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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
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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
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ganisatunts fcr National Defense,
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By JESSE S. COTTMLL, Ib Th.
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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.
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.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
<fistrict is coastal with a eoaat line
that exceeds that mmi'MgW
lir Bo has th dist'nct'o f
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:' 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
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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
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... The highly controversial and long
separate ^WnHntiolPof^^w
force with Navy officers, as a rule,
insisting aviation; remain
a fleet arm. ?: ?? V: :v^.
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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.
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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.
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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 $1,396,063
000 of this amount had been set aside
for bombing plhnes.
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m SSt^^ewB agency dnb ?
Freight care were bombed off the
buckled rails, and hundreds of Red
soldiers scrambled from the over;,
turned San and then w*? sprayed
by German machine trun fire.
The depot became a shambles and
rebutting- fires: spread to nearby
gasoline stores, the agency said.
'? "Extensive Destruction." ^
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. auewnere wwmn hiuk uuiwi were
blown up as well as the gasoline
airplanes were destroyed, and R*1
fighter planes petroling over Soviet
bases deep behind the front were
shot down by Luftwaffe pilots
whose work "was a picture of moat
extensive destruction."
German sources said Finland had
declared war on Russia a$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
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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.
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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
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the attitude of the United State* a*
it debated" in tw^i important conferr
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the embroiled nations The authorita
tive neVte agency Domei said Tokyo
may take a Btand based on settle
ment of the "China affair" and
Asia cb-prugperity sphere." J-'
Some informed , quarters believed
the government had decided that
the empire must choose between
her three-power pact with the Axis
and her two-month-old neutrality
tieafr with Russia. ;r/ , ?;??':;?^0,
The government debatedthe ques
tion at length in two conferences
today, and was-reported to have de
cided to issue * statement tomorrow.
Domei and the press indicated the
United States was a central subject
in the discussion. The popular news
paper Yomiuri said Washington's de
cision to aidKussia was "the result
not pnly of the President's anti
German feeling but also of an effort
to gain a foothold against Japan and
thus complete the letter's' encircle
ment in the Pacific:"
The newspaper Hocrn said there
was a "military menace, to Japan" in
the new situation, and that it would
develop "along the _ line of Alaska
Aleutian Islands-Vladivostok."
. War Minister General Eike Tojo
told munitions-makers today that
the future attitude of the United
States "defies prediction," and he
said that Japan is getting ready for
"perfect security" in the "ever
changing international situation."
Official secrecy covered the de
bate, as it has ever since Germany's
surprise invasion of Russia. Public
interest was whetted to a keen edge,
the newspapers were bought eagerly.
The newsparer Nichi .Nichi urged
prompt and strong wartime prepar
edness. "Tile .essential factors for
victory," it said, "are determination
and courage to carry it out with full
preparedness." . -
( SUGARCANE
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Public hearings are being held in
Louisiana and Florida this month to
daterinme fair prices- for. this year's
crop of sugarcane.
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J. W.Joyner Heads
Local Rotary Club
Retiring Qfiicers Given
Vote of Thanks For
V Wonderful dub tear
With BkceUent At
tendance
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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
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