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CAMEL CARAVAN TO m_ DAVIS Show Will Make Three Day Stand In Theatre No. 2 At Camp Camel Caravan’s streamlined show bus will roll into Camp Davis next Monday for a three night stand at Theater No. 2. The unit is one of several big road shows sponsored by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco company, now making a n&tional tour of army camps, Na val stations and Marine bases. It will be the first time a show troupe has spent more than two nights at Davis. There, will be one performance each night, at 7 o’clock. There’s no charge at the door and free smokes will be doled out to the customers. It might be a good idea to get to the theater early and thus assure yourself of a good seat. Headliner of the Caravan is Herb Shriner, master of ceremonies, known as the “Harmonica Humor ist.” Also featured are petite, vi vacious Jo Andrews, tap dancer, Lee Norton, singer of songs in the Latin manner; Norma. Krieger. whose specialty is magic; Schiff and Skinner, table tennis cham pions. and Bob Romeo and his Camel Cavaliers orchestra. Shriner joins the Caravan follow ing a tour of Australia and a sub sequent guest appearance on the Kate Smith radio show. He has been featured in the nation’s lead ing hotels and supper clubs includ ing Hotel Sherman, Chicago; Balti more Bowl, Los Angeles, and Ciro's, Hollywood, among others. Lee Norton is an American, but was born in Mexico and there ac quired a knowledge of Spanish and Spanish music. He sang for a time with Xavier Cugat at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, and later appeared with Phil Harris and Jay Whidden’s band at the time. 3 -V VARIETY SHOW SET TONIGHT Will Be Presented At USO £Iub At Second And Orange Streets Citizens of Wilmington and serv ice men throughout this area will be treated to an unusual display of talent drawn entirely nearby from army and Marine bases at the USO Club, Second and Orange streets tonight at 8:30 o’clock, The concert was arranged by the USO Club’s music committee as the culmination of its series and as part of the celebration of Music Week in Wilmington. Pvt. Bernard McSweeney, a ten or stationed at the Marine Base, will sing “On the Road to Man dalay” and “Mother Machree”. McSweeney previously sang with Horace Heidt. Many soldiers, sail ors and Marines will remember him for the very pleasing perform ance he gave at the USO Club on another occasion. Pvt. Samuel Kurlandisky, of the Wilmington Air Base, who is an accomplished violinist will play “Csardas” by Monti. _ Pvt. John Fortna, baritone, also -of the Army Air Base, will sing •“Land uv Degradashun” by Mac Ginsey and “Sailor Men” by Wolfe. Those who have heard Fortna say he would grace any concert stage. Through the cooperation of Chap lain O’Conner and his men a va riety show will be presented by a group stationed at Fort Fisher. Cpl. Bain will act as master of ceremonies of the variety show and will introduce the following danc ers, singers, instrumentalists and players: Pvts. Marantz, Remming er, Fondacaro, Cassias, Halleck, O’Connell and Tirado. An added feature will be the presentation through the coopera tion of Lt. Holcombe and his group of a skit “The Night They Burned Shanghai” by the Wilming ton Air Base dramatic group. The cast includes Cpl. Frank Rice, Pvts. Wynne, Barnett, Dubow, Da vis and Mrs. Milton J. Wynne. This skit was presented to a radio gudience last night. -V SIX AUTOS CAPTURED Six automobiles and 67 1-2 gal lons of non-tax paid liquor were captured and confiscated during April by the Wilmington office of the Alcohol Tax unit. No stills were seized during the month for the first time in more than five years. PLAN TO EVACUATE CHILDREN PREPARED (Continued From Page One) county may be accounted for at ofice. When the children arrive m a county, Newman continued, the forms will be filled out and re tained by the county. In the event of an emergency, all children who have their par ents’ permission for evacuation, I will go to their school building. Teachers or other persons will also go to the schools and in each room will be an envelope of tags, one for each child. Order will be given at once by the school principal, and the des tination of a particular class will be divulged then. While en route to their destination, it will be the duty of the teacher to open the envelope and tag each child in dividually in order to reduce con fusion in routing. The lower portion of the tag is a stub which is to be torn off, Mr. Newman pointed out. When filled in it will supply information as to the child’s whereabouts. This stub is to be mailed to the evac uation committee here and when received the name of the child will be put on the back side of the file card belonging to the family who is caring for him. The cards will then be reversed and a simple file index system on the children will then be available. In order that the parents will soon know of their children’s whereabouts, the stub from the child’s tag will be sent to them by the evacuation committee. The number of children evacu ated and the length of time for their stay is dependent upon the nature of the emergency, Mr. New man pointed out. Duplicate Records Each county will have records of the children handled by them in the event that the New Hanover records are destroyed, Mr. New man said. To offset any financial question which might arise in the event of a disaster, Mr. Newman revealed that 40 citizens of Wilmington and New Hanover have pledged to un derwrite $250 each, a total of $10, 000 to defray any expenses incur red in the evacuation. These pledges have been deposited in a local bank and arrangements have been made to secure this money at any time it becomes necessary. “If the bridges across the rivers are demolished,” Mr. Newman said, “the American Red Cross has formed a committee which will handle the transporting of the chil dren across the river by boat.” As a precaution against the files becoming outdated, the county superintendents will be contacted every six months and the files brought up to date, he commented. A pledge has been secured from each superintendent that their county busses will be kept in con dition during the summer Vaca tions and that only adult drivers will handle them in the event of an emergency, he said. “I think Mr. Newman has done a splendid job on this work,” de clared Addison Hewlett, Sr., chair man of the county board of com missioners, at the conclusion of the meeting. “His preparation in this is sim ilar to Hitler’s invasion of France —no point has been overlooked,” commented H. M. Roland, super intendent of schools. It was pointed out at the meet ing that the parents in the county should prepare themselves for an evacuation so that no confusion will result. The hope was expressed that such an evacuation would never become necessary, but that due to the elaborate plans worked out by Mr. Newman the children would be given the best of care. At the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. Newman revealed that plans were now underway to work out an evacuation program for the sick and injured in the county in the event of a disaster. At the same time, he said, a program for a mass evacuation of the entire ci vilian population 7 would be later worked out. -V Canadians In Army Vote 4 To 1 For Draft OTAWA, May 5.—(#>—Canadian men and women in the armed forces at home and abroad voted 251,118 to 60,885 in favor of the dispatch of drafted men outside the country, bringing the recent plebiscite total to 2,921,206 “yes” ballots against 1,608,609 negative ones. There are still 798 polls in the nation unreported. 3 Are YOU the inquisitive type? Do you look for facts—listen to figures? There’s a wealth of evidence favoring Cream of Kentucky. It’s made by the “dean” of Kentucky distillers — made with the Cove Spring’s superior limestone water. Just say “make mine Cream” and enjoy the world’s largest selling straight Bourbon whiskey. PINT $1.20 QUART $2.35 rtuoky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. 86 Proof. Schenley Distillers Corp.. N. Y. C. * CAPITAL FEARS FOOD, SUPPLIES EXHAUSTED (Continued From Page One) activities farther to the south. It would mean, too, that resis tance to the invader in the Philip pines had been reduced to the ac tivities of isolated bands, which are still active on several of the islands. Wainwright Praised Mr. Roosevelt’s message to Wainwright was unstinting in its praise for the valor apd heroism of Corregidor’s defenders. “During recent weeks,” it said, “we have been following with growing admiration the day-by-day accounts of your heroic stand against the mounting intensity of bombardment by enemy planes and heavy siege guns.” He added his statement on iso lation, and lack of food and am munition, and continued: “The American people ask no finer example of tenacity, re sourcefulness and steadfast cour age. The calm determination of your leadership in a desperate sit uation sets a standard of duty for our soldiers throughout the world. “In every camp and on every Naval vessel soldiers, sailors and Marines are inspired by the gal lant struggle of their comrades in the Philippines. The workmen in our shipyards and munitions plants redouble their efforts because of your example. You and your de voted followers have become the living symbols of our war aims and the guarantee of victory.” Corregidor has been the main stay of the fighting in the Philip pines. It was the anchor of the fighting on Bataan, and haven for the fortunate few who were able to avoid capture by the Japanese when Bataan or Manila fell. Army nurses were evacuated to the fort, when the fighting ceased on the peninsula. A Naval detach ment originally some 3,500 in num ber, consisting of Marines and Blue Jackets who were left strand ed in the area by the fall of the Cavite and Alngapo Naval bases, was successfully transferred from Bataan to the island. Some sur vivors of Bataan, daringly swam the 2 1-2 miles to the island, de spite shark infested waters. A Refuge General MacArthur’s wife and their four-year-old son lived in the fortress from the time Manila fell until they left with the General for Australia. Francis B. Sayre, the American high commissioner to the Philippines, found refuge there, too, until he was able to escape to the United States. Both MacArthur and Wainwright directed a portion, at least, of the fighting on Bataan from Corregi dor. Corregidor is an island of solid rock which protrudes from the sur face of the water at the entrance to Manila Bay. It is a natural fortress. Its defenses, however, like Singapore and Pearl Harbor, W'ere planned with a principal view to resisting attack from the sea. Thus while big gun turrets were protected from horizontal fire, they had little sheathing against attack from the air. Nevertheless, they did yeoman service, and repeated ly the gunners on Corregidor prov ed the accuracy of their fire by silencing shore batteries, and sink ing Japanese barges. All in all, Corregidor is consid ered, with the possible exception of Malta, the most bombed spot in the world. The bombings w'ere intermittent, so long as the fight ing on Bataan continued. But after the fall of the forces on the pen insula, they were stepped up con siderably, both in intensity and fre quency. In addition, having captured Ba taan, the Japanese were enabled to pound the island effectively from the heights of the peninsula. No Ships Lately It seemed probable, that while some ships were able to bring fresh ammunition supplies through the Japanese blockade to support the Bataan fighting, none * had reached the island in some time. At the time of Bataan’s fall, the men both there and on Corregidor had been on short rations for more than two months, but there had been no shortage of ammuntion. Lacking additional shipments, it was thought possible that the plight of Corregidor’s soldiers in this respect had grown acute. -V City Briefs HAIL FALLS HERE Small hail stones fell in Wilmington from 2:05 until 2:08 o’clock yesterday afternoon during the thunderstorm that left .75 of an inch of rain on the city’s streets, it was re ported at the Weather Bureau. FIRST AID CHAIRMAN J. Henry Gerdes, chapter chairman, has announced the appointment of Mrs. Emsley A. Laney as chairman of the First Aid committee of the Wilmington chapter of the American Red Cross. MEETS TONIGHT The meeting of the First Aid class scheduled to have been held Monday night at the USO club, Second and Orange streets, will be conducted Wednesday night at 7:30 o’clock at the club. Mrs. Emmett Bellamy is the instructor. DIES HERE Matilda Carter Story, wh6 re tired after teaching in the schools here for 37 years, died Sunday. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday after noon at 4:30 o’clock at St. Mark’s church. -l_y Danny’s mother’s mother, his mother’s mother’s mother and his 1 mother’s mother’s mother’s moth ■er are all living 2, U. S. CRACKS DOWN ON INSTALLMENTS (Continued From Page One) chs&ged articles on the list which were bought before today. 3. Installment credit — Any per son buying a listed item on the in stallment must pay 1-3 down and the balance in 12 months, except that automobiles may be bought 1-3 down and 15 months to pay and furniture and pianos 1-5 down and 12 months to pay. Regardless of total price, payments must be at least $5 per month. Previous rules usually allowed 15 months, permitted slightly smaller down payments, and did not fix a mini mum monthly payment. Loans Affected The rules also tighten up condi tions under which cash loans up to $1,500 may be made by banks or other lenders. The cash loan rules provide: 1. If the loan is to be repaid in a lump sum, it must be paid up in 90 days. And if the loan is to be used to buy a listed article the amount of the loan must not be more than the purchase price of the article minus the down pay ment. This type of loan was not re stricted previously. 2. If the loan is to be repaid in regular installments it must be paid up in 12 months, except thrt if it is to be used to buy an auto mobile or motorcycle it may run 15 months. If the loan is to be used to buy a listed article, the amount of the loan must not be more than the price of the article less the down payment. Also, if the loan is to be used to pay off debts pre viously made to buy listed articles, the loan must be paid up in six months. Under former regulations installment loans were permjtted up to 15 months. Board officials said that one of the most drastic features of the new rules was the requirement that monthly payments be at least $5. In effect this provision shortens the payment time on a large number of the listed articles. How It Works For instance, the rules seem to allow a year to pay for a watch. But, if it costs $30 and the down payment is $10, and the balance must be repaid at the rate of at least $5 per month the purchaser actually gets only four months. Several relief clauses, however, soften the blow of some of the other provisions, especially on charge accounts. If a charge ac count *s not paid up in the required 40 to 70 days (depending on the day of month the purchase is made) the technical default can be cleared up by making arrange ment with the merchant to pay up on the following six months on a fixed monthly basis of not less than $3. Until such an arrange ment is made or the default paid up, the merchant is prohibited from charging any more listed articles to such an account. As in the old rules, there are other special exemptions or exten sions for impoverished persons, students, farmers and others with seasonal incomes, or persons seek ing cash loans for emergency ex penses, and in other special cases. Articles Affected The complete list of articles to which the new rules apply follows: Room unit air conditioners, home air conditioning systems, air planes, attic ventilating fans, auto mobile batteries and accessories, passenger automobile tires and tubes; bedding, blankets, curtains, draperies, and household linens and towels: bicycles, binoculars, field glasses, opera glasses and hand telescopes, pleasure boats and boat motors; clocks (electric or otherwise if designed for house hold or personal use); household cooking stoves and langes; house hold electric dishwashers: all elec tric appliances if designed for household or personal use; floor coverings (including fabric and linoleum type rugs, carpets, mats, and other materials, whether or not designed to be affixed to the floor); furnaces and heating units (including oil. gas conversion bu - ers and stokers, all if used for household); household heating stoves and space heaters; house hold ironers; jewelry (including precious stones and costume jewel ry) ; lamps designed for houshold use; lawn mowers, edgers and trimmers (whether or not power driven); household lighting fix tures; luggage, purses, handbags, toilet cases and umbrellas; motion picture cameras, projectors and lenses designed for film gauges less than 35 millimeters; still cam eras; projectors, lenses, shutters and enlargers; all types of musical instruments; household electric organs; household plumbing and sanitary fixtures; household port able lights and portable or sta tionary floodlighting equipment; radio receiving sets, phonographs and combinations; mechanical re frigerators of less than 12 cubic feet rated capacity; household sewing machines, silverware (in cluding flat ware and hollow ware, whether solid or plated); sports, athletic, outing and games equip ment; household suction cleaners and mechanical carpet sweepers; table ware and kitchen ware: equipment and utensils designed for household use (including pot tery, porcelain, china, glassware and cutlery); household wash: g machines: watches; household water heaters; household water pumps; wearing apparel and furs (non-military, including footwear, headwear and haberdashery); yard goods designed for making of gar ments or for making articles of household use, household furniture (including ice refrigerators, bed springs and mattresses); pianos, automobiles, motorcycles and any materials or services used for re pairs or improvements on non commercial real estate. FRENCH RESISTING AT MADAGASCAR (Continued From Page One) planes could patrol the entrance to Mozambique channel between Durban and Tulear, 900 miles apart. British' troops exclusively were conducting the operation, although in the cause of all the United Na tions. There were none of the Free French nor dominion forces such as fought in the invasion of Syria. Distinguished, high-ranking and veteran officers led the occupy ing forces, Admiral. E. N. Syfret commanding the naval escort and General R. G. Sturges of the Royal Marines, who fought at Gallipoli in the first World War, leading the troops. Commands Sea Lane Madagascar almost as big1 as Texas and the world's fourth larg est island, commands Mozambique channel and the southern routes of Allied supplies to the near East, Russia and India. Thus was destroyed what an in formed source declared was a Jap anese plan to seize Diego Suarez with the connivance of Vichy and make it a base for Axis attacks on Allied shipping. But this same informant con ceded the possibility that the Jap anese high command might at once send its powerful Indian ocean battle squadron against Madagas car in a desperate attempt to dis lodge the British from the northern tip. Ot necessity, this would involve a straight, swift blow across the Indian ocean, by-passing such ob vious stepping stones as the Sey chellee and Amirantes islands, Mauritius and Reunion. Should the Japanese attempt to build a sys tem of bases on these islands, one informed source said, "the British will gpt enough bombers and men o’war into Madagascar to blow them out of the water.” The Allied naval position in the Indian ocean is of necessity a se cret, although Axis reports have claimed that two great U. S. bat tleships, the North Carolina and the Washington, have entered those waters. The precise quality of French resistance which was going on to day, under Vichy’s orders, was in some doubt, but the defending forces were believed to number no more than 4,000 effectives, most of whom were grouped around Die go Suarez. They were commanded by Gen eral Guillemet, a former artillery man who, Free French here say, carried out the imprisonment re cently of all De Gaullist sym pathizers in the Madagascar’s French population of some 25,000. 50 PER CENT CUT IN GAS ORDERED (Continued From Page One) merely to the East. Simultaneously with the gasoline order WPB directed that deliveries of light fuel oil be reduced also by 50 per cent below last year, begin ning May 16 in the 17 Eastern states and the District of Colum bia. This was the first cut on fuel oil, used for house heating, and the order applied to delivered to suppliers. Gasoline consumption in the East and Oregon and Washington al ready is cut by one-third below normal, by a limitation on supplies to filling stations. Today’s new order made no mention of the northwestern states, where improv ed supply conditions have been ac companied by speculation that the restrictions may be lifted. On May 16, WPB explained to day, the Office of Price Adminis tration will place in effect a tem porary emergency gasoline card rationing plan in the East, which will remain in effect until July 1 when a more elaborate rationing program will go into operation. Price Administrator Leon Hen derson previously had set May 15 as the day for card rationing to begin. " . .. — " T A n A V AT LEADING lUUAl THEATRES - Starts Today! *^|p ircp.-u- ijt• - i:ior & Gals! vH ij Betty Grable, Victor j|§ Mature & Jack Oakie—In jl L“SONG OF THE ISLANDS” M Shows: 1:15 3:12 5:09 /M 7:06 9:03 JB |B3DD~~» *1 ’ On Stage 3:30 4:30 7:20 0:20 ■ It’s Singing, Swinging Fun! U “WAKE UP & LIVE REVUE” Ifl On Screen—Buddy Ebsen in M 1 “SING YOUR WORRIES k AWAY” /m M Mat. 33c. Nite 44c. Chit. lie. jffig === mT Academy Award Sensation! nj Ij “HOW G^U'EN WAS | ftl With Walter Pidgeon, JM K and Maureen O’Hara iBs Shows 10^:45 12:45 2:45 /Kk I V'Cgiaii Today W “THE MAN WHO RETURNED f TO LIFE” ; ll With John Howard |\ Also! “CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT’ » Shows 11:15 12:16 1:47 3:18 4:49 6:20 751 922 f WEATHER (Continued from Page One) WASHINGTON, May 5.—(£>)—Weather bureau report of temperature and rain fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m., in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Prec. Asheville _ 83 56 0.00 Atlantic City _ 71 57 0.00 Birmingham _ 81 60 0.00 Buffalo _*_ 51 44 0.00 Charlotte _ 87 63 0.00 Cincinnati _ 72 34 0.00 Denver _ 53 39 0.00 Duluth _ 55 31 0.00 Fort Worth _ 87 68 0.00 Kansas City_ 68 52 0.00 Little Rock _ 81 56 0.00 Memphis - 82 55 0.00 Miami - 83 66 0.00 Mobile - 84 64 0.00 New York_ 74 55 0.00 Norfolk - 70 61 0.00 Richmond _ 72 64 0.00 San Antonio -- 90 70 0.00 Washington - 74 58 0.00 Wilmington - 84 65 0.75 -v Axis Bombers Kill 247 In Malta Raids -— VALLETTA, Malta, May 5.—(IP) —Axis raiders killed 247 civilians on this island in April and 50 more died of wounds sustained earlier to make up the highest single month’s casualties of the war. A cube of gold measuring u, inches weighs a ton. ' ‘ MANOR theatre WEBNESBAY-THUESDay henry , n.\ni:\i{. FONDA STANWYCK IN "YOU BELONG TO ME" Feature at: 11:22 - 1:37, . 3 4S" 5:01 - 7:14 - 9:27 * OPEN DAILY 11:00 \. FOE CORRECT TIME DIAL 3 5 7 5 —Courtesy— MELTON BARKER, DIRECTOR OF THE "GANG CO! BY" To Be Made With Wilmington Talent Will Be At The Manor Theatre TODAY For the purpose of interviewing children between the ages of 3 and 14 years of age. Casting hours will be from 4 to 6 p. in. ami from ~ to fl p. m. CHILDREN WHO HAVE REGISTERED ARE BEING NOTH IED BY CARD AT WHICH TIME TO REPORT. Children who have not had a chance to register may do so by seeing Mr. Barker at the Manor Theatre. You read in the newspapers that many boys now serving overseas — cannot buy cigarettes at any price. Now—to help you get cigarettes to your boy in the Overseas armed forces —this service has been arranged: FOR A CARTON OF 200 CIGARETTES (No further charge to sender or recipient!) Philip Morris will forward these ciga rettes anywhere outside the United States, Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands. Simply go to your regular cigarette dealer. Pay him 85 for each carton you wish sent. Give recipient’s correct name, rank, unit and A. P. O. address —or ship attachment. Easy! No bother! That’s all you do. Each parcel plainly marked with your name as sender and each order acknowledged direct to you. Send all you wish. These cigarettes are shipped free of all Federal or state taxes! NOTE TO TOBACCO RETAILERS: All you do is to turn over orders—with money, and correct names and addresses of both senders and recipients—to your jobber. He will give you full details.
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