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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
GERMANS LET UP
ON LONDON RAIDS
Planes Are Busy During
Day But Do Not Make
Raids During Night

LONDON, Oct. 7.-tMonday)-
R-Unfamiliar quiet cloakee
bomb-scarred London early today
as hour after expectant houl
passed without a sign of the Ger
man bombers which hav assault
ed the city for the past 20 days
and nights.
Daytime raiders Sunday kept uI
a steady relay of attacks, slipping
through clouds which hamperec
the British d~efenses. They dive
bombed and machine-gunned anG
struck at some 20 districts in the
outer ring of London and the south.
east counties.
But after one short "alert" early
Sunday night, the Nazis came nc
more.
Disbelieving Londoners, snuggled
deep in their air shelters, crossed
their fingers and waited.
Anti-aircraft gunners, semi-deaf
from the vigor of their own can
nonading this month past, stood by
their weapons, silent and watchful.
The Sunday daytime alarms
were marked by resumption of
street strafing. One plane spat-
tered machine-gun bullets o e r
three streets in east London.
A dive-bomber killed four wom-
en- and a child at Folkestone.
The overnight layoff came as Of
fetal British surveys of the Battle
of Britain reflected confidence that
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
ABC REFERENDUM
WILL Be ARGUED
Hearing Before Judge Carr
Is Scheduled To Be Held
AT Smithfield Tonight

SMITHFIELD, Oct. 6.-R-The
legality of a liquor referendum, won
BY dry forces in Johnston county.
will be argued in superior court here
tomorrow night before Judge Leo
Carr of Burlington.
The hearing will be on a temper
airy restraining order, signed Sep
TENDER 81 by Judge Henry A. Grady
of New Bern, which prevented the
closing of Johnston liquor stores,
following a referendum which the
drys won by a majority of almost
two to
Johnston was the first county in
North Cardinals recent history
which voted to return to the dry
ranks, following an interval during
which liquor was legally sold in
county-operated ABC stores.
The temporary restraining order
was asked for two reasons: First,
because the referendum allegedly
was called within less than three
years of a previous referendum on
the same question; and, second, be-
cause the referendum allegedly was
held within less than go days of a
general election.
The referendum in which Johnston
went wet was held May 29, 1887. The
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
COLUMBUS COURT
WILL OPEN TODAY
Wade Fake Drowning In
surance Case Tops List
OF so Criminal Actions

WHITEVILLE, Oct. 6.-The Octo-
Der criminal term of Columbus
county superior court will open here
tomorrow morning, with between As
and so cases docketed for trial at
this session.
Judge Luther T. Hamilton, of
Morehead City, will preside.
Topping the list of cases to be
heard this week is the Ward fake
drowning insurance action, in which
four persons are under Indictment
for obtaining money under false pre-
lenses and conspiracy to defraud,
and the case of Charlie Pugh, negro,
charged with criminally assaulting a
67-year-old white woman, Mrs. Polly
Faircloth.
District Solicitor David Sinclair
said tonight that the Pugh case will
probably be called for trial Thursday
morning. He will ask the death
penalty.
In the fraud case, Willie Flowers
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
Water Payment Question
Not Considered By City
Chungking Is Bombed
By Japanese Planes

~CHUNGKING, Oct. 6.-RE
Two waves Of Japanese planes
bombed this capital of the CEN
trail Chinese government today,
wrecking the French consul
ate, damaging the Canadian
hospital and causing heavy
casualties among Chinese gath
cred in a Japanese-designated
safety zone.
Doctors from the hospital,
which is bordered by the safe
ty zone, treated $50 injured
persons from the area within
two hours. Hospital patients
had been moved to dugouts
and none were injured.
Doors and windows of the
hospital were blown in. 1t was
the first japanese raid here in
weeks &C..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
Buck, Who Won First Game
Of Series, Allows But
Three Hits, Walks Two
$3.50 ATTEND GAME
Siuggers Come Through
With 13-Hit Attack On
Four Red Pitchers
BY JUDSON BAILEY

BRIGGS STAIUM Detroit, Oct.
6.-R-Showboat Buck NeWsom
and his sidekick. Hank Greenberg,
routed the Cinsinnati Reds, 8 to Q
today for the Detroit Tigers to
give the American league cham
pions a three games to two ad-
vantage in the 1910 World series.
Newsom, who had beaten the
Reds with eight-hit pitching in the
first game of the series at Cincin-
natl, turned the screws tighter to-
day and allowed only three scat
tered singles. He walked just two
men and altogether faced only 81
hitters.
Great Performance
1t was a truly magnificent pitch
ing performance that included sew
en- strikeouts and five pop fouls.
four of them to the catcher. After
the game was over scores of the
SIS, 189 fans who packed this big
steel and concrete arena C a m e
down onto the diamond just to adj
mire with proper awe the deep
holes that Newsom ground into the
dirt next to the pitching slab.
The lustre of the big right-hand-
er's hurting dimmed the value of
the nerve-shattering 10 : hit bonn
bardment that the Detroit sluggers
loosed on four Cincinnati pitchers.
But in the beginning it was this
fierce assault that wrecked the
Reds.
Gene Thompson, a 23-year-old
right handler, was Manager Bill
McKechnie's starting choice and
from the first few moments of the
game it was evident he wasn't
going to be able to hold the, surg
ing Tigers in check.
He barely escaped scoreless
through the first two innings, al
though giving up four singles and
a walk.
Finally the tide rolled over him
in the third when Barney McCosky
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
FRESH CHAINS
OF BIG FIRES
ARE STARTED
De Gauue Committees
Formed In America,
Nine Other Countries

LONDON, Oct. 6.-R The
headquarters of Gen. Charles DE
Gaulle, leader of the French
forces still fighting with Britain.
announced today national COM
mittees of Frenchmen have been
formed in the United States and
nine other countries ito act i'll
close cooperation with the Free
French forces"
The announcement added that
in 20 other countries where
Frenchmen have offered their
services, Gen. De Gaulle has ap-
pointed representatives who are
forming committees.
The nine countries in addition
to the United States and Britain
are Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay,
Chile, Mexico, Canada, Egypt,
South Africa and Australia, as
well as the British colony of
Mauritius, about 500 miles east
of Madagascar.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
Willkie Asks Observance
Term Day.

of Americans is that of the pro-
posed continuation in the presi-
dency of one man for more than
eight years, in violation Of a sacred
tradition of u history.
mo matter how capable or well
meaning he may be, there is no
indispensable man in a democracy.
When we accept the idea that one
man is indispensable, we take a
long stride away from democracy
directly toward dictatorship in fact
if not in name.
THE danger of continuance in
the great powers of the presidency
beyond the limit of eight years
set by Washington, and reinforced
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
Duce Checks
On Northern
Italy Army
Fascist Press Says Some
thing Big Is Bound To
Come From Parley
BRITISH SUBS SUNK
Ciano's Editor Says Steps
To Block u. S. Interven-
ton May Be Mapped

ROME, Oct. g. R - Premier
Mussolini made a surprise inspec-
ton today of armed forces gather
ed in northern Italy as the fascist
press unanimously predicted that
something big" in Axis military
measures is bound to come from
II Duce's Bremen pass conference
with Adolf Hitler.
Political circles wondered if
Mussolini's sudden checking up on
his military units was not con.
nected with the Bremen pass talks
last Friday.
At the same time the high com.
mand declared two British sub
marines had been sunk, one by an,
other Italian submarine, and one
by some of Italy's torpedo-armec
mosquito boats. Italian aviation
gave Britain's seaside Egyptian
base at Matruh a violent and in
tense bombing the dai1y-eom
munique added, and raided Perrin
Island at the narrowest part of the
southern exit of the Red Sea.
Suggest Steps
Giovanni Ansaldo, editor of For.
eign Minister Count Ciano's news.
paper II TELEGRAPH, further sug.
gested in his Sunday broadcast to
Italian troops that "other diplo-
matte steps" to block any interven-
ton by the United States may be
in preparation.
He said the prospect of UNITED
States intervention, which made
English eyes sparkle, is more than
uncertain, and that is due to the
tri-partite pact signed in Berlin
(by Germany, Italy and JAPAN
Perhaps other diplomatic steps
which may be in preparation have
changed the direction of that part
of American opinion which had
interventionist intentions"
Landing by plane at Piacenza
this morning II Duce first reviewed
the Trieste motorized division
which participated in the fighting
in Little st. Bernard pass with the
French last June.
Upon landing, Mussolini, who was
said to have piloted the plane him.
self, stripped off his aerial over
garments and appeared dressed in
the uniform of a marshal of the
Italian empire.
He was greeted by high military
officials who took him by automo-
bile to the review.
Rushes To Parma
Next he rushed off to Parma,
farther south, to review the Littorio
division of b1ackshirts which be-
came famous in the Spanish Civil
war. If fought at Guadalajara,
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
GDt HUM EN-
GOVERNOR HORNER
OF ILLINOIS, PASSES
Democratic Chief Dies In
Chicago After Illness
OF Two Years

CHICAGO. Oct. 6.-P-Gover-
nor Henry Homer of Illinois died
early today after a two year i'll
ness. He never recovered from a
coma into which he lapsed several
hours before. He was 81.
The tWo-term Democratic gov
ernor died at 2:20 o'clock tCST)
al his temporary residence in SUBJ
urban Winnetka from a heart and
kidney ailment. DR.. Maurice Rupel
said death was caused by cardlo
vascular disease with hyperion
sion and also nephritis.
With the executives death, the
reins Of state government auto
maticalIy went to Lieut.. Gov. John
Stelle, STEELE. a frequent intra-
party political foe Of the governor,
already had assumed executive
duties. having been designated act
ing governor a few hours earlier
when Horner's condition became
critical.
Gov. Horner's body will lie IN
state at 122nd Field Artillery
armOry from noon tomorrow until
Il a. m. (CST) Tuesday,, when a
military funeral will be held. Burr
al will be in Mt. Mayria cemetery
IN suburban Dunning.
H0rner. who was the third de-
nocratic governor Of Illinois since
Inc Civil War and the only native
~ohlcagoan ever elected to the Of
lice, had been seriously i'll with
leart trouble and high blood pres
sure since the November, 1888,
election, He was stricken while
listening to returns.
STEELE, in taking the oath Of Of
nee, became the first lieutenant
governor since 1860 to succeed to
me nigh office because of the death
o. the chief executive.
lhe governors death was an
nounced by his press chief, Milburn
r Akers, who added: "Dr. Rupe]
sad he died peacefully and without
any struggle"
oxygen was administered last
A-ght When Horner's condition be-
came steadily weaker. The ply
Sclan and two nurses were in con.
slant attendance.
9'elIe, who will complies the
llih expiring January l., had
.5ldFged Just before the primary
lection last April that Gov. Hor'
neF was disabled and announced
ut8' ne was assuming the duties
u chief executive. He later drop.
oeu ms claims when administra.
Ion leaders refused to recognize
he move.
Horner, who would have been
continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
METHODICAL ATTACK
Raids Are Carried Out De.
spite Violent Electrical
Storms, Low Clouds
FREIGHT YARDS HIT
British Claim C%ommunica-
tons, Vital Production
Hampered In Germany

LONDON, Oct. 6.-R-Royal Air
force bombers, waging a methodl-
cal campaign of destruction n &c
many, we're reported today to have
lighted new chains of fires in wide
spread night raids, chiefly on the
Krupp munition works at. Essen.
Two tons of high explosives were
dropped on the famous plant, the
air ministry said, while other
heavy calibre bombs dumped on
docks at Flushing, The Neither.
lands, last night started a train of
explosions which Taste dten min
utes and fires which were visible
far away at sea.
Other fires set at Amsterdam
could be seen twenty miles off.
Weather Bad
The raids were carried out, the
ministry said, in spite of extreme
ly bad weather-severe icing on
ditions, violent electrical storms
and low clouds which necessitated
''blind'' flying through a great part
of the operations.
That these recurring blows fit
into an Raj master plan" for a
sweeping air offensive from the
Baltic to Germany's Swiss frontier
and eastward past Berlin was dis
closed in an air ministry statement
reporting attacks thus far on more
than 300 Nazi military targets.
Obliteration of Germ n industry
was indicated as the BIRTHS hgoal
in a statement by LORI Croft, I'M
dersecretary for war, which spoke
of a British counter offensive ON
the European continent latter the
Raj has wiped out Germany's air
force and rae dali her factories
to the ground"
Freight Yards Hit
Named in today's communique
as targets, besides the Krupp
works, were an oil plant at Gelsen-
kirchen, freight yards at Hamm,
Osnabruck and Cologne; shipping
at Rotterdam, shipping and ware
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
IMM0DEST DRESS
RAPED BY POPE
Piux XII Asks Italian Girls
To Keep Their Faces
Free Oh 'Art1ices'

VATICAN CITY, Oct. {. -R-
Pope Plus XII urged $4,000 Italian
girls gathered in a Vatican City
courtyard today to fight the Elm
modesty'' of present day fashion, lik-
ening young women who risk their
chastity" by bowling down to the
tyranny of style" to insane persons
who unwittingly throw themselves
into fires and rivers.
He urged them to keep their faces
free of "artifices," and quoting from
First Corinthians, chapter II, verses
IS and Is, he said hair was given to
women for a veil.
The pontiff delivered his 20-min-
ute discourse from the portable
throne in Saint Damaso's courtyard
on the occasion of the twentieth an
niversary of the founding of the as
pirants section of Italian Catholic
Action. Those who heard him were
Continued on Page Three)
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Croft Predicts British
Will Take War To Nazis

LONDON, Oct. 6.-R-Brig.
Gen. Baron Henry Page Croft, un-
dersecretary for war, predicted to-
Gay that Britain's armies will
counterattack and drive the Nazis
back into Germany after the Raj
has wiped out their air force and
leveled their var factories.
Lord Croft declared in a letter
that the Royal Air force had
stemned what might have been
a devastating air attack and then
with supreme tactical skill and
extraordinary individual gallant
ry" taken the offensive "wher-
and in whatever numbers the
enemy appeared"
He said he could recall mo story
in military history where, day aft
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
F. D. R. WILL SIGN
PROFITS TAX BILL
Action Is Expected To Be
Taken By The Nations
Chief Executive Today

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Oct. 6.-R
An excess profits tax bill, in.
tended to prevent the amassing OF
fortunes from war materials con
tracts, probably will be signed to-
by President Roosevelt.
The measure, which will raise
of millions of dollars fof
the defense program and ease the
burden Of amortizins the costs OF
expanding industries to produce
equipment, a approved by
congress last week.
Since then, it has m a d e tbs
rounds of the interested govern.
ment departments and arrived
Washington today. Mr.. Roose-
welt began studying it upon return
Continued on Page Three)
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er day, a small force has inflicted
such a series of defeats on a SUI
perior enemy"
IF 1 were a betting man." he
said, II would gamble on a far
greater casualty list among them
(Germany's forces in invasion
ports'') than anything we h a
suffered from the indiscriminate
attacks on Great Britain"
He added that it lis highly prob
able that far more German fac
tory workers have lost their lives
than the total losses inflicted on
u civilians from air attack"
British official reports listed near
ly $4,000 civilian casualties-killed
Continued on Page Three) j.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
WADE PRAISES PUBLIC
Ten More Wells Are Made
Available t.. Public; Salt
Content Remains Same

Whether or not Wilmington resi-
dents will lhave to pay for the water
that is too salty for them to drink
is a question which the board of
city commissioners will decide if
and when the matter arises, James
E. L. Wade, city commissioner of
public works, said last night.
1.-THE question has not been given
any consideration because it hasn't
been raised so far" he said.
He stated that the amount of
water consumed for drinking pur-
poses only is practically niI' as
compared to the whole consumption.
For the amount that is not con-
sumed by drinking II don't know
how we would figure it if there was
no CHARGE" he said.
Praises Public
Commissioner Wade praised the
cooperation Of the public in the
water crisis and expressed the belief
that there will be an alienation of
the condition within a short time.
Ten additional private wells were
made available to the public for
drinking water yesterday and it ap-
peared that the present supply will
meet the demands of the residents
unless conditions get worse.
M'Kean Maffitt, superintendent of
the city water department, said last
night that the salt content in the
city water was abou the same as
Saturday.
There does not appear any pos
sibility of using the water for some
time yet, he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07

The declaration was tempered at
once by other German sources more
sensitive about predictions of landing
in England. They said:
"Sure our soldiers are ready to go
they are not walking around IN
bathing suits - but that does not
necessarily mean they r headed
for invasion of England.
"The soldier-reporter who had been
in France and Belgium just reported
over the radio what he saw and ex-
pressed his own private opinion"
With the "day shift" of bomber,
fighter and observation planes taking
off to continue the "pauseless at
tacks" on London, returning air
Continued on Page Threel
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
JEH0VAH'S GROUP
FREED UNDER BOND
Ten Witnesses Scheduled
To Be Tried In Duplin
Court This Morning

WALLACE, Oct. 6.-Ten members
of Jehovah's Witnesses, a religious
sect which sprang into national
prominence recently when follow
ers refused to salute the United
States flag as being against their
principles, were released under 5000
bond each here today following their
arrest Saturday on a charge of vlo-
lating a town ordinance against the
sale of literature.
Mayor Aubrey C. Harrell said to-
night that the members-five men
Duplin county recorders court to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
Nazis Hint OF Impending
Land Drive On ENGLAND

BERLIN, Oct. 6.-LR-While Ger
D0il conjecture as to the next turn
tue war centered tonight on the
%oaaeast of a hint of impending land
@Sioh OF England, Nazi airmen re-
a3''ea Tightening of the month-old
Vet,
5.n Sloft"ave broadcast early to-
S ny a German soldier-reporter
w., point to the popular Nazi song,
ri re Sailing Against England"
N4.h these words:
A. may be that these gallant men
Hns DIR 1orce) who now fill the head
ron. Oh newspapers may soon be
of lived by hundreds of thousands
in laEe German soldiers who are
u'hess and hngAips for action"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
BY WILLIAM B. ARDERY

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.-REWen-
dell l.. Willkie asked American
citizens tonight to join him in the
observance of a mo third term
day. on Oct. %.
The republican presidential
nominee said in a statement that
he made the suggestion in response
to a telegram from more than
so prominent Americans, demo-
Gratis as well as republicans"
I'm the last few weeks" Will
kie's statement said. Il have trav-
eled from coast to coast discussing
with many millions of our people
the issues confronting us in these
grave hours. 1 have found that one
of the issues which stirs millions
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
WEATHER
BY u. s. Weather Bureau

FORECAST
North Carolina: Fair and mild Mon
dav. showers in west portion Monday
night and in east portion TUESDAY
cooler Tuesday.
BY q. 8. Weather Bureau
meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. m. yesterday.
Temperature
1:3O a. m. 60; 7:30 a. m. So; 1:30 p
M. n: 1880 p. m. 81; maximum IS;
SIS; mean 66; normal 68.
Humidity
1870 a. m. 90; 7:30 a. m. 30; 1:30 p.
m. sc; 1880 p. m. 80.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p. M,
none: total since first of the month,
Tides For Today
High Low
Wilmington --------- 2:03a 9:21a
2:40p 9:57p
Masonboro Inlet --- ~ 6:0Sa
Sunrise ella; sunset 5:4Sp; moon
rise - :31p; moonset II lip.
Cape Fear river stage at Fay
etteville, at 8 a. M, October 5, 8.8
feet.
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
War
Interpretive
BY EDWARD e. BOMAR

Secretary Knox's blunt warning
that the United States vas not to
be intimidated by the new Axis al
lance reflected strong sentiment in
the navy, whatever the broad pur-
pose of his fortnight boast of Ameri-
can seapower.
There seems little doubt that a
large proportion of the admirals
favors measures to restrain Japan,
junior member of the totalitarian
combination.
Less than six months ago, Rear
Admiral Joseph K. Tausslg express
Continued on Page Ten; Col. s.
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Continued on Page Three
LOANS TO SOUTH
AMERICA STUDIED
Money Would Be Used To
Help Countries Build Up
Their Military Forces

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-R-The
possibility of huge loans to South
American countries-perhaps a bill
lion dollars in ALTO help them
build up their military forces for
joint defense of the Western hemi-
sphere was reported today to be
Continued on Page ThreeJ
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-07
TRAINING RESTRICTED

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-R-The
civil aeronautics administration an
nounced tonight that for military
reasons and for safety it had re-
stricted civilian pilot training in
struction from 46 of the nations
bus It airports.
The Phoenix index., 1940-06-22
Legro Volunteers Rejected By U.S.. Army
Army Rejects
Negro Recruits

out the nation in the drive for
$1,000.
Weekly papers throughout this
area are filled with stories telling
of the rejection of applications of
colored men who wish to serve
their country. Various excuses are
given each man who makes appli-
cation, the one used most being,
write to West Point" and every
one here knows that West Point de-
tachment of troops (Negro) is very
small.
In the mean time it was learned,
authoritatively, that the 269th In
fanny regiment, National guard,
would be used by the state Of New
York as one of the two regiments
fitted by training, for an anti-air-
craft unit. The remarkable score
made by this Unit in shooting prac-
tice gained for them this post in
case of war.
Rumors have reached the street
corners, saying that the command
ers of various regiments in New
York City, have told their men
that if they did not want to go to
war they had better resign at once.
To the credit of the colored regi-
ment not one resignation has been
turned in to date.
The Phoenix index., 1940-06-22
Couple Stealing
Train Ride Costs
Wife Both Legs

LOS ANGELES-Mrs Ruby Ak
ems, comely visitor here from Dali
las, Texas, who set out by auto
mobile with her husband from
their Texas home bound for Cali
fornia in full vigor of health, this
week lay in the General hospital,
a mangled, helpless wreck of her
former self. Sine suffered the loss
of both legs and badly mangled
left arm, last week when she fell
beneath the wheels of Southern
Pacific lines freight train, while
attempting to alight as it neared
this city
The injured woman and her hus-
band l.. c. Akens, after becoming
stranded and forced to part with
ther automobile, continued their
Journey by riding freight trains in
an illegal manner They had just
finished the last hop of their
journey, which was to nave
brought them new opportunities for
a healthy normal livelihood here IN
the land of sunshine and flowers,
when the tragic accident overlook
them