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POLICE HERE KEPT BUSY DURING MAY Total Of 1,302 Arrests Made In Month, But Falls Short Of Record May’s 1,302 arrests by police showed a gain of 85 over the April total of 1,217, but failed by 113 to reach March’s record of 1,415, ac cording to Chief C. H. Casteen s report submitted Wednesday to City Manager James G. Wallace. Of the 1,302 arrests made in May, 987 were white persons against 315 negroes. During April 959 whit£ persons and 258 negroes were apprehended. Approximately two thirds, of 861, of the arrests last month had to do with automobiles as violation of the traffic law, 766; anti-noise law, 4; allowing a minor child to operate an automobile, 1; hit and run driving, 2; larceny of an auto mobile, 1; no operators’ license, 17; no city license plates, 2; operating an automobile while li cense revoked, 1; operating a mo tor Vehicle while intoxicated, 13, operating an automobile on rim, 1; reckless operation of a motor ve hicle, 20; reckless operation of a motor vehicle with damages, 3; I eckless operation of a motor ve hicle resulting in serious injuries, 1; speeding, 29. Automobile accidents reported in May totalled 53, showing a gain of six over the figure for the pre ceding month. Chief Casteen re ported eight automobiles stolen during the month with seven of them being returned to owners Twenty-eight bicycles were stolen during May, with 18 of them being returned to owners and four found’wrecked or stripped. Five gallons of liquor were re ported on hand with none being seized during the month and none being sent to court. Two murders and one accidental death occurred in May. There were no suicides reported. The police radio system handled a total of 1,384 outgoing calls dur ing the month. Fifty-three arrests dealt with sexual offenses which include crime against nature, 1; fornica tion and adultery, 22; hotel regis tration, 12; indecent exposure, 5; occupying same bedroom, 4; pros titution, 8; rape, 1. Eighty-five offenses had to do with assault with a deadly weapon 40. assault with a deadly weapon with serious injuries, 5; assault with a deadly weapon on a female, 14; assault with a deadly weapon w’ith intent to kill, 2; assault, 9; assault on a female, 13; assault on a minor child, 2. Other offenses include: affray, 9; affray with deadly weapons, 6; breaking and entering, 2; capias, 7; carrying concealed wea pon, 7: carrying gun off premises on Sunday, 1; drunk, 138; drunk and disorderly conduct, 7; drunk and resisting arrest, 6; disorderly conduct, 38; damage to property. 1; escaped prisoner, 1; embezzle ment, 1; gambling, 8; hindering, delaying and obstructing an of ficer, 1; housebreaking, larceny and receiving, 2; improper equip ment, 1; interfering with an offi cer, 2; larceny and receiving 15; murder, 2; non-support, 3; no light on bicycle, 3; running gambling house, 1; riding bicycle on side walk, 1; riding bicycle without bell, 3; storebreaking, 13; shooting fireworks in the city, 1; urinating on street, 1; vagrancy, 13; viola tion of liquor law, 8; worthless check, 1. Special Values In 3-Piece LIVING 04Q Cfl ROOM SUITS up H. BERGER & SON FURNITURE GO. 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 2185* ORIENT LODGE NO. 395 A. F. & A. N. STATED COMMUNICATION for transaction of business will be held THURSDAY evening, June 4th, at 8 o’clock. ■ Visitors Cordially Invited. By Order of the Master. W. H. McClain, Secretary NOTICE! HEN NEEDED FOR POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTHENTS Any one wishing io lake ihe next examination to qualify for the above departments should file an application at unoe. Application blanks may be secured from the un dersigned. City of Wilmington t Civil Service Commission C. W. Shackelford, Sec. Back To ‘Home, Sweet Home’ From Axis Countries Aboard the Swedish-American liner Drottiningholm when she docked at Jersey City, N. J., with 908 American diplomats and citizens exchanged by Axis countries were these Associated Press foreign correspondents (top). Left to right: Richard G. Massock, former Chief of bureau in Rome; Alvin J. Steinkopf and Angus Thuermer of the former Berlin bureau; Louis P. Lochne r, former chief of the Berlin bureau; Max Harrelson of the Bern bureau, and Ernest G. Fischer, formerly in Berlin. Bottom: passengers on the Drottningholm line the rail and wave greetings to shore just before disembarking. Some had been in European concentration camps, others under strict surveiliance of Nazi and Fascist police before they arrived in Lisbon for the exchange. PHONE OFFICIAL ADDRESSES CLUB Vital Role It Plays Outlin ed By Norris Russell At Kiwanis Meet The importance of the telephone was brought to the Kiwanis club at its weekly meeting here yester day when Norriss Russell, repre senting the Southern Bell Tele phone company in Charlotte, spoke before the club. Mr. Russell illustrated his lec ture with large diagrams and later presented a series of talking slides, projected on a screen, to the organization. Throughout the entire program, the importance of keeping the telephone lines clear in an emerg ency was stressed. “Our program is to tell you what not to do instead of what to do,” Mr. Russell declared. “The usual reaction of the American public is to do just what they are told not to do, but in this case I hope that it will not happen that way,” he said. “In an emergency such as an air raid, every telephone will have a vital part to play in the protection of the public,” he pointed out. “It will be impossible” he said, “for fast efficient service to be ren dered if the lines are cluttered with many inconsequential calls. Following Mr. Russell’s talk, a set of slides was shown with an accompanying recorded commen tary. The work of the civilian plane spotters was shown in de tail and the system by which the information on enemy planes is handled. The operation of an Army filter center and information center was illustrated. The importance of the civilian airplane spotters is vital in this work, it was said. Following the slides and com ments, the closing remarks were a quotation of President Roosevelt when he asked the entire nation to work and fight together in this struggle for liberty and peace. Prior to the program, A. Akel was inducted into the club by Aaron Goldberg and was present ed with the club emblem. -V Important Italian Official Is Slain BERLIN (From German Broad casts), June 3.—(fP)—An important Italian official at Ljubljana, Croa tia, has been lured into an ambush in woods near the city and killed, the Milan, Italy, newspaper Cor riere Della Sera reported today He was identified as the chief aide of the Italian Fascist leader in the Ljubljana district, part of former Yugoslavia now under Italian con trol. MOROLINE WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY CA WORLDS LARGEST SELLER AT Mi.H.iiiiiminm U. S. Must Supply Planes For All Fighting Fronts w BY BILL BONI NEW YORK, June 3.—“It is already apparent that American air power must be built up for action on all fronts, over all con tinents and all seas, if the United Nations are to emerge victors from a conflict that now grips the whole world. There is no question about it.” In these words Editor Howard Mingos sets the keynote for The Aircraft Year Book for 1942, 24ch annual edition of this standard ref. erence work on U. S. aviation which is published today by the Aeronautical Chamber of Com merce of America. In its 690 pages are presented the full details—so far as censor ship will permit—of our wartime aviation picture, from the organi zation and operation of the Army and Navy air forces to the contri butions being made in the war ef fort by commerical aviation and civilian pilots. Mingos sees air power, and most particularly U. S. air power, play ing a decisive role in this World War. Planes. fliers, maintenance crews and a continuous flow of air force supplies in rapidly increasing volume must be provided in order JAPS THREATEN CHINA RAIL LINE Invaders Hold Terminals Of Hangchow-Nan chang Trunk Line By SPENCER MOOSA.. CHUNGKING, June 3—IJH— The fate of the important rail line cen ter of Chuhsien hung precariously in the balance tonight as Japanese troops, in some places less than 10 miles from the city limits, threw in reinforcements in an at tempt to close in from three sides upon a fiercely-resisting Chinese garrison. Capture of Chuhsien, in western Chekiang province 45 miles south west of the Japanese-occupied pro vincial capital of Kinhwa, would cut another segment from the 200 mile central section of the Hang chow-Nanchang trunk line. The in vaders already hold both termi nals.. (The Tokyo radio broadcast Do mei dispatches datelined “from the suburbs of Chuhsien” saying the city was aflame from bomb ing and that Japanese troops had crossed a river three miles from the city limits.) The Chinese high command said the attack had developed in force since this morning. It reported that the invaders had moved from Kinhwa to positions northeast, east andoutheast of the city, testing out its defenses with patrol fo rays. With the arrival of strong re-: and southeast of the city, testing heavy rains, the Japanese launch ed a full scale assault supported by intensive artillery fire and some bombing. Chinese forces were reported fir ing back with their own batteries and putting up stiff resistance. The Chinese communique said fighting also continued on the Ki angsi and Kwangtun p r o v i nee fronts southwest of Chekiang, and in Hupeh province along the Yang tze river to the west. In Kiangsi, Japanese troops at tacking from the Nanchang ter minus of the railroad in an at tempt to cut off the Chuhsien sec tor, were reported repulsed for a second consecutive day in fighting near Tsinsien and Likiatu, south west of Nanchang. Also met with stiff resistance, the Chinese declared, were Jap anese forces which landed near Tuchang on the east shore of Po yang lake north of Nanchang. The Chinese said they sank 40 to 50 steam launches packed with Jap anese soldiers. to blast out the enemy every where,” he declares. "Everywhere that he has gained a foothold must be the ultimate scene for aerial warfare carried on largely with American equipment operated and kept serviceable by Americans. “In every quarter the enemy must be driven back from lands he now occupies largely by force of his own air strength acquired over long years of fiendish toil in preparing this holocaust. . . only the maximum of effort here in the United Slates can provide the air power required to restore peace.” U. S. Army air force bomber squadrons soon will be taking off from British bases to join the RAF in its smashing attacks on German home industries and they will be needed, in the year book editor’s opinion, for he says that the Brit ish, despite the mounting scale of their operations, ‘’Will not have enough air force strength of their own, not even in the British Isles,” to insure the eventual Allied vic tory. Mingos emphasizes the demand for U. S. built planes, pilots and service crews in every corner of the world—in China, the Pacific islands, Australia, New Zealand, India, North, South and Central Africa, Russia and the Near East. Beyond that, he adds, we must safeguard the western hemisphere with our air power and must give our Navy "more air force than the enemy can possibly bring up for attack at any one place, at sea or in port, throughout the world.” “And finally,” he says, "o u r American air forces must be built up to a strength which will enable them to take home to the enemy the ceaseless, devastating attacks with thousands of tons of high ex plosive bombs that must obliterate eventually his arsenals and his home defense, in some cases in evitably annihilate his people on the ground, and win the war.” Present manpower and produc tion figures are, of course, mili tary secrets but it is no secret that early this year the Army air forces were aiming at 30,000 train ed pilots and 10,000 bombardiers and navigators a year, those fig ures to be doubled as rapidly as possible. 3 -V Wreckage Of Missing Army Plane Discovered MARCH FIELD, Calif., June 3. — (/P) —Discovery of a wrecked army plane, missing since May 29, with three men aboard, was an nounced at this air base today. The victims were listed as: Major John P. Stewart, River side, Calif., the pilot. Staff Sgt. Carl L. Lewis, Carmel, Calif. Staff Sgt. Thoma Noble, Derby, Colo. “The plane was lost in heavy weather, crashing into a hillside,” the Army announcement said. -V Kauffman To Command The Gulf Sea Frontier KEY WEST, Fla., June 3.—(-T)— Rear Admiral James L. Kauffman took up his duties as commander of the Gulf sea frontier today with the promise that “we will devote all our energies and re sources” to conquering the sub marine menace. Only a few hours earlier news was released that two more vessels had fallen victim to Axis torpedoes in the area, one a large British merchantman and the other a medium-sized United States ship. The 91 persons aboard them, in cluding eight passengers, were safe and both crews were brought to Miami. -V Forty-o'ne railroads enter the city of Chicago and represent 40 per cent of the mileage in the United States. WATER PLANT BIDS OPENED BY COUNCIL All Proposals Referred To City Manager For Study Before Contracts Let The city opened bids yesterday morning on the new water filtra tion plant. Three proposals were submitted for the work on the water plant and three others on plumbing, heating, and other fix tures. All bids were referred to City Manager James G. Wallace, who was not present for the meeting, and to the various heads of city departments for their recommen dations. The award of contracts will be made when the council meets next Wednesday. Bidders Bidders on section one of the proposal, which includes construc tion of the plant at Hilton Park, sedimentation basins and the fur nishing of pumping units and elec trical and laboratory equipment, were the William Muirhead con struction company of Durham, $495,000; A. H. Guion and com pany of Charlotte, $438,150; and T. A. Loving and company of Golds boro, $518,000. Muirhead submitted a bid of $121,000 on furnishing equipment for the filter plant while Guion submitted a bid of $115,640. Other bidders were: Heating equipment, Dieman and Rail com pany, $10,370; A. Z. Price com pany of Charlotte, $10,400; J. R. Bagwell company of Durham, $8,930. Bagwell also submitted a bid of $3,295 in plumbing for the plant. Based On Priorities All bids were made on the basis that the city could obtain priority ratings to deliver materials within reasonable time. Since steel is one of the critical materials, construction of the en tire $2,620,000 waterworks im provement program, including the filter plant, the King’s Bluff water supply project two 750000-gallon stel storage tanks and extensions to the present system of mains hinges on the city’s ability to ob tain Army Navy or Maritime commission endorsement for t he program. However even if the endorse ment is obtained the final decis ion as to whether critical ma terials will be released for t he water works improvement pro gram rests with the War Produc tion board. The $2,620,000 program is being financed jointly by the government and the city 1he Federal Works agency providing 60 per cent of the cost and the city 40 per cent. ■Since the King’s bluff water sup ply project was not included in the original program as set up last fall a $600000 bond election has been set for June 30 in order to provide funds to match the fed eral appropriation for the water supply project which is intended to bring salt-free water from the Cape Fear river above U. S. Lock and Dam No. 1 at King’s Bluff py a 22-mile pipeline to the city. The council heard a request by Soloman Sternberger attorney for C. Leeuwenberg that the contract between the city and Mr. Leu wenberg for disposal of the city’s garabge which expires October 31 be continued. Action on the contract was de ferred until next week. 4 French Cities Warned To Expect RAF Raids LONDON, June 3.— (iP) —The British radio’s European news bulletin warned the French people tonight that ten specific cement works in the Pas de Calais dis trict-all producing for Germany —are on the RAF calling list. The plants listed for destruction are at Desvres, Etaples, Neuf chatel, Boulogne, Camiers, Samer, Lumbers, Lor.gfosse, Dannes and Sangatte, the BBC said. FAIR RENT OFFICE WILL EMPLOY TEN Jeffrey, However, Says Personnel Cannot Be An nounced At Present Ten persons will administer the maximum rent regulations h e re, Area Rent Director George W. Jeffrey announced yesterday. How ever, he said he would be unabl to announc his appointments un til they had ben cleared by the Civil Service. Only one assistant— George Rountrqe, rent attorney— has been named so far. Jeffrey said he anticipated the New Hanover area would offer more problems than any o t her North Carolina rent area, with the possible exception of the H o k e Cumberland area. “Most of our problems d own here”, he said are arising from the fact that the regulation r o 11s rents back to the April 1, 1941 level. Since that time, so many rent increases have taken place, and the character of many dwell ings has been altered so much, that a large number of petitions have resulted. “In other North Carolina areas— except the Fayetteville area—the fair rent date has been set as of March 1, 1942. Th general effect in those communities will be to freezepresent rents, rather than roll them back.” -V 46 More Czechs Slain By Nazi Executioners LONDON, June 3.— (IP) —Forty six more Czechs fell before Ger man firing squads today, bringing the total to 163 in a week of steady executions in reprisal for the shoot ing of Reinhard Heydrich, Gestapo boss of Czecho-Slovakia, the Nazi controlled Prague radio announc ed tonight. At least 29 women were among those executed—all charged with harboring anti-Axis agents or of publicly expressing approval of the attempt on Heydrich’s life. FOIL TIRE THIEVES We brand your license or any other number on both sides of each tire. Investigate at once. CAUSEY’S Corner Market and 12th MONEY TO LEM! The CAROLINA has unlimited funds to lend on acceptable mortgage security. There are times when it is exercising judgment to borrow—especially when you can do so tln-mmi fn011 a convenient, economical and practical plan of financing as ;s fered by this institution. Investigate! Friendly, courtemi. • bervicp TWO THE / MILLION DOLLAR Carolina Building and Loan JLss'n “Member Federal Home Loan Bank” C. M. BUTLER. Prea. W. A. FONVIELLE, \V. D JONES Sec.-Treas. Asst.' Sec.-Triu ROGER MOORE, V-Prea. J. o. CARR, \ivj THANKS-i4 Million! For the fine vote accorded me in the Democratic pri mary Saturday, May 30th. I sincerely want to repre sent you again, and shall wage an aggressive campaign to win this coveted honor. Your continued support will be appreciated by me because I really appreciate the rsponsibility and opportunity for service to THE PEOPLE of the 9th Senatorial District and the State. To this end I pledge my BEST. Jimmie Wade NOTICE! 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