Latest Ship Loss
Figures Of Allies
Given In Rejiort
Over 6,000,000 Tout* of Brit
ish, Allied, Neutral
Lrafl Sunk
?
London ? Britain, her allies and
the neutrals lost 1.098 ships aggre
gating 4.734.407 tons in the year since
the Nazi invasion of the Low Coun
tries. new Admiralty statistics show
This chiefly, is the toll of British.
Allied and neutral shipping in the
Battle of the Atlantic but the totals
include Britain's losses in the Dun
kerque withdrawal in May and June.
1940. and the withdrawal from
Greece last month.
From the state of the war to the
end of April, according to Admiral
ty figures. British, Allied and neu
tral ships lost total 6.078,330 tons in
_aO J ?_
The admiralty arrived at this fig
ure by adding an unspecified num
ber of ships of 117.286 tons lost at
Dunkerque to the regular list of 1,
443 ships totaling 5,961.044 tons.
Broken down, these figures show
885 of the ships were British, to
taling 3.810,541 tons, and 558 were
Allied and neutral vessels totaling
2.150,503 tons.
(American shipping men estimat
ed early this year that, at the rate of
operations so far, it would take Ger
many at least another year to whit
tle Britain's merchant fleet down to
its pre-war total of 21.000.000 tons.
This was based on an estimate of
about 5.500,000 tons lost and about
8,000,000 tons acquired from Nor
way. The Netherlands. Belgium.
France. Denmark and the United
States, through last January.)
A part of the press criticized the
lazzard release of the figures.
The Evening News, placing ship
ping losses for ihe entire war at a
total of at least 8.078 tons, said, "the
people of America naturally want
to know, within reason, the full facts
of the situation be|ore the vital de
- cisiom op convoying of Allied cai*~
goes by United States warships is
made by their government."
The paper asserted that "official
dom has excelled itself more in in
ertia and stupidity" than in its fail
ure heretofore to bring home to all
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'Housewives Begin
Blanket Storage
The arrival of warm weather
means putting away those blankets
which will not be needed again un
til next fall, says Miss Pauline Gor
don, extension home management
and house furnishing specialist of
N. C. State College
A warm spring day when the sun
j is shining and a light wind blowing
j is an excellent time to wash out the
isoil of winter and store blankets out
of the reach of moths.
Miss Gordon explained that the
warmth of a blanket depends upon
a soft, fluffy nap. Wool fibres art
soft, crimpy and scaly. When a wool
blanket is placed in warm soapy wa
ter, Uu* fibers become softened or
plastic. If the blanket is subjected
to hard rubbing or wringing, the fi
| bers tend not only to creep up on
each other, but to stick together.
Because of the danger of tfeis
shrinkage and matting of the wool
when it ts washed, every homemak
er should understand the rules of
washing blankets properly. Since
wool cannot stand too much cold or
too much heat, only lukewarm wa
ter should be used for washing and
rinsing. The temperature of the wa
ter should never be above 90 de
grees F
The second thing to remember^
Miss Gordon said, is to use soft wa
ter and mild neutral soap, never a
strong laundry soap. Two table
spoonsful of borax to each tub of
water should be added if the water
needs softening. If a sediment forms,
the water should be strained.
Water should be squeezed, not
twisted, out of a blanket. If a wring
er is used, the blanket should be
folded flat and the tension on the
rolls released to avoid crushing the
nap.
interested Britons and Americans ;
the "grim lessons" of the shipping j
losses.
"The storm blown up in America j
among interventionists, isolationists
and those in between over shipping
losses is an inevitable consequence
of the muddle and mismanagement
in the information services of this |
country."
The Star said "the clumsy treat
ment of the news of shipping losses |
has given isolationists and pro-Ger
mans in the United States a useful j
lever."
During April losses were 488,1241
tons, the Admiralty disclosed, a to
tal surpassed by only two previous I
months in the year?June, 1940, when |
533.302 tons were sent to the bot
tom, and March of this year when |
the total reached 489,229
Included in the April losses, how- |
, eyer. were 187,054 tons sunk in the
recent "intensive operations" in the
Mediterranean, the Admiralty said.
Subtracting of this Mediterranean
total from the whole of the April
I kisses shows that only 301,070 tons
j were sent to the bottom in other nov
i al war theaters last months.
Thus, omitting the cost of the
Greek withdrawal, Britain's mercan
? tile losses were less in April than in
any month in the one-year period
rxcept the first month?May, 1940
I when total losses were 248,650 tons !
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Photographs U. S. Antarctic Sarvic*
Members of the Byrd Antarctic expedition are shown getting things in
order before leaving Antarctica. Most of the equipment was left bo
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As Incendiary Literature. The Im *
pending Crisis Rivaled Uncle |
Tom's Cabin ...
A "Helper* was born more than i
one hundred years ago near Mocks- |
ville, N C His full name was llinton
Rowan Helper. This son of the south
ern soil wrote a book that caused as
much excitement in many sections of |
America as Stowe's Uncle Tom's Ca- j
bin. He published, in 11157. Tin# Im j
pending Crisis How To Meet It. i
Helper had definite opinions con- j
corning the economic handicap un- I
der which the South labored as a 1
result of slavey. He was not of the
wealthy planter class, nd to him the
institution of slavery was all wrong.
The Impend nig Crisis states a
number of facts concerning north
ern and southern states to show that
manufacturing, commerce, and pop
ulation increased in fref1 northern j
states much more rapidly than in i
southern slave states. After com par- '
ing conditions, he concluded that the
examples of much greater economic j
and social progress in free states was
due to there being no slaves, and that
the lack of such progress in south
ern states was the result of using
slave labor. The thousand and one
other conditions which have an ef
fect upon progress were overlooked.
Helper's book was immensely
popular in the North and was used
by the Republican party as cam
paign literature. Its appeal within,
the ranks of the newly organized Re
publicans was due to its telling the
story of slavery in the very manner
they wished to believe it.
The Carolina writer studied cen
sus reports and cited the following
population statistics: "In 1790, Mass
achusetts contained 378,717 inhabi
tants; in the same year North Car
olina contained 393,751; in 1850, the
population of Massachusetts \ was
994,514, all freemen; while that of
North Carolina was only 869,039."
Concerning trade?, he stated, "Jn
1853, the exports of Massachusetts
amounted to $16,895,304, and her im
ports to $41,367,956; during the same
time . . . the? exports and imports of
North Carolina were so utterly in
significant that we* are ashamed to
record them." All these differences
were attributed to slavery. There is
r?r? mnnlinn nf nur Hanpfrnns pnasf
Cupid Has Wings
George Vieira, buck private at Camp
Roberts, Paso Rubles, Cal., and his
firmer dancing partner, Merjorie
Keeler, leave Los Angeles by plane
or I<as Vegas, Nev., where they
were married. The rush was neces
sary because the bridegroom was on
a two-day furlough. The bride is
the sister of Ruby Keeler, former
screen actress.
which caused much of our export
and import trade to clear through
ports in South Carolina and Virginia.
The advantage in favor of the in
crease in value of manufacturing,
mining, and mechanic arts in Massa
chusetts is likewise explained by
Helper by saying tin- New England
state was free and North Carolina
was slave.
Truly. The Impending Crisis was
a rival of Uijcle Tom's Cabin as in
cendiary literature in the years just
before the War between the States.
Fgg Ritute Worked Ont For
Farmers Of Jones, Onslow
An egg route has been worked out
for farmers of Jones and Onslow
Counties which will take eggs on a
graded basis, reports Jack Kelley,
assistant farm agent.
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Farm Taxes Are
Found Regressive!
?
A series of studies recently com
pleted by 30 of Iowa's 1.000 county
agricultural planning committees
concluded that "Tax assessments on
farm land are never (well, hardly ev
er) closely related to the productive
value of the land "
They discovered
1. Very little relationship between]
assessed value and productivity
2 Only slightly more relationship I
between assessed value and sale [
value, and
3 Without exception a pronounc
ed tendency for all land to be assess- I
ed very near a predetermined town- |
ship average value.
Good land was found to bear much
less tax burden in proportion to its
income-producing capacity than pt?or
land. " Where good land is assessed
at anywhere from 40 per cent to 65
per cent of its sale value, poor land
in some cases has been found to have
been assessed as much as 600 per |
cent of its sale value." Moreover,
"high-value lands in northern Iowa
are un^Jer-assessed compared with
the poor quality land in southern
Iowa."
This concern with the tax prob
lem may seem like locking the barn
after the horse is stolen, since, ac
cording to the 1940 census, 47.6 per
cent of Iowa farms were already op
erated by tenants. From 1930 to 1940 I
over 6,600 farmers were foreclosed |
and lost their farms because of fail
ure to pay delinquent taxes alone
Nevertheless, many of the 88,200
full owners in Iowa in 1940 would
benefit greatly from a more equita
ble tax system. While taxes based on
ability to pay. that is income tax.
would be the fairest type, such far
mers would find some relief mere
ly in a method of assessment re
flecting the productivity of their |
i land.
Incubators Take Up
Job of 'Setting Hen'
&
The old "setting hen" is being put
out of business by artificial methods
of incubation. Commercial and semi
commercial poultrymop now depend
almost entirely on incubators as a
source of baby chicks.
In recognition of this trend, the
N C. State College Extansion Serv
ice has published a circular (No. 249)
entitled "Incubation". It describes
both natural and artificial ?methods
of incubation, and points out the ad
vantages of artificial incubation from
the stand|x>fnt of disease and parasite
control, and mass production.
A copy of the circular may be ob
tained free upon request to the Afri
cultural Editor, N. C. State College,
Raleigh. County farm and home a
gents also will have supplies of the
publication.
The text for the circular was pre
j pared by Prof. R. S. Dearstyne. head
of the State College Poultry De
partment, and C. F. Parrish, T. T.
Brown, and C. J Maupin, Extension
poultry specialists. The 12-page
publication is well-illustrated
In discussing the advantages and
disadvantages of the two method of
incubation, the State College poul
trymen wrote: "While much has
been said, pro and con, about re
placing stock and by the use of set
ting hens, there has not as yet been
! developed artificial incubator that
will hatch a higher percent of fertile
; < ggs than the hen.
"However, the chief disadvantages
of this system lie, first in the fact
4h*tt broody hens arc not always a
vailable aPthc time they are desired;
second, large numbers of eggs can
not usually be set at the same time;
and third, the possibility of lice
spreading from the hen to the young
I chicks." ?
The publication puts stress on the
use of suitable eggs for hatching
purposes.
1 V
Arrangements have been com
pleted for the resumption of tobac
| co exports to England under provi
sions of the Lease-Lend bill to bol
ster the dwindling support of flue- |
cured leaf.
Poultry specialists of Iowa State
College have developed an "egg
saver" machine that makes possible
the removal of infertile eggs after
15 to 20 hours of incubation.
Faxes May Bring
Change In Classes
%
While the reaction to the Treasu
| department's proposal for uppii
1 taxes by $3.500.000 is still much If
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WI LI.I AM STUN, N. C.
Phone Hit Hotel Geo. Reynold* Bldg.
vociferous and plaintive than had brackets, begfh to watch their pen
been expected, "tax fear" of middle tnies lest year's fax-paying time find
incomeg roups may combine with ex- them in the hole Actually. (<iftgress
panding income of factory workers ional mail has brought more letters
to bring a change in lineup of the from "willing-to-pay" patriots than
country's spending group*, at least from objectors, so far as the mdivid
temporarily Such a trend is seen in ual income 1^ concerned. Likewise,
increased spending of the latter most business interests seem to be
mostly for household appliances, new withholding objection, probably on
bathrooms and kitchens, furniture, the gmund that it would not be good
carpets, clothes, etc.?while the for- business policy to resist a burden that
mer, those in income-tax-paying will be put upon them, willy-nilly.
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