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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
SPEAKS AT TOMB .
Says War Not Fought In
Vain And Saved Democ-
racy For Generation
Text of President RooseveIt's
address at the tomb of the I'm
known Soldier is OH Page 10.

WASHINGTON, Nov. II. - R-
Standing near the tomb of the IN
known Soldier, President Roosevelt
today reproved those who say the
World war was fought in vain and
asserted that, to the contrary, it
saved democracy for a full genera
ton and made possible its resistance
to force in 1910.
He spoke at the close of a brief
and solemnly impressive Arrnistice
Day service, in the course of which
aide placed a wreath of white
upon the tomb, and
an army bugler sounded "taps."
Talks At Bethesda
Later in the day, MI. Roosevelt
laid the cornerstone of the projected
naval medical center in nearby Be
thesda, Md, with a speech saying
that it was fitting ito assemble again
in the patriotic cause of preserving
the well-being of those who, living,
wear the uniform of our defense"
Both addresses stressed the theme
of "a living democracy democracy
which intends to keep on living"
as he put it in the second of the
two speeches. Denying, in the first
that democracy ''can or will be
snuffed out in our lifetime" he pre-
dicted that peoples living under the
iron heels' Of modern c%onquerors
would "rebel."
As to the World war, he asserted
that a hundred years hence histo-
rians would brand as "puny and
false" the efforts of "some of our
own countrymen to make lis believe
that the sacrifices made by our own
were wholly in vain" A en-
fury from now, he continued:
Preserved Order
"Historians will say rightly that
the World war preserved the new
order of the ages for at least a whole
generation-a full twenty years-and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
r. Defends OrldWar
GreggC herryT
ASKS FOR UNITY
Former Legion Leader Calls
For Rededication OF All
To u. S. Ideals

R. Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia,
yesterday urged a re-dedication Of
all Americans to the American
principles and made a plea for
national unity, a re-birth of that
fervor of patriotism which he cred
tied with winning World war I for
the United States and Allies.
Cherry, former speaker of the
state house, former chairman of
the state democratic executive
committee, and former command
err of the North Carolina Depart
ment of the American Legion, was
the principal speaker at Armistice
Day exercises held at Legion field
under the auspices of the Legion.
post here.
"Next Governor"
Cherry was introduced by c.. D.
Hogue, attorney, as "a man who
has served his commonwealth long
and who in the not distant future
will be accorded the highest possible
position it is the power of the voters
of that commonwealth to bestow,
the position of chief executive of
the state"
Cherry began his address by COM
.plimenting the New Hanover High
school Junior ROTC unit and ex-
pressing regret that "all our larger
high schools do not have the facili-
ties to train their young men as
you do"
"I believe" he said, "that New
Hanover county is perhaps more
patriotic than any other spot in the
pointing out that four units
of NeN Hanover county national
r now in camp and
that because of that none will be
in the first draft for national
defense. Such, he recalled, was also
the case in the days of World War 1.
Humorously he pointed out that
twice before he has participated in
Day celebrations here and
drew applause when he said, land
I am glad to be here to serve a third
"This is a soldiers day. he said,
land we should put ourselves in
the position of that first Armistice
Day % years ago." and recalled the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
Athens Radio
Says Fascist
Army Fleeing!
Little Country Rebounds
Confidently From First
Shock Of Invasion
RAINY MONTHS AHEAD
Cavalry Plays Large Role
In Cutting Up Units Of
Italians On Front
By MAX HARRISON

ATHENS. Nov. 11.-.R-Greece's
,I,,,-ain defenders have beaten
.ra T-afian invaders and they ARE
rs.ra7-irg in disorder toward Al
lsr;s the Greek radio declared
cday
he Italians have lost the battle
u al sectors.
This. at the start of the third
oaa. nj war. has Greece rebound
81 confidently from the initial
s.,cs ot invasion.
Hs~ leaders feel that now not
univ have Greek defenses proved
themselves under fire but also that
in the four rainy months ahead
Ttalvs mechanical forces can only
mjre in the mud of Greek noun
tsir roads.
Italy's highly trained Centaur d.
vision. made up of Alpinists who
had SpeQr d year LII PAS
caring to become the shock troops
Of a Fascist blitzkrieg, has been
wiped out, the high command said.
The Alpinists made up the tia
lans' left wing, in the Pindus
mountains. Many units were ami
hilated, the high command said,
and, although the full extent of
the reported Greek victory in that
sector still has not been reported,
a large proportion of the rest were
said TO have been captured.
In the center, along the Kala-
mas river, the Italians were said
70 be digging in to hold what
ground they have gained. Fight
ing was reported limited to pa
troll skirmishes.
Although the radio said the in
Vaders dropped their weapons and
fed before Greek mountain fight
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Many Troops,
Guns, Planes
Sent To Egypt
War Secretary Eden Re,
turns From Inspection OF
Mediterranean Forces
SAYS FUTURE IS SAFE
Morale OF Italian Native
Troops On Ethiopian
Front 'Deteriorating'

LONDON, Nov. IL Up Strong
indications that Britain might launch
her first major land offensive Of the
war against the axis in the Near East
with troops who ''know the desert
game" appeared tonight simulta.
neously with announcement of the
return of War Secretary Anthony
Eden from an inspection of British
Mediterranean forces.
A high British source declared the
empire would strike at the axis
forces in the Near East at the ear
Hest possible moment.
This source added that every man,
gun, tank and plane that car be
spared from defense of the United
Kingdom was being rushed to Egypt
and other Near Eastern sectors.
"Future Is Safe"
1t was announced that Eden, just
before leaving for London, broadcast
a statement to British and Allied
forces in the Near East that the
future is safe" in the hands of the
steadily growing armies in that
sector.
He assured soldiers from Libya to
Palestine. that when the hour comes,
we shall strike horne to victory"
Eden said that British troops have
the quality that commands sue.
cess"
The high London source who i'll
Dictated an offensive was in the Off
ing said that the morale of Italian
native troops was "deteriorating,"
especially on the Ethiopian front.
Italians Lack Training
Italian equipment and organization
were "good,' he said, but Marshal
Rodolfo Graziani's army lacks "tac-
teal training to oppose the seasoned
British troops.
Egypt must be held "at all costs"
this source said. because of it's vital
strategical position.
He estimated Italian strength in
Libya, ready to be turned toward
Egypt and the Suez Canal, at ESQ 900
troops, plus a group Of German
technicians and tactical experts.
This same source said Britain
would do her utmost to help Greece
but pointed out that "our ability to
defeat Italy depends on holding on
in Egypt at all costs"
British planes put off from the
Ark Royal, the admiralty disclosed,
"shadowing enemy aircraft"
had tried unsuccessfuliy to bomb the
carrier. British fighters, it said, de.
stroyed two planes and probably
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
MARSHALL OPENS
LOCAL SERVICES
breaches On The Touch OF
Faith Al First Pres
byterian Church

"Why not give God a chance?'
DR.. Peter Marshall, pastor of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
church, of Washington, D. c.,
asked a capacity congregation last
night at the First Presbyterian
church.
Taking his text from the fifth
chapter of the gospel of St. Mark,
Marshall preached on the sub
ject, 1.-The Touch of Faith" in
opening a five-day series of serv-
ices wit hthe Presbyterian church
es of Wilmington.
DR.. Marshall will preach twice
daily, at 3:15 o'clock in the after
noon at the Presbyterian church
of the Covenant and 8 o'clock in
the evening at the First Presby-
terian church., through Friday of
this week.
Last nights service was a spe-
cial one for employees of the At
lantic Coast Line railroad a n d
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
ITALY IS SILENT
ON CREEK DRIVE
Rome Reports Fascist War.
planes Bombed Two Brit
ish Naval Squadrons

ROME, Nov. IL Up Premier
N0Ssolinis high command, silent on
q~eVeIopments in the Italian invasion
u greece, reported today that Ease
ISL Warplanes bombed two British
naval squadrons in the Mediterran-
van and attacked other British de-
lenses in the Near East.
Authoritative quarters said Italy
Hao destroyed at least SIS enemy"
p-dhes since her entrance into the
war last June, with a loss Of only
81 planes.
Two British cruisers repeatedly
IIeted bomb hits in a raid off the
Siecldh Island of Crete, while in an
nN action, a communicate said,
"i'lSh Warships We're "overtaken by
mS u our aerial squadrons" in the
,i hn,.al Mediterranean, and 'inten'
ivy bombed despite violent anti
aircraft reaction"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
Willkie F. r. Will
KeepAmericaO utO fWar

NEW YORK, Nov. IL Up -
Wendell L. Willkie said tonight he
knew that President Roosevelt
would keep the solemn pledge"
made by both candidates during
the election campaign to keep tvs
country out Of war unless attack
ed.
Departing from his prepared ad-
dress to the nation over a nation
wide radio hookup, the defeated
republican presidential nominee
said:
"Mr. Roosevelt and I both
promised the people in the course
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
Many Killed
In Midw est,
Dixie Storms
Cold Wave Whisks Across
Western Prairies On
Wings OF Snow
ELEVEN PERSONS DIE
Twenty Five Chicagoans
Injured By Glass And
Debris During Gale
(By The Associated Press)

Terrific winds spread death anc
destruction in broad sections o!
the midwest and south yesterday
while a cold wave whisked across
the western prairies on the wings
of a snow storm.
A least II persons died anG
about 70 were injured when gusts
which scaled up to IS miles an
hour levelled several homes and
small buildings, unroofed houses,
uprOoted trees, flattened poles and
shattered windows.
Snow drifted on highways in
Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa ar.l
Nebraska. Traffic was stalled in
several sectors. Breaks in commit
nication lines isolated many COM
munities. Temperatures dropped
as much as 80 degrees in three
hours as the mass of icy air moved
eastward and dipped below zero
at some points in Nebraska, the
Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado. and
Montana.
Great Lakes Area Hit
The November storms-terined
unusual but not without precedent
by forecasters-wrought greatest
havoc in states in the Great Lakes
area.
L. L. Moore, 40; his daughter.
Alma, 10, and his n montn old
o burned to death after their
home was wrecked by the wind at
Canon, Ill. In Chicago, Mrs. Anne
liza Kerr, go, was crushed under
a falling tree and Paul Hegstrom,
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ing ruins for victims, living and
dead.
From 1000 to 1000 persons were
killed when the heaviest shocks in
the recorded history of Rumania
shook his Nazi-dominated country
early Sunday.
There was no way of counting
the injured and homeless and the
new shocks only added to the work
of rehabilitations and the toll of
the dead and injured.
No Americans were reported
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
Red Premier
To Arrive In
Berlin Today
Molotoff Reaches German
Soil En- Route To Con-
ference With Hitler
GREETED BY STENGER
Press Says Britain Hopes
To Disturb German
Russian Relations

BERLIN, Nov. IL R-S o V e I
Russia's Premier-Foreign Commits
sar Vyacheslaff Molotoff arrived
in German territory tonight en-
route to Berlin for conferences,
with Adolf Hitler and German
leaders. 1t was the first time he
had ever left Russian territory.
The first German point reached
by his special train was Malkinia,
a border town in what last year
was Poland. He is due in Berlin
tomorrow morning.
Acting as HitlerSs personal rep
resentative, SIS leader H e r b e r t
Stenger met Molotoff at the Dor
der.
Foreign Minister Joachim Won
R~ibbentrop, with whom Molotoff,
also will confer during his German
stay, will meet the Russian at the
Berlin railway station tomorrow.
Shortly afterwards, Molotoff and
German officials will open confer
ences for the purpose of discuss
ing and agreeing on policies of
worldwide scope, informed sources
said today, with the Rome = Berlin
Axis and British-guaranteed
Turkey high on the agenda.
Most of the German press reit-
Grated, however, the statement that
Molotoff is coming to pay back
the flying trip made by Won Rib
bentrop when the German foreign
minister went to Moscow Aug. %,
1889, for the signing of the Ger
man-Russian non-aggression pact.
1t also recalled article five of
the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo agreement
of last Sept. 81 that Germany,
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BUCHAREST, Rumania, Nov. II
-RHHuge fires burning out the
heart of Bucharest and new earth
shocks spread fresh terror in
earthquake = devastated Rumanla
tonight and made vastly more dan
gerous the national task OF sue
coring thousands of injured and
homeless.
German and Rumanian soldiers,
iron guardists, police and volun-
tary workers combined forces to
dig wherever possible in the flam-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
War

BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

Thousands of young men of this
generation have Joined the world
war dead sleeping in Flanders
fields, where the guns rumbled in
to silence just twenty-five years
ago yesterday.
Amid the carnage of a new and
more terrible war, memories OF
the hopes of perpetual e
which thrilled all mankind that
first Armistice day came back as
hooking echoes. Yet for Britain
there are glimpses of silver lining
among the war clouds.
Further From Victory
Unquestionably, the German-lta-
liam allies, having loosed their war
j%uggernauts against Britain East
and West, are further from COM
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
II PERSONS KILLED
POISONED FOOD
81 Others Ill AS Result OF
Eating Deadly Roach
Powder In Pancakes

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 11.-R -
A poison, believed to have been
a deadly roach powder baked into
pancakes, killed II men today and
sickened So others who had eaten
at a social service center for tran
sients and itinerant workers.
DR.. Robert Kooser, house resi-
dent physician at st. Francis hos
pital where many of the victims
were taken, said all who had eat
en- the pancakes we've mads i'll
and that the condition of "a good
many" was serious.
Detective Inspector Walter Mon
Afghan declared police seeking a
former cook at the center had To-
Gated the man in Philadelphia and
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of the campaign that if we were
elected we would keep this coun-
try out of war unless attacked. Mr..
Roosevelt was reelected and this
solemn pledge for him, I know
will be fulfilled and I know the
American people desire him to
keep it sacred"
Speaking from his personal head
quarters in the Commodore htnl,
Willkie noted that approximate
ly %, 600, 900 persons had voted
for him and asserted "a vital ele-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
Loss Of Cards Force
Second Draft Lottery

CHICAGO, Nov. 11.0R)-There's
going to be a Junior lottery soon
for PIP men in suburban Palatine
whose draft registration cards were
lost.
County Clerk Michael J. Flynn dis
closed today that the cards apparent
ly were accidentally mixed with spoil
cards destroyed by his staff.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12

Plans and specifications for an
armory-auditorium here, as approved
recently by the city and county gov
ernments, have been submitted to
Adjutant General J. Van B. Nets
for approval before further steps
in securing WPA aid in the project
are undertaken, James E. L. Wade,
city commissioner of public works,
said last night.
Commissioner Wade said that
when the plans are returned by Cen
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
Fires Rage In Heart Of Bucharest
AS New Earth Shocks Spread Terror

killed or injured, but the Ameri-
can legation staff ignored the Ar
mistice Day holiday to make a
definite check.
What effect the disaster would
have upon the military future OF
Southeastern Europe could not be
foretold tonight.
Rumania's rich oil fields lay
like a vast finder box awaiting a
match and the German soldiers
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Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
Plans For Armory Here
Are submitted To Nets

eral Nets that he and Addison Hew-
lett, chairman of the county a
of commissioners, will go to Raleigh
for a conference with G. G. McGin-
mis-, state administrator of the WPA,
relative to the project.
Providing there is no hitch in
present plans, and Wade said that
none is anticipated, g. bond issue
election to provide the city and coun.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
NAZI MOVE TOAD
IL DUCE EXPECTED
Turks Indicate They Be-
lieve Germany Will Enter
Action In The Balkans

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Nov. IL
R-The Turkish official radio and
press indicated tonight that they
believed "a German military move
in the Balkans to aid Italy was
imminent and that this might be
the essential reason for the Berlin
visit of Russian Premier-Forc1gn
Commissar Vyacheslaff Molotoff.
The official Turkish radio said
Yugoslavia's position was very
important, and it is probable that
this is one of the questions TO be
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-12
WEATHER

vos4, FORECAST
bro avl5h Carolina: Fair and much colder
day. w W. by showers on the coast Tues
Wednesday fair and colder.
'by e.. s. Weather Bureau)
endin rr,e~orological data for the "a hours
LOU p. m. yesterday.
1,2O Temperature
m. "A. d; m. 60; 7:3o a. m. 66; 1870 p.
ninjmnra' 90 p, m. 60; maximum IS;
'Hi %, mean &c: normal 81.
80 Humidity
N. &. {. N. "a; 1880 a. m. 70; 1870 o.
''5o p. m. "a.
Tot,1 Precipitation
ncDe e.'i Tor "A hours ending 1880 o. NJ.
vi ino 1soal since first of the month,
Tides For Today
Ds'on ---- 7:45a 2:27a
Nasonboro , Soap 3:Oop
o MET ----- 5:41a IL :57a
Sunrise coop p
sise 4.MSea o:42a; sunset 5:1Op; moon
'0p' moonset 4:21a.
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'S'''nued on Page Ten; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-19
DIFFERENCES IN
TEACHERS WAGES
DISCRIMINATORY
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and negro public employees, the ap'
plication of the principle to school
teachers was believed to be new.
The opinion, written by Judge
John J. Parker of Charlotte, senior
member of the court, was filed In
the appeal of Melvin o. Aston and
the Norfolk Teachers association
against the Norfolk city school board
and C. w. Mason, superintendent of
Norfolk schools, from a ruling OF the
United States district court for the
Eastern District of Virginia.
Aston, a teacher in Booker T.
Washington negro high school in
Norfolk, and the association. an DR.
%ganization of negroes, sought from
the lower court a declaratory judg-
ment that ace discrimination in
salary schedules was a violation OF
the due process and equal protection
clauses OF the Fourteenth Amend
ment to the constitution.
On this basis, the plaintiff asked
for an injunction restraining the
defendants from making any dis
tinction on the ground of race or
color in fixing the salaries of public
school teachers in Norfolk.
The district court, without hear
ing the facts, dismissed the suit on
the ground tl.at Aston and the
school board were the only neces-
sary parties to the action n on
the further ground that Aston nao
waived such constitutional rights as
he was seeking to enforce, by enter
ing into a contract with the board
to teach for a year at the price
fixed in the contract, thus preclud-
inc himself from seeking relief.
The circuit court, however, re-
yersed the findings Of the owe
court and remanded the case for
further proceedings to the end that
if the allegations in Alston's COM
nlaint are established as facts the
plaintiff will be entitled to a declara-
tory Judgment to the effect hat dis
elimination is violative Of the. con-
stitution and an injunction restrain
ing the school board from making
race discrimination S in fixing
salaries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-19
SECOND MUNICH TO
WIPE OUT BRITISH
SEEN BY FASCISTS
Continued From Page One)

solini had agreed upon the attitude
of both governments toward the
French demand for an armistice,"
but gave no inkling of the terms.)
The official Stefani news agency
asserted France would receive much
generous treatment than she
could have expected had she accept
ed the eleventh-hour British offer of
a British-French union.
"The gigantic hatred toward Eng.
land in France may be the basis on
which the winners and losers will
build their peighborliness in a Eu.
rope freed forever from British
domination" Stefani declared.
The fascist press played up re
ports that the French felt they had
been virtually deserted by the Brit
ish, giving force to expectations that
these reports might be used as q
lever by the Germans to separate
the western power, then attempt tt
pound the British into submission.
The Italian air force launched new
raids on British and French posi-
tons in the Mediterranean ant
Africa, while fascist land forces con
tinued to hold off on any important
attacks on French territory.
DR.. Karl Clodius, German exper1
on southeastern European econo
mics, arrived for talks believed il
some quarters to herald a division O
| Balkan markets and supplies be
tween Germany and Italy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-19
CHEMISTS DEFEAT
TAYLOR C0LQUlT1
Stretch Three Hits
And Two Errors Into A
To 2 Loop Victory

Ethyl-Dow defeated the Taylor-Col-
quit club of the Independent loop
yesterday by the score of 4 to 2 and
frightened up their pennant chance.
Lefty" Hammonds, the Creoso-
tiers steady pitcher, gave up but
three hits, but they we're for a total
of seven bases. S. McKeithan poled
out a triple in the third with two On
to give the Dowmen a lead. Jimmy
McKeithan, in the fifth, collected a
two-ply knock to score Herring, who
was on via a miscue.
Three runs in the third and one
in the fifth made the total for the
Chemists; the Creosoters took the
third to start scoring. Harris walk
ed, McKeithan hit safely, and Har-
old Harris scored on a sacrifice fly
and McKeithan on an error. .
"Slugger" Brown worked under
high pressure at all times. Each in
ming found the bases peopled, often
packed. But effective losses to the
Creosoters power boys, High and
Folger, accounted for the lack of
runs.
Score by innings:
Taylor.C olquitt 002 900 o. & 2
Ethyl-Dow go 003 O10 x-4 3 2
Batteries, for the Creosoters, w.
Hammonds, and Atkinson; for the
Chemists, Brown and H. McKeithan.
TODAY'S GAME
City Optical will play E. w. God
wins Sons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-19
FIREMEN, OTHERS
ASK WAGE BOOSTS
Continued from Page One)

were called upon to accept a re.
duction in salary so the city might
balance its budget.
Prior to that time, it was polnteo
out. a private in the fire depart
ment. for example, received Slzo
a month and two uniforms a year.
During and since the depression
thev have received only $l20 a
month and one uniform a year,
and there were two years when'
because of a surplus of uniforms
none was furnished the fire de-
partment.
Salaries now paid in the depart
ment are: Captains, 1882 per
month, lieutenants, $3.50 a month,
nrivates, $12O a month and one
Uniform a year. With 81 employees
the total cost of salaries in the
department is 5000 a year.
The firemen are asking: Cap
tains. s143.32 a month; lieutenants
s14o; privates $3.50 a month, which
would increase the budget by ST.