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CREW QUESTIONED BY SUB CAPTAIN Twenty - Eight Survivors Of Merchantman Land ed In South a SOUTHERN U. S. PORT, June j—Twenty-eight survivors of a 5,‘ ,jum sized United Nations mer me sdip who were landed here Wednesday after being adrift in an " lifeboat seven days told of g questioned by an officer cf submarine which attacked and * nk their vessel off the Atlantic coast with shellfire the night of May 27 All the crew of 45 was saved and the other 17 were landed at another port, the Navy reported as it announced the sinking today. The seamen landed here said the submarine forced them to flee their '.)in under shellfire and then cruis ,1 between their lifeboats while an officer asked Capt. T. H. Mat hews the tonnage of the vessel, it’s name and where it was from. ■■Ahhought he spoke good Eng ,|sh ,hc captain said, ‘It was v'ith a strong German accent. They did nn; bother us nor did they make any comment.” Captain Mathew'S said the first knowledge they had of the sub marine was when it fired at them off 'he port side. The first shell ripped through the deck and burst in the engine room, while a sec ond shell crashed directly into the enoine room. A third carried away -he forecastle ventilator. The skipper estimated that 30 shells were fired at the beginning lr ;he attack and that 30 more v;ere fired after the crew had aban. doned ship. Although they did not actually see the ship sink, Captain Mathews stated that a loud explo sion was heard after they had pull 'd awav and that the next day the water was covered with wreckage. Prices Are Irregular On Truck Markets RALEIGH, N. C., June 5.—(A>1— Truck crops sold at irregular prices today on North Carolina auction markets, the state depart ment of agriculture reported to day. Prices to growers; Burgaw — bushel hampers, vari ous varieties, green snap beans, 40 cents to SI, mostly 60 to 80 cents. Clinton — 24-quart crates, dew berries. SI.85 to $3.80; huckleber ries. S3.50 to $5.25. Bushel hamp ers. green round type snap beans. 70 cents to $1.10; squash, 50 cents to Si.10. 100-pound sacks. U. S. No. 1 cobbler potatoes, $1.6o to $1.90. Faison — bushel hampers, best black valentine snap beans, 50 cents to $1.25. Bushel baskets, cu cumbers. $1 to $1 80. 100 - pound sacks. U. S. No. 1 cobbler pota ioe, SI.50 to $1.75. Tabor City — Bushel hampers, various varieties, green snap beans. 50 to 90, mostly 65 to 75 cents. Wallace — 24-quart crates, dew berries. S3.65 to $3.75. Bushel ham pers, green round type beans, 72 1-2 cents to $1.25; cucumbers, $2 to $2.65. 3 JAPS ACCUSED OF USING POISON GAS (Continued from Page One) will be regarded by this govern ment as though taken against the United States, and retaliation in kind and in full measure will be meted out.’’ The document concluded with Mr. Roosevelt’s statement on com plete retribution and the respon sibility of Japan in the situation. He of course declined to say in "hat way the retaliation would come, but air raids on Japanese cities such as that led by Brig adier Genera! James Doolittle was one obvious method. While preparations for gas war fare are one of the deepest of military secrets, it is no secret fhat this country is prepared to carry out Mr. Roosevelt’s threat, foe army's chemical warfare dir msion has been working for years fo meet just such an eventuality. Major General William N. Por ky chief of the division, said sev eral months ago that while gas Warfare had not been used, it was Perfectly possible for “it to burst 111,0 full intensity at any moment.” R is fully realized by all,” he "that the best insurance Gainst such an attack lies not m gas masks and protective Nothing, but in the ability to re kiiate immedately.’’ , , • Roosevelt’s statement of to tVas similar in some respects the °ne which Winston Church re u Minister of England, di a,c et at Germany several weeks ro. If the Nazis should use gas sa 'Hr aKalnst the Russians, he ^ lfl' England would use gas in 1 bombing raids on military ob JMtives in Germany. Asked whether he had received tb ieporfs °f the use of gas in F; European theater of war, Mr. msevelt replied that such reports ■ reached him but were not au , -o’native. He declined to answer F|Jesti°n as to wjlat WOuld be the „ 61 1011 °f this government should cn reports be substantiated. pRISONERPAROLED FOR SECOND TIME ontinued from Paje One) andS uad a good Prison record, me j at the Parole was recom sa:'jdeci ,Ry the trial solicitor. He jn a j°b was waiting for Pitts iunV'atawba county. The trial rn-j,” was consulted, he said, but e no recommendation. They Took Part In RAF’s Mass Raids On Essen Here are some of the men who carried out the two mass attacks on the German war plant city of Essen. The proud RAF warriors are glad to be back on English soil, but they re all set to get their Stirling bombers readied for another visit to the Ruhr. The RAF Bomber Command is moving toward a goal of 30,000 bombers over Germany each month, an objective it plans to attain by sending out as many as 2,000 planes in a single night.—C. P. Radiophoto. 14 FLIERS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Heavy U. S. Army Bomber CrasKes Against Hillside In California SAN RAFAEJL. Calif., June 5—(£) —Nine of 14 airmen killed last night in the crash of a heavy army bomber against a hillside near Hamilton Field were identified by the army today as enlisted men. The other five, composing the crew of the plane, were civilians, the army said. Their names were withheld uqtil their next of kin were notified. The soldier victims listed and their nearest relatives included: Staff Sergeant Floyd Gerald: mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Dunn, Mill Rural Station, Rockingham, N. C. Corp. Walter B. Haynes; Bar ney S. Haynes, RFD 1, Pacolet, S.C. Pvt. Travis Polk; mother, Mrs. Marie Polk, Islandton, S.C. Pvt. Alexander Constantopoulous mother, Mrs. Charles Constanto poulus, 30 Orchard St., Dover, N.H. -V Civitans Endorse USO Drive Here At its regular weekly supper meeting Thursday night, the Wil mington Civitan club endorsed the coming U. S. O. campaign and also voted to join with the other civic clubs in the city and the Chamber of Commerce in the observance of Flag Day on June 16. The installation of officers was a highlight of the program and President Addison Hewlett, Jr., re linquished .his chair to the incom ing president, Dr. Watts Farthing. Others officers taking their place were: James Daniel, vice - presi dent; Raymond Crow, treasurer; Tom Walton, sergeant - at - arms; John Knox Ward, U. L. Spence and Lloyd W. Moore, directors. Retiring officers were: Addison Hewlett, Jr., president; Henry Rehder, vice - president; Everett Huggins, treasurer; R. C. Platt, Jr, secretary; J. K. Ward, ser geant-at-arms, and Raymond Crow and Dr. Farthing, directors. Louie E. Woodbury, Jr., was ap pointed chairman of a committee to prepare a stag supper in honor of Addison Hewlett, Jr., and Ed ward Weaver, members who leave on June 12 to enter the armed forces of the nation. 3 CHANNEL COAST BLASTED BY RAF (Continued from Page One) attacks were in progress, the Ger man ground staff at Abbeville had a grandstand seat for dogfights in which their own airmen came out second best, although at least 50 Nazi Crafo were hurled into the battle. Part of the fighting which de veloped on the diversionary raid took place directly above the air drome. One German was sent down almost on his own runways and another plummeted in flames on the outskirts of town. "weather^ (Continued from Page One! WASHINGTON. June 5.—(fP)—Weather Bureau report of temperature and rain fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m.. m the principal cotton growing areas and SSST" Htth Ig. eyj Asheville - 88 5 000 Boston0 0ty-—78 58 0.00 Burhngton""!:::- 76 57 0.00 Chicauo 85 81 0.00 Clevefa'nd III——- 83 58 0.00 Detroit _ 79 59 0.00 El Paso _ 92 JJ Galveston _ 88 Kansas City _ 93 69 0.00 Little Rock _ 88 72 0.15 Louisville _ 92 66 0.00 Meridian _ 89 71 0.00 Mobile _ 84 73 0.00 New York _ 85 61 0.00 Pittsburgh _ 81 64 0.00 Richmond _ 89 66 0.90 San Antonio _ 91 66 0.24 Washington _ 85 70 0.00 Wilmington _ 84 70 0.00 Today an d Tomorrow - BY WALTER LIPPMANN - Will They Believe Us? WILL the peoples of th world believe us when General Marshall says that “We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the oth er”? The only way to answer that question honestly is to say that the peoples of the world will have to be shown. They know that we believe in freedom, They know that we are capable of becoming very powerful. But they do not yet know whether we have the wisdom and the knowledge and the will power and the perseverance, to use our power in the cause of freedom. This is the unanswered question in the minds of men everywhere, and because of it we are in all our dealings weakened and the whole conduct of the war is harder. Thus when the peoples of the world read the speech which Mr. Sumner Welles has just delivered, they will note that Mr. Welles was not only making a great declaration of American policy. They will note that Mr. Welles was aware that he must still debate the founda tions of the policy with his own countrymen. Th voice of America therefore, is too uncertain and un clear to be convincing. Our voice is muffled and our actions are un dermined because we cannot be sure that we are moving towards a great peace and not towards an other great debate in the Senate of the United States. ik & * This is the ghost from our past which haunts us wherever we turn, whatever we say, whenever we try to make any long plan for the con duct of the war, or for the period of the armistice which will follow the war, or for the settlement of the peace and the demobilization. This ghost is not laid when public men stand up and say that, no matter what they thought before, since Dec. 7 they have given un reserved support to the war. The ghost continues to walk because no body can forget the history of our actions from Nov. 11, 1918, to Dec. 7, 1941. The world remembers that on Armistice Day of the other war our flag was recognized through out the world as the symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other. We stood then where General Marshall says we are determined to stand at the end of this ter rible struggle. The world remem ber that in the next fifteen years we dismantled our force and, ex cept for occasional pious worts, we abandoned the cause of law and order upon which the reali ties of freedom depend. And so, until we can carry the conviction that this will not happen again, we cannot speak clearly or act effec tively. # » * Certainly we cannot convince our Allies, or the enemy peoples, or the neutrals unless it is evident that we have convinced ourselves. What does that mean? It means. I submit; that we cannot be the reliable champions of freedom just because we admire freedom and have great military power. The crucial question is whether, in Mr. Welles’s penetrating observation, we are convinced that our own enlightened self-interest demands that we take our part in main taining thj law and order of the world. There is no use telling the world that our hearts are soft. The ques tion is whether our heads are hard. For while we are, let us hope, gen erous and chivalrous in our inten tions, we need not pretend—be cause no one will believe us that we shall act greatly over long stretches of time unless we feel it to be self-evident that this is the only profitable way to act. For the exaltations of war will pass. And unless the promises we now make and the resulutions we take now have become ingrained in our common sense, they will float away again, as in 1919, upon thin air. * * * What happens will depend, I be lieve, upon how the industrialists of America interpret the tremendous experience which they are now having. Will they think that they can return to normalcy in another Harding-Coolidge era? Will they think that our armies can be de mobilized; and industry reconvert ed and trade restored by dissolv ing our alliances and dismantling the war controls? Will they believe they can have one more try at a policy of let-her-rip and the devil take the hindmost? If they do think this, they will find politicians to do the demagog uery to carry out such ideas. But if the industrialists, or any con siderable number of them, take this line, they will surely ruin themselves. They will cause a na tional disaster. They will wreck all prospect of peace in the world. Yet we must not fool ourselves. The temptation will be strong. The flesh is weak and will be yielding. The will to resist the temptation to sacrifice the long future to im mediate profit requires self - re straint and character of a higher order than men usually exhibit in the aftermath of a war. * * All one can say is that in the last six months American industrialist have by their deeds regained and have enhanced the reputation they lost in the collapse of 1929. In the struggle for survival against all the other social orders, they are proving their fitness to survive. The world of the future, including the American world, w'ill never again be what it was before 1929. or even before 1941. But in that world the industrialists are by what they are now’ doing for the country, winning a place and the certainty of being able to play an important part in shaping t h e world of the future. All this will, however, vanish if they yield again to the demagogues of normalcy. The reputation of business men will collapse with the collapse of the American economy. It will collapse if business men do not teach the politicians who pro fess to represent their interests that this is not time for the same old tom-toms and war whoops, the same old hobgoblins and scare crows, and — speaking literally and soberly — the same old damn ed nonsense which gave us the Harding era as a rew'ard for our trouble the last time. CHINESE BATTLE 100.000 JAPANESE (Continued from Page One) ]y the coastwise shipping lanes, hoped to smash on from Chekiang across Kiangsi, Hunan and Kwan gsi provinces for rail and road connections with Indo-China. Fighting already has Intensified during the past week in Kiangsi province just west of Chekiang, where the Japanese have a wedge from the north, and in Kwang.ung province where a wedge is being driven up from the Canton area to the south. The high command’s announce ment that the Japanese suffered 8.000 casualties yesterday alone m dawn-to-dusk assaults on Chuhsien was taken by some observers as an indication that the tide of fight ing might be turning aganst the invaders in this key salient. Dur ing the first part of the week the Japanese swept rapidly toward the town in a drive which carried them within three miles of the northern city limits. U. S. TAKES CONTROL OVER FOOD SUPPLIES (Continued from Page One) mination of the submarine men ace to allied shipping might in crease exports of food to Britain and Russia. Either event, or any otner de velopment tending to reduce sup plies or increase demands, mig.it necessitate rationing of some nems in which there is presently no shortage WAT UP THAR Mt. McKinley. Alaska, towers 17.000 feet above timber line. 4 Mb . -JluA GUION AWARDED HOUSING JOB Work On Improvements At 800-Unit Project To Start Monday Work on site improvements for the 800-unit shipyard worker housing project on the Carolina Beach road will begin Monday by the A. H. Guion Construction com pany of Charlotte, H. R. Emory, executive director of the Housing Authority of the City of Wilming ton, said Friday. Wire from the Fereral Public Housing Authority to the effect that the $507,702 contract between the Federal government and the Guion company had been approved was received here last Friday afternoon by Mr. Emory. If the necessary clearances can be obtained, the work of grading the site for the project, to be lo cated near the southern end of the yards of the North Carolina Ship building company, will probably begin Mond-ay morning, Mr. Em ory said. Approval of the contract by the government and the announcement of an immediate start on the proj ect may be interpreted as a sign that the War Production board’s freeze order on lumber may be lifted to allow the fabrication and delivery of the pre-fabricated, de mountable homes for the project. Included in the work which the Guion company will do is the grad ing of the project sites and the laying out of s'-eets. construction of a community and administra tive building for the project, and the construction f sewer and water lines an electrical distri bution lines within the project. Bids on site improvements for the project were opened Wednes day by the authority. The T. A. Loving company of Goldsboro was the only other bidder on the site improvement contract. September 6 has been set as the tentative date of completion. COLUMBUS MAN LOSES FIGHT AGAINST DEATH (Continued from Page One) testified that they were stopped outside of Winston-Salem by arm ed men who burned their truck and cargo and then forced them into an automobile, releasing them near Greensboro. Chief Justice W. P. Stacy, who wrote the opinion, said the defen dants attempted to show that they planned to stop the truck but had no intention of burning it. Stacy said the very act of stopping the truck made the defendants conspir ators and responsible for the en suing damages. Reverses Decision Among the 23 decisions handed down by the court was one revers ing a decision of the Forsyth coun ty superior court, in the claim of Mrs. Mary K. Babcock against the estate of Smith Reynolds, scion of the Winston"- Salem tobacco mil lions. Mrs. Babcock, a sister of Rey nolds, had charged that she loaned Reynolds $4,445 to establish an aer oplane agency while he was still a minor. Reynolds died before reaching his majority and before repaying her. When she made the loan, Mrs. Babcock said, Reynolds was grant, ed $50 per month from his trust fund. His estate disputed payment of the debt and then both claimant and administrator agreed under an 1869 statute that three disinterest ed persons acceptable to both parties be appointed to referee the question. The referees dcided on behalf of Mrs. Babcock. The administrator then protested to superior court, and Mrs. Bab cock asked that the court dismiss the appeal on the grounds that the law provided no recourse to the courts. She was overruled, and the court revoked the referees and sus tained exceptions by the adminis trator. In writing the decision, Justice W. A. Devin declared that the de cision by the referees was not open to review and was to be accepted as final. 3 --V Bottling Works Head Indicted For False Reporting Of Sugar ST. PAUL, June 5.—UP)—A spe cial Federal grand jury today in dicted William Tanley. Mankato, Minn., bottling works proprietor, charging him with filing false statements reporting he had no sugar on hand when he actually had approximately 44,000 pounds in his possession. Tanley, 45, was indicted on two counts of filing false and fradulent statements with an agency of the Federal government—the Office of Price Administration. The indictment charges Tanley registered April 28 as an industrial user of sugar and said he had none in stock when he actually had approximately 22 tons.__ MANOR DOUBLE FEATURE! TIM McCOY in “OUTLAWS OF THE RIO GRANDE” -ALSO “GRAND OLD OPRY” With The Weaver Bros. & Elviry COMING SUNDAY Deanna Durbin. Chas. Laughton —in— “IT STARTED WITH EVE” First Job Is To Sink Subs, Says Kauffman MIAMI, Fla., June 5.-Naval forces along the Gulf sea frontier, scene of a costly wave of Axis torpedoings, were told by their new commander today that their first job is to “sink submarines.” “We must consider this area as a battlefield until every enemy submarine which enters it is de stroyed,” declared Rear Admiral James L. Kauffman, anti - sub spe cialist transferred here from Ice land to direct the sea warfare from Jacksonville along the entire coastline to the Mexican border. “Protection for our shipping is important and will be increased,” he added, without elaborating. Kauffman said there is reason for encouragement in the course of the campaign against the U boats. He compared them to burg lars, saying “they pick soft spots, and don’t go into well - guarded places.” Asked whether he believed sub marines are being supplied in the 1 Western Hemisphere, Kauffman re plied that it is difficult to say. INDIA IS REINFORCED BY POWERFUL CONVOY i (Continued from Page One) some Indians trained in Britain and some other troops with battle experience in both France and Libya. Crews for U. S. Kittyhawks and British Hurricane fighters now op erating in India also were on the convoy. (As far back as April 22, Louis Johnson, U. S. advisory envoy to India, said in New Delhi: “United States troops already are in India and more will come.” Before that, long-range U. S. army bombers were striking effective blows at the Japanese invaders of Burma). The British spokesman who an nounced the convoy’s arrival dis closed also that Japanese troops now were operating about Homa lin, 45 miles East of the Indian border in Burma, and that others were steaming north toward that area along the Chindwin river, which was the route of withdrawal, for Lieut. Gen. Harold Alexander’s British army. “It’s a question depending on the cruising range of the submarines”, he explained. “We thought during the last war that they were being fueled over here, but after the war we found out that they had not been. We learned that they had a greater cruising range than we had expected.’ SUB MENACE SLACKING SAY NAVAL OFFICIALS (Continued from Pare One) they carry 12 to 16 torpedoes,” he said. Frontier officials reiterated their request for more radio marine tel ephones. They said many1 small privately-owned ships had been re jected by the Navy because of the lack of radio equipment and gener al unseaworthiness. Chairman Ellender (D.-La.) of a Naval Affairs sub-committee, said in Washington Thursday that “if we are not entirely satisfied that everything possible is being done to halt these sinkings, we are go ing into the whole matter in pub lic.” 3 57 MEN MISSING IN PLANT BLAST (Continued from Page One) buildings, inter - connected but strung along the distance of a mile. Army officers said the shipping plant could be replaced with less trouble than other ordnance build ings and that group two would be back in production “very shortly.” Meantime the eleven other load ing lines continued on a 24-hour a-day basis. Lt. Col. Don M. Hoffman, El wood’s commanding officer, was expected to convene a board of in quiry. Capt. Tunstall said the cause of the blast was unknown and probably couldn’t be determin ed before debris is cleared away, if at all. While Dr. H. L. Shultz, medical director, took charge of rescue op. erations, Dr. E. A. Kingston, Will R. A. F. FUERS ARE TOUCH BABIES Surgeon Tells Of Czech's Painful Flight Across Atlantic In Bomber BOSTON, June 5.—UPI—To u g h babies—these R.A.F. fliers. A Canadian surgeon related to day the story of one of them who flew the Atlantic in a bomber even though most of the organs of his abdominal cavity were jammed in to his chest as the result of an un repaired injury suffered in the bat tle of Britain almost a year before Dr. Fraser B. Gurd, of Montreal, told the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma at its an nual meeting that the man was a Czechoslovak airman attached to the Royal Air Force who had his diaphragm "tom to shreds" while making a power dive during a bat. tie in October 1940. Because of the heavy bombing England was undergoing at the time, the flier failed to receive adequate surgery at a hospital. Dr. Gurd said, but he apparently improved, and in August. 1941. he flew to Canada in a bomber as one of the air representatives on the Czechoslovak mission. During the trans-Atlantic hop, he suffered severe pain, and upon ar rival at Montreal, was operated on by Dr. Gurd. “Three-quarters to four - fifths of the diaphragm was found to be completely destroyed,” related the surgeon, “and the greater part of the abdominal contents, including the stomach, much of the large bowel, the spleen and a portion of the small bowel were found to be present in the left chest.” Dr. Gurd said he grafted a flap of muscle from inside the chest cavity onto the shredded dia phragm, and he deolared the flier’s only complaint now “is that he has been ‘grounded.’” county coroner, said an inquest would be held as soon as the ex tent of the casualties is definitely determined. James McCann, an undertaker here, said he had parts of 24 bodies before all had been brought in from the scene of the explosion. 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