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HIGH SERVICES PLANNED TODAY Rev. Glover Will Deliver Ser mon At The First Bap tist Church Members of the 1942 graduating class at New Hanover high school •j] attend vesper services in the j.irst Baptist church at 5, o’clock Sunday afternoon, the opening event of a week of activities for the 290 seniors which will con ]ude with the presentation of di C,“mas in the gymnasium of the L„ school Friday night. fhe Rev. Mortimer Glover, rec jcr 0f st. James’ Episcopal church, lviU deliver the baccalaureate ser n Four students, Bert Nesbitt, Mack Wilson. Jr., Tessie Finch and Eslie Ferguson will partici pate in the service, arranged by a faculty committee headed by Mrs. E p. Brock, and the Glee club of the High, school will present a con -ert of patriotic songs. ” Members of the senior class and [heir guests will witness a play on the Class night exercises Thurs day night. Graduation night exercises Fri day will begin at 8:30 with the presentation of a program, the theme of which is “Courage,” by 25 seniors under the direction of Mrs. George LeGrand. Diplomas will be presented to the graduates by Principal T. T. Hamilton. School will end for the other stu dents of the High school and of other schools in the county with the presentation of report cards and promotions next Saturday. 2 -V NAVY KEEPING CLOSE EYE ON MARTINIQUE (Continued from Page One) Navy. He has an ensign assistant. Consul-General Marcel Etienne Malige. Vice-Consul Robert She han and Assistant Consul A1 Good hart are similarly employed for the State department. All five have free run of t h e island. They have made many friends in all walks of life, includ ing French naval personnel, and the population in general is open ly friendly. Little occurs on t h e island without the knowledge of the friendly natives. Malige boards every ship enter ing the harbor, examining the car go. papers and passenger list. He can request the opening of any package or packing case. Like wise. he checks departing ships. Identical examinations are made at Casablanca, Morocco, to which one ship is permitted to go each month by the British. The check of fuel consumption makes it next to impossible for these ships to sup ply a submarine en route. United States representatives are able to visit Guadeloupe by plane on short notice. French warships do not depart without giving beforehand their itinerary and the times of depart ure and return. Patrol planes fre quently check the route, and other patrol planes count the ships in harbor several times daily. One of these planes lands daily for contact with United States repre sentatives. Whenever there is a tense situa tion with Vichy, destroyer patrols also are established and task forces are readied for any even luaiity. « Officers admit that if the speedy French cruiser Emile Bertin, now st Martinique, chose to slip out some night it conceivably could travel as much as 500 miles be fore being detected. Therefore every report of possible Axis ac tivity is investigated. They acknowledge that many •pots about the island afford cover for submarines to charge their batteries at night, but so far every “U-boat” reported has proved to be a barge or sailboat. 4 MEXICAN ARMY SET TO MEET WAR CRISIS (Continued from Page One) ers. would base his request on ar ticle 29 of the constitution which says that in case “invasion or grave disturbance of anything else Puts the nation in great danger or in conflict’ the president with the approval of congress “can suspend whatever guarantees that might prove an obstacle to meeting the situation effectively and rapidly.” Leobardo Reynoso, leader of the chamber of deputies, said a dec aration of war would be approved swifily with no opposition. The dominant revolutionary par - ,an.d. affiliated labor, peasant and civic groups prepared to give survivors of the Axis-sunk wxican Tanker Potrero del Llano a monster rally on their arrival , Sunday. Nearly 100,000 people o'f uexpected to join the Anti-Axis e^bration in the capital alone. 2 Motorists Needed To Make Unique Gas Saving Test citfZeiy. patrifJtic North Carolina fr ,.n mterested in saving gasoline *‘°ry will welcome the achieve re °f an American inventor. Al r i" thousands of car owners are E. n“ ’‘‘s invention and they report j"' sav«igs of up to 30% as well as f “ Power, quicker pickup and acceleration. The device, tj le” ">e Vacu-cnatic, operates on tinnSIJr,er'char8e Principle. It is en tni- t automati° a|id allows the mo ti breathe. The manufacturers, ln., Vacu-matic Carburetor Co., 7617 ' ^tate Rt., Wauwatosa, Wis {..p'11?’ are offering a Vacu-matic tl‘, ll) Those who will test it on In „n°"'n cars and help introduce it l“ers- Write them today! _ SENIOR FRATERNITY AT BRIGADE BOYS’ CLUB ^ 'w-• ..... 1 —-■■■. ■ , ... — ■■■ _ .. ... - - -- - under Brigade leadership From left to Meht Sfr«»t Brigade Boys club, an organization composed of young men who grew up live director Brigade* Bovs’ .h,h 111 p fro“*. «/rank McCall, Harry Avery. James Copeland, Howard Littleton, W. A. Stewart, exec,u Joe LeGwin, Tom Rivenbark audVh^sW^Kee’, p^es,de,,.t Senior Fraternity; William Montgomery, founder; Robert Grissom, Woodrow Copeland, Graham Alderman, NewtonKelly Oswald Fred Grotgen Harold Abrams, Elliot Livingston. Charles Hammock, Tom Cox, Walton, Edson Ruark ThurstoifnaHs Rnhirfw?y How-ar(1 Burner, George Gore, Walter Winn, William Jordan. Third row: Leo Seitter anil Morris Miller Member® Williams, Walter Keen, Aubrey Everett, David Ormsby. Arthur Sandlin, Jennings Litgeri. John -- 6 ~ alembeis not shown: Roger Liles, Duval Greer, Clyde West, Burnell Curtis, L. Harrison, Allen Brinson, Nolan Sanford. RUSSIANS ADMIT KERCH CAPTURED (Continued from Page One) against 14 losses to the Soviet air force. Warfront dispatches received be fore the midnight communique was issued indicated that the battle for Kharkov had taken on the grinding character of a Verdun as the GeA mans throwing in a three-to-orj superiority in men and machines, strove to develop their flanking of fensive in the Izyum-Barvenkova sector while the Russians ham mered incessantly at the main prize. For the first time since the start of the Russian offensive May 12, a hint of some German progress was contained in a Red Star dispatch which admitted the Germans were “having alternate successes.’’ But Russian dispatches described the battle in the main as a stupen dous see-saw struggle. Wedges Cheeked Such wedges as the Germans were admitted to have driven in were reported checked or thrown back, while in the main action, the Russian push toward Kharkov, the Soviet information bureau declared the Germans had been ejected from yet another of their power fully fortified hedgehog positions. Although the communique said Red army men were engaged in “consolidating their positions’’ — a phrase which suggested a digging in to halt the Germans — Soviet dispatches said their broad opera tions continued to be offensive. (mermans aeciarea me so viet mass attack, starting May 12 with the equivalent of about 30 in fantry, cavalry and armored divis ions, had been broken completely. The German counterattack, start ing May 17, cut into the base of the Russian salient, and a general counteroffensive along the whole Kharkov front has been underway for two days, the Germans said). Hard Fighting In the Izyum-Barvenkova area, 80 miles below Kharkov the hard est fighting centered. The Ger man attempt to drive a spear into the Soviet flank there cost 15,000 dead in three days, Soviet accounts said. The Nazis were declared to have a three to one superiority in men there, and a commensurate super iority in machines. The roads and countryside were hard and dry, facilitating swift ar mored maneuvers which the Rus sians met with a smashing artil lery fire. At one point, 39 German tanks were reported destroyed by artil lery in a five-hour battle. A picture of the swaying lines was given in a dispatch telling of the Russian capture, loss, then re capture of villages or strong points. Street fighting was reported in one large settlement and the Ger man reserves of men and ma chines rushed in to make “inces sant attacks” were said to switch groups of 40 and 60 tanks from point to point in a fierce probing process. Then they combined all their weapons into what was called a “meat grinding machine.” _ _ - . . i _ ■» _ me xveu u>u-c icpuittu destruction of 72 tanks and 150 trucks and the slaughter or dis persal of more than 1,000 troops in a single day. Red Star said that in a great tank battle fought early, in the Kharkov offensive, 150 enemy tanks which broke through a gap in Rus sian lines finally were hurled back, the retreating Germans leav ing 63 burned-out machines on the field and dragging 40 other damag ed ones with them. While the Russians reported fighting stin going on in Kerch peninsula in the Crimea, summer like weather spreading steadily northward opened new expanses of terrain to large-scale operations. WAR BOND SALE SCHEDULED HERE (Continued from Page One) in financing war costs, which we confidently believe will be gladly accepted by every retail merchant in Wilmington.” All merchants who will join in the campaign are asked to tele phone the Chamber of Commerce office, phones 2-2611 and 2-2612, Monday morning before 11 o’clock as a response will be telegraphed Mr. Namm at that hour. 2 -V Rutile, associated with mica and quartz, is reported to have been discovered on the Isle of Pines, Cuba, recently. Obituaries E. R. WOOTTEN Funeral services for E. R. Woot ten, former superintendent of trans portation for the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, were conducted from the home in Savannah, Ga., at 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon. Mr. Wootten died at his home Wednesday after a short illness. He is survived by his widow, the former Kate Cole Bordin of Wil mington; two daughters, Mrs. Eu gene Noell of Danville, Va„ and Mrs. LaFayette McLaws of Savan nah: and by a brother, George Wootten of Hickory. MATTHEW STRICKLAND WHITEVILLE, May 23—Funeral services for Matthew B. Strickland, 78, were conducted at the Cherry Grove Baptist church this after noon by the Rev. Paul Britt of Bladenboro. Interment was in the church cemetery. Mr. Strickland died at his home in the Cherry Grove section Fri day after an illness of two weeks. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Eliza Edwards Strickland; one son, Bob Strickland; four daughters, Ida. Laura, Daisy and Tessie Strickland; and one brother, Moody Strickland, all of the Cherry Grove community. DR. DAVID B. DELAYAN NEW YORK, May 23.—(a5)—Dr. David Bryson Delavan, 92, throat disease specialist and a pioneer in the development of modern laryn gology who was believed to have performed the country’s first tonsil lectomy under anesthesia, died to day. \V. ANDREW SMITH Funeral services for W. Andrew Smith will be conducted this after noon at 2 o’clock for Immanuel Presbyterian church by the Rev. F. S. Johnston, the Rev. Sankey Lee Blanton, the Rev. J. F. War ren, and the Rev. Mr. Sanders. Burial will follow at Bolton. Active pallbearers will be D. H. Williams, Porter Wagstaff, J. E. L. Wade, Raymond Hobbs, Harry Wettig and H. B. Wilkins. Honorary pallbearers will be J. B. Taylor, Ira J. Scott, R. A. Front, Asa Farrar, Dr. J. T. Hog gard, Dr. David R. Murchison and Miles Wilkins. The body will lie in state at the chapel of Andrews Mortuary until Sunday afternoon when the funeral cortege leaves for the church. Mr. Smith, aged 81, died Friday morning at 5:30 o’clock at the James Walker Memorial hospital after a brief illness. He resided at 1013 1-2 South Second street. Surviving are the wddow, Mrs-. Lorena Pepper Smith; three daugh ters, Mrs. R. A. Harts of Wilming ton, Mrs. D. N. Page of Carolina Beach, and Mrs. N. F. Nester of Philadelphia, Pa.; a half-brother, Preston Smith, Whiteville; and a half-sister, Mrs. Caroline Smith, Fayetteville. Five grandchildren also survive. jap landingTorce OCCUPIES CHUANSH1H (Continued from Page One) wing and were hammering hard with their left. Approaching Kienteh Advancing from Tunglu, on the north side of the Chientang river 35 miles southwest of Hangchow, the Japanese were approaching Kienteh, about 30 miles north of Kinhwa, with the support of bomb ing planes which attacked the de fending forces in relays all day. This column obviously was aim ing at Lanchi on the south side of the river and only 12 miles northwest of the provincial capital. Northeast of Kinhwa, at Pu kiang, Yiwu and Tungyang, a tri angle of towns which form the outer defense line of the provin cial capital, the Japanese were definitely slowed down with the Chinese hurling back assault after assault. Two thousand Japanese were re ported killed in a Sanguinary bat tle north of Yiwu, 32 miles north east of Kinhwa, but the invaders were rushing up assistance. (The Japanese claimed they had storm ed into Yiwu.) Tungyang was besieged. 4 -V MEMORIAL FOR INVENTOR A memorial to be erected in Portland, Ind. to Elwood Haynes, regarded by many as the inventor of the automobile. APPROVAL OF FWA JOBS TO BE ASKED (Continued from Page One) with the North Carolina Shipbuild ing company, agent for the Mari time commission, and with Maj Gen. Frederic H. Smith, command ing officer of Camp Davis, request ing endorsement of the board’s nine-project $865,000 school expan sion program which has been parti ally completed. Requests for Maritime commis sion endorsement have also been filed by the Housing Authority of the City of Wilmington for the proposed 800-unit shipyard housing project near the shipyards, needed to take care of a part of the num bers of workers coming into the city as employment at the ship yards increases, and by the board of managers of James Walker Memorial hospital for the projected addition to the hospital. In the requests for endorsement to the Army and the Maritime*com mission, the board of education pointed out that three of the nine projects were completed, and three others, comprising additions to Pea body negro, Bradley’s Creek and Forest Hills schools, had been completed to the point where de livery was assured on all critical materials not already obtained. The three remaining projects, new schools at Lake Forest, Sun set Park and Chestnut street the board declared, were necessitated by the arrival of new families here which were drawn to Wilmington chiefly by the shipyard and Camp Davis. “The board of education is deep ly indebted to Storer P. Ware of the North Carolina Shipbuilding company.’’ Mr. Marshall declared. “Mr. Ware has been most help ful and will carry the request of the board to the Maritime commis sion in Washington." Mayor Hargrove Bellamy had not returned from Washington Satur day where he was consulting gov ernment officials on the water works improvement program, in cluding possible endorsements if necessary. Endorsement of a project by the Army, Navy or Maritime commis sion does not mean that the War Production board will approve the release of critical materials, includ ing steel, valves and fittings and lumber, to the project but only that the WPB will consider the project. The order requiring . endorsement was set up in order to separate projects which are essential to the war effort from those which can be deferred until later. In addition to projects named above, others which may be affect ed by the ruling are additions to the Community negro hospital and the proposed $35,000 city-county health center. CIO-UMW DISPUTE MAY REACH CRISIS (Continued from Page One) the Mine Workers’ constitution, has authority to remove or sus pend him as vice-president. The personnel of the policy com mittee and executive board totals about 225, but latest information is that invitations extended to all the district field staffs probably will swell the attendance to nearly 500. The meetings probably will last several days. Although closed to all but miners, they are expected to provide the occasion for Lewis’ first public utterances on the la bor movement’s internal issues since last January. At that time Lewis unexpectedly suggested a renewal of peace conferences with the AFL. Murray rebuked him by replying that such negotiations would have to be ini tiated “in the office of the presi dent of the CIO.” There has been a growing strain in the Lewis-Murray relationships ever since. Lewis’ union asked the CIO to pay back the $1,655,000 ad vanced to it from the Miners’ treasury in CIO’s fledgling d ays. Against this “debt,” Lewis has withheld for four months payment of the Miners’ per capita tax to the CIO. amounting to about $30, 000 monthly. The CIO, in reply, ac knowledged a debt of gratitude to the Miners but-said the money never was intended as a loan to be repaid in cash. It asked Lewis, please, to pay the per capita tax his union owed. 4 DANIELS PREDICTS PERIOD OF PLENTY (Continued from Page One) phy, representing the AFL and CIO, who headed a discussion of “Labor’s Stake in the War.” Presi dent Frank Graham of the Uni versity of North Carolina presid ed. At the afternoon session, an off the-record report was presented by Col. A. Robert Ginsburg, repre senting the War Department. Andrew J. Biemiller, labor ad viser for the War Production Board, told the conference that American labor is “performing miracles” to such an extent that President Roosevelt already has revised upward the production goal which the Axis said was “fan tastic.” Labor already has demonstrated to the President that he underes timated America’s ability to pro duce, said Biemiller. He declared that in the next two years this country would build 23,000.000 tons of shipping, an amount equal to the entire British Merchant Ma rine at the outbreak of the war. 2 -V rown Lights Out to Cut Costs Crawley Down, one of the first villages in England to have street lighting, is to remain dark another year. The lampposts will remain at the curbs, but will not shine. The villagers say they tried street lighting from 1897 to 1900, but it cgst too much. FRATERNITY AIDS CIVILIAN DEFENSE Members Of Brigade Boys’ Club Group Are Serving In Control Room The Senior Fraternity of the Bri gade Boys’ club is doing its part in civilian defense. Composed of a group of young men who have spent their lives under the guidance of the club, the club has volunteered as a whole to give a portion of its time to the operation of the New Hanover county control room. It has also volunteered to do nate the blood of its members to the civilian defense blood bank. Many of the young men have entered the armed services of the nation and the attendance has been rapidly dropping as others are called. In their turn, the members have given their services to the Bri gade, in instructing the younger boys and to helping them in their problems. In future years, the lit tle fellows will take their place in the older club. FLOODS KILL FIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA (Continued from Page One) water pouring from the smaller streams because of recent rains. Hit hardest was Honesdale, Wayne county, in the Northeastern section of the state Houses col lapsed and were washed away in eight feet of water. Six persons in Honesdale and five women in nearby Hawley were reported missing. Lester Male, Red Cross offocial, said at least “several” persons died in Honesdale and the town was “in bad shape.” Communications were disrupted. Along the Eastern edge, the Le high ran rampant in Easton, Al lentown and Bethlehem. Flood wa ters disabled the power plant and halted operations at the sprawling four-mile long Bethlehem Steel corporation in Bethlehem. Some units will resume work within 24 hours, howeyer, a company spokesman said, and the plant will be back on nearly full schedule in a day or two. 2 SKIN IMPROVEMENTS BEGIN IN A FEW DAYS Helps lighten, brighten, soften, clear off dull skin, loosen black heads. 10c, 25c, 50c everywhere. BLACK & WHITE BLEACHINC CREAM VOTE FOR CLIFTON L. MOORE for DISTRICT SOLICITOR In these critical times it is important that we elect our best men to public office. We sincere ly believe that Clifton L. Moore is the best man in the race for District So licitor. We have known him from boyhood and we can truthfully make the following statements in his behalf: He has had fifteen years experience as a trial lawyer. He has been successful in the private practice of law. He is one of the leading trial lawyers of this sec tion of the state. He has prosecuted many important criminal cases and has frequently been employed to aid the solicitor in prosecuting criminal cases. He is honest, upright, morally clean, and of good character. He is friendly, sympathetic, helpful and accom modating. He is devoted to duty and his conduct is marked ' by fair dealing. He has always been interested in civic matters and the public welfare. Because we know these things are true, we urge you to vote for Clifton Moore and support him in every way possible. You may ask the lawyers of the District and the Superior Court Judges about his ability, experience and character. We urge that you support him enthusiastically and nominate him in the first primary. Sincerely, The Pender County Bar NAZIS SAY GREAT RUSSIAN DRIVE ON KHARKOV SMASHED (Continued from Page One) Lake Ilmen front, the high com mand said the Russians continued to attack stubbornly “with heavy losses” and without success. German and Finnish successes were claimed in the far north region of Lapland. German planes were said" to be inflicting heavy losses on the foe, raiding his rear and communica tion lines. Vessels in the besieged Crimean port of Sevastopol were bombed, the Berlin radio, said, and hits were scored on naval barracks. Read The Classified Ads Gifts For The GRADUATE Helena Rubinstein's Apple Blossom TOILET WATER The ‘delightful romantic fragrance makes you feel gay and lovely. $1.25 Apple Blossom COMPLEXION SOAP 3 cakes $1.00 ■ — —... 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