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Gastonia Daily Gazette (Newspaper) - September 18, 1940, Gastonia, North Carolina Partly Cloudy tonight arid thursday not much change in temperature. Gastonia daily Gazette Quot but perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some . A pc Gaston county the Fine combed Cotton yarn Center of vol. Lxi. No. 225. Member audit Bureau of circulation Nea service Gastonia n. C., wednesday afternoon sept. 18, 1940. Associated Presa leased wire single copies so our country american Way of life Means everything a Gladys Hasty Carroll a one of 24 article on Quot our Colin try. Written exclusively for Nea service and the casette by the nation s most famous authors nazis Stace 8 Daylight attacks after a a night of hell in London a by Gladys Hasty Carrolls author of Quot a few foolish one a end Quot a the Earth i have been asked to say in n few word. Giat the american Way of life Means to me which i think it Means to All of a who live it. This is the thing above All others which i wish i could do. I would far rather feel. Next year that i had done this and done it Well today than to know that i had written the greatest novel Ever published. But can i do it i have been writing steadily on this very subject for More than to years now millions of words and scarcely be. Gun to say what i Gladys Hasty sepia Carroll please. God help me to do till with the first declaration of our Independence our forefathers began making a bowl. They had never made one before. They had nothing to make it of but the Brown Earth of America and the Blue sky above nothing to make it by but the fires the had kindled with Flint and in they were through forever with unpractical unbecoming English China. 80 they Knelt together mixed shaped patted baked and produced a bowl of their own to was not perfect. It May not even have been Beautiful but it seemed so to them. It stood up sturdily on its Pale Brown base and when they looked Over its Blue rim. Down into the deepest part. Hie very heart of it. They saw Brave Bright colors in stripes and a selfish deathless Shine of stars which stood not Only for what America was but for what she was going to be. We still have this same bowl we have altered it constantly in shape and size sometimes As much As we Felt it needed sometimes Only As much As we were Able. It is still not perfect. There Are those now Quick to Tell its that it is still not Beautiful it has never yet held All the Good things we should like to find in it Remet in of our fish chowder baked Beans Corn meal Mush the greedy at the table have taken a Glutton share. Put gluttons come naturally by their punishment. Tile important part is that the bowl la in irs. That All which has gone into it is ours that nothing has Ever made a change in it except our own hands your hand and my hands directed by our own heart a your heart and my heart. A and not Only americans but the whole world now sees to it. More clearly than Ever. That Brave Bright shining Symbol of what America is and what she May become. Now rises the question How much a concluded on Page 5 commissioners endorse civil Pilot training by vote of its members in a special called meeting today Gaston county a Board of county commissioners became a sponsoring Agency for a local civilian Pilot training program for which it is anticipated Gastonia a Jaycee Airport on Wilkinson Boulevard just below Gaston country club will be utilized. In their Brief special meeting this morning the Gaston commissioners meeting a Federal regulation which requires a local sponsoring Agency passed a Resolution making themselves local a pop sponsors endorsing the Jaycee Airport for a pop use and endorsing Harold Lundquist operator of the Airport As a local Choice for instructor. Pilot Lund ult recently returned a a a from Burlington where he trained All out totalitarian attack predicted if nazis win the War today by of Witt my Rafn of Herr Hitler had t been deprived of his re Asci at invasion of England this sear by Hie Gale which turned the bad tempered Channel into a rolling pitching Harbinger of the permanent had weather to come Blit i delay in striking certainly has mane Vered him into a dangerous position yesterday i expressed tile View that this was t the autumnal break which marked the end of Good weather irs Many briton eagerly hoped but that More Fine Days could he expected and that the fuehrer would attempt invasion of he saw an opening loiter British Premier Churchill emphasized a similar belief in addressing his House of commons. Vee however while the nazi chief probably will get further smiling skies. His vital problem that the fall weather is at hand will be to find enough of them to give him time to push one of the greatest military operations of history to a successful conclusion. Its like this supposing for the Sake of argument that Hitler has been Able in the face of violent resistance to land a big army on English soil and establish Bridge Heads for the clearance of supplies from the continent. That s Only a Start you can to lust on Ludd on Page 5 a. A squad of Youthful aviators under the a pop program. A civilian project not to be confused with military flying operations the a pop is not military in any sense except that it builds up trained manpower Reserve which could be called upon later in the event circumstances demanded. A pop course for which it is hoped the Gastonia Airport will be utilised is the one being offered by Belmont Abbey College. Young men from 19 to 25 with two years College credit Are eligible. Application Blanks have been placed in the hands of postmaster c. W. Bonhamer by chairman Frank Mckee of the Gastonia Junior chamber of Commerce aviation committee which aided in development of the Lundquist Airport Tad Blanks Are also available at Belmont Abbey College. Classroom instruction is to be Given in night classes at Belmont Abbey while actual flying instruction of present Pisa Are completed. Will be Given at the Wilkinson Boulevard Airport. A pop students pay a $26 fee to cover Cost of textbooks insurance and physical Examina Uon and this is the Only Cost of Hie course the Federal government bearing the remainder of the expense. A pop training does not obligate students for military service though some those from 21 to 35, fall in the peacetime draft age group anyway. After Romp Leung initial a pop training students Are eligible to take More advanced courses which make them candidates to become regular licensed commercial pilots. $500,000 Cork fire curbed in Baltimore Baltimore. Sept 18.-<a�>�? weary wet. And red eyed from acrid smoke firemen poured Toa of water today onto piles of flaming Cork remnants of the Crown Cork and Seal company s $500 000 year s Supply which roared ablaze yesterday to give Baltimore its Moat spectacular fire in years. More than 400 firemen and Moat of the City s available apparatus fought a 15-alarm conflagration in the company s storage Plant nine acres of raw Cork. Haled in piles 30 feet High not until Early today did fire department officials announce the fire was under control even then the East Baltimore sky was still reddened by flames groups of firemen circled the area playing water on the fringes and waiting for the Center a it Burn itself out Glasgow sept 1$ a i a the death of Edward h Anstock. 81. British circus Man. Was announced today. Conscription machine oiled Throe Steps necessary re fore actual registration of All men 21-35 on october 16. Fate of Asia Africa and Many important islands rests on Success or failure of Hitler s attempt to invade England if it comes. Map highlights actions expert expect to hit All the Way from Gibraltar to Singapore of the germans make Good their invasion threat. In Washington. Sept 18up�? action to Clear the Way for operation of the nationwide conscript on program commanded first attention today As president Roosevelt returned to the capital and Congress made ready to resume session. Before the United states can launch the great peacetime undertaking which begins a Lith the registration of 16.500.000 men on Ort 16. Three essential preliminaries required disposition 1. President Roosevelt must promulgate the regulations governing the of the draft machinery. Enrolment classification and selection of trainees their induction into service and Kindred matters. 2. The director of the selective service system must be appointed by or. Roosevelt and confirmed by the Senate As provided in the conscript Uon Law. 3. Congress must take Acton on the pending $2,000,000,000 special defense appropriation request which is to defray expenses of registration and conscription. President Roosevelt a expected to order into effect possibly tomorrow. The first two of six volumes of regulations already prepared to Rover All phases of the draft program these first two sections define the nature and admin Strauven procedure of the National and state organizations which will handle the Ort. 16 registration and also set Forth the rules for enrolment. Or. Roosevelt who has been absent. Attending the funeral of the late speaker Bankhead in Alabama likewise w As expected to announce his Choice in a few Days for the position of draft director. The House of representatives in recce for three Daya because of the death of speaker Bankhead already a the conscript on financing appropriation on committee Calendar and committee consideration will Start tomorrow Washington most talked of possibility for the draft director Post is Lieut col Lewis b Hershey who has been virtually a Quot career Many in conscription he is the executive officer of the joint army and Navy selective service committee which a been engaged for 14 years on draft plans preparations and training casualties May be major Battle near in Egypt italian invaders gain new ground reach head of Road leading to Suez canal. Rome sept. 18.�?�?italian dispatches said today libyan soldiers performed the seemingly impossible feat of marching 60 Miles in a desert sandstorm to Surprise a British Garrison at Bidi bar Rani Egypt and capture that strongly defended second line of defense Cairo. Sept 18�?�?italian invaders storming along the Mediterranean coastline of Egypt s Western desert moved cloner today toward an impending major Battle with British defenders on the vital Roadway to Alexandria. Where the British would make a stand remained a military secret. British operations thus far. It was said have been designed to harass rather than halt the two motorized italian columns leading the eastward drive despite sandstorms and temperatures ranging up to 120, the italians in four Days have advanced from the libyan Border to positions beyond 8idi bar Rani 60 Miles inside Egypt reaching the Start of an 1 one i u to ext on Page is germans London report blocks entire levelled Berlin acpt 18 a up the German High command reported today geared up attacks in Hie Battle of London which nazi airmen said had wiped out entire blocks in some Eastern districts British say nazi losses 4,000 men and 1,867 planes claim English losses since August 8 total Only 821 planes and fewer than boo men. London. Be of 18 a the British air Forre has lost 621 planes of All kinds and fewer than 600 men since aug 8 sir Archibald Sinclair air minister said today while in the same period the germans have lost 1.867 planes and 4,000 men British fliers in the near East have shot Down 58 italian planes with a loss of 15 to themselves the minister added the minister said that the decrease in German plane production As a result of British bombings had been placed As High As 30 per cent and that loss of sleep affected the morale of German worker. He said while nazi planes bombed London and Victoria docks water and Gas works railway stations and \ Croydon Ai drome among War essential objectives Quot the Bow railway station and the Thursten Road Junction were bomb-1 of the British capital j de last night and a number of Brit f,,fir i in it Lirou or Quot do St Rojad it Wllbur .nd1 omm mod it a a get at Ark. H. La. Rav a. Daylight reconnaissance showed a Man radio it the British were said to have lost nine planes yesterday against the germans four. A new extensive fires resulted said the daily military communique. Airports and War essential of Jec uves were bombed on the Southeast coast and Quot Liverpool a at j a beating the enemy because our tacked repeatedly Day and night Quot a machines Are much better and our concluded on Page 8 a a a i men Are much yawning smoking Crater which was believed to be the result of a tremendous direct hit on an underground railway according to dub official news Agency. London uses underground railway stations for bomb shelters i tile High command announced an All Caliper bombardment within the part 24 hours of Day and night action of the West India Story attacks by the Raf would be a Quot betrayal of our responsibility for the defense of London and this country because it would divert Britain a filers from military objective Germany he conceded is Superior in number of machines and in the Shorter distances her men must Fly but Britain is confident of a by w. T. Yarbrought London. Sept. a Quot it in feared that casual Hee May be heaver than in recent nights Quot said the Calm prosaic official communique. Not so Calm. I saw Rescue workers bring the still forms of a baby and five women from the basement of a flaming bomb shattered Home in northeastern London on just one ambulance ride to gather up the dead and injured from this Moonlight raid. Then i watched a woman ambulance Driver pump faint signs of life into two of the woman victims while bombs still thundered around us and anti aircraft guns boomed in answer. Several hours earlier As we waited at an ambulance station for the nights first Call a bomb demolished an open air school building just too Yards away. A Telephone Call of a Street address sent an ambulance to a three Story building already in flames. One ambulance which reached the scene first was just leaving Quot two badly Hurt Quot a policeman said. Quot one of those Oil bombs Quot two men with a pick and Spade dug Franu Cally at the foundation hacking through solid Concrete a there n five Down there Quot one of the workers said. Then somewhere below a Many a voice said Over and Over a eau dead All dead Quot the Man came up the basement Steps holding the body of a baby about six months old. Tile child a plump legs dangled limply. Other men in Blue uniforms were coming up from the basement one of them said Quot six altogether not five theres five adults and one child Quot one by one five women were brought up and stretched on blankets some bystanders turned away. The woman ambulance Driver and a fireman worked Over the victims trying artificial respiration. When doctors arrived they found the baby and two women dead but detected life in the others and sent them away in the ambulance. The woman Driver told us a that a one bomb we be had worse we be had absolute in the Grey Dawn we had Tea and waited for an All Clear signal. As it sounded swelling to a Din. The woman Driver said simply a theres always Hope with the Renfrow gets $200 Fine or six months Greensboro. Sept l8.-up>-Wade Renfrow High Point political Leader and 13 co defendants were convicted in municipal county court Here today on charges of conspiracy to operate a lottery judge e. Earl Rives who heard the Case without a jury sentenced Renfrow to six months on the roads. To be suspended upon payment of a Fine of $200 and costs and upon condition of no further violation for three years. South is after War industries Southern governors want War industries located without regard for a political subdivisions a 13,000 British casualties Are listed t o Date by the associated press great Waves of German warplanes�?300 in a single thrust subjected London to the longest series of Daylight attacks of the War today with air raid sirens screaming the eighth alarm at 7 54 p. In. 1 54 p. Rn., e. S. Tas antiaircraft guns went into action. The Boid assaults following the longest overnight alarm in the 3-months-old Battle of Britain kept the Raf almost constantly engaged in spectacular sky Battles from London itself to the English Channel at Dover. Tight British censorship apparently clamped Down on details of bulletins new Haven. Conn. Sept. 18 a up a Paul l. Cornell who became a preparatory school owner after gaining financial Independence in the advertising Field was chosen today by Connecticut Republican As their candidate for the United state Senate. New York sept. 18.�?<ai�?a few hour after conceding that he had been Given a a she lacking Quot in yesterday s congressional primaries Joseph Mcwilliams Yorkville Sun semite a committed to Bellevue Hospital today for psychiatric observation. He sought the Republican nomination for Congress but when the return were counted last night they showed Mcwilliams 672. Lock temperature Low Lait night. Is High today. % Low 57 High. It Sepior mfr rainfall to Date i quota for september 29 inches Larking quota Zug i Rhea Dauphin Island. Ala., 8ept. 18�? 4b�?Southern governors asserting the South As Well As other sections had been deprived of a certain developments a have reiterated their requests that site for War industries be chosen a without regard to political subdivision or Community closing a two Day session yesterday. The Southern governors conference declared that the wishes of both president Roosevelt and the National defense Council to establish vital War plants in secure and defensible Sites throughout the nation Quot Are being hindered and impeded a a the governors said in a Resolution that Quot the Long Range Benefit to the whole nation for both present and Post emergency benefits Are being pushed into the the governors and about 70 representatives of the la states covered by the conference met in sessions aboard ships off this Island at the invitation of governor Frank m Dixon of Alabama. They elected Dixon As chairman to succeed governor e d Rivers of Georgia and named governor Prentice Cooper of Tennessee is vice chairman. Will inaugurate new n. Air route speedily Norfolk terminal makes new East West airline vital in defense program. Pittsburgh sept 18 opt speedy inauguration of regular air service Over a 500-mile route Between Norfolk a and Knoxville tenn., is planned by Pennsylvania Central airlines shortly after the civil aeronautics Board authorized the route the company announced it would Quot spare no time or Effort Quot in establishing the service which it said Quot is certain to provide a vital link a in the nation s airline network Washington sept 18-�?� an North Carolina s first East West air line a route Between Norfolk va., and Knoxville. Tenn. Via Rocky mount Raleigh. Greensboro and Asheville n c a has been authorized by the civil aeronautic Board the Board in a decision late yesterday. Said it was prompted in issuing Pennsylvania Central airlines a certificate for the route by the importance of naval and military operations in the Norfolk area As a a a a concluded on Page 3 a Philadelphia. Sept 18.�?up a one reel of the motion picture Quot the ramparts we was barred today by the Pennsylvania Board of censors As Quot objectionable because a it is part of the fear propaganda being disseminated by London sept. 18.�?<4%-shipping and military stores concentrated in Many German held port along the North roast of Europe suffered Quot much damage Quot last night a the result of heavy repeated British bombing attacks the air ministry announced tonight. Washington sept 18 up mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt said today that everyone a a special duty to see that members of the local boards which will administer the conscription act Quot Are the highest Type of citizens we can get. A London. Sept. a the highest tide of the year lapped Britain s beaches today but no troop Laden barges of Adolf Hitler took advantage of them to attempt an invasion. The sea will take at least a week to return to Normal level. London. Sept 18 up. A bomb fell on the Lawn of Westminster Abbey historic English Cathedral which lies across from the houses of parliament during a recent air raid and blasted out a Small Crater but caused no damage to the Abbey London sept. 18.�?awthe Royal air Force Quot bombed German shipping con -centration., barges and communications last night on a a Large scale a the air ministry announced today. Havoc and casualties after an earlier official admission that it was feared the night raids had inflicted heavier casualties than any others of the last few Days. Raf spitfires met one mass attack of 300 nazi planes in a terrific fight High Over the Thame Estuary and reportedly scattered the raiders. Flying at 15.000 feet in three Waves the German bombers and fighters thundered across the Dover coast plunged through a barrage of anti aircraft fire and headed for London to rain fresh chaos on the smoke hazed capital. Forty two Oerman planes Wra destroyed today in air Battles Over England the government announced tonight. Nine British fighting plane were lost but the pilots of five of them were reported Safe an associated press observer on the Channel coast said the sky seemed a full of planes Quot As the germans passed overhead. The Battle came As London millions underwent their fifth Daylight air raid alarm and capped a Quot night of hell Quot marking the longest raid of the War nine hours and 54 minutes of terror from the skies an official British communique said it was feared a casualties May be heavier than in recent a delayed action bomb fell near the United states embassy in the heart of Mayfair remaining still unexploded after Daybreak and % member of the embassy staff said wryly Quot we certainly had a hell of a night they were popping All around us Quot nazi quarters in Berlin describing the raids As aimed at London a Aerial defense bares said seven out of the British capitals to remaining airports have been badly damaged in the last 24 hours some beyond possibility of immediate repair with today marking the Start of the fourth month of daily air attacks on England official reports put the total nation wide toll at 13.000 casualties including 1333 deaths in the first 15 Days of september alone prime minister Winston Churchill disclosed yesterday 2.000 have been killed and 8 000 wounded by mid morn my Sunshine drove off the Mist and rain which had shrouded the English Channel and great numbers of German raiders flying at More than 20.000 fee crossed the Southeast coast in the hell Corner Quot Region of Dover Raf defense planes swiftly roared up to meet them and fierce dogfights raged High in the Clouds the massed raiders roared toward the thames Estuary and London anti aircraft Shell explosions flowering their was when they were Well concluded on Page 5 a. London is worst bombed City of die entire War Lumberton. Sept. 18�? a tile Robeson county fair opened yesterday. A by Drew Middleton London. Sept. 18 put military attaches and correspondents who experienced the blizzards of bombs which fell on Warsaw. Barcelona and Madrid expressed belief today that London already has taken i More punishment than any other City even Rotterdam in the past la Days of intensive German air attacks. Despite these attacks however the consensus of these experienced observers was that the German Luftwaffe had failed to achieve the raids two main purpose and that the Prospect of invasion were diminished because of this failure. The two prime objectives they gave As get disorganization of London communications so that sup plies and reinforcement could not be sent to the areas where invasion is planned and 2 demoralization of the civilian population they added that the British government would be compelled to ado Jit shifted and More effective methods for housing feeding and clothing refugees bombed out of their Homes if civilian morale is to be maintained at the present level comparing other bombed cities with London one British correspondent who claims to be Quot the world s most bombed said Quot Rotterdam caught a packet but it a All in one Section. If you could fit London a bombed Ana into a Section of similar size the ruin and damage would be far greater than Rotterdam. A

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