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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
SIX LOCAL GUARD
OFFICERS LEAVE
Go To Fort Moultrie And Fort
screven To Make All Ad-
vance Arrangements

Six National Guard Officers 1roln
Wilmington left yesterday
for Fort Moultrie, S. G., n for'
screven, Ca, to make advance ar,
ranqements for the arrival OF
troops beginning Sunday.
Members of the regimental statr OF
the 252nd Coast Artillery, composed
of Col. r. S. McCelland, Capt. J. r.
Howe and sergeant-Major Percy {.
West. were among the first to leave
yesterday.
Other officers leaving were MAJOR
J. B. McCumber, Capt. Cecil Matthes
and Lieut.. w. H. Hancammon, Jr. :
Their departure followed the re-
Eceipt of orders early in the afternoon
preceding previous orders, ordering
them to leave Immediately for camp.
An advance detail of Battery A Is
scheduled to leave for Fort Screven
this morning.
Other units to follow Immediately
are Battery A, in full, Battery B, of
Lumberton and the First battalion of
Headquarters battery from Raeford,
of the 252nd Coast Artillery.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
PASSES In RICHMOND
Respirator Rushed To Vir-
GINA City In Effort To
Save Students Life

The efforts of Is seminary class
mates and a 232-mile dash from
Wilmington to Richmond, Va, with
an iron lung yesterday proved
to be in vain, for last night Rob-
ert Ramsey, 27-year-old Union
Theological Seminary student, sue
cumbed to infantile paralysis just
a few hours after he had been plac-
ed in the r%espirator.
Death came to the Jonesboro,
Ark, native and graduate of Dav-
idson less than four hours after the
Iron lung" had arrived in Rich.
mond from Wilmington, and began
to pump air into his paralyzed
lungs.
Before the Iron lung" arrived
Ramsey's classmates administered
artificial respiration throughout
the day in an effort to save his life.
w. P. Farrar, of the Farrar
Transfer company which rushed
the respirator to the bedside of the
stricken young man, said last night
the drivers of the truck bearing the
machine reported their arrival al
the hospital at 5:45 o'clock.
Placed In Respirator
Ramsey was Immediately placed
in the respirator in an effort tc
save his life.
Virginia State police escorted the
truck from the North Carolina line
to Richmond.
Mr.. Farrar said that the trip was
made in record time for a heavy
vehicle.
DR.. Ben Lacy, president of the
Union Theological seminary at
Richmond, telephoned yesterday
morning and reported that Ramsey
there is i'll in the Stewart Circle
hospital and in need of immediate
use Of an iron lung. The student
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
Are
Ready To Pay
Huge Ransom
Son OF Count And Countess
Marc De Tristan Seized
By Man Near Home
100000 IS DEMANDED
Kidnaper Strikes Nurse To
Ground, Loses Hat While
Fleeing In Auto

HTLLsBOROUGH, Calf. Sept.
A-Y-The Count and Countess
rsrc de Tristan. whose three-year
al bow was kidnapped near their
home today by a dark, hook-nosed
man, are willing to pay a request
ed 500, 900 ransom, it was dis
closed tonight.
we are ready to meet all de-
mspds Of the man." said a state
ment by Louis S. Gates, wealthy
rrporation head and stepfather of
the countess.
Gates asked law enforcement Of
tcers and all others to withdraw
from the vicinity of the house ito
give the person holding the boy
every opportunity to communicate
with u.s."
Grabbed From Nurse
The victim of the abduction,
Marc de Tristan, Jr., was grabbed
from his nurse, middle-aged Mary
Foley, with whom he was walking
in the fashionable residential guar
ter. The ransom note, left with
he nurse, was signed "Unconven-
Ianal Eccentric"
Authorities, in first reporting the
hinaping, said two men were In
wled-one who snatched the
child, and a second who drove the
kdnap car. Later, they said it
was uncertain there was a second
man.
The kidnaper struck the nurse to
the ground, grabbed the baby and
ran. In his flight he lost his hal
which, with the 60O-word ransom
note and a meager description Of
The kidnap car, was the only clue
At hand.
FBI Takes Charge
The distracted parents were near
collapse as FBI men took charge
dhe first big kidnap case in the
tstm in many months.
The note was specific in direct
Ing the manner in which the $780,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
IND0-CHINA
DEMANDS REDUCED
Government OF French Col
ony Says Conversations
Are Being Resumed

HANOI, French Indo-China, Sept.
21.-(SaturdayeR-The govern
ment of this French colony an
nounced late last night that japan
had modified her demands for limit
ed" military facilities in IndoChina
and conversations were being re-
sumed with an agreement expected.
During the day, the negotiations
had broken down and the head of the
Japanese military mission had. said
plainly that the world now could
look for a "crisis."F
The new communicate said:
"The japanese military authorities
having modified the range of their
demands, negotiations between the
Japanese and the Indo-China govern
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
F. DR. Warns
Against Rule
By Few Men
Says Safeguard To U. S.
Freedom Lies In Free.
Unhampered Elections
INSPECTS NAVY YARD
Tells Newsmen AT Philadel-
phia Nation Has Art OF
Speed In Emergency

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20.-R-
President Roosevelt, warning
against rule by a 'few at the top"
declared today that the ultimate
safeguard to Americas heritage of
freedom lies in free and unham-
pered elections.
And, he told IA, 1000 students and
alumni at the University of Penn
sylvania, mo dictator in history
has eve dared to run the gaunt-
LETT of such an election.
The chief executive said that he
placed his faith in "the superior
ability of the whole of the voters
to pass upon political and social
issues in free and unhampered,
elections, as against the exclusive
ability of a smaller group of in
dividuaIs at the top of the social
structure"
Must Face Problems
IN the hall where the democratic
party gave him his second nomin-
| alton in 1886, Mr.. Roosevelt de-
clared this is no time for any man
ito withdraw into some ivory
tower and hold himself aloof from
''the problems and agonies OF his
society"
Merely by averting his eyes, the
president said in an address &c
students and alumni of the Univer'
sity of Pennsylvania, no man car
sever the bonds which unite him
to his society.
He spoke at Convention H !
where, three months ago, the re.
publican party nominated Wendell
Willkie to oppose him in the NO
vember election. His address, com
ing after an inspection of key Phil
adelphia units in the nations $l5,'
DOC, OoO, 900 defense program, eli
NAKED the University of Pennsyl'
vania's 20Oth anniversary celebra'
ton.
Inspects Yard
Before the speech, the presloen'
spent nearly two morning hours
inspecting the Philadelphia navy
yard, the skyscraper naval hospl
tai here, and the army quarter
master depot.
He told newsmen his navy yarc
visit convinced him that the United
States has learned the art OF speec
in an emergency. Warship and ar,
plane construction at the yard, ne
said, was going ahead at a mucf
faster tempo than a year ago.
The president drove five miles
from the navy yard to the aual
torium through the heart OF the
nations third largest city-che aa,
ing crowds, estimated at 100 o..
bv w. A. Landvoigt, chief OF IN
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21

line plans for making buildings as
~fre-resistant as. possible.
The meeting will be held in the
temporary town hall at 8 o'clock.
Meanwhile, officers are going
ahead with their investigation OF
what caused the fire that caused
damages tentatively estimated to
be between $500, 900 and 1000. 900.
Mayor Fergus said, I'VE are 60
ing to have a thorough investiga-
ton into the cause of this fire. l
don't know how far we will get with
it, but we are going to have every
I
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
GILLETTE URGES
FISH PROTECTION
Asks Conservation OF Sea.
food Industry In Talk
At kiwanis Meeting

sWANsBoRo. Sept. 2o.-The
protection and conservation of
North Cardinals fish industry, es-
pecially seafoods, was urged by
Lieut.. Col. George Gillette, Will
mington district army engineer, in
an address here tonight at the dis
trict Kiwanis clubs meeting.
Ennis Murrell, president of the
Jacksonville club, presided over
the banquet session, which was at
tended by 100 delegates from clubs
in Goldsboro, Wilmington, Green
vile, New Bern, Wilson and Jack
sonville.
Billy Arthur, Jacksonville news
paperman, acted as POSTMASTER.
tThe development of the fishing
industry affects not only the people
of this section but all Of North
Carolina" Col. Gillette declared.
He said that the army engineers
are helping in the work of devel-
oping the industry by cutting chan
nels which allow ocean water to
get into the streams. He added,
however, I'VE must assist nature
by taking care not to harvest
everything as we 60 along"
Col. Gillette said that he hoped
the dredging of New river would
re-establish the oyster industry IN
that section.
In North Carolina there r a
million and a half acres Of sound
land available for shellfish produc-
ton and only about half OF this
is in use, he declared.
.sWe must treat shellfish as we
would a crop" he said in advo,
eating the slogan of protect ana
conserve"
In declaring the need for nalar-
ial control in this section, Col. Gill
lette offered the slogan of screens
drainage and quinine' as the best
solution.
Col. Gillette was introduced by
Ed Smith, of Marines. The rev
R. E. Mcclure, of New Bern, gave
the invocation, and John D. war
lex of Jacksonville, delivered the
address of welcome. Ralph DEAL
of Greenville, responded.
Arthur Ruffin, of Wilson, district
Kiwanis governor, reported on the
progress of the clubs in this region
stating that in the past year the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
ARE HIT
Planes Bent On Burning
Out Hitler's Invasion Ar
teries' AT Their Roots
PLANES RETURN
British Estimate 100000
Nazi Troops Are Prac-
ticing Landings

LONDON, Sept. 203R'-Ice-shea-
thed British bombers have struck
three devastating blows at n OF
the vital links in Germany's in
ternal waterways network, offici-
al sources disclosed tonight.
Bent on burning out Hitler's I'm
vasion arteries" at their roots, the
Rcyal Air Force dive bombers, IN
the face of gales of rain and sleet,
smashed for hours last night and
early today at the great aqueducts
which carry the long Dortmund-
Ems canal over the river Ems
near Munster. The air ministry
said they effectively disrupted the
repair work which the Germans
have been pressing following ear
lier attacks.
One of Series
This daring night foray into the
heart of Westphalia was only one
of a series of attacks on German
road. railway and water commu-
nication systems, on the channel
lports where Hitler has massed ms
invasion fleet" of barges and OF
troopships, on airdromes in and
out of Germany from all these
raids. the air ministry said, all
British planes returned safely.
Moreover, the Kingdoms silent
service, the admiralty. gave Oh
fetal support to earlier reports
that his majesty's submarine stur-
geon had sunk a 1O,OoO-ton Ger
man troopship off Northern Den
mark nearly three weeks ago.
British estimates that 200, 900 OF
German troops are methodically
practicing landing exercises On the
Morse coast gave added point to
the systematic work of both r. "A.
F. and navy in striking at the
roots of these offensive forces.
Over Familiar Ground
The British bombers we're over
familiar ground in their thrust at
the long canal which runs from
Dortmund to the German North
Sea naval base at Emden, for they
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
Married Men Will Not
BeExemptedFromD Draft

WASHINGTON, Sept. 90 Up -
Army officials made it plain today
that married men will not be exempt
ed from the draft simply and auto
matically because they are married.
In each individual case, that point
is to be decided by the local draft
board on its own merits and, if neces-
sary, after an inquiry as to whether
the wife or other dependent is actual
ly dependent upon the draftee's earn.
ings for a livelihood. Thus, private
means Of income and such questions
as whether the wife has a job APP
pareptly are to be taken into con-
sheraton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
sD Despite Use
OfWilmingtonIronLung
Thousands Oh Tanks
Are Ordered By u. S.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-(R
"A $75,OOO,O 900 order for several
thousand tanks was announced
today by the War department,
along with contracts for smoke
less powder, ammunition and
other ordnance material costing
altogether $3S6,279,4OO.
The tank order, distributed
among three manufacturers, was
the largest in peacetime.
The Baldwin Locomotive
Works, Philadelphia, was given
a $33,335,50 order and the Amer
lean Locomotive company, whose
principal plant is at Schenectady,
N. Y, a $32,O7O, 900 contract.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
Guards Quen
Prison Camp
Uprising Here
One Of Convicts, jane
Page, Wounded In Thigh
And Wrist During Riot
RIOT in DINING ROOM
'Agitators' Are Blamed By
Eakins; Says Men Have
Not Complained

Convicts who staged a "mutiny
or riot" during which one of their
number was shot and wounded in
the thigh and wrist, at the New
Hanover state prison camp here
Yesterday morning, had quoted
down last night, Superintendent Err.
nest Eakins said.
The wounded prisoner, James
Page, 20-year-old negro of Colum.
bus county, was sent last night tc
Central prison in Raleigh fol
treatment by prison physicians.
Treated at Hospital
He had previously been giver
treatment for a shattered wrist
and a flesh wound in the thigh a.
James Walker Memorial hospital
Eakins sal dthat apparently he
Was not injured to a great extern
and that he was removed to Ra
leigh after physicians here sale
that he was able to travel salts
factorily.
The convicts, who staged the rio
at breakfast, gaye-no trouble while
at work yesterday, he said, ane
last night everything appeared tt
have been quoted down to normal
Eakins could give nc reason for
the outbreak. It's just something
that happens in prison life," he
said.
In explaining how the mutiny
started, he said when the mer
went into the dining room tc
breakfast this morning they start
ed a riot or a mutiny, I guess you
would call it. They were walking
up and down the tables, kicking
he pans and throwing the food of
the tables"
Il was eating breakfast at the
time and heard them so 1 went to
the door. When I saw what they
were doing I hollered at them for
order and they stopped. 1 ordered
them out of doors and they went.
One MANTLE one who was shot
had a soft drink bottle that
we use for a vinegar bottle in his
hand and a across the tables.
Curses Steward
when he got out on the yard
he also picked up a piece of coal
and when the steward, jackson,
went up to him he began to curse
jackson and raised his hand as il
to hit him with the coal. jackson
shot at him and the bullet took eff
feet in Pages wrist. Then they
tangled as Page tried to get his
gun and Jackson shot him again,
this time in the hip or thigh.
Another man had a shovel-or
at least a piece of a shovel-bu1
he put it down and everything
came under control"
Eakins blamed "agitators" fol-
the mutiny, saying: They have
been trying to agitate trouble here
for some time" He said the prison
ers have not lodged any particular
complaint with him and that he
Didn't believe they could be dis
satisfied with the food.
The Menu
For breakfast this morning, fol
example," he said, "they hao
sliced bacon, gravy, American
fried potatoes, biscuits, corr
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
Carolina Beach Citizens
10 Talk Building Plans

Cane, nal'e an investigation of the
ts 's OF the fire which destroyed
b. uSlhess district of Carolina
usdss early Thursday morning was
Gals way yesterday, town Off
ertv .ailed a meeting of all prop
euss holders Monday night to dis
,Duilolng plans for the future.
pron.ut Il. c. Fergus said that the
meet y-nolders at the beach will
plans WIN officials and go over
burns Tor buildings to replace those
ss down in the fire.
STATE WOOD B%rockwell, of Raleigh,
architnle warden, and municipal
se9s will be present to out
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
LONDON IS BOMBED
Six Heavy Explosives Crash
In Center OF City During
18th Straight Raid
SOUTHEAST HIT
British Pilots Spring Trap
On Nazi Squadron And
Turn Them Back

LONDON, Sept. 21-(Saturday)-
|R-Six heavy bombs exploded IN
central London early today and
others smashed into the south Lon
don area as German warplanes
maintained through the fourteenth
consecutive night their dusk-to-
dawn assaults on the British
capital.
There was one lull during the
night, but the nazis came back to
continue their attack for hours.
Towns in southeast England also
were bombed, but not as heavily
as usual.
(The British censorship prohibit
ed transmission of the precise times
the night raid began and ended and
the new onslaught began.)
During the first attack the skies
had been alight with the sharp
flashes of heavy anti-aircraft fire
all about the city.
Flares Used
A number of bombs fell-some
of them in districts south of the
Thames-and for a time flares
threw a hard, red light over the
center of London. Bombs followed
the flares.
Across the English channel, Brit
ish bombers again smashed might
lily at German invasion bases all
the way from Calais to Boulogne
and great fires sprang up in the
nazi-occupied area.
British pilots, in lofty ambuscade
over the air lanes leading to Lon
don, sprang a day light trap yes
terday on a German squadron of
200 planes and, it was declared au-
thoritatively, sent them back to-
ward France in d%isorderly retreat.
This strange struggle of the trou,
bled upper air, a brief and violent
battle that began above cloud level
and then was strung out in many
a bowling plane-to-plane encounter
above the English channel, was the
greatest engagement in the, days
defense of London, whose people
even by noontime had been once in
and ono out of the air raid shell
tiers.
Savage Attack
Illustrative of the sayagery of the
attack was an official British state.
ment tonight that in the days fight.
ing British than German
planes had been downed seven
British to four Nazis. 1t was the
first time that the British had ac-
~knowledged heavier losses than
those of the invaders.
Germany also made an unpreced-
ented statement of losses today.
The high command declared that in
yesterdays operations, three Ger
man planes were missing to one
British craft downed).
Tonight, the darkness brought a
new assault - the 18th successive
nightly raid-and the city's anti
aircraft batteries lifted again the
familiar opening curtain to the now
familiar melodrama. All about the
town their fire burst forth, throw
ing splintering steel against fresh
contingents of Nazi bombers. Loud
explosions were heard almost in
stantly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21

Officials of the ~selective service
system reversed a previous opinion
to set this forth today. Meanwhile,
preparing to provide shelter for the
~conscripts, the senate passed an ap-
preparation of $33S, 1888 O2 for build
ing barracks and other facilities.
Previously approved by the house,
the measure now goes to the Presi
dent.
Also Connected with the financial
aspects of the draft, some s1,640,0O0
a month, officials estimated, will be
distributed among the io, draft
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
.BYRNES ASSAILS
WENDELL WILLKIE
Senator Accuses Candidate
Of Speaking '%Contemptu.
ously' Of President

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. III
Senator Byrnes D-SC) tonight &C
cused Wendell Willkie, the repub-
lican presidential nominee, of
speaking CONTEMPORARY" of the
president, of using profanity in a
campaign speech, of making FIR
responsible statements" and as
serted his defeat was evident.
In a speech prepared for radio
delivery NBC), Byrnes referred
to Wilkes statements that a die
tatorship would result if Mr..
Roosevelt were elected, and then
said:
"Mr. Willkie himself provides.
positive proof that this is a land
Of free speech. It is this right to
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Rebellion Among Nazi


They reported also that occupied
France and Holland were teeming
with civilian informants who told
the British when German ships
and self-propelled barges put out
into channel for Exercise man.
euvers'.
AS a result British submarines
and planes were waiting, and
blasted the troop carriers out of
the water, bringing death to thou
sands, they said.
A high-placed government off.
cial of a conquered nation who
asked that his identity be withheld
said German officers told him an
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
BY. JOHN A.. MOROSO. 3RD

I BY JOHN A. MOROSO, 3RD
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-R-A
f "mer Dutch artillery captain told
today of rebellion among N a z i
troops training for the invasion of
Finland, and described columns of
mutineers being marched back to
labor camps with their hands trus-
ed behind their backs.
The story was told by Capt. Carl
Ter Weele, 81, who arrived on the
American export liner Exeter from
Lisbon. Other passengers said the
morale Of the German army had
suffered such a severe blow
through heavy losses c. life during
practice maneuvers that invasion
of Britain now was unlikely.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
FRANCE IS TOLD
TO TIGHTEN BELT
Severe Rationing OF Food
Is Announced By Vichy
Government

WCHY, France, Sept. 20-R-
lne French public, face to face
WIN the consequences Of war ano
aeleat In all their tragic reality,
aesfd that doleful news today that
i must tighten it's belt drastlcally
Deslhnlng next Monday.
severe rationing for both occup-
au and unoccupied France was
smu'ouhced by the government,
%nlcn gave as its reason the de-
saactlon and deterioration of har-
nSS and livestock in the war
,sls' poor grain crops, an "enor-
Nv sOuS drop in milk production and
w british blockade.
.iefe's how the diet of the
''eicn people is affected:
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21
WEATHER

FORECAST
North Carolina: Partly cloudy today
and Sunday, little change IN tempera'
ture. "a horrs
ending 1880 p. m. yesterday.
Temperature
1870 a. m. 6s; 1880 a. m. 81; l:N p P:
m. 81: 1880 p. M. "a; maximum ~
minimum g.: mean 70; normal u.
Humidity
80 a. m. 80; 1880 a. m. 70; l:5o p.
m. 40; 1870 p. m. 81.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7:3O p. m
600 inches; total since first OF tne
month 1.19 inches.
Tides For Today.
fFrom Tide Tables published by U.
s. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
I" High Low
Wilmington ---- y ;23a a:Ssa
Ma.onboro Inlet --- 1o:15a 4:15a
10:27p 4:4p
Sunrise 5:59a; sunset 6:1la; moon
rise 9:13p; moonset 10 :19a.
River stage ut Fayetteville, n. G.,
4 =. M. September 10, 90 feet.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21

An Englishman who planned a
magnificent game preserve import
ed the Russian wild boar now To-
Gated in Graham county, N. C.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-21

CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. y
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-03-29
C. C. Seymour & Edmond II. Johnson

C. C. Seymour & Edmond H. Johnson
Solicitors
Edmond H. Johnson, Assignee, Fed
eral Farm Mortgage Corporation, a
body corporate, holder of mortgage
from Donal Justice and Fannie JUS
tice, his wife, ex parte
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County.
In Equity.
No. 5O91 Chancery
ORDERED, that the sale made and
reported by Edmond Fl. johnson, As
signee for the sale of the real estate
in the above cause described, be rati-
fled and confirmed, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown on or
before the 3rd day of April, 1910;
provided a copy of this Order be in
serted in some newspaper printed in
Worcester County once in each of
three successive weeks before the LIST
day of April, 1910.
The report states the amount of
sale to be one hundred dollars
JOSEPH E. BRIMER, Clerk
True Copy Test: Jos. E. Brimer, Clerk