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MEXICO BELIEVED READY TO WAR AGAINST AXIS (Cornin'*'4 from Pate One) The press declared in biS head" • “Zero Hour About To Strike in Mexican History. Although diplomatic, legislative, and official quarters expect declaration of war, business 6 rcies and some legislators said Mexico should not and would th! ,‘1,0 such a step, and it was derstood there was a difference U” opinj0n within the cabinet on the >ssue Sources in touch with the foreign ,fjce reported that the German reply failed to meet Mexico’s de mand for "complete satisfaction” lor the sinking of the tanker, in which 14 lives were lost. Mexico had set midnight tonight as the deadline for the reply. Whether or not Mexico declares war there appeared little doubt that’ stiff reprisals would be taken against Axis interests and Axis Na tionals and sympathizers in Mex ico. __V WEATHER (Continued from Page One) WASHINGTON, May 21.—(#)—Weather Eureau report of temperature and rain fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m., in the )*incipal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: station High Low Prec. Atlantic City- 70 60 0.00 Birmingham- 66 60 0.00 5 ffal0 _ 58 50 0.00 Charlotte - 73 64 0.00 Cincinnati - 70 48 0.00 Denver _ 70 44 0.00 Duluth _ 60 39 0.00 Port Worth _ 73 55 0.00 Jacksonville - 88 46 0.00 Key West_ 84 76 0.00 Louisville - 70 46 0.00 Memphis- 75 53 0.00 Miami - 85 78 0.00 Mobile - 76 64 0.00 Norfolk - 83 65 0.00 Fortland. Me.- 63 55 0.00 Richmond - 85 66 0.00 San Antonio- 82 60 0.00 Washington - 81 66 0.56 Wilmington - 80 68 0.00 FOR : CORRECT TINE DIAL 3 5 7 5 f —Courtesy— j Men In Vital Work To Remain On Jobs Manpower Commission To Make Sure Irreplaceable Ones Are Deferred By FRANCIS M. LE MAY WASHINGTON, May 21—<#)—1The War Manpower Commission took steps today to make certain that men irreplaceable in war produc tion are deferred from the draft and remain at their work benches. Paul V. McNutt, manpower chief announced an eight-point program to promote “the fullest utilization of the manpower of this nation.’’ This included a directive to the Selective Service system that local draft boards consult with Federal Employment Service offices before calling to the army individuals “skilled in a critical war occupa tion.” A spokesman said this meant “we will keep skilled men in in austry where they belong. The Selective Service system al ready had provided for deferment of men in critical occupations, but McNutt said there were some local draft boards “which defer too easily” and others which “seem to regard it as a breach of pa triotism to defer anybody for oc cupational reasons.” The directive means that local draft boards will consult with em ployment service officials in de termining whether a worker should be deferred because of his occupa tion. Today’s action also provided for a classification of war plants ac cording to their urgency, and for a system of manpower priorities to assure that the most important plants set ample supplies of skilled men. McNutt said the eight-point pro gram, to become effective June 1, would direct that: 1. The United States Employ ment Service prepare and main tain a list of those skilled occupa tions essential to war production in which a national shortage ex ists. Such occupations will be des ignated as critical war occupations 2. The War Production Board classify war plants and war prod ucts in the order of their urgency in the war program. 3. The Employment Service make preferential referrals of workers to employers engaged in war production in the order of their priority before making refer rals to other employers. 4. Employment Service proceed immediately to analyze and class ify the occupational questionnaires distributed by the Selective Serv ive system, to interview those in dividuals with skills in critical war occupatons and to refer them to job openings in war production work. 5. Selective Service instruct all its local boards located in a com munity served by the Employment Service to secure the advice of the local public employment office be fore classifying or reclassifying an individual skilled in a critical war occupation. 6. Employment Service increase its activities and facilities neces sary to provide additional agricul tural workers. 7. The Farm Security Adminis tration to increase the number of mobile labor camps in order to make available workers in agri culture to achieve the “food for Victory” objective. 8. The Office of Defense Trans portation and Farm Security Ad ministration assure adequate transportation facilities to move migrant agricultural workers. jap anesFtroops LAND AT FOOCHOW (Continued from Page One) the third vital front in Yunnan province adjoining Burma, the Chi nese reported they had recaptured Kanglanchai, key point on the Lungkiangkiao - Tengyueh high way and seized large quantities of Japanese war supplies. There was no change in positions along the Burma road west of the Salween river, the Chinese report ed, and the Yunnan front, under monsoon rains, was becoming sta bilized. Between Yunnan’s tangled bat tlelines and the complex of fronts developing in eastern China along the east China sea and Formosa strait, Japanese aviation was en gaged in a might contributory ef fort aimed at reduction of airfields and centers of communication giv ing coherence to the Chianese war effort. 3 DOSS, SIBLEYGET PROMOTIONS AT ACL (Continued from Pare One) Line in 1921, holding successively the positions of Superintendent, Superintendent Transportation and General Superintendent. On April 1, 1930, he was elected Assistant General Manager of the Coast Line. 4 A IBr HOW COME BECAUSE I'VE GOT you wow’EM THE RAREST SO,WHlTEy? BALANCING ACT V ON EARTH... S0. EVERY drop °F CARSTAIRS bWh'TE seal is SJJ? yET LIGHT, MlLD yet hearty... V AND TASTES JUST RIGHT! HOW ABOUT AN ENCORE? „A you SEE, I BALANCE ALL THE GREAT WHISKEY < QUALITIES IN ONE NOBLE BLEND... -o'" GO ON-. MY TONGUES HANGING , OUT! V TRY THE 1 PERFECTLY ! BALANCED BLEND ...AT A BUDGET- 1 I balancing price thoMa* wh> <$°l* CARSTAIRS blended whiskey V&.^€3e BnMultaMIl . BMi-DIfTIUMO®*** -1 null MfL*x/fc> The Alan who Cares says: Carstairs White Seal , EENDED WHISKEY 86.8 Proof 72% Crain Neutral Spirits. Carstaitf Bros. Distilling Co., Inc.. Baltimore. Mdj— HIRSCHL DENIES KILUNG REFUGEE Madeline Webb Refutes Statement That She, Cullen Registered As Man, Wife By AMY PORTER NEW YORK, May 21— <£>>—Made line Webb, on trial for her life c|i first degree murder charges, pro tested angrily today when a hotel manager testified that on March 5 she and John D. Cullen, a co-defend ant, registered for a room as man and wife under the names "Mr. and Mrs. John R. Clark.” "I did not,” she gasped, and sought to rise from her chair at the defense table. Eli Shonbrun, the man whom the state and other wit nesses have called her lover, re strained her, pushing her back, while Cullen smiled in apparent amuse ment at the scene. The three are charged with the robbery-slaying of Mrs. Susan Flora Reich, 52-year-old Polish refugee, in a hotel suite on March 4. The state’s case appeared near completion, as the hotel man—Frank Van Houten—and other minor wit nesses testified briefly. The state’s major witness—Mur ray Hirschl, Shonbrun’s unclle, also under indictment for Mrs. Reich’s murder—left the stand today with out having budged an inch on his story of the killing during almost four days of testimony and cross examination. Hirschl’s testimony put all the blame for the murder on Miss Webb, Shonbrun and Cullen, asserting that they planned Mrs. Reich’s robbery in conversations at the Hotel Sut ton the day preceding the murder. Chief Defense Counsel Jacques Buitenkant sought to pin the mur der oh Hirschl himself, demanding, “Isn’t .it a fact that you were the one who attacked that woman?” Hirschl hotly denied it, insisting, “I tell you I never saw that woman in my life!” f Hirschl, by his own admission a “thief” and a “liar,” admitted fur ther today that he had given at least three different versions of events leading up to and following the mprder, one to the police, an other to the district attorney, and one in court. “You admit that those earlier statements are full of lies?” Buiten kant asked him. “Yes, I told a lot of lies at first trying to protect them,” said Hirschl, indicating the three defendants. “But now you’re telling the truth?” “The absolute truth,” said the witness. “Are you. sure, Mr. Hirschl,” de fense counsel pursued, “that you know where the truth ends and a lie begins?” MAN AND~WOMAN FALL TO DEATHS (Continued from Page One) lander, one of the employes, told detectives. ‘‘I had just come into the office and remarked to him that he was down rather late. He agreed and said he had some work to do.” No notes were found on the per son or in the office effects of Litz rodt, who was unmarried and liv ed with his parents in upper Man hattan. Litzrodt’s body was seen hurtling downward by a woman standing at a window in a 20th floor office. She ran screaming into the hall way and notified a special patrol man in the building. There was nothing to indicate any connection between the two deaths, the first fatalities of their kind at the building in many months. It was believed at first that Mrs. Haskell had fallen from the rooftop observatory, visited an nually by thousands of tourists for its view of the city’s skyline. Mrs. Haskell entered the cock tail lounge, police said, walked out on the terrace, laid her purse on the three-foot-high parapet and leaped over the parapet. In the purse was a note address ed to William A. Haskell, 1 Church Street, Bronkville. Haskell, a New York City broker, identified the body as that of his wife at the West 54th Street Police Station. CITY TODAY JOINS U. S. IN LAUNCHING PARADE OF SHIPS . - (Continued from Page One) Lewis, George Steams, T. D. Love and E. C. Snead. TO LAUNCH 27 SHIPS WASHINGTON, May 21.— UP) — Twenty-seven merchant ships will be launched tomorrow as the na tion observes national Maritime day. Described as America’s greatest mass launching in 25 years, the ships will start sliding into the water shortly after midnight with the last launching scheduled some 23 hours later. The hour, in most cases, is determined by tide con ditions. Launchings will be held in 19 yards on all coasts and the Great Lakes. Because of the Maritime Commission’s policy of not an nouncing launchings in advance, no scneauie was maae public, it was announced, however, that one yard would launch three ships, six yards two each, and 12 yards one each. Keel layings will immediately follow the launchings in some yards. Four completed ships will go into service on Maritime Day, the Commission announced. The original schedule called for the launching of 30 merchantmen tomorrow, but three were put into the water earlier in the week to make the ways available for new keels. Maritime Day, the Commission said, will mark the inauguration of a two-ships-a-day rate of con struction. Production of three a day is scheduled to be reached in the fall. The merchant ship construction program, largest in world history, calls for completion of 2,300 ves sels of approximately 23,000,000 deadweight tons by the end of 1943. Of these, 8,000,000 deadweight tons are scheduled for delivery this year, and the remaining 15,000,000 next year. There have been re ports, however, that next year’s program would be increased sub stantially, possibly' to 20,000,000 tons. Maritime Day also will be ob served in nearly 100 industrial plants contributing to the ship building program. Dinner meetings sponsored by branches of the Pro peller Club of the United States, Chambers of Commerce, the American Legion and other civic and service organizations will be held in 40 or more cities tomorrow night. 3 -V STRICT NATION-WIDE GAS RATIONING ASKED (Continued trom Pate One) will drop below the minimum re quirement (20,000,000 automobiles) before the middle of 1943.” In addition to gasoline rationing, the report urged that no single family be permitted to have more than one car in operation. This could be accomplished, it said, by forbidding any family to own more and would result in the immobili zation of some 2,000,000 automo biles. But even with such strict con trols, the report said, it probably would prove necessary for the gov ernment to requisition several mil-, lion automobiles during 1943, if es sential automobile transportation were to continue. “The necessity of taking this un desired step,” it continued, “will be determined primarily by the developments in the synthetic rub ber program. It can be averted only if, through some industrial miracle, the projected synthetic plant capacity can be made to produce far in excess of the com bined rubber requirements of the United Nations for military pur poses.” 3 FOR THE f THRIFTY • Smart, Low-Priced BEDROOM SUITES It’s surprising what av few dollars will do inv furnishing a bedroom smartly —‘ for instance the above 4 pieces in poster or panel styles are as low as— Kim Many other groups proportionately low-priced. ALL ON EAST TERMS Buy Bonds with your furniture savings here. RAILROAD SALVAGE (0. 603 CASTLE STREET USO Will Attain Goal, Says Visitor Six cooperating agencies of the USO are beginning to fulfill the purpose of the organization, Miss Bertha McCall, of New York, gen eral director of the National Travel ers’ Aid society, one of the agen cies, declared here Thursday des pite apparent weaknesses in the set-up. “Since nothing like the idea of six different cooperating agencies operating together to serve the men iin uniform has ever been conceived before, the USO is defi nitely an experiment," Miss ■ Mc Call said. “But I believe, knowing the peo ple back of the USO, that it will succeed in successfully reaching the goal that has been set for it. “As I’ve gone over the country, I’ve found a very fine 'spirit of cooperation in the communities and I have every reason to believe that we have a real experiment ana some real results are going to come out.” Miss McCall arrived here Tues day from Charlotte where she attended the annual meeting of the Charlotte Travelers’ Aid as sociation and, after inspecting the USO clubs and centers here Wed nesday, lunched with the members of the board of the Travelers’ Aid association here. She will tour Camp Davis and the Jacksonville area Thursday. “It’s pretty difficult to separate the work being done here by Trav elers’ Aid alone and by Travelers’ Aid as a USO agency,” Miss Mc Call commented. “Travelers’ Aid is faced with one of the biggest demands for the service it renders in its his tory, especially in towns like this.” She said that as yet, Travelers' Aid, as one of the USO agencies, had not had an opportunity to pro vide services for American men in service sent to other countries such as Ireland and Australia. “I think that on the whole, the USO agencies are doing very well here and there are indications that they are doing a big job well.” -V Southern Kitchen Reopens Saturday The reopening of the Southern Kitchen, restaurant at 107 Prin cess street, following damage from fire several weeks ago, will take place Saturday, it is announced by the owners, James Cotroukis and Tom Cotroukis. The establishment, which boasts of the slogan, “The biggest little restaurant in town,” has been re built and re-equipped to have prac tically the same appearance and arrangement as before the fire. [oOPBri 016gO^DUUI Beer,*. popular 12 ounce "brown bottles." BUY A CASE TODAY! JANES S. KING j 802 South 17th Street, j Wilmington, North Carolina Phone 4613. It was first opened over a year ago. A combined experience of over fifty years in the restaurant busi ness is enjoyed by the Messrs. Cotroukis. They feature grain-fed meats, seafood, salads, pastries and short orders, regular meals and a la carte. John Kanetos is the new chel for Southern Kitchen. He has just arrived from Miami, Fla., whers he was connected with the Seven Seas restaurant. Wahl’s- -=T Cool and Clever _d_i_ OR 2 for $5 Ok. Chamhray > Here are the dresses des. tined for a definite role In your busy life! They ask a minimum of care and do their utmost to keep you neat and trim, at work or play. 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