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1 I A y.i -■4* I Vi /•AGE TWO THE JOHNSTONIAN - SUN, SELMA, is Le 1 T. Kl' te th E. m le fi J. P; m P ti O •w c s; P E 1 V J. C d Mexican President and Torpedo Victims , President and Mrs. Avila Camacho are shown (arrow) among the survivors of the S. S. Potrero del Llano, Mexican ship torpedoed off the coast of Florida, during the parade that was staged to welcome the mariners on their return to Mexico City. A big reception was given the vsailors at the palace of line arts while the whole country seethed wif [indignation over the sinking of the Mexican ship. A Week of the War Japs ★ ★ ★ ★ Attack Dutch Harbor Off Coast of Alaska Doing Only Slight Damage — Attack On Mid way Island Proves Very Costly To The Enemy — MacArthur Reports Seven or More Jap anese Subs Sunk by Allied Naval Air Force. Pacific Fleet Commander Nimitz reported two and possibly three Jap anese aircraft carriers and a destroy er were sunk, and three battleships, six cruisers and three transports were damaged in the Battle of Midway Island. All planes on the two carriers definitely known to be sunk were lost. Admiral Nimitz said. One U. S. carrier w'as hit and some planes were lost, but casualties among the U. S. personnel were light, he said. Admiral King, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, said the enemy fleet has apparently withdrawn from the Mid way area but battle maneuvers are continuing in the Hawaii-Dutch Har bor area. The Navy said the first Japanese attack on Dutch Harbor on June 3 resulted in few casulties and no serious damage, appearing to have been made “primarily to test our defenses.” The Japanese planes which flew over the harbor six hours after the initial attack were “engaged sole ly in reconnaissance,” the Navy said. Gen. MacArthur reported within six days allied naval and air forces sank seven and possibly eight enemy sub marines, two heavily loaded armed supply ships and an armed transport, and also Badly damaged a 7,000 ton vessel. Allied losses in the Southwest Pacific were two cargo vessels. In air raids over Rabaul, Lae, Salamaua, Atamboea, Tulagi, Koepang and Dili and Burma, 12 enemy planes were destroyed, one enemy tanker sunk and runways, airdrome installations and parked planes damaged. Three allied planes were lost. The Navy said allied merchant ships losses totaled 21 during the week, including nine U. S. ships. Produdtion U. S. production of planes has reached the level of “nearly 5,200 a month,” and by next year we will have reached the President’s goal of 10,000 a month, the Senate Appro priations Committee announced. Ar my Air Forpes Commander Arnold congratulated the Vega Aircraft Cor poration at Burbank, Calif., on being six months ahead of schedule on pro duction. WPB Chairman Nelson, after a tour of the automotive industry in Dertoit, said the American industry could “more than double present pro duction by 1944.” He also said the Government synthetic rubber pro gram would be able to take care of “all war production and essential civilian needs” by 1944. Despite the fact that almost twice as many light arms are required per man since the development of parachute troops, the army has enough weapons to arm every soldier in the U. S., and all it can send abroad under present ship ping conditions. War Under Secretary Patterson reported. He said over-op timism regarding production sched ules is unwarranted, however, because of rubber, nickel and copper short ages, are now causing a loss of 6,000,000 work days every month. War Declared Against Balkan States The U. S. declared war against Bul garia, Huiigary and Rumania. The A record total of 58 ships were delivered into service during May, while 65 other ships were launched and keels were laid down for 75, the Maritime Commission reported. This compared with 36 delivered and 51 launched in April. The President ask ed Congress for an appropriation of $1,100,000,000 for the WSA to ac quire and operate merchant vessels to carry American arms. Federal agencies asked labor-man agement committees in 800 war pro duction plants to keep the American workmen fit and healthy because sick and injured war production workers President said the three countries previously declared war on the U. S. as instruments of Hitler, and current ly they are engaged in military opera tions against the United Nations and are planning to extend those opera tions. The Justice Department said enemy alien restrictions will be ap plied against nationals of the coun tries in the United States. Assets of these countries here have already been frozen. Foreign Relations The U. S. signed a lend-lease agree ment with China, substantially the same as its aid to Britain, and pro posed lend-lease agreements on the same terms with the Norwegian, Bel gian, Polish, Greek and Netherlands governments in exile. Lend-lease Ad ministrator Stettinuis said under the joint control of the combined boards in London and Washington the re sources of the United Nations are now’ in effect, one big pool, with each na tion contributing to the extent per mitted by its resources and military position. Reciprocal aid from nations receiving supplies from the U. S. is providing material for American troops abroad without dollar pay ments, he said. The Agriculture De partment reported 5 billion pounds of farm products were delivered to United Nations representatives be tween April 1941 and May 1, 1942. The American Red Cross said it has aided almost 750,000 war victims in the Middle East and distributed more than $2 million worth of relief mater ial there, largely purchased with U. S. Government allocated funds. The State Department said 193 persons, including many U. S. citizens who have been awaiting passage in Sw’ed- en, arrived in New York on the S. S. Gripsholm, and 10 Axis officials and approximately 930 Axis civilians sail ed for Lisbon on the Drotingholm. The Armed Forces The House passed and sent to the Senate a $3 billion supplemental Na val appropriations bill to provide 200,000 tons of submarines, 500,000 tons of auxiliary vessels, $150 million for Aviation plant facilities, and other funds. Chairman Vinson of the House Na val Affairs Committee said approxi mately 99 more combatant ships will be commissioned during the remain der of 1942. Three more destroyers were launched. The CAA and the Navy completed arrangements to train 20,000 naval reservists as pilots at 600 CAAA training centers during the coming year, if money is appro priated. U. S. Army training films, especially those showing mechanism and tactical use of U. S .equipment, are being recorded in universal Span ish, Portuguese and Chinese, the War Department said, for exchange with other members of the United Nations. Civilian Supply WPB Materials Director A. I. Hen derson said vital materials can no longer be used except for war and maintenance of those things necess ary to the w’ar because from now on “it will be a continuous problem to provide materials to meet the needs of our fighting forces.” The WPB said preferred applicants for new telephones cannot obtain service un less they prove the service is essen tial to the discharge of their respon sibility for public health, welfare or security. The Board issued an order relieving from restrictions lumber deliveries for more than 100,000 of the most essential housing units now under construction. The FHA author ized its field offices to begin insuring to the extent of $500j000,000 loans of private lending institutions for con struction of housing for war workers. A Food Requirements Committee, headed by Agriculture Secretary Wic- kard, w’as set up to control produc tion and allocation of all civilian and military food supplies. Rationing All motorists w’ill receive “A” books containing a year’s base supply of 48 coupons under the new’ permanent gasoline rationing system which will be established in the East about the first w’eek of July, OPA said. Supplementary B books w’ith an ad ditional 16 coupons will be issued to motorists who prove need for extra rations, providing they are members of a car pool. No unlimited privileges will be granted any one, but C books containing. 96 coupons will be issued to some motorists. S books for trucks and buses, good for a four month period, will cover just enough fuel for the mileage allowed in forth coming ODT regulations. Motorcy clists will receive D books, good for 40 per cent as much gasoline as A books. Under the new system service stations and distributors will be re quired to turn in collected coupons when purchasing new stocks. The OPA released about 10,000 bicycles to war production plants qualified to buy them for transportation of work ers. COLOGNE ADMITS CITY IS IN RUINS Fertilizer Rationing Is Expected By July 1 It looks as if fertilizer may be ra tioned, starting July 1, Dr. T. K. Wolfe, Richmond, Va., an official of Southern States Cooperative, pointed out in Chicago at a committee meet ing of a group of representatives of many of the leading farmer coopera tives in the nation when he led a round table discussion of what farm- may expect regarding fertilizer ers in the near future. This committee will pass on to the government the results of its studies in an effort to aid the government in formulating a wartime program for agriculture. “It also looks,” said Dr. Wolfe, “as if the nitrogen content of fertilizer as well as the number of analyses of fertilizer which can be offered farm ers will be reduced. The government will in all probability see that the amount of sand and other worthless filler so often used in manufacturing fertilizers is greatly reduced. As soon as fertilizer manufacturers find out what action the government will take, they will begin to prepare for the coming season... “There are strong indications that there will be a serious shortage of nitrogen because of the use of this element in the manufacture of am munition. Cooperatives are advising members to plant more legumes on their farms so that these crops can supply nitrogen to the land and thus take care of part of the market short age of fertilizers. The supply of su perphosphate and potash available for use in fertilizers will depend largely on transportation, as many of these materials as well as other ne cessities that have been moving by boat are now coming by rail, causing a greater load to be placed upon the railroads.... “There will be practically no burlap for fertilizer bags this fall, cotton is high, and the supply of cotton bags is limited; however the paper bag supply will, no doubt, be sufficient for the fall season,” Dr. Wolfe explained. QUALITY MILLWORK .—SASH —DOORS —BLINDS -SCREENS —The Best In Lumber— W. E. PARKER & SON MICRO, N. C. Bern, Switzerland, June 5.—The first Cologne newspapers since the monster R. A. F, raid of last Satur day night reached neutral territory today, carrying the somber statement that the historic Rhineland city, as its people have known it, is “forever lost.” The- Koelnische Zeitung, resuming publication on Wednesday of this week, described Cologne as “still smoking ruins,” with some fires still alight and “whole quarters of the town empty.” (A German dispatch quoted by the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter said all the property of 10,000 persons had been destroyed; that the central district of the city was ruined and that the damage had reached deep into the suburbs.) THOUSANDS HOMELESS Said the Koelnische Zeitung: “The entire aspect of the city is completely changed. Tens of thou sands of inhabitants during the night learned with horror that the individ ual is powerless against fate.” The newspaper avoided saying whether the vast and magnificent Gothic Cathedral, famous the world over, had been hit, but it did say that “most of the precious monuments which have held a chief place in Ger man art w’ere more or less destroyed by fire and are irreparable. ENORMOUS DAMAGE It went on: “Those who survived the night of May 30 and who on the morrow look ed at the city were fully aware that they had bade farewell forever to their Cologne, because the damage is enormous and because the integral part of the character and even the traditions of the city are gone for QUESTIONS? ever. “Everyw’here the same spectacle— indescribable destruction. Only shat tered windows and walls are seen.” BIZZLE’S GROVE NEWS ITEMS by Miss Missie Braswell Mr. and Mrs. Winston Braswell and little son, Franklin, of Roseboro were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Braswell. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Braswell and children, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Thompson and children, and Mr. Mrs. Braxton Braswell of near Brogden and Mr. and Mrs. Thel An derson and children of near Smith- field visited them on Sunday. Miss Clara Mae Woodard of near Pine Level is spending several days with Miss Missie Braswell. Mr. and Mrs. Ruth Daughtry and daughter, Inez, and Mr. and Mrs. Archie Edwards of near Brogden, visited Mr. and Mrs. Preston Wiggs Sunday night. Miss Melda Williams of near Rains Cross Roads, was the week end g-uest of Miss Ruby Pace. Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Aycock and children of Bagley, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Massey. Mr. and Mrs. David Earl Evans of near Pine Level visited Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Eason Sunday evening. — B G — Marriage Announced Mr. and Mrs. Harlow Overbee of Smithfield Route 2 announce the mar riage of their daughter. Myrtle, to Mr. Braxton Braswell of Princeton, Route 1, on Sunday, June 7th, in Dillon, South Carolina. An airplane hanger from World War I serves as a district shop for the State Highway Commission at Wilmington, N. C. SAVE YOUR OLD TIRES with Tire Reliners, all sizes. —F. & P. Auto Parts Co., Selma. Du Pont Rides Bike 11. When did steam supplant sails as motive power in shipping ? 2. How ancient is the art of weaving ? 3. How does astronomy differ from astrology 1 4. Where did the American dollar originate ? 5. Did Columbus actually set foot on North America? 6. Where is the only active volcano ’ in the United States ? 7. When were glass mirrors first pro duced ? ^ 8. Who was the author of “The Con- ' fessions of an English Opium Eater” ? 9 Whose creative genius was the ' greatest in the history of music? 10. How many books are printed an- jn the United States ? answers Lamniot Du Pont, chairman of the board of the E. I. Du Pont de Ne mours company, Wilmington, Del., lives up to the gas ration program by riding to work on a bicycle. For the first attempts at riding Mrs. Du Pont trailed behind him in an auto. NAIL POLISH Soldiers at Camp Blanding, Fla., have borrowed an idea from the ladies with a view to keeping neat and trim. Transparent fingernail polish is the new army method of saving the shine on brass ornaments. A temple near Kunming, the capital of Yunnan, China, is made entirely of bronze. 1. About 1870. 2. As far back as the later Stone ' Age, the Ntolithic. 3. Astronomy is the science of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, stars, planets, with their satellites, and the comets. While astrology is a system of forecasting the qualit ies and fate of men from the posi tion of the heavenly bodies. 4. The United States dollar is pat terned after the. Spanish dollar or piece-of-eight. 5. No. 6. Lassen Peak, elevation 10,453 ft., in northeastern Calif. 7. About 1300 in Italy. 8 Thomas De Quincey, English writ- ' er. (1785-1859). 9. Johann Sebastian Bach. 10. More than 10,000 volumes. TOO GOOD A blacked-out skylight on a San Diego, Calif., downtown building was covered so well it fooled the janitor who painted it. The janitor, Thomas Bond 56, stepped through the black ened glass and fell 20 feet. He was not seriously injured. There are more than 665,000 build ings in New York City. TYPHOID AND DIPHTHERIA CLINICS MONDAY, JUNE 8th, 15ith, 22nd, 29th, 1942 9:30 A. M.—Creech’s Store—Hunter Road Short Journey School 10:30 A. M.—Leon P. Johnson’s Service Station Drug Store (Qeveland Section) 11:30 A. M.— Elevation Church Amelia Church 2:00 P. M.—Oliver’s Grove Wilson’s Mills School WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10th, 17th, 24th, JULY 1st, 1942 9:30 A. M.—Barefoot’s Service Station (Newton Grove Road) Flowers’ Cross Roads 10:30 A. M.—Mill Creek Church Corinth-Holder Schiol ■ . 11:30 A. M.—E. G. Blackman’s Servi'ce Station Stancil’s Chapel School 2:00 P. M.—Lee’s Chapel Church Corbett-Hatcher School FRIDAY, JUNE 12th, 19th, 26th, JULY 3rd, 1942 9:30 A. M.—Sanders Chapel Church Lowell’s Mill 10:30 A. M.—Progressive Church Kenly, Dr. Woodard’s Office 11:30 A. M.—Fellowship Church Glendale School 2:00 P. M.—Parrish Memorial Church Micro School Johnston County Health Department SMITHFIELD, N. C. Important Notice! Law Requires That All Unpaid ’41 Real Estate Taxes Re Advertised For ISale On Ang. 1st and Sold Sept. 1st Pay your county taxes between now and August 1st. Save pay ment of advertising cost and penalty. G. Ira Ford Tax Collector, Johnston County
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