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SIX ?- ? vr '??.:..:8j.::---'.'..,.t.r.:^L . 1 ? , ? __ ' ami AAA AAA Washington, June 25.?Funds to taling $20?90,009 for constructing a Marine aviation base on the Neuse t)' j xv- l.j_t _tt jtju ulijl iilitft lover ana tue sanu cBngHwe wkw at Elisabeth City were voted qutokly by the House today without a single expression of apportion Less than four hoots after the House A ppropriatkma Committee en dorsed the $897,000,000 deficiency appropriation bill, the House passed the measure, carrying $15^)90,900 for the air base and $6,006gM)0 far the dirigible station. Although Representative Herbert Bower waited in readiness to meet any objections which might be raised against the price of land at the Elizabeth City base, not a single question was asked, and the item re ceived speedy approval. Quick action also was accorded the huge fund for the Marine air base, which will supplement the activities of the $15^)00,000 Marine training base now under construc tion in Onslow County. Southern Site Favored. Testimony released today Dy toe Appropriations Committee verified reports that a site on the south Bide of the Neuse River is being favored by the Marine Corps, immediately following passage of the bill, Repre sentative Graham Bazden, who ac tively has supported the project, con ferred with Marine Corps officials and reported that no decision as yet has been reached on the choice of a site. He predicted, however, that the work of selection would be complet ed within a very few days. Although stressing that no de cision could be made until topgrapW cal surveys had been completed, QoL R. J. Mitchell told the committee "there is a chance" that no the Cher ry -Point site on the south side of the Neuse "we can save some money." He added that "Commander Cotter, who is making the survey, thinks that we may save half a million dol lars before we get- through." One 01 the factors favoring the Cherry Point site referred to by Col onel Mitchell is the need for con structing only six miles of railroad track, as against 15 ipiles that, would be required for use of the WQkerson Point site, on the north side of the river. On either side of the river it is estimated that the land will cost an average of approximately $25 an acre. Work on the new base is to get under way as soon as the appropria tion bill becomes law. CoL Mitchell told the House committee that con struction would be completed within ten months from starting date. Mile's Quota For USO Raised By Program^VtsT Farm vffle Over The Top ? /aEOTOW 7 ? v V; ?; - :>? '?. ; V President Roosevelt's comment on the United Service Oifeanixatioiia' program, in which be expresaedbis belief that the American people would get behind the United program I .with characteristic wholeheartedness I : alone,went ooTto Wed nesday with a- quota of 1200, and ? raised $232*6 with very little effort Chairman Joyner and Mayor Davis I for tiie hearty response given thtik in the last war, the six great wntfyf Tj-zjr- ? bmseWIB ganisatunts fcr National Defense, -x inc. TTirao m.iwtss arr " 1 The "Young Men's Christian ASso ! ^-*e i-V/l wXWgj vilv ?mv^i .W*' l' ??Wn?'n"Wl f vie?* ? wwoftw cottMet snd j?uidfliic6? jsoeial erots ? ana i g^roup activities. in dr&rnatiC3- mmn45# L* # t .? *1 * I ' ?. i ^ . ?'^L i ? ?* . | CAROLINIANS I B -IN-. ' I wA^ffikm>N By JESSE S. COTTMLL, Ib Th. . ' ' OMMte OlMMIW.tgfel Hp^rv- - ? h Washington, Asia -fl *- Champ Clark, the old Roman at democracy in the early days of the 20's, when speaker of Congress, observed in a special address that |Q?ngressman are made in two ways: One by serving an apprenticeship, and the other by experience at the expense of the taxpayers. Speaker Clark was addressing a group of legislative fledglings at the tim? and sllugwJ that a suc cessful legislator was a man trained in the "service. In this connection, Speaker Clark recounted that when he first came to Congress, at the beginning of his 28-year tenure, that a young man fi-om Macon, Ga., sat silently in his seat for six years and not once rarose to address the speaker^ Fi nally, when the famous Simmons Underwood tariff bill was before the House, Congressman Howard of the Macon district aapse and asked for 30 minutes the next day to ad dress the House on the tariff bill. The next day young Howard arose quietly, according to Speaker Clark, and delivered the ablest speech ever heard in "the historic House chamber on a tariff hill. When Howard be gan not more than 50 members were in their seats, but by the time he had concluded, the word had spread over Capitol Hill that a great tariff speech was being delivered by an un known congressman that was a mas terpiece, and the chamber was crowd ed with members; Young Howard concluded amid great acclaim and though he never opened his mouth on the floor of the House again, he retired from Congress years thereafter with a reputation as the greatest authority on the tariff of his time. Speaker Clark told this story to illustrate that hot air on the floor of CongresB is usually a breeae on the desert air that ends in fotility. WlT ?? t . _ .ionn caruima nas s new member who is an example of a trained apprentice in the per son of Herbert C. Bonner of the First North Carolina district. Mr. Bonner succeeded the re- ' doubtable Lindsay C. . Warren, when the latter became comp ' trailer general, after having secretary to Mr. Warren for 16 . years. _ Mr. Bonner is. one of the several House members who began their tenure after having served, as an ap prentice under the able and thorough tutelage of Mr. Warren. The House is soon to have another apprentice in the parson of Carter Manasco who has been elected to fill the. seat for Alabama, whence wait William B. "Bankhead to the speakership. Perhaps Mr. Bonner has accom plished more for his district dur ing the brief period he has been in the House of Congress than has been achieved by any bloc of 20 con gressmen for their districts, contain-, ed. ' \ ?'???>?. ??? j. v.,.' ? Example, Mr. Sooner has had the Greenville, N. Cn airport dedarad a national defense project and a great airport, is being built there, chiefly witn governmenij iunas, to cost pf/, 006 with Greenville called upon ta, pay not kwihan fSve nbr m?r than seven par'cent of the total outlay. ^ The greater pait of Mr. Bonner's dvtiL froro I I I A i-A 'fT _ 1 ' Y-<, ^AL\ :' Washingtoiv'SN*-- 26^'President Roosevelt bedded today not to apply the Neutnflity Act-to the;iRussian German conflict, -and thereby - left .top* free to carry i^^J -aaiy othetfmatedsip across tho-Paci fic to the Soviet Union."}:'% - v-;; v:; ?. Sumner Welles, Acting- Secretary of State, announced the President's decision at a conference. Welles said that Russia had made no revest for American aid and had sent noncom munication to the Washington gov ernment in response to Mr. Roose velt's promise of yesterday to ex tend alt assistance possible to the Soviets. Prom the American Ambassador in Moscow, Lawrence Steinhardt, toe State Department has received con-, siderable information on the new conflict, Welles said. He did not in dicate toe nature of this. The practical effect of the Presi dent's decision remained for future determination in view of the diffi culty of immediately supplying any heavy aims such as airplanes or I tanks. | Russia is short of shipping facili- I ties, but Welles said it was too early to determine what use might be made of American ships to transport arms or other "iptp?i'nia ' : - '-** ? - - ? - * ? '_ > -m * ' . ?. ' V'l A Neutrality Act proclaim ation would have prohibited American ships from taking arms to Russia as a ^belligerent," but would not have effected transport of non-military material to Vladicostok, the Si berian port on the Pacific which is not in a-combat zone. The President's decision put the Russian-German struggle in effect on the satim "undeclared" basis as the four-year-old Sino-Japanese con flict, so far as the American govern ment is concerned. The President has never declared a state of war to exist between China and Japan and thus* American ships have been free to carry arms to China. The United States likewise re frained from proclaiming a state of war between Russia and Finland in their conflict in the Winter of 1989 1940. Slice the outbreak of the Euro pean war, however, the President has issued neutrality proclamations in every previous conflict in which Germany has been engaged. The main effect of a proclamation in the Russian-German war would ihave- been to close the port of j Vladivostok to American ships bear ing inns. All other Russian ports are within proclaimed combat zones which are banned entirely to Ameri can shipping. In announcing the President's deci sion, Welles cited Section 1 of the Neutrality Act, which calls for a neutrality proclamation when the President or Congress finds "that there exists a state of war between foreign states and that R is neces sary tb promote the seencity or pre? serve tba peace of the United States or to protect the lives" of American citizens. Welles said that he was authorized ' by the President to state that inas much as he finds it la not necessary in this instance to Issue a prodama tion in order to promote the secur I f 1 Hovsiu JftttnM"' Route . >_ i^wym? 11 a A UVQv QVUg *iw|U VVWU ?I"' * " 1 I- Jbr_- ? . ? - ^ r ^ I ... The highly controversial and long separate ^WnHntiolPof^^w force with Navy officers, as a rule, insisting aviation; remain a fleet arm. ?: ?? V: :v^. ??? fe-pie Nevada Senator aays .that he, will demand fdi and open^hearings and 'afl , high-radd^^^;|cnd Navy officers to give their opinion. He ^convinced if the officers havs^fe liMyito express th?nselvww^^? the counto#S?l be convinced-;of the "necessity" for a separate air force, One observation of the Senator which will have ^general approval is that "a nation to be safe must now control the air above It, just as it controls its own land and the seas around it." The proposal should receive care ful consideration, with particiriar reference to the lessons to be learn ed from the fighting in the present war. Nevertheless, there are many officials and officers who believe that the better system is to have air forces in each branch of the service, as at present. They insist that syn chronization and coordination of both army and naval forces, executing specific missions, will be more effi-' dent than in the aerial units involv ed are under a separate, cammarid. ? . LEASE-LEND REPORT. SUPPLIES MOVE .SLOWLY. "MANY-SIDED* AID. In his first report to Congress, President Roosevelt said that only $75,202,425 worth of material had been shipped to Great Britain un der the Lease-Lend Act during the first ninety days of the operation of the law. The President em phasized that the nation has "start ed in motion the vast supply program which is essential to the defeat of the Axis powers." The President pointed out that aid to Britain is "many-sided," that two million grass toss of shipping is being made available immediately and contracts have been awarded1 for merchant ships to cost more than half a billion dollars. ij, A program has been'iafjtituted to train 7,000 Britain pilots in this coun try. Allied shipaare bang repaired in our ports and equipped for pro tection against mines. Millions of pounds of food are being and will be sent to the British, as well as large quantities of iron and steel, machine tools and other essentials to maintain and increase British production of war materials. . 1 Classification of the shipments thus far shows that.watercraft, at $26,182,19$ was the largest . single item. .Ordnance worth ;|20,580,109 was second, munitions were third and agricultural products were foui^ th on the list in accordance with value. ^Allocations for the future included almost 4^000,000,000 for aircraft accessories and $1,396,063 000 of this amount had been set aside for bombing plhnes. bociibs^^ifcio h 11 ts^i tfa ^ ^ j ' ' ,"v . ? ' ? ? ?'' ? v Hfe*; "' ??> * : ^ t_ ^kiiirfiAfi "'A * Ai''1 _ _ /v? I ueatedt# r?^vjel In jKew York, thj#t German Railway J [GJERiHfAlV AR^mm UNITS PRESS jl "T 6 9 /11tfA_nAWnOT*0 tXHYIHV yOTtftfrTn 4/win*w fv\ m aTm^m ^ ready had been cut off from con - m SSt^^ewB agency dnb ? Freight care were bombed off the buckled rails, and hundreds of Red soldiers scrambled from the over;, turned San and then w*? sprayed by German machine trun fire. The depot became a shambles and rebutting- fires: spread to nearby gasoline stores, the agency said. '? "Extensive Destruction." ^ ?, ."HI ra - x_ a.) . auewnere wwmn hiuk uuiwi were blown up as well as the gasoline airplanes were destroyed, and R*1 fighter planes petroling over Soviet bases deep behind the front were shot down by Luftwaffe pilots whose work "was a picture of moat extensive destruction." German sources said Finland had declared war on Russia a$d had en tered into heavy action in the north, g^The Finnish government an nounced that repeated Russian terri torial .violations amounted to open hostilities against Finland and thus Finland was compelled "from now on to defend serself with every means in her power." ?The vast German army was de clared plugging eastward through a blazing heat wave to almost in credible victories, while its Finnish and Rumanian allies were smashing St.the Soviet flanks upon the great est battlefront ever knowp. : ' Detailed Reports Today, These achievements Of Nazi arms, said a military, spokesman, would b* reported in detail tomorrow. I^fhe outlines of German success were thus suggested: 1. Tactical surprises had cucceed ed as planned. 2. The German air fleet jalrpady has achieved eomphife supremacy. j?8. Soviet troops, " although offer ing heavy rezistznee, had nowhere been able to hold the German offen sive. 4. All German operations were go ing forward on schedule. I Thn active participation of Ru mania and Finland---together with the fact that Hungary had severed relations wfth RusSia and Slovakia had gone to War against her ? was declared to foreshadow early erec tion of a complete eastern front against Bolshevism. ? As to the HkraiM B^tic atatee Lithuania, Estonia, Lafcviir-it was skid that; they had'accepted Com munism unwillingly and were happy to throw it off. Even before the statement of the military spokesman promising great tpl^'fiiere had come . Confident' promise from AdoH HftK#>a tnflitary headquarters that "great successes catt tifr expected.^; v ? v C It was the only reference to the Russian campaign fa the high com man people wafted for detailed word, whfle the armies fbutft agafcst imwaaaigMKlgS^^ term from GrccnsborO^, ?ot Durimr liar f ur a. &t CrfSinn i ^ ^ ^ ft tp oin oy c . ? . - 1 *- j nstionftl Holiitions club< . ' " " ' " ' ^ " Moscow, June 26.?Counter-attack ing Red Anny troope cot off Ger man tank columns thgt ^ succeeded yesterdaj|; in breaking^; through So- ? vietlines toward Wllmo, in old Lith uania, and Brody, in the southeast ern part of former Poland; "The enemy's mechanized forma tions. sustained heavy losses" in these attacks on the -northern and cental parts of the Baltic Black Sea front, the communique said. "In the BeesaPabian sector of the front Red Army troope firmly hold their ? positions on the eastern bank of the Prut River, successfully re pulsing numerous enemy attempts; to force the river. "In the area of Skuleni the enemy attempted to advance, but suffered heavy defeat and his remnants arc being pressed beyond the Prut River." Many Captured. Many Germans and Rumanians wbre captured, the Soviet Claimed. Dedicated to the Russian thesis that the German army is not and never was invincible, the Red Army smashed at the invaders with planes, tanks, artillery, infantry and even sabre-brandishing cavalry in a see saw battle from the Black Sea. to the Baltic. a ? ?, ?. A ? ? % wvnne the military torcea ciaimea some successes and acknowledged j t some reverses. Tass, the official So- * viet news agency, heartened the home front with word that Turkey had announced her neutrality. The battle line, some 1,000 miles long, ran, according to Russian ac- ? counts, from Lithuania through Po land and Along, the length of the frontier with Rumania. Both SMes Lose Many. * Heavy losses were reported on both sides in repeated assaults, and in one instance of blood-tingling cav alry charge, reminscent of that of Britain's light brigade in the Cri mean War, except that the Russians said this one was highly successful. Air forces of both sides exchanged blow for blow, the Russians re ported! They said Red airman had left ,Warsaw and the Rumanian port of Constanta in flames, had raided Danzig and East Prussia and had destroyed 381 German airplanes in ~ three days, against a loss in the same period of 874 of" their., own air craft. * Pravda, the Communist party or gan, promised the* world it would be "amazed" by the forces the Soviet people would htiri against Ger- c ' man army was a myth and that its ( easy victories had been due' pri marily to "black treason" among leaden of the opposing camps. Hitler, the oommentator said, has "embarked - on his last desperate gamble." Regiment Destroyed. - Latest Russian reports of battle developments said the situation along the 1,00-mile line was as fol lows: German columns driving from East Prussia into Sovietized Lithu ania met stiff resistance. The Ger mans were aiming at the capital city, Kaunas, and at SLstuliaL In the Siauliai area, the attackers were beaten off with heavy- losses and one mechanized regiment was annihilat ed. Other German units were still held up, at'latest reports, in their Kobryn, Wluziini6rz suctvBroo^ . in ? Soviet Occupied Poland The Red Army was still holding tte Profr Bhgr in' B w ?v ~ ywgo infe A meeting ITS for conunittees '? ^ Tuesday, June 24th marked the end jsfAhe old year and the beginning of ific new for . the officers of the FarmviUe Rotary Club. Retiring President Eli Joyner gave sympolic representation of this, another Re tary milestone, by handing the gavel over to the^ibooming President, J." W. Joyner, as the meeting came to a close. :. The new president gave sincere expressions of appreciation - to thorn ham, Secretary. ? :0.; ' ^ilSliii Swell, and Al* new ameers; will be ' ., I - tA. J ., J _ ^ ? -^-S J^L 1L. 1 att6jwanc6 P0coflj for tne past 86^1 1 -SmirtH^ISg Du?:'s tn th a V ?rff i?*fPTi * F I