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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
M0TORIST HUNTED
IN KIDNAP CASE
Girl, 10, Picked Up On
Highway, Badly Beaten
And Thrown Out

FBI agents and New Hanover
county officers tonight were search
ing for an unidentified white man
who a 19-year-old white girl told
them this morning forced her into
his car near Myrtle Beach, attacked
her, and brought her into North
Carolina.
The girl remained in a hospital
here tonight suffering from a broken
jaw and other mouth and throat in.
juries sustained when the man beat
her with his fists, according to her
statement.
If caught, police said the man
may be charged with violation of the
Lindbergh law and possibly the
Mann act, but the latter charge can
not be determined, they said, pending
further investigation.
The girl told officers she was
walking along Ocean Drive, about
10 miles north of Myrtle Beach,
when a car stopped and its driver
asked if she wanted a ride.
When she refused, she told police,
he got out of the car, hit her with
his fist, and forced her into the car.
She said she woke up later in a
tourist cabin Somewhere on the
road" and the man threatened to
kill her.
She did not know, because she was
unconscious, if she had been -crimi-
nally assaulted.
Later, when they drove near Will
mington, her captor beat her again,
she said, and threw her out of the
car onto the pavement. She was
picked up by a ~passer-by and
brought into Wilmington and placed
in a hospital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Nazii Raids
Staged In
Relays

LONDON, July 7.-(Sunday)
-(R-German planes flew in
relays over a northeastern area
of England early today after
an undetermined number of
civilians had been killed in two
German air raids late yester-
day.
Several of the latest wave of
raiders were spotted by search
lights, and anti aircraft fire
drove them back seward.
In yesterdays raids, three
persons were reported killed in
an attack in southwest Eng
land and a joint communique
of the air and home security
ministries also said:
ENEMY aircraft crossed the
south coast late this afternoon
and dropped some bombs. Cas-
ualties were small i'm number
but included a few persons kill
ed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
War Department To Ask
Compulsory Training
NEW YORK TAKES LEAD
Navy Plans Sea- Going Yer
sion OF Hitler's Pam
yer Divisions
{By The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, July - The War
department has decided to urge
compulsory military training, it
was authoritatively reported today,
but will recommend changes in leg
islation now pending in congress.
The army high command is to
give its opinions to a senate COM
mittee next Tuesday and at that
time, authoritative sources said,
will approve in principle the Burke
Wadsworth bill providing for regis
tration and selective training of all
men from 18 to IS:
S21 A Month
One change, it is understood, will
be a suggestion that those in train
ing receive $21 a month - the
initial pay of volunteer professional
soldier rather than a nominal
stipend of S. a month or so.
Word of the high commands at
titude on this major armament is
sue shared attention among de-
tense developments with reports
that the navy was organizing a
Continued on Page -Four; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
NATIONAL GUARD :
HEADS FOR CAMP
Three Units OF 252nd Are
To Spend Fl Days AT
Fort Moultrie

The national preparedness pro-
gram affected Wilmington directly
this morning at z o'clock when
three local national guard units left
for Fort Moultrie, S. c., where
they will encamp for three weeks
one week longer than usual.
The units and their commanders
are: Headquarters Battery, Cap
tain James E. Holton, Jr.; Battery
A, Captain C. D. Cunningham; and
the band section, Lieutenant Viii
liam F. Burns. All are Of the 252nd
Coast Artillery. -.
Colonel R. S. McLelland and his
staff will accompany the units.
The heavy column will move out
of the city at 7 o'clock, followed
by the light column at 8 o'clock.
They will arrive at State Park,
near Myrtle Beach, at noon today
and will set up an overnight en-
campment there.
The troops, travelling in transport
trucks, will arrive at Fort Multrie
Monday noon. They will return to
Wilmington on Saturday, July q.
Captain Holton yesterday ex-
pressed thanks to employers of his
troops for allowing them to be
away from their jobs the extra
week without penalty.
The members of Headquarters
battery attending the camp, in adj
dition to Captain Holton and First
Lieutenant Kenneth M. Corbett,
are:
Sergeants: Phillip B. Plat, Per-
cy c. West, Edgar H. Divine, Ed
gar H. Divine, Edward R. Blake,
Ernest R. Shinn, Edward M. Haw-
kins, Herber w. Hewlett, Almon
G.. Adams, Emmett M. Allen, Will
liam j. Farrow, Curtis Johnson,
Walter B. McCary.
Corporals: Oscar Herring, Jr.,
George C. Jackson, Francis G.
johnson, John G. Pittman, Sterling
S. Shue.
Privates First Class: Leon F.
Andrews, Jr., Benjamin M. Brown,
John E. Farmer, Harold A. Gibson,
Hildreth c. Henderson,, Winston H.
Gray, Jr., Edward G.. Maxwell,
Lloyd G.. Page, Grady M. Proctor,
Benjamin D. Walker, James P.
Wheeler,
Privates: James L.. Andrews,
Continued on Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
CHINA JAPAN WAR
ENTERS 9TH YEAR
Japanese Grasp Appears
To Be Weakening; Tokyo
Claims Win Near

SHANGHAI, July 7.-(Sunday)o
|F-The Chinese-Japanese war went
into it's fourth year today, with the
end not yet in sight.
Dramatically opposed answers
are given by Japanese and Chinese
authorities to these questions:
How long can the var last?
Can Chungking, survive if Japan
closes free China's remaining sources
of foreign munitions supplies?
Is Japan begging down at home
and in China?
Chang Kai-Shek, Chinese general
issimo, says that if the war is end
ing, it is ending in Japan's defeat.
Japanese military sources say
"this remnant government at
Chungking is collapsing. The war is
already over"
In an effort to discredit the
Chungking government, the Japa-
nese opened negotiations Friday with
its Marking puppet government for
REIMBURSEMENT of Sino-Japanese rela-
tons, establishment of a new order
in Eastern Asia, and ending of the
Sino-Japanese incident"
AS the third year of the war end
ed, the Japanese forced French In
do-China to close the railway to
southwest China, over which, the
Japanese claim, Chungking was get
ting vital munitions.
This route as a lifeline to Chung
king faded, but a japanese demand
that the British similarly close the
Burma overland route met rejection
from London.
This action of the British consti.
Continued ON Page Two; Col. A
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
RUMANIA BEGINS
DRIVE ON JEWS
New Pro-Nazi Chief Says
Jews And Reds Disloyal
During Red Grab
BY the Associated Press

BUCHAREST, July - (sun-
day. minor incidents" which
have been ended were disclosed
officially today to have occurred
in connection with Jews a n d
other minority groups to Russian.
occupied Bessarabia.
The announcement by the In.
terror Ministry followed the accuse.
ton last night of Premier 1 o n
Gigurtu, head of Rumania's new
pro-Nazi government, that J e w S
had been disloyal in the country's
'last hour of trial"
1.-THE cession of Bessarabia and
in particular, the transfer across
the Prut river into Bessarabia of
the Jewish minority and certain
communistic elements was effect
ed with some minor Incidents" the
ministry's communique said.
'These were, however, liquidated
through energetic measures a n d
the tact of our officials"
OF the alleged Jewish disloyalty,
Gigurtu declared: ''We will never
forget 90"
While he spoke of a minority"
it was said in his behalf that his
denunciation was of the Jewish
people.
The Premier told the country that
the government had decided in
the future to collaborate in close
contact with all those minorities
Continued on Page Five; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
MEXICO TO VOTE
ON CHIEF TODAY
Scattered Bloodshed May
Be Forerunner OF Vio-
lence During Vote

MEXICO CITY, July 6-RHMex'
ico's angry presidential campaign
ended tonight in an atmosphere Of
growing tenseness, scattered blood.
shed and fear of major disorders
in tomorrow's election.
Late in the day, one newsboy
was shot and killed and four other
persons were wounded in front OF
the union headquarters here of the
workers of the marine department.
They had shouted viva Alma
zan!--thus demonstrating in behalf
of the anti-administration candi-
date for president, General Juan
Andrea AlmaZan..
The group of boys had stoned
the building, which displayed pho
tographs Of Manuel Avila Cana
cho, the administration candidate.
Police arrested one man in the
Union headquarters and rescued
other occupants from a mob of
boys.
The incident occurred on tn e
Avenida Bucareli,, Mexico City,
Continued on Page Four; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Three Men Make Getaway,
Leaving Dynamite Near
Gasoline Factory
GUARDS INCREASED
Sabotage Feared Al Plant
Where Blast Killed
Three In April
(By The Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La, July e.
Extraordinary emergency regula
tons so rigid that company EN-
ployes said "Franklin D. Roose
welt himself won't be able to gel
in here now without a special pass
were put into effect today at the
$40, 900, 900 dup ont Ethyl manufac.
turing plant following a dynamite
scare.
FBI agents and state and county
police joined in the hunt for three
men who repeatedly fled upon dis
covery last night, leaving from
sticks of dynamite inside the plant
fence under which they had bur
roWed.
Vital to Defense
Officers late today were uncer-
tain whether the attempt was the
crude work of some "sorehead,,'
as Sheriff Newman DeBretton put
it, or an effort of sabotage the
huge plant here, vital in national
defense as the source of a third
Of all the tetraethyl fluid used in
the highest grade gasoline con-
sumed in the United States.
The dupont company of Della
ware does not own the plant but
operates it for the Ethyl Gasoline
Corp, Of New York. Adjacent to
it lies one of the nations largest
oil refineries, operated by the STAN
card Oil company, where much
South American petroleum is re-
fined.
Discovery of the attempt follow
ed an anonymous telephone call to
a night Waterman from a man
VINO said that while hunting frogs
late last night, he discovered three
men attempting to invade the
plant. The Waterman investigated
ana found the hole and dynamite,
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
DECLINE in JOBS
REPORTED IN NC,
Fiscal Year OF Record
Prosperity Ends With
Prospects DINNER
By NOEL YANCEY

RALEIGH, July g. @-North
Carolina has just completed a fiscal
year of almost unprecedented pros
perity but there were indications to.
day it was slightly apprehensive
about the immediate future.
Showing c~onclusively that indus
trial activity, employment and wages
were at a high level all last year,
and up to a few weeks ago at least,
was the department of revenues fis-
cal year-end report of collections.
This report showed that 1939-40
tax "take" was SIG, 1904, S41. Ga cool
$6,428 ,252.1S more than the state
ever before collected in a year. AS
a result the state began the new
fiscal year with a surplus Of more
than 100000 in it's general and
highway funds. ~
Since rates for sales, income, gaso-
Continued on Page, Five; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
War Interpretive

land, was a political, not a mill
tary move.
1t was designed obviously to pro.
mote friction between shattered
France and her ally, still defiant
England. It has done just that,
leading to the first armed clash
between French and British forces
since the end of the Napoleonic
era.
Behind wrathful German a n d
Italian comment on the British ac-
ton can be discerned a wholly diff
ferent actual Nazi-Fascist reaction.
It is one of exultation that what
must now be regarded as an Axis
plot to break the spirit, as well
as the fact, of Franco-British unity
Continued on Page Five; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
ISLAND BLOCKADE
AR0USES CONCERN
F. R. Suggests Asia And
Europe Keep Conquer
ing Nations Out

WASHINGTON, July 6.-R-
The possibility Of joint Pan-Ameri-
can action with regard to the re.
ported British blockade of Martinique
arose today.
At a press conference, Secretary
Hull said that this and other Ameri.
can governments carefully were
studying reports that British war;
ships had hemmed in the French
Caribbean island to prevent the de.
parture of a French aircraft carrier.
He added that they now lacked in.
formation on which to base any gen.
eral theory.
Machinery set up by Pan-American
conferences at Buenos Aires in 1896
and at Lima in 1888 provides for
hemisphere consultation in the event
of world peace disruption Or of any
threat to American nations.
HYDE PARK, N. Y, July 6.-B
President Roosevelt suggested to.
day that Europe and Asia apply the
of the Monroe Doctrine as
means Of reaching agreement on
the disposition of possessions Of con.
quered nations.
He took the position that Euro
pean, Asiatic and American nations
should get together in their respec.
tive spheres and settle problems
involving territorial possessions
among themselves, instead of allow.
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
F. R, AND FARLEY
T0CONFER TODAY
Decision On Third Term
Will Be Made, Some
Observers Think

HYDE PARK, July 6-R-Frank'
lin D. Roosevelt and James A. Far.
ley are to face one another across
a library desk at the temporary
White House tomorrow in a con-
ference of top-rank political i'm
portance:
It will bring together two men
whose names will be placed in
nomination at the democratic ma
tional convention.
White House officials said that
bib JIM, the democratic nation
al chairman, merely wanted to talk
over with 1.-The Boss" plans for
the opening of the convention in
Chicago July IS.
But persons who know Farley
well had little doubt he was aim
ing also at Showdown on the
third term issue.
The President already has more
than two-thirds of the convention
delegates pledged or semi-pledged
Continued on Page Four; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
BY KIRKE L. P

The European war stage h a S
been reset somewhat through Brit
ish elimination of the French fleet
as a potential menace, but there
is little to indicate that German
strategy for the Battle of Britain
had been greatly Influenced.
On the contrary disclosure of the
whereabouts of the important
units of that fleet implies that Herr
Hitler and his Italian ally had in
no way counted upon it in planning
the next phase of their stupendous
offensive. It is now clear tn at
N%azi-Italian insistence upon surren-
der and internment of the French
fleet, under Axis pledges that it
would not be turned against Eng
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07

The organization of a. Local De-
tense Co-Ordinating council will be
the principal item of business at a
special meeting called for 1880
o'clock Monday evening, July 8, in
the council chambers at the city
hall.
The action follows a recent re-
commentator of the Wilmington
Engineers club that representa-
tives of local military, business,
professional, and civic organiZa-
tons be requested to meet for the
purpose or organizing such a
council.
Mayor Thomas E. Cooper, COM
missioner of public safety, on be-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Defense Council
To Be Formed Monday

half of the city, and Addison Hew
lett, chairman to the board Of coun
ty commissioners, on behalf of the
county, yesterday asked the follow
ing to attend:
Lieut.. Col. George W. Gillette
Wilmington district army engineer,
representing the Wilmington Engi'
neers club; Lieut.. Col. James deb
Walbach, senior instructor, coast
artillery, representing the United
States Army; Col. R.. S. McClellano
commanding officer, 252nd. coast
artillery, representing the nation
al guard.
Wilbur R.. Dosher, postmaster,
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, July 6.-British war
planes hammered a double blow at
italian and French seapower today
in far-ranging attacks.
At home, she enrolled another
300, 1000 men in her constantly ex-
panding armed manpower, poised
now for invasion.
Successful action" by naval and
Royal Air Force planes against
Italian warships in Tobruk, Libya,
was announced by the admiralty.
It said other units of the fleet
air arm also had raided ar air.
CONTINUED on page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
AVIATION GROUND
COURSE AVAILABLE
Non-C College Training Pro
gram May Be Instituted
In Wilmington

Pendleton Edgar, of the Civil
Aeronautics Authority in Atlanta,
Ca, in Wilmington yesterday, said
it is quite probable that Whining
ton may be included in the fall
quota Of assignments Of the CAA's
non-college pilot training program.
Continued on Page Four; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
SURVIVORS

LA CORUNA, Spain, July c.
A-Three fishing boats reached
here today with IS survivors of
the Panaman ship Santa Marga-
rita unlisted in Loyds), which
was torpedoed by a German
submarine off this port Tues
day. Twenty-one of the crew
are missing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
BERLIN Halls. HITLER
Conqueror Given Napoleon
ic Welcome On Return;
British Raids Raped
CIVILIANS DEAD

BERLIN, July 6. -@-
DNB official German news
agency, said tonight that of
1911 British air raids on Hol-
land, 80 per cent of them
were on cities and villages
where no military objec-
|tives are located"
lin Amsterdam, Air Corps
Gen. Friedrich Christensen,
German military commander
in Holland, had charged that
the character of British
bombing attacks proved that
Britain was obtaining infor-
nation from Dutch terri
|tory.)
103 Persons Killed
DNB's statistics showed the raids
had killed 103 persons, injured At,
destroyed SO homes, two schools and
three hospitals and damaged two
churches and 176 dwellings.
In seven cases, the agency said,
British fliers bombed and machine
gunned trains with civilian passen.
gers. D.,
Food bureaus are being established
tby German military authorities in oc-
cupied French territory to confiscate
and a%pportion all food, agricultural
roducts and semi-finished goods,
DNB reported in a Paris dispatch.
1t said the bureaus were set up lin
the interests of a just and continuing
supply Of foodstuffs in occupied ter
tory"
In addition, all business establish
ments must continue operating, and
employees are forbidden to quit or
strike.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
"FAISE NEWS"

LONDON, July 5.-(R-On
charges of spreading false
news the French government
at Vichy has ordered the arrest
of four prominent French jour-
nalists, all of whom already
have left France, it was reliably
reported in London tonight.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
SPECIAL CAMP

FORT MCPHERSON, Ga,
July 6-R-Officers and enlist.
ed men here today made final
preparations for arrival of bust
ness and professional men en-
rolled in a special citizens mill
tary camp arranged as a part
of the nations defense plans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
CZECHS

NEW YORK, July 6. -LRC
A cablegram from Eduard Benes,
former president of CzechOslo-
vakia, indicated today that the
Czech0slOvak army was prepar-
ing to aid in the defense of the
British Isles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
MOTORISTS

LONDON July 6.-(R-Brit-
ish motorists must dismantle
their automobiles and hand over,
parts of the motor to auth0rl-
ties if ordered to do SO, a minis
try. Of transport order said TO-
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER

BERLIN, July 6.-R-Adolf- Hit.
Ter came back from his conquests to-
day to ride across a vast carpet of
flowers and hear the tumult Of a
Continued on PATE Three; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07

DENVER, July 6.-(R-As a
defense measure the government
must cease economic reguIa-
ton" of the civil aviation indus
try, Captain Gill RObb Wilson,
president of the National Aero
nautic association, said today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
BR!1 |SH TAKE 0vKEaFRENCH FLEET At alexandria
rio Tries To Dynamite Plant
w AR
BULLETINS
REFUGEES

REFUGEES
NEW YORK, July 6. Up
Offers to care for children flee.
ing warning Europe came tonight
from business firms, private
schools, religious organizations
and wealthy individuals as the
first boatlOad of child refugees
from England neared American
shores.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
WEAPONS


GALWAY, Fire, July Cup
Sawed-off shotguns were amer
a considerable number of Wea
ons confiscated by authorities
late today in an inspection OF
luggage of persons intending to
board the United States liner
Washington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
Complete Understanding
Marks DemobiHzation,
British Officer SAYS
%STRASBOURG ESCAPES
Gunboat And Destroyer
Are Sunk In Mediter-
ranean By British
FRENCH ARE BITTER

CAIRO, Egypt, July e.
French fleet in
Alexandria was stated to-
night to have been demobiliz-
ed without difficulty.
Colonel Salisbury Jones,
until lately chief British liai-
son officer in Syria, said in
a broadcast at Cairo that
thanks to the bonds of friend
ship formed between the
British and French crews
the rehabilitation of the
French fleet in Alexandria
has been carried out without
difficulty in a spirit of COM
plete understanding.
LONDON, July 7.-(Sunday)-R
"A Reuters, British news agency,
dispatch from Vichy, France, to-
day quoted an Algiers dispatch as
saying the French battleships Dun
kerque and Provence and the de-
stroyer Mogadar lost 200 killed and
$50 seriously wounded in the nav
al battle with British warships
last Wednesday.
The dispatch also said there
were only 200 survivors from the
French battleship Bretagne. Her
normal complement was 1,133 but
she was in port at the time of
the battle and probably many Of
the crew were ashore on leave.
The four ships were reported
ashore as a result of the fight. 1t
was said engineers were studying
means of relocating them.
(By The Associated Press
GRENOBLE, France, July 6-The
French government assembled every
weapon at it's command today to
defend the last remnants of it's fleet
from the u%nceasing British pursuit,
and a perio6 of a strange, unequal
naval warfare between the bitterly
estranged former Allies seemed
clearly foreshadowed.
Both Germany and Italy freed
France temporarily from the arms.
tice obligation to disarm in the Medi.
terranean-so she could fight the
British navy-and even as this de-
cision was taken it was acknowledge.
ed that two more French Warships
had gone to the bottom.
The Lection gunboat Rigau1t de
Genouilly was torpedoed-without
warning, the French said-off AL.
giers, and the 1,367-ton destroyer
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07
WEATHER

FORECAST
s9fth Carolina: Mostly cloudy, show
fry fry, Monday and in west and south cen
cool. iatner
om south Carolia: Mostly cloudy, show
or ana continued rather cool Sunday
en chronological data for the "a hours
eDuing 1880 p. m. yesterday.
,.,o Temperature
m i'S ~, a. m: IS; 7:3O a. m. 81; 1:3O p.
miri 4u, l:So p. m. IS; maximum 81
nnum 81; mean p; normal 70.
Ion Humidity
m 'g ~. a; m. 70; 7:30 a.. M. Y; 1:30. p.
~'" $50 p. m. SO.
ro.., Precipitation
non o.ai Tor "A hours ending 7:3O D. M,
Oh Total since first of the month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07

er IhAsHlNGTON, July 6.lR-weath-
rainf aleau records Of temperature and
in tba Ior the "a hours ending 8 p. M.
and 'n oe principal cotton growing areas
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-07

,is au7r ,ns SOFA; sunset 7:26p;
'-oa; moonset 9:03p.