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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-10-24

Forest Hivnor, Master of the
county youth organization, called
attention to the masquerade party
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
NANTAHALA RIVER
PROJECT RESUMED
Continued From Page One)

of the Aluminium Company OF
America, which plans to use cleo
trio power from the new dam.
An atmosphere of harmony and
cooperation was reported at every
unit on the dam project as opera
tons we're resumed.
Partially due to its being close
to the weekend, a smaller num-
Der of workers than usual report
ed at the beginning cf the first
two shifts today. A third shift was
to begin at midnight.
A great increase in the number
of workers to report is expeSed
Monday by construction company
officials. Although some of them
are known to have been notified
by friends of the resumption of
operations Friday, it is not yet
known just how m@ny of the work
ers from the north will return.
Some of the northern workers new
er left this section during the troll
BILE.
A. H. Ayres, job manager for
the construction company, S a d
Thursday night that before tn e
trouble more than 1000 men were
employed on the project. He had
no way of telling, he said, Just
how many would return. However
officials of the company, he said.
expected a return of between 500
and 800 men shortly after the re-
sumption of operations, q
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
FIGHTING CONTINUES
WITHIN RUMANIA AS
YOUNG KING FLEES
Continued From Page One)

\SVA4VAAA0S~ OF
cally denied a report circulated
abroad that 1000 persons had been
killed in such rioting.
(The Bucharest dispatch contin.
ued: 1.-THE bodies of seven Jews
were found today along a railway
track between Bucharest and Pho
est. How they met death is re-
ported to be a mystery 4
1.-THE German legation denied
reports that DR.. Wilhelm Fabri-
cius, German minister to Bucha-
rest, already had left for Berlin
after comforting with Antonescu
but German circles said he would
go Immediately after the funeral
tomorrow for Corneliu Zelea Cod
reanu, disinterred Iron Guard lead
cry
King Mihai, 10, who succeeded
to the throne when his father Carol
II abdicated Sept. 6, was reported
to have left Bucharest. Some re-
ports were that he headed for the
Yugoslav frontier, others that he
was on the outskirts of the city
waiting for the situation to clear.
Antonescu. who became premier
with Iron Guard support when
Carol was forced out, was reported
to have taken stern counter-meaS-
ures against the spreading terror
of iron guard extremists but the
situation tonight had not eased.
To the contrary, according to
border reports, guardist legion
naires, drawing on their secret
stores for weapons, were said to
be trying to seize power at Turnu
SEVERN, Craiova and Brasov. all
in Pennsylvania, where heavy loss
of life occurred in the guard fight
for possession of public buildings.
At Brasov %guardists were said
to have occupied the post office
and telephone building but were
driven out by soldiers OF the local
garrison.
The funeral for Iron Guardist
Codreanu and 10 associates who
were killed two years ago (when
they tried to escape prison guards
taking them to Bucharest, accord
ing to the official account at the
time) will start at 8 a. m. tomor-
row in Bucharest.
Hailed as martyrs" by Iron
Guardists, their remains were
taken out of the Jilava prison
graveyard on Wednesday and "a
members of the old regime were
killed in vengeance at Coderanu's
grave, some reports said. Accord
ing to others, 81 were shot in pri-
son cells and two beheaded.
Dispatches reaching the border
predicted that the funeral day
might be seized as a day of total
revenge"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
Ethyl-D ow Employees
Organize Rifle Team

Employees of the Ethyl-Dow
Chemical company have organized
a rifle and pistol team, which is
affiliated with the Wilmington Rifle
and Pistol club through individual
membership
A range will be set up at the
plant for firing practice and the
first representatives Of the teams
will compete today, with Wayne
Wilson, Ned Herring and Edmund
McLaurin meeting The Ethyl-Dow
marksmen-Robert c. King, Jack
R. Craig and Otto Weis-at the
Sunset Park range at 2 p. m.
Members of the new team are:
c. M. Shigley, Benny T. Core, c.
J. Craig, Jr., Jack R. Craig, Russell
Dellinger, c. W. Hewett, Robert c.
King, E. w. Manning, c. L. Mer-
rift, Ed Switzerland and Otto Weis.
captain of the team.
The team will accept challenges
from any other rifle or pistol team
from the city and section. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
Proposed Hospital Wing
Discussed By Doctors

Wilmington physicians met last
night and discussed plans in connec-
ton with the erection of ar addi-
tional wing to the James Walker
Memorial hospital.
Work on the plans is being
speeded all possible in an effort
to get the wing ready prior to an
ticipated additional demands for
hospital service resulting from
the establishment of an anti-air-
craft training center at Holly
ridge.
1t is anticipated now. it was
learned, that bids for the work
will probably be let in about an
other month.
The wing will be built perpen-
dicularly to the front of the
present hospital building, joining
it where the front steps now
stand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
OFFICERS RESCUE
MAN FROM CREEK
Thomas Edwards, Negro, Is
Taken From Stream; SUI
fers From Exposure

Thomas Edwards, negro, OF I'll
South 18th street, was pulled from
Alligator creek last night by pas
sing motorists and officers. who
were at a lost to explain just how
the man fell into the stream.
Edwards. suffering from expo
SIRE. but with no other visible IN
iuries. was taken to his home by
officers.
The negro told D. M. Cook,
brunswick county deputy sherl1f,
that he had been working at Ar
mour's Fertilizer plant, doing car
nentry work. all day and was COM
ing home with two other men IN a
a when the automobile overturn-
ed at the creek.
Cook said, however. that there
was no sign of an automobile hav-
ing overturned anywhere near the
creek or of the two men mention
ed.
The driver of a passing oil truck
heard Edwards yelling for help
and stopped to give assistance. The
negro was discovered up to his
neck in water clinging to a bush
near the bank. Charlie Skipper as
sisted in pulling the man out OF
the stream.
The negro was discovered in the
water about 1920 p. m. Officers
said that he had been drinking. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
War Interpretive
Continued From Page One)

don strategists have decided on a
major offensive effort in the Medi-
terranean.
There are risks involved for Bri-
tain. Italy's imposing submarine
force as well as her boosted air
strength must be reckoned with.
An offensive role for British war
craft in the Mediterranean must
expose them increasingly to Italian
air air and subsurface providers.
Yet the symptoms of tottering
Italian morale are too sharply
etched in many ways not to- invite
risks of that sort.
Something more than aiding her
Greek ally to repel any renewed
Italian invasion attempt unques-
tionably underlies British war
strategy. 1t probably goes further
than even the indicated effort to
turn the Italian defeat into a COM
.plete rout in Albania.
British air and sea units are
striking hard at Albanian ports to
cut or seriously disrupt the flow
Of Italian reinforcements across
the lower Adriatic and the Straits
of Otranto. 1t seems probable, how
ever, as the extent of the Italian
disaster becomes clearer, that in
any case a new Fascist offensive
against Greece within a period of
months is unlikely.
The mountainous Albanian-Greek
frontier is already partially winter
locked. Months of increasing rains
and SHOWS r ahead before
weather conditions will favor a re-
sumption of the Italian attack.
Checkmated
It seems likely, also, that the
Italian drive at the Suez canal
through Egypt, already stalled for
many weeks in the Sidi Barrani
region, has been further checkmat-
ed by the Fascist fiasco against
Greece. These forces are perilous-
ly isolated and may DE forced to
fall back into Libya ever without
a British frontal attack.
A startling glimpse of Italy's
plight at home has now come from
American official sources to hint
at the real objective of British
moves in the Mediterranean. 1t re-
veals the economic havoc already
wrought in Italy by the British
blockade, citing rigid food ration.
ing and rising prices, both tending
to cut heavily into Italian national
morale.
That Washington summary, at
tributed to diplomatic sources, dis
closes the price II Duce Mussolini
already has paid for over-optimism.
as to Hitler's ability to finish off
Britain quickly once France was
knocked out of the war.
There can be little question that
London knows that Italian situa.
ton fully. British strategy is aimed
at visiting new military and naval
disasters on Italy in the hope that
she will soon crack up internally. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
BRITAIN BREAKS
ITALIANS MOVE
TO FORM LINES
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such bases at laramie - itself
heavily attacked by British naval
bombers on Nov. 11-and Brindisi.
This account of the circum-
stances of the Sandman engage
ment, frankly offered by informed
Britons as a wholly unofficial de-
duction, had it that the Italians
ran into a much bigger western
Mediterranean force than they
had counted upon, a force which
had been able since laramie to
operate in fact as a separate naval
entity.
In claiming that the whole OF
the Mediterranean now is under
British domination these persons
declared that British possession OF
the Greek island of Crete has
blocked the Fascists off from the
Aegean and their Dodecanese Is.
land bases as well.
All this, they declared. has al
last turned the entire Mediterrane.
an balance in British favor
paiahce which was sharply upset
with the French surrender because
OF the fact that the French navy
IN the early days OF the war had
lne assignment of guarding the
western end of the Mediterranean.
inc actions of the admiralty. if
not ITS words. hint that a full dress
British offensive has been turned
on IN the hope of knocking the
weaker end of the Axis out of the
war-the sort of offensive urged
only last Wednesday in commons
ny former War Minister Leslie
Hore-Belisha.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
CALVARY DEFEATS
EPWORTH CACERS
Grace And Tabernacle Arc
Other Winners In Church
School Loop Play

In Church School basketball at
the MICA. last night, Calvary
maintained undisputed possession
of first place in the loop with a
4O-lO win over the lowly EpWorth
cagers, taking an early lead and
scoring almost at will in the lat
ter stages of the contest.
Mccoy led the Baptists with a
26 point total, while Brown with
5 was high for the Epworth team.
Grace won a surprise victory
over the strong Emmanuel quinl
1872 to break the latter's w r
streak. The winners employed q
fast break to good advantage fol-
three quarters but appeared ra-
Their ragged in the final quarter,
when Emmanuel staged a rally tC
draw with four points. Both teams
exhibited mid-season form ir
shooting, tossing in some beautiful
baskets from difficult angles,
Owensby led the offense for Grace
with "a points but Durham was
the standout on defense and also
contributed 7 points. Pridgen anc
Collie we're high for Immanue.
with ii and II points. respectively.
The third and final game was
well played, Tabernacle winning
out over tough opposition in h c
Lutheran Mission team by 1921,
The Lutherans might have copied
this game with a little better
craftsmanship but blew a num-
Der of easy shots in the pinches.
Tabernacle never a behind aft
er the first two or three minutes
but was pressed at times to hold
off the fighting Mission boys who
stepped into this game with bright
new green and gold uniforms and
proceeded to demonstrate a pretty
brand of teamwork. High scorers
were Ellis of the Lutherans with
9 and H. Kelly for Tabernacle with
g.. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
DAVIDSON, CITADEL
TEAMS CLASH TODAY
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(COnt1nueQ from rage Oue)
nations at the halftime intermis-
sion.
Section Invited
The game today has been Of
ficially proclaimed 'Davidson-Cit-
adel Day" by Mayor Thomas E.
Cooper and all of Southeastern
North Carolina has been invited to
participate in the festivities of the
day.
Tickets sales were moving rapid
ly last night and those in charge of
the game said that the favorable
weather should bring a near ca
pacity crowd.
Sponsors for the Davidson and
Citadel teams have been appoint
ed. The Davidson sponsors re-:
Miss Ann Brewer, Miss Bridget
'O'Brien. Miss Mary Boatwright,
Miss Euggie Waters and Miss
Louise Wells. Sponsors for T h e
Citadel are: Miss Peggy Moore,
Miss Nancy Campbell, Miss Mary
Parsley Williams. Miss Meta Will
son and Mrs. William Tabor.
A number of dignitaries have
been invited to attend the game.
Mayor Henry Lockwood and Mrs.
Lockwood, of Charleston, S. c.,
will arrive in the city this morn
ing to be the guests of w. Louis
Fisher, city commissioner of fl
nance, and to attend the game.
Their son is a first string end on
the Light Brigade.
A large delegation from Fayette-
vile, including a number of army
officers, has also indicated that
it will be in the city. Goldsboro,
Whiteville, Burgaw, New Bern,
|Lumberton and other towns in this
section plan to send gridiron dele
cations.
The sponsors of the game have
also issued Invitations to h igh
school football teams of this Sec
ton to be their guests at the game.
Among high school teams which
have accepted invitations to at
tend are Clarkton, Goldsboro, Bur-
gaw, W%hiteville, Fayetteville, Will
mington and New Bern.
Fans r promised a fast ON
test that will be spotted through
out with passes and according to
pre-game dope the contest is rated
near a toss-up. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
GREEKS CONTINUE
DRIVE FOR FUNDS
Money Will Be Used To Pro
vide Medicine And Food
For War Sufferers

The local committee to raise funds
for the Greek war sufferers an
nounced last night that contributions
to the fund will be continued and APP
pealed to the people of Wilmington
to help.
The money will be used entirely
for non-military purposes and will
provide medicine, food and clothing
for the non-combatants who have
been left homeless by Italian
bomberS.
Members of the committee said
that suffering was great among the
civilian population and that conscrip-
ton to the army has left many
families without means of support.
The Greek soldiers pay is only %
cents per month.
Pete Compos, chairman of the ii,
ance committee, said that any and Il
contributions by local citizens will be
appreciated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
IL DUCE MASSES
NEW FORCES ON
ALBANIAN FRONT
CONTINUED From Page One)

nth a heavy bomb. Malta itsel1
also was bombed and three Brit
ish planes were reported shc1
down.
A Rome radio report said one
man was killed and seven wound
ed when a British shell struck the
destroyer Lanciere in the previous
days battle
The shell tore a hole in the ship
at the waterline, but did not sink
it. Italians said.
The sinking of a TO- 00-ton Brit
ish transport in the Atlantic by a
submarine; air attacks on mill
tary bases in Corfu, and the re-
pulse of a new British air attack
on the naval base of laramie, were
claimed in a high command COM
munique. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
S. SOLOMON, Sc,
PASSES AT HOME
Continued from Page One)

partnership was formed the two
brothers purchased the site on which
the present business now stands. In
1882 the firm was incorporated and
at the time of his death MI. Solomon
was president of the corporation.
A member of st. Johns Masonic
lodge for u years, Mr.. Solomon
was the Oldest living Mason in the
United States. Recently he was
a warded a 50.year pin by local
Masons.
He was a member of B'Nai Birth
and was a charter and lifelong men,
Der of the Temple of Israel.
In 1872 he married Miss Lena ST.
mon, of Louisville, KY, and from
this union two children survive, I.
w. Solomon, of Wilmington, and
Lee Solomon, of Philadelphia. The
first Mrs. Solomon died in 1877 and
in 1888 he married Miss Ida Lyon,
of Philadelphia, who survives him.
Also surviving are two daughters,
ll1 s. o.. IN. vi 81 u -
phia, Mrs. Alfred Sternberger, of
Wilmington; one son, Harry Solomon
of Wilmington; a brother, Bernard
Solomon, Of Wilmington. Several
grandchildren, Adolph and Sigmund
Solomon, Jr., of Wilmington, Marie,
Jean and Catherine Solomon, Of Will
mington, Sidney Greenberg, Jr., Bar
bara Greenberg, Charles j. and Rob
ert solomon, of Philadelphia, sur
vive.
Mr.. Solomon was one of the or
ganizers of the Carolina Insurance
company and the Wilmington Saw
ings Bank and Trust company. He
was also a member of the old Will
mington volunteer fire apartment.
An outstanding businessman OF
the city, Mr.. Solomon was also &C.
tive in religious and charitable work.
Funeral services will be held Sun
day afternoon. Complete arrange.
ments will be announced later.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
FAIR, Slightly Warmer
Weather Forecast Here

Fair and slightly warmer
weather was forecast for today by
weather bureau officials, who pre-
dicted that the low temperature
for early this morning will be SO
degrees.
Moderate windss mostly westerly
will predominant today.
Yesterdays temperatures rang
ed from a high of 60 to a low of
"a degrees, with the mean five
below the 52-degree normal. 8
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
DEFENSE DELAYS
AUTO TAG SALES
Steel Delivery May Prevent
Opening OF N. c.
Sales Today

RALEIGH, Nov. 29.-(R-New
automobile license plates go on sale
over the state tomorrow, but "a
branch offices will be without new
truck tags until about Monday due
to DELAY in arrival of steel for the
plates.
The license plate plant at states
prison received a carload of steel
Tuesday. after the urgency OF the
states need had been explained TO
defense authorities, and truck tags
have been turned out steadily since.
The plant didn't even stop Tor
Thanksgiving Day yesterday.
About -, 800 plates were needed
today to fill quotas assigned 10
branch offices. The revenue depart
ment said it expected to get them
to the branches before Monday morn
ing.
National defense demands for steel
caused the delay, officials said.
Automobile drivers of New Han
over county may secure their 1874
license plates at the Carolina Motor
club office at 2o9 North Second
street from 9 o'clock this morning
until 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
No checks will be accepted, accord
ing to Miss Minnie A. Payne, man
ager of the office. She also requests
that all business houses requiring
several numbers Of tags make pre-
vious arrangements with her.
Due to the enlarged office, Miss
Payne announced, securing the Ii
cense plates will be o quickly
accomplished than previously.
The new tags which feature yellow
numbers against a black background
are guaranteed against rusting and
fading. Miss Payne said that the
plate is a little heavier than the
1910 tag and the paint is of setter
quality, thus eliminating the whole
sale fading prevalent with the ma.
room and silver plates of 1910.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
GREEKS CONTINUE
ALBANIAN ADVANCE
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the first independent verification
that Pogradetz had been captured
by the Greeks.
(He said Greek official COM
muniques had been ION tthe con-
servative side both as regards Ital-
ian casualties and the amount of
booty taken" He said leaders
even in this advanced post are
unable to tell just how far beyond
mere their forces have penetrated
INTO the wild Mountains
The Greeks were reported con-
solldatlng their gains on the center
and northern sectors to avoid
stretching their lines too thin in
the snowy mountains. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
NAZI SHIPS LEAVE
HAVEN in MEXICO
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CONTINUED Fror. Page One)
less attempt to brave the British
blockade.
Seamen of the 4,137-ton Phrygia,
believing they saw British war
ships, fired and scuttled her; the
e,660-ton Orinoco developed engine
trouble and returned for repairs to
her mooring in the Panuco, where
She still lay today, and the Idar.
wald, 5,033 tons, and the Rhein,
6,031, also put back to port tc
await a more propitious day.
Today's departure was not with.
out mishap. The Idarwald, it was
learned, ran aground on a sand.
bar outside the harbor but refloat.
ed herself unassisted. She and the
Rhein slipped downstream and into
the gulf in early morning, their
whistles hooting goodbye, thei1
crews on deck waving and shouting
"adios!"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
CUNNINGHAM GIVEN
DAVIDSON POSITION
Dastor Of WinstOn-Salem Edi.
flee Accepts Presidency
Of The College

CONCORD, Nov. 2s.-tR-The
Rev. John Rood Cunningham, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian
church of Winston-Salem, accepted
today the presidency of Davidson
college.
Cunningham notified J.. A. Can
non, of Concord, chairman OF a
nominating committee of the
Davidson college board of trustees
that he had decided to accept.
Cunningham was nominated
President of Davidson by the trus-
tees a few days ago to succeed
DR.. Walter L. Lingle. He presunl'
ably will take over his post at the
beginning of the second term OF
the scholastic year about February
/.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
WARSHIP BUILDING
WILL BE PUSHED
Continued From Page One)

the defense commission, and de-
clared that the original delivery
dates set for some of the destroy
ers for which the Navy let con-
tracts last September 9 were much
too far eff.
MIR. Roosevelt quickly made it
plain his desire to accelerate de-
stroyer building had no relation to
the question of making more such
vessels available to Great Britain.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
CRITICALLY ILL

Friends of S. E. Coldiron, com.
mercial agent for the N. & w.
railroad here, will regret to learn
that he is critically i'll at James
Walker Memorial hospital, where
he was taken for All operation
following the rupture of an ap.
pendix.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
JACKSON SER1r]
SCHEDULED1Io(Ha M
Widow Of Former No..
over County Sheriff :.
cumbs In Hospital ~ y

,. Funeral services for NJ,
jackson, SO, widow .: N's \
Jackson formerly Ns,. "
snerltf' who died at 5:45 ~, Y
,eraay morning in James s', !
Memorial Memo hospital, will i Ss
o'clock this afternoon tro ps as:
Avenue Methodist church Sp %
The Rev. C. D. Barcltr -.
sisted by the Rev. Waltz, P =
pastor of St. PauTs Lutbsr,r'
WIN conduct the Services, Pr,1
follow in the oakdale csne ss,s
s.A Active pallbearers will Be, =
stevens W. NJ, Dickson, + >,
ster, G: E. Russ, c. W. D..Ss.
Hiatt, E, F, Williams ~. ns'N
Banck. "''u Z
Honorary pallbearers with
P, Farrar, A, f. Dup.r VIII T
sholar' J, T. Hawkins, " a
| T-- '' W u
Gowan, R. K. Kennedy, Of :. |
MO-. K. 0. Burswin, W, p \
-. B. Cameron, o. L. Owen a." ~
vile, and w. s. Marsh.
All her children We're a. ..
side when death came r,. =
J. w: Jackson and Georss =
son. of Wilmington, LLOYD "
son, of Clinton, Mrs. W, ? 4
burg, Mrs. Joseph P. Rr,,1
Dorothy jackson, Of win
- ''Al
and Mrs. H. NJ. Tiencken. n
ington, D. c, Five g%randchiH,l
survive: Mrs. sturgis w5t.1
Louise Jackson, Miss Nj
Snakenburg, of Wilmippto, |
M. Tiencken, Jr., and Mis- i
Tiencken, of Washington, ,
Mrs. Jackson was a litelo,,
Der Of Fifth Avenue MI
church and took an active !
church affairs. |
Funeral services are ia h,
from Fifth Avenue church g.,
afternoon at 3 O'Clock, viii
ment following IN Oakdale csr]
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
~ COAL MINERS
TRAPPED IN SHAFT
AT CADIZ, OHIO
Continued From Page One)

whether they are alive or dead"
Protected by masks from mine
gas-listed tentatively as the blast
cause-expert Ohio land Pennsyl-
vania rescue crews, aided by local
miners, worked feverishly trying
to clear a way to the entombed
men.
Snider was unable to advance a
cause for the explosion, but OBJ
served that the rich coal mining
country in the vicinity of Cadiz
sis dotted with oil and gas" 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-30
OSCAR NJ. WHITE

Nov W.
services for Oscar NJ. White d
old farmer, who died yesterla!
injuries received in an ar''
accident on November % Ns'
here today.
White was injured when tas
in which he was riding "@'
by an automobile on Nan '''
He was a member Of CARE
fist church. His wife ana III
dren survive.