shade
better than those offered on opening
day last year. The rainy weather
had interferred with the gathering OF
the crop and taking it to market.
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|NAZIS MAKE RAIDS
ON CROYDON FIELD
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pursuit planes accompanying
us shot down several enemy
planes.
Three machines still are miss
ing from our unit"
NaziS Claims
In all, the German reported 81
British planes brought down as
against 81 German.
Heavy air fighting occurred over
the south coast naval base ane
port of Portsmouth, German mill
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tary sources reported. Strong Brit.
ish units challenged the Germans
and attempted to turn them back,
it was said.
"Swarms of Messerschmitt fight
ers, however, broke through the
defense and shot down a number
of British pursuit planes" these
informants added.
They said, German bombers
then roared through the breach
and Systematically attacked their
detectives and destroyed several
airports with bomb hits"
Destruction of airfields is par.
of the blitzkrieg technique Of im-
modifying the opponents air for.
ces to give the Germans domin.
ance in the air which, in the case
of England, would be necessary for
any land invasion.
Bad weather was said to have
held up the fully fury of German
attack until this afternoon. Even
then the operations today were by
"only a few German s%quarronds,
the German radio said.
Exemptions Offered
The radio tonight began broad
casting the latitude and longitude
of the newly-proclaimed total
blockade" of Britain and it was
disclosed that although Ireland
falls within it the Reich has offer.
ed exemptions for Fires shipping.
Otherwise, the radio warned,
every ship which ventures into it
will be attacked and destroyed"
The United States troop trans
port American Legion, steaming
homeward from northern Finland
with about 900 refugees and other
passengers from Scandinavia, was
believed to be nearing the danger
area. The German govern.
ment yesterday disclaimed a n y
ship when it enters the danger
responsibility for the safety Of the
zone.
HOTEL COMMODORE - Washington
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If each community used its own
local sun time, a traveller going
east or west would need to change
his watch one minute every -
miles.
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HIP TORPEDOED
OFF IRISH COAST
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(COHtlliuCu OASi
distress signal and asked Mackay
to listen for it.
Shortly afterward, Mackay
onerators said they licked up this
message:
"oNF, position SD :sorth, 49,
IN west. T'orpedosd 1SW in boats
waiting to be lowered"
The position given is in the VII
cinitv where four other ships have
been torpedoed in the last
month. .
London Bridge carries about 2400
trains every day.
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intercourse he said was strengthen
ing the defenses of the Panama
Canal.
Both the President and Mac
lKenzie King were silent, however,
on this phase of continental de-
tense. 8
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A martingale is a strap on the
harness. of a horse, connecting the
girth to the bit, or reins. It also
is a part of a ship.
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WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, August Is. Up
We~ther bureau records of temperature
n rainfall! for the "a hours ending s
p. M, IN the principal cotton-growing
areas and Elsewhere:
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The entire commercial artichoke
crop of the United States is raised
in five counties in California.
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OBITUARIES
JAC0R WINCHELL

NEW YORK, Aug. 49, R-Ja'
cob Winchell, 70, father of Walter
Winchell, newspaper columnist, died
at his home today after an illness
Of several years. He had retired
from the silk business about IL years
ago.
MRS. p. THARP
SOUTHPORT, August 18.-Fun'
eral services for Mrs. P. c. Tharp.
of Southport, who died Thursday
in Staten Island, N. Y, were held
this afternoon at 3 o'clock from
St. Philips Episcopal church.
The Rev. J. Leon Malone OF
ficiated and interment followed in
Southport cemetery.
Active pallbearers were: Johr
D. Eriksen, j. G.. Caison, W. H
Walker, Capt. ]. I. Davis, Johr
Swain, and Robert Holden.
Honorary: W. S. Davis, c. R
Livingston, T. H. Dosher and r. C.
st. George.
Survivors include four grand
children: Joseph, Allen a {
Dwight Wells, and Elsie Delmar.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-16
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that much nearer to England. With
the new, closer range, they SAID
German bombers could be sem
across the North sea fully protected
by pursuit planes against defending
British air fighters.
The high command announced to
night that the Netherlands capitu-
lation had been signed at II a. m,
(5:40 a.. M, E. S. To- by the German
commander-in-chief and the com
mander-in-chief of the Dutch army
and navy, General Henri Gerard
Winkelman.
General Winkelman previously
had proclaimed the end of all Outer
resistance, except in Iceland prov
ince. Reports in London said the
Germans had entered The Hague,
Hollands capital.
Qn London, a Dutch source SAID
most units of Hollands fleet had
crossed the North sea during Tues
day night and had reached British
ports. This source also announced
that remnants of the Dutch army
which could reach Belgium were be-
inc reorcanized to continue the
fight.
France Under Shadow
France also is under the shadow of
German invasion.
1t has been divulged that the
Nazis are repeating the famous Won
Schlieffen plan of 1914-which means
a drive into France around the AL
lies left flank.
Hitler and his general staff seem
ed confident tonight that the plan,
which failed in 1914, would succeed
in 1910 with Germany's army and
air force infinitely stronger.
Three main Nazi efforts to drive
through western Belgium were made
clear from the progress shown in the
high commands reports.
Most menacing to the Allied de
tense, evidently, was the German
army WHICH pSlleIl dleu TleihSli Sol
at Sedan, across the Meuse river
Another was hitting southwest
ward in a path east of Antwerp and
in the direction of Paris parallel te
the North sea coast.
The third already has created g
shallow salient north of Namur
Belgian town about so miles north
of Sedan on an elbow of the Meuse
"By crossing of the Meuse in the
Sedan sector" the high command
communique asserted, the north
western extension of Frances forti
fication systematic Maginot line
has been pierced in closest collabora
ton with the air force"
Join In Combat
(French reports indicated that thu
main Allied and German armies were
joining combat in this region. They
acknowledged that the Germans hae
established bridgeheads across thu
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ATTACK BY NAILS
ON SWISS FEARED
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a strong force kept at the Swiss
frontier by the presence of the Ger
man concentrations, despite the re-
ported Allied need for all possible
motorized units to battle the German
offensive through Belgium.
The modified Swiss army toiled
day and night perfecting fortifica-
lions of the Kinkelried line, while
thousands of women, boys and aged
men volunteered for home guard
duty and received rifles and 40 cart.
ridges each.
Movement Of residents from the
northern region around the German
frontier increased, and trains lead
ing to the Alpine resorts were
damned.
Many foreigners in Geneva also
left, fearing Italy might enter the
war.
The League of Nations began
moving its archives to a secret
place of safety" believed to be in
France. League employees were paid
today instead of at the end of the
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Meuse but declared half the Ger
mans who had crossed yesterday had
been driven back by violent French
counterattacks.
Zach side was said to have 20
divisions in "the battle OF the
Meuse"-a total of 600, 900 men.
although Sedan is in a fortified
belt, a British military spokesman
declared German penetration there
does not mean a break through the
Maginot defenses. The city lies or
the outer edge of an extension, the
little Maginot line" which runs
northwestward to the coast from the
anchor of the Maginot line at the
Luxembourg frontier).
The German war machine, as il
launched it's new attack against the
main Belgian Notifications from Ant
werp southeast to the French Dor
der beyond Sedan, had ridden owe,
the Netherlands an dthe first row
of Belgium's Notifications.
Latest available official reports
disclosed that the new Allied lint
along the Meuse was holding but hae
been punctured between Namur an(
! Givet, on the French border, and pos
| sibly northwest of Namur also.
The German advance line now ex
tends from the Scheldt estuary il
southern Holland to Sedan, the1
turns eastward to unite with force!
holding the main Siegfried line fac
ing France.
Hardening Allied resistance in thi!
area indicated ever-increasing Brit
ish and French strength in the east
ern half of Belgium still left in thei.
hands.
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sharpshooters into police stations
to join the force of minute men.
The admiralty announced tonight
the British Destroyer Valentine had
been beached after being damaged
by a German air attack off the coast
of Holland.
Other German claims of British
losses at sea were brushed aside
earlier as 'entirely groundless."
mo British warship," said the ad-
miralty, has been sunk, set on fire
or seriously damaged since the Ger
man invasion of the low countries
wit hthe exception of the submarine
seal"
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OBITUARIES

j. G. Rem, "a, Ellington, died
Tuesday, funeral Wednesday.
Charlie V. Joyner, SO, Magnol-
ia, died Saturday, funeral Sun.
day.
Mrs. Matilda Katherine Wrenn,
60, Washington, died Monday,
funeral Tuesday.
Mrs. j. E. Rose, 81, Washing
ton, funeral Monday.
William Dawson, Kinston, died
Sunday, funeral Monday.
Mrs. Henrietta e. Shepherd,
Rockingham, died Tuesday, fun
eral Wednesday.
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GERMANS THREATEN
TO BOMB BRUSSELS
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sells as we'll as military trans
ports through this railway
junction.
Must Halt Activity

Must Halt ACTIVITY
1.-THE German high command cal
no longer recognize Brussels as a;
undefended city. In cas- the Bel
gian government really is in earnes
to save the city of Brussels the nor
rors of war, all military transports
and marching through the tow
must cease Immediately and thu
building of defenses must be sus
pended Immediately.
SHOULD from now on military 90
iectives be discovered in Brussels
they will be attacked by the German
air force. Responsibility Tor a
consequences arising from THIS lol
the CITY of Brussels will have to be
borne by those who, contrary to the
declaration of the Belgian govern
ment. misuse their city for military
purposes
Hitler's order of the day did not
mention ENGLAND, but German news
papers, which are well-nlgh o11lclal
here. did not hesitate to imply that
an air storm might break e
Britain
They published maps showing that
Germany, through the collapse OF
Holland, already had air bases loC
to 200 miles from important Brltlsn
Notwithstanding London.
Authorized sources declared an Of
fensive against England would be
launched whenever we are ready
when it is most uncomfortable
for England"
Claim Air Control
Although the German armies en-
countered stiffening Allied resistance
in the air as we'll as on the ground,
the Germans asserted they still held
easy control of the air and were IN
flicting losses on the enemy at a
ratio of six or seven to one.
Observers recognize dthat every
mile of the Belgian coast taken by
he Nazis put the German air force
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BRITAIN
BRITAIN CLAIMS
NAZI DRIVE ON
SEDAN is HALTED

a communique on Wednesdays
battles. The air force brought
down 124 of them while anti.air-
craft guns accounted for %, the
communique said.
On the land front the British
told of 'hard fighting" today
in which troops successfully
held serious German attacks"
The British repeatedly were
resting their left flank on Zee.
land, unsurrendered Netherlands
province along the sea-, and Ant
werp in Belgium. with their
lines covering Brussels, the
Belgian capital.
A Belgian c~ommunique said the
Liege forts still were holding
out, although apparently sur.
rounded by invaders since Sat.
urday.
Demolish Bridges
The Belgians said their troops had
encountered only light enemy fore.
es" and that demolition of bridges
and roads still was going on sue
cessfully" and preventing enemy
movements.
Correspondents with the British
ex~peditionary force in Belgium tele-
graphed London that the Allied air
arm was fighting the Germans to a
standstill in a mighty encounter;
and the air ministry communicate
told of repeated low-f1ying attacks
On enemy troops"
The British f1iers. the air ministry
said, had given the French wal
liable assistance" in the battle which
developed at the historic city of Sc
dan and the crossings of the river
Meuse.
In the fighting. the air ministry
said, the Britons had destroyed
permanent bridges and two pontoon
bridges and. with anti-aircraft guns,
brought down Is German planes"
The air ministry announced also
TINT $50 Allied planes blasted Ger
man communication sin the low
lands, breaking up large tank and
troop concentrations" and blocking
roads.
1t asserted that an air assault de-
livered yesterday halted the German
advance in the Sedan sector, al
though the French tonight admit
ted further German advances there.
Several Nazi pontoon bridges across
the Meuse river were reported de-
stroyed.
Anxiety Sharpened
On the home front anxiety was
sharpened by Berlin radio b%roadcasts
that the Reich army was standing
at England's door" with fighters less
than an hour away by air determin-
ed to strike at the insular security
Britain has enjoyed since William
the Conquerors men slew Harold at
Hastings in 1866.
German planes" a German an
warned, "already are with
in easy reach of the important Eng
lish port Of Harwich. More than
that, they have bases for direct at
tack against the whole of England
in this age of modern warfare,
the insularity of the British Isles
has ended"
Harwich is less than 125 miles
from the conquered Dutch mainland.
British officials rushed their air
defense program, issuing a new call
for volunteers to train as pilots
and air crews.
The menace of an invasion by par
achutists brought new streams of
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month, but officials said ,h..~
tice." '''Iher no.
The internal battle IA ~,
any possibility of a "fif,b 'pe out
action in Switzerland contjnras 1'ao
some cities all FOREIGNERS IN
aered to present their credentials "
inspection. "-S Tor
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ITALY
ITALIANS REVIVE
DEMONSTRATIONS
AGAINST ALLIES
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war was the state of the Italian
budget as disclosed in the senate
today by Senator FREDERICK Riccl.
He predicted that for the fiscal
Year of 1940-41 the deficit would
amount to 20, OOO, OO0, 900 ire Sl,-
OOU, UUU, OOO) on a budget expendl'
ture of $1,000, 900 900 lire s2,5OO,-
OOO, 00O).
Ricci said this budget would
represent IS per cen tof the ma
tiOnal income.