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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
JAP, .INDO China
BREAK THREATENS
Unexplained De m a n d S
Threaten To Upset Ne
gotiations Under Way

HANOI, French 1ndo-China, Sept.
19.-R-New and unexplained de-
mands threatened tonight to upset
the negotiations between the gov
eminent of French Indo-China and
the Japanese who have sought the
right to move troops and supplies
through the colony to facilitate their
war against China.
The French government issued a
statement saying:
Negotiations between the French
authorities and the Japanese mis-
sion have reached a delicate state.
the Japanese having presented new
demands which do not seem COM
patible with instructions from the
French government and which devi-
ate from previous agreements, but
the negotiations are continuing"
The statement offered no expla-
nation of the new demands, but in
formed sources declared the Japa-
nese suddenly had shifted the en-
phasis in the negotiations from their
desire to move troops and supplies
through the colony to a request for
bases which could have little con-
nection with the Japanese army's
China campaign.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
WILL SPEED DEFENSE
Provisions Add
81 Per Cent To Corpora
tons Tax Rate

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. In
A bill levying an excess profits
tax on corporations and making
revenue law revisions designed to
speed the defense program was
approved by the senate today, 46
to %, after the legislators had
added an amendment calling for
huge increases in taxation if the
United States goes to war.
The measure now will 60 to a
joint conference committee to rec
oncile wide difference between the
peace time provisions of the SEN
ate bill would add a flat 81 per
cent to the normal income tax rate
of all corporations. For example,
corporations earning more than
$25, 900 would be increased from
the present 20.9 per cent to "a per
cent. The bill also would impose
a tax of from Is to so per cent on
profits defined as excess under a
formula provided in the bill. The
house bill did not contain the in
crease in. the normal corporation
tax rate.
Limitations Suspended
Both house and senate adopted
provisions suspending existing pro-
fit limitations on government con-
tracts for construction of warships
and airplanes and permitting cor
'norations to charge off against,
earnings over a five-year period
the cost of defense manufacturing
facilities completed subsequent to
Jan. 1, 1910.
Just before passing the bill the
chamber adopted an amendment
by Senator Connally O-Tex) to
set up a schedule of income tax
rates, effective in time of wal only,
ranging up to 80 per cent on high
est-bracket taxpayers. The normal
tax for individuals in time of war
would be fixed at 10 per t
against the present 4 per cent?
and that of corporations at 35 per
cent.
CORPORATIONS would be required
to pay a war tax of up to 60 per
cent on profits in excess OF 3 per
cent. There would be a specific
exemption of $4,000.
Under the peace-time S S
prots levy a corporation would de-
termine the amount to be taxed as
excess profits in one OF two ways. 1t
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
WARSHIPS
BATTLE ITALIANS
Seeks To Harrass Italy's
Force Advancing Along
Egyptian-Libyan Coast

ALEXANDRIA. Egypt. Sept. -.
-R-Britain's battle fleet has
gone into violent action to demon
strate its mastery of the Mediter:
ranean and to harass Italy's ad.
vancing expeditionary force along
the 35O-mile Egyptian-Libyan coast
line. -.
All along the coast, the British
say, the bombardment caused a
heavy damage to the. inading. col
umns.
The fleets might guns burst
against Italian land positions night
before last after it had made a
three weeks sweep of the Medi-
terranean and Eagean seas.
'This new sweep. Of the. Mediter-
ranan and this blasting of enemy
concentrations ashore is new proof
of our mastery of the sea and OF
air." said an officer. aboard one OF
the warships.
"In the entire $500 mile trip n
Italian warship appeared and the
fleet frequently. vas Swallowed by
enemy planes, they made no at
tempt to bomb us. Destroyers mad
an attack on two submarines with
depth charges Huge patches OF
oil appeared on the surface OF the
sea after both attacks"
From Sidi Barrani to Salum-
in Egypt-the fire of the fleet'had
raked Italian troop concentrations
and newly established supply bas'
es.
The shelling came Within 10
hours after the Italians had dug
in at Sidi Barrani. The British
maintained that it took the Ital-
ians by surprise and caused wide
spread damage to the bases they
had prepared for an intensl1lca-
ton of his drive into Egypt.
The fleet also heavily shelled the
Libyan port of Bengasi, 300 mlle2
west of Salum, simultaneously with
a British air bombardment. z
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
|. 7. DAVIS HERO
OF BEACH'S FIRE
Volunteer Fireman Risks
His Life To Turn Off
Streaming Fire Hydrant
BY GLADYS BEST TRIP

Hero Of yesterday mornings fire
that wreaked $1,000 900 damages to
Carolina Beach's business district
and midway was L. T. (Leaky) Da-
Wis, volunteer fireman at the beach,
who spectacularly risked his life to
turn off a streaming fire hydrant.
The flames of the original fire
spread so quickly that the fire hose
connected to the hydrant was burned
through before the firemen could
disconnect it.
With the water supply diminish
ing rapidly every minute, the gush-
ing hydrant was wasting valuable
fighting power.
Just as Davis, an employe of
Ethyl-Dow Chemical compan y,
reached the hydrant to turn it off,
the top of an electric power pole
above his head fell directly toward
him. Retreating quickly at the
shouted warnings of onlookers, he
was saved by a shorter pole catch
ing the wires.
Undaunted, Davis went back into
the smoke and flames, and almost
five minutes elapsed while he stood
with flames burning near his ell
bows and boiling water from the
cutters running near his feet before
he could successfully turn off the
hydrant.
The old AKIN of "water, water ev-
erywhere but not a drop to drink
or put out a fire was strikingly
true early yesterday when the Caro-
lima Beach and Wilmington firemen
battle the blaze with a scarce water
supply and only a few yards distant
was the entire Atlantic ocean,.
The SO, 000-gallon water tank at
Carolina Beach could not provide
enough water to halt the gigantic
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. -B
Tentative plans for calling $1,000
more national guardsmen to active
duty in November we're announced
today by Secretary Stimson, while
airmail planes rushed master cop
les of civilian draft registration
forms to central points in each
state.
The new militia orders would
bring the total Of guardsmen mus
tered into active service to l33,O0O
and would principally affect the
seth cavalry brigade (Texas), the
31st division (Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi and louisiana. the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

35th division (Nebra5ka, Kansas
and Missouri and the 36th division
(Texas.)
The plan calls for mobilizing l.
377 officers and men from the seth
cavalry on Nov. 10, at Fort Bliss,
Tex, and the remainder on Nov.
Is, at Camp B%landing, FL, Camp
Robinson, Ark, and Brentwood,
Tex. No additional guardsmen are
to be called until after. Jan. l.
The CONSUMPTION forms were for
warded to be printed by the mil
lions locally, and we're the first OF
"a cards, questionnair' :, placards,
and booklets, which will be sent
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
:WILLKIE PRESENTS
FOUR PLAN
COP Candidate Says Will
Turn America From "A
Totalitarian System

EOS ANGELES, Sept. 19.-R-
Proposing the formation of a spec
ial tax commission, Wendell L..
Willkie outlined tonight this four
point program which he said would
turn the. United States away from
"a totalitarian system"
1.-THE rules under which bust
ness is conducted must be clear
and must be stable.
"2-Government policies affect
ing business should be consistent.
GO Government competition
with business must be kept within
well-defined limits. 1t must n o t
stop the flow g capital into new
productive enterprise.
"4-Business must be given a
chance to make a profit"
In a speech prepared for delivery
in the Memorial Coliseum, Willkie
ministration had set up a tax struc-
ministration had set up a tax sturc-
ture that is 'unscientific, repres-
sive, and loaded with punitive mea-
sures."
eff elected" Mr.. Willkie said,
II propose the immediate estab-
lishment of a special commission
to study the whole tax question.
Such a commission must be COM
posed of government officials,
members of both houses of con-
gress, business men, representa-
tives of labor and tax experts.
LIT should study the needs OF
the federal, state, and local gov
ernments. The effects of taxation
upon the individual and upon the
nation must be analysed together
with the cost and completely OF
administering various types OF tax
es.
Toward the end of his address,
the republican presidential nomi-
nee said he claimed to understand
some of labor's problems because
he had been a business man by
training.
Labor is entitled to the pro-
lection of progressive labor legls-
lation," Willkie declared, "such as
the wage and hours law and the
national industrial labor relations
act"
Willkie, who received a noisy re-
ception on his arrival here his
afternoon, declared that labor laws
"must be administered in the IN
terest of the whole nation"
"Their purpose is to reduce m
dustrial strife, not foment it," ne
continued, adding:
1.-THE proper function of our gov
eminent is to police the activities
of its people so that they 40 not
injure each other or encroach upon
each others rights. It is in this
spirit that government snould
stand with relation to workers ana
employers, not as opponents OF
either party, but as a friend 10
both"
The candidate said that labor
along with business and govern
ment, must remember that we IN
America r young.
Unlimited capacity for growth
lies ahead of u.s." he added. -. .
we are not old enough to have an
indispensable manor an lndlspen-
sable law-or an indispensable
theory Of economics !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Excess Profits Tax Bill
Passed By Senate, 1917
Aliens In Canal Zone
Will Be Discharged

BALBOA, Canal Zone, Sept.
49, Up The United States
army announced tonight that
230 European-born aliens en-
ployed in the Canal zone will
be discharged tomorrow.
The order climaxed weeks Of
exhaustive investigation.
On Monday, a group Of 1874
aliens found to be residing il
legally in the Canal zone were
sent to Ellis Island, in New
York harbor, aboard an army
transport.
Officials declined to give de-
tailed reasons for the dis
charges but said they were
Sin the national interest"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Planes Start
Great Fires
At LIE Havre
Also Attack Other SPRING
bosrds For Nazis Gather
ing Along The Channel
LONDON HIT AGAIN
Barrage OF Anti-Aircraft
Fire Around City Slows
German Planes Pace

LONDON, Sept. 19.-R-A mer-
,less 5-hour attack by the Royal
!r Force against the invasion
rrt' of LIE Havre on the German
tsld French coast was disclosed
tonight by the British air ministry.
Nethodically raiding the spring
hsrds for Adolf Hitler's gathering
frces all along the channel and
North Sea coasts, the Raj was
declared authoritatively to have
made LIE Havre their main target
last night and early today, I'm
bsding vast quantities of high ex-
rlosives and incendiary bombs in
he face of binding anti-aircraft
lire and murky weather.
Concentrations Moved
lie Havre is one of the French
channel ports farthest from Great
Britain, about 100 miles from Sou
Hampton. However, it is known
that German barge and troop ship
~uucentratoins have shifted in the
last few days; scattered by nasty
gales and by British bombs.
As one stick of heavy bombs
hHted onto the docks there came
he white flash of a terrific ex-
%gAsion," the air ministry news
arvice reported tonight. 1T SEEM
ed to come from a ship moored
aongside or from a large warship
On the quayside.
"A great fire could be seen by
bomber crews so miles away.
At II p. m. fires were raging in
many parts of the harbor and a
large ship alongside the quay was
cunning %fiercely.
"A 1000 ton ship about a mile
north Of Honfleur-some Z miles
nom LIE Havre-also was well
sight."
The RATS heaviest b O m b e r S
we're sent against LIE Havre, in
relay after relay.
Other ports were raided from
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Crowd
Bids Goodbye
ToCuardsmen
Campbell, Dosher, Korne-
gay And Col. Ochs Speak
AT City Hall Ceremonies
PARADE HELD
Campbell TerE1s Event One
Of Great Importance In
Lives OF Local People

With its. FAREWELL program
tuned to the strains of martial
music ard with banners flying,
Wilmington's populace turned out
at the city hall yesterday afternoon
to wish the city's National Guards
men "Godspeed" on the v of
their departure to the u. S. Army
camps for a years active train
ing.
A crowd of 5000 or more ga
thered in the street in front of the
city hall for the "goodby and good
luck'' ceremonies and as ri a n y
more lined the streets of the city
to throw confetti and cheer the
civilian-soldiers in their parade.
Sounds Keynote
The keynote of the ceremonies
staged on the steps of the city
hall was sounded in an address
by City Attorney William B. Camp
bell, who concluded his charge to
the guardsmen with the remark:
ITO YOU families al ed ones
we express Jul appreciation of
their sacrifices. and to you-God-
speed"
Others who spoke along the same
lines were W. R. Dosher, postmas-
ter and commander of tn Ameri-
can Legion post; c. =. Kornegay,
president of the Central L a b o r
Union; Lieut.. Col. William Van
Dyke Ochs, commandant of the
New Hanover ROTC unit.
James e. L. Wade, city COM
missioner of public works, presid-
ed as master of ceremonies.
Terming the event as one of
great importance and signifi-
canoe and which affects the
lives and well being of the people
of Wilmington and New Hanover
county," MI. Campbell pointed out
that Wilmington has a greater
number of organized units and the
greater number of individual
members of the National Guard
than any other city in North Caro-
lima.
This splendid position attained
by our people illustrates that we
have, through all the years of the
history of our nation, retained in
our hearts and lives the finest ira
dition of patriotism, Americanism
and the determination to protect
and preserve Jul democracy and
the rights of a free pec.,le. To
this continuity and to these loyal
evidences of the best in us, re,
today, to this personel, pay our
sincere tribute.
Recalls Lincoln
elm this upset world it is by ex-
employing these qualities and ex-
ercising this determination that we
have from you men the assurance
that this nation. under God, shall
not perish from the earth" as the
immortal Lincoln said more than
rs years ago.
1--WE have the greatest pride in
you, our worthy representatives,
who by your temporary departure
and the example of your lives and
service, will write on this page of
current history the answer to the
continued preservation Of a free
land, and the answe VIII will be
the ultimate elimination from the
earth of the authoritarian states
and the old-world practices which
have enslaved in servitude our
brethren of the world, and the
Continue: on Page five)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
BEACH BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEETS
Starts Adoption Of Ordinances To Regulate
Future Construction In Order To
Make It Fire Resistant
OFFICERS ARE SILENT ON PROBE
Policeman Mosley, Who Discovered $1,000.
600 Conflagration Early Yesterday
Morning, Is Severely Burned

Carolina Beach yesterday looked over the ashes of what
was once it's main business district and midway, and inns
mediately started planning to rebuild a bigger and better
resort to replace that part which was leveled by fire early
yesterday morning.
Tentatively the loss was set at between $780, 600 and
$1,000, 1000.
Last night, while an investigation was under way to
determine the cause of the fire, Mayor R.. C. Fergus called
the beach board Of aldermen into session for the start of
adoption of ordinances that will regulate future building at
the resort.
Residents Attend
A majority of the residents-many already making
plans to rebuild in the near future-attended the session to
voice their approval of ordinances that will make future
buildings as fre-resistant as possible and erected in a more
orderly fashion.
But while the citizens of the town squared their Shout
ders for the tremendous rebuilding job-a job that may
total So, 100000 before it is all over-officers who are prob
ing the cause of the fire withheld comment until their in
vestigation has gone further.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

{ Headquarters for the po-
lice and fire departments and
the city hall were set up last
night in one of the Three Hill
cottages on the highway lead
ing into the beach resort.
Firemen Bruised
A close check of any ru-
mored casualties during the
fire was made yesterday and
outside of minor burns and
bruises-suffered mainly by
firemen from the Carolina
Beach volunteer department.
and Wilmington-no serious
injuries were reported.
Police Officer Mosley, who
discovered the fire in the
Carolina Club pavilion about
1870 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, received severe burns
about the hands, face and
neck.
Mayor Fergus said last
night that the board of al
dermen will meet this morn
ing to go over the property
record books and try and fix
a definite figure of the loss.
He said that he didn't be-
lieve $50 per cent of the prop
erty was insured"
Residents said little Of the
property was insured because
the insurance rate there was
SO per $500 valuation.
Mayor Fergus termed the
area near the boardwalk as
nothing more than "fire
traps" and declared that the
town officials will seek to
regulate the type of buildings
in that area in the future.
Fire Sweeps South
The fire, discovered in the north
east corner of the dance pavilion
which was unoccupied at the time,
swept southwark destroying every
thing in it's path from Hamlet and
Harnett streets and from Carolina
avenue and the ocean
In little more than two hours the
entire area of the amusement Sec
ton was nothing more than a mass
of smouldering embers.
Firemen from the beach and Will
mington were hampered in their
work by a lack Of water, caused
when the current was cut off, thus
making it impossible for the town
pumps to operate.
Among the building destroyed were
the Carolina cafe, the ABC store, the
Palais Royal hotel and restaurant,
the Carolina Beach theatre, the A
and P Tea company store, the pavil-
ion where the blaze started, the town
hall, Jim Walsh's Bingo stand, Plum
mer's Grocery store and home,
Seay's souvenir stand, Sam Wight'a
shooting gallery, Peay's cafe, Peay's
barber shop, the Coastal Grill, the
Ocean Front grill, Bingo stand and
bowling alleys, the Penny Arts build
(Contins on Page Fiye)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Ribbentrop And II Duce
Talk Joint Axis Plans

ROME, Sept. 49, Up German
Foreign Minister Joachim Won Rib
bentrop came to Rome today on an
armored train equipped with anti
aircraft guns and conferred for
two hours with Premier Mussolini
on joint axis plans to defeat Brit
ain and rule Europe.
Spain's cooperation" in win
ming the war, with Gibraltar as
her reward, was widely discussed
here as a likely subject between
the two leaders.
From Mussolini's side the future
of Greece and Turkey-last hold
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
Planes Rush Master Copies Of Draft
Registration Forms To Every State

out. The total printing bill, it is es-
timated, will run to 81, 500, 900.
Army officials computed tn a t
they would need 80, 600, 900 registra-
ton cards, a. 900, 900 registration
certificates and "a, 900, 900 question
naires. No explanation va given
as to the size of these figures when
compared with the 16, 500, 900 who
are to be registered.
At the White House, the day pro-
duced the appointment of a COM
mittee to cooperate with the ma
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
GERMANY REVIEWS
ENGLISH THREAT
Declares Axis Assembling
Full Powers For Last
Round Against Britain

ohRLlN, Sept. 10. - Up - The
journalistic voice of official Ger
4alg threatened England and her
,i''llans today with a whole cata-
''sue OF terror and declared that, in
'olhe Conference, the axis was as
s'A'0llng its full power for the last
'Vuna battle against Britain"
ie press, in which there ap-
'0teo hlnts that the war might go
"a through the winter, opened up
H. angry Chorus against British
syi'0lng attacks in Germany, and
~ NaA high command officially
tn vused British pilots of having
'4iFa nine children and wounded II
Noltlhued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

outs against axis domination in
southeastern Europe-also were be-
lieved brought up
In the war to the finish against
Britain, Virginia Gayda, authorita-
tive Fascist editor, declared other
European nations. particularly
friendly ones," are involved mot
as spectators alone"
This was considered a reference
to Spain, and there have been un-
confirmed rumors of axis attempts
to persuade Spain to at least per-
nit troop passage for a land at
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
QUEsTIONNAIREs MAILED

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 49,
Up Col. William Halloran of the
First military area headquarters said
today missionaries had been mailed
to about $500 reserve officers in
and North Carolina to de-
termine how many were available
for active service at the present
time. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20
WEATHER

yo,n FORECAST
dsv %ua Carolina: Generally fair Fri
N'' and Saturday.
sadingy e9 7.ong data for the "a hours
LOU p. m. yesterday.
La Temperature
3; 20 q; IN. 50; 7:30 a. IN. 81; 1870 p. m.
MIN co 60 p. m. 73; maximum 81; mini
mean p; normal u.
In Humidity
Il; Ia III. %: 7:30 a. m. 30; 1870 p. m.
TOt., Precipitation
bone t aor "A hours ending 7:30 D.. M,
Liz ipc Fbuaal since first Of the month,
Tides For Today
Nilnip sron High Low
Aasonboro p :O7p 1852
inlet --- 9:37a 3:37a
se st :ass S:59s; sunset e:12p; moon
up moonset 9:25a.
%ettevjI1. Fear river stage at Fay.
s3 feet al q a. M, September Is,
ued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-20

yo,. FORECAST
iay s sna carolina: Generally fair Fri
Evening star., 1940-01-13

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-Scandina-
Wan loans scored fresh advances on
the bond market today.
Support rushed to the fighting
Firms by many European nations
was apparently behind the persistent
demand for obligations of the Baltic
states brokers said. With the Firms
holding their own agains Russia,
they explained, danger of moves
against Norway and Sweden were
lessened.
Near the close of the short session
gains ranged to a point for such
issues as Norway As and 4l2s and
Denmark IS.
Rail liens were the main target
for sellers in the corporate list,
although light ammunition was used
A few usually neglected carriers,
including Chesapeake & Ohio first
As, Richmond & Allegheny Division,
dropped sharply, but most down.
ward revisions were minor, They
included:
Observation-Disclosures 5s of 80,
Southern Railway As, Southern Pa
ciflc AIS of '68, Baltimore & Ohio
Convertible 412s, Bethlehem Steel
3s4s, American Telephone GAS of Sc
and Erie SIS of rs.
The market SHE'D away from
United States Governments, leaving
a few issues at slight declines.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Paper Mills Seeking
To Sell Securities

By the Associated Press.
Tennessee Valley Paper Mills, Inc,
Knoxville, Tenn, filed a registra-
ton statement with the Securities
and Exchange Commission yester-
day covering s2,392 500 of per cent
debentures and common stock of no
par value.
The statement set out that the
securities were to be sold in units
each comprising one share of COM
mon stock and one 500 debenture.
The company said that it had ap-
piled for a loan of S3f20,000 from
the Reconstruction Finance Corp
and that it had been given definite
indication" that the loan would be
granted when the rest of the fnanc-
ing was assured.
The company expects to build a
mill near Savannah, Ga, to pro-
duce newsprint paper from me-
chanical pulp and sulfide pulp, both
to be obtained from Southern pine
wood.
Officers of the corporation were
listed as Gordon Browning. Hunting
ton. Tenn, president; r. NJ. Daven-
port, Washington. D. c., vice presi-
dent, and S. w. Duggan, Knoxville,
secretary-treasurer.