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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
PNEUMONIA, FLU
SPREAD IN N. E.
Three Persons Die in "a
Hours; Additional Public
Schools Closed

RALEIGH, Jan. 14.-LP)-PneU-
monia and influenza, harbingers OF
death for three North CarolinlanS
in the last "a hours, sent more peo-
pie to bed today and caused the
closing of additional public schools.
At. Hamlet, 49, year old Billy
Smith died of pneumonia, the same
malady that caused the death yes
tedy of Locky Virginia Huskins,
seventh grade pupil of near Mar
ion. Eight-year-old Donald Gene
Suits died at Hamlet of intestinal
influenza. go.
Thousands of persons nthe state
were under the care of physicians
as health authorities sounded a
general plea that all persons stay
away from public gatherings.
DR.. Carl V. Reynolds, state
health officer, expressed the opin-
ion that the near-epidemic of in
fluenza was 'just on its way in
this state" He said that most Of
the cases were mild, much more
so as whole than the type that
claimed many lives in World war
day.
Charlotte city schools closed on
the heels of a report that "a per
cent of the white children and II
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
Broughton FavOrs Port Terminal Loan;
To RFC Is Given New Life
r. B. Page To Attend
u. S. Defense Meeting

r. B. Page, member of the
North Carolina Defense Council
appointed by the Governor and
chairman of the Wilmington De-
fense Council, a local group
named by Mayor Thomas e.
Cooper, has been invited to at
tend a three-day conference of
state chairmen of similar organi-
cations of the nation, beginning
in Washington, D. c., next Mon
day.
The invitation came from Col.
j. w. Harrelson, dean of N. C.
State College, who is chairman
of the North Carolina Defense
Council. 1t also included an in
vitation to Mrs. Page to attend
the tea to be given at the White
House Tuesday afternoon by Mrs.
Roosevelt.
The invitation to the Will
mington publisher was taken as
new evidence of the important
part Wilmington will play in
the National Defense picture.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
RAF and Italian Bombers
Trade Blows on Targets
In Albania, Greece
PREVEZA BASE RAIDED
Athens Elated Over Re.
moval of z Italian Com
manders from War
By MAX HARRELSON

ATHENS, Jan. 14.-tR-Greek in
fantrymen were reported driving
toward Berati, in south central Al
bania, today while communicates
told of trading of blows by the
British RAF and Italian bombers
on targets in Albania and Greece.
Although conceding sturdy Ital-
ian resistance at m e points,
Greek spokesmen asserted the
fighting north of Klisura, whose
fall opened the way for an advance
on Berati, continued to develop
satisfactorily"
Under Bombardment
Berati, south of Tirana, Alba
MAS capital, and northeast of Va
Iona, only major port in southern
Albania still in italian hands, was
reported under British air bonn
barirnerit. An RkF cornrnunique
told Of bomb attack yesterday on
communications and military OBJ.
jectives there. Rising columns OF
smoke after the attack led to be.
lief, it was said, that direct hits
were scored.
An Italian air raid on PreveZa,
Greek west coast naval base, was
described by the Greek ministry OF
home security. 1t announced a
small number of casualties and de.
struction of several buildings in.
cluding a cathedral and a girls
school.
In Athens, Greek elation over
the removal of two Italian com.
manders in the Albanian campaign
was demonstrated in newspaper
cartoon portraying a Greek Evzone
fighter in a ring crying, Bring on
another one," after he had left the
two replaced generals, Ubaldo Sod
du and Sebastiano Prasca, on the
ropes.
Soddu, who replaced Prasca at
the head of the Fascist armies in
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
DESTROYER HIT
Germans Reported Using
Dive Bombers in the Med
iterranean Section

LONDON, Jan. 14.-(R-Brit-
aims 23,000-ton aircraft carrier IL
lustrous and the 9,I00-ton cruiser
Southampton were damaged JAN
10, the admiralty announced to-
night, in the first reported use o1
German dive bombers in the Medi.
terranean area.
Italian and German planes CO.
operated in the attack on the war.
ships, which were conveying mer-
chant vessels to Greece with ma
terial assistance for the Albanian
campaign.
Destroyer Damaged
The 1,335-ton destroyer Gallant
was damaged earlier by mine or
a torpedo, the admiralty said,
when the convoy encountered two
Italian destroyers. One of the 1tal-
ian ships, a vessel of the Spica
class (638 tons), was reported
sunk; the other escaped. The Gal
liant reached port safely, it said.
The surface encounter and the
latter aerial attack, which the ad-
miralty said cost the Nazi-Fascist
forces IL planes and damage to
"a further number occurred in
the Sicilian channel, between Sicily
and the North African mainland.
Informed sources in London said
tonight the attack might be an in
dication that Germany's air force
would make a new challenge to
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
CONFERENCE IS HELD
Port Commission Asked To
File Additional Data on
$635,000 Project

The application of the City of Will
mington to the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation for q loan o1
$685., 900 for the erection Of municipal
port terminals here has been given
new life, it was learned yesterday
from J. T. Hers, manager Of the
Wilmington Port Commission.
The application rejected last
week by the board of directors of
the RFC, was reopened by the RFC
Monday after HERS, C. D. Hogue,
chairman of the Wilmington Port
Commission, and J. E. L. Wade, city
commissioner of public works, con
ferred with Morton Mccartney, head
of the self-liquidating division of the
RFC.
HERS said that with the reopen
ing of the application the Por'
commission was requested to file
additional sustaining data to show
the project will be self-liquidatins
and able to pay off the indebted
ness in period of Is years.
The RFC last week wrote Mayor
Thomas E. Cooper that the appll
cation had been declined on the
grounds sufficient data to show the
loan could be repaid had not beer
given the RFC.
Additional proof of the ability o:
the terminals to be self-Gquidatinf
has been worked up since the fill
ing of the application and will be
submitted in the near future to the
RFC, HERS said.
At the time the application wa:
rejected the applicants and spon
sors of the proposed project sale
they were not rnduly alarmed BY
the rejection, as similar proposed
projects which have since b +
built with RFC funds, had beer
rejected and later reopened just az
this one had now been revived.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
ROOSEVELT F[AYS CRITICS OF -T0-BR|T TAIN plan
Government Considering
Possible Establishment
Of Arms Plants I'm N. c..

recent years, including rayou
and paper mills.
Bailey said the shipyard
program for the state was pro-
crossing nicely and pointed to
the move Of the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
company to locate facilities at
Wilmington, N. C.
He intimated there would be
other shipyard developments,
pointing out there were many
areas along the states coast
suitable for building vessels.
Bailey said North Cardinals
lumber industry also would
benefit from the defense pro-
gram.
"There are black walnut
trees all over the state" he de-
clared. "Black walnut wood is
is good for making gun stocks"
The senator said plans of
Governor J. M. Broughton to
continue a state office in Wash
ington would be great help in
coordinating activities to OBJ
tain defense industries and
business for North Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15

Approved wage classifications in
hourly rates for the Camp Davis
project were given yesterday to the
North Carolina State Employment
service by the contractors, Maurice
H. Moore, manager Of the Whining
ton office, announced last night.
Such scales were applicable to jobs
beginning with the new payroll as OF
p. M, Sunday, January IL, Moore
said, and are listed as follows:
Asbestos workers, 81; asbestos
workers apprentices, first year, 40
cents; second year, SO cents; third
year, 60 cents; and fourth year, 70
cents; blacksmiths, ST.; boilermakers,
$1.25; boilermaker helpers, 81; brick
layers $1.25.
Journeymen carpenters, 80 cents;
cement finishers. s1.10; electricians,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
WRITES JESSE JONES
Governor Urges Favorable
Consideration Of VIII
mington's Application

Urging favorable consideration
of the application by the City OF
Wilmington to the Reconstruction
Finance corporation for a loan OF
$685., 900 to construct public port
terminals here, Governor J. M.
Broughton declared in letter to
Jesse Jones, RFC chairman, on
January II, II have the conviction
that the development of this port
not only will serve North Carolina
but will prove to be development
of national importance"
A copy of the letter to Chairman
Jones was forwarded by Governor
Broughton to R. B. Page, pub
Usher of the Star-News, yesterday.
Prior To Conference
The letter was sent to the RFC
chairman prior to the conference
held by delegation from Whining
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Continued on Page Five; Col. ~

NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-lA-Two
young payroll bandits-brothers-
coldly Shot to death a protesting
victim today in an elevator OF a
midtown building, then raced onto
crowded Fifth Avenue, terrorized
,mrongs of noon day shoppers,
Killed patrolman and sent a bull
les INTO the throat of taxi driver.
!, lhe chase, which led through
ppie.ek-long department store at
ruin Avenue and 34th Street, end
~ With one of the bandits lying In
ae street, wounded by the slain
ssafolman, and the capture OF the
oe oeeono gunman in a nearby To-
cent store.
a hank guard who attempted to
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
Young Bandits Kill Two
Men In AttemptedHoldup

aid in the capture also was sho'
and wounded.
Assistant District Attorney JACOB
T. Rosenblum said tn bandits
identified themselves as Angelo ae
Stefano, %, and his brother, Jo'
seph, ~. The latter, Rosenplum
said, had three guns and Angelo
two. ;,
RosenblEm told this story OF the
holdup and killings:
Alfred Klausman, general man.
ager of Kemp and Beatty, Inc, a
linen firm, shortly after noon
stepped into the elevator OF his
building at 34th and Fifth, carrying
with him the firms payroll OF
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
Chief Refers
To Wheeler's
RecentSpeech
Displays Anger as He Says
Critics Are Guilty Of Rot
tenest' Untruths
SENATOR SHOOTS BACK
Moves Made to Compro-
mise Some of Controver-
sial Points of Legislation
By JACK BELL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-tR--
Displaying more anger than he has
shown in many a day, President
Roosevelt today declared that crit.
les of his aid-to-Britain plan were
guilty of the "rottenest" and most
dastardly'' untruths when they
charged that the plan would result
in blowing under every fourth
American child.''
The President named no names
at a press conference, but it was
Immediately recalled that Senator
Wheeler (D.-Mont.), embattled op-
ponent of the Roosevelt plan, had
said in a speech Sunday night that
''the lend-lease-give program is
the New Deals triple A foreign
policy-plow under every fourth
American boy"
Wheeler Shoots Back
AS soon as he heard of the Presi-
dents remarks today, Wheeler Shot
back with a statement that zap.
parently the President lost h s
temper" He expressed the hope
that his ''plow under" statement
would prove to be untrue, but add
ed that every speech of the Presi-
dent leads the country step
CLOSER to war; s-as@s...sssss-
The Presidents remarks grew
out Of a discussion of the recently
introduced bill giving him broad
powers to supply war materials,
and otherwise assist, countries bat
ting the Axis powers.
A reporter noted that the bill
had been called blank check,
and asked for the Presidents COM
ment on that.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he supposed
the best way to put it was to sug-
gest that some one write him an
Continued on Page Five; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
Ridge Wage Rates
Released By Contractors

81; electrician helpers, 60 cents; fire
men portable boilers, Is cents;
glaciers, 80 cents; jackhammer men,
SO cents; unskilled laborers, 4G cents.
Lathers, metal, s1.1o; machinists,
81; millwrights, 80 cents; mason
tenders, so cents; mortar mixers, 60
cents: oilers, Is cents; operators of
power equipment, air compressors,
81; stone spreaders, 60 cents; blade
graders, Is cents; cranes. derricks,
and drag lines, $1.25; distributors
bituminous surfaces, Is cents; fin
ishing machines, common concrete
pavement, rs cents.
One drum hoists, ST.; hoist two
drums, or more, $1.25; mixers, 81;
motor graders, 81; pile drivers, $1.25;
Continued on Page Ten; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-R
Senator Bailey (D-N.C.) dis
closed today consideration was
being given by the government
to the possible location of mu-
nitions plants in North Caro-
lima.
The senator, pointing out the
state had ample supplies of la
Dor and power, said he could
not reveal locations under con-
sideration and that he was in
terested primarily in seeing
that the state as a whole
shared in the industrial expan-
sion under the defense pro-
gram.
There were4eports the noun
famous sections in Western
North Carolina were being
studied. m ore seriously as
greater protection would be af-
forded munitions plants.
A power expansion program
already is underway in that
area and part of the section is
served by the Tennessee Val
ley Authority. A number of in
dustries have located there. in
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
BRITISH CUNB0AT
TAKES ARGENTINE
Italian Blackshirt General
Snatched from Hiding
Place In Africa

CAIRO, EGYPT, Jan. 14.-RE
The crew of British motorboat,
directed by. patrolling aircraft, has
snatched the Italian blackshirt
General Francesca Argentine from
a hiding place by 'the waters
edge" in North Africa near Tobruk
Libya, British middle eastern head
quarters announced today.
The number of Italian generals
declared to have been seized in
the fighting in Egypt and the Brit
ish counter-offensive in Libya thus
was increased to eleven. A twelfth
and the most picturesque of all,
General Annibale "electric whisk-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
SOK0L,SKY REVIEWS
T0DAY'S PROBLEMS
Forum Speaker Calls For
Program of International
Exchange Of Goods

Unless the fundamental prob
lem of food and raw materials is
solved it doesn't make the slight
est difference who wins this war,
George E. Sokolsky, noted jour-
nallst and economist, declared at
New Hanover high school last night
before large audience attending
the Community Forum program.
If England was completely VIC
torlous and Germany completely
conquered it would not solve a
single problem" he said after a
review of the alternatives facing
the United States and consequent
ly after he had ruled out each al
tentative of % war (2) isolation
Ism 90 a system of barter. as
conformity with the democratic
way Of living.
Europe is living in an area III
Which there is an inadequate food
supply and an inadequate access
10 raw materials and consequent
ly Europe would still have these
Cn1
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15

LONDON, Jan. 14.-lR-An air
ministry statement that RAF night
fighters are beginning to show re-
suits against nocturnal raiders and
the admiralty's announcement of one
of the smallest weeks shipping los
ses of the war bolstered hopes OF
Britons tonight of overcoming event.
ually the two chief menaces to their
embattled island.
Last nights massive fire-bomb
raid on the southwest port of Ply.
mouth, the target Of 10000 incen-
diaries and many tons" Of high ex-
plosives, showed, however, that Brit
ain has far to &c in coping with the
night raiders-ani the air ministry
admitted as much.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
CHANGES PLANNED
AT NEARBY CAMP
Minor Shifts in Location of
Buildings Slated at
Firing Center

Minor changes in the location OF
buildings at Camp Davis were nlaoe
yesterday when a re-allocation Oh
men among the units to be st ION
ed at the camp, approval of ''nlch
has been requested of the War de-
partment by the Coast Artillery,
along with a request for additional
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
RAF Is Showing Results
AGAINST Nocturnal Raids

Telling Of efforts to fend off night
raids, the air ministry news service
said more and more Nazi bombers
are being intercepted and those get
ting through are being attacked
with some success"
The number Of night fighter squad
rons "is steadily increasing" it said.
but added that progress necessarily
was slow because the pilots have to
be taught an entirely new technique.
Up to a late hour tonight there
were no reports of German air ac-
tivity over any part of Britain and
1t was believed that bad weather on
the continent coupled with recent
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
163 Millions
Cudget Sent
To Assembly
Governor Calls on Solons
To Lengthen List of Sales
Tax Exemptions
RECORD EXPENDITURE
Retirement Program OF
s3,4OS,152 for All En-
ployes Proposed

RALEIGH, Jan. 14.-tRNTrans.
mitting a proposed budget calling
for the expenditure of $163, 635, 1882
in state money in the next bien-
mum, Governor Broughton today
urged the general assembly to
maintain balanced b>u d G ct,
lengthen the list of sales tax ex-
emptions, and increase no taxes.
The record expenditure, con-
tanned in the unanimous report OF
the advisory budget commission
and former Governor Hoey, goes
as far ''as prudence would die
tate,' Governor Broughton S. ID.
The budget would be balanced and
practically every state agency and
institution would receive increased
funds.
Go Before Committees
The two measures went before
their respective joint COMMITTEES.
representative Bryant of Dur
ham, a member of the advisory
budget mission, told the opening
session Of the joint finance COM
mittee that it would be ''unwise"
to increase taxes in the face of
certain increase in taxes by the
Federal government.
Bryant, who is chairman of the
house finance committee, defended
as necessary a provision for con-
tingent highway fund diversion.
The only alternative" he said,
lis to cut appropriations or find
additional revenue, or BOTH"
Representative Kerr of Warren,
chairman of the house appropria-
tons committee, announced that
the joint appropriations committee
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
War
Interpretive
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON


It is now a demonstrated fact
that British Air power is catching
up on German-Italian superiority
and increasingly taking the often
sive.
This is shown by the daylight
bombing raids along and deep be-
hind the invasion coasts" OF
France and the low countries Sim
ultaneous British air offensives IN
East and North Africa, in Albania
and in both Northern and Southern
Italy further illustrate the point.
Despite incessant Nazi bombing
of England's war workshops for
it is clear that Britain has
been able to muster formidable
increase in her air power for use
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
LEASE OF RAILWAY
IS EXPECTED SOON
M. J. Corbett Says W. B. &
S. Lease Will Not Con-
tain Option to Buy

The Wilmington Brunswick and
Southern railroad will probably be
leased in the near future to three
Charleston men who will form the
Southport Railroad and Transports
tion company, M. J. Corbett, receiver
for the road said last night.
He said, however, that if and when
the lease is signed it will be without
an option to buy all the holdings
of the railroad at any time the con-
tract is in effect.
Previously Corbett had said he had
refused to sign lease which con-
tanned such a provision, because he
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
SMITH IS FINED
IN LOTTERY CASE
Also Receives Six Months
Suspended Term After
Nolo Contendere Plea

Gerge (Crip) Smith was fined
So, 900, taxed with the costs, and
received a suspended six months
term on the roads after entering a
pea of nolo contendere to charges
of conspiracy to violate the lottery
laws yesterday afternoon before
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
6-DAY WORK WEEK
ASKED BY MARTIN
Airplane Builder Says Con-
gress Should Delegate
Power to Draft Board

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-R-
Glenn L. Martin, pioneer airplane
builder, told congress today it
should keep in mind bigger
show" than the current arms pro-
gram and delegate emergency au-
thoritv to draft labor as well as
industry for defense productlon'
Testifying before the house ma
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15

CuG LlouAtoAho anu VA 1AAS SSAoe W.
nesday.
(By q. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. m. Yesterday
Temperature
1:3O a. m. A; 80 4. m. 3S; 1:30 p. m
81; ;7:30 p. m. 46; maximum 55; mini
mum 81; mean, 46; normal 46.
Humidity
1:30 a. m. 80; 7:30 a. m. 81; 80 p. m.
So; 7:30 p. m. 66.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p. m.
q 90 inches. Total since first of the
month OFT inches.
Tides For Today
(From Tide Tables published by q. s.
Coast and GeoGetic Survey)
High Low
wi1rinr rton --- II Ida 5:54a
II :33p 6:39p
Inlet --- 8:52a :45a
9:17p 3:1sp
Sunrise lisa; sunset 5:26p; moonrise
:O6p: moonset 8:35a.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette-
vile on Jan. IA, at 8 a. M, 1890
ffet.
Continued on Page Ten; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-15
WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
North Carolina: CLOUDY, possibly fol
lowed by light rain Thursday and in
the mountains and on the coast Wed
nesday.
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Continued on Page Five; Coi. ~
Evening star., 1941-08-16

ening our defense effort. It will be
accepted, I am certain, by the
American people, in an American
way. -
Our planes and those of England
must be kept in the air so long as
those of Nazi Germany fly: our
ships and those of England must be
kept on the seas so long as a SUBJ
marine carrying the swastika prowls
the deep: our defense industries and
those of England must be kept going
full blast so long as Hitler remains
a menace
The co-ordinatu expressed an
opinion that the Middle West and
Pacific Coast would feel the gas
ollne shortage. He said:
We must call upon the Middle
West to get along with less than
its normal supply of gasoline by
giving us some of its tank cars.
We are asking the Pacific Coast to
get along with less than its normal
supply of gasoline by giving us some
of its tankers."
He did not stipulate definite cur
tallment plans for those areas.