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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-03
IN PORT
R3rpQ

IN PORT.
Barge
Purol, 1910 tons, dischareing car
go of gasoline, Cape Fear Termina
company, agents,
Submarine
$40, former United States nav!
submarine, on exhibit at the foo
of Dock street.
Cutter
Modoc, U. S. coast guard cutter
locked at custoInhouse wharf. .
Steamer
Vauar, 246 tons, from New Yorl
with cargo of petroleum products
Southeastern Shipping Service
agents.
Margaret, 2,125 tons, from lamp:
via Norfolk with cargo of phosphate
rock for the Swift. Fertilizer works
vessel to C. D. Maffitt and com
pany, agents.
Tanker
ESQ Bayway, 4,764 tons, from
BaytoWn with cargo of gasoline TO
the Standard Oil company.
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Poland Suspends All
Interest On Issues

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-LP-The
Polish embassy announced today the
suspension, until the Termination
of hostilities'' in Europe, all inter
est and sinking fund payments On
bonds of the Republic Of Poland.
Janusz Zoltowski, financial coun-
sellor of the embassy, stated: "The
war, which began on Sept. 1, 1889,
and the subsequent invasion of Pc.
land has prevented the normal func.
tioning of the government of the
Republic of Poland On it's territory,
upsetting, at the same time, the
loan service operations.
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What Stocks Did
n. Y. or,

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-R-Cotton-
seed oil futures climbed on the
'@lu"asen of generally higher COM
modify prices with gains Of - to 21
points today.
strong cotton, lard and grain mar.
Ne'S gave buyers something to work
Ii Inc spot month was up as
N'A as 80 points at one time and
uellVerles gradually followed.
naies totaled 122 contracts; Jan.
'' March 7.22; May 7.32b; July
erale' demand appeared for
uae oil at 6 cents a pound in all
SECTIONS Of the south.
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MIDDLING COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2.-OPe
The average price OF middling 1916
indh cotton at ten southern spot
markets today was II points higher
at lilo cents a pound; average for
the past thirty market days 1888
cents a pound; middling 18th inch
average 1892 cents a pound.
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NEW YORK II

Ivy YORK, Jan. 2.-R-Pota.
ran llm' Upstate, No. 1, sacks
slyo lbs.), k%atshdin, fine quality,
Ta~u 200. No. l, sacks Goo lbs.)
IN Island, Green mountain 1855
k.t,r5. poorer LIS. Connecticut,
mo,1" 1.% to IS. Maine, Green
highaSa 100 to 200 some. large
cron. ehlppewa 100 to 200. New
Or rioflda and Texas. bushel box
.m '"'e' red bliss, washed Its to
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>EADEKo IN STOCK EXCHANG REGISTER GOOD GAINS
OF VOLUME
FLAW NADVANCE
r.,nsfers Total $1,000
ch,res And Form Smallest
Volume Since Dec. IL

work.. Jan. 2. - Up The
,to nET market today o stepped to up mo N
possS . noint for leaders.
"E" # volume, however, was an
L@. flaw in the advance
CLUSTERS CLUSTERS for the five hours totalled
Gransn'' shares against 724,o7o last
5V'ulo It was the smallest turn
Tuesoa,. full session since Dec.
over usn Associated Press average OF
H. was up A of a point at
o,s attributed the buying
piUa mainly to the fact many
t",a,s. wished to keep commitments
ua st lending the converting of con
lsn' an,orrow. The question of
sieo no,itical trends, the European
lsAss' md continuation of the bust
vas 1.-TWO still had to be answered,
h ne +oe opinion of most ANALYSTS.
Ill rbs heavy batch of New Years
1:,t;ons for industry generally
ri scanned with interest but no
ao+ enthusiasm. 1t was not over
.,.ad the majority of hopeful pro-
rhocy was tinged with caution.
Strength Of commodities provided
Of the principal props for the
1hsra list. May wheat at Chicago
>Iased at around s1.O7 a bushel. Cot
san roilccting a runup of this staple
~ i~verpool and Bombay ended 80
aon+s TO s1.5O a bale ahead. Corn
wal ~, is to rs of a cent a bushel.
climbing wheat quotations We're
cold IN have been partly in response
IA EXPANDING flour demand and ad-
verse crop weather reports. Business
broadened actively in New York $
Worth Street textile center .Secon-
darv rail loans led a selectlve rise
il the bond division. Foreign Sc
entities markets e a bit uneven.
Among stocks furnishing on the
,pside-some were under the days
st-v L. S. Steel, Bethlehem.
YOUNGSTOWN Sheet. Chrysler, Cen
eraI Motors. Western Union. Gccd-
car. Douglas Aircraft, Santa Fe'
anaconda American Smelling, In
1prnational Nickel, Johns-Manville,
Sears Eoebuck. Woolworth, Texas
Corn. International Mercantile
Marine Electric Boat and United
Aircraft .
Steel mill operations were official
~ estimated up II points at S5.l
per cent of capacity in a rebound
IRON the Christmas week shutdowns.
The comeback was somewhat under
Nall Street suesses. but it was real
lied a number of furnaces were still
idle for repairs.
International Mercantile Marine
stock was given a runup following
word the maritime commission had
granted permission To the U. S.
Lines, controlled by 7. NJ. NJ, to sell
eight ships TO a Norwegian COM
pany for runs between New York
and London and Liverpool. This, it
was believed, would ease the COM
pany's difficulties incident to the
neutrality law which prohibits sail
lEss Of American vessels to belliger-
.nt territory.
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CHICAGO

eaicAGo, Jan. 2.-R-Butter
% ,'04' e days. firm; creamery.
81 ~ oie' 80 to 80 -; 90, 20 IL;
10. ~ ~ 20 "a; 80, % IA; 8S. q
% ~ centralized CARROTS, 30 to
graSea 1856 q days. firm; fresh
curroa extra firsts 20; first 10;
eytrsD receipts II 1-2, refrigerator
tjrsta IA "a; standards IA IL;
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TWO DIE

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 2.-lR-A
grocery employe walked in zero
weather to the home of two octo-
genarian sisters today to kindle a
fire. Opening the door, he found
Mrs. Mary Anderson dead of ex-
posture beside the stove and Mrs.
Margaret Buford dying in bed. She
died a short time later at a hospital
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BALTIMORE HOGS

BALTIMORE, Jan. 2.-P-(U. S.
Dept. Agr.)-Hogs 1900. Mostly 10
lower. Good and choice 100 to 210
lbs. $50 to IS, practical top 6.5h;
22O to 24O lbs. 500 to rs; $50 to 300
lbs. $50 to 80. Packing sows under
400 lbs. 500 to rs; weightier soWs
AIS to 500.
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FINCH RESIGNS

WASHINGTON jan. 2.-lF-
John Wellington Finch resigned to
day as director of the bureau OF
mines. Secretary Ickes SAID that
Finch, a native of Lebanon, n. r.
resigned to resume practice as a
mining engineer.
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COTTON

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 2.1R-Cot.
ton-Spot quiet, prices I16 points
higher. Quotations in pence: Ameri.
can, strict good middling 9.46; good
middling 9.06; strict middling 8.96;
middling $50; strict low middlng
S.76; low middling Sal; strict good
ordinary 1885; good ordinary 7.61.
Futures closed rs higher. Jan. S.57;
March $50; May S.58; July $50;
Oct. SGT.
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NEW YORK EGGS

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-@-Eggs
27,711 Combined receipts of Friday
and Saturday; weak. Mixed colors :
Fancy to extra fancy % to % Ia;
standards % "a; firsts 20; seconds
16 ga to Is IL: mediums Is IA;
dirties No. 1, Is IL; average checks
IA 3-4. Refrigerator, fancy and
heavyweights 16 to 10 IL; standards
Is IL; firsts IA "a; seconds IA to
IA IA; mediums 10 3-4 to il Id;
dirties IA IA.
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NAVAL STORES

SAVANNAH, Jan. 2.-P-Tur-
pentine firm II "a; offerings II,
all sold; receipts "a; shipments O.
COS; stock 24,364. Rosin firm; offer.
ings 1925; sales los; receipts 957;
shipments 1856; stock 215,899
Quote: B 4.05; D AIS; E 4.S5; F
4.9O: G $40; H $50; I F.35; K 5.45:
M N $685.; WIG $685.; WV, x $40.
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NEW YORK BUTTER

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.@lREButter
6S4, 755, firm. Creamery, higher than
extra 80 IA to 81; extra (92 score)
80: firsts (88-91) % to 20 ~; Sec
onds (84-87) rs 1-2 to q IL.
Cheese 304,798 steady. State, whole
milk flats, held 1888, II to %; June
10 3-4 to 20; other fresh II 3-4 to
Is ~.
Receipts are Fridays and Sat
urday's combined.)
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N. O. OIL

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2.-QR-
Cottonseed oil closed steady. Bleach
able prime summer yellow tbs nom;
prime crude 6.12 ~: Jan. Ssh;
March S.6Sb; May 6.S5b; July $3.50.
h-RiA.
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SPOT COTTON

New Aw ORLEANS, Jan. 2.-R-
Stead orleans spot cotton closed
LA. ID points higher. Sales q.
LIS. 'oW mlddling 1885; middling
aope sood middling 11.s3: receipts
~ Stock S9s, 49o.
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LAST RESORT

WASHINGTON, Jan. Up
Senator Bankhead (D-Ala.) said to
day he would vote for Secretary
Wallace's certificate tax plan fol-
farm products "only as a last
resort" But under no circumstances
would he agree to it, the Alabamar
added, unless it were accompanied
by a compensatory tax on substl
Itutes for these products.
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PEANUTS

SUFFOLK, Va, Jan. 2.-R-
Peanut quotations: Jumbos 8 3-4;
bunch 3 Ia to 8 IL; runners 3 to
3 3-8. Market firm.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 2.-R-
Foreign and domestic trade buying
bolstered cotton futures here today
and closing prices were very steady
16 to 80 points net higher.
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Great Britain is constructing five
new wind tunnels to facilitate re
search into flight problems.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-03
CHICAGO LARD

CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-B-L
tierces go; loose $50; bellies S.So.
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CHARLOTTE COTTON

CHARLOTTE, Jan. 2.-R1-Spot
cotton lilo.
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Shipping News
CLEARED AMI SAILED
Tanker

H. NJ. Fre%derickson,. 1902 tons, for
Norfolk after d~ischarging part cargo
of gasoline, Cape Fear Terminal COM
pany, agents.
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STOCK AVERAGES
Movement In Recent Years

III 1teCtHI Tears
~ low ---- 17.5 81 23.9 1863
59ag nigh - 1859 1889 1S4.3 1871
I'-' low $3.50 SIS 95.3 SIS 61.8
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-08
CHANGES IN LABOR
ACT ARE APPROVED.
Amendments Would Create
Three-M Man National La
Dor Relations Board

WASHINGTON, June -RNBy
a vote of exactly two to one, the
house passed and sent to the
Senate today a series Of Wagner
Act amendments to create a new,
three-man national labor relations
board and make sweeping changes
in it's present procedure.
The same coalition of republi-
cans and democrats which had
held the upper hand for three days
of preliminary fighting rolled up
a 258 to 129 vote for the re%visions,
despite the fact that all factions
agreed that they would wind up
in a pigeonhole in the Senate.
The amendments were virtually
the same as those approved by a
majority of the five-man commit
tee headed by representative Smith
DIVA which has been investi-
eating the Wagner act and the
labor board since last December.
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OTHER STEPS TAKEN
F. D. R. Asks Congress For
Power To Make Guns
Available To Allies

WASHINGTON, June 7-lPE
President Roosevelt applauded a
newspaper editorial demanding
compulsory military training for
the United States today, while his
aides Joined with Henry Ford in a
preliminary move toward possible
mass production of warplanes on
a gigantic scale.
In addition, Mr.. Roosevelt asked
congress for specific authority tc
turn old United States army guns
back to manufacturers in a proce'
dure expected to place them quick
ly, if indirectly, in the hands Of
beleaguered French d British
soldiers. Fifth navy planes are al
ready following such a route to
the Allies.
To Relase Planes
Highly placed persons said to-
night that the administration plans
to release, all told, more than soc
army and navy planes. TT e S c
would include army attack bomb
ers, various other models, and the
so navy planes already disposed OF.
The present plans, it was said,
c IL for turning back to manufac-
turers a large amount of ordna
material, including soc, 900 Lee-En,
field rifles, ammunition, and SOC
or more 75-millimeter guns of Brit,
ish and French models. The gov
eminent, it was said, would re
ceive from the manufacturers a
$50, 600, 900 credit on later purchas'
es of new material.
The presidents moves to release
the military equipment and his APP
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SUFFERS TERRIFIC
LOSSES IN SOMMEA ATTACKS;
MH PLANES RAID ENGLAND
MAIN DEFENSE HOLDS
General Reports His Men
Have Wiped Out Every
Nazi Crossing Aisne
FRENCH USE PLANES
FRANCE

PARIS June 7-tR-The long AL
lieG front lines, selling every foot
of SCARED French ground at a
fearful price il de tn for the in
vaders, backed away from furious
German attacks all Ions the
Somhe} front tonight at the order
of General Maxine Veygand.
The generalissimo, in a commu-
nique written in his own hand,
made plain that the withdrawal OF
advance units was to meet the
double-fanking movement charac-
teristic of the German offensive.
The main, deep defensive system
was still holding.
lease his men from his order of
Only to that extent did he re-
the first day Of battle:
Hold tight to the soil OF
France"
Wipe Out Germans
Even as they fell back, Weygand
reported they had wiped OUT ev-
cry German who crossed the Aisne
river on the French east flank in
an advance east Of scissors.
The Germans, he said, were not
counting their ~losses.'
At the same time, NaZi tanks
broke through in the far west of
the front in the region Of the upper
Bresle river. But the C h
support positions" networks Of
guns which the general had de-
signed to cut them down with
crossfre-were holding firm.
The days action along the 1876
mile front of the Somme and Aisne
thus saw heavy action at both
ends, and also at Weygand's
strongly defended center.
But with their tanks begging
down in the swamps Of the Bresle
valley, the German main push ap-
peared tonight to be concentrated
on the east flank.
On the sides of scissors to the
north and east Nazi forces poured
down from the Ailette, massing
along the Aisne for continuing at
tacks.
Violent Battles
The effort to cross the Aisne-
in an area about so miles from
Paris-was choked off in one of
the days most violentbattles.
The center of the front was no
less ablaze. There, the war min
istry spokesman announced, the
Germans we're attacking heavily
tonight, with tanks and new waves
of infantrymen.
The center blow WIS sprung
from the Disc valley, north of
scissors, an old battle-ground.
In the whole battle area, where
half a million Nazis were on the
charge, the French reported cut
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LITTLE NEWS RELEASED
Few Terse Announcements
Make No Claims OF Towns
Captured In France

BERLIN, June 7-R-Germans
at home were kept on a lean diet
of war news tonight from the bat
tie line.
The high command, claiming on
ly progress on schedule,
acknowledged it was meeting "stiff
resistance" from heavier a r m S
than had been expected.
Cheered by army statements that
''Weygand's SURPRISE" Frances
resilient defense of depth, had been
broken on a front g. miles wide,"
the populace waited at radios for
bulletins that might tell the speed
of the march toward Paris.
No Claims
Accustomed to graphic, detailed
communicates during the sweep
across the low countries, Germans
had to content themselves with a
few terse announcements which
made no claims of towns taken.
But from the press and other in
formed sources the word spread
that:
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-08
Italy Holds
Ships, Army
Set For War
II Duce Makes The World
Aware That His Hour Of
Decision Is Near
ARMS PLANS PUSHED
Marshal Debono Is Placed
In Command OF Coun-
try's Southern Armies

ROME, June 7.-R-Italy made
the world aware tonight that her
hour of decision is near by holding
her ships at a world standstill and
by putting her armies to the ready.
Italians heard without surprise
the widespread reports abroad that
the scheduled sailings of all Italian
merchant ships had been cancelled
and that those in foreign waters
had been ordered to take cover in
neutral harbors.
While there was no official con-
firmation here on these reports, a
reliable source said the great 1tal-
ian liner Rex would not sail on
June IL, despite that the line still
accepted reservations.
Departures Called Off
Other departures likewise were
reported secretly called off.
Armament was speeded. The Ital-
ian air force was granted $3SG,000,-
900 for its expanded program in
the next three years. The navy got
$50, 900, 900 for armament aboard
and ashore.
A 74-year-old whiskered veteran
of many a tough colonial campaign,
Marshal Emilio Debono, was put
in command of Italy's southern
armies-the forces which would be
expected to do much Of the fight
ing upon Italy's entrance into the
war.
Military experts believed that
Marshal Debono's new command in
Guided the troops of Libya-from
which fascists have openly predict
ed a campaign against Egypt in an
effort to capture the Suez Canal, an
essential to the maintenance of the
British lifeline.
The announcement of the marsha
The announcement of the mar
shal's elevation spoke of a group"
There has been but one army in
southern Italy and two in Libya'
Thus, it was said, the three might
be formed into a single force.
Among the days significant devel-
opments was the fact that foreign
circles were told that diplomatic re
lations between Italy and Russia
who has understandings with Ger
many-were being improved.
Italian Ambassador Augusta Ros'
so i sexpecte dto return to Moscow,
which he left several months age
after Josef Stain recalled the new
Soviet Ambassador Nicolai Gorelchln
from Rome because of hostile demon
strarions over the Russian invasion
of Finland. Gorelchin's return to
Rome shortly was predicted.
All branches of the fascist party
stood in readiness to hear Mussoll-
mis- long expected trumpet call.
At the same time that the news
papers announced the restoration OF
Debono to a post of vital importance,
after a period in the rather subordi-
nate job as inspector-general of the
overseas forces, they cried out in n
voice-perhaps at government sug-
gestion-phaise for his military re-
cord.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-08
MERCURY REACHES
96 DEGREES HERE
Light Rain Offers The City
Some Relief From High
Temperatures, However

Wilmington had its hottest day
of the season thus far yesterday
as the temperature climbed to SO
degrees between IL and l o'clock.
At about l o'clock, however, a
light rain offered some relief when
it lowered the thermometer about
10 degrees in 20 minutes.
Paul Hess, w~eatherman, said
despite the fact that SO degrees
was registered atop the customs
house, it was at least 100 in the
downtown streets. The reason for
this, he said, is the high heat
retention power of the sidewalks
and the black asphalt streets.
It will be fair and warm again
today with possible thundershowers
this afternoon.
The rain yesterday amounted to
.04 of and inch. z
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new TAX MEASURE
0KEHED BY GROUP
Is Designed To Raise ST.
COG, 100000 A Year
For National Defense

WASHINGTON. June 7 -R-A
new tax bill, designed to raise
81, OO6, 900, 900 a year for national
defense by digging deeper than
ever before into the average Amer
leans pocket, Won tentative ap'
proval today of a house tax sub
committee.
The new taxes would be ear
marked to llquidate in the next
fiveyears a 81, 600, 600, 900 increase
in the public debt limit-from
s45, OOO, 900, 900 to $40, 900, 900, 600
which the bill would authorize
order to meet defense approprla-
lions being made at this session.
President Roosevelt already has
requested approximately 1900, 600
COO for defense.
The bill would bring approx
r1ately 1850, 900 additional persons
within reach of the income tax
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CALDWELL SPEAKS
T0FARM TEACHERS
Says Nation Depends Upon
The Economic Security
OF Its Farmers

Harry B. Caldwell, master OF the
State Grange, told the North Caro-
lin. teachers of agriculture at their
annual conference at Carolina Beach
Yesterday, that when o destroy
the economic security of the farms
of any nation, you tend to destroy
the nation itself"
..The greatest challenge to
America is the preservation OF its
democracy" he said, bringing out
The fact that communism breeds
among the unemployed,
He went on to say that economic
security has a tendency to become
destroyed in the individual when
he becomes a tenant on another's
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Hill unit. The resolution, in
troduced by U. S. Circuit Judge
John j. Parker of Charlotte, in
structed Governor Hoey to ap-
point a committee to consider
the matter. The committee, of
which the governor will be
chairman, will report to a spe-
cial meeting of the trustees in
August.
The military training, super
vised by the U. S. Army, would
be designed to give full cooper
alton to the government in this
time of emergency" said Judge
Parker.
Another resolution, proposing
expansion of military training
at N. G. State college, was re-
ferred to the same committee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-08

RALEIGH, June - Up -
Charges that radicalism and
"wild-cat freedom existed at
Chapel Hill unit of the Great
er University of North Caro-
lima were aired today at q
stormy session of the univer-
sity's board of trustees.
At the climax of a torrId
debate, Frank P. Graham told
the trustees that as long as he
was president he is going to
keen it "open and free" He
added that he did not wish to
he connected with the univer-
sity if the trustees thought that
such a policy was "perverting."
Quickly, many members of the
Notwithstanding Joseph Daniels
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-08
u. S., Ford Join In Move
For Airplane Production
Pro-Auies Gathering
Planned In Brunswick

A meeting of the Brunswick
county Committee for the De-
Tense of America Through Aid
to the Allies will be held Sunday
night at 8 o'clock at Bolivia
High school.
All interested persons through
out the county have been invited
to attend.
The meeting will be similar to
those held in New Hanover
county during the past few days,
the latest of which was held last
night in the superior courtroom.
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PREPARES
FOR NAZI DRIVE
Steel Posts Are Placed In
Champs Elysee; Garbage
Trucks Are Armed

PARIS, June 7-R-Steel posts
rose menacingly tonight in tn
middle of the Champs Elysee.
Garbage trucks stood as mobile
f~ortresses two or three to a block.
A defense area heavy with ma
chine-gun and anti-tank gun nests
stretched clear up to the battle
line of the Somme.
But for these new preparations
against invasion from the air or
the ground it was the Paris Of 26
years ago, when another German
army was laundering down from
the north, and from this beloved
capital thousands fled again, re-
membering the distant sound of
older guns.
The great thick rods sticking like
awkward growths in the Champs
Elysee were intended to provide
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CHARGES OF RADICALISM AT CAROLINA
AIRED AT STORMY SESSION OF BOARD

State now has an army-super-
vised r. O.. T. c. unit.
The board authorized, with
certain qualifications, the adj
mission of cO-eds to the fresh
man and sophomore classes Of
the university at Chapel Hill
and of N. C. State college. Co.
eds previously has been allow
ed to enter only the Junior and
senior classes of the units.
The qualifications we're these:
1. Only girls whose permanent
residences are in Chapel Hill
township may enter the first
two classes at the university.
2. Only girls who wish to
study agriculture, engineering
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