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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina - Fair in west partly
cloudy and preceded by rain in east
portion Saturday. Sunday fair. Slight.
ly cooler in interior Saturday. s
(By o. 8. Weather Bureau)
meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1870 p. m. yesterday.
Temperature
1870 a. m. So; 7:30 a. m. 65: 1:30 D.
m. HiS7:30 p. m. SO; maximum 70; mini.
mum 81; mean IS; normal 60.
Humidity
1870 a. m. 80; 7:30 a. m. "a; 1:3O p. m,
70; 7:3O p. m. "a.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7:3O o m
0.02 inches; total since first of the
month 0.02 inches.
Tides For Today
(From Tide Tables published by n. s
Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington -- II :3Sa 6.17a
lisp 6:51p
M~asonDoro Inlet ------- 9:2Sa 3:00a
9:42p 3:42p
Sunrise 6:33a; sunset 5:19p; moonrise
9:22a; moonset 8:03p.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. c.,
8 a. M, October 81, SO feet.
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Navy' sCaribbean Moves
Stir Interest In Capital

Speculation in unofficial quarters
centered on two possible explana-
tions:
/. That the naval forces were being
concentrated near the French islands
of Martinique and Guadalupe and
French Guiana, on the South Amer
lean mainland, in readiness to &C.
cupy them Immediately in the event
the Vichy governments collaboration
with Germany and Italy was con
sidered an impairment of French
sovereignty over parts of the Colonial
Empire.
2. That the neutrality patrol was
taking increased precautions against
possible Axis sea raiding operations
Continued on. Page TwO; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
HIGHWAY PROJECT
APPROVED BY WPA
Total OF $44,340 AIlocat.
ed For Completion OF
Work On River Road

A WPA road-building project in
Ne" Hanover county, calling for
expenditures of $44, $40 was ap.
eFoved in Raleigh yesterday by C.
" McGlnnis, state administrator.
The work will give employment
70 IA persons.
Addison Hewlett, chairman of,
me county board of commissioners
SAID last night that the project was
primarily for the completion of the
WORK on he old River Road"
f riIe work will include grading,
anllg and the addition of a soil
surface. W.
hewlett said that work will be
ug5e on other roads, which the
%sa, through the state highway
apartment, may decide necessary
Nv among INC other PROJECTS, approved
y me "PA for this section were:
~ brunswick county, build school
G. op Southport. s7,724, IS workers;
wOIanous, build roads, s38, 1877. 130
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
ROOSEVELT RAPED
BY FASCIST EDITOR
Gayda Accuses President
Of Starting Offensive
Against Nazis, Italy

ROME, Nov. 1.-R-President
Roosevelt was accused today by
Virginia Gayda, the highly-placed
fascist editor, Of initiating an Of
fensive against Germs-y and tia.
ly and of responsibility for Great
ing, along with his supporters, an
theological political conflict
which is skidding toward belliger-
ency between the United States
and the Axis"
He declared again, however,
that Italy is not interested in the
outcome of the presidential cleo
ton in the United States.
Writing in II Giornale D'Italia,
Gayda-who frequently speaks Of
fetal fascist opinion-offered what
he termed an answer to the speech
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
TALKS ON TRAIN
Charges F. R. With De
ceptive Optimism In Dis
cussing Arms Progress
TO O TOUR
Candidate Says New Deal
Has Not Understood
Facts OF Production

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN IN
NEW JERSEY, Nov. 1-R-Wen-
dell L. Willkie charged President
Roosevelt tonight with deceptive
optimism" in declaring in his Bos-
ton address that the nation was
making very rapid progress" to-
ward a goal of So 900 planes a year.
Citing the Presidents announce
ment that he had asked the priori-
ties board to give "sympathetic
consideration to a British request
for permission to negotiate in this
country for IL. 900 additional planes,
which Willkie said brought the
British orders to $4,000 planes, the
republican presidential nominee de-
clared:
But he does not tell us when
Britain will get those 5000 planes,
nor when our military forces will
get the $4,000 planes he talks
about"
Ends Drive Today
The republican candidate spoke
over a nationwide network from
his special train, parked overnight
on a siding in the New Jersey
marshes, a few miles from New
York city, where tomorrow night
he will end an 10, 00O-mile cam
paign tour.
Charging the New Deal with
neglect in seeking expansion of
airplane production, and asserting
that the administration for seven
years has not understood the facts
Of production" Willkie said in his
prepared address:
ut is time to turn our backs on
the wasted years of stihed enter
prise, neglected industry, and
chronic unemployment. American
productive capacity, given the
chance which it has been denied
for the past seven years, can give
us not only the airplanes that we
need-it a. make us once more a
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02

This area, said the official Ital-
ian news agency Stefani, has 3d.
900 inhabitants and contains 70 vii.
lagos. Its precise geographic linn
its were not given.
The authoritative assertion that
advance groups Of Italian armor-
ed cars were now operating behind
the Metaxas line-an irregular Sc.
rles Of pill box and other fortihca.
tons roughly following the con.
tours of the Greek Albanian from.
tler-was based upon a report to
the Italian high command that the
Greek highway junction of Kaliba-
XII had been reached.
Officials here, unable to locate q
Continued on Page -Four, Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
CRETE ATTACKED
Claim They Have
Pushed One Segment OF
Italian Invasion Back
TAKE
88 Killed And 2O6 Injured
In Italian Air Raids On
Is Greek Towns

ATHENS, Nov. 1.-QP-Greece's
tinv air force swapped blows with
the vastly more numerous warplanes
of italy today while Greek ground
forces in the northwest declared
they had pushed one segment OF
the Italian invasion back to the Al
bantam frontier.
Greek planes flew back and forth
over the wild, mountainous border
area, cutting loose with bombs and
bullets at the Italians wherever
they could find them. The fascist
air arm itself was busy blasting at
the islands of Crete and Corfu and
the city of Larisa on the rail line
running north from Athens; Piraeus.
Athens big port, and the port OF
Salonika.
Mountain Taken
(Reuters, British news agency, re-
ported from Athens the Greeks not
only hurled the Italians back to the
Albanian frontier but stormed anc
captured an important mountain an6
seized an Albanian area embracing
several villages.
(This advance apparently was in
the vicinity of Koritza, just across
the border in Albania, where Greek
fighters captured a height dominating
the town after fierce hand-to-hand
fighting, Exchange Telegraph, an
other British news agency, reported.
Exchange Telegraph said Greek
fliers dropped three tons Of bombs
on two Italian airdromes at Koritza,
destroying n and badly damaging
the other).
A Greek announcement said 8S
persons were killed and 206 injured
in Italian raids on 10 Greek towns
during the day. Twenty-Five of the
casualties were reported at Corfu.
Fascist warplanes, apparently coming
from the nearby Dodecanese Islands,
dumped two dozen bombs on Canea,
Crete Island, but the damage was
said to have been slight.
Slow Drive
In five days of fighting, the Ital-
ians have accomplished only a SUBJ
dued form of blitzkrieg, declared the
Greeks, who claimed that in addi-
ton to throwing the Italians back
in the northwest they were holding
firm everywhere else along the rug
ged frontier.
These claims Tin direct contradict
ton to Italian assertions that the
invaders spearheads had split the
"Metaxas line" and penetrated IS
miles into Greece, were made while
bombs thumped again in Piraeus,
Athens big port.
Other Italian planes raided Salon
ika, hitting a hospital, a church and
several other buildings and killing
IS persons and wounding so. Two
the raiders were shot down into
the sea. Residents estimated more
than fifty bombs were dropped, and
several fires started.
Residents of Athens went twice to
air raid shelters, but the capital it.
self was not bombed, although ex-
plosions could be heard from Piraeus,
4 miles away.
In Greek eyes the reported sue
cess in the northwest snagged one
the Italians two main drives
one on I%oannina (Janina), north
arn key to Athens.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Italians Claim Breaches
Blasted In MetaxaS Line

ROME, Nov. 1-LR-Italian arm
ored motorized units were officially
declared tonight to have made ap-
parent breaches in Greece's Me-
taxas line at some points, pushing
forward over rugged terrain heavy
with three or four inches of mud.
For other and larger Fascist
forces was claimed the capture of
a populous area extending IS miles
within the invaded country in the
region OF Ioannina, the strategical-
ly important Greek city which is
the main immediate objective of
the Italian campaign.
(The Italian radio in a broadcast
picked up in New York asserted
that %Ioannina itself has been
reached"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Two Receive Medals For
Carolina Beach Rescue

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1,-R-rhe
no,ae nero fund commission an
,r0uhced tonight the award of bronze
for 10 three North Carolinians
" ~ acts of heroism.
flo De recipients are Robert c. Lit
The greensboro, Ford D. Little of
Nivos 1li'e address, and Walter James
anonn OF Charlotte. They were
hized. VI 10 STATES so recos-
tb.ir commission told this story of
scbo.l C' Little-"Little, aged 10,
depnir 'oy' saved Nancy W. Glen
Csrolii' aged 10, from drowning,
ls3. ''Ia Beach, N. c., August II,
While wadins in the Atlantic
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Bost Says U.S.. WillNot
Sell Roosevelt Short
Britain Asks Citizens
To Leave Yugoslauia

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-(R-
The official Rome radio in a
broadcast heard tonight by NBC
said Britain has requested" all
her nationals to leave Yugo-
slavia, neighbor of Italian-invad-
ed Greece, within 48 hours.
The English language broad
cast by the Rome stations said
the British governments action
was disclosed by the British lega-
ton in Belgrade, capital of Yugo-
slavia, and by British consulates
in that country.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
CHARLOTTE BOARD
FIRES LITTLEJ0HN
Captain OF Detectives Is
Dismissed From Char
lotte Police Force

CHARLOTTE, Nov. 1.-R-
Frank N. Littlejohn, capain of de-
tectives, was dismissed from the
Charlotte police department today
after the Civil Service Commits
sion, by a vote of two to one,
found him guilty of conduct I'm
becoming an officer.
The commission convicted the
detective captain in connection
with two of seven charges pre-
CONTINUED on Page Two. Col. Y,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Begins 24-Hour Campaign
Through N. Y, Penn
svlvania And Ohio
POINTS TO EVIL
Says Nation Should Take
Warning From Countries
That Have Perished
BY MAX BOYD

BROOKLYN, Nov. 1.-R-Presi-
dent Roosevelt charged tonight
that an ''unholy alliance" had
been formed in the republican par
" by ''the extreme reactionary
and the extreme radical elements
in this country" they having no
common ground except to PRO
duce dictatorial ends"
Starting a final, intensive a.
hour campaign through New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, the Presi-
dent spoke over a nationwide NBC
network before a crowd which fill
ed the old academy of music to
its capacity of about 1000 persons.
The President declared that
every one knew the story about
the unfortunate chameleon who
died a tragic death when they put
him on a Scotch plaid" and add
ed:
Secret Promises
We all know what would hap
pen 10 government if it tried to
fulfill all the secret understand
ings and promises made between
the conflicting groups which are
now backing the republican par
ty."
He declared something evil'
was happening when "a full page
advertisement against this admin
lstratlon, paid for by republican
supporters appeared in 1.-The
newspaper of the communist par
" and when vast quantities of
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
British Bomb
Naples Depot
And Oil Tanks.
Three Waves OF Planes
Keep City Under Attack
For Forty-Five Minutes
GERMAN VESSEL IS HIT
Ground Batteries Blast Five
German Raiders Out OF
Skies Over England

LONDON, Nov. 1.-R-British,
air raiders, striking again at both
ends of the Rome-Berlin A S,
bombed Naples last night in their
first attack on the Southern Ital-
ian mainland, the air ministry re-
ported today.
Three waves of British planes
kept the city under attack for three
quarters of an hour, it said, and
dropped explosives on its railroad
station and junction, IN oil, stor-
age tanks and refineries.
Nazi Ship Hit
Although mo operations were
carried out over Western and Cen
trail Germany b e C a of bad
weather." an air ministry COM
mrnique said, a direct hit was
scored yesterday by a coastal COM
mand plane on a merchant ship
off the German-held Norwegian,
The vessel was a camoufaged
3,000-ton German supply ship, the
news service added. Aft
er a direct hit, it said, white smoke
poured out and part of the ships
cargo was seen in the water.
The report acknowledged that,
on eof the coastal commands
American-built Lockheeds was shot
down.
Confronted by only light and
Ineffective ground defenses, the
news service said the British
planes raiding Naples dived at
times to within 1000 feet of the
city to drop their heavy bombs.
Able to "pinpoint" their targets,
said, the British raiders set
off many explosions which we're
followed by fires.
The report said the first British
concentrated on the oil re-
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
Is BRITISH SHIPS
SUNK BY GERMANS
Nazi News Agency Claims
Nine Others Damaged In
Attack Off Britain

BERLIN, Nov. 1.-R-German
diver bombers screaming down on
three British conveys eff the very
shores of Britain today sank Is
ships-lncluding m cruiser
totaling $4,000 tons and badly dam.
aged nine others aggregating &c.
900 tons, the DNB official news
agency said tonight.
The agency said the attacks &C.
CURED as the conveys approached
southeast coast harbors. One, it
said, a in the mouth of the
Thames river.
Near Great Yarmouth DNB de-
clared a single Heinkel bomber
sank a protecting cruiser and
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
BY j. c. STARK

WASHINGTON, Nov. L. R-
Secret movements of United States
naval forces in the Eastern Carib.
bean area stirred considerable inter
est here tonight.
Warships and planes appeared to
be gathering in the area of French
possessions at the eastern end Of the
Caribbean but there was no explana-
ton in official quarters.
The entire neutrality patrol fleet
from Key West, Fla, was at sea on
a secret mission; air reinforcements
arrived at San Juan, Puerto Rico,
and an undetermined number Of war
ships was observed off San Juan
steaming east into the Atlantic today.
.- ' '.r sc -.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
COUNTY IS READY
FOR VOTE TUESDAY
Today Last Day On Which
Absentee Ballots Nav Be
Obtained From Board

Preparations were completed yes
terday by the county board
of elections for the g-neral cleo
ton to be held Tuesday, when the
polls will be open from 6:36 am.
until SIG pm, or from sunrise to
sunset.
H. G. Carney, chairman of the
elections board, pointed out again
that today is the last day on which
absentee ballots may be procured
for the election and that this year
they must be procured in person
by the party that wishes to use
them. They may be obtained any
time today at Carney's office on the
Continued on Page Four, Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
War
Interpretive
BY KIRKE L.. p

Turkeys guarded statement of
her policy toward the Italo-Greek
war contains more food for thought
than the conflicting reports of bat
tie progress from Athens and
Rome.
President Inonu's statement . to
the Turkish parliament contained
a distinct intimation that Turkey
and Russia see eye to eye in with
holding action pending fuller de-
Jelopment of German-Italian stra-
tegy. But this was coupled with a
clear warning to the Axis powers to
avoid tresspass on vital Turkish
interests.
The fact that Turkey was collab-
Grating with her treaty mate,
Britain, in studying the Italo-Greek
Continued on Page Four, Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-02
RAINFALL MAY END
SALT WATER HERE
Reports OF Heavy Precipi.
tation On Cape Fear
Watershed Received

Reports of steady rains on the up
per Cape Fear river watershed gave
rises to slight hopes here last night
that Wilmington's salt water situa-
ton may be relieved soon.
At Salisbury the rain was SO hard
that a football game between Cataw-
ba and. Western Carolina Teachers
college had to be cancelled. Several
High school games were called off
because Of rain in that section.
Commissioner of Public Works
James E.. L.. Wade said last night
CONTINUED on PAGE Two: Col. 81
Evening star., 1940-01-28
Greenbelt Residents Take Over
Ownership Of Coop Stores

After two and a half years opera
ton, the cooperative stores in
Greenbelt, Md, are showing sub
stantial profits and their ownership
has been taken over entirely by the
towns residents.
Heretofore the enterprises had the
guidance and support Of the Con-
sumner Distribution Corp, nom
profit agency set up under the will
Of the late Boston merchant, Ed
ward A. Filene, to aid consumer CO.
operatives.
In announcing yesterday that the
residents of Greenbelt have COM
pletely taken over the project, Percy
S. Brown Of New York, president of
the corporation said the town be-
comes the first in the modern history
Of the United States to attempt put
ting the ownership of all its busi-
nesses in the hands of all its people.
Mr.. Brown explained that Green
belt people have at last subscribed
to so per cent of the stock In the
cooperative, thereby meeting the
final requirement necessary to as
sumo control.
From now on, board Of directors
chosen by Greenbelters from among
Evening star., 1940-01-28

themselves will run Greenbelt's en-
terprises, exerting central control
through holding company called
Greenbelt Consumer Services, Inc.
This holding company will own
the grocery store, the drugstore, the
gas station, the valet shop, the bar
ber shop, the beauty shop and the
movie theater.
Each resident of Greenbelt may
buy stock in the holding company
He will get a fixed return, but, re-
gardless of how many shares he
holds, he will have only one vote.
This precludes control by q small
group or clique.
Patrons as we'll as stockholders
share in the profits. Every pur-
chase Is recorded. At the end of
the year, after stockholders divi-
dends are paid from profits, the
customers share the balance in
ratio to their purchases. In effect,
this reduces prices.
The first task of the new holding
company will be to pay $40, 900 due
the Consumer Distribution Corp. on
q $35,000 loan.
Mr.. Brown said the strict CASH
(see GREENBELT. PAGE ABB
Evening star., 1940-01-28
Nozi Victory in BoIkons
May Prove Pyrrhic
BY JOHN T. WHITAKER,

Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent
PARIS, Jan. 27-German pressure
on Rumania, as on other small neu-
trails, seems likely today to bring
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler another VIC
tory. but it may prove pyrrhic, for,
in expanding through the Balkans,
Germany risks opening another front
which would enable the allies to
come to grips with the Nazis at last.
II the war were to spread into the
Balkans, the allies would then have
the other prong of the nutcracker.
Today the Maginot Line, without
another front. gives the allies no
chance to crush the Germans at
closer quarters than is possible now
with the distant naval blockade.
Even if Hitler intimidates Ru-
mania into handing over oil which
belongs to British and French COM
panies. he risks. by that very act,
spreading the war into the Balkans,
which have remained at peace pri-
marily because there has been as yet
no German threat to arouse those
volatile peoples.
Even Italy will be compelled to
re-examine its situation. So far,
the Italians have worked with a
convenient formula, declaring that
they will fight against Russian in
vasion Of the Balkans, by which
(See RUMANIA, Page A-13)
Evening star., 1940-01-28
Japan Opens Drive
To Expand Trade in
Oil With Mexico
Preparations Being Made
To Get Petroleum if
U. S. Imposes Embargo
Sy the Associated Press,

oy Tie Associated FTeSS.
MEXICO CITY, Jan 27.-Reliable
sources today reported that expira-
ton of the Japanese-United States
commercial treaty already has re-
suited in an intensive drive by Japan
to expand her trade with Mexico
particularly in oil.
Japan now obtains most of the oil
needed to run her vast industrial
and war machines from California
wells, but was said to be making
preparations to obtain Mexican oil in
case of United States embargo
A secondary consideration, these
sources said. was the exploitation of
Mexico's iron resources.
Mexico, holding nearly $4,000 900
barrels of thus far unsaleable oil
and willing to negotiate barter
pact, has been receptive to Japanese
representatives now here.
Would Trade With Devil.
One responsible government Off
cial asserted:
I'VE would do business with the
devil if he wanted oil and could
pay for it,
Japanese delegations, well-in-
formed quarters indicated, have OBJ
tanned new oil well drilling permits
Informed foreign sources said the
Japanese also were studying means
of assisting the Mexican government
in dredging Salina Cruz, Pacific
Coast port. and improving petroleum
storage facilities there.
At present it is almost impossible
to ship Mexican oil from Pacific
Coast port. This is serious con-
sideration because Japan is re-
luctant to make the more expensive
and time consuming voyage to Mex
ico's east coast ports and also loath
to have her lines of supply pass
through the United States-con-
trolled Panama Canal.
Barter Basis OF Trade.
The basis of expanded trade be-
tween Japan and Mexico would be
barter after an original investment
of Japanese capital, informed per-
sons said, because Mexico does not
have the resources to make extensive
purchases in Japan.
Mexico was said to be willing to
take Japan's low-priced manufac-
lures in return for her oil and iron
The director of the Vera Cruz
Petroleum Co., which is reported to
be controlled by Japan's vast Mitsui
interests, has announced that COM
pany engineers were preparing to
drill 80 new wells. More than 500
tons of new equipment and substan-
tial japanese capital were said to
have been placed at the company's
disposal.
Among the Japanese representa-
tives in Mexico at present are Koiti
Tenniti, secretary of the depart
ment of commerce and industry of
Japan, and Isamu Ohya, representa-
tive Of Japan's railroads and gov
ernment tourist ONCE.
Evening star., 1940-01-28
Nazi Spy Ring in France
And Switzerland Barred
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BERN. Switzerland, Jan. 81
Swiss police today arrested retired
Swiss Army officer of the highest
peacetime rank and said the arrest
was the first to be announced in the
cleanup of a large German espionage
ring working in both Switzerland
and France.
The ofiicer was Col. A. Fonjallaz
once active in Switzerland's dis
banded Naz movement.
Col. Fonjallez was arrested near
Schanhausen while on his way from
Zurich to Germany. Also held was
a German who crossed the Swiss
frontier to the village Of Schlethein,
near Schaffhausen.
Swiss counterespionage police
said Col. Fonjallez was carrying i'm
portant information on French war
plans and was to have had q rem
devious at Schlethein with the Ger
mans.
Informed sources here said Swiss
police were put on the trail of the
ring by French counterespionage
agents. French police were reported
to have made q number Of arrests
themselves. Further arrests were
expected in Switzerland.
News Of the arrest Of Col. Fonjallez
caused . sensation In Switzerland
because the rank Of colonel Is the
highest Swiss ofdcer can attain
in peacetime. -