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 (Continued From Page One) 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! (Contiiyjed From Page One) 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.” pJlitf KB lj 1 With Horace Ifeidt and Hand, II k ^ C'has. W'inninger /I today V On Stage—2 :30.4 :."i0-7 30 “MARDI OKAS REVUE” I On Screen—"TIIK NURSE’S ft SECRET”—With T_.ee Pat A rick hnrl Regis Tourney Mat. 33c, Kite 44c, Chil. 15c ap—■ ■ ' ii 'Till Y Broadway’s Big "Tea-For- H I Two’’ Musical Hit! 1 I “NO, NO, NANETTE” r ■ With Anna Neaglc, Helen /I K Broderick, Roland Young M Shows 11-12:40-2:30-4:20 /jfl 0:10-8-9:50 TOBAY - ' • 1 ONLY! "THE PHANTOM SUBMARINE” With Anita Untune and Bruce Bennett Also—“Capt. Marvel” Shown 10:45-11:45-l -25-3 05 4:45-0:25-8:05-9:45 NOTICE 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 trucks, drays and public vehicles. Cost $1.00 per truck per year. Period: June 1st, 1941, to May 31, 1942. C. R. MORSE, Tax Collector 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 ‘Ne5,?k’rcdc ::::::: 02 «o S' 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 GET THE FACTS AND TOD'LL GET A FORD! See and drive the present Ford and you’ll find lots of good reasons to make it your 1 next car. Here are 5 of the most outstand ing. Take a moment now to read them. 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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. ADyiimsiMiyFr~~-^ To Relieve Misery of 666, —a Wonderful I,injn,.„, expert WATCH and JEWELRY REPAIRING 109 NORTH FRONT Opposite Saunders Drug store Straight Bourbon Whiskey ...from the Heart of the Bluegrass 90 Proof. Schenley Distillers Corp., N. Y. C