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yOLjr^0' 258- ____WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1940 ~ * + ESTABLISHED 1867
FRENCH FLEET UNITS FLEE TO NORTH AFRICAN
PORTS TO CONTINUE FIGHT AGAINST GERMANY
. r- _A_ a i * ---—
NAZIS CONTINUE AIR RAIDS;
GERMAN RADIO SAYS BRITISH
WANT TO TALK WITH ENEMIES
INTERMEDIARY HINTED
Destruction Of British Em
pire Predicted Anew By
The German Press
HITLER VISITS PARIS
GERMAHY
BERLIN, June 26.—(•S’)—The Ger
man short wave news commenta
tor in a program directed to the
western hemisphere tonight as
serted England is making discreet
efforts to get in communication
with the axis powers.
An authorized spokesman would
make no comment or discuss the
radio's source of information.
The spokesman observed, how
ever, that someone may have de
tected something "between. the
lines’’ in newspaper articles con
cerning recent British policy.
The radio announcer said: "In
spite of the proverbial optimism of
Mr. Churchill and his colleagues,
the British are making well-cam
auflaged attempts to get in touch
with" u-st axin'vowel's.
"It also is understood that royal
houses related to the British crown
will be the first choice if it comes
to seeking an intermediary.”
’DESTRUCTION FORECAST
BERLIN, June 26.—Cl')—Destruc
tion of the Briitsh empire was
predicted anew tonight by the Ger
man press but first, said DNB,
pfficial news agency, will come a
‘thousand-fold" counter-blow for
lightly British air raids on Ger
many.
The agency acknowledged that
:he British on the night of June
!0 alone dropped 371 bombs on
3erman soil, killing 16 persons and
vounding 41, but contended that
3ritish bomb-sighting reflected
'general nervousness in Britain.”
The counter-blow on England,
;aid DNB, ‘‘will bring thousand
old terrors compared to which the
lightly attacks directed by the ■
3ritish air leadership will pale.”
Hitler Visits Paris
While Germany gathered strength
'or the effort at a final smash
igainst the British it was dis
continued on Page Five; Col. 5)
JAPANESEPLANES
BOMB CHUNGKING
Casualties Estimated At
Less Than 200; All Amer
icans Reported Safe
CHUNKING, China, June 27 '
-(Thursday) —(tf)— One hundred .
nd fifty six Japanese warplanes
or ' ' ’ Chungk; -.g yesterday i n
he sixteent1- recent raid. There
- widespread damage, but all
imericans here are believed safe. ,
Casualtie were estimated at ]
iss than 200. ,
It was the largest number of j
lanes ever to attack this war- j
ime capital. The raiders came in
iree waves.
Several Americans were jarred !
ihen the dugouts in which they '
ad taken refug i were h directly, j
(Continued on Page Five, Col. 3) i
French Balk Aid To Nazis
“Many such guns were captured in France,” said the German
censor in the caption accompanying this, photo. French gun crews
made snre.the victorious Nazis would never be able to use the cannons.
The broken gun takes the place of the broken sword as the symbol
of defeat.
HongkongT akesDef ense
Steps In Indo-China Row
BRIDGES ARE BLASTED
British Colony Watches
Japs Tighten Net Around
Vital French Colony
HONGKONG, June 26 — (S’) —
Border bridges were dynamited, and
?ven girls were told to be ready to
‘consider themselves soldiers" as
his British crown colony watched
rapan tighten its net around French
hido-China today.
The bridges destroyed were those
spanning the Sumchum river, a
:>art of the Chinese frontier of
Tongkong’s mainland.
The warning to British women in
he colony was uttered by an army
ifficial in the formation of a
vomen’s auxiliary transport service.
“Precautionary”
These and other defense meas
tres, however, were described as
‘purely precautionary.” An official
[Continued on Page Five; Col. 6)
r.
Japs Will Try To Show
Their Stand To Hitler
TOKYO, June 27—(Thursday)
—UP)—Japan's position regard
ing oriental holdings of France,
Great Britain and the Nether
lands will be brought to the per
sonal attention of Adolf Hitler
if possible, official source said
today.
The roving envoy, Naotake
Sato, who represented Japan in
concluding an economic agree
ment between Italy and Man
chuokuo and Japan, has been
given tile job of explaining
Japan's attitude.
It is understood that lie al
ready has taken the opportunity,
while discussing economic mat
ters with Premier Mussolini of
Italy to reach a "complete un
derstanding’’ on political ques
tions created by developments in
the European war.
Channel Project Hearing
To Be Conducted Todav
Arrest Of Daladier At
Casablanca Is Reported
GILBRALTAR, June 26—UR—An
unconfirmed report from Casa
blanca, French Morocco, today
said the arrest of Edouard Dalad
ier, former Premier of France,
had been ordered.
The report said Daiaaier had
arrived in Casablanca to confer
with General Nogues French high
commissioner of Morocco, but the
latter had ordered his arrest “im
mediately.”
SLATED IN COURTROOM
Interested Parties Invited
To Give Views On Work
At Wrightsville
A public hearing on the proposed
project for a channel extending from
the inland waterway to Banks chan
nel at Wrightsville Beach and thence
by way of Masonboro Inlet to the
ocean will be held at 11 o’clock this
morning in the federal courtroom
at the customhouse.
All interested parties, particularly
navigation interests, are invited to
present their views on exact im
provements desired, advisability of
project, commerce to be affected,
savings in transportation costs, and
interests to be benefitted.
The Wilmington district army en
gineer desires to secure information
at the hearing as to what extent lo
:al interests will cooperate in bear
ing the expense of the proposed im
provement and as to the difficulties
experienced in navigating the pre
sent channels and waterways.
The hearing will be held to de
termine if it is advisable to provide
such a channel in accordance with a
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 3)
SCOTLAND IS BOMBED
French Warships, Planes
Reported To Have Gone
To Casablanca Harbor
BRITISH STAGE RAID
| BRITAIN
LONDON, June 27-(Thursday)r
l/P)— Britons were cheered today
by reports from Gibraltar that po
werful units of the French fleet—
perhaps the greater part of it—
have steamed to North African
ports for a “fight to the finish’’
despite the Petain government’s
armistice.
They received the news as they
fought off another of the German
pre-dawn raids fast becoming a
nightly circumstance of British
life. The raids, from southeastern
England to northern Scotland,
were the sixth in nine days. Bombs
were dropped in northeastern Scot
land.
From Gibraltar it was reliably
reported that French warships and
fighting planes of the west Medi
terranean command left the strait
to a rendezvous in Casablanca har
bor, on the Atlantic coast of
French Morocco.
“We’ll Fight It Out”
There General Auguste Noguc-s,
French North African commander,
has declared: “We’ll fight it out”
despite the Bordeaux governments
surrender.
Commanders of the French war
ships were reported to have as
sured General Nogues they would
back up his pledge to fight.
(It was believed by observers
that the greater part of the French
fleet has been stationed in th
western Mediterranean, nar Gi
braltar.)
Spanish sourcs from Algeciras,
near Gibraltar, confirmed that the
French fleet had left Gibraltar for
Casablanca and Algiers, in French
North Africa.
At Gibraltar unconfirmed reports
also were heard that General No
gueu had ordered immediate ar
rest of Edouard Daladier, former
Premier of France, who went to
Casablanca to confur with the gen
eral.
(Daladier was replaced by Paul
Reynaud as premier and later was
replaced also as defense minister.)
Official circles in London heard
that Charles Corbin, French am
bassador in London, had sent his
resignation to the Petain govern
ment.
The new air raid found England
ready for the German planes.
—Anti-aircraft jjuns went into ac
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 1)
NAZIS SEEK DEALS
IN SOUTH AMERICA
Aim Of Agents Is To Cut
Nations From Close Co
operation With U. S.
BUENOS AIRES, June 26—UP»—
Nazi agents already are trying to
negotiate gigantic barter deals in
the rich South American field, par
ticularly in Argentina, a well-in
formed source said today.
Their aim, this source said, is
to strengthen Germany further by
cutting off Argentina and Uruguay
and other South American nations
Erom close economic and military
cooperation' with the United
States.
They are reported seeking mil
lions of pesos worth of Argentine
foods and raw products, payment
Eor which would be made through
Herman electrification of railways
and the construction of hydro-elec
tric plants to offset dimishing coal
and and oil supplies.
The German agents are suppos
ed to have gone so far, even, as to
inquire into availability of ship
ping space to move their purchases
to Germany.
(Such German proffers presup
pose the eventual absence of Brit
(Continued on Page Five; CoL 4.
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G. O. P. Starts Ff&linations
- *-- _ ____
Willkie Opens
Hitter Battle
Against Field
Dewey, Taft And Gannett
Also Presented At Phil
delphia Convention
PLATFORM IS OKEHED
Mighty Demonstration
Staged After Willkie’s
Name Is Presented
__
BY RICHARD L. TURNER
CONVENTION HALL, PHILA
DELPHIA, June 26 —(#)— The
lane of Wendell Willkie, dark
tee turned serious contender,
us placed before the republican
istional convention tonight to an
iccompanying bedlam of applause
ad boos which indicated the re
jcMican presidential contest was
Willkie against the field.
Turning to nominations after ap
ping a platform which empha
sal peace, preparedness and
ratified assistance to PPpeoples
fghting for liberty,” the conven
es’ received the names of Thomas
i. Dewey, Frank E. Gannett, Sen
sor Robert A. Taft and Willkie.
Win Ovations
Each in his turn won an ovation
ad a demonstration, brief for
Garnett, prolonged in all other
uses. Taftites, and Deweyites,
i’onged the aisles, shuffling along
saving banners, shouting, blowing
aistles and blowing horns ,and
tiring campaign-motto placards,
tilh ail the hullabaloo customary
i national political conventions.
But all the tension, and all the
feemess which has associated it
self with the campaign to nominate
ir defeat Willkie came bubbling
E when young Charles Halleck,
nmber of the house of repre
sentatives from Indiana, delivered
fe nomination speech.
After nearly every sentence of
Eaileck’s speech the shouting
started, and also boos. The booers
ppeared outnumbered, but they
made a contest of it throughout.
And the end there was no im
lediate organized demonstration
tscause, according to Willkie head
IContinued on Page Two; Col. !)
120,000 BUILDING
IS PLANNED HERE
till Be Erected On Front
Street By 0. 0. Whitlock
And L. C. Robertson
•1 new two-story brick building, to
approximately $20,000 and to
■*tain two new stores, will be con
Rnicted at 22-24 North Front street
Mediately, it was announced last
%ht by O. O. Whitlock and L. C.
teertson, joint owners.
The new stories building will rise
15 the site formerly occupied by the
"'Imington Lunch Co., and Edwin
' Farrelly’s house furnishings store.
The old building, which was found
he in unsafe condition when the
(Continued on Page Two; Col- D
weatherH
V FORECAST ,
.-'Wh Carolina, South Carolina and
Partly cloudy and mild Thurs
• end Friday.
Jj'Meoroiogical (lata for the 24 hours
”2 T:';o p. m. yesterday).
,Temperature
„ >■ m. 63; 7;30 a. m. 67; 1:30 p.
7:30 p. m. SO; maximum 85;
t'nna 61; mean 73: normal 78.
* Humidity
>, j;1 »• ai. 95; 7:30 a. m. 88; 1:30 p.
' < :3(J p. m. 47.
t., . , Precipitation
f°r 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m„
•Kinti,”• trita' since first of the
• o.Ou inches.
Tides For Today
tVilmir,,, High Low
,n?ton - 2:57a 10:22a
fasonh, . 3:38p M:53p
Ulr,ro Inlet_12:42a 7:04a
Wk r l:16p 7:27p
is,. se -<:02a; sunset 7:27p; moon
—; moonset 12:16p.
(Continued on Page Ten; Col. 3)
y.y
Happy Reunion After Conspiracy Trial
Happy smiles light the faces of Jtohn F. Cassidy and his sister.
Dorpthy, reunited after he was aeauitted of sedition cher^**, !" Pi"*P1r
lyn federal court. Of 14 defendant's in the 11-weeh trial, nine were
acquitted. Mistrials were declared In the other fire cases when jury
failed to agree after over 47 hours deliberation.
12 Slot Machines Seized
In Series Of Raids Here
-— ★_
EIGHT MEN ARRESTED
Fight Over Winnings Re
sults In Confiscation
Order By Judge Lennon
A fight Tuesday between Buster
Parker and Mike Patelos, white men,
in an establishment at Seventh and
Castle streets, led to raids yesterday
afternoon in wlaeh city police seized
12 slot machines and charged eight
persons with possessing gambling
devices. *'
The two men, tried before Judge
Alton A. Lennon in recorder’s court
yesterday morning, told him they
started the fight over the winnings
from one of the machines.
Seizures Ordered
He immediately ordered that the
police confiscate every gambling ma
(Continued on Page Two; Col. i,)
Nazi-Held Dutch Naval
Base Raided By British
BERLIN, June 26—(/P) Two
hundred bombs fell in Helder, a
Dutch naval base now in Ger
man hands, on the night of June
24, DNB official German news
agency, said tonight.
The agency gave the Dutch
newspaper Telegraff as its au
thorcty, and said most of the
bombs fell on non-military ob
jectives.
Numerous fires broke out, and
many houses were destroyed. It
was declared that 36 dead and
22 wounded civilians had been
counted thus far.
NURSERYMEN
HICKORY — The summer meet
ing of the North Carolina Associa
tion of nurserymen will be held
here Wednesday. 2
G. O. P. Platform Accuses
New Deal Of War Moves
SLOGAN IS ADOPTED
Expresses Opposition To
Third Term; Calls For
Revision Of Wagner Act
PHILADELPHIA, June . 26—W—
The republican national convention
gave thundering assent tonight to
a platform accusing the New Deal
of attempts to “ease” this country
into war, and nominating the re
publicans as the party of Ameri
canism, preparedness and • peace.
Emblazoing a campaign slogan
_“The New Deal administration
has .failed American"—the republi
can document charged the Roose
velt administration with the full
responsibility for our unprepared
ness and for the consequent dan
ger of our involvement in war.
Assails New Deal
It asserted . that the New Deal
had attempted “to send congress
home during the world’s most tra
gic hour, so that we might be
eased into war by word or deed
during the absence of our elected
representatives in Washington.”
Strongly opposing a third trm,
the platform asserted that “to in
sure against the overthrow of our
(Continued on Page Two; • Col. 5)
N. C. Press Association
Opens Meeting Today
HENDERSONVILLE, June 26.—
UP)—Members of the North Carolina
Ctiy Editors association arrived here
tonight for their annual convention
which will be preliminary to the an
nual convention of the North Caro
lina Press association which will
convene' tomorrow evening.
An infromal meeting of the city
editors was, Jield in the convention
hotel' tonight. A business session
is set for tomorrow morning.
RumanianAnd
Soviet Planes
Stage Battle
Rumanian Airlines Sti
pends All Commercial
Service Into Bessarabia
PLANE IS SHOT DOWN
Officials Refuse To Con
firm Or Deny Reports Of
Infantry Skirmishes
BUCHAREST, June 27-(Thurs
day) —MP)— The Rumanian air
lines suspended all commercial
service from the capital to Cer
nauti, Jassy, Cetatia-Alba and
other Bessarabian cities today fol
lowing a report of a clash between
a Rumanian and a Russian plane
which invaded the border.
Reports from Cernauti said four
Russian machines were fired on
near there. One was shot down and
others were said to have dropped
bombs in a nearby village.
Meanwhile, Soviet Minister Lav
rentieff, recently appointed to the
post Bulgaria in a move in
terpreted as one to strengthen re
lations between Bucharest and
Moscow, still had not been receiv
ed officially.
Dates Postponed
He had asked for an immediate
audience, but two tentative dates
had been postponed.
The reported clash between Rus
sian and Rumanian planes follow
ed a report in Bucharest last Mon
day that 100 Russian planes scout
ed the Bessarabian province and
that several clashes between
groups of soldiers had taken place
across the Dniester river, dividing
line between Rumania and Soviet
Russia.
Rumanian officials refused to
confirm or deny the reports of the
infantry skirmishes.
(Soviet Russian officials also
have refused to confirm or deny ;
them.)
Bessarabia, Rumania’s eastern
province, formerly was ruled by
the Tsar in Moscow, but broke off
and joined Rumania after the
World War.
That something may have gone
wrong with King Carol’s formation
of a new totalitarian party to swing
Rumania more into line with the
Axis powers was seen in the an
nnouncement by Jon Milhailache,
close friend of Juliuhmaniu, the
leader of the national peasants’
party, that he was quitting his
new post of Royal Councilor and
retiring to private life. There was (
no public explanation of his de
cision, however.
The winning of Mikhailache was
regarded as a great success at
the time for the policy of internal
unity. 4
U. S. Gunboat To Leave
Friday For Guayaquil |
PANAMA, C. Z„ June 26—UP)— >
The gunboat Erie will leave Friday 1
for Guayaquil, Ecuador, on the
latest "good will” trip to South 1
Amerean waters Ky United States
warships. |
The announcement said Rear *
Admiral John W. Wilcox, Jr., com
mander of .the special.service squad
ron to which the ship is attache*, j.
would be aboard for a visit with
government officials at Quito.
U. S. BEGINS BARGAINING WITH DUTCH,
BRITISH FOR BIG SUPPLIES OF RUBBER
WASHINGTON, June 26-W*)
Tbe United States began bar
gaining with British and Dutch
interests for. huge quantities of
rubber from the Orient for de
fense purposes today and si
multaneously sent more pur
chasing power and another
man-o’-war to South America.
Shortly _ after President
Roosevelt had signed a b i 11
authorising the Reconstruction
Finance corporation to finance
the acquisition of strategic war
materials, Jesse H. Jones an
nounced that he was negotiat
ing with the international rub
ber regulating committee,
which controls virtually all
rubber production and sale
throughout the world.
The increased purchasing po
wer provided South America
was in the form of a $20,000,
000 loan by the Export-Import
bank to the government and
Central bank of Argentina.
This sum was made available
to finance the purchase of in
dustrial, construction and
transportation materials and
equipment in the United States.
Jones, the federal lending ad
ministrator, told reporters he
"supposed Argentina asked the
loan because the war disloca
ted some of Argentina’s nor
mal European sources of sup
ply.”
Granting of the loan, next
to the largest ever made by
the bank to a South American
country, was announced as'
press dispatches reported that
Nasi agents were trying to ar
range huge barter deals in Ar
gentina and Uruguay.
A fourth United States war
ship was dispatched to South
America, meantime, on what
was officially announced as a
“friendly visit”.
Lewis Compton, acting sec
retary of the navy, announced
that the 10,000-ton light cruiser
Phoenix had been ordered to
proceed from its station in the
Pacific to Valparaiso, Chile,
(Continued on Page Ten; CoL 3)

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