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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
Hitler, Molotoff Begin
Conferences In Berlin
Turkey Awaits Result
Of German-Red Talks

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Nov. IL.
- up -Outwardly not excited,
Turkey awaited tonight the re-
suit of the German-Russian dis
qussions in Berlin, believing they
held the key to the future of the
Balkans and Near East.
Comment of the newspapers
and the official wireless was re-
strained.
The Istanbul newspaper Ikdam
observed:
Germany and Italy did not
consult Russia over Rumania
and Greece, but will consult Rus
STA before violating Bulgaria or
Yugoslavia in order to crush
Greece. Because these two Slav
states are in part under Russian
Influence, the Axis feels the nee
essity of consulting Moscow.
"To Greece Molotoff's the Rus
sian premier-foreign minister)
visit is an event of extreme i'm
portance. Let's hope that the de-
cision taken in Berlin will not
launch the Balkans into war.
Germany wishes to establish a
European peace front including
the USSR and directed against
Britain and the United States"
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CONTINUE
|RAIDS ON BRITAIN
Attacks Since Beginning OF
Siege Have Counted 49,
900 Dead, Wounded

LONDON, Nov. 13.-(Wednes-
~day)-R-Raiding planes still beat
early today at London and other
areas of Britain-which already
has counted over IS, 900 dead and
wounded since the beginning of the
aerial siege-but here in the me
tropolis the attack slackened
somewhat after midnight.
The blast Of a single bomb, fall
ing in front Of a row of houses.
three and wounded eight
passengers in a trolley bus.
During the evening the raiders,
roaring through a high wind over
the Dover Strait and the channel,
had appeared to be attacking SIM
ultaneously from different points.
Although only occasional gunfire
and bomb blasts were heard in
London as the morning progressed,
a number of houses were reported
demolished in Liverpool.
Despite the danger of bombs,
rescue workers struggled through
piles of brick, trying to save an
undetermined number of shopgirls
trapped in a building hit by three
bombs early last night. They had
hope of finding them alive.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
SLOT MACHINES
ORDER IS SIGNED
Show Cause Ac-
ton Brought Against Po-
lice And Sheriff Jones

An order Diminishing the "show
cause" action against law enforce
ment officers of Wilmington and
New Hanover county for the release
of a number of slot machines seized
in raids here was signed by Judge
I. M. Meekins in Elizabeth City yes
terday.
Emmett H. Bellamy, attorney for
Fred Morris, Of Richmond, Va, who
claims the ownership Of the ma
chimes, said last night that Judge
Meekins signed the order dismissing
the action brought in federal court
at his request.
Judge Meekins said that the par.
ties to the action will 'settle their
differences in the state jurisdiction"
Bellamy said that action will
probably be taken up in the state
courts" but added that arrange
ments for the case have not been
made as yet.
Approximately $50 slot machines
are involved. The machines are now
Continued on Page Five; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
Greeks Think
Danger Of Big
Drive Is Over
Troops Reported Pressing
Retreating Italians Back
Toward Albania
STALEMATE EXPECTED
British Bombers Range
Over Albania And Attack
Vital Fascist Bases

ATHENS, Nov. 12.-R-Greeks
expressed belief that immediate
danger Of a big italian drive was
over today as their troops report
ed pressing retreating Fascists
back toward Albania, where Greek
and British planes pounded inva-
sion bases.
Except for n shallow salient
in Greece, the invaders were said
to have been driven into Albania
on the whole central front. In the
north, the Italians made what were
described as reconnaissance raids
against Greek positions around
Koritza, ten miles inside Albania,
but these we're reported sharply
repulsed. On the west, they were
said to be digging in.
Fierce Attack
(In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, how
ever, it was reported two fierce
Italian infantry attacks had driven
the Greeks from their heights dom
mating Koritza and forced them
back to their side of the frontier.)
Military experts said Greek pos
session Of Albanian mountains in
the Koritza region materially aid
ed defense of this country, since
the Italians must fight through diff
ficult mountain passes and, they
said, are certain to suffer heavy
losses even before reaching the
main Greek defense line.
These experts said the Italians
apparently were not prepared in
men or equipment to make such
an attack and were not likely to
muster any great strength in the
future.
Stalemate Expected
With the frontline fighting al
ready impeded by ain and snow.
some observers predicted that the
fighting might settle into a stale
mate such as persisted last winter
on the French-German front.
British and Greek forces, it is
pointed out, are harassing shipping
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
|JAYCEES APPOINT
PETITION WORKERS
Organization Takes An
other Step In Drive For
City Manager System

A committee to circulate a pc.
tition among the voters of Viii
mington calling for the institution
of a council-manager form of gov
eminent in the city was appointed
at a meeting of the Junior Cham
Der of Commerce in the Tide Wa
ter Assembly hall last night.
Members of the committee are,
Tom Lawther, chairman, j h n
Sheehan, James King and Jimmy
Craig.
A finance committee, composed
Of John Schiller, Eldridge Fergus
and Robert Montgomery, was also
named to make arrangements for
financing the campaign to secure
a council-manager form of gov.
eminent.
The petition committee will cir
culate the petition among the vot-
ers in an effort to secure the sig
natures of Is per cent of the voters
registered at the last city cleo
ton. All members of the Jaycees
were given petitions last night.
The petitions are to be returned
to the campaign headquarters at
1873 Princess street Friday night,
at which time plans will be made
for a house-to-house canvass if the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
hShipSaves


LONDON, Nov. 12.-R-The
armed British merchant cruiser
Jervis Bay, hopelessly outgunned
and out-armored, was declared to-
night to have saved three-fourths
of a British convoy of SO ships
by holding off a powerful 0 1000
ton German pocket battleship in a
2-hour mid-Atlantic battle which
permitted the other vessels to flee
under smoke screen.
The Jervis Bay, fighting on after
she had been hit and set afire,
went to the bottom-an 18-year-old
converted Australian freighter of
$4,000 tons ending a sea career
began in the obscurity of the mer-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
TALKS NOT DISCLOSED
News Service Says Atten-
ton Fixed Upon Inter-
Continental Peace System
BY LOUIS p.

BERLIN, Nov. 12.-R-In a
"strictly business" atmosphere,
Adolf Hitler and Soviet Premier
Vyacheslaff Molotoff sat down to-
day to talks which may prove por-
tentous for the entire world.
Out of them, some informed Ma
zis believed, the Soviet Union may
emerge as a partner of Germany.
Italy and Japan in their shaping
of a new world order" But au
thorized sources made it clear that
nothing official could be expected
on the trend of the conversations
for the time being.
Look Toward Peace
The closely-connected Dienst aus
Deutschland News Service, how
ever, offered one comment, say
ing that while the Axis continues
its war against England, "atten-
ton is fixed tirelessly upon rear
ing foundations of an inter-con-
tinental system of peace"
The meeting was the first be,
tween Hitler and Molotoff, neither
of whom speaks the other's Ian
guage, and they conversed with
the help of an interpreter for more
than two and a half hours in the
fuehrer's imposing chancellery.
With them were German For
eign Minister Joachim Won Rib
bentrop and Russian Foreign Vice
Commissar V. G. DekIaozoff.
The sun had gone down on
blacked-out Berlin before Molotoff,
Joseph Stalin's closest collabora-
tor, was escorted out of the great
bronze doors of the chancellery by
Won Ribbentrop and driven back
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
WOrkO Beach
Hall To Start Nov. Is

With about IS per cent of the
work of installing a sanitary sewer
age system completed, plans have
been made to start work on erect
ing a new city hall and auditorium
for Carolina Beach on November
%, Mayor r. c. Fergus said last
night.
Mayor Fergus said that they
hope to have the sewerage system,
which will cost $4,000, complete
and with all connections made by
June 1, 1941.
The project was set up for 10
months, although it is expected
that it will take longer.
The new city hall and auditorium,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
TRIBUTE IS PAID
TO CHAMBERLAIN
Churchill Statutes Predeces-
sor And Says Britain Will
Surely Win War

LONDON, Nov. 12.-R-Prime
Minister Winston Churchill saluted
his predecessor, the dead Neville
Chamberlain, today and told the
world that Britain surely would
win the war despite the long and
hazardous years that are ahead
Chamberlain himself, Churchill
said in a moving address to COM
mons, had died Saturday, with
the comfort of knowing that his
country had at last turned the
corner" his M grief being that
he could not be a spectator Of our
victory"
The Prime Minister, recalling
that he himself once was a critic
of Chamberlain, remarked:
The fierce and bitter c~ontrover-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
BODY OF UPSHAW
Y0UNCSTER FOUND
Discovered Near North
Georgia Home; No Evil
dence OF Foul PLAY

CARTERSVILLE. Ca, Nov. IL
-R-Missing for nearly foul
days, two-year-old Murray Up
shaw, Jr., was found dead today
in the rugged mountains wood
lands a mile and a half from his
North Georgia home.
Lying face downward under q
pine tree, the sandy-haired child's
body was found by one of hundreds
of searchers who had combed the
countryside steadily since the boy
disappeared with his dog, "Nick-
ie," last Friday at noon.
A coroner's jury late today re-
turned a verdict that the child
died from exhaustion and expo.
sure seventy hours, more or less,
before he was found" The jurors
added they found mo evidence OF
foul play"
Discovery of the body followed
shortly the resumption of an or
ganized search which was sus-
overnight after the boys
pet terrier was found, dry and
clean despite weekend rains. Re-
turn of the dog in such condition
led Sheriff George Gaddis to be-
a kidnapping may have &C.
Cured.
The boys father, Murray Up
shaw, ST., a prosperous farmer
out by no means wealthy, was
upset greatly by the news. The
mother, extremely nervous, said
at least I am glad to know what
happened"
Slight scratches appeared on the
arms and legs and his nose
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
TRIAL OF M0BLEY.
OTHERS IS BEGUN
Witnesses Testify Against
Women In Alleged Dis
orderly House Case

Trial Of three white women, Indie
Mobley, charged with maintaining a
common nuisance by operating a
house at which white women and
negro men were allowed to congre-
gate for immoral purposes, Rittie
Mobley and Maude Taylor, charged
with vagrancy, will be resumed at
$3.50 o'clock this morning in New
Hanover superior court.
The cases, ordered tried together
by consent, began at 4:45 o'clock
yesterday afternoon before Judge
Clawson L. Williams, of Sanford,
who is presiding over the November
criminal term of court here.
After the presentation of testimony
by three states witnesses, Officer L.
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
INVESTIGATION
OF
BEGUN BY FBI
Two Men Killed And.
Two Hurt When Crane
Crashes In Shipyard

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. H.
@-A huge shipbuilding crane
at the Western Pipe and Steel
company plant capsized today,
killing two men and injuring two
others.
Bartholomew Zoliezzi, 48, who
just had attached a deck plate to
the crane cable, was crushed as
the ponderous crane lurched
away from the side of a ship be-
ing built at the South San Fran
cisco yard.
Raymond Schaffer, 81, a crane
operator, died in a hospital.
The accident was reported to
the federal bureau of i~nvestiga-
ton. FBI officials had nothing
to say.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13

chant service-but this was the
result of her sacrifice as M
nounced tonight by the admiralty:
Twenty-Five of the convoy known
Of a certainty to have escaped;
"a Of them already safe in port:
nine %unreported and perhaps lost.
The German story had been that
the entire convoy was destroyed,
and German sources had put its
aggregate tonnage at some sc, 000.
The British gave no tonnage fig
rueS.
OF the 20 vessels declared to
have been saved without question,
Continued on Page Five; Col, g
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
Falling Temperatures
sveeu Wide Areas Already
Damaged By High Winds
BRIGHTER FOUNDERS
Coast Guard Seeks To
Reach Several Craft
Stranded On Lake
nv The Associated Press)

Boat disasters on gale-tossed Lake
Michigan last night added steadily
n tbe toll of the seasons first heavy
storms. while falling temperatures
harassed wide areas which already
had been damaged by high winds
and Billiards.
Known deaths attributed to the
storns increased to at least Is.
One freighter floundered in Lake
Michigan and another was believed
10 have gone down, possibly adding
10 more to the mounting death list.
Winds Will Diminish
The Chicago weather bureau said
The winds, which were making lake
rescue work difficult, would grad
uany diminish tomorrow but that no
immediate relief from the abnor-
nally low temperatures of the mid
die west was in sight.
Six of eight bodies washed ashore
lat Ludington, Mich, were identified
as members of the crew Of the 1900
ton freighter William B. Davock,
which carried a crew Of 80 men.
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
War
Interpretive
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Because Of a virtual stalemate
on the military fronts, the Hitler
Molotoff conversations in Berlin
attracted the virtually undivided
attention of the world-perhaps
more attention than the outcome
will justify. ..5..
At the moment there was no.
thing of great military conse.
quence going on elsewhere to di-
vert interest from the Berlin focal
point. Yet if that new bit of Russo
German horse trading does, not
produce new military factors high
ly favorable to the Rome-Berlin
Axis its importance can be dis
counted.
The pessimistic tone of both
English and Turkish comment On
the Berlin conversations is under
standable. It springs from Brit
aims unhappy experience with
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ton Junior Chamber of Commerce,
the Wilmington Post No. 10,
American Legion, and other inter
ested organizations in the COM
munity to participate in the in
spection tour. All interested per-
sons are, also invited.
Harry Gardner, county commits
sioner, said the purpose of the trip
was to determine the ACCESSIBILITY
of whether to hold an election or
to ''piddle along as we are now"
During a lengthy discussion of
the airport project, Commissioner
Gardner said it was to the inter-
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13

which will be located just south OF
the anchorage basin at the beach,
will cost $45, 900 to build and fully
equip.
Major Fergus said three or four
private buildings are now under
construction and that work of re-
building the Bame hotel, which
was destroyed by fire which swept
the business district several weeks
ago, will be started in about 80
days.
He said that all buildings should
be complete and ready for the
beach season by June 1.
Continued on Page Five; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
county Board Will Make
Tour Of Airport Today

M. county commissioners yes
~ decided to make a tour of
S " of progress being made
us h. Improvement project at
is ttllhal airport at 3 o'clock
We nIes Hewlett, chairman, said
ese p.an to go out, look into the
View s'atus of the project, with
don' VI determining what might
sre 10 speed up the work
e rsouaty board decided to in
nit representatives. of the airport
y Of the Wilmington In
commission. the Whining
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13

HONOLULU, Nov. 12.- THE
draft lottery to decide the order of
service for men in the Hawaiian
islands registered under the selective
service draft began today in Iolani
Palace under the direction of Gov.
j. B. Poindexter. The drawing,
similar to that conducted in Wash
ington last month, was expected to
require about 20 hours.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
MAKING EXPLOSIVES
All Plants Located In The
Important Northeastern
Industrial Section
MAGE EXTENSIVE
Dies Group Member Says
Blasts To Continue I'm.
less u. S. Gets Hard
(By The Associated Press

Three plants manufacturing ex.
plosives-one working on defense
contracts-were struck by DEATH
dealing blasts within so minutes
yesterday, leaving a toll Of IA dead
and at least Is injured.
All three plants were in the inn
portant industrial area. although
in widely-separated sections of
western and eastern Pennsylvania
and the New York harbor shore
side of New Jersey.
The federal bureau of investiga.
ton quickly swung into action, an.
nouncing that operatives already
were investigating the blasts which
took three mems lives at the Tro-
jan Powder company plant near
Allentown, Pa. The concern has
army and navy contracts totalling
at least $202, $50.
In addition, the FBI said, OBJ
servers" were sent to the plants
of the Burton Powder Works Of
the American Cyanamid Corpora
ton at Edinburg, Pa, near where
three men were killed, and of the
United Railway and Signal Cor
poration at Woodbridge, N. j..
where eight died and at least Is
were hurt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
state SOCIALISM
SEEN BY FRANKLIN
Columnist And
Lecturer Opens The Com
munity Forum Here

Whether wisely or not, the Unit
led States is heading toward some
form Of state socialism.
This is the opinion of Jay Frank
ln, newspaper columnist, cores
and lecturer, who opened
fhe Community Forum course al
Inc High school auditorium before
"a large audience last night.
Mr.. Franklin spoke on the sub
'ecl or as he termed it, hung his
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13

FORECAST

FORECAST
,o nIlln Carolina: Partly cloudy and
WV, oter preceded by showers in south
,srt poftlon Wednesday; Thursday
1o,t as cloudy, colder east and central
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13
EIGHT KILLED

WOODBRIDGE, N. j., Nov. 70.
-R-A mysterious, d~eafening
blast shattered fourteen buildings
in and adjoining the United Rail-
way Signal company plant today.
killing eight persons and breaking
windows II miles away in Bay
onne.
Continued on Page Two; Col g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-13

NJ 'by Q. S. Weather Bureau)
sn neurological data for the "a hours
Jung '3o P. m. Yesterday.
,.,o Temperature
m 's sS. a, m; 6s; 7:3o a. m. SO; 1870 p.
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''D'D'ufl 66; mean IS; normal 81.
lon Humidity
h., ~ \ a 5., m 80; 7:3o a, m. 80; 1:30 p.
To.., Precipitation
DR a. ino ior "a hours ending 7::30 p. NJ,
Month ~'1es; total since first Of the
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Evening star., 1940-04-24

Navy Yard, Mr.. Clark related, and
while in his teens enlisted in the
Marine Band.
He blew with vigor," Mr.. Clark
stated; "and the neighbors COM
planned that he was depreciating
real estate"
Mr.. Clark told of Sousa's meet
ing with his future wife in Phila-
delphia in 1879. "She was quite
the loveliest little girl I had ever
seen," he quoted the musician as
saying.
Then 16 years old, she married
Sousa the following year, Mr.. Clark
said.
Signed Up for War.
Mr.. Clark spoke of Sousa's rise to
fame, his triumphal tours of Europe
and most OF the world. During the
World War, he said, the musician
served with the Navy and did "yeo-
man" service, particularly in the
drives for the Liberty loan.
Sousa lived in the Southeast Sec
tion OF Washington until his resigna-
tion from the Marine Band in
1892, MIR. Clark said. Then he lived
in New York City.
His death in 1882 occasioned these
words by Capt. Taylor Branson, the
present leader of the band: "The
March King is dead"
Members of the society were en-
tertained with songs by the quar-
tet of st. Paul's Church, Rock Greek
Parish.
Evening star., 1940-04-24
Sousa Lacked Great
Promise, Historical
Society Is Told
Life Of March King
Sketehed by Clark
At Meeting

John Philip Sousa's first musical
efforts were anything but indicative
OF his future greatness, Allen G.
Clark, president, told the Colum-
bia Historical Society last night at a
meeting in the Mayf1ower Hotel.
Mr.. Clark, who related high lights
and anecdotes from the life of the
famous bandmaster and composer,
mentioned an occasion when the
youthful Sousa was called upon to
entertain inmates of the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane.
John Philip, Mr.. Clark relates,
was dragged from the pitchers
mound during a baseball game in
Southeast Washington. He didn't
want to play at the hospital and
offered the excuse that he had no
clean shirt. His father, however,
made him wear one of his shirts,
with a collar many times too large.
The boy had not finished the in
PRODUCTION to his violin solo when
the collar button came unfastened
and the collar began to climb up
the back of his head. Sousa forgot
his notes and began to improvise.
His accompanist became confused
and angry. Finally, the combina-
ton of circumstances proved too
much, and young Sousa fled from the
platform in utter dismay.
Enlisted in His Teens.
Much of Mr.. Clark's talk was de-
voted to the story of Sousa's boy
hood. He was born in Washington's
Southeast Italian colony near the
Evening star., 1940-04-24
Dr.. Libbey to Lecture

DR.. Frederick j. Libbey, founder
and executive secretary of the Ma
tional Council for Prevention of
War, will give public lecture un-
der the auspices of the Keep Amer
lea Out of War Club of George
Washington University Friday at
$3.50 pm. in Building D of the uni
versity, Twentieth and G streets
NV. DR.. Libbey's address will be
on Shall We Try to Stop the War
in Europe?"
Evening star., 1940-04-24

Baby clothing and bedding Is
being rationad in Germany.
Evening star., 1940-04-24

Smooth Belaire cloth, i'm
peccably tailored with patch
pockets on the "outer shirt"
(don't tuck it IND. The yoke
Observation-Disclosures
for saddle-stitchingD. Blue,
tan, luggage, sea-green. Sizes
u to 18-S10.95.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-27
THE CALL OF THE SHOFAR
Bv RABBI p. ZISSMAN
Of St. Augustine, Florida

ing had a grand parent who was
Jewish. This frightful injustice
has been the cause of many of us
Jews losing hope in the future of
civilization.
Yet, as we gather in the syna-
gogues, to pray once again for
peace and justice among all man.
kind, the call of the Shofar will
pierce the air in cry for unity
and preparedness against the on
slaught Of Hitlerism. We must all
unite in our strength to fight this
worst of all history's tyrants.
When we hear the Shofar's call
we shall also hear the pitiful cries
of thousands of our Jewish breth-
rem who are wandering through
out the world, deprived of food
and lodging.
Even Palestine, our Jewish
homeland, created as a haven for
our prosecuted brethren, is threat
ened by a new enemy, Mussolini,
who is following in the steps of
the Nazi monster. But Jews who
followed closely the history of
our people will not despair in the
face of the terrible calamities
which have fallen upon us and
which seem about to envelope us
now.
These Jews find comfort in the
strength of our synagogues and
in the realization that God has
never failed to deliver the children