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CAROLINA BEACH DRAWS THRONG Thousands Visit Resort Sunday With Many Going Into Surf Judging by the size of the crowd 1st Carolina Beach over the week end, the resort is in for another peak year. There were over 5,000 at the beach Sunday, and hundreds took to the Burf with mid-summer abandon. A number of concessions, which have been open all winter, were tak ing care of business that equaled, so one operator said, “average June trade.” R. C. Fergus, mayor, said that dim-out or not, Carolina Beach was going to have the crowds. Cliff Lewis, real estate operator, reported a sharp upswing in the number of inquiries for cottages. “It’s far above the number received this time last year.” A manager of a large boarding and rooming house said that her place was full and had been full all win ter. Noticeable this year is the number of reservations being made for full weeks. It is the feeling of the operators that patrons wdll come and stay their entire vacation rather than split it between the mountains and the seashore and different ocean resorts. The ocean-front business men have already started putting in fix tures for the dim out. Blue and green lights of low wattage are be ing installed. A number of show counters will be indirectly lighted. Once the dimout is perfected, it will be difficult to make out the beach’s midw'ay from a distance of a mile outside. [THREE POWERFUL NAZI WARSHIPS KNOCKED OUT (Continued from Pagre One) and United States fleets, Adolf Hit ler now has, according to the best available reports, only three war ships at Trondheim, occupied Nor wegian port, ready for a fight. These are the battleship Tirpitz, 35,000 tons, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, 10,000 tons, and the Admiral Hipper, sistership of the Prinz Eugen. The official announcement said the Gneisenau was located at Gdy nia, former Polish port, the Scharnhorst still is in the dock yard at Kiel, German naval base which the RAF has pounded ex tremely hard, and the Prinz Eugen Is at Trondheim. Reports from Norwegian sources said the Prinz Eugen had been grounded by the stern to keep her afloat. In brief, the British gave this account of what happened to the three ships after they dashed from Brest on Feb. 11: The trio, object of many raids by the RAF during their stay in the occupied French port, sailed in an effort to concentrate with other German surface ships at Trondheim. * On Feb. 14 the Germans an nounced that the battleships had left their base on the Atlantic sup ply route for “further operation duties” — but over two months later aerial reconnaissance by the RAF has established that both the •powerful ships are still in dock yard hands. The Gneisenau is severely dam aged along ‘the whole length of her forecastle and needs extensive repairs.” In addition to the damage suf fered in the attempted concen tration in the channel battle in Feb ruary, it is probable “that further damage was caused by mines laid by our aircraft.” “It also seems probable that both the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau re ceived additional damage between Feb. 25 and Feb. 28 during our bombing raids on the dockyard at Kiel. During these raids a liner used as a naval depot ship was also set on fire.” The Prinz Eugen made it safely to Germany but later, on her way to Trondheim, was attacked off Kristi ansund, Norway, by the sub marine Trident. '"Though not sunk, it was evident that she was severely damaged, reconnaissance has also shown that (hough she did reach Trondheim, (he after part of this enemy cruiser heeds very considerable repair.” The communique did not take in to consideration any damage which might have been done the Scharn jiorst and the Prinz Eugen by heavy RAF attacks on Kiel and Trondheim late in April. The knocking out of three of Hit ler’s most powerful ships threw a (nonkey wrench into any plans he (night have had to put his battle Jleet into the North Atlantic in an (tttack on the Allied supply line to Northern Russia. Many naval experts have been expecting Hitler Mussolini and Premier General Hidekj Tojo to {rder their combined naval forces ito action simultaneously this Spring in a move coordinated with German land attack in Russia. -V Barbara Lynn Weds Man Who Once Gave Her Traffic Tich _JL_ --- LAS VEGAS, Nev., Hay 8.— Screen Actress Barbara Lynn was married last night to the man who Iwo years ago handed her a ticket for a traffic violation—James Roche, supervising inspector of the Califor nia highway patrol. They were married by a justice of the* peace. The actress’ age was j listed as 21, Roche’s as *5. I FR To Ask 35 Billion More For Army’s Needs _ ■* WASHINGTON, May 3.—Inform ed legislators said today they ex pected a presidential request for approximately $35,000,000,000 for the war department to be placed before Congress within the next week or 10 days. The amount—the largest single appropriation request in history— would bring to more than $190,000,. 000, the total appropriations and contract authorizations made for military purposes in the past two years. The new appropriation would represent a revision of pre-Pearl Habor estimates of War depart ment needs through the fiscal year JAPANESE CAPTURE MANDALAY, PUSH ON TOWARD CHINA (Continued from Page One) dia.” The shambles of Mandalay lie 200 miles across tortuous mountain country from the border of the great subcontinent of India, where the dominant political party —the all - India Congress—admon ished the 390,000,000 Indians yes terday to resist any invaders with “non-violent non-cooperation.” The Chinese communique said the Japanese continued to drive northward from Lashio, railhead of the Burma road but that Chi nese forces holding Taunggyi, 170 miles to the southwest were con tinuing to harass the Japanese communication lines and rear. There was a faint and desperate hope that these forces, pocketed between the Sittang and Salween rivers, might exert sufficient pres sure to isolate the more advanced Japanese. However, they appeared only strong enough to conduct guerrilla warfare in which they are well schooled. Competent London military quar ters said the Japanese apparently had thrown out two powerful col umns, one from the Lashio vicinity aimed at Bhamo 175 miles to the northeast of Mandalay, and the other cutting to the west of Man dalay in the direction of India in an encircling move against British forces along the Cvhindwin river which flows into the Irrawaddy. Bhamo is the northernmost point of navigation on the Irrawaddy and the terminus of an ancient and important caravan road to Kun ming, Chinese capital of Yunnan province on the Burma road. Should the Japanese reach Bhamo, the British and Chinese positions in Burma would be ren dered extremely critical, military sources said. The Japanese still were exerting pressure at Honywa, 55 miles west of Mandalay on the Chindwln river in the pincer movement attempt ing to cut lines of retreat. There apparently were fewer enemy troops operating in this area than in the Mandalay and Lashio areas. The British communique from New Delhi said the "situation in Monywa is unchanged” and that “our troops are still fighting in that area.” The high command said the Jap anese advance in the Mandalay area, in almost the center of Bur ma, has been very cautious. ‘They were seen to shell posi tions 24 hours after evacuation by our troops,” it added. A Ghurka brigade of tanks and artillery was said to have inflicted “very heavy casualties” in the Mandalay area, firing over 7 0 0 shells into the foe. “The enemy was in far greater strength and supported by division al medium artillery,” the com munique added. The British said the enemy con tinued "indiscriminate air bomb ings” which caused little military damage. One raid was directed against an Indian refugee camp which had been evacuated. The western end of the vital sup ply route of the Burma road was closed except for southbound Chi nese reinforcements, but there still were tenuous and difficult avenues for carrying supplies to embattled China. A route from Lanchow in the central Chinese province of Kansu connects with the Russian railroad in Turkestan, but Russia is fully occupied with Germany and prob ably can spare only a trickle of supplies. The Assam road is being carved out of the forbidding Himalayas by 350,000 coolies between Chungking and Sadiya in • the Assam section of India. The route is 2,300 miles long and great gaps are not com pleted. Great freight planes, furnished mostly by the United States and manned by American pilots, are lugging increasing loads of vital war supplies across the high moun tains in to China. Japanese accounts said the de struction of Mandalay was com plete. Most of the city had been burned by Japanese bombing at tacks, and the rest apparently was demolished by the defenders and dissident Burmese. Girders of bridges lay crumbled in deep valleys. “The whole city with its harbor installations, silk mills and bazaars was but one heap of ruins," the Tokyo radio said. “Smoke curled from debris which extended for miles and no human being was visible. Even the picturesque Buddhist monasteries with their wold famous wood carv ings were burned. It seemed as If the Japanese had enterd a ghost city. The half burned old palace and part of the golden pagoda seemed to be the only monuments which remained partially standing during the hellish conflagration which consumed the entire large city.” ending June 30,1943. While the ex act figure of the revised estimate has not been announced by war department and budget bureau ex perts, Rep. Cochran 1D.-M0), a member of the appropriations committee, told the House last week it would approximate $35, 000,000,000. The measure is expected to pro vide funds for about 23,000 more warplanes, large quantities of tanks, anti-aircraft guns and ar tillery and for an army of more than 4,000,000 men. Sufficient money has already been provided for an army of 3.600.000 men by the end of 1942. There have been increasing indi cations in the capital that this would be increased to 4,000,000 and perhaps to 5,000,000 in 1943. The new appropriation would provide, it was said, for this many men, as well as full equipment for them. In his message to Congress last January, President Roosevelt cal led for Army production as fol lows: 1942—60,000 planes; 45,000 tanks; 20.000 anti-aircraft guns. 1943 — 125,000 planes; 75,000 tanks; 35,000 anti-aircraft guns. Congress has already appropriat ed or authorized expenditures of $161,000,000,000 toward the mam moth program and the revised war department request is expected to. complete the job. Up to now, the largest single appropriation made by Congress was $33,000,000,000 for war pur poses. Last week President Roose velt signed a $19,000,000,000 war appropriation measure providing for, among other things, 31,000 new warplanes. 3 SUGAR-REGISTRATION BEGINS HERE TODAY (Continued from Page One) to the grocer each time a purchase is made. The government, keeping a continuous check on the sugar supply, will say how much sugar may be bought with each stamp. The limit of one pound per stamp 1 in effect until June 27; after that the amount per stamp may be raised, or cut. Thp sugar scarcity results from two things—the shutting off of im ports from the Philippines and other places in the war zones, and the sinking or diversion to other uses of the ships which formerly brought sugar here from Latin America and other places. In the registration at elementary schools starting tomorrow, one ra tion book will be issued for each member of the family, children as well as adults. One member of the family — fatehr, mother or some other adult’—can go to the school and register for the whole family, and get books for all the members. The sugar purchases, too, can be made for all the family by one mem ber. When mother goes to the groc ery store she can take all the fam ily’s ration books. If there are, say, fcur in the family, with the four ration books she can buy four pounds of sugar after Tuesday, and that must last the family until May 17, when stamp No. 2 in the books becomes valid. Sugar bought with stamp No. 2 must last until May *1 when stamp No. 3 can be used, and so on. KNOW THESE FACTS WASHINGTON, May 3.— — Be prepared when you register for sugar rationing to give the follow ing Information about each person for whom you ask a ration book: Name, age, height, weight, and color of hair and eyes. Also you must be able to tell the amount of sugar, brown and white, owned by the family on the day of registration. COPENHAGEN BOMBED BY BRITISH FLIERS (Continued from Paso One) on Italy but here too the British were silent on whether their planes had gone that way. (The German radio declared the planes over Switzerland were Brit ish. But an official Swiss announce ment of air raid alarms sounded in Bern, Fribourg, Neuenburg (Neuchatel) and Lucerne, whieh was quoted by the Germans, said the nationality of the planes was not determined.) The Air Ministry reported that British bombers laid mines in ene my waters during the night and coastal command planes bombed and set on fire a large tanker off Alesund, Norway. These planes al so were said to have hit and set on fire a medium sized merchant vessel. Two bomber* were acknowledg ed missing. The Air Ministry, summing up the raids of April, said the occu pied port of Le Havre and the German industrial Ruhr section were the hardest hit during last month with five attacks each, closely followed by Rostock with four heavy night attacks. During 19 nights of bombing thousands of tons of bombs were dropped on the Reich, the Ministry said. It listed 29 heavy attacks, 3 -v EARLY OFFENSIVE SEEN LONDON, May 3.—(A1)—Two mem bers of the war oablnet, Sir Stafford Crippa and Ernest Bevln, minister of labor, in speeches today said Britain soon would take the offen sive. Cripps, broadcasting to Foies on their National day, urged them to stand firm "for the moment to strike will soon be upon us." -V Dry flies for trout fishing are now being made of cellophane. A THREE SOLDIERS REPORT LOSSES Guests At Hotel Say They Were Robbed Of Total Of $139 Saturday Soldiers, who spent Saturday night in the Wilmington hotel, lost $139 from their pockets, according to information they gave police. C. A. Carlson, of Camp Davis, who had a room with George Conrwoy and Gordon Flaherty, told police he lost $71. He said he wajs asleep and the money was in his pocketbook by the bed. Fla herty said when he returned to the room, after getting something to eat, he found the door open and called Carlson after seeing the pocketbook lying open in the chair. Charles Brigham, who had a room at the hotel with three other men, said $20 of his money was taken from the room during the night. William Hay was said to have lost $48. -V Obituaries DONALD A. SOUTHERLAND Funeral services for Donald A Southerland will be conducted from the residence, 7 D Nesbitt Courts, at 12:45 today by the Rev. Mr. Bullard. After the services here, the fun eral cortege will leave for Chin quapin where interment will be in the Baptist cemetery. JOHN WATTS GLOVER Funeral services for John Watts Glover will be conducted at 1 o'clock this afternoon from Yopp Funeral home by the Rev. George Shepherd. Interment will be in Winter Park cemete. Pallbearers will be: Active, Floyd Glover, S. I. Glover, Win ford King, Van Millis, Leon Pat rick and James Smith; honorary, Charlie Purris, Judd Bryant, Capt. Sherman, Roland Padrick and W. C. Riggs. CURTISS FURR, JR. Funeral service for Curtiss Furr, Jr., three-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss Furr of near Wilming ton, who died at the residence Sun day morning, will be conducted at 11 o’clock this morning from the graveside in Oak Grove cemetery by the Rev. H. S. Strickland. Surviving are his parents; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Craven and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lee Furr, all of near Wilmington. GEORGE M. JAMES Funeral services for George M. James, who died at 6:20 o'clock Saturday morning in the Veterans’ hospital, at Fayetteville, will be conducted from the chapel of An drews mortuary at 11 o’clock Mon day morning. The Rev. Alexander Miller and the Rev. E. W. Halleck will conduct the services. Interment will follow in Oakdale cemetery. Pallbearers will be R. L. Groover, O. G. Foard, J. L. Willcox, Thomas McDonald, Newton Fisher, and J. A. Elmore. Mr. James is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Post James. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick James. WALTER MASON Funeral services for Walter Ma son, 42, of 2014 Woolcott avenue, who died Saturday, will be conduct ed Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Andrew’s Mortuary chapel with Rev. E. L. Bradley officiating. Burial will be in Oakdale cemetery. CHINESE~FUERS~ BATTER LASHIO (Continued from Pare One) and the Japanese occupied Anda man islands in the Bay of Bengal by heavy planes from the U. S. Brereton command in India. The last of these was a night attack on Rangoon last Wednesday.) The AVG announcement said neither the Chinese nor the Ameri cans lost anything in men or equip ment in the Lashio raid. The offi cial announcement read: ‘‘A Chinese air force bombard ment group supported by units of the AVG heavily bombed Lashio this afternoon. Bombs were seen to fall on the airdrome in the midst of parked planes. Barracks build ings were set on fire and a large fuel dump blown up. "Several American volunteer group planes swept low over the field and strafed the airdrome. "No losses in aircraft or person nel were sustained by the attack ers.” The Japanese occupied Lashio, southwestern terminus of the Bur ma road, on last Wednesday, after a massive attack by tanks, armor ed cars and aircraft. 3 -V Germans Say French Are Bombing Britain LONDON, May 3.—UP>—The Ger man propaganda station, “Lenin’s Old Guard,” reported In a broadcast In Russian tonight that planes of the Vichy government have dropped “reprisal bombs” on Britain. “As soon as It became known that Paris had been bombed by the Brit ish, the French council of ministers presided over by Pierre Laval de cided on immediate reprisal raids on British towns," the German sta tion said. The bombing of Paris referred to apparently was last Wed nesday’s raid on factories near the occupied capital. "Last night," the German station continued, “French planes frctn un occupied France bombed several towns in South England City Briefs YOUTH FINDS MONEY Tommie Evans, of 505 Har nett street, found a bill folder containing 940—four tens—Sat urday evening. After being un able to find the person to whom the money belonged, he car ried it to police headquarters. Later, Sergeant Steve Domitioh reported to police headquar ters. He was able to satisfy police that the money was his. He was grateful, too, for the youth’s honesty and left 92 for him. Police officers said the sergeant wanted to give the boy more money, but the boy insisted that he not do it. DEFENSE STAMPS A. A. Strayhom, who is em ployed at the Southside Drag store, located at Front and Cas tle streets, told police Sunday afternoon that ten $1 defense stamps were taken from his coat pocket while he was work ing Saturday night. He said the coat was hanging in a locker behind the counter, DANCE TONIGHT A dance will be given Monday night at 8:30 o’clock at the Fourth and Ann streets LSO club for a group from Camp Davis. Transportation will be fur nished for the girls and refresh ments will be served. CHANGE OF DATES The next meeting of the Euphian class of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian church will be held Wednesday, May 13, instead of Wednesday, May 8, as previous ly announced. -V Unique Mother’s Day Program Is Arranged The Fourth and Ann and the Fifth and Orange USO clubs will combine in presenting a Mother’s Day program Sunday, May 10. Under the plan, mothers in Wl mington who have boys in the serv ices will serve breakfast for a group of soldiers in the morning with the soldiers in turn entertaining them at a buffet supper at night. The committee on arrangements is composed as follows: John Shee han, chairman; Mrs. Clarence Maf fltt, G. G. Beekman, Mrs. Wallace West, Miss Elizabeth Bullard and Mrs. William Hulsizer. AMERICAN BOMBERS RAID JAP SUPPLY BASE (Continued from Pare One) Class Roy O. Bailey, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Private Har ley H. Leaird of Durant, Okla. homa. ‘‘General Wainwright warmly commended the four soldiers and awarded each the Silver Star for gallantry in action. “3. There is nothing to report from other areas.” FOUR DESTROYERS SlIDE DOWN WAYS (Continued From Page One) the late Rear Admiral Frank Fri day Fletcher, who fought at the battle of Vera Cruz and served in World War One. The Fletcher was followed 15 minutes later by the Radford, sec ond destoryer to pay tribute to Rear Admiral William Radford, commander of the U.S.S. Ironsides during the Civil War . From neighboring ways in rapid succession the. Quick and the Mervine left their land basins, the latter terminating the procession of seapower at 12:30 p.m. The Quick was christened for Sergeant Major John Henry Quick, decorated for gallant ac tions in the Spanish-American and first World Wars. The late Rear Admiral William Mervine, who saw service in three wars, starting in 1812, gave his name to the fourth ship. NINE ARMY AIRMEN DIE IN TWO PLANE CRASHES IN PACIFIC (Continued From Fafe One) crashing, scattering wreckage over a wide area. THREE KILLED TACAMA, Wash., May S. — Two officers and one enlisted man were killed and another seriously injured late today in the crash of an army bomber at the nearby McChord field air base. The bomber was on a rou tine training flight. McChord Field headquarters listed the dead as: First Lieut. William E. Com ber, pilot, son of W. F. Comber, 4439 Paul street, Frankford, Pa. Second Lieut. Adolph T. Frer isch, co-pilot, son of Mrs, Lillies M. Frerisch of Route 1, Fair fax, Mo. Corp. Frank W. Erwin, son of Mrs. Lois M. Erwin, 150 North Milam street, San Benito, Texas. Seriously injured although ex pected to recover was Sgt. Ran dollph T. Correll, son of Mrs. Carrie Correll, 606 Southwest Third street, Perryton, Texas. A board was appointed to de termine the cause of the crash. -V Greek Government Reorganized By King CAIRO, May 3.—UP)—Reconstruc tion of the Greek government-in exile was announced tonight at the Greek legation here after King George had received the new cabinet in the morning. Professor Panajotis Kannellopou los, political idol of Greece’s youth and for a long time the leader of underground resistance to the Axis occupation of the homeland, was named vice-president of the cabinet. Prof. Kannellopoulos recently escaped from Greece and made his way to Cairo. -V India has 22,902,000 acres plant ed to cotton. Wings Over Wilmington With Air Base Boys AS THE WEEK ENDS, the new arrivals at the airport look for ward to a rest. The hardest work of settling has been completed, and the routine schedule of operations will begin again the coming week. Probably most of our civilian readers can appreciate somewhat the turmoil that comes with mov ing; the packing and unpacking; the subsequent sorting and shuf fling of material. However with the Army there is nothing when you arrive; so the moving-jn be gins from the ground up. Tent platforms must be carried around —and the boys will tell you they are really heavy—tents must be raised, and then comes the usual process of adjusting oneself to the new environment. After getting acquainted with the airport, the soldier’s next interest lies in looking over the town. Those who have still had enough energy these first few days to visit Wil mington have returned with little but favorable comments. Those who were disappointed were chief ly married men seeking living ac comodations which seem to be scarce and expensive. BASE RADIO PROGRAMS will be resumed this week over Station WMFD. People in Wilmington might be interested to know that the Air Base soldiers broadcast twice weekly over WOLS while at Florence and soon had a regular listening audience, many missing social engagements to stay home for the programs. The radio-talent group while at Florence staged shows ranging from musical variety to heavy drama, and seemed to do equally well with all types of shows. Likely the title of the show will be changed from “Into the Blue”, but the new name has not been an nunced. Over WMFD the Air Base will broadcast Tuesday evenings from 9:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and Thurs day evenings from 8:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The boys hope Wilming ton will be listening. 8 Incidentally this is the chance for soldier musicians, script writers, actors, etc. who missed out on the fun before to get on the band-wagon. 8 SQUADRON REPORTERS re port back to duty immediately. This is your column as it was be fore, but the Public Relations of fice can’t make the rounds of all the organisations each day and need your help. You know what we want. Please give it to us daily (seven days a week) at the PRO before 1:00 p.m. There are several organizations and detachments which failed to enter into the column—we invite you to come along now. IT’S IN THE BAG, you might say. . .some soldier, apparently dazed by love or hard work wrote a letter, walked down the Company street and mailed it. Probably he thought he was dropping the note in a mail-bag from hastily scan ning the canvas sack lettered “U. S.” that hangs on a tripod under a shelter tent. The medics discovered the letter when they next filled the “Lister Bag” with water. All writing had washed away; so the identity of the soldier will remain a mystery —unless he cares to admit his error. PVT. SLATTERY’S a Jonah according to reports. The other day he talked his way onto a patrol bomber and went along on the search for submarines. For awhile everything was normal, then there was action. Reportedly a “sur faced” Sub’ was sighted and the bomber swooped down, the “ash can” release was pulled, and the bomber zoomed back into the blue. Below, nothing happened. Then the sub’ made a crash-dive and disappeared. The pilot and crew were at a loss to explain the trouble until it was discovered that something had jammed. It had never happened before —Slat tery’s presence was blamed for the failure, and the jolly Irish man’s face became more r o s v than ever. CORP. ‘‘TU-DEL-UMA” Joe Lorence was assigned a detail of men to police-up a camp area. He worked diligently with his men; so intent did he become in his work as a matter of fact, that when he puased there wasn’t a man to be found. Like Little Bo-Peep he hunted, but he never found his lost “sheep”. Joe, don’t you remember where you used to hide when you were a Private? ^ LUCKY SOLDIERS are leav ing the Base to go on 90 day fur loughs. We wondered how it could be done and asked Sgt, Loyal Bar hydt and Corp. Eernest Frazier who were toting their duffle out of camp. They explained that they had been appointed for Flying Ca det training, but the schools were all filled; hence the furlough until Uncle Sam has a place for them to earn their Wings Billroy’s Chorines To Prance Tonight At Bellamy Park Girls, girls, girls, blondes, redheads and brunettes, alluring and captivat ing, have been brought to Wilming ton by the old favorite tourm-g theatrical attraction, Billroy’s Comedians. Billroy’s Comedians salute their 1942 audience with a star-studded spectacle of feminine loveliness in a colorful and dazzling revue, offering a nation-wide mobili zation of the most beautiful girls ever presented with any tented theatrical attraction. Above all, Billroy’s Comedians of fer the most talked of dance attrac tion ever presented to the American public in the person of Ming Toy, the sensational Chinese dancing star, pictured above in her original “Dance Terrifique.’’ This unique dance has been thrilling audiences everywhere and is exciting more at tention than even the Bubble Dance and Fan Dance of former seasons. Billroy’s Comedians, 1942’s thrill ing theatrical attraction, will appear in Wilmington tonight for one per formance only, showing in its big tented theatre located at Bellamy park, at city limits, off the Wrights ville Beach highway. Billroy’s array of singers, dancers and musicians, representing the best of the entertainment world, travel from city to city in the finest motor entourage of today, consisting of twenty-five specially constructed trucks, busses and passenger cars. Billroy’s famed popular price wil) again prevail, with ladies free, when accompanied by one paid adult ad mission. The doors of the big tent open at 7:15 p. m., the overture by the Top Hats, ambassadors of swing, is at 7:30, and the performance starts at 8:15. REDS PLEDGED TO WIN WAR DURING 1942 (Continued from Pag-e One) all uses of their weapons, called the order “a concrete program for action.” “With the troops armed with first class material and with knowledge of its use, they will beat the German fascist bandits even harder in the spring and summer than in the winter,” Pravda said, “the year 1W2 will be a year of complete defeat of the enemy A hall column Tass dispatch from Geneva reported the meeting of Hitler and Mussolini at Salzburg and discounted the Axis communi que as "full of the usual phrases about military and political ‘co operation.’ ” The Dispatch quoted Swiss cir cles as interpreting the meeting as an occasion for Hitler to present "a number of new claims" to Mus solini for additional Italian a \ d against Russia as well as to dis cuss future operations in the Med iterranean. . Hitler was represented as prom ising Italy compensation for its “cannon fodder” at the expense of France. Tass pointed out that Ital ian propaganda for annexation of Nice increased. 3 -V Vichy Denies Giraad Delivered To Nazis VICHY, Unoccupied France, May 3.—(#)—General Henri Honore Gi raud, who escaped from a Ger man prison and returned to Unoc cupied France through Switzer land, was still in the unoccupied zone this morning, official sources declared today. These sources declared: “Sensational rumors circulated yesterday evening concerning the fate of General Giraud, who escap ed from Germany and returned to France after passing by Switzer land. “As a result of erroneous indica tions, rumors circulated with in sistence that he had been handed over to German military authori ties at Moulin. “Information from official sour ces formally denies this news and states that General Giraud is still in Unoccupied France." JOSIAH NYE DIES OF NATURAL CAUSES /■ • Columbus County Coroner’s Jury Finds No Evidence Of Foul Play WHITEVILLE, May 3.—No ev|. dence of any foul play was found in the death yesterday of Josiah Nye, Jr., 36, of Bolton, and a core, ner’s jury here this morning ruled that the man came to his de?*h from natural causes. Verdict of the jury came after two physicians, Dr. W. A. Green and Dr. Floyd Johnson, who exam ined the body of Nye last nigh; testified that it bore no marks of violence and they could find nothing in the way of bruises or other marks which might produce death. The inquest was called by Coro ner J. D. Sikes, after he had been asked by the family of the deceas. ed to investigate his death. They told Coroner Sikes that Nye was found unconscious on the highway near Bolton last Friday night and that they believed that he had never recovered from the experi ence. He died Saturday morning about 10:30 o’clock at his home in Bol ton. Among the witnesses to testify were George Brown, deputy sher iff, of Bolton, who found Nve un conscious on the highway and brought him to the hospital here. Funeral services for Nye were conducted this afternoon at 4 p. ni. from the Shiloh Methodist church, near Bolton, with Rev. F. N. Starnes, the pastor in charge. Bu rial was made in the church ceme tery. The man is survived by his wife, two sons, three brothers and three sisters. -V Only 43 Survived Truxton Sinking ST. JOHN’S. Newfoundland, May 3.—(iP)—An official report Saturday on the stranding of the United States destroyer Truxtun and the U. S. supply ship Pollux said only 43 men of the Truxtun’s crew of 155 survived when she was cast against the South Newfoundland shore Feb. 18 in a great storm. Xo figures on the loss of life aboard the Pollux were given but official an nouncements after the double dis aster set the total fatalities at around 190. Civilian Morale Stressed By Miller LUMBERTOV. May 3— <JP> - Civilian morale must shape the out come of the war and America’s des tiny, Dr. Julian S. Miller, editor of the Charlotte Observer, told 600 Robesonians who met today to launch a drive for bond and stamp pledges. America is superior in arms, to said, but “the question is whether , or not America is sensitive to the i seriousness of this struggle. “There is obviously a lack of ex plosiveness among us, for Americans are not at all vocal or blatant, In their patriotism,” -V Day Room Provided For Camp Davis Group A day room for members of the Camp Davis School detachmer.' group has been opened by the USO club, Fifth and Orange streets at Camp Davis. A home-like atmosphere has beer created for the men with window drapes, furniture appropriately ar ranged, 'lamps placed In advant ageous spots, and writing materi als nearby at all times. Games, books, magazines, an! the ever necessary cookie jar and candy box have been included. The committees responsioie i the arrangements in making the day room for the men are compos ed of the following: Room arrangements: Miss Mat Sweeney, chairman: Mrs. E. L. Potter, Mrs. P. H. Walsh, and Mis* Mary Louise Walsh. Cookies and candy: Mrs. Cather ine Brown, chairman; Mrs. I-eon* ard Lee. Mrs. .W. G. James Mrs R. H. Northrop, Miss Mary Me- ; Duffy, and Miss Alene West. The United States imported 25rf pounds of sandalwood oil during j the first half of 1948. __ PROTECT Your Tires With A Victory THEFT PROTECTOR CAUSEY'S Corner Market and i2ih_ ( O A S I A I TAB Dial 4454 Dial FOR CORRECT TIKE DIM 3 5 7 5 —Courtesy— 1
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