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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-30
OE 327 LOCAL
MEN ORA WIN IN FIRST
LOO ORDER NUMBERS
N. {. Draft Boards To
Mail dictionaries
Within Next Few Days

RALEIGH, Oct. 20. -@-
Thousands of detailed question:
naires, the answers to which
will determine the first men
who will be called for service,
will be mailed by North Caro-
lima draft boards late this
week or early next week.
The 155 local boards in this
state cannot begin mailing the
blanks until furnished master
list copies, which may not be
available before Friday.
Draft registrants have nine
days in which to return the
questionnaires to the boards.
Advisors will be named in each
area to aid registrants in
answering the questionable.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-30
WILLKIE ATTACKS
R00SEVELT'S TALK
Candidate Says 1t Was
Purely Demagogic Ad-
dress In Time OF Crisis

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN EN-
ROUTE TO CHARLESTON, w.
Va, Oct. 29.-R- Wendell L.. Will
kie, renewing his criticism of the
administrators defense program
and foreign policy, asserted today
that President Roosevelt h a d
made "a purely demagogic ad-
dress'' in New York Gin a time
of crisis"
The republican presidential NOM
inee told a republican rally on a
farm near jackson, o., that he
believed most Americans would Ia
bel MI. Roosevelt's speech at Mad
ison Square Garden last night as
alarming manifestation of what
desperation does to a man who
seeks to perpetuate himself in pow
err"
IT was shocked" Willkie said,
chat the third term candidate,
who will still be the chief execu-
tive for another month Or so, would
make in a time like this the pure
ly demagogic address he made
last night" :.
Willkie spoke from a decorated
pine platform facing an open field
in which a cheering audience
stood. He declared Mr.. Roosevelt
expressed sorrow last night to-
ward the Italian and Grecian peo-
pie who had been brought to war;"
and asserted that the chief execu-
tive spoke livery sweetly" of the
Italian people.
"He also showed consciousness
that the election was near" Will
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Is First Man
Drawn In Raleigh Draft

RALEIGH, Oct. 29.-R-James
Watkins, 80 year old negro butler,
was sitting quietly in his cell at
city Jail here today, minding his
own business, when number 158
was drawn in the draft lottery.
His serial number was 1853, and
when he was told that was the first
drawn, all he could say was:
well, I declare"
Then things began happening.
The newspapermen. got wind of
it and they came and brought pho
tographers; a radio station set up
a portable transmitting set outside
the Jail; and James, a tall. quiet,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-30
Nazis Renew
Mass Attacks
Upon London
Hundreds OF Fighters And
Fighter Bombers Also
Raid Portsmouth Base
p PLANES DOWNED
Italians Believed To Have
Taken Part In Drive;
Casualties Reported

LONDON, Oct. 29.-R-Germany
sent hundreds of fighters and fight
er-bombers against London and the
Portsmouth naval base today and to-
night in a costly revival of massed
squadron assault.
Four times today and again to-
night London was besieged from the
air; twice, Portsmouth was attacked.
But by night the British announced
they had shot down % German
planes, the most they have claimed
in many days, as compared to a loss
of seven Of their own.
It was London's 53rd consecutive
night of siege.
Italians Aid
With the German squadrons came
at least nine heavy bombers believed
to be Italian. They were accom-
panied, British said, by sixty Messer.
schmidt fighters and were turned
away from the Kent coast by anti
aircraft fire.
Official reports detailed only the
civilian damage; at Portsmouth, fol
instance, a communicate said 'sev
eral houses and shops" were wrecked
and "a small number of persons
killed. in the evening attack.
In the day attack on Portsmouth
officials said, anti-aircraft guns AND
fighters broke UP the raiding squad
rons and the assault was stamped
unsuccessful"
Flares Gunned
Tonight, in London, even flares
dropped by the attackers YER ma.
chinegunned before they could serve
as beacons for bomb sighters.
Earlier, in the sight of thousands
of Londoners, British ground gun!
shot down a raider over Hyde Park
in the very center of the city.
Despite the ferocity of the defense
bombs fell now and then in London
during the day, and an undetermined
number died the obscure civilian
death that has become SO common ir
these recent weeks.
Queen Elizabeth, paying no atten'
ton to an air raid alarm then shrek
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Greece are the; last remaining Bal
kan states closely aligned to the
Earlier another commentary, the
usually. well-informed Dienst Aus
Deutschland, indicated that Adolf
Hitler and P re m j er Mussolini.
agreed, at Florence yesterday upon
some unified drive against Britain
in which Spain. and France may
have a role. .>.! I &. i / (
Further, the newspaper Essener
National Zeitung which is close
to Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer-
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ASKS. HIS REELECTION
Says There Is No Secret
Commitment By President
To Great Britain

NEW YORK, Oct. 2s.-RE-
Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy
tonight branded as ~"false" a
charge that President Roosevelt
was trying to involve this coun-
try in the war abroad and called
for his reelection as the man who
"can best serve the nation"
Kennedy, who made a hurried
return by clipper plane Sunday
from England, spoke over a ma
tion-wide network of the Columbia
broadcasting system in a program
sponsored by his wife and nine
children.
Denies Commitment
He denied there was a secret
commitment by the President to
Great Britain to lead the United
States into war, saying:
IF President Roosevelt Nere as
wicked as his opponents charge,
which he is not, and even if he
had u~ndisclosed commitments,
which he has not, the facts r
against our participation in this
war" -
The ambassador asserted that in
his post as representative of the
American people in London, he
would certainly become aware"
of any such commitment and that
he could assure you now with alb
solute sincerity and honesty that
there has been no such commit
ment." y :
I'VE are re-arming," he said,
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turkish GetUltimatum
Like One Handed Greece

pGN~
AHLlN, Oct. 3o.-tWednesday),
,,,t41 turkey may soon receive an
1t,1@ a'um similar to that which
offieia 1erved on Greece, the semi
politisobe commentary Diplomatisch
ed saS ne correspondent intimat-
y .g early today.
hideo,ta English bases and
%tirpata.ss exist, they must be ex-
ronesaa IN the interests of the Eu-
tnenta community" said the COM
Office which has close foreign
applioa @ohnectons. This naturally.
TurL. also to the Mediterranean"
and Italian-invaded'
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LEAVES
FOR new ENGLAND
Trip Will Be Climaxed With
Major Political Address
At Boston Tonight

WASHINGTON, Oct. o. Up -
President Roosevelt left for New
England tonight on his third cam
paign trip, to be climaxed with a
major address at Boston tomorrow
At first the White House indi-
Gated some doubt as to whether Mr..
would make the trip in
view of European developments, but
late this afternoon Stephen Early,
presidential secretary, told reporters:
"The secretary Of state has ad-
vised the President that, as the
situation stands, as of the moment,
there is nothing that requires &C.
ton tomorrow"
Early added that the President
would contact Secretary Hull from
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-30
MANY DRAW NUMBERS
Only Little More Than
Third Of 5000 Pulled
From Bowl Today
CEREMONY
Registrars Among First
$50 Numbers Drawn May
Be Among First Called
BY RICHARD L.. TURNER

u hkNI1k1xNO LIZ
WASHINGTON, Oct. o. IN
With mechanical regularity, tn e
great draft lottery droned into the
night tonight and there was every
prospect that the sun would be
well up before the last blue pelle
could be drawn from the famous
gold fish bowl and its number re-
corded.
AS the drawing wore on, report
ers, radio announcers, news pho
tographers, war veterans, govern
ment clerks-almosr everyone who
volunteered-was gwen the privl-
.lege of extracting "a few of the
capsules-just so he could say Ia
ter that he had participated in a
historic event.
Only a little more than a third
of the 5000 numbers had been
drawn after nearly 8 hours. But
long before, the young men who
could reasonably expect to be
called to the training camps by
next June Is had had their num-
bers drawn. Officials estimated
that, generally. speaking, tn a I
question was settled with the first
$50 numbers recorded.
Codd Chance
In other words, it was said, reg
istrants whose serial numbers
were among the first $50 drawn
stood a good chance Of being
among the first 800, 900 men draft
ed, provided they were eft and
available. Similarly, the chances
were that men whose numbers ap'
peared further down in the list
would not be among the first Soo,-
600 draftees.
But the officials were speaking,
only approximately. In some local
board areas, more than $50 order
numbers will have to be called
up to fill the quotas, in others the
quotas may be obtained with far
fewer than $50.
The opening ceremonies had
been colorful and at one p
sharply dramatic. But, as a spec
tacle, the lottery turned into a flop
soon after it had settled into its
well planned routine.
Spectators who had crowded the
hall began leaving. Early in the
evening the demand lessened So
much that the requirement OF
cards admittance was dropped al
together. -.
But, at the opening, the interest
was far more intense.
Stimson Draws First
President Roosevelt stood look
ing on. Secretary Stimson, blind
folded, gingerly reached his left
hand into the famous old gold fish
bowl and withdrew it, grasping a
tiny blue cylinder. An army Off
Ger opened it, took from it a num-
Der slip. He handed it to the Presi-
dent.
1.-THE first number drawn by the
secretary of war;" Mr.. Roosevelt
slowly announced, is Serial num-
Der 49,"
There was a sharp, quickly re-
pressed little scream from a wo-
man at the rear of the hall. Her
sons number had been the first
drawn in the great peace time
draft lottery of 1910.
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6,106 MEN GAMBLE
Harold 0. Wilson, OF Route
One, And George Swinson
First Men Called
INTEREST IS GREAT
Total OF 167 Men Expect
ed To Be Called Here Dur
ing The First Year

New Hanover county's young
men yesterday gambled with num-
bers-numbers that saw hundreds
of males between the ages OF Il
and Sc drawing carer and nearer
to a years service in the United
States army.
No. 1853 was the first and when
it was plucked from a little blue
capsule in Washington, Harold o.
Wilson, white, of route two, n
George K. Swinson, white, of Castle
HAYNES, were the first to start the
draft call from this county.
There are 6,1O6 men in Whining
ton and New Hanover county as
signed army draft serial numbers.
AS the numbers rolled in from
washington last night, a close study
of the first LOO order numbers
contained the serial numbers Of 318
men in the city proper and those
sections Of the county outside the
city limits.
Still Drawing
This morning at , o'clock the
workers in the great lottery ia
Washington were still drawing num-
bers, thus adding more residents of
the city and county to the list that
will determine the order in which
they will be called.
Beginning at IL o'clock yester-
day when the first number was
drawn, there was little else of in.
terest in Wilmington except the
draft. Hundreds Of men eligible for
the draft gathered or the streets
to watch for the number that may
be theirs.
"Have they got your NUMBER"
was the familiar form of greeting.
And although it was generally
realized here yesterday that "many
are called but few are chosen" the
draft was a very personal matter
to several thousand New Hanover
residents.
According to an estimate several
weeks ago 167 men from this coun-
ty will probably be mustered into
army service the first year the draft
is in operation.
Bets Made
Bets were wagered freely here on
the draft numbers and oddly enough,
Swinson, who was the first called
in the City of Wilmington, had made
a 2 to 1 bet at 8 o'clock yesterday
morning that he would be the first
called. He collected.
Swinson, who is 80, is labor fore.
man at the American Agricultural
Chemical company plant at Almont.
He is married but has no children
but he said that he has one depend
emit to support, an invalid father.
His wife is a teacher in the Wrights-
boro school. During the past week.
end, he said, he moved from the
address given on his registration
card, zoos Market street, and now
lives in the Castle Haynes section.
Wilson, first to be called in the
county, is an unemployed sailor.
Donell Crumpler, colored, of route
l., became the first negro in New
Hanover county to have his number
drawn, he, with Woodrow B. Prid-
gen, white, Of Princess street, hold
ing the number 1872 which was the
to be drawn from the bowl.
The next 16 numbers drawn did
affect anyone in New Hanover
county, all of them being greater
than the highest number held by
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Mother OfN0. 1Draftee
Is Present At Drawing

ment's tense silence-and the num-
Der in that capsule was read out
by President Roosevelt.
A woman cried out - a sort OF
surprised gasp.
For the mother, Mrs. Henry S:
Bell, prominent in the American
Legion Auxiliary and the Fire
mans Auxiliary, was there sitting
half way back in the audience in
the departmental auditorium.
II could hardly believe it at
first" smiled Mrs. Bell, a dark
eyed, dark-haired woman. Her
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-30
Kennedy Denies Charge
Roosevelt Seeking War
Destroyers, Planes
Leave Key West Base

KEY WEST, Fla, Oct. 3D.
R-Five destroyers and a
seaplane tender sailed from
here under sealed orders today
and a few hours later IL navy
bombing planes winged away,
also for an unann0unced desti-
nation.
The vessels took aboard
enough fuel and water for an
extended trip.
Capt. Walter F.. Jacobs, COM
mandant of the station, declin-
ed to comment other than to
say the ships were under
sealed orders.
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mustached negro, rather perplexed
now. was taken from the jail to
the sidewalk and a throng gather
ed while he answered questions in
to a microphone and photograph
ers' bulbs flashed.
Watkins explained that he was
IN jail for "ramblin' around Gan
officer said he had been charged
with trespass); he had been mar
ried for nearly nine years but had
no children; he had been in Jail
once before, serving a 3O-day term
for being out late;" he didn't
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-30
CLARK DICUSSES
COASTAL DEFENSE
Says He Is Keeping Au-
thorities Informed OF Dan
gers OF Unarmed Area

"I am keeping constantly before
the authorities charged with deter
mining what is essential to ma
tional defense the dangers OF an
unprotected coast in this section
of North Carolina and the desira-
bility for locating defense projects
in the vicinity of Southport and
Wilmington" Rep -entative J.
Bayard Clark, of Fayetteville, de-
clared in an address before a poll
teal rally at the Leland 6 h
school last night.
Speaking in Wilmington last
week Rep. Clark referred to a con-
sultation he recently had with the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-30
BY RUTH COWAN

WASHINGTON, Oct. %. "a
Laughing an apology because her
fingers fumbled a bit in opening
her well-used purse, a mother dis
played with pride tonight an inch
long blue capsule.
It had contained a number-158
held by her oldest child, Henry
Robert Bell, 81, the first number
called in Americas first peace
time CONSUMPTION.
It had been drawn with .cere-
mony from the fish bowl by Sec
rotary of War Stimson. A mo-
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War
Interpretive
BY KIRKE L.. p

The two-day old Italian attack on
Greece is proceeding slowly in con-
trast to Nazi-Fascist technique in
bouncing on other small neighbors.
The usual 'blitzkrieg' tactics have
been SO notably lacking thus far
as to stir conjecture as to the real
strategy of the axis powers. 1t may
prove to be aimed more at testing
out Russian and Turkish intentions
than as a major operation to attack
Britain's life lines in the eastern
Mediterranean.
Moscow's silence lends color to that
theory. Both Russia and Turkey
are maintaining a watchful waiting
attitude. They probably r uncer-
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FORECAST
North Carolina: Mostly cloudy and
.on1lnred cool, light rain or drizzle in
mes' portion Wednesday, partly cloudy
h"u slightly warmer Thursday.
ny U. 8. Weather Bureau
meteorological data for the "a hours
'Auing $50 p. m. Yesterday.
Ina Temperature
h 'SU a, m. 60; 1870 a. m. 81; 1870 n.
=; 90 1:3O p. m. 81; maximum II:
"i''inum 81; mean "a: normal 81.
Ion Humidity
M iG CIV a: m. 80; 7:30 a. m. 80; 1:3O D.
Ill., ~; 7:3O p. m. Is.
r. Precipitation
Manu- no.ai Tor "a hours ending 7:30 D. M.
30 1otal since first of the month,
Tides For Today
WiIm;nu High Low
ston ---------- .9:06a 3:47a
Masonbor. 9:25p 4:18p
'ofo Inlet ---- 6:53a 70 :34a
Sun,;,. 7:0Sp II :10p
tis su e.n1 e:5Oa; sunset 5:22p; moon
O'Via; moonset 5:26p.
etteviIlo rear river stage at Fay
81 tan.' at 8 a. M, October 20,
WNOn'ihued on Page Four: Col. 81
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PLANNING
TO EXPORT WEED
Australian Government
Agrees To Purchase $780,
900 Pounds OF The Crop

OTTAWA, Oct. 29.-@ Trade
Minister J. A. MacKinnon an
nounced tonight that the Australian
government has agreed to authorize
importation of between 400, 900 and
100000 pounds of Canadian leaf to-
bacco.
80 far as is known this is the
lIrst time Canadian-grown tobacco
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-29
MERRY-GO-ROUND

Attending a convention banquet given by Mayor Ed Kelly, John L. Lewis smilingly permitted Roo- sevelt button to be pinned on his lapel. |. The secret of the Presi- dents message to the convention was kept well from 6 pm, when it was received, until Senator Bark ley read it hours later, but one other person knew its contents. She was Miss Shirley Clepatch, a sec- retary loaned to Harry Hopkins by Mayor Kelly, who took the message in shorthand over the phone from Washington as dictated by "Missie" Leland, the Presidents secretary Dark haired, petite Miss Cle- patch is experienced at keeping se- crete. She was formerly secretary to Senator Sherman Minton of In diana and to the late Mayor A. J. Cermak. kelly's predecessor.
 Copyright, l9f0, by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Inc)
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LLOYD {. DOUGLAS
 NOVEL AT (0LI5EUk;;
 GREAT HUMAN DRAMA


 Paramount's new Disputed Pas sage film version of one of the most thoroughgoing studies of doctors life ever written, opened to an enthusiastic audience last night at the Coliseum Theatre. <
 Based on the recent best-seller by Lloyd C. Douglas, it is brought to glorious screen fulfillment by virtue of the inspired interpreta- tions of Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, and John Howard and the guiding genius of a top- flight director, Prank Borzage
 Dorothy Lamour is seen as an American girl who has been reared in China by native foster parents. Her work in behalf of the invaded Chinese has brought her to Amer ica where she meets and falls in love with Howard, brilliant young doctor. Akim Tamiroff. portraying a world famous surgeon who wor- ships science as god, has been largely responsible for the young
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-29
NAMING HITLER

The rival groups in the Platform Committee had a hot time of their own when they tried to put the compromise formula into words. Senator Bob Wagner, committee chairman and anti-isolationist sub mitted a draft about aid for vic- times of aggression that contained the words "totalitarian aggressors. , Senator David. l. Walsh, Massachu- setts isolationist who is up for cleo tion this year, protested.
 T think we ought to realize, " he pontificated, that there are many naturaliaed Americans from these two countries who have strong feelings for them and will be of tended. They mount up to a lot of votes and I'm against throwing them away"
 In the bitter clash that ensued, Wagner declared that personally he favored naming Hitler in the denunciation.
 How would you name him?" shouted a member.
 Far as I am concerned" shot back Wagner, who was born in Germany, I'd call him --.YY
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-29
COMEDY -MYSIERY'
 FILM NOW PLAYING A5 CAPITOL HIT
Myrna LoE and William Powell Star in An-
 other Thin Man

Its story topping both preceding pictures of the Thin Man" series for hilarious moments and intrigu- ing mystery, Another Thin Man" brought Nick Charles, that ace sleuth of the screen, and his witty wife, Nora, to the Capitol Theatre yesterday.
 William Powell and Myrna Loy reunited as the Thin Man pair, excel in the sort of merry, marital banter haE -quizzical and half tender, with which the picture pro- videS them, and this time there is a Junior Thin Man, the new baby of the Charles family, who is good for almost as many laughs as his nimble- witted parents.
 A first-rate cast supports tn e stars, including Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, 0. Aubrey Smith, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Patric Knowles and Tom Neal. Asta, the waggish little wire-haired terrier who was inseparable from the ''Thin Man" pair earlier in the pie ture series, is present again, and Nick Charles, Jr., is played by eight months-old William Poulsen, an outstanding juvenile screen find in a year of infant actor discov- cries.
 Another Thin Man" brings the Charles family back to New York, scene of Nick's first and well-re- membered sleuthing triumph and plunges them at once into the mys-. tery of a murdered tycoon. It moves swiftly through a succession of tense moments, laughs and shrewd deductions against a background which ranges from palatial Long Island estates to Broadway clip joints.
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 committee in. Philadelphia. Lewis expected, in return that the Re publicans would avoid advocating amendment of the National Labor Relations Act in their labor plank Under Ali Landon's urging the plank as originally drafted said nothing about revision
 But big industrial contributors demanded no pussyfooting on the issue. In the end Landon was over ruled and the plank as adopted declared for amendment of the law
 Lewis was burned up. New Deal CTS, gravely concerned at the pros pect of labor's ranks divided in the campaign, were delighted. They saw a heaven-sent chance to patch up peace and they got busy. Eager ly helping them were Phil Murray, Tom Kennedy, John Owen and other CIO leaders, who had disap- proved of Lewis anti-third term pot-shots.
 At Chicago the two groups worked out a way for Lewis to save face. It's the Democratic platform plank promising national unemploy- ment conference of government, in dustrial, labor and agricultural leaders.
 Ibis is. pet idea of John L's. He's been after Roosevelt to con- -veHss suchs a, pow4wow. flor several
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would face economic disaster.
 The Bahaman population is 90 percent black, and already the sour economic situation abroad and it's reflex in Nassau, have caused riot ing. The Negroes are a prolific people, increasing the economic strain with every increase in the population,
 One solution might be birth con- trol, and the Bahamas would offer an interesting laboratory for this experiment. A similar experiment has been discussed in the heavily over Populated island of Puerto Rico, but there the Negroes are Catholic while in the Bahamas they are Protestant.
 At any rate, the Duke of Wind sor is likely to have his hands full, and with a problem which is not entirely British. For the Unite d States, because of Nassau's proxi- mity, would be vitally concerned with any rioting which brought . native demand for German con- trol. Nazi agents already have been working among West Indian Negroes to this end