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KING’S DAUGHTERS PRESENT BANQUET Officers For Ensuing Year Will Be Elected At Ses sion This Morning The fifty-second annual banquet the North Carolina chapter of °L King’s Daughters was h e l d Wednesday night in the Sunday ’\hool building at St. Paul’s Lu theran church. Mrs L. L. Motte, president of iu'\vhat-so-Ever circle of the or “jzation, acted as mistress of ^enionies. . ’ ^ The invocation was given by the . c d, Barclift, pastor of Fifth Avenue Methodist church, and the entire group of more than a hundred young women sang one verse of "God Bless America”. Following the dinner, Alan A. Marshall spoke to the assembly cn War Savings Bonds. Mr Marshall stressed the fact ,hat the buying of War Savings bonds constitutes the soundest in vestment in the world, and he per sonally requested that everyone in the'congregation pledge himself to the purchase of War Savings Bonds or Stamps. Mrs T H. Hashagen rendered a vocal solo. "The Legend”, a composition of Tschaikowsky, and was accompanied by Mrs. Eliza Schulken. The guest of honor, Mrs. Henry S E!ey. international president of the King's Daughters, of Suffolk, Va.. delivered an inspirational ad dress to the assembled women. Mrs. Thomas W. Young, state president, introduced Mrs. Eley. Following the talks, picture slides showing the work of the King’s Daughters were shown to the assembled members. The Thursday morning session will take up :he election of offi cers for the coming year and oth er phases of the business of the organizations. _V USO Clubs Answer Real Need In U. S., MacMahon Declares • The U. S. O. is answering a great need in the cities and villages of the nation, and it or some other similar organization is absolutely necessary to keep the social life stabilized during this period of emergency,” declared W. S. Mac Mahon, assistant general manager of the local shipyards, before the weekly luncheon of the Kiwanis club Wednesday. Mr. MacMahon is making a tour of the various civic clubs of the city this week in an effort to ac quaint the members with the Unit ed Service Organization. He is a vice chairman of the U. S. O. drive in this area. Breaking down the function of U S. 0.. Mr. MacMahon pointed out that the various welfare organ izations furnished the personnel and leadership, the government furnished the buildings, and con tributions from public spirited cit izens supplied the operating ex penses. He urged all Kiwanians to better acquaint themselves with U. S. O., and pointed out that if they were now opposed; to take another in ventory of the plan; if they were neutral; to try to understand the organization. 3 When Admiral Porter’s fleet bombarded Fort Fisher in Janu ary, 1865, U. S. Marines aboard the vessels took an active part in the engagement. GEN. WAINWRIGHT REMAINS TO END (Continued From Page One) and from massed artillery. The fall of the fortress deeply affected all of us here in Aus tralia who worked with those men. The last time I talked to Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright, I said to him: “You should be leaving, not me.” He replied, harking back to one of the battle songs of Luzon: “I have been one of the ‘Battling Bastards of Bataan’ and I’ll play the same role on the rock as long as it is humanly possible.” At the end, Corregidor suffered terrible punishment from guns and bombs, said Maj. William R. Brad ford of (131 Harrison) San Antonio, Tex., who reached Australia just two days ago with the last Amer icans from the Rock. The Japanese heavy cannon, fir ing approximately three miles from the Cavite area and. s ix miles from the Bataan shore, ham mered the island’s gun positions and tunnel mouths throughout the day. Bradford, who recently won the Distinguished Flying Cross, was one of the pilots who volunteered to make the last flight to Corregi dor to deliver urgently needed medicines. Before he started back to Aus tralia, Bradford, too, urged Gen eral Wainwright to leave, and told him the United States and the United Nations needed generals of his type on other fronts. But Wainwright replied: “I have been with my men from the start and if captured I will share their lot. We have been through so much together that my conscience would not let me leave before the final curtain. Ameri cans shaken by the loss of Bataan should not feel the fall of the Manila bay forts to be a double tragedy, but rather the exemplifi cation of the grimness of our spirit when we stay to the end with a job to be done.” When I left the Philippines just after the fall of Bataan, Corregi dor already had been subjected to weeks of vicious pounding by the Japanese shore batteries and hun dreds of air bombers, but the men on the Rock assured me the Amer ican flag topside ‘‘will fly as long as we are able to load the ar tillery and pump a load out from the ant i-aircraft and machine guns.” Officers and men, withdrawn to Corregidor from Bataan exhausted from the fight against overwhelm ing odds, uncomplainingly took up positions along the island’s beach defenses — because they were Americans and because Wain wright was Wainwright. Throughout the peninsula cam paign Wainwright not only direct ed his men but he fought with them. They called him “the most front-going general.” Then the loss of Bataan brought the Northern coast of Corregidor within direct fire of the Japanese batteries. From their hill positions on the southern tip of the peninsula, the Japanese guns bracketed Corregi dor’s defenses. _v_ SUGAR REGISTRATION TO CONTINUE TODAY With an average of 12,000 ration books being issued daily, the sugar registration will continue in the schools here this afternoon and to night. Approximately 48,000 books were issued the first three days of the effort. The registration period is from 1:30 p. m. until 10 p. m._ —■ —-V O.D.* IS SMOOTHER GOING DOWN Old Drum is smoother because j rr's vat-blended. ..just , LIKE 90% OF THE EXPENSIVE | IMPORTED^WHISKIES BRAND Vat-Blended for Extra Smoothness 4 V w ^ r OLD drum I BRAND R niuuirwnui't A I B i Calvert Distillers Corporation, New York City __BLENDED WHISKEY: 85 Proof-75% Grain Neutral Spirits. ; WAR BOND DRIVE GAINS MOMENTUM Chairman Ewing Encourag ed Over Prospects For Successful Effort Much interest is being manifest in the war savings bond pledge campaign in Wilmington and Allen Ewing, chairman of the olicitation effort is pleased with the manner in which residents are responding to the effort. While it is too early to ascertain how the campaign is going — the workers still having their pledge books—Mr. Ewing said indications were most encouraging and that he was confident Wilmington would do her part in this patriotic un dertaking. A number of the business estab lishments in the downtown section, Mr. Ewing said, are beginning to show 100 per cent emblems in their windows, a good omen by which to gauge the trend of the effort. Workers will continue solicita tion for the remainder of the week, calling . upon all residents to se cure their pledges for the amount they are willing to place into the war effort for the duration or for as long as they are able to pur chase bonds and stamps. Those engaged in the solicita tion in the downtown section have been announced as follows: Alex Fonvielle, J. Henry Gerdes, Frederick Willetts, J. M. Butt, Jr., L. D. Latta, Leo Sykes, Ronald Stewart, D. M. Darden, Marsden Bellamy, Marcus Goldstein, H. C. Calder, J. C. AVessell, AA’ilbur Dosher and G. B. Greer. E. B. Bugg, Frederick Graham, D. P. Benton, A. Frank Hackler, George F. Moose, Kirk Wagen seller, J. Arthur Brown, Alex Sprunt, Rabbi Thurman, E. Reid Toms, Oliver Hutaff, H. AY. Wells, Jr., Sam Berger, AV. F. Hayes, Joe Fox, Harold Bate and Glasgow Hicks. J. K. Taylor ,Tr.. R. A. Brindell, Pete Capps, J. Walter Webb, J. L. Allegood, Clayton Holmes, Bill Raney, George Jeffrey, W. M. Hewlett, H. C. Rorison, Swift Boatwright. F. C. Livingston, James S. Lyell, Jr., C. G. Worrell, George Garey and R. T. Berman. Moseley Fonvielle, George Me Farlane, Adrian Rhodes, Nathan Cole, Nathan Jacobi, Leon Todd, K. L. White, Russell E. Haynes, W. L. Callum, Jr„ Joe D. Ed wards, Sidney J. Rivenbark, Thom as Walton, Charlie, J. Raley, Jr.. E. S. Capps, Jr., Robert H. Lewis, and Dr. C. H. Storey. godwiiTmurder CASE TO OPEN (Continued From Pafe One) ing. The ccftjrt room was packed to capacity and standing room was at a premium as the trial got un derway at 9:30 o’clock this morn ing, every inch of space in the large autidorium being jammed with interested spectators. The four defendants when they made their appearance in court this morning were in almost jovial' spirits. When one juror was excus ed because he claimed scruples against capital punishment one of the defendants was heard to re mark “they can excuse me, too— I don’t believe in it either.” Solicitor David Sinclair has an nounced that he will ask the death penalty for Bonner, Todd and Fow ler and possibly McDaniel, also but there is some possibility that he may accept a plea of accessory before and after the fact as re gards McDaniel. Fowler and Bonner are the two who confessed to the actual shoot ing of the 51-year-old merchant, while Todd and McDaniel waited in front in an automobile with the engine running. Todd confessed he was under the wheel. 3 The jury is composed as follows: Berkeley Reeves, Nakina, farmer, George McPherson, Clardenton, farmer; C. H. Peterson, Delco, farmer; E. D. Boswell, Tabor City, farmer; P. P. Reaves, Pireway, farmer; S. M. Smith, Bolton, barber; E. M. Cissam, Evergreen, farmer; J. P. Rhodes, Nakina, farmer; M. B. Fowler, Tabor City, farmer; M. G. Stocks, Old Dock, farmer; Charlie Baker, Bolton, creosote worker, and Carl Suggs, Old Dock, farmer. -\ STUTTGART POUNDED AGAIN BY THE RAF (Continued From Page One) corts on April 25 to fewer than 50 planes of all types in recent raids. Russia appears to be the most likely destination of those which seem to have vanished from the Mediterranean theaters, it was stated, although “there is always a chance they are still in Italy undergoing a refit while their crews rest from the rough handl ing we have given them.” There was said to be no indi cation that these planes were be ing sent to the Western air front. --V Graham Tolar Robbed And Attacked By Negro Here Late Wednesday Graham T. Tolar, 19, of 1009 South Sixth street was attacked and robbed by an unidentified negro late Wednesday night at Sixth and Queen streets. He was treated for two knife wounds in the upper chest at James Walker Memorial hospital. Police Officers H. B. Hewett and J. H. Carter, who investigated, reported that Tolar was robbed of $10 and several personal articles. Relatives said it was the second time the youth has been attacked while going home within the past nine months. FRENCH POSITION IS CRITICAL AS BRITISH FORCES CLOSE IN (Continued from Page One) ish was forecast by Free French sources here after a day of furious activity by the government in Vichy. Many diplomats predicted*' that Laval might declare war on Brit ain, but others considered this less likely — since it would inevitably mean war with the United States— than a decision by Laval to assign the French fleet to Germany in reprisal for the Madagascar attack. Both Laval and Admiral Jean Darlan, French defense chief, are reported to have doubted in the past whether the French fleet would fight for the Germans, but they might think they could build up propaganda from the Madagas car attack to the point where French sailors would gladly fight against the British. Naval Forces Bombed In Vichy, where the Petain-Laval cabinet offered “homage to the troops and their leaders who de spite great numerical inferiority opposed heroic resistance to the Anglo-Saxon forces,” it was an nounced that squadrons of British planes were steadily bombing the surviving light French naval forces off Diego Suarez. At least two French ships, the 1,379-ton submarine Beveziers and the 7,110 - ton auxiliary cruiser Bougainville, already had gone down under British naval gunfire. Vichy claimed that seven British planes had been shot down yester day. While insisting that French land forces still held “the first line of redoubts,” Vichy’s accounts at the same time made plain that French airpower had about been knocked out of the skies and that there was no real hope of breaking the Brit ish frontal assault from the sea. British Commandos and Ma rines had to accomplish a rounda bout advance of 20 miles to reach the outskirts of Diego Suarez be cause of the configuration of the area. Diego Suarez itself lies about 10 miles across an isthmus from the Courrier Bay landing point. The principal effort now appear ed to be to take the port’s fortifica tions and other facilities intact. Vichy’s claims that the British landing forces ran as high as 20, 000 and that British parachutists were being used found no confir mation here. Disaptches from Vichy said both French vessels sunk in the Naval battle in Courrier Bay yesterday were Jibuti blockade runners. The dispatches, quoting the French Admiralty, said the two lost ships had “assured during these past few months and despite the British blockade, the intensive provisioning of French Somaliland. It is in large measure due to them that our Jibuti colony has been able to escape famine.” The 5,000-ton Bougainville, sunk while attacking the British fleet, was a former vanana boat named Victor Schoelcher. Owned by the French company Chargeurs Reun is, it was converted into an auxi liary cruiser and named for the 2,156 - ton French sloop Bougain ville which was sunk by a De Gaullist warship during the Free French capture of Libreville, French equatorial Africa. The new Bougainville was armed with three 138 millimeter guns and three 37 millimeter anti-aircraft guns, had two 2,600 horsepower motors and a speed of 17 knots. Her crew numbered about 130. The Beveziers, the French Ad miralty said, “made itself famous in the battle of Dakar where, un der the command of Lieut. Com mander Lancelot, it succeeded in torpedoing the British cruiser Reso lution which, gravely damaged and listing heavily, had to break off the engagement and flee.” The British announced in Sept. 1940 that the 29,150-ton battleship resolution was damaged in the British - Free french attempt to take that west African base. The French said most of the crews of the Bougainville and Be veziers got safely ashore. 3 -V Small Child Drowns In Two Feet Of Water AUGUSTA, Ga, May 6.—f/P)— RoUert Henry Ivlein, Jr., aged 2, leaned over a boat platform to look into the water of Lake Olmstead today and lost his balance. The child’s clothing caught on a nail, leaving him suspended head down. A six-year-old sister sought to rescue him, then called for help. Aid arrived soon, but the boy had drowned in two feet of water. M • In NR (Nature’s Remedy) Tab ■ lets, there are no chemicals, no ■ minerals, no phenol derivatives. ■ NR Tablets are different—act dif ■ ferent. Purely vegetable—a combi H nation of 10 vegetable ingredients ■ formulated over 50 years ago. ■ Uncoated or candy coated, their ■ action is dependable, thorough, yet ■ gentle, as millions of NR’s have ■ proved. Get a 1CM Convincer Box. V Larger economy sizes, too. nmw\ Obituaries MRS. CARRIE GIDDENS BURGAW, May 6— Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Carrie Giddens, wid ow of I. G. Giddens, who died o’clock at her home here, will be conducted at 4 o’clock Thursdat aft ernoon from the residence by the Rev. E. W. Pate. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Jessie Leyden, Wilmington; Mrs. Challie Peterson, Kerr, and Miss Odell Giddens, Willard; two sons, Marion Giddens and Gray Giddens, both of Willard, and eight grandchildren. ALFRED E. WILSON Alfred E. Wilson, 60, of 54 Spof ford Mills, died Wednesday after noon at 12:05 o’clock in James Walker Memorial hospital, after a lengthy illness. Mr. Wilson was en gaged as a textile worirer. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sudie Wilson; two daughters, Miss Hazel Wilson and Mrs. Ruth An drews, Wilmington; one sister, Mrs. Nancy Smith, Wilmington, and one brother, Lang Wilson, Wilmington. Funeral services will be con ducted Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the Church of God, 1121 South Fourth street, with Rev. V. D. Combs, assisted by Rev. John L. Stephens, of Greensboro, officiating. Burial will be in Spofford ceme tery. Mr. Wilson was a charter mem ber of the Church of God. JOSEPH L. BRADSHAW ROSEHILL, May 6. — Joseph Lucian Bradshaw, 49, well-known farmer and Duplin county demo cratic leader, died Wednesday morning at his home of a heart at tack. He had been in declining health for ten years. Mr. Bradshaw served as Duplin county tax collector, justice of the peace and notary public. He was a former member of the Woodmen of the World and was a member of the Rosehill Methodist church. Funeral services will be conduct ed Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the residence with Rev. C. T. Rogers, pastor of the Rose hill Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in the Fussell ceme tery. Mr. Bradshaw is survived by his widow, Mrs. Glennie Holland Brad shaw; one daughter, Miss Harriett Bradshaw, a student nurse at a Petersburg, Va., hospital; one son, George Bradshaw, and three sis sisters, Mrs. S. D. Gooding, of Grifton; Mrs. Johnny Harrell, of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Lela Scott, of Rosehill. MRS. LILLIE WEIL Funeral services for Mrs. Lillie Weil, widow of Isaac H. Weil, who died Wednesday after a brief ill ness at the home of her brother in-law, Julius Weil, 21 South Sixth street, will be conducted from the residence at 3:30 this afternoon by Rabbi M. M. Thurman. Interment will be in Oakdale cemetery. Mrs. Weil was a member of the Ladies’ Concordia society of the Temple of Israel and the Hadas sah society. Pallbearers will be: active, Al fred Sternberger, Harry Solomon, Seig Goodman, T. A. Henderson, William Dock and Harris New man; honorary I. W. Solomon, Dr. Charles Graham, Albert Solomon and Monroe Shirer. -V FREEDOM OF AIR WASHINGTON. May 6.—(JPi— Contending that the Federal Com munications commission had deve loped “an appetite for power,” Wil liam S. Plaey, president oT the Co lumbia Broadcasting system, called today for congressional action to preserve “the freedom of the air.” TETTER *SSt CHECK ITCHING-BURNING the ntiseptic way with Black and White Ointment. Use only as directed. For cleans ing, always use Black and White Skin Soap. mm mi it iiiiiWBiiiiiiii IfqjldefenseI I BUY I'WTID ITATLS SAVINGS rBONDS MID ST AMTS Sally Lea Budget Frocks! Cool Cottons J.29 Pert styles you’ll enjoy wearing at home or market ling! Fresh prints I in shirtwaist, dirndl, or midriff types with novel ty trimmings! Gay patterns and colors. 12-52. 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