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REBEKAH SESSION OPENS HERE TODAY Delegates Attend Sunday Evening Service At Fifth Avenue Church Program of the 34th annual ses sion of the Rebekah Assembly of the Independent Order of Off Fel. lows will get under way today fol lowing registration of delegates Sunday afternoon at the Cape Fear hotel. The delegates attended services Sunday evening at Fifth Avenue Methodist church and a conference of officers was held later in the night in the president’s room at the hotel. Officers and past presidents will be welcomed at today's session, which will open at 9 o clock, by Mrs. Lessie E. Watson, of Winston Salem, president. Address of welcome will be de livered by Mrs. Lois Albright, noble grand of Letitia No. 3, and Mrs. Ethel Clapp, of Burlington, will make the response. Report of the credential com mittee will be followed by con ferring the Assembly degree, re ports of officers and proceedings of the last Assembly, appointment of committees, report of Analysis and Distribution committee. The morning session will adjourn at noon and a past presidents’ luncheon will be held at the hotel. The Assembly will adjourn at 1:45 in the afternoon to hear re ports from lodges and commit tees before adjourning again at 4 o’clock to attend the memorial service at 4:30 o’clock in the 1.0. 0.F auditorium. At 6:30 a banquet will be held in the hotel followed by confer ring of the Rebekah degree in the 1.0. 0.F. hail at 8:30 and at 10 o'clock a reception in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Cape Fear lodge I.O.O.F. and visitors in the hotel ball room. Principal business of the Tues day morning session will be elec tion of officers, presentation of pins and cups, election of repre sentatives to A.R.A.. installation of officers and reports of committees. _v_ SHIP WORKERS ' GIVE UP HALF OF PAY RAISE (Continued from Pafe One) nut be cashed except in case of ex treme emergency.” The stabilization agreements un der which the shipyards operate have been in effect for about a year. The contracts called fo> periodic ad justments in wages to accord with fluctuations in the cost of living. The new agreement, effective for one year, will be applied to the Great Lakes zone June 2. the At lantic zone June "3. the Gulf zone August 1 and will ire retroactive to last April 1 for the Pacific Coast zone. John Green, president of the CIO Industrial Union fit Marine Ship building Workers of America, said "we didn't get ajl we wanted, but the agreement is in line with Presi i' nt Roosevelt'^ wishes and we’re going to recommend that it be ac cepted.” j A notjw-'' clause in the agreement eliminated Saturdays and Sundays r as "-premium days,” requiring double time pay. Under the new agree ment, the men will w-ork a five day, 40-hour week with time and a half for any sixth day and double time for any seventh day in a week. -V Summer Theatrical Schedule To Begin At Davis This Week The summer theatrical program for Army camps, sponsored by U. S. O. and Camp Shows, Inc , will begin within the next week and several outstanding units are scheduled to visit Camp Davis. The national schedule, as it now stands, calls for a show every three or four weeks for each of the camps on the circuit. These show units, the majority of which are musical variety shows, employ be tween 200 and 300 actresses, and comprise eight complete show companies for the major circuit and seven companies for the minor . circuit. In addition to the regular per formers, well known theatrical per sonages from the stage, screen and radio will participate in occasion al performances with the various units. All shows, whether on the major or minor circuits, will be free. It was explained by the War De partment that the major circuit embraces the larger posts, camps and stations which have outdoor stages of suitable sizes, or field houses" with suitable stages, drap eries and lighting facilities, while the minor circuit will be provided with stage trucks similar to those employed during the 1941 summer program. In view of the fact that Camp Davis contemplates building an outdoor stage, it is likely the camp will be on the major circuit. 3 FOB CORRECT TIME DIAL 3 5 7 5 —Courtesy— Americans Fare Better In Italy Than Germany _ ■ LISBON, Portugal, May 17.—I/P— Americans homeward bound from Rome enjoyed the freedom of this neutral capital tonight, some of them after months of prison of in ternment in Italy. The repatriation ship, the Swedish steamer Drottn ingholm, will sail Thursday. One of the group, the Rev. Hir am Gruber Woolf, of Elmira, N Y., rector of St. Paul’s American Episcopal church in Rome, still was thin and nervous from nearly six months uncertainty as to his fate in the solitude of his prison cell. The minister was arrested last Nov. 18 and was convicted of es pionage. He was pardoned and owes his freedom to the exchange of notables between Washington and the Axis capitals. Woolf begged off from telling his story tonight until he has eaten his way back to health but part of it was available from friends who worked hard for his release. The minister, once plumpish, lost weight rapidly on the prison fare of one bowl of thin watery soup and a pound of bread daily. For a time, when authorities al THIRTY FREIGHTERS WILL BE LAUNCHED (Continued from Page One> ^ food and tanks to the United Na tions. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard appearing before the committee on April 20. said that a lack of ships had kept food in this country and Roy Hendrickson, director of lend lease food operations, testified la ter that the shortage had com plicated purchases of evaporated and dried milk and dried eggs for England. Commenting on this testimony. Senator Hayden (D-Ariz) recalled that a similar lack of ships had impeded shipment of war tanks to “where tanks are needed" and quoted Donald M. Nelson, chair man of the War Production Board as his authority. Could Drain Surpluses Wickard told senators that “if it were possible to obtain enough ships now, all of the extra (farm) supplies we have in this country would be drained off rapidly.” Hayden told his colleagues that Nelson had explained that officials “think they need tanks. Somebody wants tanks and tanks are the most important thing. So they di vert steel to making tanks, and they convert the automobile fac tories for making them. By and by they have a lot of tanks and they find they had no ships to take the tanks where tanks are needed. Then they have to have steel for ships.” The senator said he cited this as an example of the continuous shift and change necessary in a war production program. In the mass launchings on Fri day, Pacific coast yards will send 11 ships down the ways. On the Atlantic coast, seven yards will launch nine vessels, while six Gulf yards will launch eight. Two will take to the waters of the Great Lakes. . The launchings, Land said, will include cargo vessels of all types, but most of them will be Liberty ships, freighters of about 10,500 deadweight tons. Launching Scheduled Here One of the thirty ships to be launched will be the William Moul trie, which will slide down the ways of the North Carolina Ship building company here. It will be the twelfth ship launch ed here and the second one to move off the shipyard’s ways within a week. Launching exercises will be high lighted with an address by Rep resentative J. Bayard Clark, of Fayetteville. Another feature of the obser vance will be a dinner to be given a't the Cape Fear country club by the Propeller club. TWO SHIPS SUNK IN CARIBBEAN SEA (Continued’ from Page One) tim of an Italian submarine. Both sinkings were announced by the Navy today. The Americans told how August Otten, a seaman, had the torpedo explode directly beneath his feet and was buried under lumber, but came out of it with only a gash on his head. Capt. Josef Anderson said only Otten was injured. Harold W. Hargreaves of Mal den, Mass., an oiler, said the ship’s mascot, a mongrel dog, was saved but remained aboard the rescue craft. Two torpedoes were used against the British merchantman. The first exploded against a deep tank and the vessel did not take water. Life boats were swung out, but the crew remained aboard. The second torpedo came 10 min utes later, and the ship sank so fast there was no time to reach lifeboats. MaGuire’s leg was brok en and his body lacerated, but he survived 20 hours on a choppy sea. Fitzgerald said a freshly-painted German submarine of average size surfaced about 150 yards away and three men in the conning tower seemed to be counting the number of men who escaped from the sunken merchantman. “I waved and shouted for them to pick us up, but the bloody sons of guns paid no attention,” said Ftizgerald. “We had to keep mov ing because sharks were swim ming nearby. Several hours after dark I felt something bite m> thigh. I kicked out and my foo' landed on a shark. I must have frightened them off because we vyere noVbothered after that.” i ~-r» d I lowed him to receive money from American friends, he was able to supplement this diet with a few purchased foods and to occupy a cell more comfortable than the one given common criminals. But at other times the money was with held. He, like the six news correspon dents who spent the first two days of "the war in the same unheated prison, Regina Coeli, (Queen of Heaven), suffered mostly from cold. Mentally, he suffered from hav ing been told the American Em bassy staff already had left Rome. He learned it was waiting for him only when police delivered him to the Grand Hotel, where the diplo mats lived, on May 13 at 10 a. m., five hours before the special evacu. ation train left for Lisbon. Friends were told that Woolf’s conviction w'as a somewhat techni cal application of anti-espionage laws under which an action which would have been overlooked in peacetime became punishable in wartime. The only other Americans wnc I suffered malnutrition were Harold (Denny, of Des Moines, la., New I York Times correspondent, and Major Michael Buckley, United | States Army observer, who were captured in Africa. They found pris on fare much too meager. Americans in Italy enjoyed greater freedom and better food but suffered the same boredom as their colleagues in Germany, stories swapped by the two parties disclosed. While Louise (Teddy) Lynch, for mer debutante torch singer in a night club who in private life is the wife of Paul Getty, Los Angeles oil man, and the newspaper cor respondents were interned in Si ena, they were allowed the free dom of the city, its billiard halls, concerts, theaters and tennis courts. They even bicycled in the scenic Tuscan hills. They maintained a separate club room in their hotel where they en joyed bridge, pingpong, backgam mon and books. The correspondents received the same food rations as the Italians with meat only at the noon Satur day meal but the Embassy staff (which remained in Rome enjoyed quadruple diplomatic rations with meat twice—on Saturday and Sun day. The diplomats lived in three ho tels. each with a plainclothes po lice guard outside his room or ac companying him when he went out. Public restaturants and amuse i ments were forbidden to them so (that they envied the comparative freedom of correspondents in Si ! ena. To relieve the tedium of their idle days, the embassy staff prac ticed archery, played catch, tossed the medicine ball and tried cro quet in the embassy grounds. Otherwise they played bridge or solitaire and listened to the radio which Italian authorities allowed them. Thus they kept up with the news from home. 3 RAF BOMBERS POUND FRENCH CHANNEL PORTS (Continued from Page One) er command but bright sunlight today made sweeps possible. American Boys One Flight Lieut. Carroll Warren Me Colpin, of Buffalo, N. Y., of the Third American Eagle Squadron, shot down one of the two Nazi fighters destroyed in the day's first sweep in the vicinity of Boulogne. RAF squadron leader Brendon tPaddy) Finucane bagged his 32nd plane of the war on the second sweep. The Air Ministry reported that information reaching London show ed that as a result of RAF attacks on Rostock there had been “com plete stoppage of all war supplies” previously sent to the Russian front from the German Baltic port. Reconnaissance showed a large area at the east end of the city, covered by warehouses and stor age sheds believed to have been filled with munitions, had been de stroyed by fire. The Neptune Shipbuilding yard and sub-factories of the Heinkel Aircraft Works were declared heavily damaged. 3 GENERAL SALES’ TAX ADVOCATED (Continued from Page One) tration level. The treasury has recommended that taxes on individuals be ehang jed to bring in additional $3,400, 000,000. but members said that the committee probably would approve less than $3,000,000,000 of additional taxes in that form. That, with other actions taken and prospec tive, they said, would leave the new bill perhaps $2,000,000,000 less than the treasury has recommend ed. Although individual taxes remain to be determined definitely, Eob ertson and Representative Mc i Keough (D-Illl and Healey (D Mass), two other committeemen, expressed belief there was no es cape from a “withholdu^ tax,” under that plan, advocated by sec retary of the treasury Morgen thau, a maximum of ten per cent of an individual’s taxable income vftould be deducted from each pay check or pay envelope and credit ed against his tax liability on the next March 15 return. The committee decided last week to reduce the income tax exemption of a single person from $750 to $500 and of married couples : form $1,500 to $1,200. t ■ 68,000 RUSSIANS TAKEN PRISONERS Germans Make Boastful Claims And Say Battle For Kerch At An End • BERLIN (From German Broad casts), May 17—(#'— Sixty - eight thousand prisoners and huge quan tifies of materiels have been cap tured in the battle of the Kerch peninsula which now can be con sidered at an end, the Berlin radio announced toight. Earlier the German high com mand said remnants of the “beat en enemy” were squeezed together northeast of the city ,of Kerch at the end of the peninsula and se vere losses were being inflicted by Nazi planes on fleeing Russians. The German high command an nounced that fresh Russian assaults on the Kharkov sector of the Ukraine had collapsed with “great bloody losses for the en emy” and at least 240 Red tanks had been destroyed in that area thus far. German sources also said 15 en emy planes were shot down in action over the southern front. The war report disclosed that the air force had carried the war to the northern Caucasus with a raid on the town of Tamanskaja, 20 miles south of Kerch across the Kerch strait. (If the Germa claim of the capture of Kerch is substantiated, Tamanskaja would be the nearest Caucassian point of entry for forces leaving the Kerch peninsula.) German fighter planes in that action shot down 28 enemy planes without a loss, the communique de clared. It said the raiders caused heavy explosions and left big fires. The high command said impor tant Russian railway communica tions were destroyed by the Ger man air force in raids east of Lake Ilmen, in northwest Russia, and in the Moscow region. Of the far north front, Lapland and Murmansk, the Germans mere ly said their own attacks were successful. SERIES OF DEFEATS INFLICTED ON JAPS (Continued from Page One) for an attack against Kunming and Chungking from the south. If the Japaese were, in fact, preparing to open up a new front from Indi - China, the offensive ! would mark an extension of their operations already menacing the Chinese from a more westerly southern front along the Thailand frontier. With the Chinese holding firmly the eastern bank of the Salween river, the Japanese were attempt ing to threaten their rear by driv ing northward from Thailand be tween the Salween and Mekong rivers. 3 -V- • Germans Say U. S. Is Bluffing About War Production BERLIN (From German Broad casts), May 17.—(51—Dr. Hans Thomsen, former German minister to Washington, was quoted in Ger man dispatches from Lisbon today as saying that the United States is bluffing about almost everything about its military production and deliveries of war material. “The astronomical armament figures particularly were a genu ine Roosevelt bluff,” Thomsen said in an interview obtained during a reception at the German legation in Lisbon last night and broadcast today. “I am firmly convinced,” Thom sen was said to have added, “that the United States people, which would rather live in peace as far as their majority is concerned, would not benefit from Roosevelt’s war.” -x Eight Norwegian Survivors Landed BARRANQUILLA, C o 1 o m bia, May 17.—(A5)—Eight survivors of the Norwegian steamship Use, tor pedoed by a German submarine May 12 off Cape Vela, have arrived at Carrizal, dispatches received here tonight said. Nothing was known, however, of the fate of the 26 other members of the vessel’s crew. The Norweg ian consul here has arranged to bring the survivors here by air plane. Some of them were in jured. WEATHER (Continued from Page One) WASHINGTON, May 17.—(/P)~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 Free.. Asheville - 83 42 0.00 Atlantic City - 72 56 0.00 Boston - 70 57 0.15 Chicago - 73 52 0.00 Cleveland - 66 45 0.00 Denver - 54 31 0.00 Duluth - 47 39 0.0C Fort Worth--- 89 69 0.00 Kansas City - 78 61 0.00 Little Rock- 82 56 0.00 Louisville - 76 48 0.00 Miami - 89 69 0.00 Mobile - 84 58 0.00 New Orleans- 83 61 0.00 Norfolk -- 69 54 o.OO Richmond --— 76 56 0.00 San Antonio - 84 70 0.00 Washington - 70 56 o.OO Wilmington- 79 69 0.14 CORVETTE SUNK LONDON, May 17.—(£>)—The Ad miralty announced tonight that the. | Corvette Hollyhock had been sunk. City Briefs HOME NURSING CLASS A new class in home nursing will meet for the first time at 2:30 this afternoon at the USO club at Fifth and Orange street with Mrs. Vera Thompson as instructor. The class will meet from 2:30 to 4:30 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Per sons wishing to attend the class should register at the first meeting. JAYCEES TO MEET A special meeting of the Wil mington Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held Tues day night at 8 o’clock in the offices of the senior chamber of commerce. A report on nominations for officers who will be elected at the June meeting will be sub mitted for consideration. Other business also will be transact ed' _ WILL SPEAK Captain S. B. Frederick, as sistant provost marshal at Camp Davis, will speak at th^ meeting of the Senior Fratern ity to be held tonight at 6:30 o’clock at the Brigade build Lig. A fall attendance has been asked. MONEY STOLEN Elease Smith, of 915 Dock street, reported to police early Sunday morning that someone had entered her front door sometime Saturday night after she had retired and stole $20 from her pocketbook. Tony McKoy told officers his watch, valued at $15, also was taken. REVIVAL CONTINUES A revival is now in progress at the Church of God, 1121 South Fourth street. Evangel ist Thea F. Jones of Coving ton, Ky., has been preaching inspirational messages each evening. Last evening the subject was “The Judgment.” Scripture text Rev. 20:12. OPERETTA TONIGHT The Williston High school Glee club will present the operetta “Rio Rico” on Monday night, May 18, at the High school auditorium at 8:15. o’clock. The operetta will be directed by Ester Hall Palmer, who is directress of the High school glee club. SERVICES PLANNED Services will be conducted at the Gospel Tent, 1014 South Fourth street, each night this week at 8 o’clock. Rev. James R. Lee will preach Monday night on “The Bible Fountain of Youth.’’ americTrally DRAWS MILLION (Continued from Page One) grave days ahead. . . No one of us will avoid—or wish to avoid— bearing the burdens that we must shoulder. All of us must enlist wholeheartedly in the great cru sade for freedom and security and peace.’’ -V Germans Say British Warship Is Destroyed BERLIN (Prom German Broad casts). May 17.—(.PI—German light bombers attacking the British har bor of Plymouth in a surprise raid yesterday sank a warship of "con siderable size” and damaged a gun boat and a 5,000-ton merchant ship, the Germans reported today. The Berlin radio quoted military circles as saying the Nazi bombers penetrated the Plymouth barrage balloon and anti-aircraft defenses and carried out the raid according to plan. One bomb exploded amidship on the warship and a second bomb fell near the bow. The German report said the ship at once showed a heavy list. Russians Ordered To Destroy Enemy MOSCOW. May 17.—UP)—Two ex tracts from Marshal Semeon Timos henko’s order of the day for the start of the Kharkov offensive were published today, as follows: ‘‘I hereby order the troOps to begin a decisive offensive against our vil est enemy, the Germany Fascist army, to exterminate his manpower and war materials and hoist our glorious Soviet banner over liberated cities and villages. “On your struggle, on us, com rades, depends whether our country is to be conquered by the Germans or to be free and independent.” -V International Affairs Award Goes To Girl 15 NEW YORK, May 17,— (IP) —A pretty 15-year-old high school girl who combines fondness for chemis; try with talent on the piano today was announced as the winner of a nation-wide examination on inter national affairs conducted by the League of Nations association. She is Dorothy Terrace of Brook lyn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mor ris Terrace, and a senior at the High School of Music and Art in New York city. She won the first prize of $500 in competition with students of 1179 high schools throughout the country. The girl plans to spend the $500 at Barnard college which she wili enter next fall. After Barnard she intends to study at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, specializing in chemical and bacteriological research. ITALIANS FIGHT A WAR AT HOME Unrest Spreads As Starva tion Comes Home; War On.U. S. Unpopular BY RICHARD G. MASSOCK LISBON, May 17—(#)—1The Ital ian people, many of them imbued with defeatism, are fighting the war at home more than on a world front. Premier Mussolini dealt a stun ning blow to this internal front, many believe, when he declared an unpopular war upon the United States. Italian discontent with the war manifests itself mainly in a spirit of apathy toward winning it. Many regard the Vinceremo (we w i > 1 win) slogan with an “oh, yeah?” attitude A deep-rooted antipathy for tne Germans is becoming more inten sified as the Nazis tighten their strangle-hold on the country. Some Italians admire the Japanese for their quick and far-flung successes in the Southwest Pacific, but oth ers are apprehensive. Some profess shame that the Duce, who once characterized the Japanese people as barbarians and a menace to western civilization, said in his declaration of war against the United States that all loyal Italians should consider it “a privilege” to fight to common victory with “heroic Japan.” Unlike the friendship between the Italians and their Allies in the first World War, there is no fra ternization between the Italians and German in this conflict. The Germans are keeping the Italians in line with the Nazi pro gram, however, through a horde of Gestapo agents, by maintaining control of key administrative posts and a constant influx of picked specialized men of the r e i c h’s armed forces—particular airmen and submarine sailors. From one end of the peninsula to the other this virtual occupa tion force of Germans—estimated at 200.000 men — is tightening its control on Italy. Mussolini appaerently has accept ed what one observer described as the somewhat pathetic role of Gauleiter under Hitler. This has not increased Italian respect for him. On the contrary, persons who saw him review air troops on aer onautics day a few weeks ago said the customary cheers were more half-hearted than usual. The Duce shows nasnes oi in temper in his rare speeches. In his aeronautics day address he spoke of “the remaining groups of dastards incapable of feeling the grandeur of this unique moment in human history.” If Mussolini goes to get his or ders from Hitler in Germany and his German-loving daughter, Edda, visits Berlin—usually without her playboy husband, foreign minister Count Galeazzo Ciano—that only makes Italians more resentful. “If we lose the war,” they say, "we will simply be the losers, but if we win—meaning if Germany wins—we will be lost.” This makes Italian reaction to ward the war with the United States contradictory. While it means a long struggle with pri vations and perhaps starvation, it offers encouragement to the wide spread hope of German defeat. It may offer them relief from a dis credited and otherwise despised leadership. Hunger and social unrest hover over Italy like specters. The Ital ians, although inured to hardship, are beginning to feel acutely the scarcity of food, clothing, feul and other necessities. Moreover, the war burden is being borne un equally, and that breeds quicken ing social unrest. This is the . consensus of able observers who have been watching Italy struggle in a faltering eco nomic as well as military effort for two years. . As things stand, Italy will last out this year and possibly another. In the opinion of the majority of these observers, but suffering from cold and malnutrition will in crease, next winter may begin to take a toll of deaths. Increasing shortages of raw ma terials are rapidly reducing the effectiveness of Italy’s war effort. Stocks of scrap iron, copper, tin, nickel, rubber, leather, wool, cot ton and oil — which were deficient before the war—have been deplet ed. As a result, Italy industrially, as well as politically and militarily, is subservient to Germany, whence most of her vitally needed raw materials must be obtained. The price for these raw ma terials is heavy. In return for iron, coal and other commodities, Italy is sending to Germany vast quantities of agricultural products which, if left in Italy, would go far to relieve food shortages. That is why fruits, vegetables, and can ned goods are scarce in Italy, where they once abounded. Those on the markets bring prices too fancy for the poor to afford. A black market flourishes for the well-to-do. Typical bootleg prices are 18 cents for an egg, a dollar a pound for chicken or butter, one dollar for a half pint of olive oil, $6.80 for a pound of chocolate, $25 for a pound of tea or for a single ham. Even the staples of the masses —bread, spaghetti and olive oil— are deficiency items in Italy. Only the rich and Fascist party racketeers can afford the black market prices, and so notorious is their bootlegging that observers re port bitter feelings among the less fortunate in many districts. -V John J. Audubon, the famous American ornithologist, was born May 8, 1780. Obituaries MRS. AGNES C. WALLACE Funeral services for Mrs. Agnes Charles Wallace, 65, of 312 Har nett street, who died at 1 o’clock Sunday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. B. Long, of 1903 Princess street, will be con ducted at 11 o’clock this morning from St. Mary’s Catholic chuich by Father Tevlin. Interment will be in Bellevue cemetery. Surviving are her husband, John L. Wallace, Wilmington; three daughters, Mrs. W. B. Long, Mrs. H. M. Hooper and Miss Louise Wallace, all of Wilmington; one son, Jack W. Wallace, Wilmington one sister, Mrs. J. E. Lewis, Rocky Point; four grandchildren and severa nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be: active, Gor don Doran, J. L. Mathews, Joe Eiden, J. W. George, William Bremer and Teddy Elf; honorary, Dr. D. R. Murchison, F. A. Savage A. T. Murray, R. Christman, N. S. Westbrook and Arthur Newkirk. REDS ADVANCE 37 MILES IN DRIVE UPON KHARKOV (Continued from Page One) tion our troops carried out offensive operations and advanced." A later supplement listed 59 Ger man tanks destroyed, bringing to more than 500 the total reported knocked out, captured or damaged since the Kharkov offensive started. German dead in scattered battles alone were given at 1,500. Down 65 Planes With both the German and Rus sian air forces playing a big role in the fighting, the Russians said their airmen and ground defenses knocked down 65 Nazi craft Saturday when Soviet losses were 20 planes. Heavy fighting still is raging in the district of the town of Kerch, easternmost port of the Kerch pen insula opposite the Caucasus, the of ficial announcement said. Continued clashes in far northern waters w'as indicated by the an nounced sinking of a 6,000-ton ene my transport trying to negotiate the Barents sea. The Russians re ported yesterday that a transport and a destroyer had been sunk and another destroyer probably sunk in those waters. Reports received oy Rea star, or ficial Soviet army newspaper, did not disclose just where the German Ukrainian defenses had been breach ed but other Russian reports said a Red force flanking Kharkov was approaching Krasnograd in a deep flanking action 60 miles southwest of Kharkov after Soviet artillery, massed along a front of many miles, unleased a two-hour bombardment. The Germans fought back desper ately. launching as many as 14 coun ter-attacks at one point, it was said, but Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's men pushed forward relentlessly un der orders to drive home their “de cisive” offensive. Far to the south in the Crimea, of ficial Russian reports said, a fierce battle raged throughout the night in the region of the City of Kerch, which the Germans claimed yester day had been captured but where Russian resistance was said to con tinue. (An exchange telegraph dispatch to London from Moscow said fight ing within Kerch itself was continu ing with Red Star reporting destruc tion of a "multitude” of German tanks and armored cars.) Krasnograd, immediate objective of the Red force driving into the heart of the Ukraine, toward the Dnieper river, formerly was Con stantinograd and is about midway between Kharkov and the Dnieper. Near Objective So heavy wras the bombardment of the Russian artillery in the Ukraine that Red Star ironically ob served that “the noisy approach of spring undoubtedly was heard in Kharkov and Krasnograd.” This mention that Kharkov end Krasnograd are within hearing uis stance of the front-line a'rtillery fire was the first indication given by the Russians of the specific line of the offensive after the Red army had pounded the Germans for five days. (The move against the town by the Red troops while their fellows are pressing the offensive for miles to the north represents a thrust against German communications in the Ukraine. Krasnograd is a junction of railway lines leading to German held Kharkov, Dnieperopetrovsk and Kiev and Russian-held Lozovaya, on the Kharkov-Sevastopol railroad.) Specifically, Krasnograd is on the railroad from Poltava, held by the Germans, to Lozavaya, recaptured by the Russians during the winter. It was at Poltava that Peter the Great beat Charles XII in a cele brated battle in 1709, frustrating a Swedish invasion of Russia. While the regular army thus pro gressed across the fields of the Ukraine, guerrilla became more ac tive in the White Russian province to the north. Red Star reported that Guerrillas penetrated Vitebsk, one of the most important White Russian cities northwest of Smolensk, and “execut ed” a man named Brandt and his w ife. Brandt -was said to have been a former teacher of German w'ho be came mayor of Vitebsk under the Nazis. The newspaper said the “execu tion” took place in the center of the city. -v Precision Machinery Is Destroyed In Firel BURBANK, Calif., May 17._(£>) —Fire at the Aero Aircraft Tool factory today destroyed a quantity of precision machinery, patterns and blueprints. FBI agents were investigating the possibility of sabotage in the blaze, which injured one man and halted the plant’s production of small .tools for the majsr aircraft factories. TRAVEL CURTAILED BY GAS RATIONING Many Families Spend Sun- I day Afternoon Home In stead Of In Country BY THE ASSOCIATED The “minor social revolution which a Baltimore socologist pre dieted as a result of gasoline !'" tioning appeared to be well way in the eastern United Stat !’ yesterday, the first Sunday rationing. Church attendance dronnea Philadelphia . . . New y,. 10 actually got acquainted with f£'ers neighbors, sharing rides t0 JJ1' courses and beaches . . . ambu’. 11 L attendants and police reported^* accident calls in such widely.!'" perated points as Albany x’ y' and Atlanta. Ga. . . 'transpoi.' trucks had all the room they nee ed on highways. Trolleys and buses were jar med everywhere. A golf club hi Atlanta put a shuttle-bus service in operation from the end of a street car line. Parking lot Oo” erators got plenty of Sabbath res State police in Maryland. Geor gia, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania patrolled vai. stretches of empty roads. Office of Price Administrator inspectors checked on holders of X cards (giving unlimited supplies) and B cards (generous rations). askin» the holders where they were go ing. Pleasure drivers or Deleware rivr bridges in Philadelphia were warned by the inspectors. Down in Florida Jacksonville and Miami police found a ten dency on the part of many motor ists to economize on weekdays for brief “Sunday flings” at the sea shore. Decreases in city traffic were noticeable, but cars still thronged roads to the beaches, pa trolmen reporting traffic “maybe 5 or 10 per cent under normal but no more.” in the area of the nation s capi tal, police said travel on (he Washington-Mt. Vernon boulevard had been cut, and had fallen hi least 50 per cent on nearby Vir ginia and Maryland highways In creasing numbers of filling stations were “out of gas.” Country inns in New England, normally beginning to experience a rush of spring business, had many vacant tables. Cape Cod. Mass., a mecca for motorists at this sea son, reported the flow of visitors “below normal even for a mid winter day.” Maine police said crisply: “Very slack for a Sun day.” -V— Methodist Young People Will Hold Session Tonight The May meeting of the Metho dist Young People’s Union of Wil mington will be held tonight at the Fiftn Avenue Methodist church, at 8 o’clock. This meeting will be addressed by Rev. Mr. Butler, representa tive of the Baptist state conven tion in the defense areas about Wilmington. Charles Edwin Palmer, former chatauqua platform man, who en tertained the young people at their last meeting with his readings will bring readings again at this meeting. The recreation feature of 'he meeting will be in charge of V'= Harriett Wannamaker of the Y'■ Hanover High school faculty. All Methodist youth and their friends are invited, as well as the youth workers in the local Methodist churches. -V French May Scuttle Merchard Vessels Now At Martinique VICHY, Unoccupied Fiance. May 17.—(/P)—Authorized French sources gave an implied warms., to the United Stater today that an? effort to take over French men chant ships at Martinique would * answered by orders to their ere.' to sabotage the vessels. These sources said this three was clearly indicated by a pas£‘ in Pierre Laval's note to Washing ton yesterday saying that the har ing over of the merchant ship “cannot be envisaged by ■ French government." Sunday afternoon newspaP®* the first to appear since La™',l announcement of rejection of J of the United States demands, W lished in full the texts of the • munication which the chief ot V ernment said Washing1 on had • livered to High Commissioner * miral Georges Robert at Al**1 ~ que, and of the commun-cw^ Laval said he had sent to toe " ed States. The newspapers 1 no comment, however. In the meantime, the li^ opened observance of “ P Fortnight” with nation-w-ae onstrations. including ofht ganized protest meetu ... the British occupation or niaa car in the Indian ocean. Two Fliers Killed In Plane Crash« CHARLOTTE. May 1T.- '^y Two officers from the l ; ' l!ei! Air base at nearby Mon■ - ^ were killed today in sep plane crashes. , ,.ard They were Second Lien*. K. Goodell, 23, son of Mr- 11 ‘ rKi, R. H. Goodell of <17 ll0.v‘lJ c0nd New Orleans, La.. ana ot Lieut. John O. Gaskin — ■ ^ H. H. Gaskin of Jacksboro,
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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