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Reds Hint Jap Position Becoming More Complex (By The Associated Press) MOSCOW, May 31. — The Rec |rmy newspaper Red Star said to jay in a review of the war ir he Pacific region that the Japa lese command is facing new dif iiculties with expansion of the zone lombat. “These difficulties have had a lertain influence over reductior If the scale of offensive operations If the Japanese armed forces,” laid an article signed by Colonel M. Tolchenov. “The Allies have availed them selves of this circumstance to in crease their forces with the pur U. S. AIR POWER CROWS IN INDIA Aerial Supply Line To China One Of Three Things In Offing t - • WASHINGTON, May 31— Ml — With United States air power in India growing steadily, the aero nautical chamber of commerce said today official reports indicat ed these three major efforts were in the offing: 1. Establishment of an aerial supply line to China. 2. Driving the Japanese out of Burma. 3. Launching of a large - scale air offensive against the Jap anese from India. At least six types of American warplanes, already are smashing at the Japanese from India or be ihg prepared for forthcoming cam paigns. Among warplanes known to be based in India, the chamber re ported, were: Boeing B-lT-E (Flying Fortress) 4engine bomber powered with Wright cyclone air-cooled engines. Consolidated B-24 (Liberator) 4 engine bomber with Pratt & Whit ney twin wasp air-cooled engines. North American B-25 2-engine bomber with Wright cyclone en gines.--(This is the plane used by American fliers led by Brig. Gen. James Doolittle in the April raid on Tokyo.) Lockheed Hudson 2-engne re connaissance bomber powered with _ either Pratt & Whitney or Wright 'cyclone engines. Curtiss P-40-E fighter plane with Allison liquid-cooled engine. Douglas C-47 troop transport powered with Pratt & Whitney twin wasp engines. Can you afford to pay tke bill if you smash Soinebodys car*? We can/ -T---— pose on one hand of preventing further Japanese military moves and on the other hand of inflicting retaliatory blows on the enemy. “The successful struggle at the approaches of Australia indicates the growing power of the armed forces of the Allies. This also is proved by the raid of American planes on Japanese territory.” The article said that "in order to consolidate and develop the suc cesses obtained Japan must strug gle continuously for supremacy of the sea and air but, taking into consideration the losses inflicted on the Japanese armed forces, this demand on the Japanese shipbuild ing and aviation industries is a serious strain. “Moreover, Japan’s enemies dispose tremendous material re sources.” Another difficulty for the Japa nese is the steadily growing dis tance between Japanese home ter ritory and armed forces operating in the Pacific, the colonel went on. “Without mentioning difficulties connected with the necessity of sur mounting immense distances, it is to be taken into consideration that the navy cannot operate a prolong ed period at distance from its permanent bases. “The organization of such bases in occupied territory appears to be an exceedingly difficult task and requires some time.” -V Christian Scientists Have Interesting Topic “Ancient and Modern Necroman cy, Alias Mesmerism and Hypno tism Denounced,” was the subiect of the lesson-sermon in all Chris tian Science churches and societies on Sunday, May 31. The Golden Text was from Zech ariah 10; 2 “The idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain.” Among the citations which com prised the lesson-sermon were the following from the Bible: “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to par ents, unthankful, unwholy, With out natural affection, trucebreak ers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lov ers of God.” (II Timothy 3:1-4). The lesson-sermon also included the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, "Sci ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy: “Animal magnetism has no scien tific foundation, for God governs all that is real, harmonious, and eternal, and His power is neither animal nor human. Its basis being a belief and this belief animal, in Science animal magnetism, mes merism, or hynoptism is a mere ne gation, possessing neither intelli gence, power, nor reality, and in sense it as an unreal concept of the so-called human mind.” (Page 102). -V Sheriff Investigates Death Of His Sister KINSTON, May 31.—(JP)—Sheriff Sam R. Churchill and Kinston police investigated today the death of Churchill’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Lila Simpson Lawson, 42, whose body was found in her kitchen early to day. Mrs. Lawson’s feet had been loose ly tied with a bedsheet. There were no marks of violence other than a bruised shoulder. Police said a purse containing be tween $50 and $75 was missing from the ransacked bedroom" of the apart ment. THEATRICAL YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WANTED to form the First Southern Ballet. Those joining classes nqw will ap pear in Fall production of Lac de le Swan and Aurora’s wedding. Some previous training desirable, but sincere beginners are welcome! Special rates for summer: 12 class lessons $10.00. This group will bring the traditional beauty of the ballet to the Southland in a series of con certs. Complete information avail able at Helen Rene’ Dance School— 215 Princess Street. Trial lesson— $1.00—all work under personal di rection of D’Aubour and Rene’ who demonstrate each step and move ment. Study Dancing With A Dancer STILL SERVING OUR CUSTOMERS -While REMODELING and ENLARGING Our Store Will Soon Be Over Twice Its Former Size < i t i < > i * I > t * BERGER'S DEPT. STORE North Fourth Street ALLIED BOMBERS BLAST JAPANESE Fires Visible Eighty Miles Away Are Set In Solo mon Islands ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, May 31—(St—Fires vis ible 80 miles were lighted by Unit el States and Australian bombers which made a 2,000-mile round trip to raid a Japanese seaplane base at Tulagi in the Solomon is lands on Friday night. Tanamboga and Gaavutu, also in the Solomons northeast of Aus tralia, were bombed and anti aircraft guns were sileneed, Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters said. At least one Japanese seaplane was destroyed at Tulagi along with fuel dumps, wharves and ad joining buildings. The. enemy over ran the Solomons early in the Pa cific war. The general announced that a Distinguished Service Cross had been awarded to an artillery col onel, Albert C. Searle of Atasca dero, Calif., for “extraordinary heroism in action Feb. 27 at Ban doeng,” captured summer capital of Dutch Java. Searle, facing cer tain capture, volunteered to or ganize United States artillery units supporting other Allied forces de fending the Praenger Plateua, the citation said. Hurpie Heart awards were made to Lieut. Gerald J. Dix of Sulli van, Ind., and Sgt. David Semple of Salt Lake City. Dix, who had the U. S. aircraft tender Langley and the naval aux iliary Pecos sunk under him, man ned a machinegun on the Langley during a heavy bombing despite a shrapnel wound. Semple was bombardier on a bomber which successfully attack ed a Japanese convoy landing troops on the north Java shore. At least two Japanese ships were sunk. Semple and Dix both are on duty in Australia. wageHourlaw RULING EXPECTED Supreme Court Is Due To Pass On Overtime Pro vision Of Act WASTINGTON, May 31.— (JFl — Litigation involving interpretation of overtime provisions of the wage hour act and constitutionality of a state law for the sterilization ' of habitual criminals awaits supreme court action tomorrow at what will be “unless otherwise ordered,” the final session of the 1941-42 term. There was considerable doubt whether the justice would be able to complete their work by the time court convenes at noon tomorrow. A total of 21 cases must be dis posed of before the four - month summer adjournment begins. Last Monday there were opinions in only six cases. If the term is not wound up tomorrow, another opin ion session will be held the follow ing Monday. m me wage-hour litigation, the government contended that addi tional compensation for overtime must be paid employes even though they received a fixed week ly salary above the amount re quired by the act. Overtime com pensation should be based, the gov ernment argued, on an hourly wage arrived at by dividing the weekly salary by the number of hours actually worked. Combatting this contention, the overnight motor transportation company, Inc., of Baltimore as serted that the act required only a weekly salary large enough to pay the minimum wage for the first 40 hours and time and one half for any overtime worked. In another case involving simi lar issues, the A. H. Belo Corpora tion, publisher of the Dallas Morn ing News and owner of radio sta tion WFAA, defended contracts with employes fixing an hourly wage and guaranteeing a weekly salary in excess of the wage-hour act requirements. The sterilization case affected an Oklahoma law applying to persons convicted for the third time of “crimes amounting to felonies in volving moral turpitude.” During arguments supreme court justices displayed great interest in the fact that the Oklahoma statute included chicken-stealing as a crime and exempted embezzlement. The state Attorney General said he had “very serious doubts” about its constitutionality on account of ex emptions. 3 -V Few Select Friends Will Attend Rites Of John Barrymore HOLLYWOOD, May 31.— (JP) — John Barrymore, who in life loved crowds and laughter and gaiety, will make his last appearance Tuesday in semi-obscurity when a few old friends assemble to pay him final honors in a serene set ting symbolic of the peace he found in his dying hours Friday. In the secluded little chapel of Calvary cemetery a requiem mass will be pronounced at 11 a. m. for the veteran actor by Father John O’Donnell, his long-time friend who ministered the final Catholic rites to Barrymore when he returned to the faith of his childhood shortly before death. THIS CURIOUS WORLD Ferguson ^ ■ ■ - * i Some oav the I CANADIAN BRANCH ! OF NIAGARA FALLS ; WILL cur AROUND ! BEHIND GOAT ISLAND AND STEAL THE ! WATER THAT NOW GOES I OVER THE AMERICAN ■ FALLS... ZS4WVS ! AVIfi«/CA/V : SXOUS . 1 Is THIS SOLDIER. AT THE POSITION AAAAAT &JSS77 7&A/Z. A*MS, OAC\SG AAtMS, OR. ArrjFAWoAf 9 • .1 EARTH IS STRUCK BV LI&HTNIN6 ON AN AVERASE OF /=zs=-r>' 77/y/i^s* ^vas?ey' sgcoho/. ^ 9 T. M. REG, U. 5. PAT. OFF. ^ Conference Is Planned On Stabilizing Wages X------_ By JACK BELL. WASHINGTON, May 31.— (/P) - A proposal for a national confer ance of employers and employes to effect a wage stabilization agreement in war industries came today from administration circles in Congress, apparently with the unofficial approval of members ol the War Labor board. Senator Hill of Alabama, the democratic whip, suggested that President Roosevelt convene sucn a conference with the objective of ALLIES ARE URGED TO STRIKE AT JAPS Chinese Ask Them To Util ize Available Air Bases For Direct Assault WASHINGTON, May 31— W _ Major General Chu Shin-M i n g Chinese military attache, pleaded today that the United Nations act quickly to strike at Japan from the Chinese air bases threatened by Japanese advances. “Planes and parts can still be flown into China,” the attache said. “So can pilots and bombs Air fields have been built there, dozens of them, in the hope that American planes would arrive. “For instance, from the fields in Chekiang, which the Japanese are now driving toward, the Jap anese manufacturing center of Na gasai is only a three-hour flight and could be bombed every day. ‘From these fields, the impor tant Japanese naval base on For mosa is only one hour across the water. From these f i e 1 ds American planes could smash the new drives on China and riddle the steady stream of Japanese ships that now moves through the China sea, supplying the Japanese and the Philippines. “Such an offensive opportunity, if grasped by the United Nations, would force the Japanese to draw their Navy and air force back to protect their communications, and would relieve India and Australia from danger.” General Chu spoke on the army hour radio program sponsored by the war department. “While realizing that the war is world-wide in scope, it is my opinion that China presents the number one military opportunity of the United Nations, and it is an opportunity which, if not grasp ed quickly, may not exist much longer,” he said. MONEY TO LOAN ON ANYTHING OF VALUE No Loan Too Large—None Too Small Cape Fear Loan Office LUGGAGE HEADQUARTERS 12 8. Front St. Dial 8185* drafting a general policy on wages similar to the no-strike, no-lockout agreement reached late last year by labor and "management. “I believe we can get an agree ment by putting the democratic processes into action,” Hill de clared. ‘‘The no-strike agreement effectively stopped strikes and a similar agreement on wages would prevent inflationary pay increases and would stop a lot of this ‘piracy’ of war workers from one firm to another against which the manpower board has had to take action.” Agreeing that some substantial results might be accomplished Chairman George (D.-Ga.) of the Senate Finance committee said it was his understanding that several members of the War Labor board looked with favor on the idea of a national wage conference. George said that while the board had been attempting to level off wages and tie them to a cost of living, its services were invoked in a relatively small percentage of cases. Because of a shortage of skilled labor, he said, many employers are acquiescing readily to wage increases in order to keep their workmen and to entice others to their plants. The board had no power, he added, to apply brakes to ^ pay increases in such cases. ‘‘More and more,” George ad ded, “wages are becoming the big gest problem in any attempt to ward off inflation. In fact, it could almost be said that they are now the determining factor in the effort to maintain the price struc ture intact. “You cannot control prices and you cannot prevent inflation with no control over wages and we have no effective control at this time.” DAVIS IS DRAWING ON TRUCK CROPS $13,000 Spent By Camp On Buying Vegetables During May Once again, with the return of spring, Camp Davis is looking to farmers of Southeastern North Carolina to feed the men sfc tioned at and near the camp as the time for harvesting truck crops in this section goes into full swing. During the month of May, fig ures released yesterday in the of fice of Lieut. Col. William R. Schaefer, Camp Davis Quarter master, show, the camp expended approximately $13,500 for truck products grown in this vicinity and indications are that figures will be materially increased during the month of June. The $13,500 does not include any of the payments made to wholesalers located in this vicinity for truck produced in other sections, but represents only purchases made of products ac tually grown in the southeastern section of the state and reflects the amount of money which has gone rolling into farmer pockets. Items which were purchased in this vicinity by the Quartermaster Market Center at Wilmington for the use of troops subsisted by Camp Davis included lettuce, strawberries, turnip salad, cab bage, sweet potatoes, radishes, beets, spinach, string beans, cauli flower, and green peas. In all, the camp expended ap proximately $45,500 for fresh fruits and vegetables for the month of May, representing be tween 18 and 20 percent of the total amount of money expended during the month for feeding the troops. a recapitulation oi au iresn fruit and vegetable items pur chased for the camp during the month of May follows: 1,520 crates of lettuce, 1,265 crates of straw berries, 1,900 bushels of apples, 145 hampers of turnip salad, 430 crates of lemons, 220 crates of radishes, 440 hampers of beets, 58 crates of green onions, 685 bags of cabbage, 850 bushels of sweet potatoes, 1,022 hampers of spin ach, 730 50-lb. bags of onions, dry 345 bushels of carrots, 682 crates of grapefruit, 880 40-lb. boxes of bananas, 315 bags of corn, 830 hampers of string beans, 2,485 lugs of tomatoes, 515 crates of oranges, 1,410 bags of potatoes, 515 hamp ers of cauliflower, 2,410 hampers of green peas, 90 crates of aspara gus, 250 crate? of green peppers, 270 crates of celery, 22 crates of limes, 245 hampers of squash and 30 hampers of cucumbers. -V Italians Say British Admiral Is Captured ROME (From Italian Broad casts), May 31.—(JP)—A supple ment to the Italian high command communique said today that a British admiral, Sir Walter Cowan, once commander-in-chief of Brit ish naval forces in North Ameri can and British West Indian wa ters, had been taken prisoner in Africa. “At the moment of his capture he was with the Third Indian brigade,” the supplement said. LONDON, May 31.—(JP)—Armirai Sir Walter Henry Cowan, whose capture in Africa the Italians claimed today without confirma tion here, had been on the Royal navy’s retired list for eight years when the war started. He resumed active service, went to the Middle East and was as signed to special duties at Tobruk, Libya. On his 70th birthday last July he told interviewers he wished “to djie on the battlefield, not in bed. 1 To the people in Wilmington and New Hanover County: I wish to thank each and every one of you for your loyal support in electing me to the office of Judge of New Hanover County Recorder’s Court. _H. W. SMITH To ihe 2425 citizens who voted for me Sat urday, I extend my sincere thanks; to those who voted for my opponent I extend my best wishes. CLAYTON C. HOLMES Russian Sailors Liberate 62 Men In Daring Attack MOSCOW May 31—W—Sailors of the Russian Baltic fleet were reported today to have made a daring raid behind the German lines to a prison camp northwest of Lake Ilmen where they killed the guards and rescued 62 sol diers and sailors. The report said the rescuers found 250 prisoners lying in a yard dying of starvation Tk . ; evening ration was descrih , soup boiled from tree bark vi »« of the men were unable tn‘ ^a”!r --v__ 0 tfl0ve. No Retaliatory Raijs AMeUpon £»s|wd LONDON, May 31.— pp, were no retaliatory air raids on v!* land up to dusk tonight En* "During the hours of' dav,iM day,” said the omnium! ‘ t(y Home Security Ministry -,! °f th« been nothing- to report ” re-as THE PRACTICE OF THRIFT is not new. The CAROLINA has sponsored thrift and homo ship for more than 30 years. Adhering to basic buildC, principles, it will continue to advocate this character-huiur 105,1 graph How may we serve YOU? 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