iacon will get
ORDNANCE PLANT
^ree Others Are Also To Be
Built Soon By Navy De
partment
WASHINGTON' Dec' 14' —La>)—
' ,pr f0,ir additional naval ord
?itfSp plants to cost approximately
"foon 000 were announced today by
’ v department.
♦he a ■
. gecretary James Forrcstal
’^ounced I hat one of the plants
!”n'1(i he located near Detroit, one
canton, Ohio, and another at
Indianapolis. Ind., and the fourth
,, tjacon. C-ia.
. pe'toit area plant will cost
-Joximatel,- $12,000,000 and em
a:.'' about IU100 persons Forrestal
f H He estimated the cost of the
f n,pn area plant at approximately
♦fs 000,00 0 and said it would em
pjpv approximately 2,000.
The approximate cost of the In
dianapolis Plant was placed at $6,
000.000 and the number of employes
,, about 2,500.
The Macon factory will cost about
1100,000 and provide work for about
;50 persons.
Franklin High Takes
Atkinson Cage Tilts
iTKlNSO.V. Dec. 14.—The Frank
,jn jjjgh school basketball teams de
feated Atkinson in a doubleheader
Thursda'' nignt in the local glm
nasium, the boys winning 24 to 11
and the girls 24 to 8.
In the hoys game. Brower led the
winners with 14 points, and Marion
Croom was high scorer for the losers
with 4. Byron Simpson starred on
defense for Atkinson.
In the girls game, Ennis led the
winners with 10 points, and Elea
nor and Margaret Chestnut set the
scoring pace for the losers with
three markers each.
ABATEMENT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — UP)' —
The treasury announced today an
abatement of $40,744 on income taxes
paid by the Locke Cotton Mills Com:
rinv Inc., of Concord. N. C.
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Burma Next on Japan’s List?
Threat of a Japanese drive on British Burma is seen in heavy Nip
ponese troop concentrations in southern China and on islands in the
China Sea. Besides axing aid to China via the Burma road, Japan would
gain valuable resources in such a move.
Co. I Soldiers At Ft. Jackson
Win Honors With Gar and'Rifle
By DAVID BRINKLEY
FORT JACKSON, S. C., Dec. 14.—
Wilmington’s Company I, 120th In
fantry, came off the range here this
week after completing a course of
fire with the army’s new Garand
Ml rile and after compiling unusual
ly high scores throughout the out
fit.
High man in the company was
Corporal Carlton E. Carney, who
won an expert’s medal by shooting
266 out of a possible 300 points.
Other men winning expert rating
were: Private John A. Congleton, 265
points, and Private Charlie H. Bor
deaux, 264 points.
The course consisted of rapid and
slow fire in prone, sitting, kneeling
and standing positions.
Captain Joseph E. Cheek, company
commander, First Lieutenant James
M. Hall, Jr., and Second Lieutenant
Claude E. Allen were range officers.
Men winning sharpshooter rat
ings by making more than 249 of a
possible 300 points were: Sergeants
Clarence E. Marshburn, 258; Marion
W. Millis, 258; Norman L. Ellers,
257; and David McC. Brinkley, 252.
Corporals James H. Morse, 254;
and Gerald M. Wolfe, 250.
Privates First Class Aubrey A.
Jones, 262; Robert E. Waters, 253;
and Charles E. Batson, 249.
Privates James M. Lindenberger,
262; Franklin E. Sullivan, 256; Luth
er E. Harrelson, 254; John T. Jor
dan, Jr., 252; Clayton D. Burton,
249; and Carlie E. Rich, 249.
Those who qualified as marksmen
by marking more than 198 out of a
possible 300 were:
Sergeants Odis Q. Barefoot, Greer
B. Craig, Kenneth E. Eaton, Frede
rick P. Hatch and Porter L. Hufham.
Corporals James A. Brewer, Vivian
G. Brown, Coy Hewett, Jr„ Norman
E. Hudson and Grover D. Watson.
Privates First Class Leroy Brown,
John R. Campbell, Jr., Norman R.
Campbell, William E. Hufham,
James F. Melton, Jessie C. Pugh,
Robert D. Southerland and Ernest
F. Stokley.
Privates David R. Brew, Jack
Brown, Thomas W. Buie, John S.
Cameron, Jr., John C. Chinnis, Hil
don P. Clark, Adolph Darden, Jr.,
Ben J. Duckworth, Arthur W. Faulk,
Robert A. Fisher, David Freedman,
Clarence E. Hales, Carson H. Hawes,
Joseph M. Hines, William D. Jus
tice, Walker T. LaClair, Caldwell W.
Mintz, Alexander A. Nelms, David
O. Newman, George J. Parker, Joel
T. Piner, Charles Porter, Edward S.
Sanders, Oliver D. Smith, Willard
H. Smith, Floyd E. Stuart, LeRoy
Stokley, Joseph J. Watkins, Nor
wood J. Wolfe, Clayton Wright and
Abbott D. Yopp.
Prior to firing on the 200-300 yard
course, preliminary firing was held
on a 1,000 inch course for the pur
pose of selecting men to fire the
automatic rifle,
This course consisted of 28 rounds
with a possible score of 140.
High man and winner of expert
medal here was Private James L.
Walker, who shot 124.
Sharpshooters were:
Sergeants Norman L. Ellers, 123;
Maurice V. Hufham, 122; and David
McC. Brinkley, 120.
Corporals Linwood E. Williams,
119; and Allen B. Marshburn, 117.
Privates James H. McDonald, 123;
and William T. Harris, Jr., 118.
Those qualifying as marksmen
were; Privates First Class William
S. Beasley, Jr., Merrill W. Lockfaw,
James P. Sealey, and Stephen L.
Sealey.
Privates Hollie D. Carlisle, Walter
R. Register, Edward S. Sanders, and
Sanford W. Squires.
The new Ml rifle was found to
be greatly superior to the old Spring
field rifle in many instances—main
ly in the rapidty of firing. With the
new piece, it is possible to fire 16
aimed shots in one minute. In the
old rifle, more than 10 shots per
minute were impractical.
Range work with the Browning
automatic rifle, the fastest gun in
use in the army today, was under
way today, but no scores were yet
available. It is being fired on both
the short course and the 200 yard
range.
Other weapons to be used before
the company completes its range
work are the new M2 60 MM mortar
and the calibre .46 automatic pistol.
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HORSES NOMINATED
FOR $20,000 RACE
Whirlaway And Our Boots
Top Big Field Of Thor
oughbreds
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 14.—Iff)--Nine
ty-one young thoroughbreds includ
ing the two leading money win
ners of the year, may get a shot
Flamingo stakes — their first big
test as three-year-olds!
Whirlaway, winner of 77,275 this
year, and Our Boots, with 72,551
among the present two-year-olds,
top the big field of nominations for
the classic next Feb. 22.
Our Boots already has defeated
Whirlaway in the Belmont Futuri
ty, but Whirlaway has victorie*s in
the Saratoga Special, Saratoga
Hopeful, Breeders Futurity at
Keenland and Walden stakes at
Pimlico.
The Flamingo first was inaugu
rated as the Florida Derby in 192ti.
The name was changed by Joseph
W. Widener in 1937.
Besides its standing as a horse
race, the Flamingo has special ap
peal as a spectacle because of the
droves of pink flamingoes which
are paraded from their nests in
the Hialeah infield down the racing
strip before the big event.
Among the promising youngsters
nominated for the 1941 renewal are
Col. E. R. Bradley’s Bryan Sta
tion, E. K. Bryson’s Cismarion,
and Mrs. L. Palladino’s Little
Beans, winner over Level Best,
1940’s champio filly, at Havre de
Grace.
The Flamingo will be run at the
height of the Florida racing sea
son, just a week before Hialeah
Widener. 1
‘Wild Bill’ Donovan
On Way To London
LISBON, Portugal, Dec. 14.—UP)—
Col. William J. (Wild Bill) Donoavn,
en route to Europe on a mission that
has not been publicly explained, ar
rived here by airplane late today.
He declined to discuss his trip in
any way save to remark:
“I am hoping to go to London.”
Among the other passengers was a
British diplomatic courier.
CIO Chief Scores
*Smack Labor* Bills
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—(.T)—“Tames
B. Carey, secretary of the CIO. said
today that rights of labor are “under
attack in the most serious way’” and
urged "fair play” for labor to achieve
maximum defense production.
He asserted that "smack-labor”
bills in congress and state legisla
tures “threaten everybody, not just
labor alone.”
ADD PET PEEVES:
THE LOUDSPEAKER MAN
PUEBLO, Colo. UR—Under the
heading of things he would like to
see abolished a Pueblo newspaper
columnist listed the amateur an
nouncer (over the public address
system) at high school football
games.
Calling a punt a “quick kick,”
and calling the visiting team’s loss
a “nice loss,” can be forgiven, he
said, but—
“We rear up on our hind legs
when he begins calling the shots
in advance to the benefit of the
opposing team.”
‘“There goes so and so back for
a fake kick,” he says. And again:
‘Bennett is back; he is going to
kick.’”
“Maybe,” suggested the colum
nist, “the opposing team is not so
well informed as the announceer.”
KNOWS TIGHT CASE
WHEN SEES ONE
TULSA, Okla.—UP)—"The defend
ant,” said the accusation on file,
"was voluntarily in a state of mud
dled and maudlin intoxication and
inebriated, boozy drunk; saturated,
drenched, besotted, befuddled and
stupefied thereby and so completely
under the influence thereof as to
have appreciably affected and im
paired the normal control of his
body, muscles, eyesight, nerves and
physical and mental facilities and
his ability to properly drive, control,
manage and operate a motor ve
hicle and so completely drunk as to
necessitate his laying in jail a num
ber of hours thereafter to be re
vived."
Army’s Modern Helen of Troy
The use of pretty girls In recruiting for army or navy is as old as
Helen of Troy, whose face “launched a thousand ships.” The U. S. Army’s
1941 model of Helen is pretty Elaine Bassett, above, daughter of a Dallas,
Texas, Baptist minister. A New York model, she’s been chosen to pose
for the U. S. “Join the Army” posters.
*Bundles For Britain*
Seeking More Knitters
New York headquarters of “Bun
dles for Britain” yesterday an
nounced that a vast amount of
knitted garments is still needed.
The organization, which has
grown spontaneously throughout
the country among American wom
en, last week had shipped more
than 100,000 complete knitted out
fits and a 1,000 crates of clothing
and blankets.
The “Bundles for Britain” or
ganization functions entirely
through volunteer workers and
Mrs. W. V. D. Ochs, one of the
local workers, has requested that
any reports circulating with ref
erence to the fact that no more
knitted garments are needed be
refuted immediately. 5
One diphtheria inoculation will
ward off the disease for several
years.
Newsmen Roast Politicians, Plug
For National Unityat Banquet
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. —UP>—
The Gridiron club’s winter dinner
tonight poked fun at its members,
both political parties and a few as
sorted victims, and closed on a dis
tinctly patriotic note of national
unity.
The dinner marked the completion
of the presidential term of Mark
Foote, Washington correspondent of
the Booth newspapers of Michigan.
Harold Brayman of the Houston
Chronicle succeeded to the presiden
cy.
President1 Foote referred to the
absence of President Roosevelt, his
first during his two terms, in his
introductory remarks.
"Tonight the Gridiron club makes
contribution to the cause of national
unity,” said Foote. “During the late
unpleasantness, 'by a series of
strange circumstances, it happened
that the paths of the President of
the United States and the republican
candidate did not cross. By a series
of circumstances they will not cross
tonight. The great inspector and
the great crusader are still more
than 12 hours apart.”
"On one thing,” Foote continued,
‘‘there is no division in America.
We are beating our plowshares into
swords and training our boys to
be soldiers for defense and we mean
business. In this we stand united.
"Through it all we can still laugh
in America. Just ahead of us is a
Merry Christmas, a happy New Year
and much heavier taxes.”
The two speeches of the evening,
off the record in the tradition of
the dinner, were made by two de
feated candidates, Wendell L. Will
kie, unsuccessful republican aspirant
for the presidency, and Henry F.
Ashurst, who failed to retain his
seat as a democratic senator from
Arizona. A parody on “Empty Sad
dles in the Old Corral” marked the
introduction of Senator Ashurst.
Newly elected United States sena
tors were among the guests: Ralph
O. Brewster of Maine, C. Wayland
Brooks of Illinois, Raymond E. Wil
lis of Indiana, Harold H. Burton of
Ohio and Joseph H. Ball of Minne
sota.
Foreign correspondents and edi
tors recently returned from cover
ing the European war included Lloyd
Lehrbas of the Associated Press,
William Phillip Sims, Scripps-How
ard foreign editor, and Edgar Ansel
Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News.
The dinner opened with a skit,
"The Gridiron Club is Always Right,
or Uncle Franklin’s Dog House.”
A chorus wearing dunce caps, rep
resenting the “White House Order
of the Dunce Caps” sang songs
from other years, each showing how
wide of the mark were Gridiron
shots in dinners beginning with
1936.
A song in 1936 had a chorus de
claring "There’ll be no third term’*
and there were others in 1937, 1938,
and 1939. But the dunce cap chorus
said the clubmen were only fooling
in the past years and "Oh, we told
you so, we knew it all the time.
The champ is still the champion,
we knew it all the time.”
National defense, the national de
fense advisory commission, the
Army and Navy high commands,
investigating committees and scien
tific polls of opinion all came in
for some good natured ribbing but,
as always, the high spots were
reached with political skits.
The republican show took the
diners to ‘‘Suburbia,’’ a semi-mythi
cal kingdom from which lately de
parted a crusade to rescue the land
from the New Infi-Deal.
A man in medieval costume, wear
ing a silk hat, smoking a big cigar
and reading a newspaper, was found
seated in the doorway of the Union
League club. A reporter making a
vain search for Sir Tom Girdler*
his highness, Hoy W. Howard, Mr.
Joe Pew, Jr., Princeton Joe Martin
and Charlie McNary, Esquire, asked
if Sir Wendell Wlllkie had returned
from his great moral victory.
Columbus Officers Cut
Big Still, Take Man
WHITEVILUE, Dec. 14.—An early
morning raid early this morning by
Columbus officers netted the capture
of one of the largest whiskey stills
ever taken In the county, and the
arrest of one of the two men found
at it. Othell Arp, resident of the
Pleasant Plains section, was arrest
ed at the still by the raiding offi
cers, who included Sheriff H. D.
Stanley, Deputies H. L. Shaw and
Carl Sasser.
The still was about 300 gallon
capacity, and 12 gallons of whiskey
were captured along with the still.
Arp's alleged companion fled at the
arrival of the officers.
ROUNDUP
BUCHAREST, Dec. 14— <£>>—’The
arrest 61 "numerous” communists,
most of them Jews, in Bucharest
and other cities throughout Rumania
on charges of "circulating leaflets
against the public order” was an
nounced today by Premier Gen. Ion
Antonescu.
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