negro pulls off
holdup on PORCH
Maard Ahrens And Cousin
Attacked A. They Enter
Market Street Home
uMuard Ahrens, 619 Market
E!t and his cousin, Miss Metta
Ser were the victims of an at
a tall negro of ginger-cake
taCkrdexion as they reached their
c0Wp about 7:30 p. m. Saturday,
Jr Ahrens told the Wilmington
star Sunday night.
„We had just reached our front
"from a shopping trip, said
J ° Arens,” when the negro sud
f i, appeared as if from nowhere,
de"led over me, grabbed Miss
T e by the shoulders, pulled her
S and snatched her handbag
large package of meat.
"^though the attack was sud
r grappled with the negro and
£ knocked him down. As he was
£g I hit him again and then
"feither pulled down or fell
Luckily I was on top. Fear
t he would knife me or shoot 1
Ittowed him to escape as he slid
£ the bannister of the porch.
Z had dropped the meat package
but got away with tne nanueag
Sch contained a gold watch and
I small amount of money. Miss
Muller meanwhile, was screaming
for help.”
Mr Ahrens said three soldiers
from Camp Davis responded to the
call for help but the negro had
isappeared by the time they ar
rived Mr. Ahrens sustained
scratches on his right wrist and a
bruise on his right leg. "I would
like to urge my fellow citizens,”
said Mr. Ahrens ‘‘to be careful in
these times when entering their
homes after dark. I have no idea
where that negro was hidden as
we came in. He appeared and at
tacked us as if he had dropped out
of a parachute.” Mr. Ahrens re
ocrted the case to the city police
force. _ _ 3
BRITON .DEMANDS
DRIVE ON TUNISIA
(Continued from Page One)
Mediterranean,” this military ex
pert wrote.
General Fuller declared that
British occupation of Tunisia, long
coveted by Italy, would neutralize
Lalian sea and air power and en
able convoys to sail on a direct
route to Egypt and the Far East.
Other informed commentators
noted that the rapid westward ad
vance of the British in Africa
would help counter a threatening
German air and sea attack on Mal
ta, British bastion in the Mediter
ranean just below Sicily. Some
sources have said that an attack
on Malta is imminent, pointing out
that air raids on the small island
had been almost continuous for the
past few days.
The British already hold air
dromes in Libya within range of
the best fighters, but an advance to
Tripoli would provide airdromes
less than 250 miles from the island
fortress and enable fighters to de
fend Malta from the mainland.
FUEL PINCH ADMITTED
CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 11.— (ffl —
The restrictive pinch of Germany’s
luel shortage, a result of colossal
expenditure against Russia, was
disclosed today in a Reich military
order captured along with the 26,
. Pnsoners now in British hands
from the sweep into Libya.
“Owing to the great expenditure
f fuel on the eastern front, the
fuel situation of the Reich is ex
ceptionally stringent,” the order
R added that the fuel rations of
Z PaMer units ® Libya would be
cut down and that since there was
° ahan,ce °f rePlenishing supplies
captured or destroyed by the Brit
tnarmo/ed units would have
t° conserve fuel more than ever.
the rotr«1Sh continued to attack
im_ r,etfeatlng Germans and Ital
ttfZr Agedabia and El ag
”fa'and lncreased their pressure
Halfavaenemy P°Cket traPPed near
S P3SS near the EgyPtian
CAIRnA F0R ACTION
mess®?’ fgypt’ Jan. 11.—OB—A
troux to hi! tGeneral Georges Ca
that tho * tro°Ps today disclosed
sembkd a 66 French have as
vision 1 thC°mp e,te motorized di
that it k nn western desert and
‘15 now ready for action. 3
winteHTne
PIERCED BY REDS
(Continued from Paee One)
I 01 thebNaVat ®fvast°Pol. The rout
' cttt Ston‘tdalBalaklava- ^cene
B%de dChfge of the Li«ht
gained fnr th d<Lcare<1 to have re
southern pYt6 Bussians the whole
«* of tLe Crlm
bitt«efiHhtW radi'’ aCC0unt said
Possession 0f th^ 111 proSress for
Patoriyn °f tbe road from Yev
coast .in the,_ west Crimean
to Simferopol above Sevastopol,
ea. sTror Pc’ capltal of the Crim
ported land d°mlet forces were re
el YevpatoritT*Ur-Sday night south
Sovip ya t0 Join this battle.)
in a numhp C0II™>®ique said that
the front i ®f other sectors of
their advan d tr°°Ps continued
hfoyinTrpr ’ outflanklng and de
«nd ccunv man resistar-ce centers
On thpPy g sti11 more villages.
We.^whiP°v,Uthern front Russian
fiver v;crp b crossed the Donets
^patches ,„reported in fr°nt tine
hges in J? have captured 45 vil
tofthern Z.°, day? wh»e in the
the Soviet Ct°r about Leningrad
Gwmans u mmunique said 600
fine fortifipd616 • annihilated and
eruptiond p°sltlons captured in
PUon 01 fierce fighting.
London Learns Hitler
Conducts Army Purge
(Continued from Fare One)
was officially declared but was
executed.”
Udet, the BBC broadcast said,
"was made responsibel for short
comings, inferiority and insuffici
ency of air force material re
placement.”
The flier, a crack world war
ace and internationally known
movie and stunt flier, was of
fically stated to have been kill
ed in an accident Nov. 17 while
testing “a new weapon.” Hitler
himself and Reich-marshall Goer
ing, the German air chief, attend
ed the Udet funeral in the air
ministry Nov. 1, Berlin dispatches
said at the time.
Swedish newspaper dispatches
from Berlin today reported the
execution of four persons in the
German capital Friday. One was
said to be Fritz Winkelman, de
scribed as an economic ministry
official, executed for the illegal
hawking of food and clothing ra
tion tickets.
Two, apparently Chechoslovak
ians, were accused of hiding wea
pons and the fourth, said to be
a Pole, was charged with espion
age.
Whatever is going on inside Ger.
many, now cut off from direct
communication 'with the United
nations, one thing is certain: the
Nazis have become more touchy
than ever before on the subject
of news accounts unfavorable to
Germany appearing abroad.
The German radio, the German
the press spokesmen in Berlin
official news agency DNB and
all are going to unusual pains, and
in some cases using strong in
vective, to deny various reports
circulationg abroad.
Internal conditions in Germany
have figured as much in the re
ports as have the plight of the
Nazi armies on the Red front.
Today London heard details of
food difficulties. A Nazi agricul
tural leader, supply Chief Freuden
berger, was said to have issued
a statement making it clear that
Germany, instead of living off
the rich agricultural fields of the
Soviet Ukraine must do every
thing possible to feed herself this
year because of the setbacks in
the Russian campaign
The Soviet scorched earth policy
during the summer and winter
offensive disrupted the German
plan for colonization of the Uk
raine, it was said.
The occupied territories them
selves are hard pressed for food
and will not be as great sources
PRICE CONTROL
CONTEST SEEN
Administration Expected
To Propose Compromise
To Farm Bloc
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.— —
With the farm bloc firmly in con
trol of Congress, administration
leaders today were reported seek
ing a compromise on price control
legislation which would make some
concessions on farm commodity
prices.
Indications were that the ad
ministration’s fight would be cen
tered on an attempt to eliminate
an amendment, sponsored by Sen
ator O’Mahoney (D.-Who.), direct
ing that the Federal Reserve
Board’s iqdex of industrial wages
be used as*a factor when agricul
tural parity prices are calculated.
Senator Brown (D.-Mich.), who
handled the bill in the Senate for
the administration, estimated that
this would permit a 25 per cent
increase in farm prices since the
bill prohibits a farm price ceiling
below 110 per cent of parity.
The effect of O’Mahoney’s
amendment, it was explained, is
to boost parity about 10 per cent.
Parity is the price at which a
farm product has the same pur
chasing power that it did in the
1909-14 period. Hence it fluctuates
with changes in prices of non-farm
products.
Some legislators thought the ad
ministration, if it could secure
elimination of this provision, would
not put up a fight against an
amendment forbdding any price
ceiling on a farm commodity below
the 1919-29 average price.
The farm amendments were
written into the bill by the Senate
yesterday before it was passed
83 to 1.
The job of reconciling differences
in the price measures approved
by House and Senate will be un
dertaken by a joint committee.
Though unwilling to be quoted
by name, well-informed legislators
said they thought there was little
chance that- President Roosevelt
would veto the bill even if the
final version included farm pro
visions strongly objectionable to
the administration.
This prediction, they said, was
based on the fact that there is im
mediate need for general, provision
of the legislation.
The bill would empower a price
administrator to establish ceilings
over prices of commodities which
were getting out of line wth the
general prce structure. The ad
ministrator also could control rents
in defense areas.
Mr. Roosevelt will confer to
morrow with Vice President Wal
lace, Speaker Rayburn and Sena
tor Barkley (D.-Ky.) and Repre
sentative MacCormack (D.-Mass.),
Senate and House leaders. Pre
sumably this customary weekly
conference on the'legislative situ
ation Will be given over largely 4to
the price control bill.
of supply as they were for the
first two years of Germany’s war.
Yugoslavia, for example, which
normally has an agricultural sur
plus, was said in one German
dispatch to be demanding sim
plies. ^
Freudenberger was reported to
have announced that as a result
of the situation in the occupied
countries, “the capacity of Ger
many alone should be taken as
the true basis of supplies for 1942.”
The conquered territories of
Eastern Europe were described as
of great importance, but Freuden
berger added that "it will nec
essitate a certain lapse of time
before they can be exploited and
until the necessary productive
forces are mobilized.”
The potatoe supply will be short
this winter, especially in Berlin,
not so much due to a lack of
potatoes but to the fact that great
quantities froze en route to mar
ket because of a lack of ade
quate transport facilities. .Pota
to acreage must be increased more
■than 10 per cent this year, the
agricultural ministry decreed.
Freudenberger outlined four agri
cultural objectives, according to
a German news agency account
of his statement:
Maintenance of present level
of grain production at whatever
cost, increased production of
potatoes and sugar beets, increas
ed fat production by cultivation
of Oleaginous plants, and intensi
fication of vegetable production be
yond the necessary minimum.
JAPS REPEALED
IN PHILIPPINES
(Continued from Page One)
600 miles south of Manila, and
there seemed some evidence that
it might have been the same capi
tal ship hit three times by United*
States air forces in operations on
January 5.
Later, the same formation of
heavy Army bombers attacked an
enemy cruiser and two large
transports in th j Celebes sea south
of the Philippines. The results of
this attack were not determined,
the communique said.
The attack reported repulsed by
General MacArthur’s entrenched
force northwest of Manila was
made on the American-Pliilippine
right flank, anchored in the marsh
-es of the Pampanga river delta,
“with tremendous force.” Ameri
can casualties were said to be
relatively small.
The communique, based on In
formation received up to 1 p.m.
EST (3 a.m. Monday Manila time)
said:
1. Philippine theater:
“Heavily reinforced Japanese
troops attacked the right flank of
General MacArthur’s line north
west of Manila with tremendous
force. American and Philippine
soldiers defending previously pre
pared positions repulsed the at
tack with heavy enemy losses. Our
casualties were relatively small.
“Hostile aircraft resumed bom
bardment of fortifications of Ma
nila bay and defense positions in
that vicinity after several days of
inactivity. The bombing attack
was relatively light and did no
serious damage.
“A formation of heavy American
Army bombers again attacked a
Japanese naval concentration off
Davao, on the island of Mindanao.
Despite poor visibility one direct
hit was scored on an enemy bat
tleship in Malalag bay in Davao
gulf, setting the vessel afire. A
hit was also made on an anti-air
craft battery on shore. All of the
American planes returned undam
aged to their base.
“The enemy fleet in and near
the Gulf of Davao consisted of
one battleship, six cruisers, two
destroyers, eight transports, and 10
smaller vessels.
“Later our planes attacked an
enemy cruiser and two large
transports in the Celebes sea, with
undetermined results.
“There is nothing to report from
other areas.”
Malalag bay, on the western
shore of the Gulf of Davao, which
the Japanese appear to have con
verted into an offensive spring
board for the invasion of the Neth
erlands East Indies, is some 35
miles south of the city of Davao,
and about twice as far from the
entrance to the gulf at the south
ernmost tip of Mindanao.
The composition of the Japanese
naval force was almost identical
oi mat reported January 6, lead
ing to the supposition that the
battleship set afire was the same
as the. vessel blasted by three di
rect hits earlier in the week. The
January 6 communique said the
fleet then consisted of one battle
ship, five cruisers, six destroyers,
12 submarines and 12 transports.
The Army bombers, presuma
bly operating from a base deep
in the Netherlands Indies or even
from northern Australia, then sank
at least one destroyer and prob
ably another, the War department
said, aside from inflicting numer
ous hits on other vessels.
General MacArthur’s repulse ol
the Japanese land attack on Luzon
came just a week after his little
army hurled back a major enemy
assault, killing at least 700 of the
enemy and inflicting “one of the
most serious reverses suffered by
the Japanese invaders since the
war began,” the War department
reported. 1
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FIRE AT CHARLOTTE
CHARLOTTE, Jan. ll.-ifll—Fire
destroyed one of the three build
ings of the Southern Friction Ma
terials company in the Charlotte
suburbs early today, causing dam
age unofficially. estimated at be
tween $25,000 and $30,000. 3
COLD WEATHER
CADSES 8 FIRES
Burning Soot In St. Janies’
Church Extinguished
Without Damage
Eight minor fires Sunday were
attributed by the city fire depart
ment, to the prevalent cold
weather.
An overheated stove at 610
Church street started a blaze that
burned the roof off a six-room
house at 11 o’clock.
A soot fire in the basement of St.
James’ Episcopal church at 1:05 p.
m. was extinguished without dam
age. A burning awning on the
west side of the top story of the
Tide Water Power company build
ing caused an alarm at 1:12 p. m.
Fires on shingle roofs at 1312 N.
Eighth street at 12:58 p. m. and at
1105 Princess at 1:16 p. m., were
put out after slight damages.
Grass fires at Eleventh and Mar
tin and at Fourteenth and Dawson
caused fire department runs dur
ing the afternoon.
JAPANESE INVADE
DUTCH E. INDIES
(Continued from Page One)
Invading forces or their success in
establishing firm beachheads.
United States warships have been
operating in East Indies waters and,
the Aneta News agency said, it was
assumed in Dutch auarters that
they would join in resisting the in
vasion.
The long-vigilant Dutch were not
caught off guard, and the communi
que indicated that if the Japanese
were in search of convenient oil
stores and operating bases for deep
er blows on the main citadels of
Dutch defense they would find that
"scorched earth” had left them
nothing but desolation.
"The Netherlands Indies fighting
forces in Mlnahassa offered strong
resistance,” it said briefly, "while
several destructions were carried out
entirely according to plan.”
The Dutch fleet, meanwhile, regis
tered two new triumphs against the
Japanese in distant waters, the com
munique announcing that a Dutch
submarine serving with the British
fleet had sunk two enemy transports
in the Gulf of Siam.
Where the Japanese started from
was not stated but it was a likelv
surmise that Davao, the captured
Philippine port on the Island of Min
danao, may be the enemv base.
Davao, only about 375 miles by
airplane north of Celebes, gives the
Japanese a. relatively short secure
haul across the Celebres sea both to
that island and to Tarakan.
Celebes and Borneo, where the
Japanese previously had won a foot
hold in the British part of the is
land, lie like the sides of a triangle
with the important Dutch islands of
Java and Sumatra as the base across
the narrow Java sea to the south.
Thus, whatever immediate objec
tive the Japanese may have in this
new operation, they have marked
out the outline of a wedge aimed at
Sumatra and Java.
That wedge, if driven to the
southern coasts of Borneo and
Celebes, would place the Japanese
squarely between the East Indies
and Australia and put thm across
the Java sea within easy aerial
striking distance of the ports of
Batavia and Surabaya.
The Dutch long had been bracing
themselves for a major Japanese in
vasion attempt which appears now
to have been timed to coincide with
preparations of the United nations’
Southwest Pacific high command
under British General Sir Archibald
P. Wavell to set up headquarters in
Java.
That an incursion was imminent
was suggested during the past week
by several Japanese air attacks o«»
Tarakan Island and by far-scattered
Japanese aerial reconnaissance over
the outer Judies provinces.
Such operations still were con
tinuing. The communique said
Japanese scouting planes were re
ported sighted at various places and
an attempted Japanese submarine
attack on Dutch merchantmen was
balked by the arrival of an Indies
flying boat.
WEATHER
(Continued from Page One)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—ffl—Weath
er Bureau records of temperature and
rainfall or the 24 hours ending 8 p. in.,
in the principal cotton growing areas
and elsewhere:
Station High Low Prec.
Alpena_ 19 09 0.00
Asheville _ 39 02 0.00
Atlanta _ 43 13 0.00
Atlantic City - 32 10 0.00
Birmingham_44 11 0.00
Boston_ 26 03 O.uu
Bufalo_ 21 05 0.10
Burlington _ 16 01 0.00
Chicago_ — — 0.00
Cincinnati _ 31 07 0.00
Cleveland_ 24 07 0.00
Denver _-_ 47 25 0.00
Detroit _ 25 12 0.00
Duluth - 18 — 0.00
El Paso _ 59 24 0.00
Havre _ 46 32 0.00
Jacksonville - — — — 0.00
Kansas City- 46 23 0.00
Key West- 62 53 0.00
Little Rock _ 47 19 0.00
Los Angeles- — — 0.00
Louisville _ 31 04 0.00
Memphis _ 43 16 0.00
Meridian - 48 12 0.00
Miami _ 63 44 0.00
Minn.-St. Paul- 29 05 0.00
Mohjle _ 50 17 0.00
New Orleans_ 48 26 0.00
New York_ 26 01 0.00
Norfolk _ 35 08 0.00
Pittsburgh_ 20 03 0.00
Portland, Ore.- 37 25 0.00
Portland, Me. _ 19 15 0.00
Richmond _— 34 08\ 0.00
St. Louis_ 38 19 0.00
San Antonio- 60 23 0.00
San Francisco_ 60 42 0.00
Savannah_ 46 18 0.00
Tampa _ 54 31 0.00
Vicksburg- 52 13 0.00
Washington- 34 06 0.00
Wilmington - 41 17 0.00
ANNAPOLIS HEAD
President Roosevelt’s naval aide,
Rear Admiral John R. Beardall,
is the new head of the United
States Naval Academy.
City Briefs
KINGS DAUGHTERS MEET
Sewing Circle of the King’s
Daughters will meet at the home
of Mrs. James E. Holton, Sr.,
1305 Grace street, Tuesday at
330 p. m. All members are
urged to attend.
BUSINESS MEETING
Members of the Wilmington
Light Infantry corporation will
hold an important meeting at
the armory Monday at 8 p. m.
James L. Duffey, president,
urges a full attendance.
REVIVAL SERVICES
Evangelistic services being
conducted at Sixth Avenue Ad
ventist church will be continued
this week at 8 p. m.', except on
Saturday, according to an
nouncement by the Rev. James
R. Lee, pastor.
PATIENT RECOVERING
Mrs. A. Fleuren, of Burgaw,
is recovering after an operation
at James Walker Memorial hos
pital.
VOCATIONAL ENROLLMENT
Enrollment for night classes
of the second semester of voca
tional training for adults will be
held at the Vocational building
Monday at 7 p. m. Classes will
be held for two hours twice a
week.
NEGRO IS ROBBED
Lewis Nixon, colored, of Ves
ter, filed a complaint with the
city police department yesterday
that he was robbed of $40 while
sleeping in an alley. Nixon said
he took a nap of only 15 min
utes seated on a bench and when
he awoke he had been robbed.
YMCA BIBLE CLASS
The regular weekly meeting of
the McClure Fellowship Bible
class will be held at the Y. M.
C. A. Monday at 6:30 p. m. Dr.
C. H. Storey will be the speaker
and it is urged that every mem
ber be present.
COUNCIL TO MEET
Cape Fear Council No. 24,
Daughters of America, will hold
its regular meeting Monday
night at 8 o’clock in the Jhnior
Order hall. All members are
urged to attend.
BOOK REVIEW
The hook review by Rabbi
M. M. Thurman will be given
on Tuesday night and not on
Monday night, as reported in
the Wilmington Star, the rabbi
said Sunday.
GUILD TO MEET
The Wesleyan Service Guild
of Grace Methodist church will
meet Monday night at 8 o’clock
with Miss Mary McDuffy at
1007 Market street.
FIRST AID TREATMENT
John F. Woods and Fred Tye,
soldiers attached to the Wil
mington airport, were treated
for slight wounds on their faces
at the James Walker Memo
rial hospital last night, to which
they were brought after a re
connaissance truck they were
driving had crashed into a tree
in Brunswick county. After
first aid treatment the soldiers
returned to their quarters.
BARRACKS IbURN;
AT LEAST 16 DIE
(Continued from Page One)
pitals here and in the nearby towns
of Arvida, Jonquleres and Chicou
timi in this Lake St. John district
in the heavily wooded country of
northeastern Quebec about 150 miles
north of the city of Quebec.
Officials of the big construction
camp of the Aluminum Company of
Canada, Ltd., and the Fouidation
Company, Ltd., expressed belief that
some of the men who usually in
habit the building may have stayed
oVernight with their families in
nearby towns and escaped the disas
ter.
'the camp normally houses about
1,600 of 5,000 men working on a $35,
000,000 power project of the Alum
inum company. All were employes
of the Foundation company.
Throughout the night uninjured
workmen and firefighters battled
the flames, which began sometime
after midnight, while priests on the
scene gave ■ the last -ites of the
church to the injured in the camp
hospital, and to the dead, whose bod
ies were taken to temporary mor
gues. ~ j
NAZIS DEMANDING
VICHY-U.S. BREAK
Germans Bring Heavy Pres
sure On Petain To End
Relations At Once
NEW YORK, Jan. 11—Wl—Ad
Vices reaching the Associated
Press from usually reliable
sources abroad said today the Ger
mans were reported putting heavy
pressure on French Marshal Pe
tain to break relations with the
United States immediately.
This report was said to have
come from a competent observer
who has just left Vichy and who
explained that the Germans hoped
thereby to overcome Vichy’s re
sistance to Nazi plans for France
in the “new order.”
One of the danger spots in Vichy
Berlin relations, strained by in
creasing German pressure on the
marshal and his unyielding resist
ance, was said to be France’s
continued good relations with the
United States.
Growing tension among the
French people themselves is said
to be the core of the difficulty
rather than the attitude of the
leaders in either capital.
This tension was pictured as
arising from several factors,
among them the fact that the Ger
mans still hold a million French
prisoners whose absence is deeply
resented by their families, the food
shortage which is blamed on the
i Germans, and the strong meas
ures of the Nazi occupation forces
as reprisals against Frenchmen.
Thus, Petain’s resistance is pre
sented as merely a reflection of
the majority opinion in France. 1
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Jehovah’s Witnesses
Leader Reported Dead
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Jan. 11.—W)
—Dr. R. G. Stevenson said today
he had issued a death certificate
Thursday for Joseph Franklin
Rutherford, leader of the Jeho
vah’s witnesses religious move
ment.
Dr. Stevenson attributed the 72
year-old religious leader’s death to
a stomach ailment. Rutherford
had been ill at his home here for
many months.
The body is in a San Diego mort
ary, pending burial arrangements.
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Turner Seriously
Hurt In Collision
H. B. Turner, of the Wilmington
trailer camp, sustained a possible
fracture of a vertebrae when the
truck he was driving overturned at
Orange and Eighth streets Sunday
at 8 a- m. in a collision with a
sedan, driven by Samuel Goldman,
colored, 818 Red Cross.
Mr. Turner righted his truck with
the help of Coldman and others who
had collected at the scene. He did
not think he had been hurt. Later
in the day pain in his back caused
him to become a patient at the
James Walker Memorial hospital.
His condition was regarded as ser
ious last night by medical attend
ants.
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Red Cross Instructors
Class To Meet Tonight
Treatment of those injured in
war-time gas attacks according to
the supplement on “First Aid for
the Gassed,” issued recently by the
American Red Cross, will be the
subject of instruction at the meet
ing of all First Aid instructors in
the Home Demonstration office at
the customhouse Monday at 7:30
p. m.
Junius Council will be the speak
er. All members of the Motor
Corps of the Wilmington chapter of
the Red Cross and prospective
members of the corps are expected
to be present.
Obituaries
JAMES E. EWING
James Everett Ewing, 59, former
resident of Wilmington, died at his
home in Norfolk Sunday IfternoOn.
He was on the staff of the Norfolk
Ledger-Dispatch.
Surviving are - his widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Canady Ewing, formerly
of Wilmington; mother, Mrs.
Franklin Ewing of Red Bank, N.
J.; two brothers, George D. Ewing
of Jamacia, Long Island, N. Y.
and Frank Ewing of Long Island,
N. Y.; and two sisters, Mrs. J. C.
Huss of Uaradell, N. J. and Mrs. H.
Hankins Hall of Wilmington.
The body will arrive in Wilming
ton Tuesday morning by train;
Funeral announcement will be
made later.
MRS. MARGARET B. HAYNE
WHITEVILLE, Jan. 11. — Mrs.
Margaret Bruney Hayne, 70, died
of a heart attack at her home at
Lake Waccamaw Sunday at 10
a. m. She was the widow of the
late W. H. Hayne and a daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. William
C. Burney of Lake Waccamaw. She
was a member of the Methodist
church at Wananish.
surviving are tnree sons; Henry
J. Hayne of Wilmington, W. B.
Hayne of Albermarle, and J. B.
Hayne of Wananish; and six
daughters, Mrs. Luetta Stephens of
Albemarle, Mrs. W. C. Hillieard of
Goldston, Mrs. S. N. Blake of San
ford, Mrs. J. White of Wilmington,
Mrs. R. L. Wadsworth of Teachey,
and Mrs. J. W. Wayne of Wanan
ish; two brothers, W. C. Burney
and S. N. Burney of Wananish;
and a sister, Mrs. H. O. Murray
of Hamlet. Six grandchildren also
survive. f
Funeral services will be held at
the home of Mrs. Wayne, a daugh
ter. in Wananish, Monday at 2
p. m. with the Rev. C. B. Long,
pastor of the Methodist church, of
ficiating. Interment will be in the
Lake Waccamaw cemetery.
MISS SYBIL CREECH
WHITEVILLE, Jan. 11.—Funeral
services for Miss Sybil Creech, 45,
who died last Thursday /f a heart
attack, were held from the home
near Whiteville Saturday at 11
a. m. ^\4iss Creech was the daugh
ter of the late Thomas B. Creech
and of Mrs. Katie H. Creech. Be
sides her mother she was survived
by a sister, Miss Edna Creech of
Whiteville.
The Rev. G. M. Sinfletary, pas
tor of White Marsh Baptist church,
of which Miss Creech was a mem
ber, conducted the funeral. Inter
ment was in the Flynn cemetery
I near Hallsboro.
MRS. E. G. THOMPSON
LUMBERTON, Jan. 11. — Mrs.
Elizabeth Griffin Thompson, 77,
died at her home here Sunday at
5 a. m. after a long period of de
clining health. The funeral will be
conducted at the home Monday at
2 p. m. by the Rev. Dr. C. H.
Durham, pastor-emeritus of the
First Baptist church, of which
Mrs. Thompson was a member.
Surviving are five daughters,
Mrs. T. E. Petty of Washington,
D. C., Mrs. J. C. Bradford of Win
ston-Salem, Mrs. W. G. Nimmocks
of Fayetteville, Mrs. R. Z. Linney
of Nashville, and Mrs. Jlarie Car
ter of Lumberton; and two sons.
Dr. Raymond Thompson of Char
lotte and Earl Thompson of Lumb
erton.
Mrs. Thompson was born in Rob
eson county at Fairmont and was
a life long resident of the county.
She was a member of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy. Her
husband, J. A. Thompson, died
here 12 years ago.
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Superior Court Begins
Week’s Session Today
Five capital cases are on the
docket of New Hanover superior
court for the one-week’s criminal
term, which opens Monday at 10
a. m., with Judge C. E. Thompson,
of Elizabeth City, presiding.
District Solicitor David Sinclair
will represent the state. Forty-one
are in jail awaiting trials.
ENGLISH ATTACK
NAZI NAVY BASES
Bombers Also Stage Raids
On Docks At Boulogne,
Aonvoy Off Holland
LONDON, Jan. 11.— UPl —British
bombers savagely attacked the
great German naval bases of Wil
helmshaven and Emden last night,
bombed airdromes in the low coun
tires, docks at Boulogne, France,
and a. strongly-escorted convoy off
the Dutch. coast.
Six planes were lost, but the Brit
ish said they left fires at Wilhelms
haven "brighter than daylight."
Two German bombers were de
stroyed off the English coast. A
Junkers bomber was destroyed to
day by two Polish pilots flying
spitfires after a 50-mile chase at
sea level across the English chan
nel.
A Dormer bomber was shot down
last night off the southwest coast,
and four of its crew were captured.
The fifth burned. The British said
a few bombs were dropped over
the Merseyside and east coast, but
described damage and casualties
as light.
A small tanker was left “blazing
furiously” and a large supply ship
was hit in the RAF attack on the
convoy.
Pilo officer W. B. Cooper of (740
Seventh avenue) St. Petersburg,
Fla., said the tanker was “just an
ideal target for us.”
"The tanker /as very low in the
water and she must have had a full
load of oil on board,” Cooper said,
after pressing home his attack in
a swift RA FHudson bomber off
the Dutch coast.
Wilhelmshaven was the chief tar
get, and the Air Ministry , News
Service called it a “determined at
tack.”
“There were many reports of
bombs bursting in long sticks
across the harbor and town and of
fires burning as the attack pro
gressed,” the agency said. Build
ings, railroads and rivers were out
lined sharply by snow on the
ground. 3
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