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PENN AIR LINES MAY INCLUDE CITY Company Proposes to Make Wilmington Eastrn Base for N. C. Routes Come what may, it appeared ,esterday that Wilmington is de stined to become the hub of avia jon in North Carolina just as it h‘as reached the peak in national defense. Announcement was made yester day in Rocky Mount that the Pennsylvania Central Airlines was seeking this city as the eastern terminus of a new passenger and freight line which would have its beginning in the former city, and connect there with planes to other sections of the South. Application by PCA for the pro posed new route are expected to be died with the Civil Aeronautics au thority in Washington today. The designation of Wilmington as a stopping point for the CPA, makes four lines which are now dickering with the AA for routes which would make this city one of its bases. The Canadian Colonial Airways has asked permission to stop here on a proposed New York, to Bermuda route. Only this week it became known that National Airlines, a Florida corporation, is seeking a New York to Jacksonville, Fla., service with this city as a base, and recently, Eastern Air Lines made a survey through this section for an exten sion of one arm of their New York to Miami line to run through Wil mington. Applications for each of the pro posed routes are either pending be fore the CAA or will be presented to the governmental agency within the immediate future. ! ADVERTISEMENT WATCH and JEWELBY || REPAIRING Panderer Gets 2\ Years In Superior Court Here Judge Walter J. Bone in Superior court yesterday served stern warn ing on bawdy house operators and inmates that this nefarious prac tice would not be condoned in New Hanover county, when he handed down a two and a half year sen tence to the operator of one of these houses and terms of one year each to three confessed girl in mates. “Leniency in such cases,” Judge Bone informed counsel, “could not and would not be tolerated by the court or the public. This practice will never be broken up with lec tures alone, so I see it the place of this court to make examples of these before me.” W. A. Somersett, charged with the operation of the house of pros titution, was found guilty on two counts, the first for ruuiing the place of assignation, and the sec ond violation of national and state liquor laws in offering drinks for sale at the 'alleged “boarding house” for 25 cents each. The three girls, Mary Taylor, Dolphina Ford and Elsie Hayes, all in their twenties, entered pleas of guilty before the trial of Somer sett and turned state witnesses without the promise of immunity. The house inmates told the court and jury of how they were hired by Somersett to “work” at his place for $5 per week, and room and board, plus half of all that they took in from customers who frequented the place for drinks. The girls denied on the stand that they had been brought here from outside the state to work in the establishment, thereby elimi nating the possibility of a Mann act charge against their alleged employer as an aftermath of the trial. Alter hearing the ]ury pronounce him guilty on both counts as charged, Somersett immediately made an appeal in open court through his attorney that he would carry the case to the supreme court. Appearance bond was set by the court at $2,500 and appeal and cost bond at $100. Somersett’s sentence was broken into two terms, the first of 18 months in the state prison at Ba leigh on the charge of operating the bawdy house, and the second for 12 months on the liquor viola tion case, the terms to run con secutively. It was at this point that the judge, calling the girls before him, and thanking them for having told the court the whole truth and mak ing a clean breast of the affair, warned that any leniency in their case would be against the interests of society. “The testimony you have given in this case against Somersett alone would convict you,” he said, “and any tolerance that I might show you would not stop you from plying your trade wherever you went. “It would be a crime for me to push the burden off on another state and therefore I can see no alternative than to sentence you to a year in the woman’s division of the state prison,” he concluded. The girls, obviously young and inexperienced at the business, re vealed visible fear, and as they were led from the chambers broke into tears. The jury which convicted Somer set* was comprised of B. H. Marsh all Jr., Neal Wood, L. M. Hall, L. I. Lassiter, J. D. Welles, Lud wig Leiner, G. Dannenbaum, R. C. Platt, H. L. Taylor, O. R. King, E. K. Swann and E. J. Woods, Jr. j Price-Fixing Charges Unjust, Says Attorney Presenting Big Three LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 27.—UP) —Counsel for one of the three major tobacco manufacturers charged with criminal anti-trust practices declared today that the defense’s evidence would “shatter and destroy any inference of wrongdoing.” George Wh Reside, chief attorney for the American Tobacco com pany, in the first statement outlin ing the defense’s position to the jury charged the government’s prosecutors with throwing a "fog of inference evidence about ttjs case.” His statement was interrupted, however, and an overnight recess was taken when Juror C. V. Ray mond, 44, a Warsaw, Ky., hard ware dealer, reported he was “feeling ill.” It was the second time that the 13-week-old case had been halted temporarily by tne illness of a juror. U. S. WILL MAINTAIN FREEDOM OF SEAS, HULL TELLS JAPAN (Continued From Page One) to both the United States and Rus sia and an announcement that the Soviet government informed Japan that it would regard any interfer ence with the shipments to Vladi vostok as “an unfriendly act.” The Tokyo report distributed by Domei (official Japanese news agency) said the Japanese repre sentations were based on ship ments of American aviation gaso line to Vladivostok. The Russian statement disclosed that the Japanese ambassador to Moscow on August 25 had informed the Soviet government that the American shipments were "creat ing an extremely delicate and dif ficult situation for Japan because these goods have to pass in the proximity of Japanese territory.” 1 a w In offices everywhere, people turn to refreshment right out of the bottle without turning from work. It takes but a little min ute to enjoy ice-cold Coca-Cola -a minute busy people welcome. You trust its quality 7 5* IOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMfANT »Y WILMINGTON COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY SENATORS SLASH HUGE TAX BILL 589,000,000 Cut From House Approved Levies; Radio Time Exempted WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. — (A5) — The Senate Finance committee cut $89,800,000 from the pending tax bill today by eliminating a House-ap proved levy on radio time sales, knocking out a proposed fax on Boft drinks, re-shaping the so-called nuisance tax structure and reducing the proposed tax burden on corpora tions slightly. * The record-breaking measure, es timated to yield $3,236,700,000 as it passed the House, was lifted to $3, 593,700,000 by the finance group earlier this week. Today’s reduc tions whittled the bill to $3,503,900, 000—slightly more than the original goal of the House Ways and Means committee. The committee voted today, 13 to 6, to wipe out a special House-ap proved levy of 10 per cent on the profits of companies which do not make sufficient income to pay ex cess profits taxes. Its elimination wiped out an esti mated $53,000,000 of revenue and the committee then dropped another $12,500,000 by rejecting the tax on radio time sales. Chairman George (D>-Ga) said, however, that some form of “franchise tax” for radio stations might be worked out later. Dropping the soft drink tax elimi nated an estimated $22,600,000 of revenue. Under the House-approved radio section, net time sales between $100,000 and $500,000 a year would have been taxed five per cent, those between $500,000 and $1,000,000, 10 per cent, and those of more than $1,000,000, 15 per cent. Also eliminated was a House-ap proved tax on billboards, estimated to raise $1,700,000 a year. The levies would have ranged from $5 to $11 a year per billboard, depending upon size. The finance group accepted a $5 annual use tax on automobiles ap proved by the House, as well as the House-approved levies on playing cards, luggage, electric signs, busi ness machines, rubber goods, optical equipment, jewelry, furs and trans portation. IRAN TALKS PEACE AS NATION OVERRUN BY BRITISH, SOVIET i (Continued From Page One) dared to have occupied Gilan, a town 20 miles inside Iran, and Sar-I-Pul, 35 miles to the north of that point, in a continuing and un interrupted advance. The Soviet invaders, information from Moscow indicated, were loos ing overwhelming power in rough ly parallel offensives proceeding freqi Russian Armenia and from Russian Azerbaijan. Capture Large City The first of these had overrun Tabriz, Iran’s second city, and was proceeding within Iran to a depth of more than 60 miles. The second, moving down near the coast of the Caspian sea, was declared to have captured Dilman, only 100 miles short of Teheran itself, and in the process occupied the highway junction of Ardebil and the coastal town of Lissar. The British continued to consoli date control of Iran’s great west ern oil supplies, air-borne troops seizing at Haft Kel the northern end of a major pipeline whose southern terminus at Abadan on the Persian gulf already was in British hands. As to Iran’s minute navy, it was reported substantially wiped out in a brush in the gulf with British warshipsjn which Iranian Admiral Bayendor was killed, two Iranian sloops were sunk and four gun boats captured. At least six of Iran’s handful of warplanes—estimated to total 13 at the beginning of the invasion —were said to have been knocked out. Gone, too, or substantially so, was the little country’s control of its railroad and highway communi cations. All this, said neutral observers here, was believed to have made Reza Shah Pahlavi realize that he must come to terms. These informants predicted a quick armistice on these general terms: The Shah allowed to keep power, but permitting the British and Russians to police the country for the duration of the war. German technicians — to whose presence in the country the British and Russians attributed the neces sity for the invasion—to be re placed by British and Russians. The Allies to have a right of way from the Persian gulf to the Caspian sea and the Russian Cau casus—a protected line over which would move British and American military supplies for the Russians. Support for London’s belief that the Shar was preparing to capi late came in delayed dispatches from Teheran. These, which were filed on Tuesday, said it was un derstood that the British and So viet ministers had transmitted to their governments an Iranian plea that action cease and a promise that virtually all Germans in Iran would be expelled within a week. 1 National YDC President To Speak at N. C. Confab WINSTON-SALEM, Aug. 27—<® —Joe Carr, popular young Tennes sean who was elected president of the Young Democratic Clubs of America last week, will be one of the prin cipal speakers here September 20 at the state convention of Young Demo cratic Clubs, GHOST-SHIP CAPTAIN—Capt. Al bert Bjorkluf, 59-year-old comman der of the Finnish freighter Aurora, which went up In flames in the Hud son river off New York, is pictured after being treated for burned hands received before he jumped over board. His first mate died in the fire, which FBI agents are investi gating for possible sabotage. WEATHER (Continued From Page One) WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. — (JP) — Weather bureau records of temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours cnijing 8 p. m., in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Prec. Asheville, rn_ 85 84 0.28 Atlanta, cld _ 95 73 0.03 Atlantic City, cld_ 80 69 0.01 Birmingham, cld_ 90 73 0.32 Boston, clrf_._ 79 69 0.00 Burlington, clr_ 75 57 0.00 Charlotte, clr_ 89 72 0.00 Chicago, clr_:_ 73 56 0.00 Cincinnati, cld__ 80 63 0.10 Cleveland, cld_ 72 54 0.00 Detroit, clr_ 70 52 0.00 Fort Worth, cld_ 92 78 0.03 Galveston, cld_ 92 81 0.00 Jacksonville, rn_ 99 74 0.82 Kansas City, clr_ 77 64 0.00 Los Angeles, p c__ 60 0.00 Louisville, cld_ 80 67 0.00 Memphis, cld- 81 78 1.01 Meridian, cld _ 99 74 0.00 Miami, clr___ 90 83 0.00 Minn.-St. Paul, clr_ 72 47 0.00 Mobile, clr _ 93 76 0.00 New Orleans, p c_ 92 76 0.41 New York, clC_ 76 68 0.13 Norfolk, clr_ 81 75 0.00 Pittsburgh, cld- 72 56 1.08 Portland, Me., clr_ 72 22 0.12 Portland, Ore., rn_ 64 59 0.05 Richmond, clr__ 80 71 0.00 St. Louis, cld _ 78 68 0.00 San Antonio, p c- 97 78 0.00 San Francisco, clr_ 67 57 0.00 , Savannah, cld_ 97 76 0.00 Tampa, cld_ 94 80 0.00 Vicksburg, cld_ 96 70 0.00 Washington, cld_ 77 68 0.07 Wilmington, clr- 92 78 0.00 Obituaries JAMES O. PETTET, JR. James Oliver Pettet, Jr., six month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Pettet, 30G Kidder street, died yesterday morning at 7 o’clock in the Babies’ hospital, Wrightsville Sound, following an illness of six weeks. The baby is survived by his par ents, one sister, Elma E. Pettet, of Wilmington, and grandparents. Funeral services will be conduct ed at the graveside in Oak Grove cemetery this afternoon at 3 o’clock with the Rev. George Shepard officiating. JOHN MEARES FAIR BLUFF, Aug. 27.—Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock from the home, for John Meares, 83, who died here today of old age.. The Rev. Elbert N. Johnson, pas tor of Fair Bluff Baptist church, will officiate with burial following in the family cemetery near the home. Mr. Meares is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Flora Branch, Fair mont; Mrs. Liza Suggs, Butters; Mrs. Whitten Meares, Fair Bluff; one son, George Meares, Fair Bluff. Police Trail Hit-and-Run Driver After Man Injured Police early this morning were on the trail of a hit-and-run driver who knocked down and ran over rillman Ahrens, 1018 North Fourth street, about 12:30 o’clock this morning. Ahrens was struck as he crossed the intersection of Fourth and Har nett streets. He was carried about Eifteen yards then run over. Hospital attaches reported the man suffered a broken collarbone and possibly several fractured ribs besides numerous bruises. His con dition was described “fair.” ADVERTISEMENT itching ofDILEC IRRITATION' rlLEv Don't suffer hopelessly! Relieve the burning itchy soreness as many others do—with soothing, widely known RESINOU Direct Subway Entrance to All Points of Interest flew TJorl s [Popular HOTEL LINCOLN Our CHOICEST ROOMS from $3 Maria Kramer John L. H or ran President Gen. Mgr. Hotel Edison Same Ownership _ EAST COAST GAS VIRTUALLY PEGGED (Continued From Page One) Conn., 18.4; New Haven, 17.8; Bridgeport, 17.8; New York City, 18.9; Buffalo, 19; Rochester, 19.6; Syracuse, 19.3; Yonkers, 18.9; Al bany, 18.7; Utica, 19.7. Newark, N. J., 17.5; Jersey City, 17.5; Paterson, 17.5; Trenton, 17.5; Camden, 17.5; Elizabeth, 17.5. Philadelphia, 18.5; Pittsburgh 19; Scranton, 19; Erie, 19.5. Wilmington, Del., 18.5; Balti more, 18.2; Washington, 16 5: Rich mond, Va., 20; Norfolk, 19.7 May Use Trains Suggestion that whole trains of tank cars be utilized to combat the threatened shortages of gaso line and fuel oil in the East was advanced today on the eve of a special Senate investigation of the petroleum situation. At the same time, the govern ment assumed direction of all wa ter-borne oil shipments by creat ing a tanker control board headed by Ralph K. Davies, acting pe troleum coordinator. The tank train proposal was made by Senator Maloney (D. Conn.), chairman of the commit tee which will make the investiga tion. He said he realized that trans portation by rail was more expen sive than by tankers or pipe lines, but expressed the view that some of this cost might be absorbed by pressing all unused tank cars into service and making up entire trains of such cars. The committee will call Davies as its first witness when the in quiry begins tomorrow. Maloney said the investigation would not be hostile but was de signed to develop all the “facts in connection with the existing sit uation and bring relief to the pub lic, and assistance to the govern ment officials engaged in the reg ulation and distribution of oil.” Government witnesses, he add ed, would be called first. Appointment of the tanker con trol board was announced by the Defense Petroleum office and Ad miral Emory S. Land, chairman of the Maritime commission. A joint statement said the board would “coordinate all efforts bear ing on the allocation and utiliza tion of tankers owned or controlled by American companies.” No at tempt will be made to comman deer the ships, an official said, but the ships will be pooled and their operations directed for great er efficiency. 1 The first lace estalbishment In the United States was that of the Jennings Lace Works in Brooklyn, N. Y., nearly 50 years ago. isBACKt. SCHOOL and CANNON SHOES for Tot to Teen Age Feet A WORLD OF STYLE for BOY and GIRL We went to School ourselves ... the School of fashion, to learn what the grade to college girls and boys want in Fall footwear. And NOW we are ready with a complete stock of all the styles, leathers and sizes that ydu might want. For Quality and Economy it will pay you to SHOP CAN NON'S FIRST! $J.99 $2*i5 1 ALL SIZES AND WIDTHS — p Cannon Shoe Store 206 North Front Street
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