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IUS-1 ttmitutfun fcnmuj i§>tar | * S3™ ; ----—----— _____--- ■ — - -j -WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. jouseToVote ^spending O.HourWeeli ua, Labor Leaders’ SB, Smith, Au tor Of Proposal , (OHfHCK RAPS plan ,1 Kudo Gains Of Many yoo He Tells Mem bers Of House rfGTON. Feb. 26. - <* - fa bitter debate, the House postponed until tomorrow a Lvn vote on a proposal to nd for the duration of the •Lj laws calling for a 40 “'Sand extra pay for over author of the plan, Rep. ® n va.), raked ’’arbitraty Ifladers" who, he said, were \strikes -for silly reasons "1 Bep. McCormack of Mas ttosets, the democratic leader, ,5 Smith of fostering “anti jo," legislation which would un Uiains of many years. I),Smith proposal was offered jj unendment to a measure mSng the government's war ®. The decision to quit for fay. after an earlier announce il of intention to finish the id bill today, was reached when jjtame obvious that debate on labor clause alone would ex |far into the night. A score or rt speakers remained to be aid at adjournment. Time An Item Administration leaders were re Eted to believe that if they had on time to rally their forces ijwuld have a better chance to tot the amendment. Mb the amendment, seven «statutes prescribing maxi b list hours and requiring to pi; tor overtime would be uspenaed. Sopi that the amendment nUtiie away most of labor's iru of the last fifty years, Smith id it would not interfere with f (listing or future contracts Been labor and employes. He Virginian said he had no ibt that extra compensation for (dime would be agreed on by Ration between labor and em fers in most cases, toting the debate, Smith said: i can’t understand why ment is persist in resisting a suspen »ol those things which are •tapping the effort to save s nation in its hour of emer iti-” Need More Time Be declared the 40-hour week islation was enacted when the don was not at war, and condi ■s since Pearl Harbor had prov ®Jt ta necessary production •Irani could not tee carried out «limited working hours. Kormack characterized the nendment as “anti-labor,” and rnoned the members not to “e our heads.” J® McCormack told the House “™h tart week had attempt ed "anti-labor” legislation wr supply bill, the Virginian the assertion as “un hand McCormack shot back: from Virginia is ---V toon Ray Warren, Clinton Is Killed ^(ft. Fi-I:. 2C.—M arson Ray ^•year-old son of Marson *V.J0J' J«*ttee Warren, was .Hiiiod in his father’s gar ni, 3 o clock this afternoon % ."UCk; °'vned by Roddie >bn druen by Hudson’s !>!ah ? hi“ "hile he "as C", Ws father’s garage. 4 JT whlr:h mechancis 111 of n lng’ "as being back ^«identSarage at the time Ntej:by on0”1*’ the little boy tie War, 116 broUler, Douglas ,°ne Sister’ Joy 4 Claude’ u hls grandparents, 8.8 (. . " a®*n and Mr. and finerau Stice’ hifey ^f'lces wil1 be conduct tl* reside. 00n at 5 o’clock ? Sev, t Lr °n FerreU street bating bouis Morgan, Jr., Wil1 ba m the k!oll°ws Farmer; ^sJHmTo Hospital 0kla-. Feb. 26.—W B ^ »|e. Allen rifle ISick itrancher reach WiUOding ithe She discharg. Nr cle n the-chest. k?Wr!!d-mt° a culvcrt. ,> found he la“?ed conscious ,7s and anoth d suHered lac ill c "'reck rjlei cbest injury 5 a 4m h Walked a ^ 2*1 to a W1 house, then was Xi.^ai here. His Soviets Clo e Trap On 96, anst South M insrad Encircled Army Pounded In Furious Battle ADVANCES CONTINUE Nazi Forces Reported To Be Disintegrating Un der Onslaught By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Feb. 26.—(fl5)—Soviet forces in the strategic Staraya Rus sa area 150 miles south of Leningrad have closed a giant trap on 96,000 men of the second Ger man army corps under General Brockdorf, triumphantly-worded dis patches from the bitter cold front said tonight. ■me trapped forces were being pounded relentlessly in a furious battle, now two weeks old, for con trol of a vital area at the heart of a triangle formed by Moscow, Leningrad and the Latvian border. The regular midnight communi que reported merely that the Red army "advanced against heavy enemy resistance and occupied sev eral populated places” during the day, but a supplement said that three enemy infantry battalions had been "annihilated in a night battle” on the western front where an im portant locality was recaptured. The Soviets said they had a 21 to-5 plane score over the Germans during yesterday’s aerial combats. The German forces were declared to be disintegrating under the on slaught, the 290th division losing especially heavily. And their posi tion was described as hopeless. Soviet airmen dropped leaflets to (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) canamansTan FIGHT FOR U. S. Prime Minister Says They Can Battle In Alaska Or U. S. To Oppose Invasion OTTAWA, Feb. 26.— W—Prime Minister MacKenzie King told the House of Commons tonight that Canadians trained under compul sory service could be sent to Alas ka or the United States to help ■repel any invasion attempt. The prime minister pointed out that the government’s pledges not to conscript Canadians for over seas service would not be a techni cal barrier to sending troops to the continental United States or the Alaska territory adjoining Can ada itself. King said he could have parlia ment amend the national resources mobilization act and would do so in the event of invasion of North America and the consequent ne cessity of using Canadians on the continent outside of Canadian ter ritory. The act now provides only for compulsory service within Canada or on its territorial waters. King made his statement after interrupting a speech by Conserva tive Leader R. B. Hanson, who was criticizing the government’s handling of the plebiscite by which it will seek release from pledges not to conscript Canadians for overseas service. The prime minister had de scribed the old pledges as a moral obligation not to be ignored even in wartime. 2 ISPANESE DRIVE IN BURMA STALLS Situation Improved On Hil ly Frontier, But Souths era Status Not Clear 'BY DANIEL De LUCE MANDALAY, Burma, Feb. 26.— (*)—The Japanese offensive against the hilly, bush-covered Shan front ier in eastern Burma appeared virtually stalled today, but in the more important country southward the situation was not so clear. The slow-moving Japanese offen ive aganst the Shan frontier ap parently had not made any sub stantial advance. British and Chin ese troops in this sector have heavily mined the few roads and bridges over frontiers streams have long since been demolished. Trained in bush warfare, British commando shock troops are itch ing for a chance to fight the Japa nese and may get it in the Shan country. Some unofficial observers doubt ed whether the Japanese Shaw drive was meant to be more that a holding movement to occupy the Allied forces there and thus pre vent a further diversion south ward, where the enemy hopes to find riches. The oil fields on the Irrawaddy river about 160 miles southwest of Mandalay bay be pre sumed to be the current upper limit of Japanese ambitions. Should the enemy then continue due westward t0 the Bay of Ben gal at Port Akyab he would have Burma sewed up with only tough trails left to the British and Chin ese for supply routes to India. There has been no confirmation that the enemy had landed on the Irawaddy delta from the sea. Although it seems a logical man euver with the Japanese in con trol of the Malacca straits between Sumatra and the Malay peninsula. Military quarters insisted thatt the rail junction of Pegu, 94 miles by road north of Rangoon, had not been captured. Pegu is on the Ran goon - Mandalay railroad at the pointpoint where it is joined by the rail line southeastward to Martaban. There was no assurance, how ever, that the Rangoon-Mandalay line had not been cut at one point about five miles west of the Sit tang river. Near this point the Japanese were reportde operating as early as last Sunday, attempt ing to cross the river on improvis ed barge bridges. -V Gasoline Curfew Proposed To Avoid Rationing Board NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—tan— Closing of. all retail gasoline sta tions between 7 p. m. and 7 a. m. daily and all day on Sunday to avoid the necessity for national rationing of gasoline was advo cated today by the Eastern States Executive committee of the gasoline dealers conference. Sol A. Herzog, committee spokesman, declared that “we urge the promulgation by the Federal government of manda tory nation-wide 7 p. m. to 7 a. m. and Sunday closing of all stations. We think that Secre tary of the Interior Ickes’s re quest for a 15 per cent reduction in gasoline consumption can be met in this way.” Siamese Twins Born To Couple In • Jersey ; 1 NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—(#—Face to face and joined together, two baby girls rested tonight in a single crib at St. Vincent’s hospital, Stat en Island, while in another room their mother kept asking: “Where are my babies? Are my babies all right? They won’t let me see them.” Finally, hospital attendants ad vised Carmine Picciotto, the 29 year-old father, to tell his wife that she had given birth to Siamese twins. When he informed her, nurs es said, she expressed astonish ment but quickly became recon ciled. The little girls, who weighed to gether nine pounds, four ounces, were being fed another mother s milk through a medicine dropper and given oxygen as a precaution ary measure. Dr. Peter Timpone, who deliv ered the twins today, indicated that he planned to move very care fully in preparing for any possible attempt at an operation that might successfully separate them. He said extensive X-ray exam inations would be made this week I to determine whether they have the same blood stream. The babies are joined from a point just below the chest to about an inch below the navel — a distance of about three inches. Disclosing that many physicians had called him to offer their as sistance if needed, he sighed and added: “I have in idea of how Dr. Da foe felt, after he’d delivered the Dionne quintuplets.” Dr. Timpone delivered the only other child born to the Picciotto couple, a baby which died shortly after its birth about 18 months ago. He said delivery of the twins was not difficult. They were bap tized by the hospital Chaplain and christened Joan and Vlncenza. “They are perfectly healthy children,” Dr. Timpone said. “They’re being treated as normal babies.” Examinations and tests would requird at least a month before any surgery was contemplated, Dr. Timpone declared. He said the father, a New Brighton butcher, so far declined to discuss the children or to talk about the matter in any way. 3 Dutch Claim Japanese Have Already Lost One Third Of Cruisers BATAVIA, Friday, Feb. 27. — W —The Japanese already / have lost one-third of their cruisers, along with other dras tic naval and air losses, the newspaper Soerabaja Handels blad said today. (Jane’s fighting ships lists 35 Japanese cruisers of all types, and there are others of un known number presumed to have been completed secretly. An Associated Press tabulation Thursday showed 8 Japanese cruisers sunk by Dutch and American forces, 4 probably sunk and 20 damaged). “Let there be no talk to the effect that the enemy’s losses are of no concern to him,” the paper said. “In the air his losses are equally heavy. He still has many aircraft, but our air force makes itself felt not only at Bali island. In the region of Soerabaja — the big Netherlands Fast Indies Naval Base — the enemy every day shows high respect for our air defenses. “The enemy must in the cir cumstances attack, and as lie attacks he incurs losses whicli must give him something to think about. This is no tune for being despondent . . ,” ---V—: BIDS FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS OPENED Committee Will Meet Fri day At Noon To Con sider Acceptance Low bids for the second half of the New Hanover county school board’s $868,023 building program, submitted Thursday, totaled $417, 754, or $108,000 in excess of esti mates. Contracts are to be let by the board for construction of two new schools and an addition to another. The new schools will be Lake For est on South Thirteenth street and Sunset Park. A second story and cafeteria are to be added to the Forest Hills school. The P. S. West Construction com pany of Statesville was low bidder for the general contract at $346,705. All alternates—unecessary fixtures —were removed from the plans. R. H. Taylor of Wilmington was low for heating and plumbing in the Forest Hills building at $3,252 for heating and $2,741 for plumb ing. Other low bids were: W. W. Way and Son of Wilmington at $9,400 for plumbing and J. L. Powers of Ben nettsville, S. C., at $19,881 for heat ing in the Sunset Park structure, and J. R. Bagwell of Durham at $13,435 for plumbing and Ideal Plumbing company of Wilmington at $22,340 for heating in the Lake Forest school. The bids were referred to a com mittee composed of Superintendent H. M. Roland; Leslie N. Boney, architect; and John Marshall, bus iness manager of the board. The committee will meet with the board at noon Friday to discuss accept ance of the bids. Although the total was in excess of estimates, Mr. Marshall said Thursday night, bids were let in the first three projects at a sum $50, 000 less than estimates, and sites for three new schools have been purchased at $40,000 less than esti mates. Eleven general contractors re ceived plans and specifications for the projects, but only three sub mitted bids. Mr. Marshall said that uncertain conditions in the build, ing supply trade were undoubtedly the reason for the high bids and the fact that more firms did not bid. The building program is being carried on be the board of educa tion aided by a $614,00 grant from the Federal government. In Thursday’s bidding, W. A. Simon of Wilmingtpn was high on the general contract by $5,500, and L. J. Soleman of Wilmington was high by $3,500 on Sunset Park, the only school on which he bid. -V WEATHER FORECASTS: NORTH CAROLINA — Contin ued cold, somewhat lower tem peratures east and central portion Friday; scattered light snow, mostly in west portion. SOUTH CAROLINA — Colder Friday. (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday): (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 36; 7:30 a. m—. 32; 1:30 p. m. 47; 7:30 p. m. 44; maximum 48; minimum 31; mean 40; normal 49. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 72 - 7:30 a. m. 79; 1:30 p. m. 44; 7:30 p. m. 69. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches; total since the first of the month, 3.97 inches. Tides For Today: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington _ 7:09a. 1:40a. 7:34p. 2:24p. Masonboro Inlet _ 4:54a. 11:21a. 5:21p. 11:32p. Sunrise 6:43a; sunset 6:06p; moonrise 3:0op; moonset 4:19a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville at 8 a. m., Feb. 26, 11 feet. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) ColeAndGuion Get Contracts ToErectTanks Installations Will Be Made To Improve Water System Here BIDS TOTAL $316,471 Lewis Stein Awarded Con tract For Police De partment Uniforms Contracts totaling $316,471.76 for erection of two overhead water stor age tanks, piling, piping and con nections for the tanks and for under ground mains, valves and hydrants were awarded to low bidders by city council at the Thursday afternoon session. Contract to erect the two storage tanks, one to be placed near Seven teenth and Grace streets and the other about Ninth and Dawson streets, was given R. D. Cole Manu facturing Co., of Newman, Ga., on a low bid of $163,600. The award was made on motion of Councilman Robert LeGwin and seconded by Councilman Ronald Lane. a. h. Guion and Co., of Charlotte, was awarded contract to lay the foundation for, piling and installation of piping, connections for the tanks and installation of underground mains, valves and hydrants on the streets on a low bid of $152,871.76. The storage tanks will be of 750, 000 gallon capacity, shallow depth type, and constructed of steel with a high water line of 157 feet above the ground. Included in the award to A. H. Guion and Co. was installation of 27,530 feet of water system pipe and 1,519 feet of chain link fence. Councilman J. N. Brand, Jr., moved that the award be made to the Guion company, seconded by Coun cilman Lane. Firms submitting bids on the dif ferent projects were: Eure Brothers of Beaufort; R. D. Cole Manufactur ing Co., Newman, Ga.; Chicago Bridge and Iron Company of Chi cago, 111.'; Boyle Construction Com pany of Sumter, S. C., and A. H. Guion and Company of- Charlotte. Purchase Uniforms Contract for furnishing summer uniforms for the police department, including 55 pairs of pants, 55 caps and 110 shirts, was awarded to Lewis J. Stein on a low bid of $1,004.15 on motion of Councilman LeGwin. The motion was seconded by Councilman Brand. City Manager James G. Wallace said the uniforms, which will be manufactured for Mr. Stein by the Hirsh-Tyler company,- w-ill have in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) ORDERTORESUME WORK IS GIVEN Government Officials Cite Labor’s Recent ‘No Strike’ Pledge Government officials, pointing to labor’s recent “no strike” pledge,, yesterday demanded immediate re sumption of work in a Pittsburgh steel plant, a Hoboken, N. J., ship yard, and Pheonix, Ariz., wood working mills where production has been affected by labor dis putes. William H. Davis, chairman of the War Labor Board, declared BIO welders who walked out at the Bethleham Shipbuilding company’s Hoboken yard were failing in "their plain duty to their country in its present hour of peril”. The welders quit work Wednes day because, they said, a foreman used abusive language to them. Dr. John R. Steelman, head of the U. S. Concilation Service, ad dressed requests for continued work to employes of the La Belle works of the Crusible Steel com pany, Pittsburgh, and of the South western Sash and Door Company and the Arizona Sash, Door and Class Company, both of Phoenix. The La Belle works closed yes terday after pickets from the CIO steel workers organizing commit representative said negotiations on tee appeared at the gates. A union had been “hanging fire for grievances involving about 100 men months” and that some workers left their jobs in protest. The com pany, he charged, then ordered other workers from the plant. A company spokesman said there was no advance notice of a walk out and that he knew of no griev ances. About 1,000 workers were affect ed. Officials in Washington said their understanding was that em ployes of the two Phoenix concerns were not striking, but had refused to pass through picket lines es tablished by an AJ?L roofers’ un ion which has been on strike for some time against five roofing companies, 3 TWO MORE JAP SHIPS TORPEDOED BY ALLIED FORCES OFF BATAVIA Thousands Of Allied Troops Stand Ready To Fight For Java BANDOENG, Java, Friday, Feb. 27.—W)—American, Brit ish and Australian troops now in Java prepared to defend this Allied outpost against the ex pected Japanese direct on slaught now number “many thousands,” Lieut-Gen. Hein Ter Poorten, commander-in chief of The Netherlands East Indies Army, declared in a broadcast last night. The Dutch commander, wel coming the Allied forces, urged them—in English—“to fight like wildcats and fight like hell.” Presence of the Allied troops in Java had been announced to the outside world a few days ago, but tonight’s remarks by the Dutch commander con tained the first official refer ence to figures. American air units have been in Java for some time. Gen. Hein Ter Poorten ac knowledged that the situation of Java, with the Japanese closing in, was perilous. He said there was no reason for light-hearted optimism, but added that on the other hand there also was no reason for pessimism. Welcoming the Imperial and American troops, the Dutch leader said “I know your gallant record in the history of fighting. I know I can rely on you Amer icans, Australians and British to fight equally gallantly now alongside us Dutch.” “The enemy,” he said, “is at the end of long lines of communication, seeking des perately food and oil. . . We are fighting for our existence and our families. Up to now our resistance has gone ac cording to program. Nowhere has the Japanese new order succeeded in getting the prod ucts so badly needed. “The Japanese will go hun gry amid the smoking ruins, and the coming battle for Java will go according to plan al so.” 2 U. S. Will Evacuate All San Diego Japs ■ -L, _ _ _ _ Will Be Moved Somewhere East Of The Sierras/ Says Order SAN DIEGO. Calif., Feb. 26.—UP) -Norman Neukom, assistant U. U. Attorney, said tonight orders to move all San Diego county Japanese, including those of second generation, “somewhere east of the Sierras” would be issued, pos sibly within the next 48 hours. Neukom also reported that the entire San Diego waterfront area probably soon would be prohibited to enemy aliens. A major portion of the waterfront now is barred to them. The attorney said his ad vices came from an authorita tive source. Such wholesale transfers would be made under President Roose velt’s authorization to the army to move any or all persons out of areas deemed important to nation al defense. To Safeguard Holdings Confirming reports that some persons were trying to force aliens to dispose of their property, at ridiculous prices, Neukom said the government would safeguard the holdings of any persons moved out of the coastal area. He said his advice was to “sit tight and await the government’s action.” All enemy aliens were ordered out of prohibited areas of CalU fornia, bordering the ocean, effec tive at midnight last Feb. 24. Cur few hours exist for aliens in other restricted areas to which they are admitted by permits. Sentiment in favor of the re moval of all Japanese, either (Continned on Page Two; Col. S) M’ARTHUR’S ARMY TAKES OFFENSIVE Numerous Japanese Ad vance Positions On Bataan Captured WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.— UPI — General Douglas MacArthur’s men on Bataan peninsula have sudden ly taken the offensive, capturing numerous Japanese advance posi tions, and in one sector forcing the invaders to retreat several kilo meters, the. War department re ported today. Far from beaten, the defenders of the Philippines “attacked sharp ly all along the line.” The surprise thrust was apparently successful generally, but particularly so on the right where the deepest enemy withdrawal took place. Main ene my positions were not penetrated, the communique said, but at last reports the fighting was till in prog ress and local successes contin ued. At a press conference, Secretary of War Stimson disclosed that the leader of 20,000 bolo-swinging Moro tribesmen on the island of Min danao had pledged a “fight to the last” against the Japanese and de clared their readiness to die “for America and their country,” if need be. Praises Defenders Stimson also took occasion to praise the defenders of the Neth erlands East Indies. They were making a “magnificent stand,” he said, and had inflicted losses upon (Continued on Page Two; Coi. 6) Litvinoff Expects End Of Hitler By Summer NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—(«—Max im Litvinoff, Russian ambassador to tile United States, declared to night that he believed Hitler could “be destroyed by the summer.” In his first public address since taking over his post in Washing ton, prepared for delivery before the overseas press club aijd broad cast by the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Soviet ambassador warned that the opportunity for a summer victory over Hitler might be, missed and said: “Only by simultaneous offensive operations on two or more fronts separated by long distances could Hitler’s armed forces be disposed of and that is why Hitler would dislike such operations.” Litvinoff declared that the com ing spring offensive of the Ger man armies in Russia would be a make or break effort for the Axis and added that “we should like our Allies and friends to see this as clearly as Hitler does, and act accoringly.” The ambassador asserted that he did not mean that the United Na tions should concentrate all their efforts on the Russian front to the detriment of all other fronts. f *-— “But identical quantities or armed forces and identical sorts of arms are not required on all. fronts,” he said. “It is quite le-~ gitimate to desire that the forces which cannot be used on one front, should not be kept in idleness and inaction, but should be sent where they could be used. “Next spring, on the Eastern theater of military activities, which must certainly be considered the most important, the struggle with Hitler will reach its peak, and we should like to have the utmost pos sible aid by then. “We should like all the forces of the Allies to be put into action by then, and that, by then, there should be no idle armies, immo bile navies, immobile air fleets. This applies also to military ma terials, which should be sent to the places where they are most needed. . . “It would be deplorable if we were to lose the initiative for lack of adequate and timely support. We are proud that it has fallen t our lot to smash Hitler’s war ma chine b\}( we by no means insist on exclusive rights. We are quite prepared to let others have a share in our pride.” One Enemy Cruiser Also Believed Hit In Close Action STIMSON IS GRATIFIED Dutch Troops Continue De laying Action In Iso lated Areas __ \ By WITT HANCOCK BATAVIA, Netherlands East Indies, Feb. 26.—(IP)— Two more enemy troop ships, a naval auxiliary and a freighter, have been torpe doed by United States sub marines in the great Allied counter-offensive against Jap anese invasion trains massing in these waters, the Dutch command announced tonight. It added that aside, from these successes, American submarines had closed also with a Japanese squadron of cruisers and destroyers and though forced to dive before the results could be observed, were believed to have hit one of the enemy. While the invaders already tie mendous sea losses were thus being extended—and U. S. Secretary of War Stimson was declaring in Washington that the Allied defense had been “magnificent”—the Dutch command reported that for the sev enth successive day Japanese bomb ers had been generally ineffective in their intense efforts to knock out this island’s airdromes as a probable prelude to an attempt at mass in vasion. Delaying Action Afield, in the outlying islands of the archipelago, Dutch troops were continuing their persistent delaying actions—fighting on Celebes with unabated fierceness; falling back in west Borneo but struggling on and ignoring a Japanese ultimatum to surrender or die, and quite possibly maintaining a rear-guard action, even on Amboina, which long1 since had been claimed by the enemy. “At any rate,” the Dutch com mand said proudly of the little gar rison of Amboina in illustrating the unbroken tenacity with which the defenders are buying time, "the bat tle on this island has lasted at least three weeks.” The probable fall of the enemy of the Island of Bangka off southeast ern Sumatra and of part of Benkoe len residency in western Sumatra was acknowledged, however. It was disclosed, too, by an an nouncement that enemy storage yards had been bombed near Telok betoeng, in extreme southern Su matra, that the Japanese had thus pushed their Sumatra advance to a (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) --V Laurinburg Farmer Is Fatally Injured LAURINBURG, Feb. 26.—(iW— Eugene C. McCall. 64, farmer and manager of the Elmore Fertilizer company, was killed at 9:30 this morning when the truck he was driving and the engine of an East bound train collided at Laurel Hill. Funeral services v ill be held at the McCall residence at Elmore at 4 p.m. tomorrow. Survivors in clude the widow, the former Miss Bertha K. Keels of Virginia, and four children, Calton McCall, U. S. N., Andrew McCall, a student at the University of North Caro lina, Mrs. Edwin L. Gibson of Laurel Hill, and Miss Sadie Mc Call of Ft. Bragg. 2 Walter Blue Will Die On Friday, The 13th RALEIGH. Feb. 26.—W—Unless Governor Broughton intervenes, Walter Blue, 37, of Asheville, will be the second man in two suc cessive months to be executed in Central prison gas chamber on Fri day the 13th. The State Supreme Court yester day denied ’ Blue’s appeal of his convention of raping a nine-year old girl in an Asheville public park last November. 2 Survivors Of Torpedoed Ship Landed In Guiana GEORGETOWN, British Guiana, Feb. 26.—(AP Cable)—A number of survivors from a torpedoed ship wore landed here today and more were expected to arrive later. The identity of this ship was not disclosed, nor was it made known where she had been torpedoed. A-*,
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