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LOWRIMORE gets audit contract Accountant Will Check Records On Per Diem Basis Contract for the auditing of coun. records was awarded to Charles <: Lowrimore, certified public ac countant, at per diem rates with L 0tta] cost not to exceed $1,000 ilv the county commission at the Monday meeting. Checking of records in the of j;ces of the county accountant, cierk- of court, register of deeds and sheriff is included in the con tact The per diem rates are $25 for senior accountant, $20 for semi •enior and $15 for junior. The contract also provides that nv additional work deemed nec cJarv beyond the prescirbed pro cedure be paid at the above per diem rales. Only other bid entered was that j Edward C. Craft, certified pub ic accountant, which was a flat bid of $1,000. H B. Rivenbark and G. R. At kinson, owners of land in which the'county is interested in obtain rl„ for extension of the north couth runway at the Army Air bace appeared before the board in an effort to reach an agree ment. Negotiations were continued until this afternoon when members 0f the commission will meet own ers of the property at the home 0f Mr. Atkinson. The commission voted to pay the special officer, furnished from june 1 until Labor day by the countv at Carolina Beach $125 per month after Mayor R. C. Fergus informed Chariman Hewlett that he had been unable to get an of ficer at the approved $100 per month salary. After Miss Margaret M. Price, secretary of the Merchants Exhibit and Ladies rest room, appeared c.nd asked continued appropriation for the place, the commission vot ed to take it under consideration when working on the budget. A beer license was granted to Paul Hiram Ganey, Carolina Beach road. -_V Motorists Generally Complying With New Beach Regulations Although several arrests h a ve been made, "people generally are complying 100 per cent” with reg vlation? on motorists driving with r five miles of the seashore, Ser geant J. R. Smith of the State Highway Patrol said Monday. “However. there are still a few exceptions.” the sergeant added. Ke warned that “violators may expect to be arrested now”. Some of the arrests made thus far have been made for speeding and others for illegal use of lights Sergeant Smith explained. T'-e patrol sergeant repeated thM the regulations provide fur adherence to a 15-mile-per-h our weed limit and no lights brighter than standard parking lignt.s on all roads inside the- five-mile zone d the ocean. He made special mention of the road leading to Sea breeze. After commenting that some motorists had cut off all !"Ms after entering the zone, he sari it was not permissible to drive with no lights at all. Sergeant Smith said large signs headed "Save Our Ships” and numerous warnings as to the reg ulations had been posted on all roads in the five-mile area from the ocean. ---- i It is truly said, O Prince, that he who has no donkey does not need grass. And he who has no friends does not need to knout—"The very best buy is the whiskey that's dry • Paul Jones!" —’From the dry sayings of the Paul Jones Camel Paul Jones A PINT *2.55 A QT. ^ blend of straight whiskies—90 brorjj, Frankfort Distilleries, Inc., Louisville & Baltimore. Feeding Time For Army Bird ~ ,——___ Bomb bay gaping wide and ground crew ready to load them in, a truckful of bombs arrives at McDill Field, Fla., to satiate the appetite of the Army Air Force’s B-17 four-engined bomber. Bombardier 0. D. Reynolds of Muncie, Ind., directs the job._ Today an J Tomorrow j - BY WALTER LIPPMANN - The Foundations Made Visible It can be no secret, and no spe cial knowledge is needed to see it, that we are engaged in strength ening our alliances with Great Britain, Russia and China. This is most necessary. The military ques tions which are being examined in the staff talks at ‘the four capitals cannot be decided efficiently un less the four primary allies are fully agreed not only to fight the war together until the end but to enforce the armistice together un til peace can be restored. For if all the nations are not sure that the present alliance will hold firm ly into the peace which will follow the long armistice, they will not make all the commitments now which are needed in order to win the war. We can see the proof by looking at our enemies. They also have an alliance. But the Italians are try ing to withhold their fleet and as much of their army as they can. The Vichy French are trying to withhold their fleet. The Hungari ans, Rumanians and Bulgars are trying to conserve their armies. They do this because they distrust the alliance to which they belong and they distrust one another. In our alliance, if there is no firm and satisfactory agreement about the post-armistice period, it will be excessively difficult to make all the necessary agree ments now for the conduct of the whole world war. These necessary agreements are now in the making though the staff talks, the so-call ed lend-lease arrangements and, judging by Mr. Welles’s speech, through still wider understandings. Our alliance has come into being because in a war of survival, the realities of international affairs are infinitely stronger than theories, ideologies, sentiment and prejudice. It is no accident that the four main centers of the war are Britain, Russia, China and America. Geography and history have made this alliance inevitable and necessary. In so far as states men and their people have failed to understand this, they have in curred terrible risks. In so far as they now understand why this alli ance is indispensable to their own vital interests, they will fight the war more successfully and win it sooner and recover from the war more surely. The alliance with China is indis pensable to us because it is the one and only conceivable guaranty against an endless, indecisive struggle in the Pacific between Asia and the West, between the yellow and the white peoples. China is an invaluable military ally in our immediate struggle with the Japanese Empire. But the Chinese as our political allies are indispensable if there is to be any kind of decent future between the West and the East. So when we ally ourselves with the Chinese we are not merely looking for help in our war with Japan. We are doing the one thing we must absolutely, do if we are to prevent the catastrophe of a whole series of Asiatic wars. It ought not to be necessary at this late date to make ourselves realize that the alliance with Brit ain is predestined in the nature of things, no matter what Britons or Americans think, feel, or say about one another. Stupidity, greed, envy and childishness may cause con fusion and friction. But this in it self is proof that the relations are so inextricably close that the Eng lish-speaking peoples are incapable of being politely indifferent to one another. . , The fact of the matter is that the British Isles, Canada, Austral ia New Zealand, South Africa and the United States constitute one indivisible system of security against attack from Europe or from Aisa. Twice within a genera tion we have been allies because, when it came to the test, we had no choice but to be allies. No one can imagine a tolerable future for America, or for any of the other English - speaking countries, in which they were not allies but en emies. Therefore, in fortifying our allr With Britain wp move on the solid ground of absolute necessity, in accord with our vital interests and consistently with our ideals. It is perilous to deny it and foolish to ignore it. Let us then allow our selves to realize that the people who have risen by their own virtue and their own valor from Dun kerque to Cologne and Essen are great allies—strong, steadfast and braive—with whom we must, with whom we can, walk long together. The alliance with Russia is hard er for almost every one in both countries to understand, and ob viously it belongs to a different order of intimacy from the alli ance with Britain. Nevertheless, we shall fatally misunderstand the nature of things if we do not come to understand that Russia—be it Czarist or Soviet—is and always has been the natural ally of the United States. Tire whole history of Russian-American relations is a demonstration that though the two nations have never liked one an other ideologically, they have al ways in great issues aligned them selves together. We have Alaska by purchase from Russia, and Rus sia in Siberia is our nearest neigh bor among all the powers of Eu rope and Asia. In the Russo-Jap anese war of 1905 we intervened diplomatically to end the war lest Russia be driven out of Siberia. In 1918 we sent troops to Siberia to keep Japan from seizing Siberia. Czarist or Bolshevik, it made no difference: when the test came we have always had the sense to be pro-Russian in our own vital in terest. We must continue to be. For Russia is the greatest land power of the Eurasian continent, and no international order can be imag ined without Russia as one of its great supports. Russia touches us in the Pacific. Russia touches Ja pan and China and India and the Middle East and the Balkans and Central Europe and Scandinavia and Germany. If there is to be peace in the world, that peace has to be made in full partnership between the English-speaking sea and air pow ers and the massive land power of Russia. The alternative is the loss of the war, chaos afier the war and more interminable wars for generations to come. That partner ship, which events have forced into being, is not a matter of opinion or personal preference. It is the result of one of the decisive judg ments of history, which has made visible to us the foundations, of power and of interest upon which, if we build at tall, we must build. BOARD SANCTIONS SUNDAY BASEBALL (Continued From Page one) two games for Army and Navy relief and that half of the revenue would go to the Navy relief fund and the rest to Camp Davis Wel fare league. “We would get more men to at tend games Sunday in Wilmington than at Camp Davis,” Lieutenant Johnson said, and explaied that half of the men were free from 4 o’clock Saturday afternoons until 6 o’clock Sunday evenings Lieutenant Smith said Maj. Gen. Frederic H. Smith, commanding officer at Camp Davis, had agreed to let the team play on Sunday if the time of games did not inter fere with religious services. Cap tain Von Schlicten, Camp Davis chaplain, looks on it favorably as entertainment from the g ames would keep the men out of un desirable places, the lieutenant ad ded. The Camp Davis athletic officer had asked that the minimum fee be placed at 40 cents. “All we want to do is break even,” Mr. Clemmons declared. He said' the teams would meet the same number of times at t he Stadium as at Hilton. Speaking of the amount taken in by contribu tions at last Sunday’s game at Hil ton, Mr. Clemmons said only $4.33 was. „„!Wtpd when the-balla-CflaL approximately $7. He added that about 1,000 people attended the game. “I am opposed to anything with a commercial aspect,” Chairman Hewlett commented during the dis cussion. “Up to this year the teams did have an opportunity to make money on night games, but now that is definitely out.” Commissioner George W. Trask, who cast the only dissenting vote, said “it’s beating around the bush as it is the same thing we have opposed always.” Commissioner Harry R. Gardner was absent from the meeting. No action was taken on Lieu tenant Johnson’s request to be al lowed to charge for football scheduled some games for fall and that there was no appropriation to meet the guarantees to teams. He added that it would cost $450 or $500 to get teams here. JAP FORCES SEEK HAVEN FROM NAVY (Continued From Page One) greatly nearer the zero hour for the all-out attack against Japan by the Allied nations. This was made certain by the crippling blows to the enemy fleet and its air arm. As in the battle of the Coral sea, which opened a second phase of the war in the Pacific, air power played a principal part in repelling the attempted invasion of Midway. A majority of the damage to en emy ships, official communiques have indicated, came from attacks by dive bombers and torpedo planes, supported by land -based planes. First stage of the war with Ja pan—fought on land—ended with the fall of Java and encirclement of the Philippines. Air power made those victories possible, and the United Nations set, forth to strengthen at once the areas re maining in their control. The Coral sea battle was an indication that Allied air strength was mounting. The smashing defeat at Midway reemphasized the growing crescen do of this power. Midway was another convincing demonstration of the superiority of American naval airforce — in training, equipment, skill and dar ing. It also showed the coordina tion of army and Marine corps planes, based on Midway, with the fleet’s air arm. Possibility that the enemy might launch another attack in the vital area to the north and west of Ha waii was seen in disclosures in Washington Sunday by Admiral Ernest J. King, commander - in - chief of the United States fleet. He linked the Midway operation with last week’s bombing of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, where, he reveal ed, battle maneuvers of an unspec ified nature still were in progress.) Messages ot congratulation reached Admiral Nimitz’ headquar ters from various parts of the world. Gen. Douglas MacArthur sent felicitations for himself and Prime Minister John Curtin of Aus tralia. Lieut. Gen. J. L. Dewitt, commander of the Western De fense command and Fourth Army at San Francisco, sent, expressions “of admiration for the gallant ac tion by all arms.” To Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, commander of the Hawaiian de partment, came a message of con gratulations from Lieut. Gen. Hen ry H. Arnold, chief of the U. S. army air forces. NOTED NEWSMAN, BRIAN BELL, DEAD (Continued From Page One) head of the New Orleans bureau of the Associated Press, a writer on the New York staff, and head of the Los Angeles and San Fran cisco bureaus. He became chief of the Washington bureau in Jan uary, 1939. Bell was married in 1917 to Miss Alberta Harris of Gaffney. They have two children, Mrs. J. Wil liam Magee of Washington, and Brian, Jr., 17. The funeral is to be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, but detailed arrange ments have not been completed. Bell’s versatility as a writer and reporter led to his being assigned to many varied types of stories during his AP career. He directed the coverage for the Scopes trial in Dayton, Tenn., and reported the death of William Jen nings Bryan who was fatally strick en while counsel in that case. He had a hand in the reporting or. the Hall-Mills murder trial at Somerville, N. J., and he sent the word over the AP when Charles A. Lindbergh hopped off for Paris. He directed the coverage of the national political conventions for the Associated Press in 1940, and many major stories from Wash ington in the recent years of in ternational crisis. But much as his craftsmanship in his profession was admired, it was his qualities as a man which made him one of the best known and beloved newspapermen of his time. IT WEATHER (Continued From Page One) WASHINGTON, June 8.—(JP)—Weather bureau report \>f temperature and rain - fall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m. in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Prec. Asheville _ 82 65 .00 Atlanta - 90 71 .00 Boston _ 72 60 .00 Buffalo -:_ 74 52 .00 Chicago - 72 60 .00 Denver _ 66 48 .00 Detroit - 73 52 .00 Fort Worth _ 87 70 .00 Galveston _ 85 72 .00 Jacksonville _ 86 74 .35 Kansas City _ 75 69 .00 Little Rock _ 90 72 .00 Memphis _ 92 70 .11 Miami _ 86 76 .66 New Orleans _ 85 71 .00 New York _ 80 67 .00 Richmond _ 88 68 .31 Washington _ 79 71 .00 Wilmington _ 90 71 .00 0. E. S. BEGINS Women’s Auxiliary Opens Session With Tribute To Armed Forces CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 8.— UP)—A patriotic session was held to night by the North Carolina grand chapter of the Order of the East ern Star as the formal opening event on its annual convention pro gram. Tribute was paid to hus bands, brothers, and sons of the members who are now in service About 300 members of the order from all parts of the state were present for the patriotic program. Later the chapter held open house at the Masonic temple. The first business session will be held tomorrow morning. Report.; of officers and committees will be submitted. The convention will close Wednes day night with a final session at which officers will be installed. 39 BILLIONS REOUESTED BY F. D. R. FOR ARMY (Continued From Page One) President recommended that the War and Navv departments be em powered to disallow compensation to officers or employees of con tracting firms “in excess of a rea sonable amount.” The bureau of Internal Revenue for some weeks has been seeking to curb salaries and bonuses con sidered excessive bv reiecting some tax deductions claimed to be for such payments. Appropriations and contract au thorizations previously approved MANOR ',&T Mickey Rooney in ‘Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary’ Feature at 12:00-2:26-4:52-7:18-9:34 Coming Tomorrow and Thursday • Jack Benny In “Buck Benny Rides Again” With Rochester, Andy Devine by Congress for the defense and war programs have passed $165. 000,000,000. House appropriations committee hearings on the n ew recommendations will start Thurs. day and the bill probably will be approved by the House and sent to the Senate in ten days. The President’s budget message prepared last fall and presented to Congress in January called for only $6,388,091,747 for the war de partment for the next fiscal year. “Under the change in condition* which has since come about,” he said in his letter to Ray burn, “such estimates fall far short of reflecting the estiimated needs of the military establishment for 1943 and their complete revision be comes necessary.” NOTHING CAN DO MORE FOR YOU in the entire field of aspirin than St. Joseph Aspirin. None faster, none safer. The world's largest seller at 10c. Also sold in economy sizes — 36 tablets, 20c, 100 tablets, 35c. Demand St. Joseph Aspirin. I T An l V AT leading lU U A I THEATRES W More Thrills Than the « || Killer Tiger Has Stripes! !■ H Rudyard Kipling’s i ft “JUNGLE BOOK’’ !M In Color — With Sabu jkI Today hmi 1 :■1 - 1 And Wed. W On Stage 2:30 4:30 7:20 9:20 I/ Giant Musical Hit Show! H “MODELS AND MELODIES’ m On Screen — Hugh Herbert In “THERE’S ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE” Mat. 33c, Nite 44c, Chil. 17c Starts Lh ■ ■ ■ Today! W Bombshell of 194*!! J| “HONKY TONK" U With Clark Gable, Lana BL Turner, Marjorie Main Shows: 11 12:50 3 5:10 7:20 9:20 _ Today to Only! \m Maisie Goes West! I “GOLD RUSH MAISIE” A With Ann Sothcrn, Lee Bowman, Virginia Weidler, Slim Summerville i _ x—■ - - — - yOl) HIT STEADY NERVES "A/f tiAe s//A % a ftcrrafroo/fr a/facA 'JUMP" is the command that starts you on that headlong earthward plunge through space, but the real order of the hour is steady nerves! For these soldiers of the sky—for every one of us! So take a tip from the men in the front line. Their favorite is Camel—the slow-burning, mild cigarette. Make Camel your cigarette, too. F® you BET I SMOKE CAMELS. THEy'RE > EXTRA MIU> AND THEy ALWAyS TASTE GREAT With men in the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard, the favorite cigarette is Camel. (Based on actual sales records in Post Exchanges, Sales Commissaries, Ship’s Service Stores, Ship’s Stores, and Canteens.) The smoke of slow-burning CAMELS CO„tams IESS A//C07AA/E than that of the 4 other largest-selling brands tested^ less than any of them—according to independent scientific tests of the smoke itself! B. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Winston-Salem. North Carolina mmmH "I HELP MAKE THOSE PARACHUTES,* says Helen V. Lynch, Pioneer Para chute Co. employee, "and I can tell you 'nerves’ don’t go in my job. Smoke? Yes, I enjoy smoking. I smoke Camels. They have the mild ness that counts and Camels don’t tire my taste.” Yes, for all of us, this is a "war of nerves.” More im portant than ever, now, is your choice of cigarettes. Smoke Camels.
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