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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-01
Wage Increases Won
BY Sedfdrers Union

New York, N. Y.-Offcials of the
Atlantic and Gulf District of the Sea-
farers International Union of North
America announced that Eastern
Steamship Lines, Inc, had granted a
SO monthly increase in pay over last
years rate on all coastwise vessels.
1t was also announced that the
Ocean Steamship Company of Sa-
vannah had agreed to a $3.50 increase
in monthly pay to it's S. l. U. crews.
Five other companies had previously
signed for the raise.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-01

The Early Diagnosis Campaign, be"
ing held this month by the Colum-
biana County Public Health League
as the spearhead Of the year-round
activities, is an effort to impress upon
the public the necessity Of finding
tuberculosis in it's early, most easily
durable stages and Of beginning prop
er treatment early.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
R0TC WILL TAKE
PART IN PARADE
New Hanover High Cadets
To March Before Cover
nor AT Inaugural!

The New Hanover High school
ROTC unit will participate in the
inaugural parade for Governor-elect
J. M. Broughton Thursday morning
in Raleigh, T. T. Hamilton, Jr.,
princii al, announced yesterday.
Approximately 400 members of
the cadet corps together with spon-
sors, drum majorettes, and school
officials, will leave by bus for Ra-
leigh at $50 o'clock Thursday
morning, Hamilton said.
Four Queen City Coach company
chartered busses and three county
school buses will be used to take
the group to Raleigh, in convoy,
under the supervision of Lieutenant
Colonel William V. D. Ochs, P. M.
S. and T., and staff.
The local ROTC unit will parti-
cipate with other cadet corps from
the North Carolina State college,
Davidson college, Oak Ridge and
Edwards Military institutes, coast
guard unit from Elizabeth City,
soldiers from Fort Bragg, and pos
sibly national guardsmen, in the
parade beginning at 10 o'clock.
Hamilton said Adjutant General
J. Van B. Nets, of Raleigh ex-
tended the invitation to the High
Continued on Page Two; Col. a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
WEYCAND GIVEN
REINS in SYRIA
Petain's Action Solidifies
Control OF French Areas
In Suez Sphere :.
(By The Associated Press

BEIRUT, Levant States, Jan. A.
The Petain government has put the
ne1.' Syrian high commissioner, Gen
eral Henri Dentz( under the direct
orders Of General Maxine Wey-
gand, it was disclosed today, appar-
emily as a move to sur unity of
action by the French Empire, come
what may.
The action %solidifies the vast
French territories on each side of
the Suez Canal at a time when the
relations of Vichy with the German
conqueror are in a state of uncer-
tainty.
Chief Of State Marshal Philippe
Petain now is believed to be prepar-
ing against the possibility that these
relations might change suddenly for
the worse.
(Weygand, as commander of the
undefeated North African army CT
France and supreme political repre-
sentative of Vichy in Africa, is firm
ly opposed to any Axis infringement
on French Colonial territory, such
as might come in drives on the Suez
canal from either west or east.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
DREXLER TO TAKE
TWP POST MONDAY
New President OF Utility
Comes To City From
Newport News, Va.

Norman E. Drexler, vice-presi.
dent and manager of the Virginia
Public Service company's eastern
division, operating in the Peninsula
area of Virginia, who was recently
elected president of the Tide Wa.
ter Power company, will arrive
Monday to assume his new post al
the general offices of the utility
here.
He assumes a post held until the
latter part of 1910 by lilies Cary
who resigned.
The Tide Water Power company
operates in Southeastern N r
Carolina and furnishes electric
service to 242 communities with ar
estimated population of pa, 900, gas
service to 10 communities with ar
estimated population of 95, 900, wa
ter and transportation service te
16 other communities.
In 1912 Drexler received his de-
gree in civil. engineering from the
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute o
Rensselaer,, New York. During THIS
same year he became connected
with the old Newport News anc
Hampton Railway, Gas and Elec'
trio company as assistant in the
engineering department. In 1914 ne
was promoted to master mechanic
in charge of rolling stock anc
shops. He later became chief en-
gineer and in 1925 was appointed
manager of the gas and electric
departments.
When Virginia Public Service
company took, over. the utility op
erations in the Peninsula area In
1928, Drexler became Eastern Di
vision manager in charge of al
electric, railway. gas, ice and bus
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
TRIES OUT
new TYPE FLIGHT
BIC Bomber Begins Is
Hour Nonstop Endur-
ance Test

DAYTON, O., Jan. 4-tR- Far
above the clouds in sub-zero tenn
peratures the Army Air Corps ex-
poets to learn tonight how a four
motored bomber and its crew OF
six react on a 15-hour, 3,0OO-mile
nonstop endurance flight.
Information cleaned from the
epochal test, unprecedented in air
corps history, will be added to
the study being made by the ma.
tons military ~strategists of long.
range bomber flights in connection
with defense preparations.
From nearby Patterson field, the
BIC Boeing-like bombers re-
leased recently to England-took
off at 7 p. m. On what army Off
Gals said would be the longest Tor
stop, non-refueling flight attempt
ed by the air corps.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
DEPOSIT INSURANCE
PROVES ITS WORTH
FDIC Report Says Only
116 Depositors Have
Lost Since 1888

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-lR-Leo
T. Crowley said today he planned to
"stay on indefinitely" as chairman
of the Federal Deposit Insurance
corporation, despite his acceptance
a year ago of the board chairman
ship of the Standard Gas and Electric
Co., of Chicago.
Crowley told reporters he had
never done any work In the utility
Job because President Roosevelt kept
putting off accepting his resignation
from the federal corporation. He said
he would remain as head of the
FDIC as long as the President need
ed him. 49,.
In a brief preview of the govern
ment corporations annual report,
which will be made public, later
Crowley said it's $500, 900, 900 capital
and surplus could be liquidated to-
day and the government paid back
its capital investment and the banks
their assessments, with a three per
cent dividend left over on the gov.
ernment's s2ss, 900, 900. investment.
eve have insured individual de
posts up to $1,000 in 14,3o0 CONNER
cial banks with $58, 000, 900, 900 Of de-
posits and 81, 900, 600 .depositors,, he
added.
"Since 1888 only 116 depositors
have suffered any loss and we have
paid off over 1000, 900 depositors in
that time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
Raiding Parties
Are nuading'N Maitland

quickie preview of the mass at
tack British generals have prom
ised to deliver.
I learned from an extremely re-
liable source shortly before leav-
ing England three weeks ago that
tine British up to that time had car
ried off at least nine daring motor
cycle raids into German-occupied
France.
It's one side Of the invasion pic
ture which I believe is not gener-
ally known in the United States. :.
The little trawler pushes softly
through the channel darkness and
Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
St. Helena To Celebrate
Christmas Tuesday, Night
PLAY TO BE STAGED
Russian-P olish Farm Folks
Follow Julian Calendar
An dNative Customs
BY ROD SPARROW

ST. HELENA, Jan. 4. Santa
Claus is coming to town."
Children here are singing that
song tonight and it's not out Of date,
for Santa Claus is coming to this
farming colony Tuesday night.
This Russian-Polish farming col
ony, which worships at st. Peter
and Paul's Russian Orthodox Greek
Catholic church and follows the old
Julian calendar, will have its Christ
mas celebration at that time, re-
plete with a visit from Santa Claus
and a good time for all.
Eighth Celebration
On Tuesday night the people here
will celebrate the eighth annual Old
Christmas festival, only to them it
is simply the Christmas festival.
The celebration will be under the
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
Greeks Also Advancing
On Road To Valona;
Sub Sinks Duce Tanker
FALL NOW CERTAINTY
Surrender Only Course Now
Left Open To Romans,
Cairo Declares
MANY DEAD, WOUNDED
By the Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. A.
Bardia's defenses were report
ed falling fast today under
the mighty shock of every
weapon in the British arsenal
-warships, dive bombers: ar
tillery, tanks, grenades - and
British military headquarters
declared it was all up with
that Italian Libyan port and
base.
While the British attack
went on to subdue the last
ounce of resistance, it was
stated that nearly half Of the
arc of concrete, stone and steel
defending the town already
had been taken, along with a
fourth to a third of the esti-
mated 10000 Fascist troops
beleaguered there for 10 days.
Operations Proceeding ;
cover 5000 prisoners are now in
our hands, said a terse general
headquarters communique tonight.
It reported merely that Operations
are proceeding satisfactorily" The
only hope left to the remaining Ital.
ians, the British said, was to sur
render now. .
Major General Mackay, command.
err of Australia's forces in the Brit.
ish army, was reported officially to
have entered Bardia with his men
and taken the prisoners. The report
was from Australian Army Minister
Percy Spender, who is in Africa.)
But, in some instances, even the
tombs of the African ancients were
reported to be serving as shelters
for the italian defenders.
This second day of the general
assault upon Bardia, a town Is miles
from the Egyptian frontier from
which the invading Fascists had
been driven back in the earlier
phases of the British desert often
sive, was one of immense and Or
dered violence.
From the nearby Mediterranean
British warships heavily bombarded
the smoky town for hours and over
head British bombers kept up inter.
mittent attacks which the Royal Air
force said already had strewn tons
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
Fleets Big
Guns Crush
Batteries
BY LARRY L

WITH THE BRITISH MEDI-
TERRANEAN, FLEET, Jan. 4
-(R-.The British battle fleet,
ending a thunderous, four-hour
bombardment of Bardia during
which Italian mechanical units
disappeared as though swept
from the cliffs by a great
broom, steamed slowly back
out to sea patrol today, appar-
emily assured that the way was
cleared for the fall of that
Fascist base.
Bardia's batteries we're 81
fenced.
The gunboats Terror, Lady
bird and Aphis, which had been
finging shells at Bardia inter-
mittently for six weeks, opened
the pre-dawn shelling, pounding
the Italian bases fully two hours
before the battle feet itself,
joined IN. .
Then, battleships, cruisers
and destroyers, moving close
to the shore in the red light of
the dawning sun, turned their
big guns upon long lines of
Italian tanks, armored 'ca-s
and motor transport moving
slowly over the desert high
ways.
Scores of shells exploded near
the highways. The. Italian bat
teries, which we're between
cliffs, spurted shells, some fall
ing close to the British war
ships.
But that burst of enthusiasm
cost them dearly. A squadron
battleship opened up all her IS
inch guns. l observed a destroy
er protecting the (main) fleet
during the shelling and saw
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
WEATHER

North Carolina: Fair and colder
sunday; increasing cloudiness n con-
tnued cold Monday.
South Carolina: Fair, cold over
aofth and central portions Sunday j;
Monday mostly cloudy and continued
by U. s. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
Snoihg 80 p. m. Yesterday
Temperatures
l'5o a. m. so; 1880 a. m. 40; l:30 p. IN.
W. 90 p. m. 46; maximum 81; mini
Il m ~; mean 4S; normal At.
Humidity
80 a. m. 80; 7:30a. m. SO; l:3O p. m.
%; $50 2. m. ~.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p m.
ofsge. Total since first of the month
WI inches.
Tides For Today
clfrom Tide Tables published by u. ).
1oast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington - 3:09a 10:34a
1882 0:55p
Nasonboro Inlet ------ 2:53a 7:O7a
,ohunrise 7:1Sa: sunset SLIP; monrlse
A-N noon moonset II :04a.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette-
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
KEY POSITIONS TAKEN
Heights Commanding Path
To Albanian Port Are
Occupied By Greeks
GAINS ARE IMPORTANT
BY the Associated Press

ATHENS, Jan. s. (Sun-
d~ay)-Greek mountain troops
fighting off fierce Italian
counter : attacks took more
than 200 additional prisoners
and pushed their lines north
Of strategic Klisura to domi-
mating heights commanding
the valley leading toward
Valona, a Greek government
spokesman announced early
today.
The marine ministry also
revealed that the Greek Sub
marine Katsonis operating on
italian supply lanes in the
upper Adriatic sea, between
Italy and Albania destroyed
an Italian tanker by gunfire
after two torpedoes had miss
ed. The attack occurred Dec.
81.
Not A One
mot a single operation under
taken by the Italians met with the
slightest success" the spokesman
said in telling of the battles in the
Klisura-Tepelen sector where he said
the ~fascists suffered heavy losses.
These counter-attacks had been
prepared for a long time and were
supported by heavy artillery fire."
the spokesman continued.
"They were part of a series which
began two days ago but met the
same fate as the others. The enemy
in fact was repulsed with heavy
losses as it sought refuge in
trenches and mountain shelters.
1--WE pushed our lines northward
and occupied heights more than 5000
feet high"
The high command said 204 Ital-
ians including officers were taken
and many automatic weapons and
other materials fell to the Greeks.
Premier-Genera1 John Metaxas pre-
dicted a Greek victory while his army
commander, Generalissimo Alexan-
der Papagos, urged at field head
quarters in Albania that the United
States hurry delivery of war mate
rails ordered by Greece.
The submarine Katsonis under
Lieut.. Commander Spanides sighted
the Italian tanker of Giovanni Di
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
British Do
Not Explain
How Taken
IS German Infantrymen
Termed First Reaching
England Alive
BREMEN IS SET AFIRE
Third Heavy Raid In AS
Many Nights Reported
By The Raj

LONDON, Jan. 5.-(Sunday)-tP
THE British Broadcasting corpor-
alton early today described IS Ger
mai infantrymen who arrived in
England since the middle of Octo-
her, as the first members of the
great invasion army to reach Eng
land alive"
The text of the broadcast fol-
lows:
Can Now Be Revealed
1T can now be revealed that Is
German infantrymen who have all
arrived in England since the mid
die of October are among the Ger
man prisoners now in English pris-
oners of war camps.
They all landed at ports On the
English southeast coast and were
ii fact the first members of the
great German invasion army to
reach England alive.
st is an interesting fact that
these IS men came from eight diff
ferent units"
The broadcast gave nc indica-
ton where the men we're captured
or the circumstances.
Fire SO fierce and widespread
that finally nothing could be seen
below but "a swirling mass Of
flame was reported tonight by
the British after the Royal A / r
Forces third successive night at
tack on the German seaport OF
Bremen, counted by the British as
tie reich's worst-bombed city.
Factories, dock and railroad
yards, the naval base and ship
building yards, warehouses a d
railroads, they said were blasted
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-OF-
while President Roosevelt worked
TODAY on the message ne Will denver
in person before a joint session o.
congress- Monday, reports circulated
in legislative quarters that a huge
new government corporation might
b, created to handle the protected
lease-lend program of aid to Britain.
Mr.. Roosevelt was said to nave
completed only a rough outline OF
his which some offlclais
believe will call for placing the
nation on a virtual wartime proouc
ton basis.
One official White House caller
unwilling to be quoted by name, ex-
pressed the belief the message Woulo
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
Holly Ridge
Base Layout
Given O.. K.
Approval Means Work May
Now Be Pressed With
~ out Changes
DRAINAGE IS PROBLEM
Portable Offices, Machine
Sheds Being Erected;
Progress Made

The layout for the Wilmington
Anti-Aircraft Firing Center at
Holly Ridge was approved yester-
day by the commander of the
fourth corps area, it was announc-
ed yesterday at the Office of Col.
Albertis Montgomery. constructing
quartermaster..
On the layout there were
changes in the location of only
five buildings from the position
given them on the tentative plan
which has been followed on the
work done so far. Of that five,
two of the buildings had already
been relocated and work will now
proceed without any danger what
soever of any work having to be
undone and redone.
Work Continues
Meanwhile work continued on
many fronts at the camp site.
Due to the urgency to get the
camp completed so at 20, 20 men
may be stationed there, many
things are being done at the same
time, contrary to usual procedure
of getting drainage done first, then
the cutting Of streets, the laying
of water lines and the like.
Drainage work is proceeding al
a rapid pace and as the drainage
becomes operative work at the
camp site will move more rapidly
In draining the camp site work.
men found that a layer of hard.
pan was beneath the surface oil
the soil, making it impossible fol
surface water to sink into t. c
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
Mercy Ship To Sail
For Greece This Month

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. Up
The American Red Cross will dis.
patch a "mercy ship" to Greece
about the middle of this month.
carryine $1,176,00O worth of hospi.
tai supplies for war wounded and
garments and food for refugees.
Chairman Norman Fl. Davis, max
ing the announcement today, said
the cargo would include five COM.
plete field hospitals-each Of ESQ
beds and a mobile operating room.
twenty-five amb1lances and ten
hospital trucks also will go in tho
shipment
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
d. Z. To Read Message,.
To Congress On Monday

"amplify" the Presidents fireside
chat of last Sunday and "be more
concrete" In that address MI. Roose-
welt urged that America be made
the arsenal IF democracy" and de-
clared the security of the United
States was greatly dependent on
the outcome of England's war
against an "unholy alliance"
It is expected to deal also with
such domestic questions as liber-
allied social security benefits, re.
duced spending for relief, and labor
matters.
A White House secretary an.
nounced that the message on the
Continued on Page Three; col. %
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
U. S. IS PRESSING
VESSELS PROGRAM
Plans For 200 Cargo Ships
May Be Ready In Next
Week Or So

WASHINGTON, Jan. A. up -
Construction experts of the Mari
time commission indicated today
that specifications for the 200 "mass
production cargo vessels desired
by President Roosevelt might be
ready within a week.
Meanwhile surveys, were being
made to determine sites for addi-
tional shipbuilding facilities neces-
sary for the program which the
President estimated would cost from
$500, 600, 900 to $3.50, 000, 900.
In announcing the program yes
terday the President said some of
the 20 ships - with as much pre-
/Contip11od m pa 90 Three. Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
BULGARIA TENSION
MOUNTING RAPIDLY
Little Nation Takes Steps
To Prepare For Future;
No Hint Given

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Jan. 4.'R-It
was learned authoritatively tonight
that Bulgaria has taken certain
military precautions" to prepare for
ber uncertain future in face Of the
growing German army in the Bal
kans and increasing German-sovlet
Russian rivalry within the country
itself.
Just what these precautions WERE
and whether they were taken Ior of
I Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
IRELAND BLAMES
RAIDS ON NAZIS
Berlin Replies That Bombs
Were Either British
Or Imaginary
By The Associated Press

DUBLIN, Jan. A. Neutral Ire
land laid new charges of bombing
and the dropping of magnetic mines
directly at the door Of Germany
today, and a newspaper close to the
government declared sit is hardly
conceivable" that the weeks series
of bombings was accidental.
Tonight minated air raid war
lens appeared in Dublin's streets
and demolition squads were Under
standby orders. But Dubliners oe'
chned to leave the comfort Of then
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
Sen. GLASS, g.,
BACKS ROOSEVELT
Virginian Goes Further On
Defense, Urges Navy Be
Sent Against Nazis

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. -CR)-
Senator Carter Glass {D-Va) cele'
brated his 83rd birthday today by
asserting that the United States
Navy should be sent "over to blast
hell out of Germany"
The Virginian, who frequently
c~astigated some of the New Deal'
moves of this administration, made
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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
GERMAN DECAPITATED

BERLIN, Jan. 4.-R-Georg Her
zog, Sc, of S%trassbourg, was be-
headed today iafter conviction of
spying for military secrets. of the
Reich. He was the first to be de-
capitated in 194l for treason, There
were 40 espionage beheadings last
year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05

Editors note: This striking
exposition Of British moves to-
ward invading the continent
was written without the re-
strictions of censorship by
william McGaffin, Nebraska
born Associated Press staff
man who has just arrived from
England, where he went
through the British bombing
raids after covering the Nazi
blitzkrieg in France.
BY WILLIAM McGAFFIN
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-R-Britair
has already begun to invade thu
the Germans ;
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05
COLD WAVE HITS
WIDE U. S. AREA
Northwestern Chill Drives
- Into East And South;
go Storms And Snow

Fair and colder was the anticlpa-
ton for today's weather as seen by
the weather bureau last night.
The bureau predicted that shortly
before dawn the Thermometer Woulo
sink to about 80 degrees, which
would be six degrees lower than the
minimum temperature recorded here
yesterday.
The maximum yesterday was 81
and the minimum 80, giving a mean
of 4S in comparison with a norma
mean of At.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-05

(By The Associated Press
The new years first onset OF colo
weather, borne from the northwest
ern part of the continent, penetrated
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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1941-01-23
War or No-Briton Must
Have His Daily Sea Dip

FOLKESTONE, ENGLAND. - A
67-year-old grocer. who has bathed
In the sea every morning for nearly
Is years, has been granted special
permit by military authorities so
that he can still take his daily dip
at Folkestone, Kent.
The bather, Henry J. Bull, has
made more than 1900 successive
dips before breakfast, and it was a
great blow to him when the Folke-
stone beach came within a defense
area and bathing was banned.
For a time, Bull cycled several
miles from Folkestone every morn
ing to have a dip at another point.
Then he and a Folkestone coun-
cilor, who also takes his daily dip,
put their heads together and decid-
ed to approach the military au-
thorities.
Authorities yielded and agreed to
grant the necessary permit.