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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
SHIPS LAND TROOPS
Welcomed By Populace
And Are Now Aiding Raj
In Raids On Italians
GREEKS MAKE GAINS
A d vanc e Units Reach
Pogradetz, Near Koritza,
And Take Maschopolis

ATHENS, Nov. PALM British
soldiers, forced from Europe last
summer on the fall of France,
have regained a continental foot
hold on the Greek mainland, it
was disclosed tonight as G e
troops pushed on into Albania.
British warships transported an
undisclosed number of soldiers
across the Mediterranean without
interference from Italian planes or
warships, it was reported, and
landed them at Greek ports some
time ago.. They were welcomed en-
Enthusiastically by the populace and
since have been aiding the Royal
Air Force in its battle gainst the
Italians.
Reach P%ogradetz
In the Greek-Italian fighting, a
Greek spokesman said, advance
units of the Greek army h ave
reached Pogradetz, about Is miles
north of Koritza, the base which
was captured last week from the
Italians.
He also confirmed reports that
the Greeks have occupied Mascho,
polls, about II miles northwest Of
Koritza.
Other reports said the Greeks
have occupied the rocky heights
above Argirocastro, main Italian
base in southern Albania, in the
general drive which has carried
some units 10 miles forward.
GA Retuers, British news agency,
dispatch from Belgrade, Yugosla-
via, said reports reaching that cap
ital declared Greek advance forces
had entered the outskirts of Ar
girocastro.)
The Italians were reported try
ing to reorganize their r~etreating
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
CRAICAVON VICTIM
OF HEART ATTACK
Northern Ireland Prime
Minister Succumbs At Bel
fast At Age OF SO

BELFAST, Northern Ireland
Nov 24.-tR-Viscount Craigavon,
a. first Prime Minister of North
ern Ireland and bitter opponent OF
~proposals for union with Fire, col
lapsed and died tonight at Glen
Craig. his county down home near
here.
His death was attributed to heart
disease.
Craigavon. who had been Prime
Minister of Northern Ireland since
the establishment of the Ulster
government in 1921, worked right
up to the end.
He attended the last session OF
the northern Irish House of Com
mons Tuesday and was occupied
even today with government mat
tiers.
The Prime Minister had not been
well recently, working under the
severe strain of wartime condi-
tons.
Uncompromising in his hostility
to Fire, the 6-foot Pinch giant
OF Ulster repeatedly proclaimed
Northern Ireland's devotion to the
British crown and retorted to
Elre'S demands for a united indie
pendent Ireland: "all that we want
continued on Page Ten; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
Plus XII REVIEWS
PLEA FOR PEACE
Pope Makes Broadcast
From ST. Peters After Mass
For War Dead

VATICAN CITY, Nov. 24.-RH
Pope Plus XII, in an impassioned
prayer for peace in our days."
pleaded anew today fcr an end
to 1.-THE whirlwinds of war that in
the light of day or in the dark OF
night scatter terror, fire, destruc-
ton and slaughter on humble folk.
The pontiff, vigorous of voice,
broadcast his Commute homily
from the Basilica of st. Peters
where he had JUS concluded a
special mass for the war dead.
He called for a new golden rule
of war, urging that combatants.
under no circumstances, do to
others that which they would not
have done to themselves or their
country" and to fight the war as
humanely as possible.
For the text of his homily the
Pope referred to Christ's answer
to the Apostles as to what would
be the sign of the worlds en-, con-
GLIDING:
"You shall hear of wars and
rumors of wars. See that you not
be troubled. For these things must
come to pass, but the end indeed
is not yet come"
1--WE must not be troubled. . in
the preaching of the gospel" he
said. But nonetheless the present
hour is a phase in the solemn
story Of humanity predicted by
Christ"
The pontiff blamed the "contenti-
GUS aspirations" of raw materials
as responsible for the war, say
ing oil and minerals in the earth
disturb the aims of man and up
set his peace
Today's conflict, he said, lin
stead of subsiding goes on to
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
Predict Bulgaria
Will Sign Up With Axis

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Nov. 24-R-
German circles openly predicted
tonight that Bulgaria "in a very
short time" would not only sign
up with the Axis but also would
seize her golden opportunity to
obtain an outlet to the Aegean
from Greece"
Such a move might turn Bull
garia into a battlefield.
Behind the struggle of this little
nation-with fewer inhabitants
than New York City-to maintain
some independence of action there
still looms the question of the exact
nature of the German-Russian re-
lations.
It is regarded as significant in
diplomatic circles that no denial
has emanated from Moscow of re-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25

ports that Russia advised Bulgaria
not to join the Axis. Whether Rus
STA will continue to oppose giving
Germany complete hegemony over
all the Balkans is still problema-
teal. ~
One possibility advanced in Off
cial Bulgarian quarters was that
if the premier or foreign minister
is called to Berlin he may try to
compromise by offering to issue
a public declaration of Bulgarian
foreign policy henceforth to COIN
eide exactly with Axis policy in.
stead of formally joining the Ber-
lin Tokyo alliance.
All activity in Sofia ceased for
an hour in mid-afternoon today
CONTINUED on Page Five: Col. 81 ]
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
Voon'!nued on Page Ten; Col. 3,
Probe To Cut Food Cost,
elpFarmerSAnnOunced

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-(P-A
n 'on.Wlde Investigation designed
tshI leouee the cost of food on the
NJ and to increase the income
narmers who produce it was an
rsr alceo today by the justice de-
into ~o"lng up a similar inquiry
boa,'ne cost of the BODYBUILDING
nart some months ago, the de-
vornni eht said particular attention
broas De directed to the prices of
and milk, meat, fish, cheese
fruits and vegetables, both
'anhed and fresh.
bona Doth Investigations the an
is t tn purpose of the department
listio ellinlnate any illegal monopo-
to practices which might tend
" 1y,i'fol prices to consumers.
part le food Investigations" the de.
lopio.'e said, lis regarded as a
successor to the housing in.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
GERMAN ASSAULT
ON LONDON FAILS
Formations Attempting 10
Stab Through Defenses
Dispersed By The Raj

LONDON, Nov. "a Up The
Germans lunged unsuccessfully at
London today and peppered the
Kent coast 'Helrs Corner" witt
air bombs and shells from long
range guns across the channel,
then with the setting sun launch
ed their nightly assault on the
capital.
All in all, it was a quiet day and
Nazi formations attempting to
stab through London's defenses
were promptly met and dispers-
ed by our fighters" the air minis
try announced.
The days subdued activity fol-
lowed a night of heavy attacks
lasting several hours on a town
Continued on Page Ten; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
ITALIAN SOLDIERS
GIVE UP METEMMA
Virtual Abandonment Of
City Within Anglo Egyp-
tian Sudan Reported


CAIRO, Egypt. Nov. 24.-R-The
British high command announced
today that Italian forces virtually
had abandoned Metemma, Just
within the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
and across the border from Ethio'
pia.
when the British announced re-
Gently that Gallabat, adjacent to
Metemma, had been recaptured
from Italian forces which had
pushed into the Sudan, they SAID
the fascists took up Metemma posi-
tons. The two towns are so close
that the names, Metemma a d
Continued on Page Ten; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
War
Interpretive
BY MAX BOYD

The likelihood Of this govern
ment setting up a separate air
force, independent of the army and
navy, seems as slim today as it
did before the war in Europe
demonstrated the strength of air
power.
To military and naval men who
contend that Americas aerial
fighting forces can best be expand
ed through the existing army air
corps and the navy's Bureau of
Aeronautics, the recent shakeup OF
the independent Royal Air Force
appears to support their position.
They say that the creation of an
army cooperation command in the
Raj was a step toward bringing
the army and the air force COM
mands closer together.
Advocates of a separate Ameri-
can air force point out, on the
other hand, that the organization
CONTINUED on Page Five; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
GERMAN B0MBERS
RAID BIRMINGHAM
Claim 100000 Pounds
OF Bombs Dropped On City
And Southampton

BERLIN, Nov. 24.-R-More
than 1000, 900 pounds of bombs
were dumped by Nazi fliers on
the industrially-important city of
Birmingham and the port of South
ampton in two overnight attacks
on Britain, it was reported tonight.
The German high command de-
clares several hundred planes car
ried out a trolling attack" on Biz.
and Embossed over $780,
900 pounds of bombs. It asserted
that the light of flares and con-
flagrations in that city showed
easily that numerous militarily
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25

Off Coast OF
Puerto Rico
Accompanies lntensifica-
ton OF Submarine Seige
OF England By Axis
NEAR NEUTRAL ZONE
lnvades Important Cross
roads On Britain's Ex-
tended Sea Lanes

NEW YORK, Nov. PALMA
phantom sea raider shelled n e
British steamer Port Hobart of
the West Indies today, invading a
crossroad of Great Britain's ex-
tended sea lanes.
The attack accompanied an in
classification of the submarine
siege of England by the Axis pow
ers in which one U-boat dared the
home waters of the British fleet
to torpedo an unidentified victim
near Ireland.
The assault on the port Hobart,
a vessel usually in the England
Australian trade via the Panama
canal, again brought the sea war
to the outskirts of the neutrality
zone set up by the Pan-American
republics.
Near Neutrality Zone
Powing through waters where
Britain's sea = borne commerce
from South America converges
with vessels from the canal, the
northeast of Puerto Rico-approxi-
mately rs miles outside the neutra-
lily belt-when it flashed word it
had sighted a suspicious vessel"
That was at lit a. m. GST).
twenty-five minutes later Mackay
radio picked a second terse signal
from the Port Hobart:
Being shelled by raider"
Silence then hid the fate of the
Continued on Page Ten; Col. b
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
1851 D
Semi-O Official Paper Says
Metaxas Has Made Him
self Tool OF British
GIVES PLEDGE
Premier's Nation Becomes
Sixth To Join The Hitler
Mussolini Lineup

BERLIN, Nov. 24.-R-The first
chilly warning to Greece from Ger
many came tonight in a statement
by the semi-official Deutsche Diplo-
matisch- Politische correspondent
asserting that Premier General
John Metaxas, of Greece, has
made himself openly a tool OF
the British policy of spreading
war;"
The statement came shortly
after Slovakia, tiny nation made up
of the remnant of Czechoslovakia,
had signed the Axis military and
economic pact and promised to
rush to the aid of Germany, Italy
and Japan in the event they are
attacked by some outside power
not already at
"Risky'' Statement
The semi-official publication de-
clared that General Metaxas' state
ment that he was fighting for all
the Balkans was Extraordinarily
risky and dangerous"
by such a statement" Korre-
spondenz said, ''Metaxas has made
himself openly a tool of the British
of spreading war;"
Europe today stands against
England" correspondent said
"Whoever in the face of conse-
quences wishes to stand outside
(of the German sphere) and sacri-
flee the welfare of his own people
should not be surprised if the
changing of the order of the day
brings ruin to the one at fault"
The statement by the common
,1.-- n- r-u> nj c>
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
CONNECTIONS INTERRUPTED

NEW YORK, Nov. 24-R-West-
ern Union cable connections with
London were interrupted about
1920 p. M, (EST) today. Dispatch
es before the interruption had told
of the sounding of the evening air
alarm but said that it had been
followed a few minutes later 10y
the signal of traders passed."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
TRUCK PRODUCERS
TO MEET TONIGHT
Will Discuss Possible
Changes In 194l AAA
Producing Program

Several hundred truck growers
from Eastern North Carolina will
meet in the superior courtroom at
the courthouse tonight at 8 o'clock
for a discussion of possible changes
in the 1871 IA truck growing pro-
gram.
Principal speakers on the pro-
gram will include, Charles Lewis,
Continued on Page Ten; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
WEATHER

LSt
North Carolina: Cloudy, rain south
portion, colder Monday; TUESDAY show
ers, slightly colder southeast portion.
By q. 8. Weather Bureau
meteorological data for the "a hours
endinng 1880 p. m. yesterday
Temperature
1:3O a. M. 81; 1880 a. m. So; 1:3O p.
m. "A; 7:3O p. m. IS; maximum IA;
minimum SO; mean 66; normal 81
Humidity
1870 a m. 90; 1880 a. m. SO; 1:30 p.
m. 81; 7:30 p. m. SO.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours endinng 1880 p. m.
Z inches. Total since first of the
month 1 :55 inches.
Tides For Today
(From Tide Tables published by U.
s. Coast and Geodetic Survey.)
Wilmington ----------- 5:58a 12:46a
Masonboro Inlet ------- 3:50a 10 :08a
Sunrise 6:54a; sunset 5:04p; moon
rise 2:31a; moonset 2:33p
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C.,
8 a. M, Nov. 20, 1910 feet.
Continued on Page Five; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
GREENFIELD PLEA
MADE BY MOORE
Calls On Public To Halt
Dumping OF Trash And
Garbage Within Park

An appeal to the public to dis
.oitlhue the practice of dumping
ndSn and garbage at Greenfield
" Tark was issued yesterday by DR..
~, Houston Moore, president Of
'DT greenfield Drive association.
" Moore said that efforts to
Neep me park and driveway clean
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
British Planes
Slash At Both
Ends Of Axis
Raj Delivers Major Blows
From Turin, Italy, To
German-Held Coast
-BOULOGNE IS RAIDED
Berlin's Railroad Yards
And Essen's %Sprawling
Krupp Works Damaged

LONDON, Nov. 24.-R)-In one of
the mightiest attacks yet in it's ever
broadening offensive, the Raj drove
home slashing overnight blows at
both ends of the Rome-Berlin Axis
from Turin, Italy, to the Nazi-held
continental coast by way of Berlin,
the air ministry announced today.
Another heavy attack opened on
the coast tonight in the Boulogne
area. AS the attack spread, the coast
line was lighted up for miles by anti
aircraft fire and by flares dropped
sby the RAF as they searched out
iaeir~tarsetE-~
Fighting Continues
An hour after the raids started the
fighting "a still going on and Eng
lands shores were lined with men
and women watching the distant bat
tie of planes and anti-a.rcraft guns.
From yesterdays dusk to today's
dawn British bombers kept at it and
returned home with accounts of blaz-
ing destruction left in such vital
detectives as Berlin's Pulitzstrasse
and Lehrter freight yards, Essen's
sprawling Krupp Works and the
Royal italian arsenal and the Fiat
Works at Turin.
Other targets included Leipzig and
Duisberg-Ruhrot in Germany; and
Boulogne, Brest and Lorient in Ger
man-occupied France. All got in
cendiary and heavy demolition bombs
and returning pilots said at least
huge fire was observed at each place.
Describing the Berlin raid, the air
ministry news service said the at
lacking planes reached the German
Continued on Page Ten; Col. ~
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
THE GESTAPO MOVES IN

Jews and foreign political refugees are IN mortal
terror Thousands of refugees from NaA rule
in Poland Czechoslovakia and Austria were
caught here Some are hiding in the woods
around Paris or IN the cities to the south. and
the Germans are closing in intXorably on them.
FREDERICK c. Oechsner in a United Press dis
patch from Paris.
The civilized world stands aghast be
fore the operations of the malign mental
itv eXemplified in this dispatch. Why
are these victims of NaZi oppression thus
bounded? Is it from mere motives OF
revenge and malevolence? The democrat
cies were the only refuge for those liber-
ty-loving individuals who refused to
change their thinking to conform to that
of tyrants and for the religious whom
national socialism prosecuted. Those un-
able to put an ocean. or even the English
Channel, between them and their perse-
cutors found asylum in freedOm-loving
France-but even that is now gone.
What a warning to the United States.
What an admonition to this western Re
public never to permit totalitarianism,
or any movement which would undermine
the guarantees Of the Bill of Rights. to
gain foothold within its borders If we
know Americans, they never viii.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
WiIIkie Awaits
COP Showdown
Continued from Page II


the convention probably would be
left to the Texas delegation.
The statement issued from Dali
las, Tex, BY E. B. Germany and
Mrs. Clara DriScoll, co-managerS OF
the Garner for-President commit
tee, did not say whether Garner
would go to Chicago.
There is no foundation whatever
for the Washington story carried
by one press association which in
ferentially takes Mr.. Garner out of
the presidential race" it said. MI.
Gamers name will be presented
at the Chicago convention. Texas
as votes are instructed for him and
he will receive substantial support
from many other states.
we feel as we felt when the
Garner campaign for president was
launched more than year ago =
that Mr.. Garner is the best qualified
Democrat and the best qualified
American to succeed our present
great president. And he can beat
Willkie because no Democrat will
leave the party if he is the nominee.
The statement apparently was
designed to appeal to anti-NeW
Dealers who have been talking about
a third party in the event Mr.
Roosevelt runs on an allied-aid
platform.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
The RETARDING INFLUNCE OF
OUR CLIMATIC REPUTATION

Residents of Imperial Valley ShOuld
think twice before "playlng up before
interested folk from other parts Of the
state our temperatures OF July, August
and September.
A combined committee. representing
all parts of the valley, IS personally Ob-
serving an instance OF the damage thai
such an exaggerated reputation may do
the valley.
The committee is one trying to have an
aviation training field established here.
The most formidable obstacle it has en-
countered-and one which may COM
pletely block all hope of SUGGESTS the
reputation for ''unbearable summer
heat" FLYING authorities throw up their
hands and eXcaim-"Oh, we couldn't be-
gin to train flyers in Your impossible
summer conditions.
Well. we acknowledge Imperial Valley
isn't the North Pole in the summer time.
But on the other hand, thousands and
thousands Of people live here through
the summer and are pretty healthy, too.
Yet, all the argument to the contrary,
these people who could by their recon-
mendaton bring to the valley S15O,OOO
of immediate expenditure. and an annual
gross business of some 100000, have such
an exaggerated idea implanted in their
heads that our chances of success are
reduced several times over.
We hope that, starting right now, ev-
ervOne will take a mental pledge not to
exaggerate but stick TO the plain truth.
Far be it for us to recommend that we
tell actual falSehoodS about our summer,
but we can kind Of well demonstrate
bit of community good Judgment
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
ATTACKS OF TAXES
(Christian Science Monitor)

There are occasions when 4 citizen
seems to be defined as a small body Of
earning capacity surrounded by taxing
authorities.
Airplane pilots on some croSS-country
routes feel that way since New York
state has undertaken to levy income taxes
on the part of their pay earned while fly
ing over New York, when possibly the
pilot already is paying an income tax ON
his entire salary in the state where he
lives.
Some members of congress. too. have
suddenly become conscious of the baletul
possibilities of the overlapping of state
income taxes as result of income tax
legislation for the District of Columbia.
An income tax statute which has Just
gone into effect for the national capital
leaves it uncertain whether persons who
maintain legal residence in 4 home state
and pay income taxes there are exempt
from the tax in Washington. Such an
exemption is proposed, but the situation
is complicated by claim from residents
of states which have no income tax laws
that they must be let out of the District
of Columbia tax if any other non-resi-
dents are exempted. COncelNablN. per
son from massachusetts. W lScOnSln. Ndll-
fornia. or one of the other income tax
states, living in Washington on business,
might have to pay three income taxes
state. D. c.. and Federal.
The airline pilots mentioned have fig
ured out that some of them fly over seven
states. any or all of which could follow
New York states example of attempting
to levy on part Of their SalarN-and al
ways the state in which the salary Is
paid may levy on all of it. New York
officials point out that they maintain
reciprocity arrangements with states that
will make them. under which each state
allows tax credit for payments col
lpcted in the other state.
This sort of reciprocity may be a solu-
ton, but the taxpayer may need three
incomes if the plan breaks down. Some
plan of more fundamental division Of
tax sources as between the various COY
prning units is very seriously needed.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
Gibraltar Resists
Air Attacks

Continued from Page ~
astating fire that could be brough
to bear on this exposed position
would make any attack hazardous
in the extreme.
The guns of Gibraltar could repel
any possible assault from the sea.
The last time an attempt was made
to capture Gibraltar was by French
and Spanish in 1888. The besieging
fleet marked a great advance in
Warship construction with the ships
sides six to seven feet thick. 1t was
thought this armor belt would defy
any size cannon ball, as it did
early in the engagement. But later
the British begun using red hot
shot, then an innovation. and the
attacking fleet was put out of action.
AS long as Gibraltar is in British
possession no shipping can enter or
leave the Mediterranean from or
to the Atlantic ocean without Brit
aims consent Great Britain'S block
ade of the European continent is
greatly facilitated by this fact, which
will have an important bearing on
the outcome of the war if Hitler's
threatened invasion Of the British
Isles fails.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
Did You Know?

Three out of every four theatcr-
goerS in England are women.
When rough weather permits no
boat to put out from shore, light
house keepers often receive their
supplies by airplane.
The army camera has nine len
ses, which can take a photo or a
territory 600 miles in area, depend
ing upon the altitude.
Echoes have been known to re-
peat as many as 20 syllablcS.
The only creatures whose eyes
can be focused are men and apes.
CoSmic rays have a voltage OF
10000 million volts.
Dry ice has about three times the
cooling power of ordinary ice
Steamship lanes of the Atlantic
were menaced by 1850 icebergs IN
1929.
The sea anemone, an animal
that looks like a flower, leaves
pieces of its feet clinging to the
rocks as it moves about. These
pieces grow into complete indi-
VidualS.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
PROGRESS IN VALLEY
GOODWILL

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ho. n,ada rlaI ,rnarss, i, one definite
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was wa, ~ zig ~ ,,l'',r",,t1, 6nl;eved thar
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