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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
CHURCHILL RALLIES
BESlECED BRITISH
Prime Minister Urges Ma.
ton To Maintain Close
Watch For Invasion

LONDON, Sept. IT, Up Prime
Minister Churchill rallied the be
sieged British today to constant vigil
ance against a German invasion
which he said would come at what
Adolf Hitler judges "his best oppor
t%unity," in the wake Of bombing
which killed or founded 10000 in the
first Is days of September.
Britain thus far suffered at least
10000 dead and wounded since the
Germans hurled their first huge
aerial assault upon London in early
August.
But with his solemn report of Brit
ish dead and wounded, the prime
minister offered assurance that Brit
ain had done serious injury to Ger
many's invasion ships and barges
and, meanwhile, "our own strength
develops steadily by land, by sea.
and, above all, in the air."
Churchill told the house of com.
mons 1000 civilians were killed and
about 5000 wounded in the first fort.
night of September, during the great
est aerial fighting in history over
and around London.
In contrast, Churchill said military
casualties during that period amount.
ed to only $50 in all the fighting
forces.
On Sept. 5, when German bor1bers
had forced commons to delay it's ses-
sion for As minutes, the prime min
lister put British casualties in Aug
ust at LOIS dead and slightly more
than that total injured.
Nazi filters again interrupted to-
days sitting of parliament. The
members left when an air raid alarm
was given, but reconvened before
the all clear was sounded. When
Churchill finished, secret debate was
held.
At the end of the closed session,
the commons speaker authorized an
announcement that the house had
decided to meet in future at regular
intervals "but that the dates and
times should not be specified"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
RECRUITS DRILL HERE
Dates Set For Wilmington
Batteries And Companies
To Leave For Camps

Travel orders for all North Caro-
lima National Guard units we're is
sued yesterday from the Fourth
corps area headquarters, in Allan
ia. according to an Associated
Press dispatch received last night
from Raleigh.
The orders, subject to. change,
call for the first units to move to
camp Friday and for all to be
transferred by September %.
Batteries Leave Monday
Wilmington's Battery A of the
252nd Coast Artillery is scheduled
to leave Monday morning for Fort
Screven, Ca, and will report there
Monday night. Headquarters Bat.
tery of the Artillery regiment will
also leave Monday for Fort Moul-
trie, s. C. The first battalion Of
the regiment will 60 to Fort Sore
ven. 81,
Company l, 120th Infantry, will
leave on Sunday morning for Camp
jackson. -u
Wilmington's unit of the lO5th
medical regiment, under the com.
mand Of Major R. B, Rodman' will
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
GermanyC laimsLondon
AirportsD amagedBadl

BERLIN, Sept. 18.-Wednesday
Seven of the ten remaining us
able airports of London have been
damaged extensively by German
bombs within the past "a hours,
authorized German sources declar-
ed today.
Some of these landing fields, they
said, probably will be out of ser
vice for some time.
Other reports released here de-
scribed what the Germans S a Id
was the growing confusion in Lon
don under day and night air bonn
bardment.
The Berlin press speculated as
to whether the British population
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
ALL DRAFT STEPS
TO Be PUBLICIZED
F. r. Scheduled To Sign
Order Creating Body To
Administer The New Act

WASHINGTON, Sept. II. ~
Seletive service officials outlined
today a 'fishbowl" publicity policy
by which, they said, they would
keep every man of draft age, his
family and friends fully informed
of each step taken in selecting
men for compulsory military serv-
ice.
President Roosevelt is expected,
soon after his return tomorrow
afternoon from Speaker Bank
heads funeral in Ala, to sign an
executive order creating a national
organization to administer the con-
scription act and prescribing gen
eral rules for it. Mr.. Roosevelt yes
terday fixed Oct. 16 as the draft
registration date.
The army and navy selective
service committee has been work
ing out such an organization and
a set Of regulations since 1926. 1t
is expected to form the profession
Continued on Page Two; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
BOMBED AGAIN
.Nazis Return In Abating
Weather To Maintain
Death PATROL
FIRES EXTlNGUlSHED
Rough Channel Protects
England From Any Inn
mediate Invasion

LONDON, Sept. Wednes-
day)-CR-A bowling 100-mile-an-
hour hurricane Joined forces with
British fighters high above the
rolling Kentish countryside last
night to dispense waves Of more
than 200 German w~arplanes, but
Nazi bombers returned in abating
weather early today to maintain
their death patrol over London's
rooftops.
At least IL of the Germans were
shot down and three British planes
were lost, the air ministry an
nounced.
West End Hit
Incendiary and high explosive
bombs showered down on the West
End district which had been hit in
Tuesday afternoons raids, and on
East London.
Casualties we're reported in the
West End.
Two department stores. hit by
both types of bombs, suffered Sc
we're damage. The furniture de-
partment of one store was hit di-
rectly.
Casualties were reported at the
other, where several hundred per-
sons were crowded into a shelter
at the rear of the store.
Glass from the windows was
scattered five blocks away, the
burglar alarms were set shrilling,
and wax dummies sprawled amid
the debris.
Casualties also were reported
when a bomb dropped near a no.
tel.
The raiders returned to several
of the same targets they had
bombed during the day.
Fires Extinguished
A number of fires from the
"Molotoff breadbaskets" were
quickly attacked and subdued by
firemen and householders.
The Germans seemed to be using
a silet, gliding strategy in this,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
ITALIANS ADVANCE
DEEP INTO EGYPT
Troops Reach Beginning Oh
Asphalt Reading Leading
Toward Suez Canal

CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 17.-tR-Ita-
liam motorized troops fought their
way tonight beyond Sill Barrani.
almost 60 miles inside Egypt from
Libya, reaching the beginning Of
an asphalt road leading $50 miles
eastward to the Suez Canal, vital
link of Britain's empire lifeline.
British tank units retired before
the Italian coastal sweep after in
flicting heavy casualties, British
headquarters announced. No major
battle yet has been fought, o
have the main British troops col
lided with the b~lackshirts, it was
said.
Marshal Rodolfo Grazian1's
troops employed two tank columns
supported by a strong rearguard
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
Orders For N. c.
National Guard Issued
H. S. King Is Elected
Mayor Of Greensboro

GREENSBORO, Sept. 17.-@
Huger S. King, attorney and
member of the city council
since last May, today was
unanimously elected mayor to
succeed Ralph L. Lewis, who
resigned to enter active duties
as a major in the 252nd Coast
Artillery.
Kemp c. Clendenin, realtor,
was named councilman to fill
the vacancy left by Mr.. Lewis.
Mr.. King, a native of South
Carolina, has been practicing
law here since 1928.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
GUARD FAREWELL
PROGRAM MAPPED
Review And Program Will
Be Staged Here Thursday
Afternoon At O'Clock

Tentative plans for a review and
farewell program for Wilmington's
national guard units, to be held
Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock,
were announced yesterday by
Mayor Thomas E. Cooper.
The review will be in front OF
the city hall from a stand to be
erected there. Addison Hewlett,
chairman of the county board, and
Mayor Cooper will act as masters
of ceremonies.
The parade will form in Market
street headed at Sixth street facing
west and in addition to National
Guard units will contain the New
Hanover High school Junior ROTC
unit and band and members of the
Wilmington Post No. 10, American
Legion.
The parade will move west on
Market street to Third street and
north on Third to the City Hall,
where the foot soldiers and march
ers will form in front of the hall and
the rolling equipment will form east
of Third street from Chestnut street
as far north as needed.
Citizens will assemble on Third
street at Princess at points conven-
lent to the city hall, and after the
placement of troops and organiza-
lions at the foot of the steps Of the
city hall, citizens will be allowed to
close in behind the soldiers in order
to get near the platform and speak
DR.. A. D. P. Gilmour, pastor of
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18

Here Greatest
In Ten Years
New Residential Construc-
ton OF Past Year Is VAL
ued At $l,479,214
RANKS SECOND IN N. c.
Volume Of Building For T.
O44 Persons 1912 Times
Greater Than In 1898

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 17.-Wil-
mington home building last year
reached the highest volume and
value levels in ten years, c. j.
Ryan, vice president Of Investors
syndicate, revealed here today. A
rise in per-person new housing cost
last year did not slacken the pace
of Wilmington's residential con-
~struction, which volume in 1899,
was ten and a half times that OF
1898 and ten times that of 1880.
wilmington" said Mr.. Ryan,
in commenting on home building
in six North Carolina cities, PRO
vided new homes in 1889 for 2,044
people, a rise of 1,843 or 943 per
cent, over 1888, when new homes
were built for 1856 persons. Last
year new housing was provided
for 1886 more persons 1927 per
cent? than the FOB total in 1880.
Population in Wilmington, &C
cording to preliminary figures OF
the Bureau of Census for 1910,
Appropriated 80, $3.50, a rise of TO,
or % per cent over the final
population figure for 1880 of 3d.
270. From 1881 to 1889, inclusive,
homes put up in your city fur
nished new housing for 2,704 peo-
pie.
Second In State
"Our company's housing survey
of 80 cities shows last years,
home building volume in Whining
ton ranked second highest in North
Carolina"
The Investors Syndicate survey
shows new homes put up in Will
mington in 1889 represented 75.6
per cent of total residential con-
struction for the nine-year period.
Volume peak of 2,044 came in 1899,
while the low was in 1885, when on
ly "a people were furnished with
new homes.
Value Up 1 1885, 64
Houses built in Wilmington last
year were valued at 81, 479 PA, a
rise of ST, 389, 564, or 1900 per cent
above the 1888 level of $50, $50.
New home expenditures in 1889,
were 81, 306, 614, or 757 per cent,
higher than the 1880 total of $172,-
600. From 1881 to 1899, inclusive,
such valuations aggregated 81, $685.
258. Peak of new home values in
Wilmington, 81, 479, 214, was Great
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
Southeastern N. c.. E
Projects Receive Funds

to build 1T miles of line to serve
418 members in Brunswick, Column
bus, Bladen and Robson counties.
In the first project, the borrower
previously has been allotted $780,
600 to build 507 miles OF line to
serve 1883 members and $18,5O
to finance house wiring and plumb
ing installations.
The Brunswick corporation pre-
viously has been allotted $266, OOO
to build 313 miles of line to serve
$50 members in Brunswick, Column
bus and Bladen counties and $l5.-
600 to finance house wiring and
installation. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18

Allotments totaling $252,000 for
two rural identification projects in
Southeastern North Carolina were
announced yesterday by Harry
Slattery, administrator of rural
identification, in Washington.
The two projects are:
Four-County Electric Mem
bership corporation of Burgaw,
SAB, 600 to build 179 miles of lines
to serve 595 members in Sampson,
Duplin, Bladen and Fender coun-
ties.
Brunswick Electric Membership
corporation. OF Shallotte, $109.0 0O
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
Sinclair And
Judge Lennon
Order Action
Machines Are Sealed; No
Arrests Made Pending
Further Investigation
FOUND IN REHOUS
Inventory Will Be Compiled
Bv Officers And Submit
ted To The Court

The city police and sheriff's de-
mrtment yesterday afternoon con-
sscated ara sealed a total Of 153
,1egedly illegal pinball and Slot
machines stored at various places
in the city and county, acting IN
mders issued by District Solicitor
David Sinclair and Judge Alton A.
Lennon.
Owners of the machines were
not disclosed yesterday as no ar
rests were made pending further
Investigation and further orders of
the court.
Some, however, police said, were
known to belong to the Vending
Machine company, of Fayetteville,
and others to the Capital Amuse-
nent company, a Wilmington con-
cern.
Found in Warehouses
Sixty-six machines were found in
the Ftrar Transfer and Storage
Warehouse at 1921 South F o n I
street; two in a building at Is Mar
kt street; 70 in the P. and F. Mo-
Tor Express warehouse just outside
the city limits on the Carolina
Beach road; and IS machines were
blnd in a building at 321 Castle
street.
The orders were issued yesterday
afternoon by Sinclair and Lennon
direct to Captain c. H. Casteen,
assistant police chief, and Sheriff
c. David Jones.
In the orders, Sinclair directed
that these places, along with any
others where the officers had in
formation machines were stored,
be raided and the devices sealed
and confiscated.
The raids were effected at about
so'clock in the afternoon.
Casteen and Jones, following the
raids, will compile lists of the de-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
Fair Enough
By PEGLER

,.a "" YORK, Sept. 17.-As I look
NJ 'iiiS Presidential election is one
N. l0se crossroads Of destiny that
s,,,, .0feoonists draw, with George
oi.t. i' tne average American, de-
on,ss. DIS a puzzled little guy with
h, oh marks shooting out Of his
only this time 1 think we
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18

could tolerate the conditions of aer-
ial siege.
There were many hints that ths
Germans we're watching closely for
signs of governmental and social
collapse in England under the stea-
dy blows of the German air force.
How long?" asked Adolf Hitler's
Volkischer Beobachter.
Churchill is prepared to keep
his word-to convert London into
a heap of wreckage. The question
arises whether the English people
will, or how long they will, follow
Churchill along this course"
Meagre press comment on Prime
| (Continued on Pare Tv0s Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
)G SUCCS HELD
IN AUTO DEATHS
toroner's Jury Probes Ac-
eldent That Took Lives OF
Marlowe And Rogers

SOUTHPORT, Sept. ia cor
Saers jury conducting an inques
l'o Inc automobile accident death
" beftram Marloew and Albert
myers Of Southport, last Saturday
nsnE, recommended tonight that
ave suggs, negro, be held TO r
S S.sao Jury Investigation under a
r.iu OF $40, 600, Coroner John G..
ealson reported.
"afioWe and Rogers died from
oOu'nued on Page Two: Col, q
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
JAP FRENCH ROW
NEARS SHOWDOWN
japanese Ships En- Route
To French Indo-C China To
Remove Nationals

HANOI, French Indo-C China, Sept.
17.-R-The crisis between Japan
and French Indo-C China headed
swiftly toward a possible explosive
showdown tonight and japanese
ships were en- route to take out
their nationals if necessary.
Japanese Consul-G General Rokuro
Suzuki ordered his people in Indo-
China to prepare to leave if i'm
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina: Generally lalr
Wednesday and Thursday.
meteorological data for the "A hours
ending 1880 p. m. yesterday.
, Temperature
1:30, a. m. II; 1880 a. m. 60; 1:So ?.
m. IS; 7:3O p. m. Is; maximum 80
Humidity
1880 a.. m. SO; 1880 a. m. 81; l:5o p.
m. Is; 1870 p. m. "a:
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7:3O ?. n,
o.00 inches: total since first OF tne
month, 1.19 inches. ..
Tides For Today
High Low
"iinAio II :06p 6:08p
Masonboro Inlet ----- S:2Sa IA
Sunrise 5:57a; sunset 6:15p; moon
rise 7:23p; moonset 7:3Sa.
Cape Fear river stage at Fay
etteyille, ut 8 q. m, September IT,
0.S feet.
nontinued on Page Two; Col. 81
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really are at the
crossroads a n d
that down yon-
der way, beyond
a stretch b o r.
dered by social
and political ice
cream trees and
candy houses as
far as the first
bend, the road
hooks off to a
strange and ugly
land with noun
tains Of d e b t
piled to the sky,
like those ele-
plant i: color e d
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-18

lin ,h IN the west, and nothing but
eAs IN the valleys which are
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1940-06-06
N A NJ E. S
-. in the neWs

q Eleven months after he resigned
as governor of Louisiana, Richard
Leche, political heir Of Huey p.
Long, went on trial on charges Of
using the mails to defraud. The
charge grew out Of a truck deal
which is alleged to have netted him
and two others, a cool $113, $40.
q Motion-picture actor Walter Con-
molly, outstanding character actor,
died at his Hollywood home.
q who's Who in America" with
more names in the news" than
ever before has been released for
1904. Sketches in the book relate
to accomplishments of the nations
most famous names. There are 3D.
752 sketches in the new version Of
who's Who" Oldest member in
cluded is Brig Gen. william Henry
Bisbee, retired, who is 100. He is a
Civil war veteran. Youngest name
included is that of Shirley Temple,
also retired-at the age Of II. Long
est sketch Is that Of Columbia uni
versity's president, Nicholas Murray
Butler.
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board member and former AAA di-
rector, who will guide agriculture's
course; Ralph Budd, president Of
the c. B. & @. railroad, Transport
tation; Leon Henderson, chairman
Of the Securities commission, will
check on sterilization Of wholesale
prices; and Miss Harriet Elliott,
University of North Carolina, who
will guard the consumers interests.
Like This
Scheduled to be an important cog
in the machinery Of defense, the
automobile industry was given a
tuning up by Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau on his announce
ment that the annual policy Of in
Producing new car models may be
discontinued after this year. In
charge Of airplane procurement, he
believes it may be necessary to
keep assembly lines open for planes.
Henry Ford says after six months
he a turn out a thousand planes
a day Il necessary.
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crease would ordinarily encounter.
Reading reports Of the fierce power
of German military might, U. S. cit
liens may prefer to dig down in
their jeans for preparedness than
feel home defenses we're insecure.
Commission
A presidential commission Of sew
en-, appointed to muster the coun-
try's economic resources in connec-
ton with the preparedness drive,
was announced in Washington. This
commission represents a lay 'gen-
eral staff" which will work with
government officials and agencies in
lining up men, materials and plans
for speeding up armament produc-
ton.
The commission:
Edward R. Stettinius Jr., U. S.
| Steel company chairman, who will
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for escape was across the Strait OF
Dover to England OF down the sea-
coast to rejoin the main portion Of
their troops along the Somme and
Aisne rivers in France.
While from Berlin came word of
the great victory being won, from
the first soldiers to reach English
soil in their retreat across the chan
mel, came reports that important
losses were being effected upon the
Germans as they advanced. But
even these sources admitted that
great stocks of war booty was fall
ing into Nazi hands. Supplies Of
gasoline and munitions which any
army needs were being obtained by
the Germans.
Ne1t
Next, with Belgium and much Of
the vital industrial portion Of north
ern France safely tucked away,
Adolf Hitler had a choice to make.
He could launch his long-threatened
air attack on the British isles or he
could strike out for Paris.
Feeling against France has been
running high in Berlin, judging from
current reports. Usually it has been
the British that have been the sub
ject to press attack by the Nazi prop
uganda machine, but nov France is
getting it's share Of verbal abuse.
Some observers thought these at.
tacks we're a feint intended to lull
the British into believing they were
to be left alone and then when the
''hour'' arrived it would be a sur
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THE WAR:
Flanders Flight

When King Leopold III ordered
his 800, 900 Belgian troops to lay
down their arms in their battle
against the military might Of Adolf
Hitler, worried French and British
leaders saw that the forces they
had rushed into Belgium following
the German invasion were doomed.
For on the fields of Flanders their
armies we're exposed to a great en-
circling movement by the Nazis and
we're in great danger of being cut
off from the main body Of the troops
in central France.
Without waiting Adolf Hitler be-
gan to close the jaws of his gigantic
trap of death. Attacking with great
ferocity the German machine moved
toward the retreating allies. With
out loss of impetus military objec-
tive after objective was gained in a
tremendous show of force.
In the sky, dive bombers swooped
toward the earth, cutting off supply
details, disrupting communications,
destroying immense stores Of war
goods but failing to seriously daunt
allied morale and courage.
Their lines in formation, the Brit
ish and French retreated steadily
toward the English channel. For they
were outnumbered and the country
they had come to protect from in
vasion had been ordered by its king
to a fighting. Their best chance
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political parties are getting
behind the Presidents announced
objective of building defenses of the
Western hemisphere Ito whatever
heights the future may demand
Pleading for unity in the drive for
military security, the President in
his nationwide radio address warned
against Trojan Horse treachery with
in the nations borders. He pledged
that the government would not ex-
pect private capital to provide all
of the funds necessary.
Tax
This statement invoked discussion
as to how the government intended
to foot the necessarily large bill
of any such program. A defense
tax movement has been gaining
ground in congress. This is a COM
plete about-face on the subject by
the legislators. When the first pro-
posals were made to increase arma'
ments, most members Of the senate
and house passed over the matter
of providing the money by remark
ing that the important thing to de
was to provide the defenses ane
worry about paying for them later
Now the sentiment is that a fla
10 per cent increase in individual
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N6M t.}1R2g!g
Washington, D. c.

Washington, ID. G.
JAP ORDERS DELAY U. s.
One Of the things which is holding
up the manufacture Of more mill
tary equipment for the army and
navy is the fact that so many U. S.
factories are sending machine tools
to Japan.
The war department has Just fin
ished a confidential survey of the
machine tool industry and finds that
most American plants r working
on orders for the Japanese. Ma
chine tools are all-important In the
munitions business, because they
are used to equip new factories ex-
banding to meet new national de-
tense orders.
AS far as the war department is
able to ascertain, Japan has plenty of
| machine tools, and is storing many
of the new shipments now received
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The Big Dipper Stars

In the Big Dipper itself there are
seven stars, six of the second di-
nension and one of the third dimen-
sion. Four Of them form the bowl
and three the handle. While the
stars have individual names. they
Are commonly given the first sever
letters of the Greek alphabet:
alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon,
zeta and eta. The whole constella-
ton Ursa Major. which includes
the Big Dipper, has six stars OF
second magnitude, eleven of the
third, three of the fourth. forty OF
the fifth and a great number OF the
sixth dimension. The two stars form
ing the end of the Dipper away from
the handle are known as the Point
ers, pointing to the Pole star.