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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-01
Joint Armory
Plan Halted
Question Of Whether Coun-
ty Has Right To Call Bond
Vote Blocks Proposal
W BOARDS CONVENE
Bellamy Says He Will Be
Able To Give Answer On
Legal Question Soon

The question of whether the
county has the legal right to call
a bond issue vote yesterday after.
noon halted, at least temporarily,
the proposed joint sponsorship Of
he~erection of an armory here by
the WPA, city and county govern
sments.
At a joint session of the two
boards-during which the question
of double taxation figured promi
hently in the discussion-the pro
EbosB that New Hanover county
help on acquiring an armory or
"50-5O basis" with the city gov
ernment was presented by City
Commissioner of Public W o k
flames E. L. Wade.
I Gardner's Proposal
fCounty Commissioner Harry
Gardner endorsed the need of ar
$mry but insisted that it be
Made a countrywide project, spon
entirely by the county gov
eminent, so that a unifor mta,
rate enabling everyone to pay alike
would be placed into effect.
The whole discussion and posi-.
BILE approval of the proposal wa.
brought to a standstill, however.
when County Attorney Marsden
Bellamy expressed the opinion that
the county would not be allowed
to submit a bond issue for an ar.
mory to a vote of the people al
the present time unless given the
right to do SO by the legislature"
With this in mind, the two board
adjourned until Wednesday after.
noon at 3 o'clock at which time
Attorney Bellamy said he would
be able to give a definite answer
On the legal question involved.
In the meantime he will confer
with William B. Campbell, city
attorney, on the matter and posi-
bly, work out together some plar
whereby the project can be moved
forward.
A few days ago the War depart.
ment approved the erection of ar.
mories to cost between $50, 900 ano
500, 900 in seven North Carolina
cities, including Wilmington. The
WPA will provide all but the site
for the building and any necessary
skilled labor.
Primary Question
The question of the building site
has been the primary one involved
in all discussion by the city com.
missioners during the past week.
The city's proposal to the coun-
ty board yesterday called for the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-01
DEFENSE BOOSTED
Cruising Patrol o. British
Planes Keeps Nazis From
Heart Of London
OTHER AREAS HIT
More Than 600 Planes Par
: ticipate In Daylight As
saults Against England

LONDON, Oct. 1.-(Tuesday) -
tR-The fury of Germany's oath
consecutive overnight air assault on
London fell on the suburbs today
as only a few of the Nazi raiders
braved the central districts massed
guns, newly reinforced above ground
fire range by a cruising patrol OF
British night fighter planes.
Several big bombs fell in central
London, but most reports told OF
demolition of houses in the suburbs
and forays by German planes over
northeastern and southwestern Eng
land ard Wales.
Mass Daylight Blows
The conflict i'll the darkness fol-
lowed up mass daylight blows Mon
day by 600 to 700 planes at southeast
ern and southwestern England
which gave significance to British
preparations for a possible Indian
summer invasion of this embattled
isle.
The heavy smashes at the shore
points conceded with four daylight
attempts on London itself. The Brit
iSh said the first three of these were
beaten off, but acknowledged that
the fourth inflicted damage and
CASUALTIES.
The Germans then returned with
the darkness to conduct their oath
consecutive nightly assault on the
British capital.
The air ministry announced that
AZ German planes had been shot
down during Monday and listed %
British planes as lost, although it
said the pilots of IL were saved.
Fly Through Mists
Hitler's night providers Numbered
toward London through heavy chan
mel mists rejecting the crimson
glow of flames started during a day.
light Smelling of Calais, nearest
French port across the harrow Dover
Straits, by British coastal batteries.
The big British guns proved an ac-
curate adjunct to Britain's night
lldWk dCll dl Ol1Cl1oltS Wl1AS1 IOPOAl
ed smashing blows last night at a
Fokker air.
plane plant cal Amsterdam, inva-
sion ports, and rail communications,
airdromes, oil plants and an alumni
UNI factory deep in Germany.
Using prize ring Technology, the
air ministry gave this play-by-play
the days fighting over Britain:
1.-THE enemy opened with a right
towards London about 9:15 a. m. and
another stab in the same direction
followed about an hour later.
Both largely yer feints, probably
to wear out our fighters. In neither
case was the attempt to reach Lon
don a success.
"Next came a left towards the
west country which was a tentative
jab rather than a full-hearted blow"
In this raid some 70 bombers and
fighters crossed the coast between
st. Adams and Portland, spreading
fanwise over Dorset and Somerset.
about noon a new blow was
with some $50 to 200 planes,
the main body of 12O German
craft reached no farther than a line
If North Downs, although a few got
through to London where dogfights
ensued over the center of the city.
AT tea time another 200 to 300
came over but only a few got through
to London. where some bombs were
It was just about a half hour later
hat the Germans struck out with
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-01

No steps were taken on the air.
port improvement proposal by the
commissioners and individual mem.
bers of the board expressed the
opinion that no action will be taken
until it is seen whether congress
adopts the $50, 900, 200. airport appro-
priations bill now pending before the
national legislative body.
A number of minor tax matters
were discussed by the county board
yesterday and contracts for four
carloads of coal for the courthouse
and county home were awarded.
The Thorpe coal company was
Continued on Page Two)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-01

lation of this state is composed Of
negroes, and the selective service
act applies to them equally with
the white race, and they have al
ways shown a patriotic spirit in ali
war service.
"This should be wisel yand fair
ly determined by the local com
ittee in each county"
The governor asserted that nc
board member should be selected
because of political or religious al
filiations, but added:
wherever feasible it would
probably make for more satisfac-
tory administration of the selective
draft act if the two major political
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-01

RALEIGH, Sept. 30.-R-Gover-
nor Hoey, in a statement tonight
urging North Carolinians to coop
crate with characteristic patriot
ism" in the draft egistration on
October 16, sad that negroes poss-
IDLY should be appointed to certain
draft boards.
"Considertion Shout. !. be Civ
en- to the wisdom of providing re-
preentation on the draft board OF
the negro race in counties where
there is a large negro population
and where worthy representatives
of that ace can be procured to
serve" he said.
About % per cent of the popu-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-01
Hoey Says Negroes Should Be Named
To Certain Draft Boards In State

parties shuold be represented in
the board membership" fiji
Hoey said that three men would
serve on each of the 155 draft
boards in the state, and that the
men would serve without pay. The
81 smallest counties, from a popu.
lation standpoint, will have o n c
board each; 80 counties will have
two boards each; four counties will
have three boards each; three
ounties will have four boards each
and two counties will have five
boards each.
Letters were sen to uttod 40
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-01
No Noticeable Fires Started
But One Bomb Heard
Near The AP Office
PLANES BRAVE GUNS
British Attack Spread Over
Northern And Western
Industrial Germany
BY PRESTON GROVER

BERLIN, Oct. 1 ,(Tuesday).-P-
England ruled the air owe Berlin for
a short time last night and early
today, making the German capita!
the key point of bombing raids which
spread in a large swath over the
lions of the Reich, but which cost
the British at least three planes.
In Berlin the ~screeching alarm
which sent 1000, 900 residents tum.
bling out of bed and into the cellars
lasted 5 hours and s minutes and was
the longest of the war.
The British bombers did not set
any noticeable fires, but at least one
explosive bomb was heard a few
blocks from the Associated Press Of
flee. 1t was impossible to determine
what or just where it had hit.
Brave Artillery Fire
The British planes ran into a blast
Of artillery. fire, but crossed and re.
crossed the city.
The cannon began pounding ST
them before midnight, and thun
dered briefly at intervals through
the alarm.
The raiders apparently conceH
trated their efforts on the capit3is
/ outskirts, where German authorize
say most of the city's industry is
located.
The British raid also spread ovey
northern and western Germany IT,
the area including the bulk of the
country's population and industry.
Authorized German sources said
one British squadron ran into a band
of Nazi night fighter planes which
shot down two Hampton Hereford
bo.nbers and one Wellington bomber
at an undesignated location.
Two of the crew of one bomber
parachuted to safety and we're inn
%prisoned. Authorized sources said
they were New Zealanders who were
on their first flight against the M
my after only four weeks in the
British Royal Air force. The Ger
mans quoted the filters as saying
their plane had carried only inflam
mable leaflets and flares.
DAMAGE CLAIMED
BERLIN, Sept. 80. "Extraordi.
nary damage to British military
targets by waves of German bomb
(r-- No. nN--
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-01

Fiyo q - V'VTd, SuHSeC J.JIU, WUUH-
Ne QUA; moonset 6:10p.
'ape Fear river stage al Fay
..tePilie, at 8 a. M, on September
Il, 80 feet.
womasHlNGTON, September 3O.-tRe
ana nsatnef bureau records of temperature
h rainfall for the "a hours ending S
A. sro H. IN the principal cotton growing
ss.eas and elsewhere:
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-01
WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
north Carolina: Generally fair Tues.
ts ~ ana Wednesday, except rain and
o0aa TO strong winds on northeast
s .tass tuesday, little change in temper.
en chronological data for the "a hours
NA1ihg $50 p. m. Yesterday.
Inn Temperature
m i, s9 a: m. 80; 7:3O a. m. g.; 1:30 p.
m; o.; 1870 p. m. 50; maximum 70:
~iAiinum 60; mean 50; normal 70.
ion Humidity
m 4; cs a, m. Sc; 7:30 a. m. SO; 1870 p.
ILL., %; 7:3O p. IN. 81.
Precipitation
MO- iolal for p hours ending 7:30 p. M.
nnn inches; total since first of the
"onth, l.9G inches.
TyI-- M D-I--
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-01
DAMAGE CLAIMED

BERLIN, Sept. 30. - "Extraordi.
nary" damage to British military
targets by waves of German bomb
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-01

,;sa unrlse SOFA: sunset IS
Use QUA; moonset 6:10p.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31

street to Douglass hign school led
by Supervisor Hugh r. Osborne
on horseback. AS the parade filed
by the impressive flag escort, the
stirring music of the drum and
bugle corps and band, and the
uniforms brought home to the
watchers a vivid memory of 1917.
memory whose intensity was
heightened by the realization OF
the possibilities of another war.
At Douglass the paraders entered
automobiles which took them to
Evergreen cemetery where the
United Spaish War Veterans took
charge of the services. These ser
vices, a tribute to those who died
in their country's defense, this
year took on an unusual signifi-
canoe and solemnity for speakers
and audience alike with the men
acing world war OF the present
casting its shadow over this memoir
ial for the dead Of past war.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31
District Prorates
Water as Warren
Says Aid Possible
Attorney General Holds
Governor Can AllOt
Money for Repairs

Pro-ration of water start
ed Friday for ranches of I'M
perial Valley as Attorney
General Earl Warren cleared
the way for allotment OF
state OF California funds to help re-
pair canals damaged by the earth
quake.
A telegram to the county board of
supervisors said
I'VE advised Division of Water
Resources that emergency fund
might legally be used to assist
Imperial Irrigation district in re-
pairing damage to canals.
The ruling referred to a techni-
cality regarding expenditure OF
state funds in Mexico.
Meanwhile, water was pro-rated
Friday as the first flow since the
earthquake was started in the badly
damaged Sulfatara line in Mexico
Elmer Hartzog, water distribution
superintendent for the Imperial r.
rigation district, said he expected
it would be at least two days be-
fore the restricted flow reaches the
Westside main.
At present, the All American can
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31
Success of Allied
Retreat Shows Air
Power Not Enough
War Expert Declares
Planes Cannot Destroy
Naval Cooperation
By ], w. T. MASON
United Press War Expert

The success of the retreat
of the Allied forces from
Flanders is reaching proper
tions that show the great power
of naval cooperation in coastal de-
fense has not been destroyed by
attacking airplanes. Operations OF
the Anglo French warships off
Dunkirk and eastward are being
brilliantly directed. The supplement
tary protection afforded them by
the Allied counter-offensive in the
air has slowed down German at
tempts to surround the remnant
British and French divisions to a
point where it has been impossible
for Hitler to spring his trap.
The success of the Allied retreat
across the channel in the face OF a
German aviation blitzkrieg marks
an important advance in defensive
strategy The Allied Warships have
had to move very slowly up and
down the French and Belgian coast
al waters and even to come to
rest at times to make their gunfire
effective. Thus. they have offered
themselves as ideal targets for the
German airmen.
Yet. the Germans have not been
able to interrupt the evacuation
of the retiring troops in any major
manner, nor have the Allies suffer-
ed serious losses in ships. The es-
cape of thousands of troops from
Dunkirk is we'll compared by the
British to the famous retreat to
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31


were being held at CalexicO and
BraWley cemeteries.
Phillip N Van Slyck sounded the
keynote for services at Evergreen
with a stirring address on the
memory of those whose lives were
given in defense of American de-
mocracy. Services at the cemetery
followed a parade in which vir-
tually all the city'S patriotic Or
ganizationS were represented, the
American Legion drum and bugle
corps, the sheriff'S posse, the
United Spanish War Veterans and
their auxiliary, Daughters of Union
Veterans of the Civil War, Boy
Scouts. the American Legion posts
and Auxiliary units, and the mem
bcrs OF service clubs of Imperial.
Holtville, and FL Centro, the Ell
Centre F.lks lodge and the Imperial
Valley Boys band.
Sidewalk crowds watched the mar
chcrs as they moved down Nam
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31
Red Cross Speeds
Fund Raising

Red Cross officials threw their
concentrated strength Friday be-
hind a campaign to raise funds for
earthquake relief.
In Ell Centre the campaign COM
mittee of Hugh Keating. Mrs. Hugh
Osborne and w. H. Tyler, jr., re-
ported contributions have already
passed the 5000 mark, including
donations from school children in
Santa Maria. Sl00 from Harry H.
Straus. president of the California
Central Fibre corporation, and $25
from Arthur Loeb. his assistant
Contributions may bc sent to the
Bank of America. the Security First
National bank, or the chamber OF
commerce in Ell Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31

ADDGNllle ana llllllCl iltd'S ioooe" oii'
the enemy
DNB. official German news agen-
cy. indicated that, because OF
weather conditions. the German
air fleet had been forced to discon-
tinue. for the time being the terrific
rain of bombs and machine gun
fire with which it harasSed the
Allied retirement
The agency admitted that the
British are making a stand around
Dunkirk in an apparent effort to
protect evacuation operations to
the last moment. However, 1t was
said that only few remnants OF
the French forces in Flanders re-
mained in action.
A new rescue armada of hundreds
of ships sailed into Dunkirk har-
Dor and embarked additional thou
sands of trapped British and French
soldiers while Allied rear guard
troops were fighting like cats to
hold off the Germans. it was stated
authoritatively in London.
ReturlnS meNlDeTS Ol Ille ucicdl-
ed British expeditionary force in
Flanders-thousand of whom have
been evacuated safely from Dun
kirk, according to authorities here
said the Anglo-French forces still
were holding their modern "Corun-
ma line" in the triangle based on
the channel and that the Germans
were losing five men for every
Allied soldier killed.
The new rescue fleet included all
kinds and sizes of ships from naval
units to small coasters and traW-
lers. 1t sailed all the way into Dun
kirk harbor. it was said authorita-
lively. despite the fact that the
quaysides and nearby buildings were
aflame as a result of constant Ger
man bombing.
The Abbeville region, along the
mouth of the river Somme at the
channel coast, was re-taken by
the French. according to an official
analySiSt in Paris, who said that
the Germans suffered heavy losses.
An entire Nazi mechanical column
and 200 prisoners we're re|ortcd TAX
on in what may be GcneraliSSimO
Maxine WCygand'S first important
Continued ON Page s; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31
Olson Receives
Prison Report

SACRAMENTO. Cal. May 81
tJJP)-Gov. Culbert Olson today re-
ceived a lengthy report from Gov.
Fred P. Cone of Florida denying
charges of brutality in that state S
prison system made by Harry NJ
Blosdale, escaped Florida chain gang
convict, in an extradition hearing
here.
Olson refused to honor fugitive
warrant for Blosdale because he
believed the brutality charges were
substantiated and also because he
considered the former prisoner fully
rchabilitated. Blosdale escaped live
years ago after serving five years
on a robbery charge. He now lives
in Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31

'velt's request for natlOn-Wide war
on SubverSivc elements and enemies
of the government of the United
States.
Information regarding fifth col
umn activities should be turned over
To District Attorney Elmer Hcald,
Sheriff Robert Ware, or the Chief
of police in any city in the county,
Names and identity of those who
give the information to tho officials
will not be revealed. The informa-
ton. in compliance with President
RoOSeveltS orders shall be sent to
the navy or army intelligence Scrv-
ice or to the FBI
II was decided to use the present
law enforcement set-up as 1t was
already functioning and could be
used as fifth column clearing
house without additional cost to the
taxpayers of the county.
Private citizens were active in
the organization of the Imperial
county unit of the presidents anti
fifth column army Hcald said,
and will continue TO assist in every
way necessary.
This is not a time for hyStcra
but time for level-headCd sane
action against the danger which is
apparent to all of us and which
President Roosevelt wishes every
citizen to help weed out This gov
ernment must be protected against
its enemies and it is up to US to
help do it,"
Ware, Hcald, and all the chiefs
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31

RreSS, ne also asked leBlSldIlOn TO-
give him the authority to call into
active service such national guard
units as become necessary to main
tain neutrality and national de-
fenSc
Such legislation also would auth
orize him to call reserve personnel
into active service.
The President said that the criti-
cal days that lie ahead all the con-
tinents of the world including the
North American continent, might
become involved in the struggle now
raging abroad.
mo individual, no group, can
clearly foretell the future he said.
LAS long, however, as a possibility
exists that not one continent or two
continents, but all continents may
become involved in a worldwide
war, reasonable precaution demands
that American defense be made
more certain"
Mr.. Roosevelt specified no exact
figure for the added defense pro-
grain. DCUdllo Will W SifNh w
congress through his military and
naval specialists. But he said 1t
would be costly-running over ST.
600, 100000.
It was understood the full new
program would approximate $780,
600 1000 This would be broken down
into approximately s7OO,OO0,0OO for
the army, $500, 100000 for the navy,
and s25oooO 900 to train almost a
million young Americans in semi
military technical skills necessary
for operation of mechanical war
machine.
Such a program would drive de-
fense appropriations and authori-
cations for the coming fiscal year
close to total of $5,000,0O0, 900 a
figure unapproached since the ma
Continued on Page 6, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31
Norway Planning
New Operations

BARDU, Norway, HendquartclS
of the Norwegian Army, May 81
CUP)-Gen. Fleischcr, commander
of the Norwegian sixth division
the Morse general staff and French
commanders have gone to Narvik
to plan further operations IN inc
area.
Narvik. it was reported, has been
only slightly damaged in the two
months of fighting there and civil
ian casualties in the Norwegian ore
port during the Allied siege SAID
to have been surprisingly small.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31
Valley Joins U.S..
Paying Toll to
Highway Tragedies
Ell Centre Man Among
80 Killed in Crashes
On Nations Roads

One violent death in I'm
perial county Memorial day
helped swell the nations hol-
iday toll to $50.
Milton Milvin Revier, 81,
Ell Centro became the county's 18th
traffic victim this year His car
collided head-on south of Holtville
Thursday night with car driven by
Mrs. Joe Mayo, also of Ell Centre.
She suffered cuts, bruises, and a
knee injury.
California reported l3 violent
deaths Thursday and early Fri
day. Eighty persons were killed in
the United States in traffic acci-
dents 20 drowned. Is took their
own lives, and 80 died from other
violence. The nations total was
expected to mount to 500 at the
end of the four-day holiday period.
The fatal traffic accident in I'M
perial county occurred 2lk miles
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31
Fire Siren Blast Will
Mobilize Legion Forces

Two short blasts repeated three.
times on the Ell Centre fire siren
carly next week will summon Am
crlcan Lcgionnaires to report in an
nual mobilization tests.
The mobilization is to keep legion
men in training for emergency work
such as was demonstrated at BraW-
lev during the recent earthquake
disaster. Legion Commander C. H.
H. Small of Boyce Aten post, said
The mobilization activities, which
will take place all over California
as we'll as in Imperial Valley, will
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31

Off Honor Roll

PARIS, May 81. tUPl-Thc name
of King Leopold of Belgium has
been stricken from the roll of the
Legion of Honor, it was announced
officially today He held the high
est rank, the Grand Cross.
A French spokesman, comment
ing on the surrender of the Belgian
army, avoided any declaration that
treason was involved but said that
The Allied armies we're abandoned
by the Belgian king
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31
Vivien Leigh to
Assume War Duty

NEW YORK, May 81. (UP)-
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier
will end their current Broadway
appearance in Romeo and Juliet
on June to report for war duty
in London, 1t was announced today,
The British actress and actor,
who say they will be married when
their respective divorces become fl
nal, said they had received a COM
munication from the British min
istry of information in answer to
their offer of service. Miss Leigh
said the ministry had invited them
to come home and that they would
do so as soon as possible,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-31

Little was heard of the coming
election before the earthquake May
l8 and still less after it.
Judge Vaughn N. Thompson is
q candidate for reelection to the
bench in superior court. Charles
L. Childers will oppose him for
the position.
Faint whispers were heard now
and then of prospective candidates
for assemblymen and supervisors in
the Imperial and Brawley districts.
Nothing definite was announced In
connection with these offices.