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Evening star., 1940-07-08
EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, c. MONDAY JULY g. 1e4o

Premier Laval's talks with groups
Of Senators and Deputies indicated
these three words would be the
foundation of the new constitution.
The dispatch said the National
Assembly will ask Wednesday for
brief text" giving Premier Petain
and his government all powers for
drafting the constitution, with both
the marshals prestige and his gov
ernment's life depending on its
passage.
Passage appeared assured by a
large majority, said LIE Petit Dau-
phinois.
Former Premier Edouard Daladier,
former Cabinet Ministers Cesar
Campinchi, Yvon Delbos and Paul
Bastid and dozens of other deputies
who, the dispatch said, sailed
aboard the Massilia," will not be
present at the assembly.
(Daladier, whose whereabouts
Evening star., 1940-07-08

Quackenbos street NE, a Navy
Yard emp,oye, escaped injury. His
was one of three planes scheduled
to stage an air show and take UP
passengers.
Young Van Devanter is employed
by Western Electric Co. here. He is
the son Of Henry Van Devanter,
manager of the Chesapeake & Po-
tomac Telephone Co. in st. Marys
County, Md.
Evening star., 1940-07-08
Two House Members
Condemn Sacrifice
0fCapitaI' Trees
Rich Says District Should
Not Let CommerciuIism
Destroy Its Beauty

Destruction of WaShington's beau
tiful shade trees to make way for
Wides streets and traffic underpaSSeS
was condemned on the House floor
today as two District bills we're
passed and sent to the White House.
The two bills will provide free
water for all charitable institutions
in the District and establish board
of funeral directors to regulate
undertakers and embalmerS.
Discussion of the leveling of shade
trees to facilitate the movement OF
traffic was led by Representative
Rich, Republican of Pennsylvania.
He said he had observed that a
number of trees were being cut
down on I street NV. so the street
can be widened. He declared Dis
trict authorities should be careful
not to let commercialiSm destroy
the beauty of the city.
Representative Shafer, Repub-
lican, of Michigan, member OF
the District Committee, pointed out
that plans to place the proposed
under pass at Scott Circle III the
line of Sixteenth street instead OF
in the line of Massachusetts avenue
as originally contemplated, would
destroy a number of trees.
Chairman Randolph of the Dis
trict Committee admitted that trees
would have to be cut down II the
underpass is placed in the line OF
Sixteenth street and declared he
did not believe an underpass on that
street would greatly relieve the
traffic bottleneck at Scott Circle.
He added, however, that District
officials had assured him full hear
( ings would be held before the loca-
ton of the underpass is finally de-
termined.
No effort was made by Chairman
Randolph to call up any of the nine
District bills on the calendar re-
garded as controversial. He eX-
planned to reporters after the two
Senate approved bills had been
passed that Majority Leader Ray
burn did not desire to ask the
House to consider any local legisla-
ton at this time that might delay
action on important national legis-
lation.
Outstanding among these nine
bills which have been on the House
calendar for some time are ones
authorizing the Public Utilities Com
mission to limit the number of taxi
cabs, give the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board the authority to con-
troll retail liquor prices, and permit
minors IA years of age or over to
take part in professional concerts
and theatrical productions.
Evening star., 1940-07-08
D. {. Youth Hurt as Plane
Fails 70 Clear Trees

Injured in plane crash yester-
day, James Van Devanter, 20, of
228 Maple avenue, Takoma Park,
Md, was still in semi i-conscious"
condition today at st. Mary's Hos
pital in Leonardtown, Md. He was
passenger in craft which failed
to clear trees as it scared from a
small field near Leonardtown.
The youth, distant cousin of re-
tired Supreme Court Justice Willis
Van Devanter, also received cuts
on his face and brush burns on his
legs and body as the plane skidded
along the ground on one wing for
100 feet.
The pilot, James Stargel, 231
Evening star., 1940-07-08
Geneva
Continued From First Page)

Continued From First PageD
as cooperative term Fascists
apply to the Italian government,
and quoted Vice Premier Pierre
Laval as declaring it would be per-
manent rather than temporary.
Reports by persons present at
government meetings at Bordeaux
and Vichy describe Marshal Petain,
who was Frances first Ambassador
to the Spanish Nationalist govern
ment, as tremendously impressed"
by Generalissimo Francisco Frances
plans for Spain.
They said Marshal Petain, when
discussing Frances postwar prob
lens with his aides, frequently used
examples from the Spanish recon-
struction after the civil war, almost
always adding:
But we must have his ((Franco's)
power
Given Report on France.
These reports added that Jose
Felix Lequerica, Spanish Ambassa-
dor to France, recently gave the
marshal a full report on Gen. Fran
cos reconstruction plans and post
war laws and DEGREES, which may
be used as model for France.
1t is said that since Marshal Pc
tain took office the extremely ac-
tive semi-Fascist CroiX-de-Feu Or
ganization of Col. Francois de la
ROGUE has gained tremendous new
strength among army, navy and air
force officers.
Leopold Blond, who, before the
war, was one of the outstanding
writer's for the provincial press,
said, in a dispatch from Vichy to
lie Petit DauphinoiS of Grenoble
yesterday, that the governments
proposals were assured of big ma
jority Wednesday or Thursday.
According to Blond, the only op-
position at last Fridays session was
that of a deputy named Margaine,
who said he refused to base the
French constitution on that of to-
talitarian regimes"
Xavier Vallat, on the other
hand" wrote Blond, lent his sup
port to the government proposal"
Vallat, known before last Sep
tember as leader of one of the minor
groups in the extreme right of the
Chamber of Deputies, was quoted as
saying:
IT renounce none of my ideas, but
the essential thing today is consti-
tuition of a great single national and
social party. The German victory
has been the work of German
schoolmasters and the rebirth of
Evening star., 1940-07-08

are not known publicly, was re-
ported last Friday to be aboard
the overdue and missing French
liner Massilia. A broadcast by
the German-controlled Brussels
RADIO said that Delbos and
Georges Mandel, former French
ministers of education and in
terror, were with Daladier aboard
the 15,363-ton liner, which left
Bordeaux June 16 and was said
to have put out to sea again
after being refused admission to
CaSablanca.)
The new constitution, according tt
he dispatch, will call for two houses
but their composition will be diff.
ferent. The upper house will con.
sist of representatives of 'the grea
intellectual and eco
nomic interests" while the lowe
will contain representatives of cor.
poratiyes and families
Evening star., 1940-07-08
New SIoHn Reported
Planned in Constitution

GRENOBLE, France, July (P.-
Frances slogan, Liberte, Egalite,
Fraternite" Qiberty, equality, fra
uernity) may be replaced in the new
constitution being drafted by Pre-
mier Marshal Henri Philippe Pc
tain's government by the words
'Isavail Famille, Patrie" Qabor,
family, fatherlanO.
A dispatch from Vichy, seat of the
government, to the newspaper LIE
Petit Dauphinois today said Vice
Evening star., 1940-07-08
Hood Is Reported
Struck Many Times

VICHY, France, July (P.-
Havas French news agency re-
ported today that the British bat
tie cruiser Hood had been hit
many times and that two British
destroyers had been seriously dam
aged, perhaps sunk, during the bat
Evening star., 1940-07-08
Ex-Envoy'. Home Robbed

Ralph J. Totten, former United
States Minister to the Union Of
South Africa, reported to police that
burglars entered his apartment, at
28o0 Ontario road NV, Saturday
night and stole wallet containing
Sl20.
Evening star., 1940-07-08

tie with French naval units off
Mers El-Kebir July 3.
Two British planes also were shot
down by French fighting planes and
coastal batteries, Havas said, quot
ing an official announcement issued
here
Evening star., 1940-07-08
France must be the work of French
schoolmasters.

From Aruba, Netherlands West
Indies, came word that the 2,400-ton
French auxiliary cruiser Esterel had
taken aboard shore troops and
equipment and sailed from Aruba
in an attempt to break through
British patrols and reach Marti-
niQue
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16
GAINING ALONG LINZ:
Air Forces. On Both Sides
Active And Raj Attacks
Port OF Valonia Twice

ATHENS, Dec. 15.-Hampered for
almost a week by snow and rain, the
Greek counter-invasion Of Albania is
back in high gear under clearing
skies, with gains all along the line,
dispatches from the front reported
tonight.
The largest Greek advances ap.
peared to be on the northern front,
beyond Pogradetz, where the italian
line runs along the Yugoslav-Alban-
ian frontier.
Launch New Attacks
"In the northern sector, as soon
as the weather improved and snow
storms subsidized" one dispatch said,
"our units launched new attacks and
made gains equal to one entire
weeks activity.
ION the northern front, Greek
troops succeeded in making a gen.
eral advance over a wide area in a
mountainous region held by the
enemy above Pogradetz where the
Italians had concentrated all their
reserves.
Greek artillery, firing unceasing-
ly for three days, has succeeded in
it's main objective, particularly in re-
gard to permanent enemy fortifica-
Continued on Page Ten; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16
O DETERMINATIONS
Nav Be Made Next Month

An answer to the application of
the City of Wilmington for a loan
of $685., 900 to construct port termi-
nal facilities and a tobacco storage
warehouse is expected to be made
by the Reconstruction Finance cor.
poratDn about the middle of Janu-
airy, J. T. HERS, manager of the
Wilmington Port commission, said
last night.
HERS, together with James E. L..
Wade, city commissioner of public
works, c. D. Hogue, chairman of
the port commission, Col. D. B
Shourds and Ralph Beam, advisor
engineers, presented the applica-
ton to the RFC Friday.
The self-liouidating division of
the RFC displayed considerable
interest in the proposed project
and indicated that it will probably
send a representative here within
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16
Greek Counter Invasion
OF Albania In High Gear
Greek Women Clear
Way For Infantrymen

WITH THE GREEK ARMY
ON THE ALBANIAN NORTH
ERN FRONT, Dec. 14-CDelay-
ed)-ReGreek peasant wom-
en-, their faces wrapped in
shawls, welded big snow shov-
els in the mountain passes
here today to clear the way for
the steady push of. Greek in
fantry forces against the Ital-
ian army.
Four foot snowdrifts and
near = zero temperatures have
become more of a factor in the
Greek drive than fierce Italian
resistance from mountain re-
doubts.
Tractors, mules and horses
crawl over snow-blocked roads
at a snail's pace between 5000
foot mountain peaks. Over such
a terrain the Greek foot SOL
diers doggedly pushing onward
without the aid of snowshoes
or skis.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16
GERMANS CONTINUE
RAIDS ON BRITAIN
Mist In France Believed To
Have Reduced Intensity
of The Attacks

LONDON Sec. 10. -(Monday)-B
Brilliant moon ghl showed the way
for ~widesprea3 Nt2f al raids over
Britain last wight bat they never
reached the 'Nliitz' proportions of
earlier provincial attacks and peter.
ed out before midnight.
1t was believed that mist in
France cut the Mi air activity
short.
During the attacks. gunfire v,as
almost ~incessant in one mitiaaas
town. Watchers in an east midland
town reported hearing sounds Of
aerial combat and air raid Wardens
said they believed machine-gun
tracer bullets seen in the sky were
from a British fighter plane cnas.
ing a raider.
Serious fires were caused in the
east midland town in a raid con.
centrated on industrial quarters.
The bombers withdrew after
pounding the town several hours
CONTINUED on Page Ten; Col, 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16
SOUTHERNERS URGE
HELP FOR BRITAIN
Declaration Addressed To
F. D. R. Warns u. S. Must
Choose Quickly

SOUTHERN PINES, Dec. 15.-R
Asserting that "it is both foolish
and fatal to half protect our inter-
ests," a southern conference called
by the southern policy committee to-
day urged '.imrr~diate full capacity
mobilization Of all necessary resour-
ces'' to aid Great Britain.
The declaration, addressed to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and congress and
signed by a group Of 80 southern edu-
Gators, newspaper publishers, indus
trialists, economists and authors,
warned that the United States must
choose and choose quickly" or
events may ttake the choice away
from u.s."
1.-The British" the statement said,
cannot be expected to win or to be
particularly heartened by what we
are able to sell them out Of rel
present production"
The statement declared that here
We believe that many of our lead
ers, perhaps unduly impressed by
Continued on Page Ten; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16
WIND BLOWING
Information Scarce But
%Communique Says Situa- !
ton Is Satisfactory
|RAF BOMBS AIRFIELDS
Fascist Army Draws On
Reserves To Stem Eng
lands Mighty Attack

CAIRO, Dec. 15.-R-British
forces were reported tonight to
have carried their lightning desert
offensive over the Egyptian from
tier into Libya.
1T is well nigh impossible to
give an accurate idea where the
front line is" a military spokes-
man said, 'but it can be assumed
that some British forces already
have crossed the border"
Bitter winds fouled the air with
clouds of dust as the British mobile
forces-tanks and armored C a r S
and trucks carrying infantry and
machine gun units - battled the
remnants of Marshal Rodolfo Graz
iani's Egyptian forces in the Sa-
lum, Egypt, and Fort Capuzzo
areas On the border.
Situation Satisfactory"
Information from the, fighting
area was scarce, but a commune
que indicated the situation was
Satisfactory"
British warships poured shells
into Italian positions along the
coast all night long, a Reuters,
British news agency, dispatch
from Cairo received early Monday
morning in London said.
Under this incessant lombard
ment, the Italians were 'franticaI-
ly" trying to consolidate defenses
in an attempt to Withstand an on
slaught by British land troops, the
dispatch said).
The Royal Air force was still
pounding Italian airdromes a n d
Continued on Page Ten; Col. b
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16

sive. For if. the attack had
failed it is doubtful that the
offensive would have gone on.
1t was absolutely necessary
to reduce this fortress to per-
init the British forces to move
on to Sidi Barrani on the coast,
the main Italian advance base.
NibeiWa stands on a circu-
lar plateau, about one mile in
diameter, fifteen miles d u e
south of Sidi Barrani, and was
selected as the b a S c from
which General PietrO Malet-
it's crack troops, especially or
gained last July as the van
guard of the Italian push, were
to make a dash for the Nile
and SueZ.
But SO great was the sur
prise element when the Brit
Gnnfinuod ON Dorm Tbroo. fol z
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16
Refuse To Let
Troops Move
Through Land
Germany Rebuffed With
Flat No From Chief Of
State Marshal Petain
SOUNDED OUT V
Also Refuse Suggestion
Calling For Use Of French
Naval Bases By Axis

BERN Switzerland, Dec. 49,
mondav)-lP-A reported German
,++onont to send Nazi troops
through France to Libya and
Greece to help Italy without dis
.nrhing the Italian home morale
WAC declared today to have been
rebutfed by France with a flat
Dno,, from Chief of State Marshal
Philippe Petain.
petain and a majority of his min
isters were said in advices from
vichy to diplomatic sources here
to have considered tn e German
move, repeatedly made through
vice.Premier Pierre Laval before
he was ousted last week from the
French government, as an Axis at
tempt to gain a foothold on the
French Mediterranean bases.
Sounded out Laval
The Germans,-it was reported,
sounded out Laval while he still
was No. 2 man. in France, as
vice premier, in an effort to find
means Of getting aid to the Italians,
hard pressed by the British and
Greeks. without passing through
Italy.
II was feared. these reports said,
that passage of troops through
Premier Mussolini's country to Dul-
wark Italian forces in Greece and
Africa would have a bad effect on
Italian morale.
Germany, it was reported, want
ed to send troops through unoccu-
pied France to a French Mediter-
Fanean port, where they would be
picked up-apparently-by Italian
Transports.
The reports to diplomatic sources
here said Marshal Petain refused
me request on the grounds that the
only port through h h such
troops could board Italian trans
IContlnued on Page Ten; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16
DONATE TO EMPTY
STOCKING TODAY
Every Gift Goes Toward
Preventing Unhappiness
On Christmas Morning

Forgotten by Santa Claus, the
child shown above clutches an empty
stocking and sobs broken-heartedly
while all the pent-up disappoint-
ments of a life time %unloosen them
selves in tears.
While the rest of the world awak-
ems to a Christmas morning filled
with joy and happiness, this child,
aforementioned. weeps alone in a
home of poverty.
1t is a home like millions-the mil
lions of poor children of the world.
They have been forgotten.
And it is to see that no such seem
as this will be enacted in this section
this Christmas that the Star-News
Empty Stocking fund is issuing its
appeals for more and generous con.
Observation-Disclosures which will
be used to ease the heartache of
childhood.
The Empty Stocking fund cannot
answer the pleas of all the children
Continued on Page Ten; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16
Materials For
Holly Ridge
Camp Arrive
300 To 500 Men Are Sche-
duled To Start Work Today
On New Army Center
PLANS ARE APPROVED
Erect Buildings Ia House
Offices For Contractors.
Army Officers

Workers by the dozens started
arriving at Holly Ridge early last
night to be ready for the beginning
of construction con a large SCALE
at the new $40, 600, 900 anti-aircraft
firing center this morning.
Between 300 and 500 workers will
start work today as several car.
loads Of machinery and materials
have arrived in Wilmington and
will be moved to the site of the
new camp this morning.
Plans Approved
It appeared last night that every
thing is now set for the starting
of actual work. Plans for the army
camp were approved yesterday by
General Frink, Quartermaster corps
area commander, who spent most
of the day going rel the project
with Col. Albertis Montgomery.
construction quartermaster, and his
aides, here.
c. P. Street, representative OF
the F. NJ. Thompson, j. j. Nc.
Dewitt and E. W. Garinis contrac'
tors, said last night that some
work has been started and is pro
crossing very satisfactorily"
He said that as soon as the
building is completed that In of
flee of the North Carolina State
Employment service will be opened
at Ho1Iv Ridpa for workers fo an,
ply for work. All applications for
jobs will be handled through this
agency, he said.
A call for 80 carpenters has al
ready gone out, and yesterday
workers were busy erecting tempo
rary buildings to house offices for
the contractors and army officers
CONTINUED on Page Ten; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16
Council Man Is Wounded
WhenT1altedBy Wardens
Italian Sub Is Sunk
By British Destroyer

LONDON, Dec. 15-LR-The
sinking of an Italian submarine
by a British destroyer in oper-
ations off the Sidi Barrani-
Bardia battlezone in Africa
was announced tonight by the
admiralty. y
The communique said that
the Italian submarine Naiade
"attempted to Interfere with
a night warship bombardment
of Bardia, Italian coastal base
in Libya, and was Immediate
ly sunk by British destroyers.
The Naiade displaces $50 tons
tens at the surface and carries
Al men normally.
The naval operations were
support for the many driving
against Italy's. Libyan de-
lenses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16
Guardsmen Hold Off Bic
Mob In S. G.. Attack Case

GEORGETOWN, S. c., Dec. IS.
LIZA unit of hastily : modified
state militia mounted a machine
gun on the second story porch Of
the Georgetown county jail today
and held back a mob of 300 men,
armed with shotguns, rifles and
pistols, bent on finding the alleged
negro attacker of a young white
woman.
While the troops-ive officers and
80 men-held off the crowd for sew
eral hours, Sheriff H. B. Bruorton
and his deputies were securing the
countryside looking for the assail-
ant, and they arrested a negro who,
presumably, was rushed off to
some other part of the state for
safe-keenina-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-16

They indicated that specific pro-
posals for greater material aid might
be advanced-possibly dealing with
such items as trading more navy de-
stroyers, apportioning more airplane
production, and selling merchant
ships to the British.
Despite considerable congressional
opposition, these officials said, the
administration has been setting the
stage very carefully for open con-
sideration of the issue Of financial
aid. One Of the most important moves
was the summoning to this country
of Sir Frederick Phillips, undersecre-
tary Of the British treasury, to lay
CONTINUED on Page Three: Col. g.