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If PRICE RULES EFFECTIVE MONDAY 01 Expects Merchants To °PA . Price Lists In A .Visible Manner rTnN May 18.—i reminded today Retailers ceiling regulation H-. the affective for them next wcoffleS d that the Office of iiondav al" ;tration expects them price Nf";riCe lists “in a man to post their ;,_ibie to the public.” net clearly • said. means tnat This. ,llf book looseleaf folder a lb*/Index will not suffice. Put or card c)ieets -‘prominently the 0a and don't tack several diSpjftodgether in layers, the OPA sheets advised. -p i:.e 0ne of That these lists ^ , )ted mat. tW ^the nation is attested by ter m 1the maximum price the fact that he ^ feguiations icans eat, use or thousands upon thousands \V63i ({things- . Mor.dav men lhev must not charge I”°rp1for anv item within the scope Tereflations than the high p, ice ,he; charged during last *2!' foods are under the ceiling ?the exempt list includes eggs, ;,trv mutton, lamb, fresh fruits z vegetables Also exempt are ® ks “ magazines, newspapers. , J)0tion pictures. 0,- Julv 1 another phase of the nrice control becomes effective L no one may charge more for certain services sold at retail . h as laundries and automobile and radio repair) than the highest nrice charged in March. Exempt Lm the service ceiling list are dentists, doctors, lawyers, barbers and beauty shops. Looking forward to some ques tion that may be raised ir. con nection with the retail price reg ulation. the OPA already has ruled that: In instances where the maxi mum pnce under the regulation ;V jess than the price required iaider a fair trade contract in a state having a fair trade law the federal regulation holds. Each store in a group of chain stores must determine its own maximum prices. The prices aren't determined for the whole chain. Interest rates on loans are not covered by the regulation. If the size of a product or the cumber of articles in a container is reduced below the size or num ber prevailing at the March level, lie maximum price must be re cced in proportion. 2 _v Usury Ezzell Running For Constable Again Henry Ezzell. in announcing his candidacy for re-election to the cilice of Constable of Wilmington Township, said: During my term of office I lave tried to carry out the re quirements of that post to the best of my knowledge and ability. "The city has had many drown ing;. either by accident or suicide, curing my eight years of service. I personally put forth every effort to recover the remains of the un fortunate victims and to return them to their families. One of the duties of my office is to eject families who fail to pay their rent. In many instances, especially during the depression, they were destitute and unable to ®eet their financial obligations. I heped these families to find a solution lo their problems and in toany instances was able to avoid actual ejection from their homes. "All this was done without one cent of expense to the county.” DEMOCRATS HERE SELECT CAMPBELL 'Continued from Page One) Goldberg, chairman; Mrs. John Hoggard. vice . chairman; and hooper Johnson, secretary. o Gn motion of Dr. John T. Hog Sai'd. the convention adopted a resolution commending Senator osiah W. Bailey, Rep. J. Bayard fork of Fayetteville, and Gover cor J. M. Broughton for the man er m which they have carried CJ, ■'le‘r duties of office. resolution regretting the ab :ence °f the John D. Bellamy from ^ convention due to illness was a r ed by the party members . 'em after being introduced by ' to *01' Pavid Sinclair. so!|citor described Mr. Bell. (.r‘.; as ,lle most stalwart Demo New- Hanover county and valn °f the New Hanover and •fi, Garolma bars. tp (We is a nced for us to keep lion essbhtial party organiza acceof 'lr' Campbell declared in mants’n§ 'he permanent chair -'P of the convention. iens fe greatest danger we citi differ ace loday is the utter in to jv, RCe 11 too great a number fisht- Election of our essential and freedoms. 8s a a. again- our greatest danger tion nf66 pc'ople as fhe centraliza few p P,;wer in the hands of a have ,eiSOns w'10- in some cases, they n'suiped the power and office . now wield.” 2 CS ^uso fhriTl the World ih S*omach Ulcer Pains? [■Wso crl'u !lkely that the food loving »ad he e„ o have sung so magnifieiently Neglect Jn.prt'd ,after-eating pains. Don’t « Udga ,,r soffering. Try a 25o box pains, !of ulcer and stomach "“bun? s„n®!i!on’ gaa pains, heartburn, ,0ns c , ,, . a*10n. bloat and other condi L'*s must he,/ °XCess acid’ Udga Tab ^aunders flLnP °r money refunded. At d druS stores everywhere. JNew Hanover Leads State In Cost Of Administering Farm Program The cost of administering the Agriculture Conservation program in New Hanover county is the highest in the state, according to statistics placed in the Congres sional Record by Senator Byrd (D.-Va.) and revealed here yes terday in an Associated Press dis patch from Washington. The percentage expense to pay ments in this county is 44.1. The lowest cost of administration in North Carolina was that of Dare county, which amounted to 3.5 per cent. According to the report from Washington, the administration cost in North Carolina is a little above the average while in South Carolina it is below. The program’s administrative cost was under fire from the joint congressional committee on reduc tion of non-essential expenses, of which Byrd is chairman, during senate consideration of the Agri culture Department’s appropria tion bill. rsyrcl assailed the costs of cohnty committees set up to administer the program and said there was a wide difference in the adminis trative costs in the various stated. He said the average for all states was about 10 per cent, but the statistics he placed in the rec ord showed the cost in North Car olina was 11.9 per cent of the gross payments under the program while in South Carolina the per centage was 6.4. Gross payments totaled $13,694, 000 in North Carolina in 1940 with the administrative costs $1,636,000, or 11.9 per cent. South Carolina payments totaled $9,289,000 with administrative costs of $593,500, or 6.4 per cent. The per cent expense to pay ments ranged from 44.6 per cent in Charleston county, S. C., to 3.4 per cent in Marion county of the date. 2 Russians Continue ADVANCE ON KHARKOV (Continued from Paye One) Four German counterattacks have been smashed." Nazis Repulsed In a sudden eruption of fighting on the Kalinin front, northwest of Moscow, the Germans were declared repulsed in repeated attacks. The communique itself said that outside the Kerch and Kharkov sectors there had been no essential change in po sitions. Earlier accounts of the Kharkov offensive said yesterday the Rus sians had battered their way into many communities surrounding the big industrial center in the might offensive aimed at folding back the southern wing of Hitler's invasion line. (Still without confirmation were advices current in London that the attackers had cracked the Kharkov inner defense line in two places and battled their way into suburban Kharkov on the northeast while other forces, flanking Harkov 70 miles to the south, drove into the network of the Germans’ southern communications.) Crushed Inder Tanks Dedicated to the goal of licking Hitler before the year is out, the Russians were pictured as forging ahead steadily, though not prec',^, ously, against a defense so sti. - born that in one sector German troops held their ground until they were crushed under the caterpillar tread of Russian tanks. All along the active Kharkov front (said in London dispatches to cover 70 miles) a pitched battle had developed, it was reported, with Ger man tank troops and reserves in creasing their resistance, benefitted by rain that turned the rich soil of the Ukraine at places into slip pery mud. So complex and broad was Mar shal Semeon Timoshenko's full fledg ed offensive and so constricted as to positional detail were the reports on it that from the Moscow vantage point only a general picture of the battle could be had. It was evident, however, that the Russians were banking heavily on the offensive to keep the Germans off balance in the south, ease if not deliver the hard-pressed forces in the Kerch peninsula of the Crimea, and force the Germans to swing their line back from Taganrog, its anchor on the Sea of Azov, facing the Caucasus. Name Tanks An article- by a Ukrainian writer, Mikola Bazhan, described how the Russian tankmen carefully prepared their machines for days before the Kharkov offensive. The machines were given the names of celebrated Russian figures like Marshals Suvo rov and Kutuzov and Ukrainian he roes like the historic General Bogun and the Peasant Rebel Razin. On May 8 the offensive got under way; the skies were clear and the earth was hard under the clanking tracks of the tanks. “Spring sun shine illuminated the glorious road west,” Bazhan wrote. Today Moscow radio commentators said that the Ukraine was being lib erated "kilometer by kilometer” and that the Kharkov drive was but a sample of the growing warpower of the Soviet Union. “The Red army is conscious that the coming months are the most critical for all mankind and is facing the titantic battle which is in the making with an unshakable resolve to achieve the complete defeat of Hitler in 1942,” one commentator said. The roads from Kharkov to the front over which the Germans were rushing their reinforcements were described as “a sea of burning tanks and trucks” after a series of devas tating blows by the Red air force. The United States claims about 1,000,000 square miles of Antarc tica COLUMBUS YOUTH MAY BE PRISONER Robert D. Simmons, 20, List ed As Missing Following Fall Of Philippines WHITEVILLE, May 16. — Mr. and Mrs. Albert D. Simmons of the Western Prong section of Columbus county have been notified by the Navy department that their son, Robert Dorus Simmons, fireman first class, USN, is listed among those missing following the capi tulation of the Manila bay station in the Philippines and is probably a prisoner of war. run text ot the message reads: “The Navy department exceedingly regrets to advise you that accord ing to records of this department. Your son, Robert Dorus Simmons, fireman first class, U. S. N?, was performing his duty in the service of his country in the Manila bay area when that station capitulated. He will be carried on the records of the Navy department as missing pending further information. No report of his death or injury has been received and he may be a prisoner of war. It will probably be several months before definite official information can be expected concerning h i s status. Sincere sympathy is extended you in yoilr anxiety and you are assured that any report received will be com municated to you promptly.” Simmons, who is 20 years old, en listed in the navy in February, 1940, at the same time his brother, Henry Simmons, enlisted in the United States army. Henry is now stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. Robert attended the Whiteville High school where he quit the Ninth grade to join the navy. He had been in the Philip pine area ror about a year. 12,697 REGISTERED TO VOTE MAY 30 (Continued from Page One) primary, as will three candidates for the solicitorship of the eighth judicial district and two candi dates for United States senator. Rep. J. Bayard Clark of Fayette ville is unopposed for the congres sional seat from the seventh con gressional district. Total unofficial registration by wards and precincts: First ward: 614 Democrats, 18 Republicans. Second ward, first precinct: 688 Democrats, 24 Republicans. Sec ond ward, second precinct: 7 10 Democrats, 10 Republicans. Third ward, first precinct: 892 Democrats, 30 Republicans. Third ward, second precinct: 935 Democrats, 13 Republicans. Fourth ward: 988 Democrats, 18 Republicans. Fifth ward, first precinct: 7 3 6 Democrats, 28 Republicans. Fifth ward, second precinct: 713 Democrats, 32 Republicans. Sixth ward, first precinct: 709 . Democrats, 9 Republicans. Sixth ward, second precinct: 1, 151 Democrats, 14 Republicans. Cape Fear township: 521 Demo crats, 15 Republicans. Seven Mile Post precinct: 12 0 Democrats, 7 Republicans. East Wilmington precinct: 1.115 Democrats, 16 Republicans. Winter Park precinct: 548 Demo crats, 15 Republicans. Seagate precinct: 527 Demo crats, 12 Republicans. Masonboro precinct: 299 Demo crats, 3 Republicans. Sunset Park precinct: 588 Demo crats, 25 Republicans. Federal Point township: 579 Democrats, 30 Republicans. 4 Will Talk Here R. T. Hammett, (above) spe cial representative of the Esso Marketers, will speak at a dinner given by the Standard Oil com pany of New Jersey in the main dining room of the Cape Fear Hotel Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock. Mr. Hammett will covei? thor oughly the entire rubber situation, including the history of synthetic rubber and up-to-the-minute infor mation on the status of this vitally important product. Little known facts about the tre mendously important part played by petroleum in the war effort will also be brought out by Mr. Hammett including reassuring in formation on the supply of certain vi'*! materials. /1 the conclusion of his talk, Mr. Hammett will answer all ques tions on any phase of the syn thetic rubber situation. Heavy Rains Recorded Here In Past 48 Hours Rainfall in Wilmington and vicinity for the 48-hour period end ing at 7:30 o’clock Saturday night totalled 3.74 inches, officials of the U. S. Weather bureau said. The unusually heavy precipita tion brought to an end dry period which extended through the en tire month of April. April, usually a month of heavy showers, was recorded as the driest April since 1927, weather bureau records reveal. U. S. DIPLOMATS ARRIVE IN LISBON (Continued from Page One) holm, which docked here today and began discharging 923 Germans, Italians, Bulgarians and Hungar ians. The Drottningholm’s sailing is scheduled for May 21. Among the Americans from Italy were the Rev. Hiram Gruber Woolf of Elmira, N. Y., rector of St. Paul’s American Episcopal church in Rome, who was arrest ed Nov. 18 on suspicion of espion age; Harold Denny. New York Times correspondent, and Major Michael Buckley, U. S. Army observer, both of whom were cap tured in Libya before the Axis went to war against the United States. The Americans reaching here tonight from Germany were dirty and hungry but mostly in good health and extremely happy. For the first time since last December they were free to move about, buy newspapers, use the telephone and eat what they wanted. For the first time in five months they saw no pistol-toting gestapo at their elbows, watching every step with baleful, suspicious eyes. For 17 news and radio corre spondents it was another incident in an adventure which started with the mass arrests of Dec. 11, 1941. The diplomats were not arrested and consequently avoided going through the German police mill. They were rounded up with little ceremony, however, and concen trated in heavily guarded hotels at Bad Nauheim and Baden Baden. Now in neutral Portugal, these North and South Americans were eating heartily tonight after pro tracted experience with the scanty German wartime rations. They listened to radios from London and America, read news papers not controlled by Dr. Goeb bels, and began learning what has been going on in the world from which they had been thoroughly isolated by the German censor ship. 4 LAVAL TURNS DOWN DEMANDS ON U. S. (Continued from Page One) ty” and that “France will not relinquish any of her rights over Martinique no matter what hap pens.” Repeats Assurances In a renewed bid for continued relations with Washington, how ever, he repeated his assurances —first made May 5 in rejection of a United States warning against resistance to British occupation of Madagascar—that “the French government today solemnly af firms it will never take responsi bility for an act which could com promise our relations with the American people.” But with chagrin, he remarked to the correspondents: “My pres ence in the French government does not exactly appear to inspire the entire confidence of the Wash ington government.” Laval’s version of the American note bore this out. “The present chief of govern ment of Vichy, having announced he would follow a policy of great er collaboration with Germany, it no longer is possible for the Amer ican government to maintain the agreements (of Nov. 1940). . .re garding the French possessions in the Western hemisphere since these possessions are under orders of Monsieur Laval,’’ the note be gan. It was addressed to Admiral Robert. The six demands were: (1). Im mobilization of the three French warships and the warplanes at Martinique. (2) and (3). American control of communications and commercial and passenger traffic. (4). Limitation of French military activities to police purposes. (5). Placing of the merchant ships in Martinique at the disposal of the United States. (6). The freezing of government bullion and funds held on the island. , OFFICIALS SILENT WASHINGTON, May 16.— MPI — Pierre Laval’s declaration today that he had rejected most of the United States’ proposals regarding Martinique met studied official si lence in Washington, but in au thoritative quarters it was said that this government had not re ceived any note from the Vichy government leader. At the same time, the State de partment, reiterating that the ne gotiations were with local French authorities on the Caribbean is land, said that these discussions were continuing. The State department previous ly had announced that the immo bilization of French warships at Martinique was under way and that the negotiators were at work on less important phases of the problem of removing any -possibil ity of French Caribbean posses sions becoming a threat to t h e security of the United States. i BRUNSWICK COURT CONVENES MONDAY Dorsey Cox Scheduled To Be Tried For Murder Of Hinson Edwards SOUTHPORT, May 16.—One of the largest criminal dockets in the past decade will be tried at a one week criminal term of Brunswick county superior court which con venes here Monday morning with Judge C. Everett Thompson of Elizabeth City presiding. Heading the list of 78 cases on the docket is the trial of Dorsey Cox, white man of the Exum sec. tion of the county, who, according to Solicitor David Sinclair of Wil mington, will be tried for his life for the murder of Hinson Edwards. Solicitor Sinclair said that he would request a special venire of 100 to 200 men for the Cox trial, which is expected to begin Wednes day. Cox is represented by S. Bunn Frink and Dwight McEwen while the solicitor will be aided by G. Butler Thompson. One other case of second degree murder is scheduled for the term, which is expected to be concluded late Saturday night. The Brunswick term will mark the conclusion of unusually heavy criminal terms in the four coun ties of the Eighth Judicial district, Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender and Columbus, in the past month. Judge Thompson was the presid ing judge in each county while Solicitor Sinclair represented the state. 2 —-v_ CITY WATER PROJECT FUND IS ACCEPTED (Continued from Page One) the two storage tanks was let to the A. H. Guion company by the city several weeks ago and bids on the construction and equipment for the new filter plant have been asked by the city. Revision of the water improve ment docket to include funds for the King’s Bluff supply will not af fect the present status of the other projects, Mayor Bellamy^ said. When operating at full' capacity, the King's Bluff supply will furnish 15 million gallons of water a day, if necessary, to the city’s filter plant, the mayor said. Drawn from the river above the dam to prevent the annual fall influx of salt into rivers in this vicinity from contaminating the city’s supply, the water will be brought to Hilton through a 30 inch, reinforced concrete, lock joint, steel cylinder pipe line. “This type of pipe line has proved fully as effective and as durable as the cast-iron type and was recommended by government engineers as the type we were most likely to obtain now,” Mayor Bellamy said. “It is used extensively on the West coast to pipe water from the mountains to coastal cities, as well as in the northern and New England states.” Pumps at King's Bluff and at Hilton, as well as booster pumps along the line, will force the water from the river to the city. Recommended by Engineers King's Bluff was selected by the city as a source of water supply upon the recommendation of the New York Civil Engineering firm of Malcolm Piernie which conduct ed an extensive survey of all avail able sources of water here for the city council. Funds for the King’s Bluff proj ect replace the original allocation to build a core dam and improve the city’s present source of water supply at Toomer’s creek. The mayor emphasized that, ex cept possibly to repair the present Toomer’s creek pipeline, none of the new allocation of funds would be spent at the creek. When completed. King's Bluff will be the sole supply of city water, he said. The announcement of FWA ap proval of the enlarged waterworks program climaxed more than three months of work by the may or, the city attorney and members of the city council here and in Richmond and Washington. In recommending King's Bluff as the most logical site for the city’s water, supply, the Pierie report pointed out that in addition to be ing salt-free, the Cape Fear river water there would require the least processing of any other source of water and that King’s Bluff would furnish a supply of water adequate to the future as well as the present needs of the city. Several weeks ago, the council, upon the recommendation of City Manager James G. Wallace, voted funds to repair present deep wells in the city and to bore others in order to provide a temporary source of salt-free water until the King’s Bluff project could be com pleted. 2 -V There were 181,993 visitors to the Badlands National Monument, in South Dakota, during 1940. until we learned of Keeley's Fifty-Year Record of Success ful Treatment. WRITE TODAY FOR YOUR FREE COPY To be sent in a plain envelope and in confidence. Address > FEATURING HUNDREDS CRISP NEW COTTON DRESSES INCLUDING NELLY DON and L'AIGLON . 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