TRAINING COURSE
IS PLANNED HERE
Organized For Employes Of
Power and Telephone Com.'
panies and Railroads
An engineering training course
is being organized in ' Wilmington
for employes of power companies,
telephone companies, railroads and
other organizations employing
electrical maintenance and equip
ment men, Director Edward W
Ruggles, of the State College Ex
tension division, announced in Ra
leigh yesterday.
The course will cover such sub
jects as direct and alternating cur
rent circuits, alternating current
fundamentals, power, transformers
and distribution systems. The class
will meet two nights each week
for 15 weeks.
Professor R. R. Brown, associate
professor of electrical engineering
at State college, will have super
vision of the course, assisted by
Ernest Edwin Kilburn, of Wilming
ton, superintendent of transmission
and distribution for the Tide Water
Power company.
Director Ruggles said anyone in
terested in taking the course should
make contact immediately with
Mr. Kilburn. The first class meet
ing is scheduled to be held about
June 10.
The course is being arranged as
part of State college’s engineering
defense training program as auth
orized by the U. S. Office of Edu
cation. 1
ROAD WORK NEAR
NEW MARINE BASE
TALKED AT MEET
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facilities would be needed for the
movement of heavy material.
The navy is also very interested,
the cammander added, in improving
U. S. 17 between Wilmington and
Jacksonville.
The Navy, using highway depart
ment workers and equipment, has
already started paving streets in
the base. This work will cost $25,
000 to $30,000 and will take about
two weeks. Chief Highway Engineer
W. Vance Baise said.
Governor Broughton said that
plans for roads to a marine air
base to be established on the Neuse
river near New Bern would be dis
cussed when it was decided on
which side of the river the project
would be located.
Those at the conference in addi
tion to Broughton, Cotter and Baise
were Ben Prince, chairman of the
highway and public works commis
sion, and Col. W. B. T. Hill, com
mander of the marine base.
STANDARD OIL TO I
SELL GAS TO JAPS!
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one country to another it might find
itself running directly counter to
the policy and interests of its own
government. Obviously it cannot
permit itself to be drawn into such
a position.”
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dog owners
Dog badges are now due and all dogs must wear badges
on collar; badges, $2.00 per annum. Due June 1st, 1941.
C. R. MORSE, Tax Collector
NOTICE
Trucks, Drays And Public Vehicles
New license plates are due June 1st, 1941, for all
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per year. Period: June 1st, 1941, to May 31, 1942.
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Graduating Class Of Nursing School
Shown above are members of the 1941 graduating class at James Walker Memorial hospital nursing school. They are, left to right:
Front row: Misses Aleive Mitchell, of Snow Hill; Lucille Alberta King, Freeland; Nina Frances Bussey, Modoc, S. C.; Geraldine Moore
King, Wilmington; Winifred Ware Mincy, Wilmington; Josephine Grady, Warsaw; Clara Belle Byrd, Mt. Olive;
Second row: Evelyn Katherine Wade, Charlotte: Minnie T. Gornto, Marines; Georgia Estelle Johnson, Benson; Helen Rose Johnson,
Benson: Annie Lou Ingram, Clinton; Bertha Mae Lowder, Albemarle; Ada Marie Bennett, Shallotte.
Third row: Lucille Gornto, Marines; Myrtle Louise Ervin, Stella; J alia E. Gaddy, Jacksonville; Leona Lanier, raison.
Fourth row: Sudie Wilkins, Dixon; Norma Hill Carter, Rose Hill; Helen Hardison, New Bern; Edna Gray Chestnut, Magnolia;! Velma
Clemmer, Belmont; Helena Willis, Jacksonville; Mary Eloise Martin, Tabor City. ....
Fifth row: Carrie Evelyn Eadon, Clinton; Louise Lemmie McGowan, Warsaw; Harriet Trammell Smith, Atkinson; Sybil Ann White, Marines;
Mary Grace Barker, Siler City. „ . , _ „ ..
Last row: Mary Viola Wright. Tabor City; Vera Catherine Jorgensen, Southport; Hildred Dare Harrison, New Bern; Eftie Mae Bostic,
Pink Hill; Dorothy Louise Driver, Wilmington. Not shown in the picture is Juanita E. Huggins. Whiteville.
WEATHER
(Continued From Page One)
WASHINGTON, June 3.— (jft —
Weather bureau record's of temperautre
and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8
p. in., in the principal cotton growing
areas and elsewhere:
Station High Low Prec.
Alpena, cd _ 68 54 0.00
Asheville _ 64 0.00
Atlanta, cd _ 90 69 0.08
Atlantic City, cd- 68 54 0.00
Birmingham, r_ 90 68 0.12
Boston. c - 83 57 0.00
Buffalo, cd_ 84 54 0.00
Burlington, cr- 76 47 0.00
Chicago, r_-_ 63 60 0.91
Cincinnati, r - 88 67 1.25
Cleveland, r- 68 63 0.27
Denver, cd- 73 48 0.51
Detroit r - 70 59 0.00
Duluth, p c- 60 44 0.27
El Paso, cd- 84 62 0.00
Fort Worth, cd- 79 68 0.07
Galveston, cd - — ”4 0.00
Havre, r_ 69 50 0.00
Jacksonville, cr - 98 69 0.00
Kansas City, cd- 75 64 0.-6
Key West, p c- 87 77 000
Little Rock, p c - 87 il O.J
Los Angeles, cd - 74 a7 0.00
Louisville, cd - 8a 70 4
Memphis, p c - 89 <- JJ- jj
Meridian, p c - JO <0
Miami, cr - 8a 7a 0.«l
Minn.-St. Paul, p c — io «- 0.01
Mobile, cr -. 87 <- ■
New Orleans p c- 88 i0 0
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Pittsburgh, r - 01 «1 0.31
Portland. Me., cr -- 76 al 0.00
Portland. Ore p c — >- 48 0.00
Richmond, cd - 01 . 9 0.4
St. Louis, cd - 82 0.
San Antonio, cd - —
San Francisco- --
Savannah^ P c - M 7n 0.00
rampa. cr —-- 7() 0(K,
Vicksburg, p c- -- 1 fll
Washington, r- 67 «0 o. n
Wilmington —- --
USO DRIVE OPENED
BY F. R. MESSAGE
(Continued From Page One)
paign, and Walter Hoving, presi
dent of the United Service Organi
zations spoke from New York.
From New York was broadcast
a depiction of military life, em
phasizing the need for recreational
facilities for men in the armed
forces and those engaged in na
tional defense work—a need which
the USO plans to fill by operating
club-rooms near defense centers
President Roosevelt’s message
said that recreation and leisure
time activities for the armed forces
and defense workers are both a
national and local responsibility.
“More recent developments
make united national action doubly
urgent for all fronts,” Mr. Roose
velt said. 1
Draft Registrants Are Warned
To Obey Notices From Boards
■ 1 — — — *
Warning to all selective service
registrants that they mu6t respond
to notices issued by local boards
or become liable to severe penal
ties was given yesterday to the two
local draft boards by Gen. J. Van
B. Metts, state director of selective
service.
The state director pointed out
that section 11 of the Selective
Traming and Service Act of 1940
provides that any registrant who
fails to conform to the law or regu
lations shall be liable to punish
ment "by imprisonment for not
more than five years or a fine of
not more than $10,000, or by fine
and imprisonment.”
"Most of the cases of delinquen
cy so far reported,” State Director
Metts reported, "have been found
to be due to. the ignorance or care
lessness on the part of registrants.
He pointed out that heretofore it
has been the policy of the Selective
Service System to be lenient in
cases where it is apparent there
has been no wilful intent to avoid
service.
"But the investigation of such
cases is taking up much valuable
time of local boards and the de
partment of justice agents, when
these agencies should be devoting
their time to the more urgent work
of national defense,” General
Metts said, and then added: reg
istrants had better not count on
an indefinite continuance of this
policy of leniency.”
In an effort to correct this sltua
•tion and to avoid the possibility of
prosecution for delinquency, regis
trants were reminded by General
Metis that they must complete and
return their questionnaires within
the time stated on the first page,
|(jney must report to examining
physicians at the time and place
stated in the notice, and they must
report for delivery to the induction
station when notified to do so. Gen
eral Metts warned that failure to
respond to any of these legal
notices will subject the registrant
to possible prosecution in the fed
eral court. 3
PROPERTY SEIZURE
BILL IS EXPLAINED
(Continued From Page One)
government with defense prod
ucts. In the Allis-Chalmers case,
he said, the strikers were willing
to return to work if the company
wolud agree to certain stipula
tions, and at the same time the
company was willing to resume
production if certain concessions
w re made.
In other words, he said, there
was no refusal under the meaning
of the present law, and the gov
ernment was in need of authority
to take over various kinds of sit
uations which technically might
not be covered by the existing
statute.
The bill, he emphasized repeat
edly, was intended to get deliv
eries, and when a reported asked
if it was to be regarded primarily
as a last resort weapon in labor
disputes, the President merely re
peated the phrase. However, his
mention of the Allis-Chalmers
strike as one reason tor the bill
had made his meaning plain.
The nev/ bill, recommended yes
terday by the Wat department,
would empower the government
to take possession of any property
needed for defense. Mr. Roosevelt
has said in the past that there
cannot be any strikes against the
government.
X
Plans Pushed to Open
Davis Service Club
With a full complement of
Camp Davis hostesses on duty,
plans are being rushed to open
the Service 'dub at a very early
date, Lieut. Col. John Sampey,
recreation officer, announced
Tuesday. The club is located in
the central area and will house
the library, cafeteria and be a
general meeting place for sol
diers during their leisure hours.
Miss Kathryn O’Connor, of
Greensboro, and Mrs. Mamie
Dukes Singleton, of Wilmington
have reported and taken over
their duties as junior hostesses
in charge of recreation and of
the cafeteria.
Miss Ruby Satterfield. Me
bane. senior hostess, and Miss
Margaret Knox Gilbert, librar
ian, Raleigh, have been on duty
for several weeks.
One of the first units of the
Service club to start operations
will be the library, where more
than 1,0(10 vloumes of the ex
pected 5,000 are already in
camp. __
U. S. VESSELS TO
BE USED TO HANDLE
BRITISH FREIGHT
(Continued From Page One)
needs in terms of military and
economic warfare were put before
high administration officials.
The White House and State de
partment were scenes of unusual
activity in apparent preparation
for more active steps to check
mate Axis strategy in both the
East and West.
President Roosevelt’s return to
the capital from a week-end visit
to Hyde Park was followed by
these events, all portending great
er emphasis on action and speed
in executing the foreign policy laid
down in his speech last week:
X. The President received a de
tailed report on conditions in
Great Britain from John G. Win
ant, American ambassador to
London, who later conferred also
with Secretary of State Hull.
2. The President had a luncheon
conference with Admiral Ernest
King, commander of the Atlantic
fleet and the Atlantic patrol—the
man chiefly responsible for carry
ing out President Roosevelt’s
promise to see that the goods are
delivered safely to Great Britain.
3. Secretary Hull conferred at
length with Nevile Butler, British
minister, and Noel Hall, represen
tative of the British ministry of
economic warfare.
4. Dr. Eelco N. Van Kleffens,
Netherlands foreign minister gave
Sumner Welles, undersecretary of
state, a full report on his findings
on a Far Eastern observation trip
and particularly on the progress of
slow-moving economic negotiations
between the Netherlands East In
dies and Japan.
5. Secretary of the Navy Knox
left a weekly "strategy” confer
ence with Secretary of State Hull
and Secretary of War Stimson to
tell a conference of shipbuilders
that a “miracle” was needed in
the warship building industry to
assure command of the seas by
t|ie United States and Britain.
I At his press conference this aft
ernoon, President Roosevelt was
unusually non-committal, indicat
ing that secrecy is now a vital
part of American war strategy.
About his talk with Ambassador
Winant, the President said only
that they would have another to
morrow. His conference with Ad
miral King, the President said,
was just a usual checkup such as
he expects to have frequently in
the future. 1
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BRITAIN AND AXIS
SEEK POSITION FOR
MIDDLE EAST WAR
(Continued From Page One)
Maxime Weyga.->d, commander of
France’s North African troops, was
in attendance.
Connected With Britain
An authoritative Frenchman said
that this activity was connected with
Vice Premier Admiral Jean Darlan’s
publicly expressed hostility to Brit
ain and with Monday’s Brenner Pass
meeting between Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini. He spoke of Dar
lan’s denunciation of the British as
an “indication” of the direction that
the new French policy is taking.
In plain words this seemed to
mean—although there were as al
ways many hidden angles in the sit
uation—that while Vichy had per
haps not decided just how far to go
actively or passively in helping Hit
ler to strike at Cyprus and eventual
ly at the Suez canal through Syria
the British were most certainly not
going to get any of the best cf it.
Too, it was stated that the French
cabinet had wanted General Wey
gand’s “advice”—and whatever ad
vice he had to give would presum
ably be military.
On every hand the Axis still made
full use of the Brenner meeting.
The Germans, with a technique not
new to them, appeared to be en
couraglng the widest possible specu
lation as to when and where the next
H'tler-Mussolini blow would fall.
Certain Italians, however, stressed
that the biggest accomplishment at
Brenner was a decision as to how
to meet American intervention in the
war, and Virginio Gayda, a Fascist
editorialist who sometimes reflects
Premier Mussolini’s mind, wrote:
“England, with urgent voice, is
calling for American aid. The Axis
powers can oppose to this \ ast re
serves of military and political forces
of European and world efficiency
and substantial prospects of defense
and offense.”
Soviet Russia reentered the world s
news during the day in two unrelat
ed circumstances.
One was the disclosure in Tokyo
that Japan is sending to Germany,
by way of the Russian trans-Siberian
railway, 1,500 tons of essential food
stuffs and commodities daily and
that efforts are being made to in
crease the traffic—despite a 500 per
cent increase in freight rates recent
ly put into effect by the Soviet.
The other was the hurried depart
ure from Moscow, in obedience to a
Soviet decision that they no longer
had diplomatic status, of the Belgian,
Greek and Yugoslav ministers. All
represent Axis-overrun countries. All
were given cordial farewells by Al
lied and neutral diplomats, but no
Russian was on hand to see them
off.
WAR MAY MOVE
INTO SYRIA SOON
(Continued From Page One)
Turkish frontier, last week. They
were said to include bombers, fight
ers and transports. Some, but not
all, were said to be shuttling between
Aleppo and Iraq, where the pro-Axis
government was defeated by the
British last week-end.
It was presumed here that the
planes which the Germans sent to
help their Iraq friend now would re
turn to be based in Syria.
RESIGNS
WASHINGTON, June 3 — (£•) —
James A. Kennedy, assistant gen
eral counsel of the Federal Com
munications commission, has resign
ed to become general counsel of
the operating companies of Inter
national Telephone andTi "
company, the commission gr*sh
today. A native or SoJh
Kennedy has been with\, llns.
mission since l [i34 Ule com.
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