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NAZI TANK ARMY CAUGHT IN TRAP Axis Forces In Libya Are Battling To Extri cate Selves rAlR0, Egypt, June 1.—(A)—The L‘armored divisions which form core of Axis forces in Libya the battling to extricate them ar from a British trap south se\30f Tobruk but after more two days the major pari ‘"-ill held fast by encircling Brit ,s. Minefields, artillery and tanks, jhe British announced today. since noon of May 30 the forces , j-jgid Marshal Erwin Rommel have been making violent attempts T0 hoid two gaps for escape through minefields of the 50-mile British bne behind which they were caught while Lieut- Gen. Neil M. Ritch ■ guns, tanks and planes ham mered them from all sides and from the air in an effort to knock them out. A casualty of the battle, fought 0!1 a burning field of sand sweot l,v duststorms and littered by the black wrecks of tanks, planes and trucks and the dead, was Gen. Ludwig Cruewell, commander of !he African corps under Rommel and the most important German army prisoner to fall into British hands in this war. Splattered by the blood of his dead pilot, he was taken captive when his reconnais sance plane was shot down in the midst of the British. The British, who failed in their objective of destroying Rommel’s African corps in their last offen sive. were thus presented with a second opportunity as the result of the offensive which the Germans started six days ago. They were not ready to claim a victory, for they remembered that the slippery Rommel neatly escaped their traps before, but they were confident his drive no longer threatened Tobruk. The aame oi tne Gaps on which depended Rommel’s fate, centered upon two narrow lanes 15 miles apart through the British line running from Ain El Gazala, on the coast, to Bir Hacheim. The Nazis, concentrating large numbers of anti-tank guns in these gaps, had held them open despite hard British attacks. The main German forces swept around the south end of the line toward Tobruk Tuesday night. Then, when the RAF and Mobile units swarmed upon their supply columns, they attempted to with draw and today were 20 miles east of the line and west of the trails crossing Knigh+ :bridge. The RAF. putting in some of its heaviest blows, continuously bomb ed. machine-gunned and shelled the milling armored forces; ranged on to blast supply and air centers at Martuba; Derna, El Tmimi and Messina in Sicily, and apparently encountered heavier opposition, for it reported the destruction of 19 of its own planes, as against four of the enemy. Some mystery still attached to the reasons for Rommel’s offensive at the beginning of the hot sea son. A diary of Gen. Crueweli’f which was found on the 55-year-cld commander, disclosed that he had conferred with Adolf Hitler in Ger many only a week before the at tack. Leaving Africa March 24, he had returned May 24, only two davs before the zero hour. His wife died in Germany three weeks ago. A captured order of the day at the start of the offensive, how ever. disclosed great confidence on Rommel’s part. To his men Kommel declared that Axis superi ority in numbers and arms “guar antees you victory.” -V Navy Will Swear In Recruits At Mass Ceremony On Sunday WASHINGTON, June 1— UP) — The Navy announced tonight that thousands of recruits would be sworn in Sunday, June 7, in mass ceremonies all over the nation as avengers of Pearl Harbor.” They will take the oath in unison at 500 recruiting stations precisely at 2:25 p.m., E.W.T. The hour at which the first Japanese bombs "ere dropped on Pearl Harbor. HOW JAPS PLAN TO KNOCKOUT CHINESE rrmmiTinmmiiiiiniinia^ws^.^_ u Japan’s latest drives in China have one major goal. They must knock Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek’s armies out of the war. If that aim can be achieved new pathways of conquest will be opened to India and perhaps to Russia. If the Jap drives succeed they will also do away with the menace of numerous potential “Shangri-Las” in eastern and central China—daggers pointed at the heart of Japan proper. — j - — — : ATTORNEY SLASHES POLICE OFFICERS Three Wounded While Tak ing Winston-Salem Man Into Custody WINSTON-SALEM. N. C., June 1—Wl—John C. Wallace, former prominent Winston-Salem criminal attorney now awaiting sentence in U. S- court at Greensboro on sub ornation of perjury charges, was taken into custody here this after noon at his home after he had wounded three officers with a pocket knife. The officers injured were: Chief of Police W. F. Anderson, slashed wrist; assistant chief of police R. G. Simpson, knife wound in the temple and special agent P. G. Greer: stab in the hand. All received treatment at hospitals. Chief deputy U. S. Mar shal Fred M. Lomax also suffer ed a sprained hand, but did not require treatment. Chief Anderson said Wallace “walked out of court” in the U. S. district court at Greensboro this afternoon in defiance of a bench warrant issued by Judge Johnson J. Hayes. He came to his home here. Lomax said he came to Winston Salem with Greer and Deputy Marshal R. E. Stafford and read the bench warrant to Wallace. Lo max quoted Wallace as saying he had no intention of submitting and if the officers set foot on his property he would kill them. Lo max said Wallace then slashed away at the trio with a knife, striking Greer. -V Labor Disturbance Is Hinted In Nassau WASHINGTON. June 1— UP) — A member of the Duke of Wind sor’s party said tonight he under stood there had been “some sort of labor disturbance”#at Nassau, cap ital of the Bahama island group governed by the Duke. Sidney Farrington, an aide to the ’Duke, said members of the party had talked with officials at Nassau and were assured that the situation was not serious. The char acter of the labor distrubance was not explained. Sterilization Law Invalided By Court Tribunal Holds Important Questions Of Human Rights Involved By WILLIAM R. SPEAR WASHINGTON, June 1— UP — Declaring that important questions of human rights were involved, the Supree court held unconstitution al today an Oklahoma law for the sterilization of certain habitual criminals. The court struck down the stat ute because it singled out only cer tain types of criminals. Such “clear, pointed, unmistakable dis crimination” was called as “in vidious ... as if it had se lected a particular race or na tionality for oppressive treatment.” The act provides for the sterili zation of men or women thrice convicted of felonies but specifical ly excepts “offenses arising out of the violation of the prohibitory laws revenue acts, embezzlement, or po litical offenses. The case at issue involved Jack T. Skinner, 34, of Pittsburg coun ty, Okla., ,who was convicted once of stealing chickens and twice of armed robbery and ordered in 1937 to be sterilized. The court pointed out that Oklahoma treats larceny and embezzlement the same as far as fines and prison terms are concerned and that if Skinner had embezzled the chick ens as an employe of the owner in steadof stealing them as a strang er, he would not have been subject to sterilization. This situation, said the ma jority decision by Justice Douglas, violates the 14th amendment to the constitution which guarantees all citizens equal protection of the laws. There was no dissent, but Chief Justice Stone and Justice Jackson wrote separate concurring opinions. Stone thought the act should be held unconstitutional because it fail ed to provide “due process of law” in that there was no provision for a hearing to determine whether the subject’s alleged criminal tenden cies were “of an inheritable type.” Jackson agreed with both Doug las and Stone and added that there were ‘other constitutional ques Tamsnm Ask Your Dealer for ^ SPECIAL SERVICE WRAPPER With men in the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard, the favorite cigarette is Camel. (Based on actual sales records in Post Exchanges, Sales Commissaries, Ship’s Service Stores, Ship’s Stores, and Canteens.) tions of gravity,” Douglas listed other objections that had been raised to the act but said it was unnecessary to consider them since the ‘‘equal protection clause” was violated. “We are dealing here,” he wrote, ‘‘with legislation which involves one of the basic civil rights of man. Marriage and procreation are fun damental to the very existence and survival of the race. “The power to sterilize, if ex ercised, may have subtle, far reaching and devastating effects, in evil or reckless hands it can cause races or types which are inimical to the dominant group to wither and disappear. There is no re demption for the individual whom the law touches.” The court some years ago up held a Virginia law for the ster ilization of feeble-minded persons in state institutions. Twenty-seven states have laws for compulsory sterilization of "defective persons” nine of them, California, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Washington, Oklahoma and Oregon provide for sterilization of “habitual criminals,” with varying definition of that phrase. In another decision today the court held, 8 to 1, that the wage hour law, with its manimum pay and maximum hour require ments, applies to elevator opera tors, porters and other service and maintenance employes of build ings which house companies en gaged in interstate commerce. Jus tice Roberts dissented, saying that "the power of Congress does not reach the purely local activities in question.” The act applies to employes “en. gaged in (interstate) commerce or in the production of goods for com merce” and specifies that workers shall be deemed to be employed in producing goods for interstate commerce if employed “in any process or occupation necessary to the production thereof, in another state.” PIPELINE BILL IS TURNED DOWN (Continued from Pate One) allowing longer debate and amend ments. Today’s procedure permitted no amendments, and it was because of this that most of the expressed opposition developed. Many of the opponents said they desired to knock out the canal provision as unnecessary, but approved of a pipeline. Some of them called the bill a camouflaged Flordia ship canal project. “There is no reason for either one alone,” Mansfield contended. "The pipeline alone cannot furnish all the oil the east needs. To do that we must have the canal, and the bill without the canal is im practical.” At the same time, Mansfield said the pipeline could provide enough oil to meet the fuel needs of the eastern states this winter. The ca nal and pipline together, he said, were capable of furnishing all the east’s normal oil needs. The pipeline, to extend from Port St. Joe, Fla., to Jacksonville, would carry oil across the Florida peninsula to where it could be moved to the eastern states by sarge on the submarine-proof in land waterway. The canal, from Port Inglis, Fla., to the St. John’s river, would be the'connecting link in a barge route from the Mexican border to Trenton, N. J. 3 -V North Carolina growers who sell their flue-cured tobacco on 10 designated markets will vote May ■ 25-28 to decide if Federal inspec- i tion shall be installed. •’ Results Of Primary To Be Canvassed By Elections Board Today Results of Saturday’s primary, indicating stiff contests in the run off for state senator and district solicitor in the second primary June 27. will be canvassed by the cou «*v board of elections at 11 o’clock this morning in the court house. Solicitor David Sinclair of Wil mington, who trailed Clifton L. Moore, Burgaw attorney, by 449 votes in the returns from the four counties of the Eighth judicial dis trict, is expected to request a runoff as is Jack Q. LeGrand, Wil mington attorney, who was only 42 votes behind James E. L. Wade, local realtor and former city com missioner, in the race for state senator. The totals in the race for the solicitorship gave Moore 5,568 votes, Sinclair, 5,019 and Alton A. Lennon, retiring recorder here, 3,936. Final returns, for the county in Saturday’s primary were as fol lows: For United States Senator: Jo siah W. Bailey (D), 4.282, Richard T. Fountain (D), 1,003; Stoner W. Klutz (R), 15, and Sam J. Morris (R), 23. For District Solicitor: David Sinclair, 2,563, Alton A. Lennon. 1,772, and Clifton L. Moore. 1.017. For State Senator: J. C. Hobbs, 1,145, Jack Q. LeGrand, 2,000, and J. E. L. Wade, 2,042. For State House: R. M. Ker mon, 2,620, Ciayton C. Holmes, 2,425. For Superior Court Clerk: T. A. Henderson, 3,332, Norwood S. West brook, 1,907. For Sheriff: Harry E. Fales, 1,144, C. David Jones, 3,962, and Ernest R. Mayhan, 252. For Recorder: H. Winfield Smith, 3.113, W. K. Rhodes, Jr., 1,150, W. Jack F. Canady, 370, W. L. Farmer, 324 and E. Fred Banck, 319. For County Solicitor: J. A. Me Norton, 2,570, Glenn J. McClel land, 2,447. For Meter Adjustor: W. H. Wendt, 2,605, Walter L. Wood, 2,332. For County Commissioners: C. B. Gore, 968; Carl Rehder, 1,181, George W. Trask, 3,004, Harry R. Gardner, 3,244, and Claud O’Shields, 1,199. For Wilmintgon Constable. J. E. Mintz, 384, William H. Ezzell, 1,905 and Robert N. Johnson, 977. wilmingtonThas RAID REHEARSAL (Continued from Page One) assistant commander took over reading the messages and the com mander checked the instructions to the relief forces, which resulted in more speed. Col. Irvine T. Belzer, liason of ficer of the 4th Corps area, in charge of civilian protection, was present, with major D. A. Herrin, state consultant for North Carolina with headquarters in Raleigh, to observe the test raid from the con. trol room and relief in the field. He went out to see how well in structions were carried out and Eound some confusion, through what he considered the over-offi ciousness of some warden and per haps also to vague instructions to the medical corps responding to a call. On the whole, Colonel Belzer complimented to control room force for what it had done and particular ly for taking the deep interest he noted in the vital work of home iefense. He made some suggestions based on his inspections in other cities. -V Another way in which this World var is different than the other one s that no one has started a fad of vearing two-toned shoes. | NOT DAMNED THING LEFT IN COLOGNE ________________ (Continued from Page One) He said the bursting bombs looked like about a thousand big guns firing.” Honychurch formerly was an engineer for a Bridgeport, Conn., hotel, explained Cardi nal. “Don’t ask me what they want ed an engineer for in a hotel,” he said. “All I know he’s nuts about the Brooklyn Dodgers. If I’ve heard about Whit Wyatt once, I’ve heard about him a hundred times.” Honychurch attended Eras mus High and Brooklyn col lege. Cardinal, who was a second string guard at Southern Metho dist University in 1938-39, took this correspondent over to meet Leonard Johnson, 28, of Corpus Christi, another “Royal Tex as” airman—but a disappainted one. Even before introductions, Johnson said sourly: “Don’t ask me, I never reached Cologne. One of my motors concked out and I had to turn back. A hell of a note: I’ve been over five times on big raids but I miss the brass ring.” “Don’t worrk, you’ll get a crack,” Cardinal said. Johnson brightened and agreed: “Yeah, we’ll be going back and with just as many if not more.” “Look, you know when Command" er Harriss said a thousand bomb ers a night would knock the Ger mans out of the war,” Johnson went on. ‘Well tell ’em at home that’s right. “Tell ’em to send some stuff, real stuff over here and we’ll knock these Krauts off the map.” Both Cardinal and Johnson agreed that “the British are good.” “They get you down some time because they’re so anxious to be correct,’ said Johnson. ‘But after the way they organized this raid and carried it out, I take off my bat to them.” “They got guts, too,” Cardinal put in. “Though they don’t go around hollering about it. “A kid in my plane got a ma chine-gun bullet through his leg Saturday night. We didn’t know about it until he collapsed getting out of the plane. . “The British learned this busi ness the hard way and the right way. And say, these mass raids are the thing. “Those Krauts didn’t know what to do the other night. Fighters and Flaks all fired wild. If we ceep rollin’ and our air force comes in we’ll end this war sooner than you think.” “That’ll please Honychurch,” Johnson commented. ‘Then he can get home to Brooklyn for the world series.” JAPS BROADEN CHINESE FRONT (Continued from Page One) nese forces which had landed on Yuhwan island, off the south Chek iang coast, had been forced back to their ships after 200 of the in vaders were killed or wounded. But farther inland, today’s com munique acknowledged loss of Showchang, 30 miles northwest of Kinwha, fallen capital of Chek iang. tin its version of the new drive in Kwangtung, the Domei news agency said Japanese forces were making *■ a steady drive north ward” above Canton against a Chinese army of “tens of thou sands’ ’under General Yu Han-Mou, commander of the Chinese seventh war zone. Japanese warplanes ranged ahead of the invading col umns and heavily bombed towns along the Peh river and around Tsungfa, about 50 miles northeast of Canton. (The Kwangtung operations ap parently another phase of the larg-; scale thrusts which many obser vers believe are designed to knocK China out of the war, were fol lowing the parallel lines of the Peh river and the Canton-Hankow rail road.) On the southwestern battlefront, the Chinese reported fighting on the outskirst of Lungling, 25 miles from the Salween river and ad vance point of the Japanese pene tration up the Burma road. Chinese troops intercepted Japa nese reinforcements trying to reach Lungling from Wanting at the Bur ma-China frontier, advices reach ing here said. Two hundred casual ties were inflicted on the enemy and eight tanks and cars knocked out. Japanese attacks in the Tengyueh ! sector, north of Lungling and west' of the Salween, were reported re pulsed. The Japanese hold Ten gyueh and the Chinese have been j closing around the city. , MANOR THEATRE LAST TIMES TODAY Frederic March — Loretta Young in “A BEDTIME STORY” with Robert Benchley Feature at: 11:05 - 1:06 ■ 3:07 - 5:17 7:27 - 9:37 -ALSO SHOWING Wilmington's Own “GANG COMEDY” Made in Wilmington with the Entire Cast Wilmington Kids WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY “UNTAMED” III Technicolor with Ray Milland and Patricia Morison $1,000,000 Damage Caused By Tornado GUYMON. Okla., June 1 — W! — Tornado-scarred Guymon counted its property losses at $1,000,000 to day as cleanup squads repaired damages suffered in the Sunday storm that swept through this pan handle city and vicinity. _i_--— — r/ 1000 employees here—that's impressive; but so is the economy of our low rates I 2000 ROOMS, RATH AND RADIO FROM $2.50 HOTEL ALFRED LEWIS, MGR. 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You'll just adore them and once you try one on you will want sev eral for the coming hot days. All colors, and sizes 12 to 42. SPECIAL PURCHASE DRESSES Three big' racks full of the most lovely for this low price. You cannot fail to take advantage of this annual sale that brings you these big values. All sizes and all colors. t : Today's Annual June Sale Specials Bathing Suits $3.98 Slack Suits $1.98 Play Suits $1.98 Blouses $1.00 Skirts $1.00 Slips $1.00 Gowns $1.00 PLAY SHOES $1.89 Beg. $3.98 Value ANNUAL JUNE FUR SALE 15% Oil Lay your fur away to day at our Annual June Pur Sale. We will hold it for you till you call for it. FULL FASHIONED SHEER HOSE Regular SI.49 value that was bought just for this sale. All new colors and d*| iq sizes-4. 214 NORTH FRONT STREET '
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