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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-31
NAVY WILL GUARD
WINDSORS ON TRIP
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\SOlIUIIIucu IIOIH age OItCJ
granted visas for entry into the
United States Immediately upon
application. Acting Secretary of
State Sumner Welles, questioned
as to the liability Of German seiz-
ure. of the Excalibur because Of the
Windsors' presence aboard, said
that phase of the matter had not
yet been considered.
A German raider might regard
the Excalibur a prize Of war as a
carrier of a member of the British
armed forces. The former British
king holds an officers commits
sion. He and his American-born
duchess will 60 to New York, en-
route to the Bahamas to his new
post as governor and commander
in-chief.
British sources said his ma
jesty's navy would guard the way
to New York.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-31
THE LIST

WASHINGTON, July 30.-GP-
Gen George c. Marshall, army chief
of staff, told the senate military COM
mittee today that the War depal. =
ment planned to call into active
training four divisions and 90 smaller
units of the national guard if con.
gress approves pending legislation.
Marshall listed the following divis-
ions and their training centers:
Forty-fourth division New York
and New Jersey, Fort Dix, N. j.
Thirtieth division North Carolina,
Tennessee, South Carolina and Geor
gia), Camp Jackson, S. C.
Forty-fifth division (Oklahoma
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado)
Fort Sill, Okla.
Forty.first division washington
Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Wy
oming), Fort Lewis, Wash.
The other units and training sites
18th Coast Artillery (New Hamp-
shirt), Massachusetts military reser.
walton, Falmouth.
19Sth Coast Artillery (Delaware)
Camp Upton, New York, tempora
rily; to be transferred to anti.air
craft firing center at Savannah, Ga.
when it is completed.
202nd Coast Artillery (~Illinois)
Camp Logan, ILL.,; later to be trans
ferred to March field, Calf.
211th Coast Artillery (Massachu
s~etts), Massachusetts military reser
walton, Falmouth.
213th Coast Artillery (Pennsyl
%vania). Virginia Beach, Va.
251st Coast Artillery California;
Ventura, Calf: later to be trans
ferred to March field. .
Gath Coast Artillery New York;
Virginia Beach.
25oth Coast Artillery California;
Camp McQuaide, Calf.
252nd Coast Artillery North Caro-.
lina), Charleston, S. C.
24Oth Harbor Defense unit, Port.
land, Me.
241st Harbor Defense unit, Boston
Mass.
242nd Harbor Defense unit, Lons
Island Sound.
245rd Harbor Defense unit, Nara.
gansett Bay.
245th Harbor Defense unit, Sand,
Hook.
246th Harbor Defense unit, Chesa
peake Bay.
24Sth Harbor Defense unit, Puge
Sound.
24sth Harbor Defense unit, Colum
] bia, Ore.
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INDUSTRIAL GROUP
WILL ASK FUNn,
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ton, saying he would "ra,h..
on the general committee. I can Il,
better work there. I'm ro.au ="
whatever the chairman wants"
j. E. L. Wade. city oommjsst,,
Of public works. then nominated NJ
D. Jones, rea!tor, who also a,..
the nomination. a
Bruce B. Cameron, oil dfstr,,,
then pointed out that he fon ''a"f
the duty of the chamber ~ u
merce, the Wilmington por. V'N'
mission and the Port Traffio '0a'
citation, which r already wbor ss''
partly supported by public fr,' v
to carry out the work antias+ 44A
for the Wilmington Industrt,l'' s'
mittee, with the aid of tbs S'"'
mittee. WIN
He also pointed to the nooa
an appropriation of funds fran ~, W.
city and county for the wor,. ,I'
Industrial committee hopes n
and to a need for a paid ~reprs,s.
tative in Washington, such q.
put there during the first w,.''
War when the shipyards var.
cured for the city.
Addison Hewlett, represen,ir..,
county board of commissios'~'
pointed out that the county
adopted its budget for the f, ns
year and that whereas durirr " W
next few days items may be s,ri..'
en- from it, none can be added T.. !,
under law. wa
Any funds which the county s,,
plies to the industrial COMMIT.
must be secured for that use thro,,,
manipulation of the budget wi,b5.
the confines of the budget" be s,;d
He suggested that a survey of N,
needs of the organization be mad,
and that the body then make a ~.
quest to the city and county,
1t was pointed out the city adon,,
it's budget tentatively today, and
that after it's tentative adon-ior
it, too, will be able to strike an
items but can add nothing. ANY An.
preparation the city makes for Tho
purpose must be made before tbs
budget is tentatively adopted tbs |
at 10 o'clock.
Fred Willetts then suggested tha
the entire advertising fund of III,
city be turned over to the industr3
committee, saying that the uses i,
which the fund has been put betos
were not effective.
Last year the fund was used ID
provide 500 a month for the chan.
Der of commerce, 500 a month for
the Wilmington Port Traffic aso.
citation, approximately $3.50 for the
Ocean Highway association, for
newspaper, magazine and radio ad,
vertising, for the promotion of s1e
cial events in and near Wilmirgtm
and for the entertainment Of Officials
paying official visits to the city,
100000 Needed
Willetts suggested that not less
than $4,000 would do the wor.
the industrial committee has
before it, and suggested that SlQ,
600 a year would not be too much
II am not an advocate of increaai
taxes" he said, but if a raise Of tt
cents or ten cents for the next ten
years would do the work, Id apprQn
it."
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RUMANIA INTENDS
TO LIMIT CLAIMS
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that Germany had given Rumania
until Sept. is to settle by direct
negotiation her territorial differ
ences with Hungary and Bulgaria.
If there was no agreement by
that time, it was said, Germany
and Italy planned to impose a set
Element of their own.
Yesterday, popular opposition to
further territorial concessions
Russia already has taken Bessa-
rabia and northern Bucovina from
this small country-threatened to
complicate the Rumanian govern.
ment's task of trying to comply
with the German warning. ]
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105th Aerial Observation squadron
(Tennessee), Columbia, S. c.
18th Aerial Observation squadron,
New Jersey, Fort Dix. N. j.
154th Aerial Observation squadron,
(Arkansas), Fort Sill, Okla.
116th Aerial Observation squadron,
(Washington), Fort Lewis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-31
STEVEDORES INJURED

- LONDON, July 80. Up - Three
,~stevedores unloading an Irish cargo
were injured tonight by explosion of
a homemade bomb believed to have
been placed aboard by the extremist
Irish republican army.
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AMERICAS SIGN
PACTS AGAINST
DANGERS OF WAR
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large table in the Cuban capitol to
affix his signature to the various
conference measures. He was
cheered again a few minutes later
when he tried to slip out quietly
while foreign office representatives
of the other 20 American republics
coming forward to sign.
The program to which they at
tached their names consists of:
l.. A so-called "act of Havana"
which definitely declares all the
American republics to be opposed
to change or menace of change
in the status of European posses
sions in this hemisphere.
2. Inter-American cooperation to
combat the fifth column" or other
.inhltrating subversive elements
which may exist or seek to exist in
this hemisphere.
8. Mutual effort to maintain eco
Monies in an American way"
with precautions against market
dislocations caused by the Euro
pean barter systems.
Argentina Objects
Argentina's last-minute reserva-
tons to the "act of Havana" and
to the accompanying convention
defining the methods of protecting
any threatened European colony,
were CLOSED over almost entirely
III this closing session. To the very
Ia st, Argentina objected to making
definite conference commitments
which would give any of the Ameri-
can republics the right to move
protectively into European colonies
in this hemisphere.
Leopoldo Melo, the Argentine del
egate, affixed his name and the
Argentine seal to the documents,
but he said beforehand that all
must be approved by his country's
congress If Argentina is to partici.
pate effectively.
He was the only signer who pol
ished his eyeglasses and carefully
and publicly read over the previ.
ously-prepared text. Presumably
he did SO to make sure that the
Argentine reservations had been
included in the final document.
Miguel Angel Campo, Cuban sec
rotary of state and president of the
conference, did not mention the Ar.
gentine attitude in his closing
speech.
"Wil Learn Lesson"
Humanity will learn a lesson
he said, from the example of the
American nations having worked
together for fruitful results"
The measures adopted, despite
their general nature, are bound tc
have an overseas reaction, Campo
declared.
Nobody will doubt in the future
however skeptical he may be-
the unbreakable union of this hemi-
sphere and the harmonic neighbor.
illness of these great peoples who
with foresight exert themselves tc
maintain peace and t'eir right tc
happiness" There we're other
speeches in similar vein.
At 1920 pm. after the last dele.
gate, Carlos Salazar of Guatemala
had signed, Campo declared the
session adjourned.
Secretary Hull, in a long state
ment issued before he took ship fo1
home, said. The American gov
ernments have manifested then
full recognition of dangers which
confront them in common and have
created machinery for common &C.
ton.
Instead Of faltering and aban
donlng the spirit of unity and con
certed steps for safety, they have
demonstrated to the world thei,
~unalterable determination to pre-
serve and strengthen the spirit ane
system of continental unity ane
solidarity. They have just cleared
the decks for effective action when
e1 er such action may become nee.
essary."
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-31
FATALLY HURT

LAGRANGE, July 3d. Up Wal
ter R. Crews, SO, a farmer, died last
night in a hospital Of injuries he re.
ceived when his mule crushed him
against a feed box.
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NATIONAL GUARD
CALL TO AFFECT
400 MEN in CITY
Continued From Page One
tillery was not named in the
units to be called to training.

Col. r. S. McClelland, command
said last night that it is probable
that the units will be brought up to
full peacetime strength. None of the
units is o at full peacetime
strength.
He said that married men with
dependents up to the rank of ser
geant will be permitted to resign
However, he said, no officer is ex'
pected to be allowed to resign.
To date, he said, no designations
have been received in his regiment,
One officers proposed resignation
was turned down.
The present force of the 252nd
regiment in Wilmington is as fol.
lows:
Battery A, SO men and four Off.
GERS; Headquarters battery, 60 men
and two officers; Band, % men and
one warrant officer: Regimental
headquarters, five officers; first
battalion headquarters, two officers
anu OIlc Ol1ASS
third battalion headquarters, four
officers and one non-commissioned
officer. In all there are about rs of.
ficers in the city, who will not be
allowed to resign from the service.
Present force of the 10th Infantry
of the Both division is as follows:
Company I. about SO men and three
officers; 105th medical regiment,
Company A, 68 men and two Off.
GERS.
This is a total of 379 men and if
each unit is increased to peacetime
strength, the total of men that will
be taken away from their business
in Wilmington will probably rur
over the 400 mark.
Col. McCIelland said, that in the
event of a large number of resigna
tons, they hoped to be allowed to
secure enough recruits here before
leaving for camp.
However, despite the fact that they
may be called to active training fol-
a year in September, the 30th divis
ion is scheduled to leave Sunday, AL
gust 4, for its annual three weeks
training at Camp Shelby, Miss.
Members of Company I and Com
pany A, 105th medical regiment, will
leave Wilmington Sunday morning
for the training period, unless last
minute orders are received to call of
the summer camp for the year-roun6
training.
Officers in the division said last
night that definite plans have al
ready been made to carry through
with the maneuvers in Mississippi.
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POSSIBLE RELIEF
FROM HEAT SEEN
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predominant today. The high tenn
|%perature today is expected to be 80
degrees.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-31
WEATHER
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WASHINGTON. July 30. (P -
Weather bureau records Of temperature
md rainfall for the "a hours ending s
p. m. in the principal cotton-growing
areaS and elsewhere:
Evening star., 1940-06-09
The Question Mark

While the French soldiers and the few
British soldiers who had been able to
join them after the withdrawal from
Flanders fought on the Somme- -Aisne
front, their leaders were diverted by q
question: What of Italy? BY now this
is the old question of the war but less
than ever is it one the Allies can shrug
of. Each day of the week apparently
brought Italy nearer battle.
Monday, Italian government an
nounced indefinite postponement of 1912
Rome Exposition, which
ltolion Mussolini once offered as
Puzzle proof Italy was not planning
to fight From Yugoslavia
a trade delegation arrived in Rome.
Residents of Turin, Italy's large indus
trial center close to the French frontier,
were urged by the press to depart for
country districts.
Tuesday Italy's cabinet voted its ap-
proval of undisclosed plans for war dur
ing Commute meeting
Wednesday Italian press published re-
ports of alleged Allied persecution of
Italians
Thursday the Associated Press learned
that mine fields have been sown in a
12-nile danger zone with which Italy
seeks to protect herself as a prospective
war partner of Germany. Regular
Evening star., 1940-06-09
FRANCE REMAINS CONFIDENT
By Constantine BrO1rn.

There is remarkable feeling of conf
dence in France today that the Allies
can win or at least cause stalemate in
the present war. This can be revealed
now, after efforts to bring about peace
negotiations have failed once more.
During the last 10 days of May there
was frequent communication between
the United States and the Italian gov
ernments. Mussolini suggested to Presi-
dent Roosevelt that the French be ap-
preached and peace negotiations urged
The exact basis of such negotiations is
not known but it is believed that the
gist was that France should yield cer-
tain colonial possessions to Italy in ex-
change for the Eastern part of Belgium
Hitler, 1t is reported, was quite willing
to compensate the French for their ter
ritorial loss. In addition, it is said that
the Germans demanded the destruction
Of the Maginot Line and Frances recog-
milton Of Germany's right to decide the
fate OF the countries she has occupied.
In well-informed quarters it is believed
that the real reason why II Duce held
back his attack against France was his
expectation that the French would "fall'
for these latest indirect and tentative
proposals.
Whether President Roosevelt has COM
municated these suggestions to the
French government is difficult to ascer-
tain. 1t seems probable that Ambassa-
dor Bullitt in Paris, who is in extremely
close relations with the French govern
ment, has mentioned these informal
ideas to Premier Reynaud.
French Refuse EmphaticaIly.
The French answer was definite and
emphatic no" From the political point
Of view they feel that accepting the
sugar-coated pill now would mean the
end Of the French Republic. The French
people, after the heavy sacrifices they
have made so far, could not consider
the surrender of some rich colonies in
exchange for overpopulated Belgium.
Furthermore, Britain was not willing
that France should talk peace. The re-
peated appeals from London last week
to the French people not to listen to any
peace suggestions were based, it is be-
heved here, on the British governments
knowledge of these suggestions, and the
fear that they might be listened to by
the French masses. The French govern
ment does not believe in the sincerity of
the Italians and the Germans, despite
the repeated German statements that
they consider France an excellent war
rior nation and have nothing against
her, since she is wholly "the victim of
Great Britain
Furthermore. the French Government
has let Washington understand that
Evening star., 1940-06-09
LLOYD GEORGE POWDERS MUSSOL|NI'S DELAY
Biton Notes Cause Roees

LONDON.-At the hour I am writing
this article, the issue of what is turning
out to be the most terrible battle yet
fought in this war Is still shuddering
in the balance. When one takes into
account the width of the battle-ground,
the numbers of men engaged and the
power of the weapons employed, there is
nothing in history to compare with the
second battle of the French rivers.
When two of the strongest nations on
earth are involved in mortal combat over
issues of supreme moment for the future
of lands they love, it is needless to say
that the desperate bravery displayed on
both sides has never been surpassed in
the history of human sacrifice. I fear
also that before this battle comes to the
end of its horrible course, it will be
written that the carnage has been with
out precedent
The French are fighting with that
tenacity which enabled them to hold
Verdun for five months under the most
appalling bombardment which up to that
date had ever been concentrated on
any fortresses. But they held on to the
shattered remnant of the last fort until
the siege finally was raised.
Germans Seek Soft Spot.
1t Is reported that the Germans in
the battle are making slight advances
here and there. They are we'll described
by a German reporter as dagger
thrusts" into the Weygand line. So far
there has been no bulge within which
the Germans can maneuver and expand.
The German Army is testing the French
line for its weak points. If they find
them they will exploit them to the full.
They care not whether they are on the
left, right, or center of the Weygand
line, for all roads lead to Paris
The weight of material is overwhelm-
ingly on their side. But the French are
entrenched in skillfully chosen positions
organized in great depth. It is cred-
liable to the new generals, chosen by
Paul Reynaud, to replace the failures
who were responsible for the Sedan gap,
Evening star., 1940-06-09
On Fighting Fronts

The Nazs Monday heralded the war
for France with an air-bombing attack
on Paris. In Berlin Fuhrer Hitler an
nounced his determination to destroy
his enemies. At lunch time over the
French capital German sky raiders
dropped 1850 bombs, killed 254. wounded
652, dropped a dud bomb feet from
American Ambassador Bullitt, watching
the raid from a balcony The invaders
lost Is planes to French anti-aircraft
batteries. Seventy miles north of Paris
two great armies faced each other, the
German, determined to push southwark,
and the French, determined that they
should not pass.
The great German shove began We'd
nesday. Tuesday the Nazis took Dun
kerque, after 1886 900 AL
Stort OF lied soldiers had been
New Push evacuated through that
port out of the trap the
Germans had set for them in Flanders
Tuesday brought an ominous but bull
dog speech from Winston Churchill,
British Prime Minister. I'VE shall de-
fend our island whatever the cost may
be-" Mr.. Churchill said in Commons.
1--WE shall fight on the beaches, the land
Ing grounds, in the fields, in the streets
and on the hills. We shall never sur
render, and even if (Which I do not for
a moment believe this island or large
part of it were subjugated and starving.
then our empire beyond the seas armed
and guarded by the British fleet will
carry on its struggle until in Gods good
time the New World with all its power
and might sets forth to the liberation
and rescue of the old"
The battlefield in France begins at the
mouth of the Somme near Abbeville,
runs along the Somme west
Bottle ward and jumps to the Aisne
Front River above Scissors and
moves westward along a line
more or less lateral through Rethel and
over to the point beyond the town of
Longwy, where France, Belgium and
Luxembourg join. Action is concentrated
along the 125 miles from Abbeville to
Rethel. The German tactic duplicated
the tactic employed in sweeping through
Belgium and into France toward the
English Channel-the tactic of the blitz-
krieg, swift moves forward to the fear
full lethal music of dive-b -bombers, ground
seized by motorized columns backing up
huge tanks, "warships on land
In the initial action begun at 4:05 am
Wednesday, Germans, smashing full
against the Aisne- -Somme front, got some
tanks through the French line of resist
ance, established by Gen. Weygand, gen.
eralissimo of Allied forces in 10 days
Sharpest fighting was in the area almost
100 miles from the Channel around La
Fere, Laon, Anizy-l Chateau and
Chauny In Paris the War Ministry in
sisted the situation was favorable. Brit
ish bombers struck far behind their
enemy's lines, firing oil tanks and wreck
ing rails around Frankfort, Cologne
Essen and Friedrichshafen On the soil
of France nearly 100000 soldiers bat
tied. The Germans were making a twin
thrust-toward LIE Havre, at the mouth
of the Seine, on the west, and toward
Paris, in the center.
With this battles opening, the sort of
Evening star., 1940-06-09

Roosevelt still remains to be dealt with.
But II Duce is reckoning on complete
victory for the axis before American re-
sistance can materialize
One consideration alone would induce
another pause and that is a German
check, which would be equivalent to a
French victory in this battle. Musso-
lini's share of the anticipated loot is
mainly French. But if the French
soldier of today proves himself to be as
tough proposition in fight against
odds as his predecessor did in 1914, when
he converted disastrous and apparently
hopeless defeat into the triumphant
victory of the Marine, then II Duce may
feel that the booty he gazed upon for
years with eyes shimmering with patri-
otic greed is not so easily snatched from
the fighting demon across the Alps.
Spain May Pay Debt.
I have always + ''~ht that If both
Germany and Italy ared war on the
democratic countries, Dictator Franco
would throw in his lot with the Axis It
is partly case for gratitude of the
favors he received. He owes his triumph
entirely to Italian and German aid.
Without it he would assuredly have been
beaten.
But for the fatal weakness of Cham
berlain and Daladier, the Allies could
have relied now at this critical hour on
the assistance of an army of 100000
democratic Spaniards trained In three
year war to fight for democracy. They
are now confronted with a million
Falangists trained in the same war to
fight against it.
Apart from obligations of honor,
Franco can look forward to his pour
boire in the form of the restoration to
Spain of the coveted Rock of Gibraltar.
For this transfer of assets from de-
mocracy to authoritarianism we have
mainly to thank Chamberlain and Dala-
dier, Halifax and Bonnet.
(Copyrisht. 1e4o)