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RUSSIANS BEAT NAZIS BACK ON CRIMEAN FRONT Reds Launch Big Offensive [Thrust On Enemy Near Leningrad MOSCOW, Tuesday, June 9.—iff —Soviet troops have beaten ofi continuing Nazi attacks on Sevas topol for the fourth straight day, and inflicted heavy losses on the Germans, the Russians announced early today. Garrisoned by some of the tough, est veterans of the Red army and navy, the Crimean seaport ha s held against recurring Nazi as saults for seven months despite the Germans’ seizure of the re mainder of the peninsula. The midnight communique sam “in the Sevastopol sector stubborn fighting continues. Our troops are successfully repulsing enemy at tacks, and inflicting heavy losses.” No essential changes occurred elsewhere in Russia, but a supple, mental communique said Red troops had forced a river crossing in the Kalinin sector northwest of Moscow and drove the Germans out of two populated places. The Red air force also destroyed or damaged 50 German trucks with troops and supplies, sank three enemy patrol snips and one cutter, and damaged another pa trol ship and a transport vessel during Sunday’s operations, this communique said. (The BBC’s Moscow correspon dent said that the Nazis held the air advantage on the Sevastopol front because of limited air field facilities in the besieged area held by the Russians. (But he said in a relayed report heard by CBS that the Russians had a big reservoir of food and munitions cached underground and that if the German attack contin ues “it will cost the Germans an enormous price.” Dispatches from ,the Black sea port said the Germans were hurl ing clouds of airplanes and waves of infantrymen against the Rus sians. At the opposite pole of the battle front, more than 1,000 miles to the north, the Russians reported the only real offensive thrust of the i day, an assault by the Leningrad army which a communique said dealt “a heavy blow” to the Ger mans. A single engagement in this fight was said to have cost the Germans more than 500 killed. Four hundred others were reported wiped out on the long contested battlefront west of Kalinin. 3 SHORTAGE? SOON TO BE EXPLAINED (Continued From Page One) talked the question over with the President, who has hinted that na tional rationing of motor fuel may be undertaken to conserve tires. Meanwhile Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the democratic leader, said that a survey of scrap rubber resources, taking about a month, probably would be undertaken be fore any decision is made on the nation-wide gasoline rationing. Senators Russell (D. - Ga.) and Maybank (D.-S. C.) introduced leg islation directing that the secre tary of the treasury reimburse states for revenue lost due to ra ioning. The secretary would deter mine the amount. Most rationed states have a tax on gasoline, and consequently their treasuries have suffered from the restricted sales. Kleberg reported that the chief executive informed the committee he was making as intensive a study of the situation as possible with a view to obtaining facts, noi fiction, on rubber conservation, and the problems involved. Furthermore, Kleberg continued, Mr. Roosevelt asserted that “when he had the information that would enable him to give the people some facts and reasons, he was going to tell them about it.” Klebert said the chief executive proposed that the people take their doubles as they come and not bor row them in advance, adding that when he knew enough of the sal ient facts, he would present them to the people along with “such re quests as he felt proper, to give the people an opportunity to do their dead-level best in the war effort.” Apparently the President did not rule out the possibility that ration ing of motor fuel might have to be extended throughout the coun try. In the event he determined Bremen Feels RAF’s Blows BREMEN Having devastated Rostock, Cologne and Essen, the R.A.F. has turned its at tention to the German shipbuilding center of Bremen, above. As a port, Bremen is second only to Hamburg in importance.— (Central Press.)_ USE OF WATER HEAVIER IN MAY Increase Is 168,000 Gal lons Daily, Maffitt Report Shows An increase of 168,000 gallons of water per day was shown in the amount used by Wilmington resi dents during May compared with the total pumpage in April, ac cording to the report presented to City Manager James G. Wallace Monday by M’Kean Maffitt. super intendent of the water and sewer deparmtent. Total pumpage for May amount ed to 107.060,000 gallons, a daily average of 3.518.000 gallons. Mr. Maffitt reported that all tests ran about average except the turbidity which was high following the rains during the month. He said the state laboratory report showed the usual purity of the water, there being no change other than a slight increase in the non disease producing bacterial count. Cleaning and stocking of the new tool house at 606 North Fourth street was begun with consider able materials' being stored in the place.- ‘‘This gives us a three-way division of materials,” Mr.- Maffitt commented, ‘‘so that it will be harder for one bombing raid to disrupt all of our repairs.” The water main was lowered and the water and sewer laterals re newed in South Fifth street for the new street crossing between Mar stella and Greenfield streets at a cost of $162.82. Portions of Too mer’s creek dike were repaired at a cost of $265.36 Mr. Maffitt said “this job is incomplete and much more work will have to be done.” Liston Burriss Shot Following Argument In Columbus County WHITEVILLE. June 8.—Liston Burriss, Wilmington, was shot in both legs here today after he is alleged to have hit Willie Ward, a taxi driver, with a pair of brass knuckles or a niece of iron. Officer Seth Currie, who investi gated, said that Burriss and Ward had been in an argument about an hour before the shooting, and that Burriss had struck Ward with some heavy object. Ward then procured a shotgun, said Currie, and opened fire on Burriss. hitting him in both legs. The shooting happened about a block from the Whiteville business district. No warrant had been secured for Ward as yet, but officers an nounced that he would probably be arrested. Burriss is in a satisfactory con dition in the hospital here, accord ing to attendants. 3 this had to be done, he could ex plain its necessity to the people in a fireside chat. Two senators interested in the rationing problem. Thomas (D Okla.) and Connally <D. . Tex.l, were advised by War Production chairman Donald M. Nelson today that a “serious rubber shortage” had necessitated consideration not only of rationing but “other dras tic courses,” which he did no t name. Nelson said a report would be made public soon on the rubber supply situation. 3 ^H Acts Amazingly Quick because it's Already Dissolved —All Ready to Act ® Capudine contains carefully selected and blended pain-relieving and teething ingredients which can be combined only in liquid form. So when you use Capudine you don’t wait for any ingredients to dis solve before or after taking. Almost in stantly, Capudine begins to relieve head ache and neuralgia, ease the accompanying nerve strain, and thereby restore cheer fulness. For REAL speed in action, take Capudine. Use only as directed. V Obituaries MRS. RAYMOND NICHOLS Mrs. Raymond Nichols, a form er Wilmington resident, died at her home at 532 East Acacia street, Glendale, Calif., at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Funeral services will be con ducted Wednesday. Mrs. Nichols made her home here for eight years while her hus band was manager of the Na tional Bread company. V. C. GARNER Funeral services for V. C. Gar ner will be conducted by the Rev. Woodrow Robbins from Lebanon Baptist church Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers will be I. D. Harrelson, M. B. Robbins. Carl West, I. S. Willetts, Erkins Swain and G. W. Swain. Honorary pallbearers will be T. C. Rich, G. C. Earp, J. D. Vann, W. R. Allen, Jr., Malcolm Hart and A. M. Beck. The 67-year-old Winnabow resi dent died in a local hospital Sun day night at 9:20 o’clock following a brief illness. He is survived by his widow. Mrs. Mary E. Garner; two sons, E. C. Garner of Newport News and A. B. Garner of Wilmington; four daughters, Mrs. Leona Rob bins and Mrs. J. C. Parker, Jr, both of Wilmington, Mrs. C. B Spradley of Whiteville and Mrs. H. B. Whitehurst of Catonsville, Md. Also surviving are one sister. Mrs. Elizabeth Godwin of Waiter boro, S. C.; two brothers, Sollie Garner of Swansboro and William Garner of Newport; and a number of grandchildren, great grandchil dren and nephews and nieces. GEORGE LEROY BRYAN George LeRoy Bryan, 67-year-ola farmer, of Castle Hayne road died Monday morning at 7:30 o’clock at Bulluck hospital after a brief ill ness. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bettie C. Bryan; three daughter*, Mrs. Isabel Hufham, Mrs. Iris Rhodes and Mrs. Sallie Swart, all of Wilmington; three sons, Woodie Earle Bryan, Jesse Bryan, and George Bryan, all of Wilmington, three brothers, Kert Bryan, Fred Bryan and Andrew Bryan, of Bladen county; and one sister, Mrs. Susie Moore, of Bladen coun ty. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. BEVERLY P. EGGLESTON Beverly Purnell Eggleston, man ager of the Wilmington sales of fice of the V.C.C. corporation, died at his residence, 1506 Princess St., early Monday morning after several months illness. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Elfreth Carrington Eggles ton; two sons, Beverly Purnell Eggleston, Jr., and Carrington Eggleston, of Wilmington; three brothers, Justice John W. Eggles ton, of Norfolk, Va.; Samuel D. Eggleston, of Charlotte Court House, Va., Daniel Eggleston, of Richmond, Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Herbert Brooke Chermside, and Miss Mary Eggleston, of Charlotte Court House, Va. Funeral services will be con ducted from the late residence this morning at 9 o’clock, by Dr. William Crowe, Jr., pas tor of the First Presbyterian church. Interment will- follow in the Vil lage cemetery, Charlotte Court House, Va. He was born July 9, 1890, at Charlotte Court House, the son of the late David Quinn and Sue Daniel Eggleston. He was gradu ated from the Hampden-Sidney college. Mr. Eggleston spent his entire life in the fertilizer business, being connected with the Robert son Fertilizer Co., of Norfolk, Va.; the A.A.C. company and for the past thirteen years as sales man ager for the Virginia-Carolina Chemical corporation. Active pallbearers will be H. N. Hayden, E. J. Wood, William At kinson, W. C. P. Bethel, J. D. Robbins, E. D. Poindexter, G. F. Crocker. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. David Murchison, Dr. James F. Robertson, John R. Murchison, Louis Hall, Carl H. Davis, and salesmen of the Wilmington branch of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical SUPERIOR COURT HAS CROWDED DAY Knife Slaying Brings One Year Term For Young Negro Woman Rosa Lee Powers, 15 - year -old Wilmington negress, was sentenc ed to serve 12 months on the coun ty farm for the knife slaying of Dorothy Page, an 18-year-old neg ress. by Judge C. Everett Thomp son Monday, the first day of a one week criminal term of Superior court here. Solicitor David Sinclair announc. ed that he would seek a verdict of guilty of murder in tl>e second degree. During the progress of die trial the defendant through her at torney, W. J. F. Canady, entered a plea of guilty of manslaughter which was accepted by the state. The Powers girl was arrested early on the morning of May 10 by Officer E. B. Murray after he talked to a witness of the stabbing which occurred at Twelfth an d Princess streets, at the James Walker Memorial hospital where the Page girl had been taken. John William Crandall charged with larceny of an automobile, was found guilty of receiving and sen tenced to 12 months on the roads. The defendant was on probation in another case from the June, 1941, term of court. The probation was revoked and the 12-month sen. fence put into effect. The plea of forcible trespassing by Thorny Davis, Jr., charged with embezzlement, was accepted by the state and the defendant sen tenced to 12 months on the roads, the sentence suspended and Davis placed on probation for ithree years. After the jury returned a verdict of ‘‘guilty as charged” against Marshall Boney and Catherine Ev ans, they were sentenced to three months each in jail to be assigned to the county farm. A not true bill was brought out by the grand jury against Jack Moore, who was charged with as sault with intent to rape. The case in which Joe Logan is charged with affray wherein a deadly weapon was used was con tinued for the defendant until the November term of court due to the illness of a witness. The jury returned a verdict for a divorce in favor of the plaintiff in the case of Julius Szacsury vs Julia Szacsury. The case in which Woodrow A. Brew is charged with hit and run driving was continued for the de fendant. 3 A true bill of indictment for rape was returned against Samuel Adams, Wilmington negro. R. M. Campbell, negro p 1 e c guilty to storebreaking and was sentenced to three years on the roads by Judge Thompson. He was alleged to have broken into a store house owned by P. A. Marshburn and son here. Lloyd Cooper, negro youth, also submitted a plea of guilty to store breaking and was sentenced to three years on the roads. However, the judge ordered a capias for him to issue Wednesday in order to allow him time to leave the coun ty. Christopher Gause and Walter B Morgan, negroes, who are both facing trial as a result of high way fatalities, will be placed on trial tomorrow, said Solicitor David Sinclair. Gause is alleged to be the driv er of the automobile that collid ed with a bicycle on the Carolina beach road in April instantly kill ing two small Wilmington children and mangling their bodies, while Morgan is charged with crashing an Army truck into the side of a pas senger car on the Castle Hayne road last month, resulting in the death of a teen-age Greensboro boy, and with fleeing the scene in the truck. “It has been a pleasure to work with you gentlemen.” Judge Thompson told members of the grand jury in a brief charge at the opening of the court. “I am sorry that I will not be with you when court opens next month since I am being trans ferred to another district ” SHRINE CEREMONIAL CHARLOTTE, June 8.—(A1)—The summer ceremonial of Oasis Temple of the Mystic Shrine will be held here Thursday with Harold P. Cof fey of Lenoir, potentate, presiding. hint is given OF SECOND FRONT (Continued From F»*e One) over today’s RAF assault upon the occupied continental coast, concen trating on the Belgian capal city of Bruges in the heaviest of day long raids in which hundreds of planes participated. Huge formations of Bostons con voyed by droves of fighters swarm ed over the coast in relays, some flying at 20,000 feet and visible only now and then through breaks in cloud formations.. At one point on the Kent coast it took one mammoth relay a half hour to pass over. With the RAF offensive going full blast around the clock, it was announced that 86 German planes were bagged by British fighters in daylight operations alone in May, bringing the daylight total since the war’s start to 4,365 en emy 'craft. Charged with the task of clear ing northern France and the Low countries of German air power and so making the RAF’s mighty night bombing offensive all the m o re effective, swarms of daylight raid ers attacked air bases, channel ports, anti aircraft positions, de tector posts and other objectives These raids were a continuation of the powerful daytime campaign begun last week in conjunction with the bombing offensive by as many as 1,000 fighters and light bombers on some nights. But bad weather on the continent kept the “heavies” from making another of their nightly visits to the Reich. Conditions were good enough, however, to permit blows m in Normandy, a train at Montdi dier, near Amiens, and an air drome at Leeuwarden in Holland. Mines also were dropped in Ger man waters. ACCOUNT FOR 3 LONDON, June 8—iffl—Two pi lots of the Second American Eagle Squadron — Flight Lieut. John J. Mooney, 22, of Long Island City, N. Y., and Pilot Officer Jackson Barrett Mahon, 21, of Santa Bar bara Calif., — accounted for three of the four German planes shot down in the large-scale RAF of fensive against northern F r ance and Belgium today. The Americans got their planes in fighting over the St. Omer area. “We tore into them firing as we went and I saw my first victim explode in the air,” Mooney said. “1 fired at a second which caught fire though I hadn’t time to see where he crashed.” Mahon brought down the other plane. -V City Briefs LEAVES HOSPITAL Dayton Earl James, 4, of Maple Hill, has been remov ed from James Walker Memo rial hospital after treatment for a bullet wound of the head. The child was shot about two weeks ago. SAILOR VISITS HERE Henry H. Gore, who was aboard a ship torpedoed about two weeks ago in the Gulf of Mexico, has arrived here for a visit to his brother, E. N. Gore, at 166 Spofford Mills. Mr. Gore was credited with saving eight seamen aboard a life raft following the attack on the ship. DOG CLINICS Schedule of a series of clinics for vaccination of dogs here today has been listed by Rabies Inspector John Codington as follows: Eighth and Ann streets, 9 to 10:30 o’clock; Isaac Bear school, II t0 12:30 o’clock; Lake Village commu nity building, 2 to 3:30 o’clock; Thirteenth and Ann streets, 4 to 5:30 o’clock. -V CHINESE INFLICT HEAVY JAP LOSSES (Continued From Page One) claimed capture of Chuhsien Sat urday.) Chinese units battling a Japanese effort to close in upon Chekiang from the west, in neighboring Ki angsi province, were reported to have recaptured Luhsiyuan and wiped out one enemy force. On the southern front, the com munique said several hundred cas ualties were inflicted upon rein forced Japanese forces which-at tempted to drive southward from the recaptured Chinese town oi Lunling toward the Burma border. In the north, the Chinese central news agency said Generalissimo Ohiang Kai-shek’s troops had re captured Pantao, town in lower Shansi province, and seized a quantity of booty, including 100 rifles and 3,000 cases of ammu nition. 13-COUNTY blackout CHARLOTTE’ June 8.—(A>>—Paul Mecklenburg county ci div tw 86 coordlnator, said to day that arrangements for a 13 county blackout and air raid drill rV6 dompleted at a meeting here Thursday or Friday. FEET NfcARER TO HEAVEN Heat1powHorrr?*ei1-^eeu apply Mexican fnrtri ■ Pust m shoes. rub on feet irritatfrm^0?, ?oteS?on “gainst further by Shafif g- Costs little. Always demand genuine Mexican Heat Powder. SUPREME COURT WAGE RULINGS (Continued From P»*e One) to be paid for either a regular or an overtime week. It said there was no hard-and-fast rule for de termining “regular” pay. The court found that Congress intended the wage-hour act to pen alize employers working their men more than 40 hours a week, ob serving that “reduction of hours was a part of the plan from tne beginning.” This purpose had been denounced by a litigant as “square in the face of the needs of national defense.” The decisions, interpreting the law’s overtime pay provisions for the first time, were made in two cases which may be summarized as follows; 1. .The Overnight Motor Trans portation company of Baltimore employed William H. Missel at $27.50 a week. His hours were var iable but he averaged 65 a week and some times worked 80. The law then fixed 25 cents an hour as the minimum wage and Missel got nothing extra for overtime be cause the company contended it al ready was paying him more- than required, figuring 40 hours at 25 cents, or $10, plus 40 more at 37 1-2 cents, or $15, totalling $27. Under the court’s ruling, how ever. Missel’s regular pay wa s $27.50 for 40 hours. Since this came to about 68 cents an hour he would be entitled to pay at the rate of $1.02 an hour for hours beyond 40 The court upheld Missel’s right to claim damages equal to the over time pay even though the employ er acted in good faith. 2. The A. H. Belo Corporation, publisher of the Dallas (Tex.l Morning News and owner of radio station WFAA. contracted with its employes when the wage-hour law took effect to continue naying them their existing salaries for their ex isting hours. The contracts stipu lated an hourly rate, obtained in most cases by dividing the guaran teed weekly salary by 60. Thus if a man’s salary was $60 a week his regular hourly rate would be $1 and his overtime rate $1.50. If he worked 40 hours he would get the full $60 but he might be required to work up to 53 hours for the same pay, since 40 hours Several Cases Disposed Of In Recorder’s Court Charged with operating a gam bling house, C. B. Feree was fined $100 and cost at a hearing Monday in Recorder’s court. The court or dered that the money be divided equally between the Associated Charities and the arresting officers. Ernest Rivenbark, Jr., charged with trespassing and disorderly con duuct, pleaded guilty to trespassing and was sentenced to serve 30 days on the roads. Mary Swindell was sentenced to three months on the county farm on a charge of violation of the liquor law. The "defendant was granted a 10-day stay and placed under $200 bond. Judgment was accepted in the case of Atha Mae Newkirk, charged with assault and disorderly con duct. The judgment was amended to read $50 and costs. Edgar Allen Bruse and Leola Fairs were sentenced to three months on the roads and three months on the county farm, respec tively. Charged with carrying a con cealed weapon, Asa McCall was fined $10 and cost or 20 days in default. Two Wilmington motorists were fined for speeding in the dim-out zone at Wrightsville Beach. A state highway patrolman tes tified that Jerrold Robinson of 1610 Chestnut street, was driving 35 miles per hour and that M. B. Edwards of 224 South Fourth street was driving 30 miles an hour on the causeway connecting the beach with the mainland where a 15 miles per hour speed limit and parking lights only are specified by a recent state highway com mission ordinance. Five white men were fined one third of the costs of court when they waived appearances and pled guilty to a charge of gamb ling. They were W. H. Johnson, T. L. Floyd, M. A. Thompkins, H. G. Goodman, and A. L. Pope. at $1 and 13 at $1.50 would come to only $59.50. But if he worked 54 hours or more he would get more than $60. The court, in a 5 to 4 decision, found that this complied with the law. 3 ARMED SERVICES'' GIVEN PAY HIKE (Continued From Page 0„f) gress go hog wild on this nr. tion.” ls pr°P0s|. Democratic leader Barkw Kentucky said he thought £ « figure represented a - fair '*? mise” but Senator Lee |n w? asserted that the increased l„ aj would serve as '’a concrete festation of our appreciation sacrifices of the armed sen-w* The House meanwhile ‘C? legislation under which depend!? of service men wouid receive 7 nancial aid. Final details of 7 measure must be worked on. conference. 1 ® The House rejected a Senates viso authorizing the selective sf ice to set up a priority system^' determine ihe order in which™* deferred for dependents could I called to the colors when the l" rolls are exhausted. Members i the military committee said th° had been given no opportune^ conduct hearings on this provi««° and could not urge its ap' S without knowing more about it Without debate, however -k House abandoned the lower here* rates recommended by its ‘ committee in favor of the hieheV Senate scale. Under this scale, ‘ class A” de. pendents of a service man wou’d receive $22 monthly from him and a supplementary allowance fro™ the government. This allowance would be $28 for a wife. $12 addi. tional for the first child, and j's for each additional child. For ex! ample, a wife with three children would receive $22 from her hus. band’s pay and $60 from the gov! ernment. FOR CORRECT TINE DIAL 3 5 7 5 This was a Salesman Now, he is a private in the field artillery. He enlisted for the duration of the war. This was the Salesman’s Car The salesman is gone. The car’s tires are gone. Gasoline is scarce. The salesman’s boss has put this car in storage. 9 The salesman, the tires the car lacks, the gasoline the car is not burning, all are help ing to win the war. But how does the salesman’s boss reach his customers? Newspaper advertising helps to take the place of the salesman and his car Advertisements carry his boss’ message to his customers. They cannot do all that the salesman did, of course, but by carrying these messages quickly and economically they are doing a part of his job, and will make the salesman’s job easier and better for him when he comes back from the war. STAR-NEWS MEMBER, THE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS COMMITTEE ~-"1
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