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CHINESE RELIEF DRIVE LAUNCHED funds Raised To Be Used In Aiding Stricken Civil ians In Heroic Land The drive to raise $3,000 foi China Relief was launched yester day in Wilmington with headquar ters opened at 217 Princess street. The money to be raised will go for civilian relief among the heroic j people of China who have suffered \ so severely at the hands of the Japanese invaders. i_,asi year wimuiigiuu tuuuiuwi ed more than $2,000 in a similar campaign. This year the need is heavier and the quota necessarily raised. The committee sponsoring the effort is confident the people of this city, who went above the last quota, will do equally well now. The primary effort will be made by mail. Following this, special groups will contact residents who have at one time or another voiced sympathy with the undertaking. In the meantime, and for all who are not called upon personally but are willing to do their bit, contribu tions may be mailed direct to H. T acy Hunt of the Peoples Bank. The general committee direct ing the effort is: Co-chairmen, the Rev. C. D. Barclift and J. E. L Wade; treasurer, H. Lacy Hunt; vice chairmen for churches, the Rev. F. L. Blanton, William Crowe, Jr , Walter B. Freed, Mortimer Glover, J. F. Herbert, James Law son, C. E. Murphy and Rabbi M. M. Thurman; for the North Caro lina Shipbuilding Co., Karl Fern strom; for the Atlantic Coast Line, W. M. Dixkson; for civic clubs, M. H. Lander, for women’s organiza tions, Miss Sue Hall, Mrs. G. L. Clendenin and Mrs. Will Rehder; secretary, Mrs. W. M. Hibbs. '-V Shoe Stores To Close Earlier Daring Summer Earlier closing hours, 5 o’clock each week day except Saturday, were adopted Monday for the sum mer months by eight local shoe stores. The closing of shop one-half hour earlier than usual is in the interest of additional recreation for em ployer and employe and is expected to provoke physical fitness, health and efficiency, it was said. These stores have agreed jointly to close from June 1 through Sep tember 1: Freeman Shoe Co., Cin derella Booterie, Su-Ann Shoe Store, Style Shop, Kinney’s Shoe Store, Thom JIcAn, Cannon Shoe Store and yfdrit Shoes. I wish to acknowledge with sincere appreciation the vote of my friends in the primary election last Saturday. W. K. "BILL" RHODES, JR. Special Values In 3-Piece living <mq Eft ROOM SUITS W'taiOU up H. BERGER & SON FURNITURE CO. 707 N. 4th St. Dial 5128 MONEY TO LOAN ON ANYTHING OF VALUE No Loan Too Large—None Too Small Cape Fear Loan Office LUGGAGE HEADQUARTERS 12 S. Front St. Dial 21858 MOVING? EFFICIENT Is The Word For Oar MOVING SERVICE PRICES REASONABLE" f arrar Transfer & Storage Warehouse DIAL 5317 TO DIRECT NEW UNITED CHINA RELIEF ACTIVITIES Wendell Wfllkle, (center) active In the work ot United China Reiiei since Its formation last year, oecomes honorary chairman as the organization announces that it will operate on a permanent-basis for the duration ot the war emergency. Paul G. Hoffman, (left) president of the Studebaker Corporation at South Bend. Indiana, has been nameo chairman. William R. Herod, (right) vice president of the international General Electric Company, becomes President. With nine agencies now participating in Its national appeal, United China Relief will Intensify its efforts in 1942 because of China’s growing relief needs and ner key position In the world-wide situation. Count Ciano, Duce s Son-In-Law, Is One Of Italy’s Richest '■ - ■ II- w _ _ (Editor’s note: Richard G. Mas sock, chief of the former Rome bureau of Wide World, turns the spotlight on Count Ciano’s rapid rise to wealth in this first of four daily stories on “Italy today.” Massock, who was interned in It aly for five months, reached the United States today.) BY RICHARD G. MASSOCK NEW YORK, June 1. — (Wide World).—Mussolini’s young son-in law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, is ra pidly becoming one of Italy’s rich est men. The speed with which this hard some playboy husband of the dic tators favorite child, Edda, has built a fortune is a greater private scandal ir Italy than the rapidity with which he rose from vice-con sul at Shanghai to foreign minis ter at Rome. Others have grown rich under Fascism. Some, like the boss of Venice, Count Volpi Di Misurata. have added to their already sizable fortunes. But Ciano has done it faster and on a greater scale. The ways in which Ciano has acquired his wealth are various. Some say graft has figured as one way. His official position has en abled him to play the market, buy ing the depressed stocks of pros perous companies until he and a few cronies have gained control at a cheap price. Ciano’? agents have bought great areas of rich Tuscany farmland in the famous Chianti wine country for him. He owns corporations, a newspaper — II Telegrafo of Leg yorn—and other valuable proper ties. His apartment, which occu pies a whole floor of a modern building in Rome’s most fashion able quarter, is richly furnished and incidentally the reputed scene of lavish entertainment. Ciano enjoys life in a lusty way He likes a crowd of girls around him, at dinner or on the beach. He prefers cheek-to-cheek danc ing to diplomatic conferences. When the chanceries of the world were feverishly preoccupied with the German-Soviet bombshell pact of August, 1939, Ciano was on the beach at Ostia with a beaute ous blonde within view of half a dozen foreign diplomats. He and Edda lead more or less separate lives. Goes With Other Men The blonde Edda, mother of three children, is seen more often in the company of other men than with her husband. For one thing she spends little time in Rome. Mostly she divides her time be tween Capri, where she has a new mountain - top villa, or at some winter sports resort. Capri not only allows her a fair ly secluded and carefree life, but apparently is restful for her weak lungs. For a short time she served as a Red Cross nurse on hospital ships, but gave that up after the torpedoing of a ship in Valone har SSMDRfiLlE WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY FOR MINOR CUTS fSEDJEEl BURN5.BRUI5ES Bagla CHAFING THIS COUPON and 10c Presented at Office of THE STAR-NEWS Entitles You To One COOKBOOKLET ! Name .... Address .. (Thto Coupon *nd ISc It Cookbooklet to to be mailed) _ _ _ _ ._ bor during the Albanian campaign against the Greeks hurled her into I the water of the bay for half an hour before she was fished out. Edda Mussolini, whose brilliant mind was once supposed to dictate her father’s foreign policy, has left politics alone since the war began. She was supposed to have sponsored the alliance with Ger many. It is not Mussolini, but Hitler who dictates Italy’s foreign policy, as evidenced by the Duce’s dec laration of an unpopular war against the United States. Edda and Galeazzo frequently visit Germany, sometimes alone, sometimes together. There pre sumably they find a substitute for the once cosmopolitan life of Rome when Americans, British, French and other foreign cosmo polites filled out the Italian capi tal’s society. Learns Tricks In Berlin, too, Ciano may have learned some tricks of personal enrichment from such successful Nazi pocket-fillers as Air Marshal Herman Goering. Ciano was born to wealth as the son of the late Naval hero of the first World War, Count Costanzo Ciano. It is said in Rome that young Galeazzo. a smart boy with a good education, charming man ners and a winning smile, now considered smug by his critics, early recognized the golden possi bilities of marrying into the Mus solini family. After a brief spell of a small time journalist, he chose the fash ionable and socially agreeable ca reer of diplomacy for his real start in life. At the same time he con sidered the possible prospects for son-in-law to Mussolini and found himself the outstanding possibility —a socially acceptable, aristocrat ic son of a Fascist hero. He was waiting with a hand on the door knob when opportunity knocked. Ciano is an affable diplomat. Im portant decisions he waves to his father-in-law, consulting him over a direct private telephone line be tween the foreign ministry in the Chigi palace and Mussolini’s office in Venice palace, six blocks away. He adapts himself easily to any circumstance. When he called George Wadsworth, United States Charge D’Affaires, to the Chigi pal ace to present Italy’s declaration of war, Ciano greeted Wadsworth sternly and formally, with a stiff Fascists salute. A few days later, a Latin Ameri can diplomat called at the foreign ministry. Cinao received him eor dailly and invited him to be seat ed. The visitor replied that he nan come to present a declaration of war from his government. Ciano’s smile froze, he jumped from his chair and accepted the declara tion. At one time Ciano was consider ed an outstanding possibility for the succession to the dictatorship of his father-in-law, a sort of Fas. cist crown prince. That now seems much less likely, because Ciano is considered neither popular nor tough enough. Like all Mussolini’s successful associates, he has been primarily a yes-man. It is genera] gossip that Ciano is prepared for possible political adversity. Some of his fortune is reported to have been blocked in Brazilian banks, but he is suppos ed to have enough for a comfort ,n ArB“'™ -V— . 3 WEATHER (Continued from Page One) buTetuHr^?Jt°N<’ ,June ’—W3)-Weather S'" <vfor‘„ °t temperature and rain Iri the ,24 hours ending 8 p. m. in e^sewhere-Pal Cotton growir>g areas and High Low Prec Asheville - 88 63 o.OO Atlanta - 90 67 o.OO Boston - 65 54 „ 00 Burlington-73 41 0.00 Chicago - 77 63 o.OO Cleveland __ 87 62 0.00 Denver- 80 50 0.00 El Paso-94 61 0.00 Galveston _ 85 76 0.00 Kansas City _ 91 67 0.00 Memphis _ 94 68 0.00 Miami_87 70 0.00 Mobile _ 89 69 0.00 New York _ 61 55 0.00 Portland, Me. _1_ 68 38 0.00 St. Louis _ 92 67 0.00 Savannah _ 84 64 0.00 Washington _ 75 65 0.00 Wilmington _,__85 67 400 DIPLOMATS BACK FROM AXIS LANDS _y Total Of 908 Landed In New York By Swedish Liner Drottingholm JERSEY CITY, N. J„ June 1.— (£)—Grimy white in the rain, the Swedish diplomatic exchange liner Drottningholm, last safe boat from Europe, came up the bay to its pier today with 908 Americans, Latin Americans, Quasi-Americans and immigrants after a safe but exhuasting 10-day trip from the enemy controlled continent. She was shadowed by at least three U-boats, all of which van ished correctly after viewing her unmistakable colors and floodlit “diplomat” markings. Most of her tired, nervous human cargo was ill on a calm sea before the gang plank came down at pier F. this morning to disembark diplomats, babies, old and young men and women, dogs, pet turtles and even two captive crickets. For an hour and a half after the Drottningholm had tied up, the passengers crowding the decks and the anxious hundreds on the pier waited in a dramatic, hushed ten sion. Then a black - shrouded casket bearing the body of Mrs. William D. Leahy, wife of the ambassador to France, was lowered to the pier where a Navy honor guard cover ed it with the Stars and Stripes. Mrs. Leahy died in Vichy, France. Preceded by several Naval offi cers, Admiral Leahy, grey and lonely, walked quickly down the gangway and entered one of sev eral cars enroute to a Washington train. He made no statement. Only then were the other pas sengers permitted to disembark. The Drottningholm brought from Lisbon a total of 573 United States citizens, including 169 diplomats. There were 185 diplomats from Latin America. Nationals of 33 countries were aboard, plus 19 stateless persons. There were 38 straight immigration cases and several dozens of Polish and Czech speaking passengers with some what remote claims to U. S. citi zenship. Authorities said these latter per sons were gathered up and deliv ered to the Portugese by the Ger mans because Hitler wants to ex change them and others like them for about 4,000 Germans in Ameri ca whom he considers “important’ to the German war effort. However, some U. S. authorities believed that one more voyage by the Drottningholm would return al most all the legitimate Americans who still want to come home. The ship is due to return to Lisbon this week, for a second round trip. Meanwhile, immigration author ities were busy far into this after noon aboard the ship, coping with the entry problem. The Amercan diplomats aboard the boat spoke guardedly, if at all, of the conditions in the countries in which they had been interned. But the unofficial passengers told of appalling hunger on the conti nent, especially in Greece. There were varied accounts of the state of German morale, and of German treatment of American internees as well. Some of those sent to the little known concentra tion camp in an ancient stone castle at Laufen, on the German Austrian border,- said they arrived handcuffed in pairs and confined in railway prison cars. The first of the three subma rines which sighted the Drottning holm looked he rover 22 hours out of Lisbon; the others appeared on Friday, May 29. All closed their hatches and dived quickly after establishing the ship’s identity, and Captain Sigfrid Ericsson, mas ter of the Drottningholm, kept the incidents generally quiet lest the passengers become alarmed. 3 -V Trucking Licensing Agreements Effected WASHINGTON, June 1.—(JP)— Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones announced today that all of the 48 state governments have put minimum trucking and reciprocal license regulations into immediate effect to facilitate the movement of war materials over the nation’s highways. NOTICE Citizens of New Hanover County I thank you for the splendid sup port given me in the Primary Saturday, for Solicitor of the Re corder’s Court. ' J. A. NcNorion Inventor Of Sub Seeks Means T o Offset Menace ----—---— POTTSTOWN, Pa., June 1.— <JP) —Simon Lake disclosed today that he is at work on another invention —designed, ironically, to offset the menace of his most famous crea tion, the submarine. The white-haired 75-year-old in ventor came here to perfect a new type of concrete pipe, able to with stand terrific internal pressure, which could be used in cross coun try lines to carry oil and gasoline to any. part of the nation. Lake believes his brain-child would save thousands of tons of steel in the construction of pipe lines such as that now being con sidered by congress to relieve the eastern states gasoline shortage, due largely to submarine-torpedo ing of tankers. Details of Lake’s newest inven tion have not been made public be cause they are considered of mil itary significance. However, it can be said that it is being tested by a large commercial producer. Lake, who dreamed of the sub marine as a major merchant car rier, rather than an instrument of destruction, still is convinced that huge cargo undersea boats would be the answer to the nation’s shipping problem. “The only way to combat the submarine is with another subma rine,” he said, “and a cargo sub mersible would be the answer.” “A military submarine would differ greatly from a huge cargo Senate Is Asked To Vote Of $50 Month Service Pay WASHINGTON, June 1.—<JP)— Senator La Follette (Prog.-Wis.) announced today that he would try to force a senate vote Thursday on the question of making $50 a monR: the minimum pay in the armed forces. La Follette told the senate that he would press a motion to dis charge the senate conference com mittee which, in meetings with a similar house group, has held out for $42. The latter figure was ap proved by the senate, but the house boosted it to $50. The senate-house committee was then appointed to work out a compromise. Senator Johnson (D-Colo.) indi cated there was little likelihood of the senate-house group’s agreeing on a compromise before Thursday. He noted that Senators Revnolds (D-N. C.), Hill (D-Ala.), and Gur ney (R-S. D.) were absent from Washington, leaving Johnson and Senator Austin, the assistant re publican leader, the only senate members of the joint group on hand. 1 ANKS I sincerely thank the voters ol Brunswick, Columbus, New Han over and Pender Counties for the splendid vote and support given me in the Democratic Primary last Saturday, which enabled me to take a substantial lead in the race for District Solicitor. If I am elected District Solicitor, I pledge my best efforts to the ef ficient. conscientious and propipt performance of the duties of this important public trust. I wish it were possible for me to see each voter and personally express my appreciation. I frankly seek the continued support and coopera tion of the people of the District. Clifion L. Moore Autalnsurance Car Values Have Increased Insure Your Car With Us* And Rest Assured c. B. PARMELE & CO. a Vs?”?!' ■ D-L sp™«. *■ ... . . ^^ore H. Elizabeth King M» Pra«. Sfawl_ Plua.31* carrying submarine and there still are many ways that a military submarine can be improved.” He already has conferred with builders about construction of these super-subs, capable of car rying cargoes up to 7,500 tons or as many as 2,500 troops. This giant undersea craft, he said, would be about 400 feet long and displace about 12,000 tons, nearly twice as large as the 6,000 ton U-boat which the Nazis report edly have in use supplying troops in Libya. Its cost he estimates at around $3,000,000, considerably less than that of a armed, fighting sub. -V Two Are Convicted Of Effort To Violate Agents Registration WASHINGTON, June 1.— (JP)— A jury in United States district court here today convicted David Warren Ryder and Frederick Vin cent Williams, San Francisco writ ers, of conspiring to violate the foreign agents registration act in connection with the dissemination of alleged Japanese propaganda. The act requires agents of for eign principals to register with the government, and disclose their activities. Williams was accused of not registering fully, and Ryder was alleged not to have registered at all. Williams was found guilty on ten counts in the indictment against him, and Ryder on the two counts against him. As a result, Williams faces a possible maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment and $20, 000 fine, and Ryder four years' im prisonment and $4,000 fine. NEARER TO HEAVEN For tender, irritated feet, apply Mexican Heat Powder. Dust in shoes, rub on feet for bringing cool protection against further irritation by chafing. Costs little. Always demand genuine Mexican Heat Powder. Lt. Frink Detailed For Duty At Office Of Captain Of Port Lieut. (J. G.) -'S. Bunn Frink, former Southport attorney and county attorney for Brunswick county, has been detailed for duty at the captain of the port’s office here, Lieut. R. W. Thresher, cap tain of the port, said Monday morn ing. Lieut. Frink reported for duty here Monday after receiving hi, commission in the Navy iast week and receiving instruction at Sixth Naval District headquarters ir Charleston, S. C. He was a candidate for the so licitorship of the eighth judicia' district in the Democratic prima v this year until he withdrew to en Paraphrasing a noted radio M. median, Grandpappy Jenkins say. that, “Doolittle do’d it!’’ THE PRACTICE OF THRIFT is not new. The CAROLINA has sponsored thrift and home-owner ship for more than 30 years. Adhering to basic building- and loan principles, it will continue to advocate this character-building pro gram. How may we serve YOU? Ample funds to lend on accept able security. BUY YOUR WAR BONDS AT THE CAROLINA! TWO THE / MILLION DOLLAR Carolina Building and Loan Ass'n "Member Federal Home Loan Bank" C. M. BUTLER. Prea. W. A. FONVIELLE, W. D. JONES Sec.-Trea*. A«»t. Sec.-Tre»i. ROGER MOORE. Y-Prea. J. 0. CARR. Att’y TO THE VOTERS OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY MY SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR THE SPLENDID VOTE IN RE-ELECTING ME T. A. (TON) HENDERSON CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT FINANCIAL INUKFLNIIKNCK FUK YUC ana YUCK KAMILS W. E. (Bill) STANLEY District Manager 'MIST IN AMIIICAM 501 Murchison Bldg. Dial 6601 This is a Suit. It is Ruined It was hung away in a closet, no care was taken of it and the moths got into it. Its owner is due for an unpleasant surprise the next time he wants to wear the suit. 7 This is a Balance Sheet. It is Ruined It once was the balance sheet of a going retail concern. Its owner let the'“moths” get into it. Priorities, rationing, the misfortunes of war cut down his supplies of goods. He stopped advertising, let his customers forget him, neg lected to give them services and substitutes for goods he used to sell. This is the Difference Newspaper advertising in wartime ^ can be the difference between the \ success or failure of a retail estab lishment. New goods, new services made valuable to the public and _ i i » *’ ^ „ pubnc by consistent advertising keeps the •was” out of ae ledger of a going concern. STAR-NEWS
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