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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
AERIAL OFFENSIVE
STARTED BY ITALY
Seeks To Destroy lmpor'
tant British Bases Ring
ing African Colonies

ROME Aug. 5.-R-Italy launch
ed a systematic aerial offensive to
destroy important British bases
ringing 1taly's African possessions,
it was reported today by Stefanl
official Italian news agency.
Italian air raids over the Anglo
Egyptian Sudan, Kenya and Alden
wrecked some of Britain's most
valuable centers over the weekend,
Stefani said.
Among them were remote air
elds hastily built because of ltal-
ian bombardment of regular air
dromes.
Heavy aerial blows also were re-
ported by the high command,
which said IA British ships were
shot down in Africa Sunday-ln-
GLIDING 10 in one big battle.
British targets stretched over L.
$50 miles, from Mersa Matruh, on
tie Egyptian coast, to the port OF
Berbera, British Somaliland, on the
gulf of Alden below the Red sea.
When British warplanes attempt
ed to bomb Libyan troops near the
Egyptian frontier, the high com
mand said, Italian fighters shot
down seven Gloucesters and three
Blenheims.
Another was downed during an
reflective" Italian raid on Mersa
Matruh, another by anti-aircraf1
fire at Kassala, in the Anglo-Egyp-
tan Sudan, and the other two in
a British raid on the harbor Of
Massaua, Eritrea.
The British attack, it said, caus'
ed only light damage" Four per
ons were killed and 80 wounded.
No Italian planes were reported
lost.
(Two royal air force commune
ques issued at Cairo gave tn
version:
British fighters headed off Ital-
ian raiders rading Mersa Matruh,
hitting two so badly lit is unlikely
that they returned to their base
and compelling others to jettisor
their bombs in the sea.
Gin raids on Nassau, a fuel
dump was attacked, a direct hit
was scored on a naval vessel anc
''in a low level attack bombs were
seen bursting among submarines
the British said.
("British reconnaissance aircraft
escorted by four fighters, met SO
enemy fighters in eastern Libya.
Three enemy aircraft were
shot down -. one of u fighters
is missing.")
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
Great Britain Released
Japanese Business Man
Many British Warships
Leave Gibraltar Base

ALGECIRAS, Spain, Aug. 6
Observation-Disclosures Brit
ish warships were reported to
have left Gibraltar h%urriedly to-
day, starting first into the Medi-
terranean but then cutting back
toward the Atlantic ocean.
There was no Information as to
where they might be headed.
Reports reaching La l.inea,
close to Gibraltar, said the 49,
15O-tOn British battieship ResOlu-
ton was damaged i'll an air-sea
battle last Saturday south of
Formentera, II OF the Balearic
islands off the southeast coast of
Spain.
The same reports said a cruiser
was hit by a bomb in the same
fight and several British sailors
YER killed and wounded.
The name of this ship was not
learned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06

The Richmond Va) news leader
reported Imperial purchases may
attend the Georgia fue-cured mar
kets as buying agents for the Com
modify Credit corporation. These
BUYERS would make purchases SUI
fcient to offset the loss OF brlghe
leaf exports through withdrawal Oh
British companies from the marKe'
because of the war, the paper SAID
1t was understood that the I'M
perial representatives would D
from $50, OOO, 600 to $50, U
pounds for the CCC. Valdosta hotel
men said Imperial men had room
reservations there, Imperial OIL
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
Germany's D. Bombers
ShownToC Correspondents
Bulgaria And Rumania
To Reach Agreement

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. up
Bulgaria and Rumania, bowling
to the will of Adolf Hitler after
~ years of territorial contro-
versy, will reach an agreement
by Saturday returning southern
Dobruja to Bulgaria, sources
close to the Bulgarian govern
ment asserted today.
Dobruia went to Rumania in
1913 after Bulgaria's defeat In
the second Balkan war.
Following Hitler's instructions
to Balkan diplomats at Salzburg
last week that they settle their
differences peaceably - and soon
preliminary negotiations were
ended today, these sources said.
Rumanian and Bulgarian nego-
tiators meet Thursday at Cral-
oya, i'm southwestern Rumania.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
MEET OF FLORISTS
OPENS WEDNESDAY
Approximately 300 Dele
gates Expected To Attend
Sessions AT Beach

About $50 to 300 delegates are
expected to attend the goth annual
convention of the North Carolina
State Florists association Wednes-
day and Thursday at the Ocean
Terrace hotel, Wrightsville Beach.
A feature of the meeting will be
a large display of flowers and &C
cessories to be placed on display
in the lobby of the hotel by florists
and florists suppliers throughout
the nation. The exhibits will be
open on both Wednesday and
Thursday mornings and the public
has been invited to call at the
hotel and inspect the displays.
Many delegates had already ar.
rived at the hotel last night and
others are expected today.
The convention will open with
registrations Wednesday morning
at 8 O'clock. From II am. tc
noon, a commercial flower show
and visiting merchandise displays
Will be staged.
At l o'clock, during a buffe I
luncheon at the hotel, Mayor D
j. Herrin will make the address
of welcome and the response will
be made by j. j. Fallon, Of Raj
eigh, president of the association
At 2:3O o'clock of that afternoon,
merchandise displays on the Sc
cond floor of the hotel will be visit
ed.
At 7 o'clock Wednesday evening,
two dinners will be held. One, con
sisting of members of the Florists
Telegraph Delivery, will be at the
Cape Fear Country club annex or
Harbor Island. Another will be helc
in the Ocean Terrace dining room
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
Flags
|Lindbergh AS
18th Columnist
Attack Result OF Flier's
Speech Urging Cooper
alton With Germany
WHEELER AIRS VIEWS
Asserts Pershing's Destroy
er Proposal Is Direct
Step Toward War

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. -F-
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was bit
terly denounced in the senate to-
day by Senator Pepper D.-Fla.) as
"the chief of the fifth column in
this country"
Peppers remarks were occasion
ed by the flier's speech Sunday urg'
ing cooperation" with Germany II
Germany wins the war.
Meantime, General John j. Per-
shing's proposal that American de-
stroyers be made available to Great
Britain was denounced as a direct
step toward war;" by Senator Wheel
er (D.-Mont.).
er D.-Mont.). Chairman P1ttman
D.-Nev.) of the senate foreign ella
lions committee, commenting on
Pershing's proposal, suggested the
possibility of swapping destroyers
for a few British ~battleships, which
he said appeared to be of little prac'
teal use in North Sea battles.
"Chief OF Column"
Pepper rising in the senate TO-
ward the close of a day devoted to
a, discussion of CONSUMPTION and re-
lated issues, said that perhaps with
in a few hours, perhaps in a rev
DAYS, perhaps within a few NH
the American people will have To
decide whether they are going to
follow the chief of the fifth column
in this country-Col. Lindbergh-or
are going to follow General Fersi'
ing"
Pershing never received a medal
from the head of the German ali
fContiuued On Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
.Boos
|Againsl dazis
Along Channel
Stage Raids Or Potential
Hopping Off Places For
Expected Invasion
OIL FACTORY BOMBED
Germans Drop Bombs In
Isolated Areas OF Mid
lands And East England

LONDON, Aug. 5.-R-Britain's
aircraft production now equals Ger
many's. it was declared authorita-
lively today.
Supporting evidence was offered
in increasingly violent aerial
smashes at potential continental
hopping-off places for the Nazi IN
vasion attempt believed close at
hand.
Britons, alertly watching channel
ides favorable for Adolf Hitler S
threatened assault, heard that their
airplane factories are running
meek and neck" with the German
output and that, with United States
and Canadian production, tn e r
monthly accumulation of planes ac-
tually exceeds that of the Nazis
Attacks Boosted
Coupled with this were accounts
of British planes carrying the war
to the Germans with heavier and
heavier attacks designed to smash
any invasion before it can get start
ed.
Tonight's air ministry communi-
que said British bombers, carry
ing out their nightly forays, set
ablaze an oil plant at Sterkrade
in the Ruhr and a hangar at Kre-
field last night without the loss OF
a single plane.
Fourteen tons of high explosive
and incendiary bombs were rained
or the Synthetic Oil works at Sterk-
rade, the air ministry announced,
by British bombers attacking in
waves from before midnight until
the early hours of today.
The returning pilots said tn e y
first shattered the tanks then fired
the, oil flowing from them with their
|incendiaries. They told of earth
Earring explosions followed by
flames which lighted up the coun-
tryside for miles around.
British planes reported thr e
Messerschmitt fighters shot down,
two within range of German anti
aircraft guns on the French coast.
One British plane was lost.
Germans Active
The Germans kept up their har-
assing attacks on Britain early to-
day, dropping high explosive and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
British Tobacco Buyers May Take
Part In Sales On Georgia Markets

Gals at Triton declined to discuss
the reports.
Bright leaf growers, operating
under federal restrictions this sea-
son, have voted for a three-year
extension of acreage quotas. The
government has promised to stabl-
lie prices through the extended
federal control program.
Many of Georgia's warehouses
are already partially filled. They
are located at Moultrie, Valdosta,
Waycross, Abel, Baxley. Douglas
Blackshear, Hahira, Nashville, Pei
Continued On Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
WAITS GUARD
PLAN, IA CES
BITTER FIGHT
Draft Measure Calls
For Registration Of
100000 Men

(By The Associated Press)
Here is the draft plan in brief:
$4,000, 900 young men, II to
80 years old, inclusive, would
register.
400, 900 would be mustered into
service by October, 1910; others
later at Presidents discretion.
Period of service-One year, at
$21 a month and allowances.
ExemptiOns-Men in essential
pursuits, clergymen, men with
dependents, the unfit. federal and
state officials, judges, members
of congress, conscientious OBJ
iectOrs. (The last-named would
be liable to nOn-cOmbatant serv-
ice),
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
(By the Associated Press

Georgians piled their multi-mil-
lion dollar tobacco crop into ware
houses of IS auction sites yester-
day amid reports that British buy
ers would participate in the sales
starting Thursday.
Cheered by hopes of better prices
than last years disastrous 1882
cent average, some Georgia pro-
ducers learned unofficially t a t
buyers of the Imperial Tobacco
company may help purchase the
cigarette leaf on the same govern
ment arrangements which was in
effect in the Carolinas and Virginia
last season.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
OF Nazis' Drive
On Jews Reported Dead

many for years, and founded the
national socialist party in Franco
mia where he was district leader.
Like many of Hitler's compan-
ions from the old days when the
party wa struggling to power, ne
had served several jail terms. He
was with the fuehrer in the .abor-
tive Munich Putsch in 1923 and was
confined to Landsberg penitentiary
with Hitler.
The Nazi party later made a
shrine of the cell he occupied.
Streicher long exercised consid-
cradle influence with Hitler, when
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
BY PRESTON GROVER

CLIENT, Belgium, Aug. 5.-R-
At oneo of the hidden bomber bases
from which Germany strikes
across the English Channel I have
seen the dread Stukas, called the
Naxlz' most powerful air weapon,
lehearse their scream-down at
tacks.
With a party of other foreign
newspaper correspondents l S a W
The hidden airdrome with its ca
moufaged guns and planes at the
end Of a flight over the English
enamel in a Messerschmit-escort
ed transport plane.
View Sunken Ships
we met no English planes. I saw
10 SfllpS atioat - only the partly
Suhken Wreckage of boats at Dun
herque from which the British EN-
Odlhed IN the last hours of the
Oal'ie OF Flanders early in June
punkerque, itself, was a spectacle
from a nightmare. Amid it's ruiz
Vi buildings not a single person
could be seen.
Inc Germans told us their bomb
Ct attacks had cleared the Channe
VI English shipping because shiE
USSeS were too costly, even
guarded conveys.
we started near Client, flew tt
aie coast, went over Dunkerque
S0' turned inland before we reach
y calais, nearest German-h e
svaSlaI point to England and pos
s.1le lake-off center for %1ong-await
ed invasion.
we landed, inland from Boulog
ny, In northern France on a clover
'u used as an attack air base
NtOnIIlUpl I'm pnUo TI,roo\
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
DEMENT, IS KILLED
IN UTOACCIDEN
Miss Leila Riddle, OF Viii
mington, Painfully Hurt
AT Myrtle Beach

Charles Hubbard Dement,, 3d.
vear-old salesman of Wilmington
died early yesterday morning in a
Conway. S.. c., hospital from in
iuries received when he was struck
hv an automobile at Myrtle Beach
Sunday afternoon about z:5o
o'clock.
Miss Leila Riddle, of Wilmington
his companion at the time OF the
accident, was painfully but not SER
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
VISIT HIDDEN FIELD
Writers Also View Sunken
Wreckage OF Many Eng
lish Boats Al Dunkerque

Editors Note: Preston
Grover, member of the asso'
ciated press staff in Berlin and
former Washington columnist,
was taken OIL an airplane tour
over the English Channel and
Germany's low country front,
opposite Britain, and tells wha1
he saw at the hidden bomber
bases from which Nazi planes
strike at England.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06

LONDON, Aug. 5.-REA
Reuters, British News agency, dis
patch said tonight Julius Streicher,
governor of Franconia and Ger
many's No. 1 Jew-baiter, was dead
according to reports from a we'll
informed source in Germany.
The news agency dated its story
from the German frontier"
Lead Movement
Streicher, SIS years old, was with
Adolf Hitler in Munishc last Nov. =
when a bomb exploded in the beer
hall soon after Hitler had depapted.
Streicher was the spearhead OF
the anti-Jewish movement in. Ger
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
WEATHER
FORECAST

yos, FORECAST
terad IN IN carolina: Mostly cloudy, scat
tajnS STioWers Wednesday and in noun
endi genealogical data for the "a hours
'9o p. m. Yesterday.
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hinimn,n' '2o p. IN. so; maximum Sc
ONi 'o' mean 50; normal 70.
l:3o . Humidity
n. d, m, 81, 1880 a. m. 50; 1:3O D.
10 $50 p. IN. S..
roto, Precipitation
O01 Gn lor a hours ending 7:3O D. M.
Month incHes; total since first Of tho
Tides For Today
Nlmineton High Low
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''''nOoro Inlet --- e:3ea s:Sda
rise ' 8 .,ss 5:27a; sunset 7:OSp; moon
''a moonset 9:02p.
ASutlllnued I'm paro Tl.o,N
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06

A'ontlnued On Page Three)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-21
No Need for Panic or Cancellation
OF Labor and Social Gains, Says
Machinists' Union Journal

expressed by Matthew Woll, vice.
president of the American Federation
of Labor, in speaking before the an
nual Rutgers University Labor Insti-
tute.
Great Britain and France are fight
ing for the preservation of liberty
throughout the world, Woll declared.
Woll urged that the United States
give all possible material aid to the
Allies and said:
eve are now definitely a part of
this struggle, and the problem arises
as to how we can most effectively con-
tribute of our power and resources to
stop this totalitarian world revolution
and bring again to pass society that
is based on the rule of reason"
Woll's address, broadcast to Eng
land through the facilities of the Brit
ish Broadcasting Corporation, was a
reply to the recent appeals for aid to
American labor by Ernest Bevin, Brit
ish trade union chieftain and Minister
of Labor in the Churchill cabinet, and
Leon Jouhaux, head of the French
Confederation of Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-21
Time Here For Drastic Action
Against ''0rganized Treachery, !"
Green Tells Big Meeting
President William Green of A. f. of L. Tells Audience That
Foreign Controlled Groups and Parties Must Go
Americanism Awards to Labor Leaders.

Chicago, Ill. (ILNS).-"Organized
treachery" of foreign controlled
groups and parties must be stamped
out as defense measure, President
William Green of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor told 10000 persons
gathered at mass meeting of Chi
cago Union Labor Post 745, American
Legion. The address was broadcast
over a nationwide NBC network.
During the meeting, the Legion
post presented Americanism awards
to President Green, John Fitzpatrick,
president of the Chicago Federation
of Labor, and Patrick Sullivan, presi-
dent of the Chicago and Cook County
Building and Construction Trades
Council.
Green declared that while Ameri-
cans feel a deep sympathy for the
victims of aggression in Europe,
American working men and women
are determined to prevent the United
States from becoming involved in the
war. He pledged labor's utmost sup
port to the preparedness program for
defense of the nation and it's liberty
and declared that he had every con-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-21
AFL Auto Workers Win
Broad Work Agreement

Barton, Wis.--An agreement nego-
tiated by the A. F. of L. United Au-
tomobile Workers Union with the
Line Materials Company, of Barton,
provides that half of any savings in
manufacturing costs are to go to the
employees. Part of the workers share
of the savings is to be paid monthly
in excess of regular wages, the re-
mainder of the so per cent going into
the year. The agreement also includes
a pool to be distributed at the end OF
longer vacations, seniority set-up
and recognition of the union as the
sole bargaining agency.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-21

fidence that American labor and in
dustry will prove equal to the task.
Strikes Now Decried
Industrial conflict now, would bs
stupid and dangerous" Green said
adding:
american labor does not
want strikes. 1t wants work.
American employers do not want
strikes. They want to produce.
Let both sides follow the just
and peaceful policy of collective
bargaining in the settlement of
any differences that may arise.
That is our prayer and that is
our purpose"
Demanding an end to fifth col
umn" activities directed against de
mocracy and Americanism, Greer
said:
"The American Federation of Labol
believes that the time has come fol
drastic action against traitors in ou
midst. The Communist Farty and th'
Nazi Bund must be outlawed.
"Organized Treachery" Plain
"No political, social, fraternal O
labor organization which is finances
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-21
Another Pay Law Vi0lat0r
Is Hit By Court Injunction

Milwaukee, Wis. - United States
Judge F. Ryan Duffy signed decree
enjoining the C. NJ Tool and Die Com
pany here from violating the Federal
Fair Labor Standards Act and re-
quired the firm to pay total of 81 900
to 81 employees to cover back overtime
wages due them under the statute.
The Wage and Hour Division of the
u. S. Department of Labor charged
the company with failing to pay time
and one-half for overtime after AZ
hours labor per week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-21
Machinists Monthly Journal Warns Against Panic and
Hystera Influencing United States-SuppOrts Labor's
Position That We Must Keep Out of War

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-Warn-
ing against permitting panic and hys-
terra to influence the United States,
as a result of events in Europe, is
sounded editorially by the June issue
Of the Machinists' Monthly Journal,
official organ of the International As
sociation of Machinists.
The editorial also warns against
lowering of labor standards and Wig
orously supports labor's position that
we must keep out Of war. 1t says:
"There is no need for anyone to be-
come panic-stricken over what has
happened in Europe. On the con-
trary, it is a time when men should
keep cool heads and not attempt to
tear down all that has been done to
establish social justice in the United
States simply because the President
has called for a preparedness pro-
gram which will enable this nation
to protect itself effectively against
any foreign power which may nave
the temerity to challenge our posi-
tion in the Western Hemisphere.
No Need of Backward Steps
at is gratifying to know that Pres
ident Roosevelt shares our views in
this respect, because in his Fireside
Chat May 26, after informing the
nation what had been done during the
past seven years to strengthen the
Army and the Navy, and stating that
it was our purpose not only to speed
up production, but to increase the
facilities of the nation in such way
that they can be further enlarged to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-21

meet emergencies of the future he
emphasized that there must be no
breakdown or cancellation of any of
the great social gains which we have
made in these past years.
"He declared that there is nothing
in our present emergency to Justify
making the workers of the nation toll
for longer hours than now limited by
statute, or a lowering of standards
of employment.
"Among other gains the President
said must be maintained are old-age
pensions, unemployment insurance,
conservation of resources, assistance
to agriculture, housing and help to
the underprivileged.
Support of President Urged
Everyone knows these are ominous
days and that the situation in Eu-
rope is most grave. However, we
can, as pointed out in these columns
last month, best serve humanity by
staying out of the war. Let us stand
squarely behind the President, and do
everything humanity possible to help
him with his program. He has indi-
Gated that he will not permit the
workers to be exploited by those who
see in such times as these an oppor-
tunity to make huge profits without
being too particular how they do so.
eff the President will continue to
hew to the line he has laid down, we
are confident he will have the full
and whole-hearted support of the or
ganized workers of these United
States, on whom the success of his
program so largely depends"
Fred Hewitt is editor of the Ma
chinists' Monthly Journal, an infiu-
entail labor publication of wide cir
culation, which includes the mem
bers of the Machinists' Union through
out the United States, Canada and
Mexico.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-21
LOWER STANDARDS OPPOSED

st. Paul, MINI. (ILNS).-The St.
Paul Trades and Labor Assembly has
condemned lowering Of labor stand
ards set up by federal and state laws
and called upon the Minnesota con-
gressional delegation to oppose any
efforts to make the laws Ineffective.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-21

Said the old farmer: "Son, if you
can reason with mule when you're
young, the world of men has no sur
prises for you when you are old"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-21
N. WOLL URGES
HELP FOR ALLIES

New Brunswick, N. J. (ILNS).-Be-
lief that "inevitably" the United
States will be drawn into the war be-
cause of it's own vital interests was