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french naval STRENGTH CUT Immobilization Of Vessels At Martinique Will Re duce It By Three l5v '['In' Associated Press With the Martinique government’s mobilization ot three French war " „ rrcncli colonial Caribbean «Tirps 1,1 Vichv's probable naval iiarbois ,,,uV includes four battle orenfn1 U cruisers, two aircraft car 'd ilestrovers and 60 subma riers- 1 ' iwrnier She of the French fleet indicated in J1”' French Repre uitative Dr. Peris Eliacheffs recent report that the Free French navy ; , ta].en over 100 army transports, •'“number of tanker* and 40 war which were in the ship-— ■ South Pacific. l„ addition to Eliacheffs an ., ,’n.vmcnt m* the Russian Tass news agencj s recent report that a nai ,,r 4u warships which were if. built as the time of the armis Fi'.,. pad been turned over to the Ger |n.l|lf ]U the French. Although the Ki'vncli denied this, it was suspected the Germans would regard in ,ieted ships as spoils of war. us able at will. The future status of some 140,000 inns of French merchant ships and tankers apparently still is being ne gotiated in this government’s ef fi.rts to keep French possessions ir-ni becoming a menace to the t'nited Nations. TREASURY ASKS MINIMUM TAX OF $5 PERSON (Continued from Page One) committee, modifying a previous treasury suggestion, voted to cut the exemptions from $750 to $500 for single persons and from $1,500 to SI.20(1 for ' family heads, while leaving the S400 credit for depen dents unchanged. Mentioning the probability that th's would force several million persons to file returns who, be cause of other deductions would pay no tax. Morgenthau said: "The problem is so vast and so tremendous that we have got to have more and more people pay taxes, if they only pay $5.” The secretary explained that the So figure, however, was only an example and what he favored was an "examination fee” of ‘‘several dollars.” ---v 20 Persons To Room In Shanghai Hotel LONDON. May 14—W—A Reu ters dispatch from Chungking said today 20 persons are crowded into each room of the former New Asia hotel in Shanghai where more than 200 British and American citizens are interned. Those held include a number of Americans brought from Guam and Wake island, the report said. 5 STOP CORN iiSERY! Away Goes Pain, Out Come Corns Dr Scholl’s Zino-pads instantly Btop tor menting shoe friction; lift aching pressure; >ngKe you loot-nappy eighty quick. Separate Medications included 'or speedily removing corns. Thin, soothing, cushioning. Cost but a few cents a treatment. Insist on Dr. Scholl’s I PROTECT Your Tires With A Victory THEFT PROTECTOR CAUSEY'S Corner Market and 12th When The Command ‘Eyes Left’ Meets Anm-oval After a long ocean voyage there’s noth ing like stretching your sea legs on land— and taking in the sights. This contingent of American troops, pictured in an Austra lian city shortly after their arrival, are en joying both those pleasures as they march along a street and cast eyes left at a trio of girls from down under. They are part of the steady stream of American soldiers pouring into the Pacific Stronghold.—(C. P. Phonephoto.) Breadwinners Of Established Families Will Not Be Drafted But Men Having Only A Wife Will Be Called, Hershey Says By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, May 14.—(iP)—There is no present intention of breaking- up any large number of “established families” by drafting their bread-winners into the Army, Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey said today, but it may become necessary to shift some such men into essential war work. Testifying in support of a pay allotment bill to aid dependents of service men, Hershey said there was a “genuine social i-eason” for pre serving established families, and added that he would dislike to see legislation “that would make the public believe there is no question of dependencv any more." By an established lamily, t n e general indicated that he meant one not founded since the outbreak of the war and one in which th°re was a large degree of dependency. He said that more single men who have been given occupational deferments, and more married men with working wives, soon may find themselves wearing U n c le Sam’s khaki. As young men are moved from industry into the bat tle lines, he added, their places may be taken by women or by men deferred because of dependen cy or age. There is, he told the committee, no way of telling the industrial value of men over the fighting age limit who could be used in production work but there were great possibilities for them. “We will be taking, probably,” into the army “some people who have a wife who may be working”, he testified Payments under the allotment act, he said, should not be made so high that there might be created in the public mind a feeling that heads of families should be drafted because their dependents would be cared for by the government The amounts provided for in the bill, he said, were fair enough. They provide that a service man of the lower grades must allot $20 monthly of his pay to his depend ents, with the government supple menting this at the rate of $20 for a wife, and $10 for each child, with lesser amounts for indirect de pendents such as parents, brothers sisters and grandchildren. Along with representatives of the f war and Navy departments, Her shey endorsed the general provi sions of the bill, hearings which will be concluded tomorrow. None of the agencies endorsed a title that would allow the Federal Security administrator to make additional and unlimited payments in so-called hardship cases, and the war and Navy departments ob jected to a proposal to set up a policy-making board to determine what constitutes dependency. That, they said, should be left to the services. Hershey said there was an “im mediate and pressing” need for the legislation and it would “make a great deal of difference” in mo rale. Speaking for the Army, Major William S. Richards told the com mittee the legislation was “essen tial to the morale of a soldier.” Although the army did not “con template” taking many men with dependents, he indicated, the mag nitude of the war program might require a change in plans. Of 1, 861.000 men taken into the army between July, 1940, and January, 1942, Richards said. 160,933 have dependents. Based on an army of 4.500.000 men, he said, the legisla tion would cost around $527,000,000 annually. That, he emphasized, was “a wild guess.” 5 -V Approximately 450,000 persons 21 years of age or more maintain their residence in the District of Columbia, according to census fig ures. NAVY RELIEF FUND TOTALS $7,520.51 iContinued from Page One) cess of the city’s quota, set at a om $3,500 to $5,000. In addition t) the amount set rut above, the North Carolina Shipbuilding Com pany, as a firm, made a hand some contribution to the relief fund direct. Following the final meeting of the campaign committee at noon on Thursday, when all accounts were audited. Mayor Hargrove Bellamy, chairman, and Storer P. Ware, co-chairman, issued this statement: “In behalf of the local Citizens Committee of the Navy Relief So ciety, we think it highly appro priate at this time to give recog nition to the general public for the very fine spirit of co-operation and assistance accorded the drive. “It is the consensus of opinion of the local Committee that a full accounting be made to the public and we are very happy to report that the drive was eminently suc cessful and that we exceeded the maximum quota set by the State Chairman, Dr. Frederic M. Hanes, by some fifty per cent. A total of $7,520.51 was raised, and through the co-operation and generosity of local firms and individuals, the entire proceeds were remitted di rect to the Navy Relief Fund with out any deductions for campaign expenses.” In addition to the ladies who sold emblems in the banks and at the postoffice, these firms con tributed their services: Carolina Printing and Stamp Co., the Friendly cafeteria, Jackson, Bell Printing Co., P. R. Smith (Lumina hall), Wilmington Star News, Spofford Mills, Tide Water Power Co., U.S.O. clubs, WMFD radio station, Wilmington Stamp and Printing Co., and Wilmington theatres. For Recorder The Judge of the Recorder’s Court should be a man of proven ability and experience. i boring my term as Juvenile Judge I met the diffi cult problems of passing judgment on more than 1200 children under the age of 16 years. Not one appeal was taken from my decisions because they "ere the result of conscientious effort to administer simple and impartial justice. 5 LISTEN-IN over WMFD tonight, \ Friday, May 15th, at 7:25 p.m. Hear f what I have to say regarding my l candidacy for the office of Judge t of the Recorder’s Court. P Respectfully, W. K. (BILL) RHODES, JR. NEGRO ATTACKER GETS 15 YEARS (Continued from Page One) appointed by the court, Bell con tended that he had never seen the woman prior to being confronted by her by his arresting officers and that he was seeking work at the Wilmington port terminal on the waterfront at the time the assault is alleged to have occurred, male or not guilty. Gets 20 Years Talmadge Brown, who entered a plea of guilty of highway robbery through his attorney, W. L. Far mer, was sentenced to 20 years in the State Highway and Public Works commission. Brown was charged with robbing Early Williamson, who said he was a deacon in a church, while he was returning to his home in East Wil mington, accompanied by his wife and daughter, on April 5! Deputy Sheriff F. Porter took the stand and told of his investigation of the case. Williamson testified that he and members of his family met Brown, who was carrying a gun, and forced Jo walk a mile along the road before Brown “tied me to a tree and patted my pockets first getting my eye glasses, which he handed to my wife, and then he found the bag of money. The pocket was small and it was hard for him to get the money out. He put the gun in his bosom and then got the money out. Then I grabbed him and threw him down and told, my wife and daughter to beat him until I say stop. “Then I got the gun and I started to shoot him, but I heard a voice say ‘thou shall not kill’ so I kicked him under the chin.” Williamson testified that when they first saw Brown he was crawl ing in the road like an animal and when they reached him he shot in the air and told them to put up On cross-examination Williamson testified that when he grabbed Brown he dropped the money bag. Admits Uuilt Brown took the stand and when asked by his attorney whether he held up Williamson replied 'I did’ and also said the pistol which was in evidence was his. Brown testified that he had been “drinking all day” and was “pret ty high that evening.” He contin ued "I had been sitting on the tres tle shooting at fish and I met them and wanted to have fun. I shot straight up. The old man threw up his hands and the old lady and girl said 'here’s my pocketbook if you want the few nickels.’ ” On cross-examination William son told the solicitor he just want ed to have fun and added “I never touched the money bag. I hadn’t seen it until today. I did see the pocketbooks but wouldn’t touch them.” Brown told the solicitor that his home was in Brunswick county and that he had been sentenced to 15 years in state prison on a charge of assault with intent to commit rape. He said he served eight years, three months and three days and was placed on parole in 1939. Then after failing to report in 1940 he was taken back to prison and served seven more months. Brown said he was released from prison last July and had not been arrested since that time. He said he bought the gun here on Nixon street about 60 days before his arrest from a person he did not know. Brown declared that he did not march Williamson and his family the mile, but walked along beside them and at times in front and be hind them. He declared that the gun aid^eu in mo ucu. James McMillan, charged with possessing and transporting non tax paid liquor, and Harry Lee Mc Koy, charged with possessing non tax paid liquor, were sentenced to serve 12 months each in the county jail to be assigned to the State Highway and Public Works com mission after the jury returned verdicts of guilty as charged. The court ordered the cases con solidated for the purpose of trial Both defendants entered pleas of not guilty. Cases of Raymond Murphy, Dick Berry, alias William E. Berry, and Bubber Evans, all charged with burglary, were consolidated for the purpose of trial by consent of the court. Solicitor Sinclair announced in open court that he would not ask for a verdict of guilty of burglary in the first degree, but would ask for a verdict of guilty of burglary in the second degree. All of the defendants entered pleas of not guilty. During progress of the trial the court directed a verdict of not guilty in the case of Raymond Murphy. At the close of all of the evidence the court directed a verdict of not guilty in the case of Bubber Evans. The jury returned a verdict of r.ot guilty in the case of Dick Berry. Attorneys W. J. F. Canady. Solo mon Sternberger and Addison Hew lett, Jr., were appointed by the court Monday to represent the de fendants. The defendants were alleged to have broken into the home of Dan iel Lewis in Foxtown and to have taken $1.60 in cash. Christopher Gause, negro, al leged driver of the automobile which struck a bicycle on which two nine-year-old children were riding on the Carolina Beach high way April 6, killing them instant ly, had his trial continued until the June term of superior court at the request of Solicitor Sinclair. The solicitor told Judge Thomp son that two of his material wit nesses, then soldiers at Fort Fish er, had been transferred to Fort Jackson, S. C., and requested that the judge issue an order requiring their appearance at the June term. “The state cannot get along without them,’’ he declared. Bond for Gause. who has re mained in jail since the coroner's inquest which ordered him helfJ for the grand jury, was set at SENATORS RIDICULE MOVE TO LIMIT GAS (Continued from Page One) immediately asserting that he for one was not going to be “cowed or intimidated” by what he char acterized as a newspaper campaign “to undermine the faith of the peo. pie in Congress. He drove his car 15 to 25 miles a day to and from his office and on official business, Barkley de clared, and he was going to take the card he was entitled to, with out any apologies to anybody. Sen ator Smith iD.-S. C.), sitting near by, approved the sentiments em phatically Senator Vandenberg (R. - Mich), holder of a B-3 card entitling him to 58 gallons of gasoline in the first seven-week rationing period, broke in to point out that Congress members who got X cards first had to sign a pledge they would use the gasoline only on official business. Senator Lafollete (Prog. - Wis.) said Downey had impugned the' motives of the Senate. Senator Danaher (R.-Conn.) suggested that since Downey had made public his resolution before introducing it, perhaps the proposal ought to be amended to “declare that it is the sense of the Senate that we se irously and sincerely deprecate any effort in a cheap, demogogic political fashion to capitalize at the expense of other members of this body.” Aroused by the criticism. Down ey challenged his critics to amend the resolution “to declare that I am a demagog' in suggesting' that the Senate should declare its pol icy.” Senator Clark iD.-Mo.) suggest ed sarcastically that perhaps the resolution ought to be amended to pledge the senators against “hold ing up any trains or robbing any banks.” 3 THOUSANDS SEE FREIGHTER BURN (Continued from Page One) torpedo struck are missing and presumed lost. From West Palm Beach, Fla., came high praise from the surviv ors for Naval craft that hurried quickly to them. One crewman, Robert Beyer (ad dress not available), found him self alone in a lifeboat too large for one man to handle. He drifted into a patch of burning oil. A Na val craft plunged after him and brought him out safely. He was hospitalized for burns. Another lifeboat capsized and Capt. Eugene Van Schonenberg of Belgium said some of its occupants would have been lost except for prompt Navy work. Four lookouts and a Navy gun ner were on duty when the ship was attacked, but the submarine was not seen in the darkness. Men of eight nationalities com posed the crew. They were Ameri can. Canadian, Belgium, Dutch. Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and Puerto Rican. 3 $1,500. The grand jury found a true bill against him earlier in the week. Both children. Thormal D. Yates and John T. Evans, Jr., sons of shipyard workers living in Lake Village, were returning to the city on the beach highway on a single bicycle when struck by the car, allegedly driven by Gause, with such force that one of the boys was decapitated and the other bad ly mangled. . Solicitor Sinclair said he planned to try today the cases of Roosevelt Allen, charged with criminal as sault on a 12-year-old negro girl, Anderson Harvey, James Harris, William H. Monroe and George Saunders, all charged with crimi nal assault on one negro woman; Rhetha Williams, charged with murder; Amos Taylor, charged with larceny of an automobile, George Wilson, charged with bur glary, and Lexford Coleman, charg ed with larceny. The solicitor said he will ask for a verdict of murder in the second degree in the case of Retha Wil liams. 21 Here Complete First Aid Course Twenty-one persons who recently completed the standard Red Cross first aid course taught by J. W. Harrison, negro instructor, will re ceived certificates, it was announced yesterday. They are: Ida Mae Alston. Kattie Allen, Isabella Barnhill. Helen Baldwin, Laura Bishop, June Butler, Almetta Dodd, Debora Durhand. Hagar Childs, Luyelia Campbell. Florence Brown. Martha Clinton, Mary Lof tet>, Virginia Kershau, L u c i 1 e Moore. Fannie McCombs, Juanetta Patterson, Josephine Patterson, Edna Singletary, Ella Washington and Annie E. Webber. H EADACH ES - N EURALGIA Eased Quickly with' BC Agonizing headaches and an noying neuralgic pains usual ly yield in a hurry to the quick-acting ingredients in the “BC!’ formula. “BC” is also effective for the relief of muscular aches and func tional periodic pains. Acts as a sedative in simple nervous ness. 10c & 25c sizes. Use only as directed. Consult a physi cian when pains persist. Wahl’s BIG CITY BUY! Lovable, Tubbable, Livable Cotton Dresses! $Q.98 —or— 2s7 Done with all the looks of the finest dressy and tailored dresses that make you look dazzling fresh with a zest that no other type of dresses can give you. One and two-piece versions in Jersey, Seersucker, Shan tung, Chamb'ray and every other fine Cot ton seen in today’s market. Sizes 12 to 20. JUST ARRIVED! New Shipment DRESSES Specially held for this week-end we have just re ceived several hundred of the finest print and pastel Irocks to be had at this price. They wash, they wear well and they generally are made to sell for much more. Sizes 12 to 44. 214 NORTH FRONT STREET When the Conestogas "carried the freight”.,I The most sought-after cargo was Pennsylvania Rye Whisky! And no wonder! The fame of this tangy, tasty whisky produced by the early Pennsylvania settlers soon spread throughout America. It is the same char acter of Pennsylvania rye that you enjoy today in Rittenhouse Square. Get a bottle ... today ! 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