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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
Three Nazis Ousted
By Press Association

NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-R-The
Association of Foreign Press Cor
respondents has removed from its
rolls two active members men
toned in the D i e S committee
white paper" on un-American
activities and has accepted t h e
resignation as an associate mem
Der of DR.. Hans Borchers, German
consul general.
These developments were dis
closed yesterday in the associa-
tons official bulletin.
Fred Kreutzenstein, who had
listed himself as correspondent for
several Brazilian papers, was ex-
PEELED. DR.. Herbert Gross, Ameri-
can correspondent for the Mach
richten fuer Auesenhandel, Official
organ of the German ministry of
resigned under fire.
Both had been charged formally
with "unprofessional conduct"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
GREEK SOLDIERS
BREAK THROUGH
ITALIAN DEFENSES
CONTINUED From Page One)

In the latter sector, and in the
Pogradetz area south of Lake Och.
rida- the Greeks claimed thay had
repulsed enemy tank assaults and
destroyed a number of machines.
During the Italian attacks by
light tanks, heavy anti-tank fire
compelled a headlong flight" the
military reports said.
Heavy fighting continued, ex-
peeially from the coast to Klisura,
despite adverse weather.
The bodies of 200 Italians were
reported found on camp beds in a
mountain cavern converted into a
field hospital. The Greeks, who
said the men apparently froze to
death after being abandoned by
retreating comrades, gave the vic.
TINS military burial in frozen
ground.
In the North central sector, Ell.
basani, Italian base 30 miller south
of Albania's capital, Tirana, was
heavily bombed yesterday by Brit
ish airmen, a Royal air force COM
munique said.
Three large fires were started,
one in a big building in the center
Of the town, the British related.
A military barrack also was be-
lieved struck. S
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
Soose And Vigh Score
Decisions In Bouts

NEW YORK, Jan. g. Up Billy
Soose, a lanky lad out of Pennsyl-
vania State college, and Ernie Vish,
an iron-chinned husky from New
burgh, N. Y, punched their way into
the forefront of middleweight boxing
ranks tonight in Madison Square
Garden by margins as close as the
width of a whisker.
Although Soose, who did a lot OF
boxing and dancing for ten rounds
took the feature attraction by hand
ing young Tami Mauriello Of the
Bronx the first defeat of his career,
vigh was the more impressive in
coming back from a shaky start to
outpoint Coley WEIGH of Portland
Maine, in the bruising battle. soose
weighed 161 -; Mauriello 100; Vigil
159 IL and WEIGH 1859.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
CLAYTON YOUTHS
KILLED BY TRAIN
Four Lose Live. When A.
C.L. Train Strikes Their
Car At Benson

BENSON, Jan. g. Up -Four,
teen.aged Clayton youths, enroute
to a high school basketball game
here, were killed in the resldent
tial section Of Benson tonight when
their a collided with a south
bound Atlantic Coast Line express
train.
Three of the dead-a boy and two
girls-were members Of Clayton
high school basketball teams. The
fourth, described by Solicitor
Claude c. Canaday as the driver
of the car, was a student at Geor'
gia Military Acadamy, who wat
home at Clayton for the Christ
mas holidays.
The solicitor said the driver was
James Rudolph S%atterield, Jr., IL,
he listed the other dead as Yvonne
Whitley. 16; Lilburn Barnes, IL,
and John Arch Vinson, II.
David S~atterfield, 10, another
high school basketball player and
a brother of James S%atteraeld, was
critically injured. He was taken
to a Smithield hospital. Canaday
said he was suffering from a brok-
en- arm, pelvis, and hip.
All the basketball players were
members of the 10th grade.
The accident occurred at 7:05 p
m.
Two of the bodies were tossed
out of the car and were manglet
over 900 feet of track. Part Of the
car, however, stuck on the nose
of the engine, and bodies which
remained in this portion OF the car
were less seriously smashed.
David S%atterfield, the only one
of the five occupants who was not
instantly killed, was in the part Of
the car which remained stuck tt
the engine.
Canaday said he detained the
train for about an hour and a half,
while he conducted his Nvestiga.
ton. He said that any inquiry he
might conduct would not be held
until it was determined whether
David Satterfield would recover
sufficiently to give testimony.
DR.. Edward N. Booker, coroner,
said an inquest would be held to-
morrow.
L. M. Franks, a resident of Ben
son, said the youths car drove di'
rectly in front Of the train at the
Church street crossing. Franks ex-
pressed belief that vision of the
car driver was obscured by rain
which had fallen generally here
today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
No Passengers Injured
When Bus Leaves Road

A highway mishap to a Greyhound
bus interrupted the northbound
schedule to Raleigh for only a few
minutes yesterday afternoon on the
road between Burgaw and ASHTON
In Fender county, Wilbur A. Hooker.
manager of the Union Bus terminal
mere, said last night.
A bus, operated by N. A. Page, OF
Mount Olive, became mired in the
mud on the shoulder of the highway
after the driver had cut sharply to
the right to avoid hitting another
car on a curve, Hooker said.
Another car In front of the bus
stopped suddenly behind a school
bus on a curve and Page cut over
on the shoulder to prevent a collis'
ion, he said.
Hooker reported no damages to the
bus and no one was injured in the
accident, which occurred. about 2;19
o'clock yesterday afternoon. All
passengers were transferred to an
other northbound bus to Raleigh
that followed in a few minutes and
the schedule was only slightly in
terrupted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
LONDON'S VIEW

LONDON, Jan. 3.-R-Some
British sources suggested tonight,
in the light of the series of bomb
ings in Ireland, that the Germans
were trying to bring Ireland into
the war on Britain's side.
Should Ireland enter the conflict.
these persons said, Britain would
be forced to help fortify that weak
republic and thus drain her own
resources.
Ireland, they stated, was hope
lessly deficient in anti = aircraft
guns, field artillery and ammuni-
ton.
Moreover, it was added, should
Ireland come in on Britain's side
the Royal Air force would be hand
ed the job of patrolling another
nation against German bombers,
the British army would be forced
to protect scores Of additional air.
dromes and potential landing fields
against a possible attempt to land
invading German troops.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
SHERIFFS PLAN TO
COORDINATE AGENCIES
Continued From Page One)

mon as we'll as skilled labor should
first be exhausted before common
labor is employed from any adj
joining counties.
He and M. A.. Cowell, Onslow
Defense committee chairman,
pointed out, in telephone calls to
Mayne Albright, head of the State
Employment Service, that Col. A.
Montgo merry, constructing quarter
master, and contractors .epresen-
tatives have repeatedly stated it
is their policy to first exhaust the
labor supply in the county in which
the project is conducted before hir-
ing persons from outside.
Albright said the service was
trying to break up the situation at
Holly Ridge where workers are
hanging around the labor office,
30 as to have them called through
the employment service.
He said it had been impossible
to get the procedure working as
efficiently as it ultimately will,
but that for the present Onslow
and Fender county labor will be
given preference among those
hired on the spot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
BOAT CRASH SUIT

BEAUFORT, Jan. 3.-LR-At-
torneys representing interests in
a collision of the Barge Espee
and the Menhaden fishboat South
land November 10, 1888, in which
two white men and eight negroes
were killed conferred here this
week preliminary to a federal
court hearing in Norfolk, Va, be-
fore Judge Luther B. Way next
Tuesday to determine the imita-
ton of liability.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
REPORT ON LABOR
ACT IS PRESENTED
Members OF Special Com
mittee Say 1t Has Aided
*
Industrial Peace
~

IWASHINGTON, Jan. 3-LR-Two
members of a special house commit
de told congress today that the
Wagner act had contributed mater
idly to industrial peace and was in
DO way an impeachment to national
defense.
q Representatives Healey (D-Mass.)
and Murdoch (D-Utah) sharply dis.
agreed with the conclusion of the
Ehree majority members that the
time had come to inquire into &C
lions. of the national labor relations
board lest the defense program be
~jeopardized.
ANY implication that the Wagner
act has impeded the defense efforts
is not. justified by the record
Healey and Murdoch said. "On the
contrary, we are of the opinion that
the act has materially contributed
to industrial peace"
Representatives Smith (D-Va.),
Halleck (R-Ind.) and Routzohn (R.
Ohio proposed last weekend that
the board personnel be reorganized
and raised the question Of whether
administration of the Wagner act
was interfering with defense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
COLUMBUS VIOLENT
DEATHS TOTAL 50
Auto Accidents Take Largest
Toll In 1910 With Ii Fa-
talities On Highways

WHITEvILLE, Jan. s.-Violent
deaths in Columbus county during
1910, with a total Of SO, ran just one
less than the figure for the year pre-
ceding.
Automobile deaths, with a total of
13 fatalities, continued to take the
most tremendous toll of lives by
violence, but that was two less
than the auto deaths recorded for
1889. Only ~ of these were highway
deaths, however.
Homicides in the county. with a
total of eight tabulated for 1910, &C
counted for the second highest NUM-
Der Of deaths by violence. There were
nine murders in the county in 1889.
Hunting accidents, which were nil
in 1899, claimed two lives in Column
bus county in 1910, and two persons
were killed in the county during No
vember, when hit by falling trees.
Three persons died Of burns dur
ing the year, the same number as
were tabulated for the year preced-
ing. Three persons in Columbus COM
mitted suicide durin gthe year, while
there was a perceptible decrease in
the number Of drownings reported
for 1910 as compared with the pre-
ceding year. Against a total of five
drownings in the county during 1889,
there was only one during the year
just ended.
An amazing fact is that all but one
of the 10 automobile deaths In the
county during 1910 happened during
the last six months of the year, up
until July, only mi fatality being
chalked up against the county's rec
ord.
Four Of the automobile fatalities
happened at the self.same spot-the
Bogue Swamp Bridge near Halls
boro.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
Darden Is Promoted
To Rank Of Commander

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-tR-
Promotions of ZIG lieutenant
commanders in the navy as
vacancies occur were approved
today by President Roosevelt.
Among those selected, with
their present station and home
address as listed by the navy
were:
Wilson d. Leggett, Jr., Mare
Island, Calf, Tarboro, N. c.;
Thomas F. Darden, Dr., USS
Benham, Wilmington, N. c.;
Joseph c. Huske, Newport News,
Va, Fayetteville, N. c.; George
c. Crawford, New London, Conn.,,
Black Mountain, N. c.; Michael
HI. Kernodle, USS Wasp, Ora
ham, N. c.; william A. Griswold,
USS Sims, Goldsboro, N. C.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
BURLINGTON MILL
=STRlKE CONTINUES
Representatives Of Manage
ment And Labor Fail To
Agree On Wage Scale

BURLINGTON, Jan. 3.-R-A
three.hour conference Of conciliators
and representatives of the union and
the management failed this after
noon to alter the status Of the strike
at the r. D. Wilson full-fashioned
hosiery mill here.
1t was said another conference
would probably be held next week..
REPRESENTATIVES Of the American
Federation of Hosiery Workers re-
ported that they agreed for all the
strikers to return to work at a re-
duced work scale and to submit to
an election to decide whether the
American Federation Of Hosiery
Workers represents a majority of the
mill workers.
!. If the union lost the election, that
would end the matter; if, on tne
other hand, the union won the cleo
ton, then the mill management
would agree to an arbitrator. The
management rejected this proposal.
: The mill management proposed
ythat the men return to work at a
reduced scale and that an election be
.:held eleven days hence. If the union
failed to win this election, it would
end the dispute; but if the union
won, an audit would be made to de-
termine whether the mill could af-
ford to pay a higher scale.
: The findings would be submitted
to the union and the mill manage
ment, but they would not be binding.
Union officials argued this would
leave the matter just where it is
now and rejected the proposal, con-
tending the scale Should be restored
If the audit should show the mill
could afford it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
PLAN TO PRODUCE
B0MBERS PUSHED
Fort Worth, Texas, Selected
As Site OF Fourth AS
sembly Factory

WASHINGTON, Jan. D. Up "A
plan to build thousands Of bombers
with the help Of the automobile in.
Lustry took definite form tonight
with the selection of Fort Worth,
Texas, as the site Of a fourth as
sembly plant.
In a compromise of a contest be
tween rival cities, a previous allot'
ment of a similar plant to Tulsa,
Oklahoma, was confirmed.
Under arrangements which were
well advanced before a new proposal
to build $500 warplanes a day" was
put forward with the support of the
CLIO, the Fort Worth and Tulsa
plants and others assigned to Omaha
and Kansas City will turn out 300
~long-range bombers monthly from
parts largely fabricated in motor car
factories.
Fifteen months is expected to be
required to start production under
the scheme worked out by the de-
Tense commission and the War and
Navy departments to supplement the
aircraft industry's output Of war.
planes for the United States and
Great Britain.
Both the Tulsa and Fort Worth
plants are to assemble long range,
four-motor bombers. Each plant
will be built by army engineers, and
is expected to cost up to $40, ZOO, 900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
Obituaries
MRS. p, N. flick

Funeral rites for Mrs. p. N. Flick,
ST., SO, were held yesterday after
noon at 3 o'clock from st. Pauls
Lutheran church with the Rev. Wal
ter P. Freed assisted by DR.. Edwin
F. Keever officiating. Interment fol
lowed in OakdaIe cemetery.
Active pallbearers were: Louis
Register, F. ]. Duls, Martin Won
Oesen, and c. B. VESSEL. Honorary
pallbearers We're: William A
Mohler, C. B. D. Mohler, DR.. Dreher,
DR.. W. H. Moore, I. W. Solomon A.
B. sternberger, Henry Gerdes, John
Doscher, Ed Ahrens and C. J. Olden'
buttel.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
ENGLISH BATTLE
FIRES In TOWNS
Continued From Page One)

was reported to have been evac-
uated without casualties.
-(This town possibly was Ply.
mouth, or Cardiff which was VIC
Iently assaulted Thursday night.)
London had three alarms by
early today, but only an occasional
plane was heard overhead accom-
panied by sporadic bursts Of anti
aircraft. fire.
The third alarm was lifted about
4 a. m. Go p. m. E.S.T.)
Hundreds of incendiaries were
cast upon the west midlands town
(possibly Birmingham. Civilians
were kept busy extinguishing the
fires that sprang up, and scores of
buildings were thus saved.
A hospital was reported badly
damaged, by a high explosive
bomb; also reported hit were
another hospital and nursing home,
a municipal clinic, a convent, a
movie theater, a hotel and three
schools 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
RICHARD w. L

SHALLOTTE, Jan. 3.-Richard W.
Sellers, "a, well.kpown citizen of
shallotte, died at his home this aft
ernoon after an illness of several
weeks.
He was a lifelong member Of the
shallotte Methodist church. Surviv-
ing r his wife, three sons, j. H.
Sellers, Of Rocky lIount, w. Beamon
and Marvin Sellers, of Shallotte;
four daughters, Mrs. J. K. Worth
ington, of Henderson, Miss Lottie
Sellers and Mrs. w. Otis Parker, OF
Wilmington, and Mrs. Claude Gore,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
Storm Warning Issued
By The Weather Bureau

BOSTON, Jan. 3. - Up, - The
weather bureau issued the following
storm warning tonight;
Northeast storm warning ordered
1920 p. m, from Block Island, X.
T., to PASSPORT, Me, A disturbance
which is located just off the Virginia
Capes, moving northsastwaEd with
Increasing intensity, will cause IN
creasing northeast winds, becoming
strong late tonight and reaching gale
force at times over south portion.
Winds will back to strong northerly
Saturday, morning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
, MRS. MARY C. MOORE

CURRIE, Jan 3.-Funeral SER
vices for Mrs. Mary Cook Moore,
SO, who died at 8 o'clock Wednes-
DAY. morning, we're held at IL
o'clock Thursday morning from the
late residence near Currie.
The Rev. John Mizzel conducted
the services and burial followed
in the family cemetery.
Active pallbearers were: ]. W.
Cook, William Broomfield, Lacy
Applewhite, Daniel Cook, Earl
Moore, and Carney Moore.
Mrs. Moore is survived by eight
sons, Tyler v. Moore, S. R. Moore,
Leo Moore, Autry M. Moore, and
julius c. Moore, of Currie: james
M. Moore, of Whiteville; Alfred T.
Moore, of Russell, KY, and Ell
bert L. Moore, of Burgaw.
Two daughters, Mrs. A. c. Leon
ard, of Rocky Mount, and Mrs
M. F. Waters, Of Thomasville;
one brother, Daniel ]. Cook, OF
Acme; one sister, Mrs. Bessie Il.
Jones, of Wilmington; and ten
grandchildren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
Two Persons Are Killed
In Charlotte Accident

CHARLOTTE, Jan. 3.7R-C. c
Noles of Derita, and Mrs. E. r. Gary
of Charlotte, we're killed and two
persons were injured in an automo'
bile collision here this afternoon.
The injured were W. NJ. Gilbert OIL
Concord, who had a broken arm an6
collar bone, and 16-year-old Elwyr
Gary, the extent Of whose hurts was
not Immediately determined. The boy
was the son Of the woman who was
killed.
The mother and son were in one
car, Noles and Gilbert in the other.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
IRISH PROTEST TO
NAILS ON BOMBINGS
Continued From Page One)

should attempt to use her terri
tory to invade England.
unofficial but reliable British
military observers stated that the
bombing and a subsequent inva-
sion of Ireland would be merely a
phase of the sustained "prepara-
tom for invasion of Brittany
This afternoon Irish soldiers
fired with rifles and machineguns
upon what they believed was a
hostile plane over Dublin, but the
governments information bureau
subsequently described it as "a
civil plane" en- route from Eng.
land to Dublin, which had got into
difficulty.
The craft had dropped flares in
the historic cemetery of Glesne'
vim, the burial place of many ar
Irish revolutionary hero, and these
were generally accepted at first as
incendiary bombs, since the use Of
a flare in broad daylight is ex.
traordinary.
Feeling Intense
Informed sources used the Incl
dent to point out the tensity. OF
feeling in Ireland.
The cumulative list of casualties
in raids from Wednesday 6
through today stood at three dead
and an undetermined number, con
siderably above 20, injured.
Not alone bombs have fallen or
Irish soil, but magnetic mines as
well - these near Enniskerry a
short distance from the Irish sea
coast in County Wicklow.
On Wednesday night five areas
within a 60-mile radius Of Dublin,
including a plain on which is sit.
uated headquarters for the Irish
army were bombed in a five-houl
raid.
Again, on Thursday night, three
bombs fell near E~nniscorthy, Coun'
ty Wexford, some so miles to the
southwest of Dublin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
TAKE
5000 ITALIANS IN
BATTLE AT BARDIA
CONTINUED From Page One)

lively indicated that if things con-
tiDued to go we'll the fortress would
be taken in "a few days"
The Italians were asserted tc
have the advantage in a number
of well-built blockhouses, concealed
machine-gun nests and barbee
wire entanglements, the whole net
work of defenses being backed by
heavy artillery, including at leas
one big-calibre naval gun mounted
ashore.
But the Australians crashed
through on the southwest OF the
ring which already had beer
weakened by the aerial onslaught
and the almost daily pounding by
air bombs and by the big guns o:
the British fleet offshore.
An attack on these positions ap
parently had been considered I'm
likely by the Italians whose de
lenses all had been sighted tt
point the opposite way.
UnQcr NOUStdlt IAC
Some 20, 900 Italian troops have
been penned up in Bardia for two
weeks, with their backs to the sea
under constant fire from British
guns ashore and afloat and British
bombers above.
The official announcement wa
barren of detail, because OF mil
itary necessity. 1t said merely
"Just after dawn this morning
Australian forces supported b.
tanks penetrated a sector OF tn
defenses of Bardia. Operations arr
continuing"
Military experts explained tina
the perimeter of pillboxes, anti
tank bitches and traps, supported
by heavy guns on heights near tn
town and sheltering Bardia for
distance of II miles from coas
to coast, is some five to six mile
in depth.
They conceded the possibilit.
that the Australian. thrust nigh
be only a large-scale raid, bu
they were more of the opinion tina
the anticipated major assault il
under way, especially since "or
erations are continuing"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
PLANNED

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 3.-Q9-
The Oregonian, quoting unidentified
sources, said today a powerful Pa
cific coast organization" was prepar.
ing to establish a large shipyard
here.
The newspaper added the yard
would be capable of constructing ten
ships at one time. Vessels would be
built for sale on the open market at
a cost-plus price.
The O%regonian pointed out that
news of the preparations conceded
with President R%oosevelt's announce.
ment today of arrangements under
way to build 200 ships of $500 tons
each in yards yet to be established.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
G BRITISH AID

WASHINGTON, Jan. a. Up =
Senator Glass (D-Va.) said today he
favored lending Great Britain every
thing we've got" The veteran Vir.
gilman made that statement in COM
menting on President Roosevelt's
proposal to lend or lease military
equipment to Great Britain.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
r ANNIE GAsKILL

BEAUFORT, Jan. 3.-R-The
funeral for Mrs. Annie B. Gaskil,
81, widow of Capt. w. d. Gaskill,
will be held on Ocracoke island
tomorrow. She died Thursday night
at the home of a daughter, Mrs.
W. L. Patman, in Siler City. She
was the owner of Pamico Inn on
Ocracoke.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
WILL CLOSE HIGHWAY

FARMINGDALE, N. Y, Jan. g.
R-A quartermile stretch Of high.
way running past the plants of the
Republic Aviation Corp. and the
Ranger Aircraft Corp, engaged in
making airplanes and plane parts for
the government, will be closed, bar
ricaded and guarded starting Mon
day as a precaution against sabot-
age.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
Chadbourn Youth Dies
From Kick OF Mule

WHITEVILLE, Jan. 3.-Jesse Nc
Pherson, II, son of MI. and Mrs. j.
G. Mcpherson, of Chadbourn, route
/, died in the Columbus county hos
pital here Tuesday from effects OF
an injury received November -
when he was kicked by a mule. The
blow was on the head.
Surviving are the youths parents
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G.. Mcpherson, and
several brothers and sisters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-04
u. S. Friends Of Irish
Protest To Germany

NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-CP-The
American Friends of Irish Neutral
ty, claiming to represent some 2oO
Irish organizations, tonight tele'
graphed the German embassy in
Washington a protest against 18th
unwarranted invasion of Irelands
neutral territory
(In Berlin authorized German
sources d d responsibility for
bombing of Ireland.)