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BILLION AND HALF SOUGHT FOR NAVI Money Asked For Auxil iary Ship Program For Enlarged Fleet WASHINGTON, June 1— - Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of thi House Naval Committee introduce! legislation today for a $1,500,000, 000 auxiliary ship program to sup plement the prospective two-oceai Navy and said the committee woulc start hearings tomorrow. Vinson also announced that th< commite would begin a surve; to determine how soon and to wha extent a program for additions aircraft carriers could be started. The bill, offered shortly a f t e : President Roosevelt had requestet it, would authorize construction o 500,000 tons of auxiliary vessel; such as tenders, supply ships ant tankers. The $1,500,000,000 figure, Vinsor emphasized, was only an estimate The cost of an expanded aircraf carrier construction program ht could not estimate other than to saj it would run into the millions. Tht number of additional carriers tha can be built, he pointed out, i; dependent on the facilities of ship, yards, already taxed by warship? and cargo vessels. At least eleven carriers now are on the ways and seven are in serv ice. Vinson visualized a fleet oi carriers capable of bearing planes in ‘overwhelming numbers.” BOMBS ARE RAINED ON WIDE ‘INVASION PATH’ BY BRITISH (Continued from Page One) toward Calais wnere ITie sound of gunfire could be heard. Promises Offensive The forthcoming part of the United States in the aerial offen sive, which might outweigh even the deluge of 6,000,000 pounds of explosives the RAF loosed over Cologne, was drawn in plain words by Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, head of the United States Air forces. He said his conferences in Lon don, now nearly completed, had “hastened the day when our air arm shall join in an air offensive against the enemy which he can not meet, defeat or survive.” Replying to Arnold’s congratula tions on the Cologne raid, air Mar shal A. T. Harris, chief of the RAF bomber command, said, “we are supremely confident that with their aid our common enemies— faced with certain destruction of their own land—will have cause to bitterly rue the day on which they forced our two countries into war.” Harris said that time was “now so near,” and Arnold predicted that the hour of joint offensive would be at hand “very soon.” The Evening Standard hailed the statements with a headline saying: “U. S. to join soon in devastation of Germany.” “Air knockout—by U. S. chief” was the Evening News Banner. Informed air observers, noting that three-fourths of Cologne was left ablaze under a three-mile-high pall of smoke, said it -would take months to put the great war man ufacturing center back into work ing order. One authoritative source said Reichsmarshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering had put Heinrich Himm ler. chief of the Gestapo, in con trol of air raid precaution services throughout Germany as a result of the raid, thus broadening police control. 3 It is a wise rooster, Master, who says, "It is my business to crow, not to bring the dawn ," And it is a wise host who says, "The very best buy is the whiskey that's dry—Paul Jones," —From the dry sayings of the Paul Jones Camel * l. -V 1 Patti Jones 30 $055 A PINT L A QUART ■ A blend of strdight whiskies— 90 proof. Frankfort Distilleries, Inc., Louisville & Baltimore. 4; ■ ' ", AJE.F. Members Entertained By Factory Chorus 4 % A group of U. S. soldiers look over the chorus of a show traveling about to both American and Australian camps on the continent down under. The chorines in the photo are employed in munitions factories during the day and give up their spare time at night to dance for the troops. The soldier on the right end of the line seems delighted with the whole idea.—(Central Press.) I Obituaries i. c. SCOTT ROSEHILL, June 1.—I. C. Scott, owner of the oldest mercantile bus iness of continuous existence in Rosehill. died Sunday afternoon of a heart attack in a Raleigh hospi tal. He was 56 and had been in declining health a number of years. For 35 years Mr. Scotl had been proprietor of the Scotl groc ery Co., a business establisned in 1889 by his father, the late I J Scott, who with his family came from Beaulavile to become early settlers of this village. Mr. Scott, was a member of the Presbyterian church. He married Miss Lena Fussell, a daughter of the late J. H. Fussell and Mrs. Ellen Mallard Fussell. Honest, id ly and good natured and usually witty in conversation, Mr. Scott was particularly liked by travel ing salesmen and people with whom he dealt in business. Funer al services will be conducted at ten o’clock Tuesday morning from the home followed by burial in the Rosehill Cemetery. The Rev. J. L. Jones assisted by the Rev. C. T. Rogers will be in charge of the rites. In addition to his widow Mr. Scott is survived by three sons, Frederick Scott, dis trict manager for the General Electric Co. in the state of Michi gan, C. E. Scott who is connected with the firm of Scott Grocery Co., and B. C. Scott a student at Atlantic Christian college. Wilson, one daughter, Miss Hettie Scott who holds an office position with the shipbuilding company at Wil mington, three brothers. N. M. Scott of Jacksonville, W. D. Scott of Los Angeles Calif., and E. J. Scott of Lakeland, Fla., three sis ters, Mrs. A. R. Bland and Mrs L. K. Alderman of Rosehill and Mrs. Henry Early of Thomasviile. C. R. BRANCH Final rites for Charles Robert Branch, retired Atlantic Coast Line Railroad conductor, who died Sun day at his home, 1610 Market street, were conducted Monday morning from the Chapel of Andrews Mortu ary. Interment was in Oakdale cemetery. Mr. Branch was born April IS, 1861. in Fayetteville, a son of the late Jordan and Mary Ann Branch. C. K. DAVIS Funeral services for Clarence Kennedy Davis, who died May 2o in Los Angeles, Calif., will be con ducted at 11 o’clock this morning from the Chapel of Andrews Mor tuary by the Rev. J. F. Herbert, pastor of Grace Methodist church. Interment will be in Oakdale ceme tery. Active pallbearers will be J. W. King, Lacey King, W. A. McGirt. Hankins Hall, A. M. Alderman and Fred Banck. Mr. Davis is survived by his mother, Mrs. Katie Davis, and one aunt, Mrs, Lillie Clowe, both of Wilmington. -V MISSING DETROIT, .Tune 1.—(TP)—Mrs. Ar thur Wermuth, a nurse in Ardmore hospital, said today the War depart ment had notified her husband, the marine captain whose exploits wor him the title, “one man army of Ba taan, ’ as well as more formal dec \Vas missing in action ir ttne Philippines. SHOT TO DEATH SUMNEYTOWN, Pa.. June 1. Hartzell, 42, chargee with the murder of his 69-year-old .™®r> was shot and killed to night by a police posse searching for him in the woods near this Montgomery county town. -V— PAINT BRUSH SHORTAGE NEW YORK, June 1.—<TP)_The nation faces a paint brush short age, E. S. Phillips, paint manu facturer said today, in offering prices of from 10 cents to tw( dollars irt?r old, paint-hardenec brushes, containing good bristles. 20,909 CLAIMED DEAD AT COLOGNE 54 000 Others Reported Injured; Mass Evacua tion Is Underway NEW YORK. June 1—fJP)— Mass British air raids on Cologne killed "in the neighborhood of 20,000” per. sons and injured another 54,000. the New York Times said tonight! in reporting "private advices from! competent neutral observers in Berlin. Special detachments of sanitary I forces of the German army have been sent to the Rhineland city, the paper declared, to aid municipal officials in preventing spread of disease in the present w a rm weather. Three-fifths of the approximately 800.000 residents of Cologne are being evacuated to the Munich area to be housed in emergency bar racks erected in the last 24 hours, th paper said. In addition and despite official or ders against traveling the popula tions of other Rhineland cities, in eluding Aachen. Dusseldorf, Wup pertal, and Mainz, have begun mass migration to avoid future bombardments, the Times asserted. The Times said that "confirma tion has been received” that the world famous cathedral at Cologne was not damaged in the raid of bombs. The Times said that “confirmatio has been received” that the world famous cathedral at Cologne was not damaged in the raid of bombs. (The casulaty figures differed greatly from official German re ports which said that 139 civilians had been killed.! Che Times said its information h been relayed from Europe Monday j night. SHORT FORMALITY Black rayon marquisette worft with black horsehair hat. i City Briefs CONDITION SATISFACTORY Condition of Miss Lois Yopp, 18, of Carolina Beach, suffering from a possible dislocation of cervicle vertebrae and other in juries sustained Sunday night when struck by a hit and run driver, was reported “satisfac tory” last night by James Wal ker Memorial hospital attaches. CIRCLE MEET Circle Nine of the First Pres byterian church, Mrs. W. H. Henderson, leader, scheduled to meet with Mrs. E. W. Fonvielle, has been postponed and will be announced later. SUGAR APPLICATION The local Rationing board is not prepared to take care of applications for sugar until Wednesday, and yesterday re quested persons not to apply on Tuesday. — i GIRL SCOUTS A special meeting of (he Wil mington Girl Scouts’ council will be held in the Sorosis club rooms Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock. A full attendance is requested as this is the last meeting until the fall season. VISITING Miss Vivian Donnell of Acme, is visiting her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Sykes In the city. MARRIAGE LICENSES An increase of 16 was shown in the number of marriage li censes issued in May through the office of Register of Deed Adrian Rhodes compared with the April total of 34. Majority of the 47 licenses issued to white couples in May went to Marines from the New River base and soldiers stationed at the Army air base here and Camp Davis. Negro couples re ceived three licenses against two in April. BAND REGISTRATION Registration for summer . band and orchestra classes will continue this week daily from 8:30 until 9:30 a. m. in the band room of the vocation al building, 2 South Thirteenth street. Regular classes will begin Monday, June 8, at 8:30 m. SMALL CARGO SHIP IS SUNK OFF COAST Navy Gunners Abandon Craft Without Taking Pot Shot At Sub KEY WEST, Fla.. June 1—W)— Navy gunners, saved from a me dium sized U. S. merchantman sunk in the Atlantic on the night of May 12, told how they reluctantly abandoned ship without so much as a single pot-shot at the elusive Axis submarine that attacked them. Sinking of the vessel was an nounced by the Navy today, after crew had been taken to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, for med ical attention and 15 others had been brought here. Survivors be lieved all but one of the remaining 22 crewmen had reached lifeboats and rafts, although they had not been reported. After one torpedo struck the ves sel, Paul C. Padgett of Jackson ville said he and other members of the naval gun crew were ordered to man the gun. Anxiously they peered into the darkness, hoping for a clear shot at the submarine. Instead, the crafty raider remain ed out of sight, probably sub merged, and sent another torpedo into the ship. It began to sink rapidly, and was abandoned. Charles Peregrin, Jr., of Bayon ne, N. J., said the first torpedo whipped through the water, leaving a brilliant trail of phosphorous in the darkness. The vessel caught fire after the first torpedo hit, but the flames quickly burned out without spread ing. Similarly, the second shot started a small blaze that was out before the ship sank. It was the second experience on torpedoed vessels for two Floridi an1 —W H. Montague, of Jackson ville, third assistant engineer, whose ship was lost five weeks ago. and Eddie Borges of Bell. They had spent 40 hours in a life boat. BRITISHCAPTURE GERMAN GENERAL Officer Says His Pilot Mis took British Forces For Italians WITH THE BRITISH FORCES IN THE LIBYAN DESERT, May 31. — (Delayed)^(iP)—Gen Ludwig Cruewell. deputy commander of the German African Corps who was captured May 26 said tonight he was taken prisoner because bis pilot landed in the midst of Brit ish desert troops in the mistaken belief that they were Italians. At the same time, British sources disclosed that Gen. Erwin Rommel, commander of the Ger man African tank corps, sought shelter in a British Red Cross sta tion last Friday while his motoriz ed troops were fighting unsuccess fully against a British tank attack. Rommel came into the dressing station after his troops had taken possession and chatted with sol diers and patients. After four hours, he stepped to the door, fired a signal pistol and was picked up by a Fiesler storch plane. The field hospital was later recaptured by the British. Cruewell told his captors that his pilot mistook ground troops for Italian allies and started to land. The pilot was killed in a burst of fire from the British and Cruewell said he was barely able to stumble out of the plane after it caught fire. Short, dumpy and 55, he appear ed much upset over being a pris oner, although he was only one of several hundred including many Italian staff officers. British troops meanwhile were obeying their order to “pursue and destroy” enemy forces with main fighting continuing in the vicinity of Mteifel Es Seghir and Knights bridge. RAF bombers and fighters maintained constarid harrassing ac tions. 3 Civil Service Board Here To Pass On Tax Appointees Referring of appointment of em ployes in the city-county tax office to the county Civil Service Board was voted by the county commis sion at the Monday meeting. Action came following Commis sioner Harry R. Gardner’s explan ation that two members of the Civil Service board had told him they thought employes of the tax office should be referred to them. County Attorney Marsden Bel lamy pointed out that the act, set ting up the Civil Service board and providing for certification of applicants for county offices, was applicable to persons employed jointly by the city and county as well as persons employed by the county. A member of the Civil Service board, contacted following the meeting, said the delinquent tax collector had been working six weeks before he knew of the ap pointment. He explained that the board had not been asked to certi fy any applicants for the position. After Chairman Addison Hewlett read a communication from Tax Collector C. R. Morse showing uncollected taxes back of 1921 amounted to $11,857.75, the board, on motion of Commissioner Gard ner, voted to get further informa tion on the amount of taxes due by various individuals before set ting a date from which to collect delinquent taxes. Peter Braak, chairman of the AAA committee of New Hanover '• / ' .. and Kyle Bannerman, representing business men, appeared before the board and asked that the county, which now pays $37.50 a month toward the salary of a secretary, in the office of county Agent R. W. Galphin increase this amount so as to provide a secretary to aid the agent in carrying on his work in Wilmington and New Han ,over. Mr. Braak explained that the re quest was necessary as he had been informed by a regional AA offi cial that there would not be a di vision of funds after July 1. Pre viously the AA has paid for one employe and part of another, the other part toeing paid by the county, to assist Mr. Galphin. Under the new set-up, secretaries paid by the AA will not be permit ted to assist the county agent ex cept in work _ of the AA. Mr. fcraak explained that unless the county inncreases its appropria tion so as to hire a secretary, Mr. Galphin will have no assistance in carrying on his work in the city and county On motion of Commissioner Gardner the matter was referred to acommittee composedof Chair man Hewlett and Commissioner George W. Trask. The commissioners decided to co sider bids on the county audit at the next meeting 0f the board. Married On Graduation Day v Graduation day at West Point is a doubly important date in the life of Second Lieutenant Carl C. Hinkle. He, . along with many of his classmates, became an officer and husband on the same day. Hinkle, who was first cap tain and regimental commander at the academy, is shown leaving the chapel under crossed swords with his bride, the former Shirley Shields, and his father, Rev. Carl C. Hinkle, who performed the wedding ceremony.—(Central Press.) _ _ CEILINGS WOULD RETARD FARMING (Continued from Page One) other causes. They are in the hands of God”. ' For an example, Mr. Galphin pointed out the following type of situation. If a farmer plants beans which will yield 100 baskets in normal conditions, and if he is able to forsee an average price of $2.50 per basket for the entire crop, he knows in advance that his income will be $250. From that, his total cost in labor, baskets, seed, fer tilizer and other incidentals will cost about $125 for the crop. Now, if his yield is below 10 0 baskets, due to weather conditions and other causes, his cost of plant ing and tending the crop is still about the same. In the case of no ceiling on crops, the farmer, due to a lower yield on his crop, and very likely on the other crops in his locality, would receive a higher price on his product due to the scarcity caused by the conditions. Mr. Galphin pointed out that in every case, the price dropped far below the average for the season, after the crop had been on the market for some time. “If the farmer could get $5 00 per basket for beans on his first 20 baskets, and $3.00 on the next 40 baskets, the remaining 40 bas kets of a 100 basket yield would not matter,” he declared. ci a uie uie price ui ueiiaa, for example, will drop to about 75 cents per basket after a short while on the market. A higher price must be gotten for a portion of the crop in order to maintain a fair average on the entire crop. “Now, if price control is placed on the crops, say for instance, $2.50 per basket for beans, the farmer must receive that for every basket in order to come out clear, for after all, his crops represent months of labor.” “It is easy to see that with a ceiling price and with no floor price if the yield is heavy the price ■will be lower and can continue as low as the market will pay. The farm er will have no way to bu d up his average. “Something must be done, either with a price floor level, crop in surance to prevent the farmer from taking a loss or some other means of compensation when a whole crop is wiped out by weather, bugs or other causes.” “It is my opinion that many of the farmers will stop farming and turn to other jobs with a st,eady income and higher wages, unless he is taken care of by the govern ment after price ceilings are placed on his products. “When that happens, the country will suffer for food production," Mr. Galphin commented. -V MUST SERVE TIME NEW YORK, June 1.— UP)— Wel wel Warszower, alias “Robert Wil liam Weiner,” financial secretary of the Communist party in the United States, whose weak heart has kept him out of federal pri son since the spring of 1940, to day was ordered to begin a two year prison term. SHOULD ABANDON IDEA ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ June 1. —\B—Dr. David Philipson of Cin cinnati, only surviving founder of the Central conference of Ameri can Rabbis, launched in Pittsburgh 57 years ago, asserted today Jews should give up any idea of a Jew ish nation in Palestine. I -----— _ Thank You voters for your consideration on Saturday. I am grateful for your in terest. Glenn J. McClelland ___ ri $28,000 USO GOAL IS SET FOR CITY Campaign Will Be Waged In Wilmington June 18, 19 And 20 The steering committee of the New Hanover county war work campaign of the USO met at luncheon Monday, at the Governor Dudley. W. S. McMahon of the North Carolina Shipbuilding company, general chairman, presided. The steering committee is com posed of B. F. Sutherland, associ ate general chairman, E. A. Laney, treasurer, J. C. Williams, Rev. Walter B. Freed, J. B. Huntington and Rabbi M. M. Thurman. The goal for New Hanover coun ty has been set at $28,000. The local campaign dates have been set for June 18, 19, 20. Mr. McMahon declared. “There can be no question but that New Hanover county will do more than its full share in ^aiding the USO to reach its goal of $32,000,000, a sum representing and average of 66 cents per man to be expended on each one of our 4,000,000 fight ing men, proving that the men and women on the home front are behind the men on the battle front. Our boys are ready to give all, what are we ready to give.” Furniture Is Sought For Recreation Lounge That old porch chair you're not using oi the old sofa packed away in the back of the garage would find good use out at one of Camp Davis’ recreation rooms. All types of used furniture— even a piano and phonograph—are being sought by the local Red Cross chapter for recreation lounges at the post, Executive Sec retary Ida B. Speiden said Monday night. Persons who wish to offer fur niture not in use may contact the organization’s offices in the cus tomhouse. WRECKS OF 2 JAP SUBSrecovered Sipking Of Old Ferry All That is Accomplished In Sidney Raid allied HEADQUART£ Australia, Tuesday, june 2f_ Three Japanese midget sut- * rines which attacked Sydnev T hor Sunday night were destr and the wrecks of two have?"1 recovered. General MacArtJ" headquarters announced lod s All that the pigmy attache?' complished was the sinking 0?C' old steamer used as a ter? ? was sunk by the blast of a that struck the shoreline ?? missing a larger objective The communique also said nine Japanese planes, seven bomb ers and two fighters, which • tacked Port Moresby in New Cu nea yesterday were' shot down '' i wo Allied lighters were w. md slight damage was done to worksnops and houses at the Allied base. In offensive operations the ai lies last night bombed and straf ed. the docks at Rabaul. New B-■' a in, and just before dawn also smashed Japanese bases at Lae and Salamaua in northeastern New Guinea. Divers working on the harbor floor at Sydney raised the iw wrecked baby submarines with the aid of grappling hooks. The submarines, apparently launched from a mother ship be. cause of their small range, jr.. tended to attack docks, defense in stallations, and shipping. But they were discovered be fore they could do serious damage and met by a wall of shore artil lery shells. One Japanese torpedo exploded against the shore after missing ii< objective, but the blast sank a small vessel and threw a column of water 150 feet into the air. Another torpedo skidded across the shore, but a bomb disposal squad rendered it harmless. Hundreds of persons ran out in their night clothes and watched the battle. Others rushed to raid shelters believing the city to be under air attack. |jl $ What a joy it Is m to use Capudme for iff neuralgia! It not on!/ y •■elieves the pain, but also soothes the re sulting nerve tension, thereby bringing a sens* of cheerfulness. Whynot take Capudine? Use only » directed. toil TiRE^rmEVET1 We brand your license or any other number on both sides of each tire. Investigate at once. CAUSEY’S Corner Market and 12th I wish to sincerely thank the Voters of New Hanover County for the wonderful vote and support given me in Saturday's democratic, primary. C. DAVID JONES Sheriff WE NEED CHINA - CHINA NEEDS US GIVE TO China Relie f The Wilmington committee has been asked to raise $3,000 to contribute to the national goal of $7,000,000 Over five million have already perished in China, to111 contribution to this worthy cause will help millions o’ Chinese war sufferers, so mail your donation as so0" as possible to H. LACY HUNT, TREASURER BOX 15, WILMINGTON, N. C. Or Send It To Local Headquarters, 217 Princess St. REV. C. D. BARCLIFT General Chairman
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