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CITATIONS given TO 5 ARMY FLYERS ]\ S. Enlisted Men Receive Silver Stars From (Jen. Brett In Melbourne MELBOURNE. Australia, June 7. f^fhe heroism of five American listed men was acknowledged of. L;ally today in the award of Sil ver Stars to the men by Lieut.-Gen. Q(0rse H. Brett, commander of the ."ed air forces in the southwest pacific. The men are Private Wilbur E. gr-wn. of Salt Lake City, Utah; Sergeant Luther B. Word: Corpor al? Henry R. Sheppard and Andrew t Swain, and Private Francis J. Qj-vey. Only Brown’s home town yaas oiven. His citation read: •During a bombing raid on the enenly on January 31. Brown was rear gamier of a B-17. piloted by Captain Jack Bleasdale. of San An. i0nio. Tefp . which was attacked j,,. three enemy pursuit planes at an altitude of 23.000 feet. When {..vo members of the crew were severely wounded Brown removed i ;. oxvsen mask and went to their resistance, carried them into the lod'o compartment, administered last aid and adjusted his own oxy gen supply to give both oxygen. Brown's medal was awarded for ,meritorious performance of duty. U'Trf'r. Sheppard’s and Swain’s were awarded for extraordinary i.nioism and bravery in an aerial fjjht against an armed enemy. On Ma> 1 they were gunners in a bombardment plane in a flight over New Guinea when they were attacked by five Japanese Zero t ahters two of whom they shot down. Not once during the 35-minule at tack. ike citation said, did they permit the Japanese fighters to maneuver into position where ef fec;ire fire could be directed seainst the bomber. Garvey was cited tor bravery :n raving the life of an Australian F Idier on March 16 when Japanese planes attacked an airdrome at Fort Darwin. ■ Garvey and the Australian were .vruck by shrapnel from bombs,” the citation said. "The Australian v.as critically wounded. Despite his own wounds Gervey aided the Aust ralian to reach cover, disregard fhe bombs which were being dropped and the danger to his own life.” Al! five men are now or. duly in Australia. -V CcFmbus Officer Gets letter From Murderers V'HITEVILLE. June 7. — Two condemned murderers today sent a letter to the officer on whose testimony they were largely con victed. and thanked him for his ‘'kindness” to them. F. C. Bonner and Junior Fowler, now on death row in State’s Prison awaiting the outcome of their ap peal from a death sentance. im posed for the hold- up - murder of Ira L. Godwin, merchant of near Brunswick, on the night of April 4th. penned the lines which were addressed to Detective H. L. Shaw, of the Columbus county Bureau of Identification. The two doomed men, who ad apted that they fired the shots which riddled the body of Godwin and stole his wallet containing $35, while two confederates waited in a oar outside the store, told Officer Shaw that they “appreciated all your kindness to us while we were hi Whiteville.” 3 -V Bahaman Laborers Go Back To Their Jobs NASSAU. Bahamas, June 7.—(IP) —Laborers employed at four shil lings (about 80 cents) a day on an American project were practically 8 ‘ back on the job today pending negotiations ending a stoppage marked by riots in which three men were killed. About 2,000 now ®i'e back at work. An important factor in the re Kirn of the men to work was a speech by the Duke of Windsor, lovernor-general of the Bahamas, mho flew home from Washington v.ien the disorders broke out. Or «er had generally been restored, however, before the Duke returned. Thirty-five persons arrested as Curfew violators were fined the cTmvalent of $4 each. zimfe Jones says Pvt. Jones. “How gimme •- cane!” Mom’s best Fudge Cake— c 7? W!th Rumford Baking Powder. ] f'e! b°ys since the Civil War have t 'ja bome-baking made with Rum Vi “• Ho a>um, no bitter taste! FREE: ji,,ory booklet of sugarless recipes! J,,:1' conserve vital supplies. Write to ne" Rumford Baking Powder, Box Rumford. Rhode Island. COASTAL CAB Dial 4464 Dial Christians Convicted Of Sedition George W. Christians (right), self-styled commander of the Crusader White Shirts, is escorted to jail at Chat tanooga, Tenn., by U. S. Deputy Marshal Vance Davis after a federal jury convicted him on four counts of at tempting to interfere with enlistment and to incite in subordination among members of the United States arm ed forces. It was the first sedition trial in the current war. Christians is subject to a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Sentence was de layed pending motion for a new trial. PARKER TO LEAD AT CAMP BUTNER Former Fort Bragg Officer Will Be In Command At North Carolina Post Brig. Gen. Edwin P. Parker, Jr., who will command the 78th In fantry divisio nof the Army ground force, which is to be organized at Camp Butner, N. C. in August, has been an Army man for 30 years. General Parker was promoted J to first lieutenant on July 1. 1916; to captain on May 15, 1917; to major (temporary) on July 3, 1918; and to lieutenant colonel (tempo rary) on October 24, 1918. He re verted to his permanent rank of captain on January 22, 1920. and was promoted to major on July 1. 1920: to lieutenant colonel on Au gust 1. 1935: to colonel (temporary) on June 26. 1941: and to oriea dier general (temporary) on Oc tober 31. 1941. General Parker was assigned in itially to the 3rd field artillery, and served at Fort M.ver. Va.. until January 27. 1916, when he was transferred to Fort Bliss. Texas, and Galveston. Texas, with the 4th Field Artillery going to Corozal. Canal Zone, with this regiment m March 1916. He remained at Co rozal until July, 1918. then served with this regiment and with the 2nd Brigade and Camp Headquar ters at Camp Jackson. South Car olina, until April 24. 1919. In July, 1935. General Parker assumed command of a battalion of the 83rd Field Artillery, at Fort Bragg serving as such until Au gust. 1936, when he entered the Army W ar college, Washington, from which he was graduated in June, 1937. He then became an instructor of National Guard field artillery units at Richmond. On January 15, 1941, he was assigned to command the Field Artillery Replacement Training Center at Fort Bragg. -V Whiteville Requests Action On Power Rate WHITEVILLE. June 7. — At a meeting of the Whiteville city council the board adopted a reso lution requesting action in the mat ter of power rates for this area. The council asked, under the pro visions of the resolution adopted, that the commissioner r' -utilities of the state request -^rnor Broughton for an allotrr.r from the emergency and contingency fund to defray expenses necessary to make a thorough and indepen dent appraisal, investigation and audit of the properties of the Tide Water Power Company, which serves this area. This resolution is in line with those being adopted In many town* served by the power company. 3 -V YEAR-AROTJND SCHOOL RALEIGH, June 7.— UP) —The N. C. State College School of Engi neering has gone on a year-round basis and about 500 students are expected to register for the sum mer quarter which begins Thurs day, H. B. Briggs, acting dean of I engineering, said today. NEW SHIP LOSSES REVEALED BY NAVY (Continued from Page One) French, Captain Scott said. The German spoke English "like the average naturalized German that you meet in the states” and gave an aluminum cigarette lighter to one of the survivors. The captain said the radio oper ator, Frank Talley of New York city, stayed at his post to send an SOS and went down with the ship. "I was in the radio shack giving Talley our position so he could send an SOS,” Captain Scott said. "Then I left to get my ship's papers when an immense wave washed me off the bridge. The radio operator never had a chance to get off and went down with the ship.” A patrol plane sighted them six hours after they had been torpedoed and signalled "hut our eyes were so irritated from oil and salt water we couldn't understand them,” the Cap tain said. By The Associated Press Axis submarines blasting at At^ lied shipping in the western At-' lantic sank 24 merchant vessels last week, claiming one of the highest weekly tolls in that area since the outbreak of hostilities six months ago. The officially disclosed sinkings brought united and neutral nations’ ship losses in Atlantic waters since Pearl Harbor to a total of 251 mer chantmen, including 94 craft an nounced destroyed during May. More than 880 seamen and pas sengers in last week's attacks were rescued. More than 105 lives were lost and 44 were reported missing. The sinkings last week included 10 United States ships, seven Brit ish, three Norwegian, one Brazil ian, one Panamanian, one Dutch and one unidentified allied. One reported counter -blow against the enemy submarine men ace last week was the sinking of one of two attacking U-boats in the Gulf of Mexico by the Amer ican merchant vessel Atenas. The second undersea craft was out-rac ed and the Atenas reached port slightly damaged. The encounter was described in La Tribuna, San Jose, Costa Rica, newspaper. FOURTEENTH SHIP JOINS “V” FLEET (Continued from Page One) was streaming down the ship’s side and lifted it to his lips. Miss Agnes Morton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Morton, and a grand-daughter of Hugh MacRae. Wilmington realtor and a director of the shipbuilding company, was the sponsor of the ship. Miss Gibbs Holmes and M i ss Lula Pulliam were her maids of honor. Jeremiah Van Rensslaer for whom the ship was named, was a member of a prominent New York family. He was a member of the first Congress of the Uniied States and also served as a lieuten ant-governor of New York. -V PREACHES BACCALUREATE DAVIDSON, June 7.— OP) —Dr. , Tennis E. Gouwens, pastor of the Second Presbyterian c h u r c h of Louisville. Ky., delivered the Bac ' calaureate sermon' at Davidson col lege’sH 102nd commencement today. Gerard Doubts If U. S. Can Save German People - JL---_ NEW YORK, June 7.— (TP) — James W. Gerard, former Ameri can ambassador to Germany, de dared today that “the German people will be lucky if we are able to protect them from the just wrath of the French, the Poles, the Yugo-Slavs, the Greeks, the Dutch, the Danes, the Belgians, the Lux embourgers, and all who have bowed and suffered under the Nazi yoke.” In an address at the national convention of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi league, Gerard asserted that “it is up to the German peo NAVAL RESERVE ACQUIRES FLEET Chicago Business Men Put Their Boats To Use At Training School By W. W. HERCHER CHICAGO, -June 7 — (£■)—'The U. S. Naval Reserve school here has just added something new to its training equipment — a fleet of boats. Ever since the school began to function in the fall of 1940 in structors have been handicapped, Lieut. Com. F. R. Dunbar said, by an inability to put their student officers on the water. Hundreds of ensigns have been carefully trained in gunnery, sea manship and navigation—but only on paper. Patriotic Chicago yachtsmen cor rected this situation last week by making available approximately 135 small boat for practical train ing in the elementals of seaman ship. Three days a week this sum mer, in fair weather or foul, squad rons of the little fleet will sail from Navy pier to give the mid shipmen their sea legs. There were 20 midshipmen aboard the Four Winds, flagshhip of the fleet, when she made her maiden training cruise. Many of them, hailing from inland cities, had never been afloat before. One was Midshipman Wally Hall of Danville, Va. “The only water we have at horn is in the old dam,” he said with a grin. Mid shipman E. L. Haynes of Kansas City. Mo., confessed that until now he had been in nothing larger than a canoe. But they were expected to learn quickly on these Lake Michigan cruises. On most of the yachts the instruction will be left to the own ers or their qualified representa tives. The Four Winds, however is a sturdy 98-footer, big enough to carry several navel instructors as well as midshipmen and the reg ular crew. A rack of signal flags is set for ward on the portside, with Ensign L. M. Haarvig ready to instruct a group on how to fly them during the fleet’s maneuvers. HEYDRICH RITES HELD AT PRAGUE (Continued from Page One) expressed satisfaction with the at tack on Heydrich. The seven others were said to have been convicted for illegal possession of firearms. Two were women. The Berlin radio quoted at length an article in the Prague newspaper Nardoni Politika admonishing the Czechs to behave and at the same time announcing an impending purge. Everybody must be aware, the paper said, that the Germans are strong enough to crush within a few days any nest of resistance in central Europe and to wipe it out whether its strength is that of a few individuals or of a nation. “If the Czech people were to choose passivity, the consequences would be the same.” the paper said. “In time the Czech people would be stricken off as a creative factor in the Reich and thus in practice would be expelled from the new Europe. “Hitherto elements opposing the Reich have been dealt with by the Reich authorities. But from now on the Czech government will ruth, lessly exterminate all elements who even should they not oppose the Reich directly, by their am biguous attitude are menacing the existence of the Czech people. “This purge will in the first place be extended to those civil servants who have direct influence on the mentality of the nation, namely ed ucators. The attitude of the nation always has been and still is the result of merit or guilt of teachers and priests who today should be reminded of the words of the scrip tures that woe will befall those stirring up excitement.” 3 pie to decide now if they want that protection and help from us. “It is the 11th hour—but it is not yet too late for them to revolt against their rulers and themselves play a part in final victory,” Ger ard said. Sir Norman Angell, Nobel Peace prize winner and a former mem ber of the English parliament, told the delegates that “the totalitar ian represent about one-tenth of the world’s population and re sources, and the fact that a minor ity of one-tenth could put the re maining nine-tenths in mortal perii is one of the marvels of the pres ent situation.” Pointing out that the triumphs of the Axis powers thus far could be explained only by the fact that the anti-Nazi forces were divided, Angell declared: “In order to remain united and co-operate effectively for victory we do not have to love each other or adopt the habits, manners, ideologies, tastes, or forms of gov ernment of our associates. The purpose we have in common is bigger and more important than the things in which we differ and could well continue to differ.” TYPHOID CLINICS TO OPEN TODAY Board Of Health Schedules Sessions For Five Days At Convenient Spots Schedule of a series of typhoid clinics to be held throughout the county, beginning today, has been announced by the City-County • board of health. The complete schedule follows: Monday, June 8. 15. 22—10:30 o’clock a. m., Carolina Beach school and Co”bett Package com pany. 2 o’clock p .m.. Old Ne gro School. Carolina Beach Road and Mrs. Albert Edwards’ resi dence. East Wilmington. Tuesday, June 9. 16, 23—10:30 o’clock a. m., Bradley’s Creek school and Kirkland Negro school. 2 o’clock p. m., Mrs. Stanland's residence. Winter Park, and Mid dle Sound Negro school. Wednesday, June 10, 17. 24—10:30 o’clock a. m., Mrs. Frank Far row’s residence, Whiskey creek, and at Garner’s. Blue Clay Road and Laura Smith’s, Blue Clay Road. 2 o’clock, McCumber’s Sta tion church and East Wilmington Negro school. Thursday, June 11, 18.25—10:30 o’clock a .m., Middle Sound church and Wrightsboro white school . 11 o’clock a. m., Wrightsboro station. 2 o’clock p. m., Sunset Park school and at Murrayville. Friday, June 12, 19, 26—10:30 a. m., Filling Station at north side of 10th street underpass. 2 o’clock p. m. .Swart’s Dairy. T7 NATION ENLISTS 12,326 IN NAVY (Continued from Page One) At Bangor, Me., six men took the oath within the shadow of the me morial commemorating the battle ship Maine. A kiss from Florida’s most pho togenic girl, Elizabeth Colson, 17, was promised each of 42 recruits sworn in at Tampa, Fla. A hundred “victory belles” acted as sponsors for future sailors' at Charlotte, N. C. More than 1.000 Texans were in ducted from 16 cities in that state. A 23-piece negro' band was in ducted in a special ceremony at Atlanta. The band was to go to the Great Lakes training station. In most states the governors of ficiated at the ceremonies. 3 ---V British Claim Damage To Nazi Torpedo Boat LONDON. June 7.—(tfl—1The Ad miralty issued the following com munique tonight: Early this morning a pat™ lof our light forces under command of Lietu. H. L. Lloyd made contact off the Belgian coast with greatly superior German naval forces in cluding at least two modern tor pedo-boats of 600 tons. A brief engagement took place in which one of the German 600-ton torpedo-boats was fired by one of our motorboats under the com mand of sub Lieut. T. Neill. This German warship almost certainly was sunk. Although heav ily engaged, our forces returned to their base, but one of our light craft sustained some damage and there were two faial casualties. The next of kin have been inform ed. 3 Open ‘Straw Hat’ Season Holding a bouquet presented to her by an admirer, opera star Rosemarie Brancato is shown in her dressing room at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, N. J., as Gabriel Pascal, movie producer, congratulated her after her opening performance in “Naughty Marietta.” She is starring in a two-month revival of four Victor Herbert operettas.—Central Press. WARPLANE OUTPUT UP 85 PER CENT U. S. Production To Ex ceed Combined Rate Of Entire Axis Countries WASHINGTON. June 7.—UP)—An increase of nearly 35 per cent in this country’s military plane pro duction in the six months since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was reported today by Col. John H. Jouett, president of the Aero nautical Chamber of Commerce. In a statement approved for pub lication by the War Department, Jouett predicted American produc tion soon would exceed that of Ger many, Italy and Japan combined, including production being forced in the occupied countries. Since the beginning of the Euro pean war in September, 1939, Jou ett said, the American aircraft manufacturing industry had pro duced nearly $4,000,000,000 worth of planes, engines and propellers. “Many striking advances in manufacturing technique, in design of new, hard-hitting, further-rang ing warplanes, in labor training and other phases of the aircraft industry’s all-out war production effort, have been made since the treacherous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.” Jouett said. “The simple statement of the production increase does not tell the whol estor.yb yaynaem n.s the whole story, by any means. Much of it cannot be told now. Some of it can. For instance, be cause the air forces’ vastly - ex panded pilot training programs are proceeding according to plans, ac tual fighting planes are comprising an ever-increasing percentage of total production, with trainers rep resenting a correspondingly smal ler percentage.” MIDWAY BATTLE CRIPPLES ENEMY (Continued from Page One) are choice targets for a e rial bombers. The full import of the American victory obviously cannot be gauged until the battle is over and all reports are In, but in some quar ters it already is being regarded as one of the most significant na val clashes in modern war. (Military observers at All ied headquarters in Australia viewed the Japanese defeat as removing, temporarily at least, the threat of an Australian invasion and as pav ing the way for a new front against Japan. They considered it likely that Japanese losses were so great that the enemy no longer could control western Pacific waters which virtually have been closed to the United Nations since De cember.l There was no surprise for the Americans in the attack on Mid way, first reports of which were received Thursday. Before the advance raiders even could begin to soften the defenses of the tiny island, westernmost in the Hawaiian group, the American defenders took command of the VINSON DECLARES U-BOAT WAR OVER ITS GROWING PAINS (Continued from Page One) progress and methods in dealing with Axis underseas craft, which already have taken a toll of more than 250 Allied merchant vessels in the western Atlantic. “In dealing with submarines,” he said, “we have a tough and clever enemy and it does not pay to be unduly optimistic. However, the fact remains that in the past few weeks the submarine has largely withdrawn from our eastern sea board and is operating farther at sea. “This works to our advantage— as does the great element of time, which has now begun to run in our favor.” Vinson said the Navy was con fronted with the “question of hav ing a number of escort vessels in adequate to fully protect both troop transports and coastal cargo ves sels.” ‘Who shall say that the decision as to dividing these craft has not been sound, when it is realized that so far we have not lost a soldier of the many thousands sent over seas?” He asked. He reported that, while the Navy was “proud” of its ship construc tion progress, “unfortunately, the only types in which it is not well ahead of schedule are those most needed in combatting submarines.” However, delivery of those types of craft—presumably swift torpedo boats and longer range sub-chasers —now is underway “in increasing numbers,” he said. He said that special anti-subma rine equipment in those vessels was another problem “which has held us back, but it is approaching a more satisfactory solution.” Vinson said there had been criti cism to the effect theft the Navy had not taken full advantage of all the pleasure craft, fishing boats and small, privately-owned planes for search, lookout and rescue as signments. “The figures In this matter,” he said, "have been placed before the committee and it is satisfied that such criticism is, in general, not justified. The value of such auxi liary means is generally overesti mated. All larger vessels of real value have long since been taken over and are now in use by the Navy.” He referred also to criticism bas ed on the success of the English in driving the submarine from their home waters, and said such critics should remember that the British have had three years’ ex perience in coping with the prob lem and that “the British Isles would fit comfortably into the Gulf of Mexico.” 3 -V Every housewife has a calling. That’s what gets the kids into the house at supper time. air. From the heavy toll of Jap anese carriers and planes, it ap peared that the United S t a tes forces struck fast and hard at the arm, wretsing from the enemy the particular superiority he had en joyed in all his conquests in the southwest Pacific. Troop transports never got close enough to even to attempt a land ing. CRIMINAL COURT SESSION OPENS Judge C. Everett Thomp son To Preside At Week’s iTerm At Court House Included in the 32 criminal cases carried over from the May term of court here, which will come up for trial at the one-week criminal term of Superior court opening at 10 o’clock this morning, are those of alleged drivers of automobiles in volved in three road accidents in which four persons were killed Solicitor David Sinclair said 24 new cases had been docaeted for trial at the term. Scheduled to be placed on trial Tuesday for hit-and-run driving is Walter B. Morgan, charged with being the driver of the Army truck which crashed into the side of a passenger car last month on the Castle Hayne road resulting in the death of Charles Joseph Allen, of Greensboro. Witnesses testified at the inquest that Morgan was traced to the airport by parts of the automobile in which the youth was riding. Charged with reckless operation resulting in death, Christopher Gause will be tried in connection with the deaths of two Wilmington children who were killed instantly when the bicycle they were riding on Carolina Beach road was struck by his automobile. Solicitor Sinclair said the trial was continued at the last term of court because soldier witnesses of the accident had been transferred, and there was not sufficient time to subpoena Vem. Trial o? Fred Williams, charged with the hit-and-run death of Ell C. Clewis last September, is sched uled during the week. Williams was extradited from New York sev eral months ago. Solicitor Sinclair said 22 persons were now in jail awaiting trial. Judge C. Everett Thompson will preside over the term. -V Meeting Of Airplane Observers Scheduled A meeting of all plane observers in upper ■ Brunswick county is scheduled for 8:30 o’clock Wednes day night, in the C. C. Chinnis store at Phoenix. Jim Finch, air raid warning service director, has issued an in vitation to all persons interested in this type of work to be present. Several officers and men from the Wilmington Filter center will be on hand to speak to the gather ing and to answer all questions on the work of airplane spotters. A few drops of Creolin in the toilet bowl helps kill bathroom odor. It also makes a powerful disinfectant for general bathroom cleaning. Ask your druggist about Creolin. Merck & Co. Inc., Rahway, N. J. FOIL TIRE THIEVES We brand your license or any other number on both sides of each tire. Investigate at once. CAUSEY’S Corner Markel and I2lh QA Develops OUC Your Roll Of 8 Films 24 HOUR SERVICE Complete Line Photographic Supplies (Cash With Order) GEN STUDIO 119 Grace St. Phone 6223 Wm MONDAYS Thru FRIDAYS W.M.F.D. 12:15 to 12:30 LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE— “We Don’t Talk About That” YOU’D BETTER^ HUMPH? WEVE^IF YEP? BUT 1 GET HOME? THIS DONE ALL TfT WE DCtfT TALK 5 IS WORK FOR L_ WORK. 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