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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-24

ROME, June 23.-N-Italy hand
ed her. armistice terms to France to-
night at a closely-guarded meeting
in a villa rear Rome and the pleni-
potentiaries of the two warning ma
tons Immediately began their SOL
emn parleys on a truce to end
Frances fight against the Rome
Berlin axis.
A brief official announcement said
the italian peace delegates had
given their armistice conditions to
the four French representatives at
1880 p. m. Q2:30 p. M. E.S.T.) in a
country place Il miles from the
Italian capital.
Lacks Color
The meeting of the two groups, a
short while after the French arrived
in German planes from Munich,
Lacked the show surrounding the
French-German conferences at Com
piegne forest, France, which ended
in the signing of the French-Ger-
man armistice yesterday.
Fighting will not in France,
however, until six hours after Ger
many has been notified that Italy
and France have reached IN agree
ment.
I'm Bordeaux, temporary French
capital, reliable sources said the
Italian reply might be received dur
ing the night and the fire
order given around dawn Monday
Some political circles sSid that the
Italians failed to inject the drama
and symbolism of the Compiegne
meeting into the Rome deliberations
because the Italians had not been
forced to sign an armistice with the
French in 1918 as did the Germans.
Italy was Frances ally in 1918.
II Duce Not Present
Premier Mussolini was not at the
meeting. His foreign minister and
son-in-law, Count Ciano, headed the
italian group.
During the French stay, the dele
gates will be lodged in three differ
ent villas in the Rome area.
Besides Count Ciano, other Italian
plenipotentaries e
Marshal Pietro Badoglio, chief of
the general staff of the armed
forces.
Admiral Domenico Cavagnarl,
chief of~the staff of the navy.
General Francisco Pricolo, chief
of the air force.
General Mario Roatta, assistant
chief of staff of the army.
The same French delegates who
signed the armistice with Germany
flew to Rome in white-crossed Ger
man airliners.
From Monte Carlo, Monaco, came
reports that Italian big guns a
opened up on French Notifications
from the Alps to the sea Saturday
CONTINUED on Page Ten)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-24
St. Nazaire Is Captured
By Germans; Ships Sunk
Britain Thinks France
Nav Face Harsher Fate

LONDON, June %. - up
British political circles tonight
interpreted the French German
armistice as meaning that if any
French colony, or single unit Of
the French fleet refused to obey
German orders, Germany could
denounce the entire pact.
They cited article "a, which
says:
"The present armistice is valid
until conclusion Of a peace
treaty and can be denounced at
any moment if the French gov
eminent do not fulfill their OBJ
legations"
Observers added that once
France is disarmed, Germany
could impose whatever harsher
terms she wishes, and added that
this was the same technique
Germany used in taking Czecho-
lOVakia,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-24

There was some difficulty with
the telephone connection to Bor-
deaux, temporary capital, as the
French sought to clarity the
situation by a long distance dis
cussiOn with the government,
DNB said.
When the connection SEEM
ingly was established, t h
French crowded nerv0usly
around the instrument.
General Huntziger took the re-
ceiver and spoke earnestly.
DNB said the general sud-
denly appeared ito require sup
port" and Leon Noel, former
ambassador to Poland and an
other of the four plenipotenti-
aries, took the receiver. Then
the connection was lost again.
It was not until General Hunt
Tiger called Friday evening aft
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-24

BERLIN, June %. - up
France had only 40 minutes left
to consider an armistice when
she signed her truce with Ger
MANY, DNB, official German
news agency, reported tonight.
In an account of the historic
negotiations in Compiegne forest,
France, the agency said, COL
Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, chief Of
the German plenipotentiaries,
fixed 1880 p. m. 1880 p. m. E.
S. T.) Saturday as the latest
hour to complete negotiations.
Keitel's written communica-
ton fixing the deadline in an
swer to an earlier French re-
quest for more time to con-
slider the terms was delivered to
General Charles Huntziger', head
Of the French delegation at $50
p. m. yesterday
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-24
FRENCH HOLD LINES
Marshal Petain Replies To
Great Britains' Criticism
OF Peace Terms
ITALIANS ULSED

BORDEAUX, June % -R-
Crushed by a German armistice
and still awaiting Italy's h a r d
terms, France fought tonight to
hold her useless lines of defense
and through her aged premier,
Marshal Petain, hotly replied to
British criticisms of the peace.
The marshal said the French
had received in a "saddened stu
por''B ritish PrimeMi mister Chur-
chilps statements expressing
grief and amazement" at
Frances acceptance of German
terms.
Replies to Churchill
Churchill lis the best judge Of
the interests Of his own country
but mot the best judge of ours"
said Petain.
Churchill, the marshal added,
must learn that France has hus.
banded neither it's blood, nor its
efforts. She knows she merits the
respect of the world and it is
through herself first of all that
France expects to be reborn"
while Marshal Petain was pro-
testing what he termed the lessons
by a foreign statesman, the Brit
ish .t-raa broidodcast a statement
that the British government mo
longer regard the Bordeaux gov.
eminent as the government Of an
independent country.')
In declaring that Churchill is not
the best judge of French interests,
Petain added:
Gwen less can he judge French
honor"
The marshal put this query:
"Does Mr.. Churchill believe that
the French refuse to all of France
the love and faith which they have
given to the smallest parcel OF
their farmland?" He continued:
"They are looking their present
and their future squarely in the
face"
For the present they are GER
tain to show greater grandeur in
avowing their defeat than in op-
posing vain and illusory projects.
For the future they know their
destiny is in their courage and
their perseverance,"
FIGHT CONTINUES
The scattered Frnch military
pass of the Alps to the Medi-
terranean repeated Italian attacks
were repulsed, but from the north,
German armored columns stabbed
nearer and nearer to Bordeaux
refugee-jammed provisional capt.
tai - but there we're indications
that the advance might stop short
of it.
In the temporary quarters Of the
government, word was waited
from the emissaries who bowed
yesterday to Adolf Hitler's yet un-
disclosed terms in Compiegne For
est, then went to Italy to hear
Premier Mussolini's price for
peace.
At 5 P. M. I'll A. NJ, EST the
government had heard no word
from Italy. Some observers have
said the negotiations there might
Continued on Page Ten)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-24
ARMZS77(E TERMS REVEALED.
BRITISH SAY THEY WILL NOT
~W REGIME
Colonies Pledge
Their Support To Britain

colonial empire-.a more robust
spirit prevails"
Pledges Of support from Sy-
ria, French Indo-C China. Morocco.
Senegal, the Cameroons and Ji-
butt were announced.
"His majesty's government"
the statement said, lis prepared
to make financial arrangements
to enable the French colonial
empire to play its part" 1t
added:
"As stated by the prime min
lister, the British aim is the COM
plete restoration of the metro
politan and overseas territory of
France"
British sadness tinged with
bitterness over the fall Of con-
Continued on Page Ten)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-24

Almost Immediately, DNB said.
the French announced they had
reached a decision and the sign
ing took place at $3.50 p. m.
The French requested more
time five hours after the first
talk between the French and
German representatives, which
began Immediately after Hitler's
brief proclamation was read at
the start of the negotiations at
$3.50 p. m. Friday.
German witnesses of the sol
emn act of signing told how the
delegates wrote their names
while standing, the French af-
fixing their signatures first.
As the French left the rail-
road car to start on their aerial
journey to Italy, Vice Admiral
Maurice LIE Luc brushed ner.
vously at tear-stained eyes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-24
Swastika Flown Aboue
Charlotte Building

CHARLOTTE, June 23.-(AP)
A huge swastika or Nazi flag
was noticed flying from a pole
atop the Liberty Life building,
Charlotte's taIlest skyscraper.
early today.
An employe of the building
promptly removed the flag and
turned it over to the Federal Blu
reau of Investigation
Building employees said anyone
during certain hours of the
night could have reached the
roof from within or up a fire
escape.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-24

LONDON, June 23. - up -
The British government an
nounced today it had received
pledges of support from the
French colonial empire, deter
mined to carry on the war
against Germany despite the
armistice signed at Compiegne
forest.
Terms of the armistice, al
though not yet made public, pre-
sumably were studied by the
war cabinet which sat for two
and a half hours in special meet
ing this month.
The British governments for
NAL announcement that the sign
ing of the armistice brings to
an end the organized resistance
of the French forces at home"
declared that in the French
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-24
His Growing Strength Puts
All Other Presidential
Candidates On Alert
THREE-MEN ROW SEEN
Vandenberg Speaks To
Michigan Group As Dele
gates Await Opening
BY RICHARD l.. TURN

PHILADELPHIA, June "a In
The apparently growing strength
# Wendell Willkie put all other
republican presidential candidates
On the alert tonight, while an excit-
ed throng of delegates awaited the
cmvening of the 1910 convention
nmorroW.
Impartial samplers of convention
eve opinion in the city's jam
hacked hotel Hobbies came quick
i to what they considered an in
spapable conclusion, that as of
the moment the battle lay between
WLkie, Senator Robert A. Taft OF
Ohio and Thomas E. Dewey.
A lively watch was maintained
tr any indications of a forming
TA.Dewey combination, intended
ID check the Willkie boom, while
in authoritative sources, it W a S
famed that the Dewey managers
we're working out a new strategy
n the coming battle.
First Ballot Drive
II was simply to concentrate
gerything on the first ballot. This
nyolved making all possible deals
htore the balloting begins, so that
By combining support to be OBJ
timed in this way with the dele
yates pledged to Dewey as the
result of his state primary vic
tries an unexpected and impress
i've showing of strength might be
made, and a possible rolling snow
ball started. Behind such a move
lay the obvious factor that the
pledged delegates might slip away
Oh later ballots.
The Illinois delegation, several
its So members said, probably
v0uld split wide open" after cast
Ing a first ballot for Dewey, who
Won Illinois preference primary.
The primary was advisory, n o t
binding.
Taft headquarters found consid-
sable satisfaction in the fact that
the Is uninstructed delegates from
Texas agreed unanimously to
throw their support on the first
ballot to Taft.
On . the other hand, Governor
Raymond E.. Baldwin, considered
Vumecticut's favorite son, announ-
led that he would second the NOM
nation of Willkie - a move be-
ieVed to assure Willkie the states
Is votes. It was disclosed that
Baldwin probably would not b e
Placed in nomination, as had been
expected.
Claims Support
Willkie, himself, rumpled n d
busy, was spotted shouldering his
way through the throng at the
Senjamin Franklin hotel, and IN
few brief sentences emphaticany
delivered his opinion of the situa-
lion. His drive was coming along
Aagnificently," he said. Then ne
ADDED that he would have support
aom all states except three
mississippi, Louisiana and South
Varolina - and, to cap it, n e
would be nominated damn quick.
However, at a press conference.
0enator Taft said he had talked
With delegates from half the
%sates," and found 1.-The prospect
very encouraging" He had been
Eontinued on Page Ten)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-24
WEATHER

FORECAST II.
snofth Carolina: Partly cloudy, scat
t he9 thundershowers Tuesday and IN
Ne Interior Monday.
.D chronological data for the "a hours
Jung 1870 p. m. Yesterday.
lon Temperature
h CO.. a. m. 70; 7:3O a. m. "a; 1870 p.
him. go p. In. IS; maximum ~;
~iAlum 50; mean 76; normal Is.
lon Humidity
h. az v d: m. "a; 7:3O d. m. IS; 1880 p.
II 1870 p. m. II.
Tot. Precipitation
homo eai Tor "A hours ending 1880 p. M,
hi Total since first of the month.
Tides For Today
Wilm;na High Low
nseon ----------- 12:38a 7:57a
k~asonh- 1:01p 8:16p
'Dooro Inlet ----- 10 :54a 4:48a
Sunrise n:15p 4:56p
tie 1a ~ o;01a; sunset 1912; moon
mp, moonset 9:35a.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-24
France Given
Terms
ForArmistice
Plenipotentiaries OF Two
Nations Begin Parleys In
Villa Near Rome
CIANO HEADS ITALIANS
Fighting Will Not Stsp I'm
till After Nazis Notified
Agreement Reached
END EXPECTED SOON

END EXPECTED SOON
NEW YORK, June 23.-R-Arm-
istice negotiations between Italy and
France are expected to be termi-
mated "some time Monday" a Berlin
broadcast, heard by NBC, said to-
night.
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''ontlnued on Page Ten)
Evening star., 1940-08-30
Winston's Folly Gun Scores
Hits in Cross-ChunneI Duel

be a British bomber lowering over
head.
The second shot seemed to 60
little wild but landed in the center
OF q dump where ammunition for
the big gun was being loaded into
cars. The third shot appeared to
have gone away wide of the mark
and landed in wooded sector some
distance from the coast. That one
may have been the luckiest of the
lot, for what had locke ! like a wood
ed sector suddenly began disgorging
men. They came pouring out like
ants from an anthill. The shell had
discovered a pretty large German
troop concentration which had been
so well camouflaged that the Brit
ish had not been aware of its exist
ence.
The name "Winston's Folly" will
undoubtedly stick to those guns, but
some experts may have changed
their minds about their usefulness.
(Copyright, 1910. by Chicago Daily News,
Inc.)
Evening star., 1940-08-30
Vienna Award
Roughly Bisects
TronsyIvonio
By the Associated Press.


VIENNA, Aug. 30.-Rumania's
new made-in-Vienna border rough
ly cuts Pennsylvania in two, leav-
ing southern and southwestern por-
tions of the province in King Car
OILS domain but restoring to Hun
gary a larger area in the northern
portion and giving back to her a
long stretch of her old pre-war
mountain border in the east.
Specifically, the new border be-
gins at point southwest of Macy
Szalonta (Salonta), runs northeast
to q point about 7 miles southeast
of Oradia Mare (Grosswardein) /,
then in an easterly direction (but
always south of and near the rail-
way from Oradia Mare to Cluj
(Klausenburg) thence south past
Cluj to a point approximately 20
miles northwest of Tirgu- -Muresului
(NeumarkD.
From there the new border runs
to a point southwest of Tirgu-Mu-
resului and then proceeds in q
southeasterly direction but leaves
in Rumanian hands the railway
from Segisvara (Schaessburg) to
Brasov (Kronstadt).
About IA miles northeast Of Bra
soy the line makes an elbow bulg-
ing to the south and then running
eastward to the ridge of the Car
pathians which it then follows in
accordance with the old pre-war
mountain border northward to q
point where it reaches the new
Rumanian- Soviet boundary.
Evening star., 1940-08-30
B U IL etin

NEW YORK, Aug. 30 P.-fn
what Federal prosecutors termed
the most important national de-
fense indictment yet returned, 0
special United States grand jury
today indicted the General Elec-
trio Co. and the Krupp Co. of
Essen, Germany, on charges of
conspiracy to fix prices and re-
strain interstate and foreign COM
merce in hard metal composition
tools and dies.
Named with General Electric
and Krupp were Walter M.
Stearns of Schnectady, manager
of trade relations and special
contracts for General Electric;
the Carboloy Co. of Detroit,
wholly owned subsidiary of Gen.
eral Electric: w. G. Robbins,
president, ana zay Jeffries Of
Cleveland, chairman Of Carboloy.
Evening star., 1940-08-30
81 British Planes
Shot Down Today,
Germans Claim
South England Airdromes
Attacked by Bombers,
DNB Announces
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 30.-DNB, the Of
fetal German news agency, said
Nazi bombing squadrons attacked
airdromes In South England late
today, especially in Hampshire, and
shot down a total of 81 British
planes.
Fifteen German planes were
acknowledged missing.
Violent air battles ensued, DNB
said, in which the German planes
again proved their distinct su-
periority."
Many of the British losses, it was
said, occurred in battles over a
flying field near Aldershot. Ger
man losses were listed as seven
planes.
Great fires left raging in Liver
pool and Birkenhead, on the Mersey
River, Britain's greatest center of
west coast shipping. were reported by
German sources today after night air
attacks directed chiefly at indus
trial plants and ports.
The high command said the fires
there showed the success" of the
night raids after limited reconnais-
sance flights yesterday in which 10
British planes were shot down in air
battles and 7 German planes lost.
Industrial plants at Felixtowe, in
Suffolk County, airplane plants at
Weybridge. southwest of London,
and Langley-South Wells, and port
facilities at Dundee. Leith and Har-
tlepool also were subject to night
attack by fighter planes, the high
command said.
Evening star., 1940-08-30
2U. ). Missionaries
Slain by Italians,
British Charge
Two Others Wounded
As Flyers Disresurded
American Flag. Is Report
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Aug. 30.-A British Of
f1cial, the Governor General OF
Anglo Egyptian Sudan, charged to-
day that an Italian airplane had
machine -gunned and bombed an
isolated station in the British-pro-
tected territory, killing two and
woundipg two other American mis-
sionaries.
The official said the attack was
carried out despite the waving of
an American flag by the mission
aries, but no details were given as
to the height from which the at
tack was delivered.
The Sudan, just south of
Egypt, has been under repeated Ital-
ian attack, particularly on the east
ern frontier near Gallabat, opposite
Ethiopia, and Kassala, opposite
Eritrea.
The governors report said that two
Italian planes attacked Doro, an
isolated station of the Sudan In
terror Mission, in upper Nile Prov
ince, about IS miles southwest Of
Kurkuk, August %. At least 80
bombs were dropped and then the
Italian flyers used their machine
guns, the report said.
OF the staff of five persons, it
said, DR.. and Mrs. Robert Grieve
were killed and Rev. and Mrs. Ken
meth Oglesby were wounded. All
are Americans.
A Miss Walsh, an Australian, was
unhurt.
The Grieves were said to have
run out of the mission station wav-
ing a large American flag, but that
fCaa AETCCrON ADTrC Doro AoN
Evening star., 1940-08-30
Threats by Reich and Italy Force
Carols Acceptance Of U|timatum
Soviets Muneuver,
Awaiting Reply
From Bucharest

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. 30.-The Russian
Navy has begun maneuvers, with
submarine fotillas scouting theoret-
ical enemy bases so as to permit the
surface fleets to take the open sea
for mock battle, Red Fleet, the navy's
organ, announced today. The locale
was not disclosed
The sham battles were announced
as the Red Army also conducted
maneuvers in unspecified western
parts OF Russia.
Despite these military and naval
activities, however, some diplomatic
sources attributed recent events on
the Rumanian border to nervous
ness and expressed the belief the
situation was not grave. 1t was
reported here that four Rumanians
were the only dead from these in
cidents on the frontier in Bucovina.
A mixed commission of six, in
cluding a general, colonel and
Foreign Office representative on
each side, has been named and is
expected to meet soon in Moscow
to start a definite demarkation of
the frontier.
Diplomatic sources said Rumania
gave an order to her frontier guards
to cease firing in order to keep the
peace during territorial negotiations
with her other neighbors.
Nevertheless, the Soviet had
warned Rumania demanded an
early and satisfactory" reply to
two protests.
The Red Army troops trained in
tSee MOSCOW, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1940-08-30
Army and Navy Seek
10000 More Engines,
$4,000 Prope||ers
Great Reurmument
Program Begins to
Gather Momentum
BY FRED H. MoRHART, Jr.,

The War Department revealed to-
day that 10000 additional airplane
engines and $4,000 propellers will be
needed jointly by the Army and Navy
during the 194l and 1912 fiscal years.
Under an agreement with the Navy
Department, it was said, Army Of
f1cials will deal exclusively with the
Wright Aeronautical Corp, and the
Curtiss Propeller Division of the
Curtiss- Wright Corp.
The Navy Department announced
yesterday that United Aircraft Corp.
had agreed to manufacture 1900
Pratt g. Whitney engines for the
Army and Navy at cost of $780,
100000.
War Department officials said to-
day the Army figures do not include
those announced by Secretary of
Navy Knox. The additional produc-
ton figure conservatively is esti-
mated to amount to more than
5000 900 900.
The announcement of the War
and Navy Departments indicates
that the national defense program
now is getting under way on a large
scale. Heretofore, announcements
have been made of contracts for
smaller orders. Recently, it was re-
vealed that two powder factories, a
loading plant and tank plant were
to be constructed and operated by
private concerns for the Govern
ment.
The announcement today, War
Department officials declared, places
the stamp of official approval on the
outcome of negotiations which gave
expression to the spirit of co-opera-
ton which has always existed be-
tween the armed services, and which
has grown steadily closer and more
(See PLANES, Page A-15D
Evening star., 1940-08-30
Ship Passengers Tell
Of Liverpool Bombings
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-The
armed British liner Eastern Prince
arrived Unexpectedly today from
Liverpool with 81 passengers, who
reported that Liverpool was bombed
on three successive nights before
the vessel sailed.
Mrs. Archibald Nelson-Jones, wife
of a Royal Air Force medical officer,
said the docks were not damaged
so far as she could learn and that
the nearest German bombs fell
about half mile from the ship.
With her were her two small sons
whom she is taking to friend in
San Francisco for the duration of
the war. They were among Al chill
dren under Is on the vessel, all of
whom were accompanied by parents
or relatives.
Evening star., 1940-08-30
$4,000 Pay Roll Stolen
In Doylight HoIdup
BY the Associated Press.


TRENTON, N. j., Aug 30.-Ban-
dts in a daring daylight holdup
today at the Crescent Insulated
Wire & Gable Co. plant made of
with bags of cash which police
estimated contained about $4,000.
The money had been delivered by
an armored car crew a few minutes
before the robbers stalked into the
plant, which is in the heart of an
industrial section in the eastern end
of the city.
The Trenton detective bureau re-
ported three bandits entered the
company Office on Olden avenue,
intimidated Miss Viola Elmer, a
telephone operator, with revolyers
and grabbed the cash from Charles
Pearce, who was taking the money
into the cashiers Office to be made
up into the plant pay roll.