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Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11
AIRPLANE ENGINE
CONTRACT AWARDED

WASHINGTON, Oct. II CUP) -
The war department today award
ed a $81,569 140 contract for air
plane engines for both the army
and navy to Wright Aeronautical
Corp, Paterson, N. j.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11
Thanks, Adolf

LONDON. Oct. II CUP)-The fol-
lowing letter from four members
Of the Canadian army service corps
appears in the London Times to-
day:
Dear Sir: Would you kindly
thank Hitler for the wonderful rab-
bit dinner which took three one
Thousand pound bombs and one oil
bomb to kill?"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11
Chinese Murder
Japanese Puppet

SHANGHAI, Oct II. CUP)-An-
CRY Japanese authorities ordered a
house to house search of the Hong
kew area today for the assassin of
Flu Hsiaoen, Chinese puppet mayor
OF the japanese controlled part OF
Shanghai.
1t was reported that q japanese
army officer was shot in the Hong
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11
COMPLAINT FILED

A charge Of assault with a deadly
weapon was filed in superior court
Friday against Joe Martinez, 81,
farm laborer, who allegedly stabbed
and critically injured Ralph Munoz
of Brawley in the north-end city
last Wednesday. Martinez Friday
was transferred from the Brawley
city Jail to the county Jail at El
Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11
JURY PAYS AUDITOR

The Imperial county grand jury
late Thursday asked Judge R. D.
McPherrin to sign an order direct
ing issuance of a warrant for 5000
last half of the amount jury MEM
bers contracted to pay the auditing
firm of Faulkner. Oakes and Faulk-
ner for making the annual audit of
county business. McPherrin signed
the order
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11
Black Eagle Says
He'll Take Baboon

Continued from Page u
groes a race of balloons. He said he
had received thousands of dollars
in donations as a result of his chal-
lenge and that he would be ready
to 90 about the middle of next
month, when he expects delivery
of a new, three -motored Bellanca
plane.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11
SUES FOR DIVORCE

Vesta Lee Greer Thursday asked
for a divorce from Dale Greer, al
leging they married in Yuma last
Feb. % and separated in Calipatria
the same day. She said she was con-
vinced Greer no longer cared for
her.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11
Scanning l.V
News Horizon
FINED IN COURT

Charles Free, El Centre butcher
for many years. Thursday was Or
dered to pay s25 fine in Ell Centre
Justice court after he was found
guilty of a battery charge filed
against him by Fred H. Felberg.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11
SATURDAY is HOLIDAY

All state, county, and city offices
will be closed all day Saturday in
the annual observance of Columbus
day. Federal offices will not OBJ
serve the holiday. The Post and
Press will publish on schedule.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11
Hang Out
the Grape

On Oct. 18th the people of
Imperial Valley will celebrate
the first water in the All Am
eIican canal. The canal, when
completed, will cost the I'm
periaI Irrigation District $685.
100000 - six million dollars
more than the District itself
says all the land within its
confines is worth. (The hold
ers of that land own six mil
lion dollars less than n0thing.)
Would any people anywhere
except tn o e living in the
Hollow o. Gods Hand" be
silly enough to think that a
cause for celebration. 1t would
be more appropriate 10 hang
out the Grape as they stand
at the edge of Imperial Val
ley's $4,000 900 grave.
A n Rebkonf
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11
COMPLAINT FILED

A charge of manslaughter was fill
ed late Thursday against E. w. Dix
on, SO, Yuma Negro, who allegedly
caused his wife's death by kicking
her in the stomach during an argu-
ment in Winterhaven early this
week.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11
HAS OPERATION

Jack Carleton, we'll known I'M
perial Valley rancher, was said to
be slightly improved Friday after
an operation performed at Sawtelle
hospital Thursday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-11

A. II. Rehkopf
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
IS FATAL
TO BENNIE PADCETT
Aged WPA Night Watch
man Dies Here Follow g
ing Mysterious Beating

Bonnie Padgett, 59-year-old WPA
night Waterman, of 800 Harnett
street, who was attacked by an I'M
known assistant while on duty at
Seventh and Harnett streets early
Sunday morning, died at James
Walker Memorial hospital early this
morning.
He was severely beaten about the
face and also suffered a fracture Of
the skull.
Coroner Asa W. Allen was called
to investigate the death but no date
for an inquest has yet been set.
Police last night continued their
investigation of the mysterious case,
but no suspects have been arreste9
No motive for the brutal assau0
could be discovered.
Officers stated that the man was
not robbed as they found $1.70 in
money, a watch and a pocketknife in
his pockets. Neither could they dis
cover any evidence of his having had
any trouble with anyone recently.
It was thought possible that some
one may have bludgeoned the man
with the intention of robbing him,
but was frightened away before ac-
complishing his purpose.
Padgett was found lying on Har-
nett street, between Sixth and Sew
enth, about 3 o'clock Sunday morn.
ing after Bessie Goodman, negress,
Of 615 Harnett street, awoke and
heard someone groaning outside.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
|Nazi Troops
|Deploying On.
Red Frontier
Hungarian Move Seen As
Another Phase In Ger
man Moves In Balkans
NAILS MINE DANUBE
Many Hungarian Men OF
Military Age Handed
Mobilization Cards

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 30.
Germany pouring SOL
diers into Rumania at top speed,
called more men to her
army today in what some circles
viewed as another phase of the
vast Nazi preparations for war or
any other outbreak in the Balkans.
simultaneously, reports from So
fla, Bulgaria, said German troops
were deploying along the Russian
border in the northern Dobruja
section of Rumania near the dis
puted Danube river mouth, as well
as opposite the Bulgarian shores
of the ice-filled Danube river near
Giurgiu.
Mine Danube's Mouth
The Sofia reports also said the
mouth of the Danube, control of
which Russia has demanded, had
been mined by the Germans, who
the river outlet through
their domination of Rumania.
Thousands of Hungarian men of
military age were handed mobili-
cation cards last night and today.
This additional Gallup conceded
with reports of fresh Russian mill
tary activity on highways running
from Lwow Gemberg) in Russian
Poland, to the Slovak frontier. Gen
eral Hungarian mobilization was
expected by Jan. Is.
The Gallup was considered in
Budapest political circles as a step
in cooperation with the German
military machine to protect the
German Balkan flank in the event
Russia showed an inclination to in
Continued on Page Three; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
GERMANY SILENT
ON F. RS SPEECH
Hitler Has Copy OF Talk
But Official Nazi Reac-
ton Is His Secret

BERLIN, Dec. 3d. up This
much is known of German reaction
to President R%oosevelt's fireside
talk Sunday night:
Adolf Hitler has a translation of
the text. He has gone away from
the noise and hustle of the capital,
But that is where official in
formation ends.
Official German reaction is the
Fuehrer's own secret and until he
chooses to break his silence no one
not even officials usually we'll
informed-can predict what Ger
many's attitude will be, it was in
Dictated today.
A guess-from the atmosphere in
political circles-is that the speech
is regarded as of vital Importance
and that Germany, for the time be-
ing, will stick to the policy of not
being provoked into hasty action
toward the United States.
When questions were put to a
Wilhelmstrasse spokesman, he re-
piled, emphatically:
"Ich habe keinerlei stellungnahme
abzugeben." LITERALLY, II have no
announcement whatever to make of
the position TAKEN" but the word
ing also permits the translation, II
may not make any statement con-
corning the reaction.O
When he was asked whether
something authorized might be
available later, he answered that
he could not encourage such hope
and then reverted to the verbatim:
"Ich habe keinerlei stellungnahme
abzugeben."
The well-informed Dienst Aus
Deutschland, news commentary with
close foreign office connections, OBJ
served in a guarded article that
Germany is interested and watches
developments closely, but possibly
does not care to make it's attitude
known for the present.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Man IS ARRESTED
IN HOWARD CASE
R. ". F~reshwater, OF Win
ter Park, Charged With
Hit-And-Run Driving

Richard w Freshwater, of Win
Ter Park, was arrested last night
by state highway patrolmen and
charged with hit-and-run driving
with serious personal injuries III
connection VITA the accident in
which David Howard, IS, of Hamp'
stead, was struck y: O seriously in
jured Sunday nig, !.
L'reshwater is re.Lg held in jail
without bond psntng the ol:.co1Ee
of the boys condition, which was
described as "lr: t1car' at ia res
Walker Memorial hospital last
night.
Officers said trat Freshwaser Cd
mitted that he suck the bog AND
Continued on Page Two, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Continued ON Page Two, Col. s.
Exhaustion Of Lease Or Lend Arms
Supply Plan To China, Greece Hinted

Meanwhile, the Chinese were as
sured, it was said, that other war
supplies would continue to be re-
leased in such quantities as might
be spared from British and Ameri-
can requirements in accordance
with the governments policy of
aiding China in resisting the jap
anese.
The other supplies in recent
months have taken the form large
ly of explosives and munitions of
various kinds, together with air
plane engines and parts.
A Chinese air mission nov in the
United States, headed by General
Mao Pang, one of the chiefs of the
Chinese airforce, has been en-
phasizing his country's need for
bombers and fighter planes with
which to counter Japanese air at
tack
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Britain's Enemies Are Cri-
teal Of President
Roosevelt's Talk
GIVES WARNING
Greek Press Prints Speech,
Comments That Italy
Has Suffered Blow
(By the Associated Press)

The line was sharply drawn yes
terday between two receptions
abroad for President Roosevelt's
Sunday night call for more aid for
Britain.
Among Britain's enemies, the re-
action was reserved and critical.
In Britain and in nations both OF
the old and new World where the
Presidents stand is approved the
reaction generally was favorable
and enthusiastic.
The response ranged from a Lat
in American newspapers cry OF
''valiant!" to Italian Editor Vir-
ginio Gayda's assertion that the
President is a man Of undeclared
war fought against the Axis"
Here, briefly, is how some Of the
nations viewed it:
Britain
A spokesman called it lone Of
the most powerful, logical indict-
ments ever spoken and official
circles saw in it further proof Of
the courage and realism" of the
United States attitude toward the
European war.
Britain faces her tasks now
with new defiance n faith,'
said the Evening Standard, pub
lished by Lord Beaverbrook, min
lister of aircraft production.
Germany
Amid strict official silence, Nazi
reaction could only be guessed
that the speach vas regarded as
of vital Importance but, for the
present, Germany will stick to her
policy of not being provoked into
hasty action concerning the United
States.
Adolf Hitler has a translation of
the text and, it is believed, When
he is ready to break his silence
Continued on Page Two, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 B -
Extension of the lease or lend"
war supply plan to China and
Greece was indicated by Secretary
Morgenthau today in line with
President Roosevelt's plea to make
the United States "the great
arsenal Of democracy"
The secretary of the treasury
said at his press conference that
the plan recently proposed by the
President for leasing or lending war
materials to Great Britain might
apply also to China and Greece.
This, he said, would depend ultl-
mately upon what action was taken
by congress.
President Roosevelt, in appealing
to manufacturers and workers alike
in his Sunday night speech to put
every ounce of effort into produc-
ing munitions swiftly and without
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
British Discover Method
OF Frustrating B0mbers

OTTAWA, Ont, Dec. 30.-R-
The nights of Germany's bombers
are numbered, Air Chief Marshal
Sir Hugh Dowding assured Canadi-
ans today on his arrival here from
London en- route to tn United
States.
A method of frustrating the night
bombers definitely has been found,
Sir Hugh said, and the necessary
equipment is being completed so
rapidly that by sometime tn i S
spring the bombers' whole weight
and sting will have been removed"
The former chief of Britain's
fighter command added, Il don't
mean to say that night bombing
will cease entirely. The odd bomb
er may come, but the casualties
from heavy and concentrated at
tacks will compel them to desist
from night bombing just as they
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31

stint" linked Chinese resistance in
Asia with that of Britain and
Greece in Europe as "a matter of
most vital concern to u.s."
Morgenthau declined to say
whether Chinese officials had been
promised early delivery of bombers
and fighter planes. In other reli-
able quarters, however, it was said
that the administration had init
mated to Chinese purchasing Of
ficials that their requests for late
model military, aircraft must give
way for the time being to more
pressing British. demands.
The administration was under
stood to take the view thai Britain
was in more immediate danger
from an attempted knockout"
blow and that British survival was
important alike to China and n
United States. .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31

were compelled to give up their
policy of crashing through in day.
light in preparation for invasion"
He warned that 1.-The end Of night
bombing may greatly increase the
menace of air attacks at sea, for
the bombers diverted from our cit
les may be expected to seek other
targets"
Sir Hugh is comforting here with
Canadian Air Minister c. G. Power
and other officials, but plans to
depart Thursday or Friday for
Washington, where he will discuss
of standardizing planes and
other air equipment manufactured
for Britain.
The slim air marshal empha-
sized that he was mot going to
Washington to lay down the law"
Continued on Page Three; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
DEFENSES Modified
Germans Fail To Follow Up
Attack That Left Large
Area In Ruins

LONDON, Dec. 30.-LP-The full
power of London's fire fighters and
anti-aircraft gunners was modified
tonight to combat any renewal OF
the Nazi fire assault of last night
which left the capitals ancient
"city"'. a mass of flame-seared ruins
and Britons d%efiantly crying:
"Give it back to them; we can
take what We have had and much
more"
But even as they waited, the usual
hour at which night air raids on
London have begun for months came
and went without an alert from the
city's hundreds of sirens.
Bad Weather Responsible
AS the night went on without air
raiders being reported in any part
of the United Kingdom, the theory
was advanced that bad weather was
responsible for the respite.
Out of the very heart of the capital
blasted by the heaviest fire raid OF
the war rose the demand for re-
prisals.
The words were shouted by grimy
rescue and demolition squads to
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
who visited for two hours the wreck
age of the "city," London's normally
busy Wall street" section, where
scarcely a street was unmarked by
fire or unchanged by high explosive
bombs.
AS he left one deep underground
shelter, a woman ran forward n
asked:
"When will the war be over??"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
HE SUGGESTS
Offers Eight Point Propos-
al AS Working Basis
For Just Peace
POINTS TO CHANNEL
Declares United States Is
Running Along The
Road To War

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-lRE
Asserting that the idea of a Nazl
invasion Of America was 'fantas'
TIC" Senator Wheeler tD-Monb to-
night answered President Roose'
velt's plea for greater aid to En-
gland with a call for immediate
peace in Europe before, he said,
America becomes involved in 1.-The
insanity" of war.
AS a working basis for a just
peace" he suggested eight points:
% Restoration of Germany's
1914 boundaries with ar autono-
nous Poland and Czecho-Slovakia.
ca Restoration of an indepen-
dent France, Holland, Norway, Bel
GUM and Denmark.
90 Restoration Of Alsace-Lor.
raine to France.
"a Restoration of German col
onies.
(5) Protection of all racial and
religious minorities in all coun-
tries.
CO. Observation-Disclosures of the
Suez Canal.
Cd No indemnities or repara-
tons.
60 Arms limitation.
Critic of F. r.. Policy
The Montana Senator, long one
of the Senate's most severe critics
of the Roosevelt foreign policy,
made his remark in a speech pre-
pared for delivery from station
WMAL, in the National Radio Fo-
rum of the Washington Evening
Star. His address had been re-
peatedly referred to by his associ-
ates during the day as a reply
to the talk MIR. Roosevelt made
last night urging all possible as
sistance to England to keep the
Axis powers from attacking Ameri-
ca.
"Our independence can only be
lost or compromised" Wheeler
said, if Germany invades the
western hemisphere north of the
Equator.
This would be fantastic-as it
would require the transportation
of at least two million men-with
planes, tanks and equipment - in
one convoy acros the Atlantic.
This would require two or three
thousand transports plus a fleet
larger than our navy-plus thou
sands of fighter-escorted bombers.
Continued on Page Two, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
ROME RADIO RAPS
R00SEVELT'S TALK
Says United States 'Nurtur-
ates Aggressive Designs
Against Europe

ROME, Dec. 30.-(RHAn italian
announcer on the government radio
station here tonight declared the
United States "nurtures aggres-
sive designs against Europe" but
watchful waiting characterized the
official Fascist reaction to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Anti-Axis speech
last night.
Virginia Gayda, authoritative
Fascist editor often rejecting Pre-
mier Mussolini's own views, said
German-Italian tolerance" had its
limits.
Shipment of var materials to
Britain under U. S. flags or sur
render to England of Italian and
German ships in U. S. ports would
be regarded by the Axis powers as
Continued on Page Two, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
Greeks Score
Seize
1000 Italians
Italian Soldiers Take To
Skis In Albania But
Are Soon Routed
GEORGE PRAISES MEN
Good Advances In Tepe-
leni-Klisura Area An
nounced In Athens

ATHENS, Dec. 30.-R-Italian
to battle the counter-invading
Greeks, but the Greek High CONF
mand announced that the expert
ment collapsed when the Fascists
kicked off their runners and scat
tered.
The scene of the action was not
disclosed, but it vas n of a
series of local engagements in
which the Greeks said they took
more than 1000 prisoners, includ-
ing an entire battalion and its Off
GERS, and added to their store of
captured Italian guns and supplies.
King Praises Men
With the Italians struggling
afresh-and vainly, the Greeks said
to win back some Of the Albanian
soil they have lost, King George
II of Greece tonight praised the
achievements of his army in driv-
ing the Italians out of Greece and
confidence that the new
year would bring further successes.
"Our struggle will be hard" he
said in a message to the Greek
people, "but our reserves of morale
are inexhaustible because a people
who are determined to face every
thing and who do not forget its
great traditions have a feeling OF
honor and human dignity so deep
ly rooted it never gives away"
Dispatches from the front assert
ed the Greeks, after beating back
the newly-arrived Italians, had
scored further local gains" north
of Chimara in a thrust toward the
port of Valona, a base often raid
ed by air.
Heavy losses were claimed
among fresh Fascist forces in at
tempted counter-drives in the cen
trail sector north of Klisura.
Appreciate gains despite stub
born Italian resistance in the Tep-
eleni-Klisura area were announced
by a government spokesman. The
remaining Italian '1ast stand" de-
tense lines there were reported
heavily.
A British Royal Air force COM
munique told of two raids yester-
day on Valona.
Bomb hits on military stores, a
motor transport park, buildings and
a road leading to a jetty in the
harbor were claimed.
The communique said pilots saw
bombs fall among transports and
on a highway. The raiding
planes were said also to have ma
chine-gunned a cruiser and cargo
vessels. One plane was lost, but
the British said its crew of two
descended by parachutes.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
ARM0RY PROJECT
APPLICATION FILED
Request For Structure Is
Given To Local Office
OF The w. P. A.

A formal application for a pro-
posed armory-auditorium project,
costing an estimated 100000 for
Wilmington, has been filed with
the local WPA. office, James E. L.
Wade, commissioner of public
works, announced yesterday.
The working out of final detailed
project plans and specifications
with the engineer and architect
was completed last week at the
city hall, he said.
"sThis work has been progressing
to a point where a formal applica-
ton for the proposal is now in the
hands of the local WPA office, of
which W. Joe Prevette is the dis
trict supervisor" he said.
noptiur1ed on PAGE Two. Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
STORES STARTED
AT HOLLY RIDGE
Southeastern N. c. Bust
nessmen Preparing To
Open Establishments

HOLLY RIDGE, Dec. 30-With
work being speeded up today on the
construction of the $40, ZOO, 900 Will
mington Anti-Aircraft Firing Center
here, definite plans for private bust
ness and entertainment enterprises
to care for the workers and the TO-
900 soldiers to be stationed at the
camp were placed into effect.
Businessmen from towns through
out southeastern North Carolina, eX-
cept Wilmington, are going ahead
with plans to erect business houses
here.
The Smith Drug company, of New
Bern, is planning to open its new
drug store here soon.
J. B. Jenkins, of Pollocksville. has
begun work on the new theatre and
pool room to be operated here.
Leder Brothers, of Whiteville, have
leased land and will soon begin
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
War
Interpretive
BY KIRKE L.. SIMPSON

Amid a weller of speculation
over impending German moves to
come to final grips with Britain,
President Roosevelt has sounded a
note of new year prophecy that
browns out the din of the immedi-
ate conflict overseas.
IT believe that the Axis powers
are not going to win this war he
told a world radio audience. Il
base that belief on the latest and
best information"
Extensive Information
The significance of the prophecy
springs from the citation of its
factual foundation. There can be
no doubt that "the latest and best
information available to the Pres
ident is extensive, both in regard
Continued on Page Three; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
BritOnsD ~emandReVenge
For Fire-Raid OnLOndOn
Carl Seymour Named
N. & W. Agent Here

COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. 3d.
P)-R. M. Taliaferro, in charge
of the South Carolina territory
of the Norfolk and Western
Railway, announced today that
j. Carl Seymour of Columbia
had been appointed commercial
agent for the N & w at Will
mington, N. c.
Seymour, travelling freight
agent for the road, will succeed
the late S. e. COIdiron.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
ITALIAN PLANES BUSY

ROME, Dec. 3O.-R-The Italian
air force, closely cooperating with
the Fascist army and navy, has
inflicted very important losses
on the Greeks in recent days, a
Stefani, Italian news agency, cor
respondent reported tonight from
the Greek front in Albania.
A long Greek column on the
march was attacked for four hours
Continued on Page Two, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-31
LINER TO SAIL

SHANGHAI, Dec. 31.-(Tuesday)
-R-The American liner Presi-
dent Coolidge is scheduled to sail
tomorrow for the United States via
Kobe and Yokohama, where about
200 Americans will be added to the
present passenger list Of nearly 800.