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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
SCOTLAND ATTACKED
Germans Apparently Hope
| To Smash Out An In
vasion 'Bridge-H Head
BERLIN HAS ALARM
British Claim Bag OF 81
Bombers, % Battle Bomb
ers, IA Fighters

LONDON, Aug. 14.-Wednes.
day)-Nazi w%arplanes shrieked,
over the length and breadth OF
Britain today, scourging the in
dustrial midlands and North Scot
land and plunging into the fourth
day of an unremitting assault on
the south shore, apparently aimed
at smashing out an invasion OF
"Bridge-head."
Planes came over the midlands.
heart of industrial England, in
seven or eight waves.
The defense of this stubborn is
land kingdom mounted in tempo
with the mountaineering threat
of invasion, a threat enhanced by
a clash of light-draft naval YES
sells in the channel during yester
days gigantic aerial conflict.
Own Medicine
The British, despite their pre-
occupation with bringing down 50
German planes yesterday, appar-
emily found time to give Germany
a new dose of her own medicine.
Berlin had a 47-minute air raid
alarm this morning, and the big
wireless station at Bremen shut
down abruptly, a possible sign OF
Raj planes in the vicinity.
Some Britons even specialized
that Germany might give up the
invasion idea and try an aerial
starvation blockade instead.
This mornings German attack
on the English Midlands was the
biggest of the war for that dis
trict. Bombs burst with a rum-
BILE and great glares made the sky
lurid. Anti-aircraft gunners kept
up a scorching fire. Tracer bull
lets and searchlights pierced the
morning dark.
The picture was much the same
along the south coast, in Wales,
and in Scotland.
Houses were hit in one Scottish
town, a row of huts set afire in
another, and many salvos of Nazi
bombs were said to have fallen in
fields. One fatality was reported,
and minor civilian casualties.
Nazi Planes Damned
AS for damage after Tuesdays
assault by hundreds of German
planes on the channel coast, the
British acknowledged only a Sc
ries of fires and "a few casual
ties" while reporting proudly that
their days bag of Nazi planes
was the biggest yet-32 bombers.
% battle bombers and IA fighters.
In the English channel itself,
a force of German warships-both
surface craft and submarines -
as declared to have been beaten
off by British motor torpedoboats
in the channel, but these were it,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
.Methodists 10
|Meet.In City
Approximately 500 Min
listers And Lay Delegates
Ia Attend Conference
PURCELL TO PRESIDE
Selection OF City Over Dur
ham Made By Special En-
t~ertainment Body

The annual meeting Of the North
Carolina Conference IF the Metho-
dist church will be held here on
November SO with the Fifth Ave
nue. church as host, E. T. Jones,
chairman of the board Of stewards
of the church, announced yester
day.
Approximately 500 ministers and
lay delegates will attend the con-
ference. Bishop Clare Purcell, OF
Charlotte, will preside.
Mr.. Jones pointed out that while
Fifth Avenue church, of which the
Rev. C. D.. Barclift, is pastor, will
be host, all other Methodist
churches in the city and vicinity
will cooperate in making arrange.
ments and entertaining the dele!
gates. Other churches here are
Trinity, the Rev. R. L. Jerome,
pastor; Grace, DR.. J. F. Herbert.
Epworth, the Rev. Walter Pavy,
and Winter Park, the Rev. W. A
Tew.
Notification Received
Notification of the selection OIL
Wilmington as site of the 1910 con-
ference was received yesterday
afternoon by MI. Jones from the
Rev. "A. S. Parker, of Kinston, Sec
rotary of the conference commit.
tee on entertainment. Usually the
location of the next conference is
selected at the close of the previ-
Gus one but last year, at the meet.
ing in Fayetteville, the Methodists
did not follow this course b I
turned the matter over to a special
entertainment committee, Of whics
Col. j. F. Bruton, of Wilson, is
chairman.
Durham, through Trinity church,
also extended a bid for the 1910
meeting.
Mr.. Jones said preparations for
the meeting, the first conference
to be held here since the one at
Grace five years ago, will be
started Immediately.
1t will be the second since TIL
unification of the three branches
of the church, the gathering in
Fayetteville last year completing
the merger in the conference. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
NAILS WIDEN RANGE
Flying go Miles In
land To Shatter Many
Military Detectives
IS GENERAL ACTION
Germans Claim Sc British
Planes Destroyed To Set
New Daily Record

BERLIN, Aug. 14-(Wednesdayc
R-German bombers now are fly
ing more than 60 miles inland from
the south British coast to shatter a
great variety of military detectives,
nazi commentators declared today,
and are threatening London itself.
The combat area extends 1910
miles from the mouth Of the Thames
river, through Dover westward, it
was stated, and the onslaught is not
individual raids, but "a general ac-
tion,' developing according to a we'll
laid plan.
Alarm In Berlin
These reports came shortly after
Berlin itself experienced a 47-minute
air raid alarm this morning. The
alarm was the third of the war, but
no bomb explosions or gunfire were
heard in the downtown area. Resi-
dents of some suburbs said they
heard distant shooting.
DNB, official German news agency
| said the German raids on Britain
yesterday brought down or destroy
ed on the ground SO British planes
"a new days record.
Fifty were shot down over the
English channel and the British
Isles, 16 were brought down in Brit
ish attacks on Aalborg, Denmark
and 80 were destroyed o. the ground
by German bombs, according to
DNB.
DNB termed the encounters the
biggest success" in the present
heightened aerial warfare which
pointed to an early zero hour for the
long-threatened attempt to land nazl
troops on the British Isles.
The Germans put their own losses
in the days actions at "a planes but
said five of the crewmen were saved.
Fight Over Dover
The latest fight reported by DNB
was over Dover and the channel
where 10 Spitfires and eight Hurri-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14

area were homeless and with
out food. He appealed to the
outside for roofing material and
food supplies as quickly as pos
sible by truck.
Large crews sought to open
roads sufficiently for trucks to
get through, and the state high
way department announced that
two highways had been opened
into the stretch area for light
traffic." Beaufort had been in
accessible since Sunday except
by foot.
Batteries of trouble-shooters
also were at work to restore
communication facilities. Tele-
phone calls into the area YER
being accepted, however, subject
to a five-h0ur delay.
Port Royal, near Beaufort,
counted damage to all its resi-
dences and business houses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
FEDERAL RELIEF AGENCIES AID STORM
VICTIMS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA

Warehouses and the waterfront
pier of the Charleston and West.
ern Carolina railroad were demol-
ished.
Paris Island, site of a U. S.
Marine corps base, reported
heavy damage but no loss of life.
Damage to Charleston indus
trial plants was estimated at
$500, 900, and Russell MCGOWAN,
Charleston attorney. said proper.
ty damage at nearby Folly is
land would approximate $1,0OO,'
900.
Governor Maybank came here
yesterday. surveyed the damage
in this and the Beaufort areas,
and offered the state govern
ment's assistance in relief work.
He said food and chlorine to
SContinued on Page Two; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
Wheeler Says Passage OF
Ril Will silt Throat OF
Last Democracy
RlJRKE ENDS SPEECH
A,mv Intended To Have
100000 Troops In Uni
form By Early Fall.
Bv RICHARD L. TURNER

WASHINGTON, Aug. l3.-E
Senator Wheeler (D-Mont) has
warned the senate today that pas
saae Of the pending CONSUMPTION
hill would "split the throat of the
last democracy still living today"
while army chiefs, chatting at con
gressional delays, said they had
been forced to postpone plans for
having 900, 900 troops in uniform
by early fall.
Delivering the days principal
address of opposition to the draft
hill. the Montana senator argued
that there was no foreseeable dan
ger of an attack upon the United
States, that the army was taking
advantage of a crisis psychology
0 saddle the country with con-
s~cription. and that the army's le-
climate manpower needs could be
filled by voluntary enlistments.
Demanding to know where Sec
rotary Of War Stimson and other
men of the stamp of Stimson"
planned to send the conscript ar
my, he asked:
Are these administration men
not counting upon our invading
arge parts of South America
Mexico perhaps-all in the name
Of defending our country?"
Burke Ends Speech
Earlier, Senator Burke D-Neb),
finishing a speech begun yester-
day, commended that voluntary en-
liStments were too slow to meet
the necessities of the times and
asserted that this country does
not want to wait until war comes
II unhappily it should ever come,
before we start training our citi-
zens."
Let no one here deceive him.
self into believing that his would
be a happy lot if by his action he
helped to prevent or postpone ade-
quate military training for those
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. y
Italians Accuse Greeks
OF Territorial Designs
Air Alarms Sounded In
Western Switzerland

BERN, Switzerland, Aug. IA.
neutrality-suspicious. air raid
alarms were sounded late last
night and early today, warning
residents of western Switzerland
Of the presence of unidentified
foreign planes.
The alarms, starting shortly
before midnight, lasted for about
an hour. They were heard in
Bern, Geneva and Lausanne.
No firing or explosions were
heard and observers said the
planes apparently lost their way
and crossed over Swiss territory
in the vicinity of the Jura
mountains.
' The first group of planes ap.
parently flew south over west.
ern Switzerland. Later planes
which might have been the
same flew back over France.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
EXCESS PROFITS
TAX DELAY ASKED
Chamber Oh Commerce
Presents Request At Con-
gressional Body Hearing

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-RH
An official of the United States
chamber of commerce urged con-
gress today to delay %enacting an
excess profits tax while a repre-
sentative of the National Associ-
alton of Manufacturers favored a
carefully drawn" tax of that type
as a temporary, emergency
measure"
Ellsworth c. Alvord of Wash
ington, chairman of the chambers
federal finance committee, recon-
mended that congress 60 ahead
and pass, separately from the tax,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
SEVERAL HIGHWAYS
CLOSED BY RAINS
Asheville Is Isolated From
.lhe East With Exception
OF One Route

RALEIGH, Aug. 3-R-Heavy
,s''s' loosed upon the mountains of
OfVA Carolina by the remnant of
.ie storm that spent its fury Sun
Jay on the Georgia and South Caro-
r@ coast, tonight isolated Ashe-
Ilie from the east except by one
hishvay route.
u ) IA and U. S. 70, main eastern
e. a'e' lnto Asheville, were blocked,
-sn"ay officials reported, and all
M is being routed by way of
r+afion' Rutherfordton, Tryon and
Hendersonville.
ihe t%orrential downpour caused
'N'iosllaes, washed out roads and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
DISTRICT LEGION
MEETING PLANNED
Roy L. Macmillan, OF Ra-
leigh, Will Address Beach
Session Tonight

A meeting of the Seventh district
of the North Carolina American
Legion will be held tonight at $50
o'clock at the Atlantic View pier
dining room at Wrightsville Beach.
Roy L. Macmillan, Raleigh at
torney and official in the North
Carolina Boys State, will be prin-
cipal speaker.
Legionnaires from Wilmington,
Southport, Whiteville, Tabor City,
and Fair Bluff will attend the
meeting.
Information concerning reserva-
tons and transportation may be
obtained by calling A. T. Dowdy
at 1882. 1
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
TROUBLE INDICATED
Greece Reported To Have
Rejected Suggestion To
Renounce Britain
BY RICHARD G. MAssOCK

ROME, Aug. 13.- R3 Italian
spokesman accused Greco tonight Of
having territorial designs on Italy's
Albanian domain and indicated thai
Premier Mussolini sooner or later
will demand slices of both Greek
and Yugoslav territory in a "gen'
eral settlement for Albania.
The Italian press has been hitting
at Greece since the weekend dis
closure of the death of an Albanian
patriot, Daut Hoggia, at the hands
Italians said, of two Greek assassins
Italians also charged Greco is a
silent ally" of Great Britain in the
war.
Yugoslavia Involved
Yugoslavia entered the Italian pic.
ture only today, when the newspaper
La Tribuna reported the killing of
a minor fascist leader, Leonardo
Ciurcovich, in the italian town of
lara on the Yugoslav coast because
he objected to a stranger singing a
Slav song on Zara's streets.
These developments coincided with
an italian battle with British de-
tenders of British Soma1iland and a
Big, four-hour night attack. on the
British Malta naval base in the
Mediterranean.
Italian troops in British Somali-
land r attempting to reach the
Somaliland capital, Berbera, on the
sea coast, The Italians were report
ed to have taken Adadleh, about so
miles south of Berbera.
Virginia Gayda, often spokesman
for the fascist regime, declared the
Italian government expected the
Greek government to answer for
it's new crimes and asserted that
Italy could not tolerate Greece's
"acts against the independence of
Albania"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
FRANCE INDICTS
ITS WAR MAKERS
Former Premier Daladier
And Ex-General Gamelin
Apparently On List
BY The Associated Press

RON, France, Aug. 13.-The
armistice government of Marshal
Philippe Petain formally indicted to-
night before a high court of last ap-
peal the government and military
leaders whom it deems responsible
for betraying the Third Republic
by leading it, unready, into war and
defeat.
It did not name them but it lump
ed them as a composite Monsieur
x" in a general complaint. The
court itself will fix individual re-
sponsibility.
AS the blanket charge was placed
before the nations new supreme
court, the old marshal, chief of
state, went before the radio with a
singing rebuke for those who stand
accused-who obviously include,
among others, former Premier Ed.
Guard Daladier and former General
issimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin.
He said France fell before laziness,
incompetence land even sabotage"
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
Asheville Is Threatened
With Shortage Of Water
Student Drowns When
Boat Goes Over Dam

ASHEVILLE, Aug. 13.-(AP)
Frank Nacke, 20, of Denver,
Colo., a student at Black Noun.
tain college near here, was
drowned today when a boat in
which he and a companion were
riding plunged over the Lake
Eden dam into the flood-swollen
waters of SwannanOa river.
The two had gone to the dam
to open a flood gate.
Nacke's body was recovered
several hours later 200 yards
downstream.
He apparently had been
knocked unconscious when the
boat went over the dam and had
drowned.
He was working at Lake Eden
summer resort, operated by the
college.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14

swept out of the Bahamas Sun
day, wrecking waterfront build
ings and sending high tides into
city streets and homes.
The Red Cross reported from
Washington that rs negroes
were killed on St. Helena island
near Beaufort. Eight other ne
groes died on nearby Ladies is
land. Reports from these outly.
ing islands were described as in
complete, and fear was expressed
that the death toll would be
higher.
A CCC boy was drowned on
Huntington island, near here,
and two persons persisted at Sa-
vannah, Ga.
Sheriff j. M. McTeer of Beau
fort county, appointed by Cover
nor Burnet r. Maybank to head
relief and emergency areas, esti-
mated that 700 persons in that
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
RAID INDUSTRIAL MLDLANDS
AND BATTER SOUTH SHORE;
CHANNEL MRSHIPS BATTLE
Germans Believed Using
Huge Cannon On Britain

(By the Associated Press
The possibility Germany now
has turned her long : range
cannon on besieged Britain
was indicated yesterday by de-
layed and fragmentary CEN
sored dispatches from Eng
land.
Householders in a southeast
ern coastal city. probably Dow
er, unanimously believed the
heavy explosions which killed
two and wounded eight Mon
day were caused by shells, not
bombs. British authorities
said there was no confirma-
ton. They collected fragments
for study.
Reports that the shelling of
England had started were
heard in Switzerland. Cores
spondents in Berlin were un-
able to obtain confirmation.
Significance was attached,
however, to an article by He'd
tor C. Bywater. noted British
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
No Rain Forecast For
City, Vicinity Toda,

For the first time in days, the
weatherman saw no rain in sight for
today but partly cloudy skies were
still on the menu.
Temperatures yesterday ranged
from a high Of "a to a low of 76
degrees, with the mean two above
the normal mark Of 70 degrees.
Rainfall of .05 inches was reported
yesterday, bringing the total since
the first of the month to 1857 inches.
Moderate easterly and southeastern
ly winds will predominant today and
the humidity will be high, the wealth
erman said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
Mintz Recovering From
Auto Accident Injuries

Louis Mintz is recovering at his
home at 1407 South Fourth street
from injuries received when he was
struck by an Automobile lei Gin
ton Sunday afternoon.
He received a broken leg, several
bruises and scratches in the acct
dent His condition was reported as
satisfactory last night. =
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14

naval expert. appearing in the
London News Chronicle which
discussed German use of
"guns across the Channel"
or 1910 editions of the "big
Bertha" that hurled hundreds
of 264-pound shells into Paris
in 1918 from 76 miles away.
Germany has guns mounted
along the French channel coast
which could toss shells into
London 80 miles away. From
Calais on the continent, Dover's
cliffs are only ~ miles away.
Bywater said long = range
bombardment was "merely a
nuisance" because:
/. Britain has retaliatory
cannon.
2. Effective shelling would
pre-suppose that aerial "spot-
tiers" could loiter above Eng
lands coastal targets to direct
fire.
fCnu<;uro1 m, Dora Tu,o. fol .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
WEATHER

vo,., FORECAST
Geors;a Sarollna, South Carolina and
Thurss,dsa:u Mostly cloudy Wednesday and
CENT r'i ~ with scattered showers ex-
Ill Inc mountains Wednesday,
endip r r9.edgi data for the "a hours
10Y p: m. Yesterday.
1:M Temperature
h. s.. d. m; Il; 7:3o p. m. IS; 1:3O q.
tinimnm' ; so p, m. so; maximum 81
1'uia 76; mean so: normal Is.
La Humidity
h.. g.. q; m. 50; 7:3o a. m. 81: 1:3O n,
$50 p: m. 81.
Total Precipitation
0N5 inc 10y "A hours ending 7:3o y. M.
month t IN total since first Of the
Tides For Today
"llminsto, High Low
e'oh ----------- 6:37a 1929
S'sonboro Inlet 7: :sa9 a:4sr
Sunrise s..,. 5:22p II :30I
eise 1.3sn o:'5a; sunset 7:O0p; moon
o'p' moonset 2:27a.
iued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-14
U

ATHENS, Aug. 13.-P-P)reece,
faced by Italian pressure to ALLEVIATE
her and Great Britain, was reported
reliably tonight to have rejected an
axis Suggestion" that she formally
(Cnntinued on Page Two: Col. Il
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hued on Page Two; Col. p
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-12

Chile produces about two-thirds Of
South Americas output of metals and
minerals.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-12

The Cork Evening Echo is Cork,
Ireland, daily.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-12
Dickson & Co.
Rernodeling
Entire Store

Further signs of progress and eX-
panSion are in evidence at the Dick
son & Company store on Horner
street, one Of the outstanding and
important grocery stores OF the city.
1t is located a short distance from
Garnet street, and adjacent to the
Homer street entrance Of the Farm
erS Warehouse.
The entire interior of Inc estab
lishment is being remodeled and
freshly painted, and fixtures are be-
ing re-arranged The exterior Of the
store building is also being re-palnt-
cd and dressed up anew.
Few concerns IN Henderson have
grown more rapidly or attracted new
friends and customers in larger num-
beers in such a short a time. EStab-
lished a few years ago by c. P.
Dickson, the proprietor, in a small
store room a little further up the
street, the business shortly outgreW
its quarters and was forced to seek
larger space. 1t was then that the
present store, several times larger,
was occupied.
Present quarters offer ample room
in which to display the large and
increasing stocks of merchandise, in
GLIDING foods and feeds OF all de-
scriptions for man and beast. Fancy
groceries are displayed in the front
and heavy groceries, feeds and
poultry in season are to the rear.
Two years ago Mr.. Dickson in
stalled one of the most modern mar
kets in this section to accommodate
the many calls for meats. 1t is equip
ped with the finest and most modern
and up-to-date fixtures for both the
display and refrigeration Of meats,
including home-killed and westerns.
Along with other departments in the
store, the market has enjoyed large
and increasing patronage from the
start.
By reason of his knowledge and
familiarity with the grocery and feed
business, and his close, personal at
tention to all transactions at all
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-12
Henderson Furniture Co.
Stocked With New Goods
Ready for Fall Season With Latest Styles and
Modes in Household Merchandise; Experienced
Men in Charge Of Business.

the rear of the store makes il possible
for the company TO keep an UNUSUAL
ly large stock of merchandise on
hand for convenient restocking as
sales clear the salesroom floors.
Members Of the firm are anticipat-
ing one of the busiest seasons in
many years and have assembled
stocks which are unusually large
even for this great store, in order that
they may offer their customers the
widest choice of new and modern
merchandise in the price range which
suits the purse and the taste of each
customer.
Prices range from most moderately
priced merchandise to that of great
er cost, with emphasis always on the
ideal that the quality must be the
best obtanable for the money. To
achieve this ideal, buyers for the
store comb the furniture markets of
the country, selecting carefully the
items of standard merchandise which
are to be brought to their store.
Shoppers recognize at once the well
known means of nationally advertiS-
ed brands which are featured in the
store, finding such names on cleo
trical appliances, stoves and ranges,
heaters, washers and ironers, radios
and other merchandise besides the
famous names of furniture makers
whose products are known through
out the country.
The Henderson Furniture Company
lists customers throughout Hender-
son and over a wide territory SUI
rounding the city, handling delivery
service with its own fleet of trucks
and maintaining service on electrical
appliances and other items which
may require mechanical adjustment
from time to time.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-12
NOTICE OF SALE.

Under and by virtue of the power
and authority contained in a Deed
of Trust executed by Jewel Lewis
and husband, Nathan Lewis, recorded
in the office Of the Register of Deeds
of Vance County in Book 1876, at page
342, default having been made in the
payment of the debt therein secured,
at the request of the holder of the
note, l shall sell at public auction to
the highest bidder, for cash, at the
Courthouse door in Henderson, N. c.
at twelve o'clock, Noon, on Monday
September 81, 1910, the following
described real estate:
Beginning al the intersection of the
Henderson and old Butte Road; and
run thence along the Henderson Road
N "a IA E $40 to stone corner Of
Lot No. 2; thence N 60 w 800 chains
TO a stone corner of Lot No. 2; thence
S "a IA w $40 chains to stone ir
old Butte Road, corner of Lot No. q;
thence along the old road S go E
$40 chains to the beginning, con-
tanning 5 Acres, as shown by plat
of Sam Brame land by Thomas Tay-
lor, surveyed in the division of his
land under will October Is, 1910.
See will on record in office of Clerk
of the Superior Court of Vance Coun-
ty, File No. 1888. See also deed re-
corded in Book SO, page $50.
This the 22nd day Of August, 1910.
T. P. GHOLSON, Trustee.
22-29-5-12