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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
ROBERT RESIGNS
DEMOCRATIC JOB
Head OF Atlanta Engineer
ing Firm Quits AS Nation
al Committee Secretary

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-R-Dem-
ocratic national headquarters an
nounced today the. resignation of
L. w. Chip Robert, Jr., as secre-
tary of the democratic national
committee.
Robert said in a letter to Nation
al Chairman Edward j. Flynn that
Eat a time like the present I can
not serve the best interests of my
company and also the best inter-
ests of my party connections 81
simultaneously, and there can not
and must not be a conflict between
the two"
Roberts firm, Robert and Co.,
of Atlanta, Ca, architects and en-
gineers, has received numerous
government ontracts.
A report filed by Chairman Vim
son (D.-Ga.) Of the house naval
committee on Aug. % showed that
Robert & Co., had received $685.
859, O81 in naval contracts carrying
1891, $50 in fees.
Senator Styles Bridges (R.-N.H.)
demanded in the senate on Aug. 80
that President Roosevelt call for
Roberts resignation. At a press
conference the next day, when the
Robert case was mentioned, the
President said he had noticed a
great deal of smoke and added
that if there was any proper fire
behind it, he hoped congress would
go right after it.
Robert replied to Bridges that
he would welcome an investlga-
ton, adding that he hoped it would
be held quickly before he Bridg-
esq attempts further to clog up the
vital defense program by petty po-
litical sniping." Robert said his
company and its associates had
done business running into the
millions for the federal government
since the Coolidge administration"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

mated agencies who serve without
pay. Special boards will advise
and assist registrants.
After registration, local c~lassifi-
cation and selection boards start
work-one to each area with 80, 600
population and in any event one
to each county. Each will have as
signed to it a physician for exam
nations and a government appeal
agent to protect the interests OF
the government and of the regis
trants."
A medical advisory board of spe-
cialists will consider C S OF
doubtful physical condition"
Governors also will establish
boards Of appeal, approximately
one for each region having 70, 600
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
JAP AND FRENCH
TROOPS BATTLE
In INDO-CHINA
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Japanese were threatening the last
citadel of resistance Of Generals
simo Chang Kai-shek in SOUTH
western China.
(Well-informed sources at Vichy
said all the economic demands OF
Japan in the colony had b e e n
granted.
Gin Vichy, French Foreign Min
lister Paul Baudouin said the agree
ment provided for the right Of
passage of an inspected number
of Japanese troops across 1ndo-
China, use of three air bases in
Toxin, landing facilities at the port
of Haiphong, with the Japanese
limited to one ship there at any
one time.
(Baudouin said the accord with
Japan was "a point of departure
for a vast entente between France
and Japan" and that all foreign
governments, particularly the Unit
ed States, had been informed Of
the progress Of negotiations.
Gle said the Chinese government
had been refused the right to send
their troops into Indo- china). l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
U. S. RAPS JAPAN

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-R-
The United States accused Japan
today of "upsetting'' the status quo
in the Pacific as high administra-
ton officials studied measures to
counter the far Eastern empires
southwark drive into French Indo-
China.
Secretary of State Hull said in a
formal statement that it was obvi-
GUS 1.-The status quo Is being upset
and this is being achieved under
duress."
1.-The position of the United
States in disapproval and in depre-
cation of such procedures has re-
peatedly been stated" he added.
He gave no indication of the gov
ernment's plans, but other in
formed sources said it was likely
that n step would be additional
restrictions on exports of vital sup
plies to Japan. 1
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
SCHOOL BUILDING
IMPROVEMENT WORK
IS PUSHED HERE
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sibly the most up-to-date building
in the county," Roland said.
The William Hooper school has
added fire towers as a safety
measure, sanitation facilities, and
the most attractive auditorium in
the county school system. Week on
the interior of the building has not
yet been completed.
The high school gymnasium pro-
lect, now under construction, is
progressing rapidly. This will
give us an up-to-date gymnasium
and brings about the transfer OF
the High school cafeteria to the
present gymnasium. the1 by pro-
viding three or four classrooms
to relieve the present crowded con-
dition at the high school, Roland
said.
Workmen have just started the
construction of a vocational build
ing located on 18th street by the
Isaac Bear school building. This
structure will provide offices,
storerooms, and workshops for
woodwork, manual arts, and metal
work.
Second floor Of this building will
comprise five classrooms, one OF
which will be large enough for
the band. holland said the five
additional c1assrooms provided by
this project would Offer additional
relief to congested conditions at
the High school.
The Wrightsboro school building
is being enlarged by an additional
story, Roland said. Work on this
project is already under way. Bar
ger Brothers, contractors tor this
job and the High school gymnasi.
UNI project, plan to push this work
to completion as early as possible.
An additional story to the
Wrightsboro building will r~ovide
seven additional classrooms, four
of which IRE needed at the present
time, with prospects of n or two
more to be needed in the near
future.
The NHemenway and Cornelius
Harnett schools have each receiv.
ed fire towers and renovated in
teriors. The main parts Of these
projects have been completed and
the schools were able to use them
with the beginning of the school
year, Roland said. Remainder OF
the work is expected to be COM
pleted in the near future.
I'VE plan a cabinet shelving and
painting project, taking in nj
of the county, as well as an ad-
dition to the Winter Park school
building. These improvements are
to be started as soon as the labor
and funds are made available.
THE completion of this program
will bring our more poorly con-
structed school buildings up to the
level Of our better structures in
the county school system. Three
negro schools in the city have re-
ceived additions and renovations''
Roland sadi.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
Raj RAIDS BERLIN
AND CHANNEL PORTS
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aicraft hell and Nazi bomb for
the 18th consecutive night.
Early today a German bomber
dropped what appeared to be a
''Molotoff breadbasket' over a
northern suburb, but firemen
quickly extinguished fires started
by bombs which spewed out from
it like a bursting skyrocket.
Some raiders, apparently unwin-
ing to try London's anti-aircraft
barrage, dropped their deadly bur-
dens on towns in southeast Eng
land.
In a business district in north
west London, two banks, a postof-
flee and an apartment building
were damaged.
Ground batteries spewed up a
hurricane of exploding steel that
seemed to Guido anything heard
heretofore and searchlights sought
small groups of Nazi raiders strik-
ing at London.
Guns threw up thousands of
shells along the light beams at
what sounded like heavy German
bombers. The burst of d Instant
bombs was heard above the in
cessant clatter of steel fragments
raining down on central London
rooftops.
Both explosive and incendiary
bombs were dropped freely.
Two bombs were dropped in
southwest London by a lone raid
er.
Other raiders were reported over
Wales, northwest a d southeast
To Londoners, who trooped into
air raid shelters like actors play
ing a grimly well-rehearsed part,
it was another night of discomfort
and little or no sleep.
Rejecting the confidence spoken
earlier in the day by King George,
the Croydon town council, which
was meeting when the night sirens
sounded, decided to carry on after
he mayor announced spoilers were
on the root. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
PEACETIME DRAFT
PUT INTO EFFECT
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oAASf
in a few days, while House off
Gals said.
All these appointments must be
made to complete a nationwide Or
g~anization for registration Oct. 16
of men from 81 to 36-and the Sc
lection of 400, 600 Immediately for
a years military training.
The President signed a 61-page
executive order making effective
two volumes of draft rules. Addi-
tional volumes will follow.
The purpose of selective service,
the order said, was to secure an
orderly, just and democratic meth
cd whereby the military manpower
of the United States may be made
available for training and service
in the land and naval forces of the
United States with the least
possible disruption of the social
and economic life of the nation"
Basically, the CONSUMPTION pro-
gram will fall into three parts:
ID an inventory, through registra-
ton, of manpower; ca a determin-
alton of the relative availability OF
registrants for military service;
and 60 induction into the land and
naval forces.
Heading the program, and re-
sponsible to the President, will be
the national director.
Under him will be state head
quarters in charge of state direc-
tors, recommended by the COVER
nors and responsible to them.
Registration is to be handled by
election officials or other desig-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
REACTION Studied

TOKYO, Sept. N.-(Tuesday)-
RNReacton Of third powers, par
tlcularly Of the United States, to-
ward Japan's use OF French Idno-
China in south Asia as a stepping
stone to enlightenment of Chin
crowded out nearly all other con-
siderations in Japanese speculation
today.
The possibilities in this eagerly
expressed interest in the United
States attitude ranged all the way
from embargo 10 outright military
intervention.
dn Washington Secretary of
State cordell Hull again expressed
disapproval of a change in the
status quo Of Indo-C China, and said
it was being effected under du-
ress." informed sources said any
United States economic restrictions
might take the form of tighter con-
rol Of oil an dscrap iron exports
to Japan.) !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
ACCIDENT FATAL
TO J. F. STR0WD
University Student Dies From
Injuries Received In Crash
Near Durham

DURHAM, Sept. 23.-R-James
F. Strowd, 20-year-olr junior at the
University Of North Carolina, died
in a local hospital this afternoon at
$50 o'clock of injuries suffered
Sunday night in an automobile col
lision on highway 70 near the Dur
ham-Wake county line.
Strowd, who was in a party OF
Carolina students returning to the
campus, received a severe brain
injury and his condition had been
regarded as extremely critical
from the first.
He was a native of Whiteville /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
MATTSON YOUTH
TO SEE KIDNAPER
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U0lIllueu TON rage OllC)
ssl Bureau of Investigation. What
they discovered remained undis-
dosed. But it was learned that they
we're most interested in some ap-
urent resemblances between the
nan held here and the sketchy de-
srpion of the kidnaper in the
brutal Mattson case, one of the few
molved kidnapings on the books of
The FBI.
Nat ]. L. Pieper, agent in charge
thaFBI here, appeared thorough
II tied today, and Obviously had
had no sleep. His clothes were
tgmpled and a beard stubble showed
m his face.
Pieper remained in his office suite
4roughout the day and some OBJ
arvers believed Muhlenbroich was
icing held there. Earl J. Connolly,
chief investigative officer of the
FBI, who headed the Mattson case
nanhunt, ATTENDED the questioning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
BILL REPORTED

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23- Up =
A house-approved bill revising the
nationality laws was reported by
the senate immigration commit
tee today, but Senator Schwellen-
bach D-Wash), reporting the bill
to the senate, said it contained a
provision compelling surrender of
American nationality only in the
event a citizen, by entering and
serving in a foreign military force,
obtained nationality in that eoun-
try. Canada and England, he told
newsmen, do not require non-citiz-
ems entering their services to take
an oath of allegiance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
1ABOR CITY MAN
TAKES own LIFE
# soles, Y, Is Found Shot To
heath In His Bedroom;
No Inquest Planned

,ru1TEvILLE, Sept. 23.-M.
- prominent farmer Of the
. asyr city section, was found dead
.'.' self-inflicted shotgun wounds
,:, bedroom this morning about
|iN o'clock
He had been in ill health for
yne time.
was said by relatives that Mr..
arose this morning, and went
S' - the barn. After he had been
~ for a while he returned to
p 's house and went into the bed
Ng Tse family was just sitting down
the breakfast table when they
I,.rd the report of a gun from the
S..ction of the bedroom. They
!ar.d the ICED man dying of a
.,atolln wound through the head.
S Snrvjving are his widow, Mrs.
,'TTp Sales, two daughters: Mrs.
S.aster Long, of Mollie, and Mrs.
cass Roberts, of Tabor City; three
'ans, Carson Soles, o fRichmond,
y. Claude and Clarence Soles, of
Tabor City.
IN addition to other relatives, one
,,other and three sisters survive
follows: John Soles, of Pungo;
'irs Ellis Todd of Clarendon, Mrs.
n Hewett, of RID /, Tabor City,
'rd Mrs. Sallie Jolly, of Balti-
more, Nd. 49,.
roroner j. D. Skies was called
N tbe scene this morning, and
,tpr a perfunctory investigation,
armed the death of Mr. Soles as
and did not deem an in
nest necessary.
Frneral services are scheduled
+, he held tomorrow afternoon at
40 o'clock at the home near Ia
bm city, by the Rev. c. r. Hinton,
paynr of the Green Sea Baptist
and former pastor here.
Iasonic honors will be accorded
deceased, and burial will b.
-ade in the family cemetery. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
|PULLEN ABS0LVED
OF CAR FATALITY
Pender Coroner's Jury Terms
Woodcock Death I'm
avOidable Accident

BURGAW, Sept. ga coroner
jury conducting an inquest into the
automobile accident death Of
Claude Woo1cock, 80, Of Atkinson;
late last night, ruled here this aft
ernoon that he came to his death
through an unavoidable acct
dent" and cleared Charles T. Pull.
en-, of Burgaw, driver of the car
which struck Woodcock, of blame.
The accident occurred on the
highway about ten miles north of
here shortly before midnight last
night.
James Walker, Of Atkinson, who
was also struck by Pullen's car
while he stood beside Woodcock, is
under treatment at James Walker
Memorial hospital in Wilmington
for a broken leg. Attaches report
ed tonight that his condition seems
satisfactory"
Highwa. Patrolman Smith testi-
fled that his investigation disclosed
that the accident occurred while
Woodcock, Walker and Percy Bar
Der were attempting to start a
pickup truck stalled on the high
way, the truck being without lights.
The car driven by Pullen, COM
ing south on the highway struck
Walker and Woodcock who were
standing on the highway, he said.
Barber, who was seated in the
pickup, was not injured. He wa,
later arrested, however, on a
charge of public drunkenness.
Funeral arrangements had not
been made today for Woodcock. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
Cape Fear Loop To Hold
Banquet Wednesday Night

The board of directors Of the Cape
Fear Baseball association met last
night and voted to hold the leagues
annual banquet at Henry Kirk.
hams place on the sound Wednes.
day night at 8 o'clock.
Those planning to attend are .
Quested to meet at the courthouse
at Z o'clock and leave in a body.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
HATCHER DIES OF
WOUND RECEIVED
IN FENDER ROW
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lege of bond pending a report from
the coroner's jury.
Sheriff J. T. Brown said that his
investigation showed that Hatcher
and others had engaged in an alter
cation in the filling station and
Bradham had ordered the man to
leave, In the argument that ensued
between the two men, Hatcher was
shot with a pistol, he said.
Members of the jury impaneled by
Coroner Pope to view the body last
night are: j. L. Harrell, A. L. Ives,
g. J. Bradshaw, Jr., J. T. Wells,
Harvey Blake and B, J. Farrior.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
BRIGADE FINANCIAL
CAMPAIGN OPENED
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be held in the afternoons and nights
for five days a week.
Colonels, who are assisting in
the drive, include: Hooper john
son. B. E. Livingston. M. Eugene
Billiard, and E. l.. MCGOWAN.
Team captains are Moseley
Fonviene, R. e. Tapp, Sam Berger,
C. M. Shigley, the Rev. Walter B
Freed, Walker Taylor, H. w. Pin
ner, Harry Solomon, O. d. Curtis,
O, H. Shoemaker, Robert Mont
gomery, Kenneth Weeks and Bob
Romeo. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
DEMANDS
STRONG DEFENSE
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parade of the 40 and 8, their fun
lving affiliates, as dozens Of per-
sons collapsed in a crowd of more
han a million which, at times,
Arged beyond police control.
At least a dozen persons tainted
IN the big rush and were treated at
Uy hospital. More than a score of
Tiers We're given first aid in
emergency tents.
Police Superintendent Edward j.
talon estimated the crowd lining
NE three and one-quarter mile
route at 1880, 900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

registrants under the initial regis
quests for exemption, and their de-
cisions will be final unless modi-
fled by the President. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

Among bridal superstitions il the
n about wearing "something old
borrowed and something blue
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

Artichekes haYe the reputation
of being one of the ~aristocrats OF
the vegetable kingdom. z
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24
WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, September 23.-(R-
Weather bureau records of temperature
and rainfall for the "a hours ending
g n. M
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-09-24

ADVERTISEMENT
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-27
GERMAN GENERAL
GIVEN new TASK
Streccius, Chief Of Nazi-
Occupied France, Viii.
Head New Effort

BERLIN, Oct. 27-(Sunday)-F'
General Streccius, Of the German
infantry, who has been in charge
of the military administration OF
occupied France, undertook a new
assignment on Friday, it was
said here today. Informed sources
said the nature of the new job
was not divulged.
He was succeeded in France by
infantry General Heinrich o
Stuelpnagel, who has been mead
ing the German-French armlstlce
commission at Wiesbaden.
BERLIN, Oct. 27-Sunday)-R
Several hundred German fight
ers and bombers, a force descrlo-
ed by informed sources as "un-
usually strong, attacked England
last night and early today, it was
reported here. They were said to
have taken off from bases ranging
from France to Norway and car
ried bombs weighing up to two tons.
Informed sources said six Brit
ish planes were shot down and two
German planes were missing after
an uninterrupted series of at
tacks on England and her capital
yesterday.
These circles claimed effective
hits we're scored.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-27
Obituaries
A. A. WOODCOCK

ROCKY POINT, Oct. 26.-Fun'
eral services for Allison Alvls
Woodcock, 81, who died at 5 O'Clock
Thursday afternoon at his home
in the Long Creek section of Pen.
der county after a long illness,
were held at 10 o'clock this morn
ing from the late residence.
The Rev. R. P. Clark and the
Rev. Mr.. Eckels, pastor of the
Currie Presbyterian church, Off
ciated. Burial followed in the fam
lily cemetery near Atkinson.
Active pallbears were: Carl E.
Henry, Paul Holly, Gilbert Lock
heart, Elzin Langston, AKRON Her
ring, and E. P. Williams.
Honorary pallbearers were: DR..
r. G. Williams, T. G. Henry, Paul
B. Potter, B. G. Brady, A. P.
Moore, Leon Groom, George Kelly
E. c. Highsmith, R. S. Drivers,
Paul Sartner, W. E. R O C he | | e,
George Lucas, and Hugh Walker.
Mr.. Woodcock is survived by
his widow; two daughters, Mrs.
Robert E. Lee, of Long Creek;
and Mrs. Norman P. Rochelle, OF
Newport News, Va; and the fol
lowing brothers and sisters:
Mrs. Harvey Moore, of Rocky
Point; Mrs. W. G.. Bella, of Fay.
etteville; Mrs. Lula Pridgen,
Mrs. D. H. McDuffie, and Miss Ad-
die Woodcock, of Atkinson; Lee
Woodcock, of Wallace; R. T. Wood
cock, of Burgaw; and T. T. Wood
cock, of Acme. 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-27
Curtiss- Wright Plans
Huge Aircraft Plant

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 26-LR- Cur
tiss-Wright corporations st. Louis
airplane division, which has been
awarded $40, 000, 900 in government
contracts, announced plans today
for construction of the largest air
craft manufacturing plant in the
middle west.
The building. covering 1900, 900
square feet. or more than q acres.
will be erected on the site of the
present plant at Larnbert-St. Louis
Municipal airport, where addition
al acreage has been leased from
the city.
1t was reported the plant and it's
equipment would cost $1O,O 1000, 900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-27
Axis And Reds Take
Over Danube Control

BUCHAREST, Oct. 26-RHThe
Axis powers, Soviet Russia and Ru-
mania prepared tonight to take
over control of the mouth OF the
Danube river from the old inter-
national commission on which Brit
ain and France were represented.
Preliminary conversations are
scheduled for tomorrow. A formal
meeting will be held Monday.
The four powers r expected to
decide whether to extend the new
commissions authority to the up
per reaches of the river where Bull
garia, Yugoslavia and Hungary
now share control.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-27
Activities Report Is
Heard By ESQ Ministers

GoLDsBoRo, Oct. 2e.-R-Two
hundred and fifty ministers and
lay delegates attending the North
Carolina conference of the Pente-
costal Holiness church heard a re-
port on activities today.
-Four admissions of the first year
class included c. E. Hester and
Joe Russell, both of Fayetteville,
Miss Fannie Mae Morris of Rocky
Mount and Miss Pearl Bordeaux
of Scotland Neck. Advanced to the
second year class were F. H. Lam
caster of Goldsboro, D.. F. Fulcher
of Vanceboro, and David Davis OF
Herkers Island.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-27
7wo Negroes Injured
In Automobile Mishaps

Wesley Brown, negro, was adj
mitted to James Walker Memorial
hospital yesterday afternoon for
treatment after receiving injuries
in an accident on the old South
port road yesterday afternoon.
Unconfirmed reports said the ne
gro fell from a moving truck. He
was not seriously injured.
Also a patient at the hospital
was George Telfair, negro, who
was injured Friday night on the
Carolina Beach road when struck
by automobile. His condition was
r~eported\as fair"