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DI-Y minstrel SLATED FRIDAY 4nnUal Show Will Be Present €d In Auditorium Of New Hanover High School Tll„ twenty-seventh annual Hi-Y . trel will be presented in the lulitorium of New Hanover High School Friday Night, May 2, at 8:15 o'clock ■ This year s edition gives promise f being one of the best shows ever !jven "by the organization. It is Censored by the Alpha and Minorah chapters and the Senior chapters of the Girls’ Hi-Y. Charlie Taylor is directing the boVS in their Thespian efforts. End nen ,vjU be Morris Daniels, Lehman creene, Kenneth Davis, William Jones, Bill Bowen, Bryant Marsh burn jerrould Robinson will do the an nouncing and Bobby Smith will act as interlocutor. TAXES will take quarter of u. s. income next year (Continued From Page One) over three major networks will launch the national defense sav ings program. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Post master General Walker also will speak. On Thursday, defense stamps and savings bonds wil lgo on sale at 16.000 post offices, thousands of banks and other agencies. Congress members dealing with tax legislation said they believed the public was ready to accept the heavier tax burden. Most indi cated. however, a disposition to await reaction to various alter native tax suggestions before de ciding how the money should be raised. First public hearings on the treasury’s proposals are to be held Monday. Under treasury claims,, about fi7.500.000.000 would be raised from income taxes, old and new. It proposes higher levies also on whiskey, tobacco, and a host of other commodities, both luxuries and necessities. The treasury has set no over all goal of the amount to be rais ed from sale of defense bonds and stamps to the public. Officials in dicated, however, that they hoped to sell about 6500,000.000 worth a month. BRITISH RUSH TO PROTECT SUEZ AREA (Continued From Page One) trances and exits to the Mediter ranean, east and west. Conclusion of the Greek campaign —of which there were today only slim accounts dealing with gallantry cf the British rear guards—is expect ed to release additional forces of both the army and navy for defense of Esift from a German thrust toward the Suez Canal. The British still expressed hope that Turkey would stand firm against any Axis drive southeast from the Balkans, but they noted the dangers in the German occupa tion of Samothrace and Lemnos. In the most important battle of all—that of the Atlantic—the British reported they were making some pro gress in reducing their ship losses, although they predicted increased at tacks as the weather improves. Reliable observers speculated that the l nited States patrols announced by President Roosevelt would help insure fairly safe conduct for sup ply ships in the western half of the Atlantic and would free many Brit ish warships for service on the more Perilous seas around Britain. threat of g. m. WALKOUT LIFTED (Continued From Page One) think there is every hope that they will still get together.” The administration’s policy he said, would be to give the miners and operators “every opportunity” to reach an agreement. Late in the day, the board an nounced a formula for settling a strike at the Buffalo, N. Y., plant of the American Car and Foundry Company—which has a $6,000,000 contract for shell parts—and said >t had “an understanding” that the Procedure would be accepted. Included in the proposal was the disbanding of picket lines immedi ate'y; reemployment of workers at work as of April 15 without dis crimination as soon as jobs are available, and an investigation by 'he National Labor Board of any charges. • An AFL and CIO union are in volved in the dispute which con ^rns union recognition. 3 _ADVERTISEMENT Lemon Juice Recipe Checks Rheumatic Pain Quickly 7 .-v°1' suffer from rheumatic, ar "Htis or neuritis pain, try this sim ple inexpensive home recipe thai lousands are using. Get a package 1 Hu-Ex Compound, a two-week ' PP-y. today. Mix it with a quart h’«Water' ad(J the iuice °f 4 lemons easy- No trouble at all arid ,®asant- You need only 2 table ^poonsful two times a day. Often nisll!n 48 hours, sometimes over j.j’- splendid results are obtained Pains do not quickly leave tlio lf you do not feel better, return C(1 , emPty package and Ru-Ex will bv v 0U notriing to try as it is sold !0,lr druggist under an absolute Dmi!f,rback guarantee. Ru-Ex Com nti is for sale and recommended bunders Drug Store and drug stores everywhere. __ Held After Holdup Attempt Joseph Kress, alias Joseph Benson (left), manacled to a detective, is led to police headquarters after frustrated holdup attempt at the New York Athletic club. He was captured after a furious chase, while his holdup pal, cornered, shot himself to death. The gangsters were attempting to rob Bookmaker Frank Ericksoh. AMERICAS WILL TAKE FOREIGN SHIPS IN PORTS (Continued From Page One) mittee, which met today with Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles presiding, it quickly w on unanimous approval. The recommendations will now be transmitted to the 21 govern-1' ments. Three points were em braced in the proposal: (1) That the governments de clare that foreign vessels immobil ized by the war in their ports are subject to seizure under interna tional law and may be utilized through agreement with their own ers or under the right of each gov ernment to take control of the vessels “as they may deem it con venient to satisfy their own re quirements.” (2) That adequate compensation be paid to the owners of the ships, in accordance with international law and the national legislations of each country. (3) That the nations “reaffirm their full right to navigation of and international trade.” Although the proposal did not differentiate between ships of va rious nationalities, there appeared to be a question whether the French ships in ports of both the United States and Latin America would be seized. Gaston Henry Haye, the French ambassador, said recently after a talk with Welles that seizure of the ships was not contemplated. 3 WEATHER (Continued From Page One) WASHINGTON, April 26. — (JP) — Weather bureau records of temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending S p. m., in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Prec. Alpena, clr_ 53 38 0.00 Asheville, clr_ 65 48 0.00 Atlanta, clr_ 72 51 0.00 Atlantic Ctiy, p c- 49 43 0.00 Birmingham, cldy- 73 45 0.00 Boston, clCy - 46 38 0.00 Buffalo, clr_ 62 35 0.00 Burlington, p c- 63 32 0.00 Charlotte_ 68 49 0.00 Chicago, clr_ 70 39 0.00 Cincinnati, clr - 70 33 0.00 Cleveland, clr_ 62 3T 0.00 Denver, cldy- 67 39 0.00 Detroit, p c —- 62 36 0.00 Duluth, p c- 56 34 0.01 El Paso, cldy- 69 51 0.21 Fort Worth, rn_ 63 60 0.16 Galveston, cldy - 74 64 0.00 Havre, p c_ 70 39 0.00 Jacksonville, clr-- 69 58 0.00 Kansas City, p c_ 75 45 0.00 Key West, rn_ 84 75 0.51 Little Rock, cldy_ 71 50 0.00 Louisville, clr _ 67 36 0.00 Memphis, cldy- 72 48 0.00 Meridian, cldy __ 76 50 0.00 Miami, p c_ 84 74 0.10 Minn.-St. Paul, p c_ 74 48 0.00 Mobile, cldy_ 79 • 56 0.00 New Orleans, cldy- 78 __ 0.00 New York, cldy- 5d\ 43 0.00 Norfolk, clr _ 55 \ 47 0.20 Pittsburgh, clr_ 65 39 0.00 Portland, Me., clc'y_ 47 27 0.00 Portland, Ore., clr_ 74 44 0.00 Richmond, clr- 63 43 0.09 St. Louis, clr-- 70 40 0.00 San Antonio, rn —— 66 53 1.40 San rancisco, clr ..... _ 52 0.00 .Savannah, clr__ 74 55 0.00 Tampa, clr_ 82 68 0.00 Vicksburg, cldy_ 78 49 0.00 Washington, clr _ 64 46 0.00 Wilmington, clr- 68 50 0.00 City Briefs CLUB TO MEET The regular meeting of the Carolina Beach Home Demon stration club will be held at the home of Mrs. C. A. Wither spoon, Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs. A. E. Kure will be joint hostess. SPRING FESTIVAL The annual Peabody Spring Festival will be held Monday night in the auditorium of Wil liston Industrial High school. PRAYER MEET A week of prayer will be held at the Fourth Street Advent Christian church beginning to night at 8 o’clock, and holding through Friday night. Services will begin each night at 8 o'clock. The pastor will bring a special message on prayer each night. The public is cor dially invited to attend. COUNCIL MEETING Cape Fear Council No. 24, Daughters of America, will hold its regular meeting Monday night in the Junior Order hall at 8 o’clock. All members are urged to attend. FRITZ KREISLER INJURED BY CAR (Continued From Page One) condition is good. There will b< a 72-hour period of observation.” On the way frim his home tc Carnegie Hall, Kreisler apparent ly became confused in the traffic at Fiwty-seventh street and Madi son avenue, one of the city’s busiest intersections. Police said t h c driver of the truck, Patrick Luca damo, reported he was unable tc avoid striking Kreisler. Lucadamc was held for questioning. The violinist’s wife, Mrs. Harriet Kreisler, went to the hospital. She was joined there by Howard Heck, Kneisler’s personal representative; George Engels, vice-president ol the National Broadcasting com pany; Kreisler’s nephew, Kurl Kreisler, and violinist Alberl Spalding, a close friend. Heck said Kreisler undoubtedlj would be forced to cancel his en gagement at the New York Citj Philharmonic concert in July anc possibly a proposed national torn in the fall. He was last heard here a month ago as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic orchestra. A native of Vienna, Kreisler be came gloomy over the future ol Austria after the rise of the Nazis, and changed to French citizenship two years ago. H eremarked ir an interview last fall: “it seems that now I am living from day to day, from hour to hour.” 3 United States mints, during the past fiscal year, have manufac tured and delivered to banks more than 180,000,000 new nickels. N. C. First In Dixie In Negroes Covered By Old-Age Insurance WASHINGTON, April 26. — (£>) — North Carolina ranks first among 12 southern states in the number of negroes covered by old-age insurance. Of the 1.183,000 negroes who re ceived taxable wages qualifying them for inclusion in the program, 142,700 lived in North Carolina and 135,400 lived in Georgia, which ranked sec ond. I This was disclosed in a study by Charles L. Franklin of the analysis division of the bureau of old-age and survivors insurance. The number of negroes covered in the other 10 states were: Virginia, 119,200; Alabama, 118.300; Louisiana, 118,600; Florida, 112,500; Arkansas, 44,600 Kentucky, 41,300; Maryland, 64,500; Mississippi, 82,200; South Carolina, 73,500; and Tennessee, 84, 200. J The District of Columbia, also in cluded in the study, had 45,300. Franklin reported the average wage for these negroes was.only $388 in 1938, representing 23 per cent of all workers covered by old-age insur ance !n those areas, their total tax able wages for that year was $372, 000,000. Alabama was first in the total amount o- taxable wages with $42, 500,000; Virginia second at $41,300, 000, and North Carolina next with $40,900,000. Franklin noted that only 31 per cent of the southern negroes were covered by the program, most of the exclusions result from the exemption of agricultural and domestic workers, he explained. GARAND RIFLES PROVE SUPERIOR Controversial ‘M-l’ Throws More Lead Than Any Other Rifle BY PAUL HARRISON NE?A Service Stall Correspondent FORT BENNING, Ga. — A sol dier’s rifle is a personal and vital arm. Especially for a U. S. soldier, it is s symbol of his national heri tage—of wars and wildernesses won. At least it should be. Mili tary leaders know it would be a bad thing if men lacked pride and faith in their rifles, and there were some misgivings about replacing the simple and reliable Springfield (Model 1903) with the more intri cate and frankly less dependable Garand, a semi-automatic. But nobody, was quite prepaid for the hullabaloo that arose about a year ago and which has been fanned again by publication of unfavorable excerpts from a re port of competitive tests made by the Marine Corps. Visiting camps in the south, this reporter heard selectees and Na tional Guardsmen, who had n o 1 fired the Garand, wondering whether Washington bureaucracy was about to hand them an inferior weapon. They said they had seen no answers to criticisms they had read. Here at Fort Benning, home of the Infantry School for Officers and of the policy-shaping Infantry Board, are all the answers about the new primary arm of our fight ing forces. They’re not exactly of ficial, but you could call them au thoritative, because the officer ] interviewed is Col. T. S. Wessles, rifle instructor at the Infantry School, test officer during part ol the Garand’s 15-year development, and an exceptional marksman whc several times has gone to the' Na tional Rifle Matches at Camp Per ry, O. snuues muivr. naoicx THAN SPRINGFIELD Sitting in his office, Colonel Wes sles rapidly took apart a Garand (now known as the Ml, meanrni Model One) and explained how ii works. This is the main idea; About two inches from the end oJ the barrel, and at a right angle tc it, is a hole smaller than the leac in a pencil. Part of the expanding gas which is driving the bulle goes through this vent, whams in to a tiny piston, which in t u r i pushes back the breech mechan ism, ejects the old shell and put! in a new one as it closes. A1 quick-like-a-mouse. The riflemai doesn’t have to work a lever oj bolt; he just aims and squeezes the trigger. The reason the Army and Ma rine Corps adopted the Ml is tha it can fire from two to three times as many aimed shots per minute as the Springfield. Every phase o modern warfare is a race for su perior fire power, and no foreigr nation has an infantry rifle tha can throw anything like the amout of lead that the Garanc does. Down to the last screw anc spring, the Garand has 71 parts the Springfield 94. But Colone Wessles said there are more im portant parts in the Ml, and tha it really is more complicated Hence it is somewhat less reliable “But you just can’t get the sami standard of absolute dependabili t.j in a semi-automatic that’s possible in one you operate by hand,’’ he added. He probably was thinking o: tests by the Marine Corps boarc in which guns were doused ir gooey mud, dragged through sane and sprayed with salt water. The Springfield still could be fired The Garand, with more intricate parts and closer tolerances, oftei: jammed. Regarding actual break age of parts, though, the olficei declared that ordnance mechanice on the range are no busier mak ing repairs than they were wher the famed Springfield was used. The front end of the Garand re cently has been altered slightly tc avoid a wabbling flip that was given to the tails of bullets as ^ej passed the gas vent. The Ml i‘ about as accurate as the Spring field and was especially com mended for accuracy by the sharpshooting Marines. There is no trouble with fouling. Colenel 21 Years 22 Planes PILOT ERIC LOCK 1’ilot Oflicer Eric Lock is only si years old, but already has 22 Nazi planes officially to his credit. The young RAF fighter pilot is (lie youngest to receive the Distinguish ed Service Order of this war. In ad dition, he has received the Distin guished Flying Cross and a bar to the latfc— Back to Britain for More Pictures Marcel Wallenstein, manager of Planet News, which supplies Euro peon pictures to NEA Service and this newspaper, boards clipper for return to Loudon after short stay in New York. “ Wesslee said that in a test of the new front end, a rifle was fi'ed 000 times without cleaning. Naturally, nw fast-shooting hand weapon gets hot during sus tained fire. The colonel said he has shot the Garand until the wood around the barrel burst ^nto flames, but it. kept on working all right. THE GARAND’S ADVANTAGES He named some specific advan tages: 1, The Ml uses a ciip of eight rounds instead of the Sprin field’s five. At the last shot, the clip is ejected with a resonant bong. 2. The Ml is easy to take apart and clean in the field. 3. The sights are in every waj stronger and superior. Adjust ment is closer and easier. Eleva tion and windage are changed bj thumb screws that click, and each click represented one inch to each • 100 yards of range. 4. The trigger stays in adjust - ment better than the Springfield’s. 5. The shell ejector is sturdier, surer than the Springfield’s. 6. A rifleman can conceal him self better with the Garand be cause he doesn’t have to raise a hand above the level of the barrel to operate a bolt. 7. The Garand has about one 1hird less recoil. Performance of the Ml in the hands of troops should settle the controversy about it, but the : Army has no official statistics so far. At Fort Sam Houston, Tex., I was told that more than 90 pet cent of selectees and other re cruits were qualifying as marks men or better with the Garand. That is a proportion previously un dreamed of. Here at Fort Benning, the score is even higher among classes o 1 officers—many of them reservists who haven’t fired a rifle in years. Colonel Wessles said that of h i s last class of 188, who had scarcely any practice because of bad weather, 70 rated expert riflemen, 52 sharpshooters, 63 marksmen, and only 3 failed to qualify. EASY TO HANDLE IN RAPID FIRE When we went out on a range to shoot a Garand I soon learned its advantages in rapid fire, which is the part of the record course wineo used to ruin the scores of most novices who shot the Springfield. With the old rifle, you were sup posed to shoot 10 times in a min ute at 200 yards. The new rule,for the Garand, is 16 shots a minute Colonel Wessles, though, began by loading and firing four clips of Si shots in 60 seconds, and scored 154 of a possible 160. At any slower rate of fire, he seemed never tc miss. My best target was 15 bulls eyes and one in the adjoining 4 ring—two clips fifed in 44 seconds. As one who used to like to shoot the Springfield, I was especially impressed with the Garand’s soft recoil and tro way it kicks straight back with very little wavering of the sights from the target. Presently Lt. Col. G. A. P >llin and his son came by. George Pol lin is a normal-sized 13-year-old who never had fired a .30 c-rj'ber rifle. He lay down and, with one clip at slow fire, plunked oif six bull’s-eyes and two 4’s. Some other visitors were Lt. and Mrs. C. B. Wolfe. She wasn’t dressed for the muddy firing line, but. she stood up and blazed away with the 15 pound rifle and didn’t mind tre re coil. Incidentaly, having heard vari ous Army men pro jounce ‘ ‘Gar and” in every possible way, I asked Colonel Wessles, who knows the inventor. Proper pronunciation i6 with a hard “G” as in the first syllable of “garage,” and witn the accent on the “and.” 4 The average circus elephant’s daily rations include 125 pounds of hay, one-half bushel of cats, seven pounds of bran, and about 50 gallons of water. CONSERVATION BOARD NAMED BY BROUGHTON (Continued From Page One) Carl Hudson of Morganton and Dr. Paul E. Jones of Farmviile. Mineral and water resources—Car roll ,P. Rogers of Tryon and Harry Bailey of Spruce Pine. Forestry and parks—YV. J. Dam toft of Asheville, K. Clyde Council of Wananish and Charles H. Jenkins of Aulander. State advertising — Martin and Josh L. Horne, Jr., of Rocky Mount. Commerce and industry—Irving Hall of Raleigh, Richard Tufts of Pinehurst and Oscar Breece of Fay etteville. Hampton, Doughton, Martin and Horne were the only board members reappointed. Other members of the old board were Coleman Roberts of Charlotte, Col. .1. W. Harrelson of Raleigh, James L. McNair of Laurin burg, J. ,T. Stone of Greensboro, Ev erett I. Bugs of Durham, Thurmond Chatham of Winston-Salem, Charles E. Ray, Jr., of Waynesville, and Walter I.ambeth of Charlotte. Broughton said that on the new board mineral interests of the state would be represented for the first time. No more buffalo nickels are being minted. EFIRD'S 2DTH ANNIVERSARY Special Values! _ __ rv 7-WAY LAMPS $3»9 Ivory or bronze finished lamps with beau, liful parchment shades. 7-way including night light in base. CURTAINS Lovely Priscilla type mar 4 ^ Miy quisette curtains in gener- A ous widths and lengths. # W Ecru, white and colors. Pair Dial 9961 WILMINGTON, N. C. — INFANT DRESSES Dainty hand-made dresses in sizes 6 months to 1 year. 97c to 1.95 INFANT DRESSES and GOWNS Beautifully hand-made garments. Sizes 0, 6 months to 1 year. 59c 2 for 1.00 INFANT SLIPS Softly comfortable slips. 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