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Evening star., 1940-09-26
Practical Mourning

GUYMON, Okla. (P.-Fire de-
stroyed the farm home of Cecil
Long, killing his 8-year-old son and
injuring Long.
Several days later eight neigh
bors arrived, driving tractors. In
one day they did all Of his fall
plowing.
Evening star., 1940-09-26
free French" leader, in control O!
Dakar and French West Africa.
Bombing Lasts IS Minutes.

The second-day bombing of
Gibraltar, the Admiralty said, lasted
from 3 TO AIS pm. Yesterday it
announced that Britains 32,000-to
Battle Cruiser Renown had suffered
a direct-hit from the air and been
forced to steam away TO avoid
further damage.
Violent French resistance in
Dakar and severe reprisals against
Gibraltar forced British forces to
give up their action against the
sources said, and SO far as the
French are concerned the incidents
Evening star., 1940-09-26
History of Mission

The Mission of San Geronimo
was established at Taos, N. Mex,
about 1900. 1t was destroyed in an
Indian revolt In 1854.
Evening star., 1940-09-26
A Hits on Warships.

cause Of bloodshed to his fellow
coifntrymen "
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
body OF BANKHEAD
TAKEN TO JASPER
B Brief Impressive Funeral
Rites Are Held In House
OF Representatives

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. w
Escorted by President Roosevelt
and sorrowing congressional col
leagues, the body of Speaker Will
liam B.. Bankhead was taken to-
night to his home town of Jasper,
Ala, for burial tomorrow.
Official Washington gathered in
the chamber of the house of rep
resentatives at noon for brief, i'm
pressive funeral rites over t h e
flower-covered casket of the late
speaker.
Half an hour before the serv-
ices the house elected majority
leader Sam Rayburn of Texas to
the speakership by reclamation.
Then, with Senator Pittman 3D.
New, president pro tempore of the
senate, Rayburn presided over the
funeral ceremony.
Throughout the service the pres
ident solemny watched the gray
casket. Behind him sat Mrs. Bank
head, heavily yelled; Senator John
H. Bankhead and Colonel Henry
M. Bankhead, brothers of the
speaker; and the speakers daugh-
tiers, Actress Tallulah and Mrs.
Eugenia Hoyt, both in black. The
members of the cabinet and dip
lomatic corps and Associate JUS
tice McReynolds of the Supreme
Court also attended.
The galleries, to which admis-
sion was by special card, we're
packed. Long before the service
started the capitol was surrounded
by a heavy police guard.
The Rev. James Shera Mont
gomery, chaplain of the house,
prayed, 20 blessed Lord God, the
memory of this scholarly Chris
tan gentleman we will not know
ingly allow to die out of our ach-
ing hearts. He loved the good, the
beautiful and the true and saluted
a greater future for his brother
man."
Rayburn told the funeral com.
pany: II stand here in great hui
mility with the knowledge of my
poor limitations to follow in the
footsteps of one as great a
fine"
Republican leader Martin of
Massachusetts said Bankhead was
a strong partisan" but added that
ne accorded complete fairness to
the republican minority.
"A fine life is ended" he said.
"A great American has passed on
10 the reward that comes for a life
OF service"
"A double male quartet from St.
Margaret's Episcopal church sang.
Inc Rev. William S. eAbernethy,
CONTINUED on Page Ten; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
Italians And
British Fight
Within Egypt
Troops Meet In 10 to 120
Degree Heat; Italian
Losses Heavy
BRITISH BOMB TRUCKS
Almost All Egyptians Re-
moved From R Regions
Threatened By Fighting

CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 49, Up -
Italian soldiers marching into
Egypt in a swiftly-developing
desert battle for empire r fight
ing British advance troops in ITO
to 12O-degree heat and thus far
have suffered heavy losses from
the whitening British fire, it was
officially reported tnoight.
The British, who at first offered
little resistance when Marshal
GRAHAM began the offensive from
Italian Libya, apparently have sud-
denly stiffened, military informa-
ton indicated.
Motorized Units Clash
Battles between British and Ital-
ian motorized units in the desert
took place in the almost unbear-
able heat, with the combattants
limited in some cases to scant sup
plies of water.
The main italian force appeared
to be consolidating its position
around the border Port of Salum
on the Mediterranean but strong
elements of fighting vehicles have
engaged British advance units near
Buqbuq, a coastal town about Is
miles east of Sa1um on the road to
Alexandria.
A British .communique which
told Of contact of the advance
forces said British bombers swoop-
ed down on the big motor trans.
ports leading the Italian advance
near Buqbuq, sending the vehicles
up in flames which could be seen
40 miles away. Tank trucks carry
ing gasoline were special targets.
The Italians were said to be
keeping clsoe to the shore line.
Bombers Downed
Italian planes supporting tn e
motorized drive across hte desert
ran into stiff opposition, the Brit
ish said. British fighters shot down
six enemy bombers, it was report
ed, and three others were listed by
the British as probably destroyed.
One British plane was lost.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
Modified Here:
Recruiting Is Planned
Reynolds To Inspect
Isles Leased By u. S.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Sept. 16.
-LR-Senator Robert r. Rey-
noIds of North Carolina rested
here today preparatory to an
aerial inspection tour of British
islands where the United States
has obtained leases for naval
and air bases in exchange for SO
average destroyers.
The senator Is the ranking
member of the senate military al
fairs committee and a member OF
the foreign relations and terri
tories and insuIar affairs com.
mittee.
He said he would remain here
a few days to recuperate from a
cold in his head and chest be-
fore flying first to Cuba, where
he would inspect the naval base
at Guantanamo Bay. From there
he planned to go to Jamaica,
TRINIDAD. other British islands,
to the Panama Canal Zone, and
finally to Rio De Janeiro and
Buenos Aires, returning next
month by steamship.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
HUGE ASSAULT
CUT TO LONE
BOMB BLASTS
English Informants
Say Invasion Attempt
Bv Nazis Beaten Oft

LISBON, Sept. 16.-R-Brlt-
ish informants arriving here
by plane from London delared
today that a small scale Ger
man attempted at a landing
somewhere along the English
coast last week was beaten off
with heavy losses to the would
be invaders.
They were unable to give
the exact time and place but
asserted they we're convinced
of the accuracy of their infor-
nation.
CLast Friday DIR. Charles F.
Bove, former Paris surgeon,
declared at Jersey City, N. j.
that the Germans had tried to
invade England several times
and had failed.)
"a British military source
said Friday night there had
been absolutely no attempt
at invasion in any size, shape
or form.')
"British coastal artillery and
small patrol craft played hav-
&C with German barges," one
of the British informants said
here, "and not a single Ger
man reached land alive.
"Scores of bodies are report
ed still being washed up on
our Shores"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
AIRPORT MEETING
SLATED TOMORROW
County Board And Avia-
lion Committee To Talk
Plans To Promote Field

A meeting of the county board
and the aviation committee ap'
pointed several weeks ago will be
held at the courthouse Wednesday
afternoon at 3 o'clock, following
a motion to that effect yesterday
afternoon by the county commits
sioners.
At this time plans will be formu-
lated for the promotion and devel-
opment of Bluethenthal airport.
The projected modernization pro-
gram at the field has started.
Work crews are now busy at the
county rock quarry removing ma
terial in preparation for the laying
of runways.
The Ideal Plumbing company, of
Wilmington, was awarded a $1,231
contract for the installation of fix
lures at the new buildings at the
county home, as bids on the work
were opened and read at the meet
ing.
Other applicants and their pro-
posals:
W. w. Way and Son, $1,265; B.
R. Drynan, $1,368; A. E. Cumber,
$1,434; and R. c. Lucas, $1,865.
Bids on the installation of heat
ing equipment will be invited for
next Mondays meeting.
A sum of S., 900, a budgeted ex-
pense, was granted to the school
board as a capital outlay.
The question of the county's TAX
ing part in the expense of paving
Tenth street was turned over to
the school board for consideration.
l. ]. Coleman reported to the
board that many residents of the
county had questioned him as to
where they could obtain free seeds
for use in planting their gardens.
Addison Hewlett, chairman, sug-
gested that those desiring seeds
call at the office of Mrs. l.. O.
CONTINUED on PAGE Ten. CoI a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17

With the disclosure yesterday
that experiments in the growing
of castor beans are planned N
this section, the possibility that a
new industry may be developed in
southeastern North Carolina ap-
peared.
r. Holzcker, chemist and repre-
sentative of Woburn Industries,
Inc, of B~rooksville, Fla, and B. fl.
Sullivan, an associate of M. O.
Dunning, Washington, D. c., said
yesterday that the company has
started preliminary surveys in this
section to learn if climate and soil
conditions will permit the profit
able growth of the plant.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
FRANCE IN DANGER
OF LOSING COLONY
Agreement Permitting Ja-
pan To Land Troops In
Indo-C China Expected

HANOI, French Indo-China, Sept
16.-R-France was believed IN
well-informed quarters here to-
night to be in imminent peril OF
losing French 1ndo-China to Jap
an.
French officials admit privately
that negotiations-already approx.
ed in principle by Vichy and Tok-
yo-are likely to result within a
few days in agreement permitting
Japan to establish perhaps Is, 1000
troops on Indo-China soil.
Authoritative French, japanese
and foreign sources say this may
prompt China to send her own sol
diers across the colonial frontier
and precipitate a conflict which
might mean the beginning of the
end of Frances 60-year rule of
this east Asian territory of 230, 900
square miles.
In all quarters, official and ci-
william, the conviction is expressed
that only the United States could
prevent Japan from gaining a pos
sibly unshakeable hold, but fear of
arousing Japanese feelings has
prevented Indo-China authorities
even from soliciting such aid.
French sources said that a mis-
sion had been sent to the United
States last July, but that both it
and the government here had fall
ed to obtain warplanes and other
material sought in the United
States. &
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
Appearance OF Raiders
Brings Out Heaviest Anti
Aircraft Fire OF War
NAILS HIT MIDLANDS
Channel Mist Turns Into
Fog, Moon Blotted Out,
Sea Becomes Choppy
BY EDWIN STOUT

LONDON, Sept. 17.-CTuesday)
-R-Thickening weather on which
Britons long have counted as an
autumn ally fctced the German
air raiders early today to break
off an intensive night bombing at
tack on London three hours ahead
of the usal quitting time.
By 2 a.. M, the steady process
sion of raiders, which had brought
out the heaviest anti-a.rcraft fire
yet heard in the LONDON area,
thinned out to an occasional dron-
ing motor and sporadic b o NIB
blasts.
At 2:41 a. M, the all-clear
sounded.
Fire Controlled
One great fire broke out in CEN
trail London but it was quickly
controlled.
The alarm, which began in the
foggy duck at 800 p. m. y%este--
day, was marked by a steady pro-
cession of Nazi planes more nu-
merous than before, but it eno4d
after six hours and 80 minutes
| second shortest Of the 10 consecu-
tive night raids on the British cap
ital.
During the same period the Ger
mans struck extensively limit he
Midlands, the northeast and else
where in England.
The British, having withstood the
punishment of daylong bombings
and cross-channel Smelling from,
German cannon, expressed convic-
ito that their own heavy bomb
blows on the continental coast had
set back Adolf Hitler's proposed
invasion plans.
Hot Fight
While it lasted, the G e r man
night raid was a hot fight.
Anti-aircraft shells burst above
the low clouds which concealed
the invading planes and dimmed
the moon over London.
A number of houses suffered hits
from high explosive and incendi-
airy bombs in the Midlands, where
one German plane fouled a ball
loon barrage cable and crashed.
The nights battle in London be-
gan the moment the evening alarm
sounded. Immediately. anti-air-
craft batteries roared into a full
Continued on Page Ten; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
Says N alton Marshalling
Strength To Avert Fate
OF Weak Nations
COOPERATION URGED
Nations Chief Says 'Ameri-
ca Stands At Cross Roads
OF Its Destiny
Bv RICHARD l.. TURNER

WASHINGTON, Sept. is. -tR-
President Roosevelt signed the
draft act today, fixed Oct. 16 as
registration day for $500, 900 OF
young Americans now subject to
compulsory military training, and
asserted that the United States
was marshalling its strength to
avert 1.-The terrible fate of nations
whose weakness invited attack"
In addition, the chief executive
called upon the governors OF the
states to provide suitable places
for the registration. urged local
election officials land other pa
triotic citizens" to man the regis.
tration boards and asked employ
ers to give their affected employ
ees sufficient time off, to pre-
sent themselves and fill out the
forms.
Volunteer Provision
Mr.. Roosevelt, moreover, en-
phasized a section of the act and
a phase of the building up of the
army which received much dis
cussion nj congress-the voluntary
enlistment system. All between 10
and IS, inclusive, he said in a for
NAL statement, will be offered an
opportunity to volunteer for a one
year period of service and train
ing, and those who offer them
selves-provided they are suitable
are to be accepted before any
others III selected.
Thus an influx of volunteers,
from any particular area would
reduce the quota of men conscrlp-
ted from that area.
The new law itself requires that
all who on Oct. 16 have attained
the 21st anniversary Of their birth
and have not passed the thirty
sixth year must register. A nation
al drawing by lot will determine
the order in which questionnalres
will be mailed to the men. On the
basis of the questionnaires, local
boards will place the men IN var-
ious classifications-those available
for immediate service, those de-
ferred because of dependents, etc.
Will Select Men
The local boards will select SUI
ficient men from among tn Sc
available for immediate service to
fill the quota for the area. Those
so selected will undergo physical
examinations and, if they pass,
will be indicted into service for
n year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
Germans Report Flight
yGoering

Landing back at his headquar.
tiers in an ~undisclosed village in
Normandy, northwestern France,
Goering was quoted as saying;
Il am glad I made my air force
such a strong weapon. 1t was the
decisive force in Poland and Nor
way and undoubtedly it will play
a similarly decisive role in the
war with England"
Goering, a World war ace and
former commander of the Rich
totem circus, has been in personal
command of the aerial assault on
CONTINUED on Page Ten; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17

BERLIN, Sept. 16.-R-An-
nouncement of a flight over Lon
don by Reichs-M Marshal Hermann
Wilhelm Goering, personal director
of the air siege Of England, gave
dramatic emphasis today to a
heightened tempo of daylight raids
on the British capital.
Goering's trip, which authorized
quarters said was made last night
in one of Germany's biggest and
newest bombers which he piloted
himself, shared interest with diplo-
matte developments which many
observers believed might soon
bring Spain into the war as an
ally of Germany and Italy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
Local Men Slated
To Register For Draft

ulation according to the 1910 cen
sus is At, Bill and simple multiplied
ton gives 6,693 as the number OF
men in the draft age.
About one in 40 or 400, 1000 out
of 49, 500, 900 will be drafted for
army service this year.
So by dividing 6,693 by 40 1t IS
deducted that 1877 men in this
g range will 60 into khaki this
year.
For every volunteer in the coun-
tv the draft quota will be cut by
one. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17

castor bean, to determine its IL
fectiveness on truck crop pests.
Arrangements have been made
with Geoig e Trask, true tarmer
here, tc plant several acres in the
plant and to study its growth, MIR
Holzcker said. Trask will also
make tests of the insecticlde and
study its effectiveness.
The experiments with the lnsec-
ticide are expected to b complt-
d within a few months but those
dealing with the production TO the
bean, will require about one and
one-haf years, Holzcker said.
Holzcker and Sullivan said also
if the growing Of the castor bean
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
Continued on Page -Four; Col. q

Taking the United States wal
DEPARTMENTS calculations as a.,
measuring rod, there are approx
mately 6,693 men in New Hanover
county between the ages of 81 and
IS who will have to register for
the army draft.
However, only 1877 of these will
be drafted this year.
The war department figures that
men between the ages of 81 and
IS make up IA per cent of the
population. The county's total pop
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
RAYBURN ELECTED
SPEAKER OF HOUSE
Texas Democrat Is Named
Successor To Bankhead
Without A Contest

WASHINGTON, Sept. 49, Up -
A genial Texas democrat, Rep.
Sam Rayburn, was elected speaker
of the house of representatives by
reclamation today-the second
man in history to win the post
without a contest. The only other
man to do so was the one he sue
ceeded, William Bankhead of Ala
bama.
This unique feature of their cleo
tions was the result of the fact
that Bankhead and the man he fol-
lowed to the chair, the late Joseph
Wellington Byrns of Tennessee,
Continued on Page Ten; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
MEN TO BE EXAMINED
Company | Scheduled TO
Leave Sunday Morning
For Year At Jackson

Wilmington's approximately 45O
national guardsmen-called to the
colors for a years active service
for the first time since the World
war-were busy last night making
preparations for about 10 days IN
camp here and for final recruiting
activities before leaving for their
camps in Georgia and South Caro-
lima.
Company I, 12oth infantry, under
the command of Captain j. En-
nest Cheek, received its travel or
ders yesterday, it "a learned last
night. The company will leave Will
mington Sunday morning at 7:4O
o'clock for one years training at
Fort Jackson, neal Columbia, 5.
C.
Battery A and Headquarters bat
terry, 252nd coast artillery, n d
Company A 105th Medical regi-
ment, had not received definite or
Continued on Page Ten; Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
Castor Bean Production Experiments
Are Planned In Wilmington Section

plant is found practical here, a
processing plant will be guilt IN
this vicinity, in which the various
products made from the castor
bean will be manufactured. Num-
bered among these, in addition to
the new insecticide, r oil and a
number of by-products.
The underlying purpose in the
entire research, they said, is to at
tempt to restore the castor bean
to the position of prominence it
held in this country for m a ny
years through the re-introduction
of its products.
Continued on Page Ten; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
SEC0ND NATIONAL,
GUARD CALLS MADE
War Department Orders
$500 More Men Into
Service On October Is

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. -R-
The wal department made its Sec
ond call on the national guard to
night in its expanding defense pro-
gram, ordering IS, ZOO men into the
federal service on October IS.
Approximately $4,000 guardsmen
were indicted into the army to-
Continued on Page -Four; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
THICK WEATHER HA[TS GERMAN RAID ON london
Draft Registration Scheduled October is
Fair Enough
WyTBRo &

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-Since that
limo about a year ago, when the
'.,tzons of California went to the
..,1s TO vote down mob confiscation
= nrivate property and a further
.,onosal to repeal the American
torn Of government and elect a die
.,+or 7 have intended to comb both
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17

sounding fathers, in their conserva-
rive wisdom. had no intention to
tound a democracy. On the con-
trsrv, they distinctly affirmed their
ie~ermination OF guarantee to every
g.ate a republican form Of govern
nent." Nowhree in either docu.
ment will YOU find any reference to
democracy, and the experiences of
the C~alifornians who, twice in three
Years. had to whip themselves into
a sviyet to save their sub-republic
from destruction by the democratic
process vindicate the judgment Of
those early patriots.
Unlike us who thoughtlessly per-
uitted ourselves to glorify democ-
racy in the days of 1917-1S, not paus-
ing to examine whereof we prattled,
and who have continued ever since
TO praise the name of a system
which would be fatal to our freedom,
the founders Of the nation pointedly
rejected it, Democracy is not a rep
N~sentative form of government, and,
IN reflection, the reasons become ap-
parent why the NaZis and FaScists
-iicule US for our ignorance in ex-
toling a system which We do not
Practice and would hate as fiercely
as they do, should we try. When we
say democracy we don't know
What We are talking about, but they
Do, and, giving us crdeit for more
sense than we possess, they think
We must be crazy, when we are only
ignorant.
Victims OF BalIyhoo
We have cnofused ourselves and
fallen victims to the ballyhoo Of the
party which was in power during the
IS World war and which used it's
own rnisnomer as an ideal and toe
s' That party never has attempted
" pfactlce democracy, and, even
now IN its trend to national social
Ism would not dareadvocate democ-
iaey except as a catch-word and in
ue knowledge that the people never
laVe paused to examine it's meaning.
we i've under a superstition that
uealocracy is the guarantee of the
iepuolcan liberties which exist no
"aefe else in the world but in this
.epupllc. The communists, naturally,
nave urged US toward democratic fol-
n.y. knowing that it is unavoidable
III a land as vast mad having so
large a population as this one. That
way the reason why in California
'e communist party and the com
muAlst C. |. 0. Endorsed and worked
'f a l5,OOO-word amendment to the
''Ve constitution which would have
D'inea a dictator, abolished all rights
suSrhateed and preserved only by
'e republican system and caused a
snastly brawl,
iAe initiative and referendum was
"'Aeu upon as a sound reform Is
'''s ago, and certainly the intent
N'n'lhued on Page -Four; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17

the constitution
and the Decla'
ration of indie
pendence for any
mention of h
words "democ-
racy'' or demo-
cratic Procras-
tination is n o
mere hobby but
more nearly an
cscupation with
me-, so this task
has not been &C.
c.nplished until
today, h e n l
unable to re-
port t the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17
WEATHER
FORECAST

yos, FORECAST
VAIN Carolina: Fair Tuesday and
SortinnS uSy slightly cooler in central
endina ,e99fologlcal data for the "a hours
s ''@o p. N. yesterday.
Ian Temperature
n. IN. d. m; s.; 7:3O a. m. Is; 1870 p.
niDimr a;5o p. m. 70: maximum 80 !,
"ull 62; mean p; normal 70.
s. :'?9 a a; m. 80; 7:3o a. m. 90: 1:ao D. m.
'';3o p. m. 70.
Tot,, Precipitation
Aoae:N td lor "a hours ending 7:3O p. M,
IlO inc %eai since first of the month,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17

ne 6:5ln. 80, sunset b:Ibp; moon
%etteyiIIo rear river stage at Fay
lO.2 faa. at . a. M, September IS,
iued on Page Ten; Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-17

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