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BROUGHTON SEEKS AID FOR INDUSTRY Creates Committee For Promotion Of State War Contracts Governor Broughton has set up machinery for increasing North Carolina’s contribution to the na tion’s war effort by utilizing all industries in the work they are best fitted to perform. A statement direct from the gov ernor, issued yesterday, sets forth his plan thus: “For the purpose of securing a wider distribution of war contracts industries, and related business in North Carolina, thereby nabling this state to make a more sub stantial contribution to the war ef fort, I called together last week an advisory committee for the co ordination of these functions. The committee discussed at length the question of much needed relief by some industries which are now threatened with distress. "This committee, which w'ill op erate in conjunction with the N.C. Dept, of Conservation and Develop ment, after considering the prob lems above mentioned, proposed the following program: “1. To render every possible as sistance to industries throughout the state to keep our plants in operation. “2. To extend every practicable aid to those plants equipped to handle war contracts toward se curing such contracts. “3. In the case of certain other plants where conversion of equip ment or materials is needed, to render help in their programs and tov/ard the solution of their prob lems. “4. Endeavor to bring to North Carolina such war industries and projects as may well fit into our facilities and conditions. To set up and carry out the above program, the committee ap proved the appointment of James E. C'oad. Manager of the Hickory Chamber of Commerce, who is also President of the North Carolina Commercial Organization Secre taries, as secretary of the com mittee and coordinator of its ac tivities. Mr. Coad was called into serv ice immediately and is now ac tively engaged in setting up com munity and regional meetings throughout the state for the pur pose of studying the needs of the various sections and industries. “It is my hope and expectation that this committee, functioning through the Department of Con servation and Development, will render valuable assistance to our state and nation.” _v_ JAPANESE LAND IN ALEUTIAN ISLANDS (Continued from Page One) tie apparent strategic vaiue which is the fact that led authorities here to believe the Japanese were seek ing in the first instance to make a successful p r e s t ige attack against remote territory in order to report gains which might offset their setbacks in the battle of Midway. Attu island is about 20 by 35 miles in extent, and indented by many bays and long inlets. It has mountains up to 3,000 feet high, and reefs offshore make naviga tion hazardous. A small native village, Attu is located at the head of Chichagof harbor on the north coast of the island. In this village, the navy said, are a church, and a trading post maintained by white men. Vessels of the Coast Guard have visited Attu each year but otherwise there has been little communica tion between the village and the outside world. The territory of Alaska main tains radio station KDE there, the navy said, but otherwise there wer no installations of any im portance reported. Kiska island was described as a mountainless block of land ly ing north - northeast and south southwest with a ridge of moun tains, running up to 4,050 feet, as the backbone. The shores are hilly and rocky. Attu island is only 700 miles from the nearest Japanese terri tory, Shunshu, northernmost of Ja pan’s Kuriles Islands. war analysts, have predicted since the outbreak of hostilities in the Pacific that the Kuriles Attu stretch undoubtedly would be the scene of military action, either from a Japanese drive or an Amer ican offensive from the north. Its a region of capricious and unpredictable weather, with the winds of the Pacific meeting the chill air currents from B e r i ng Sea. a The Kuriles Islands swing in a 1,000 mile arc down from Russia’s Kamchatka to Hokkaido, northern, most of Japan’s home islands. The terrain and harbors of the outlying Aleutians generally were conceded to be well known to the Japanese through the activities of their fishermen over a long period. The excursions of Japanese fish ing vessels into the Aleutian wat ers long was a sore point in Alas ka’s attitude toward Japan. Pro tests were made in recent years to the Japanese by the United States Government. The Aleutian waters are believed well known also to the Japanese navy through the activity of fleet units assigned to protect fishing vessels. “ATTACK BEGUN” OTTAWA, June 12.—(#>) —Vice Admiral Percy W. Nelles, chief ol the Canadian naval staff, said “the attack has begun” when informed tonight of the Japanese landing on Attu island and the movement of Japanese ships among the Rat is lands of the Aleutian group. GENERAL TINKER LOST IN ACTION (Continued from Page One) Tinker, 54, was the first Am erican air general reported lost in action since the war started, although two others, Major Gen eral Herbert Dargue, and Bri gadier General Harold H. George, died in accidents, the latter in Aus tralia. Part Indian, and a native of Oklahoma, Tinker had commanded the Army Air forces in Hawaii since shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor December 7. When Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, also an air force of ficer. was ordered to replace Lieu tenant General Walter C. Short in command of the Hawaiian depart ment, Tinker accompanied him as air commander, relieveing Major General Frederick L. Martin. After graduation from the Went worth Military academy at Lexing ton, Mo., in 1908, Tinker entered the Philippine constabulary as a second lieutenant. Four years later he was commissioned in the regu lar army as an infantry officer, remaining in this branch of the ser vice until 1920, when he enrolled in the flying school at March Field, Calif. In 1926 he went to London as as sistant military attache, and while there was injured m the crash of a plane, which burst into flames. Despite his own serious injuries, he rescued his companion, a naval officer trapped in the flaming cock pit, and was awarded the sol dier’s medal for heroism. In 1927 he returned to the United States for duty in the office of the Chief of the Air Corps, later going to Kelly Field, Tex., as assistant commandant of the advanced fly ing school. Tinker became chief of the avia tion division of the National Bur- j eau in Washington, in February | 1937. Subsequently he served as commanding officer of the 27th bombardment group in Barksdale Field, La., and as base commander at MacDill Field, Fla. Last November 6. he was named to command the third interceptor command at Drew Field, Fla., and a little more than a month later was ordered to Hawaii. -v._ BIG INVASION PLANS TALKED (Continued from Page One) can invade not only Europe but the Japanese islands.” The question of air cover, which may have dissuaded the British Staff from an invasion thrust in the autumn of 1941 no longer af fects the situation. The RAF. it was pointed out, is fully capable now of knocking out or at least “neutralizing” German coastal de fenses to make way for Allied in vading armies. NAZIS BOOST DEFENSES LONDON, June 12.—(#)—German commanders of occupation forces apparently were reacting today to the implied threat of invasion con tained in the British - American Russian accord by bolstering their defenses of Western Europe’s coast line and plugging boles in their tight control of the conquered pop ulations. British sources said the Ger mans’ obviously concerned by im plictions of the accord regarding a second front, bactted up as it is by the growth of Allied armies and the concentration of overwhelming air power in the British Isles, were erecting new machine gun nests and anti-tank gun positions along the coasts to stop future Comma do landings or invasions by heav ier forces. The heavy guns which the Ger mans have brought up from France’s dismantled Maginot Line to stop an invasion in force were reported manned day and night by full crews. Gen. Von Reeder, chief of the German Military Administration in Belgium, proclaimed heavy pen alties for anyone encouraging a state of resistance. All former Belgian commissioned and non-commissioned officers in coastal districts were ordered to register with district military com manders, the Belgian news agency in London reported. r my to bU political prisoners, who might form a fifth column against the Germans in event of an invasion, were shipped out of Bergen, one of Norway’s most strategic ports, to Germany. Under Albert Speer, Nazi minis ter for armaments and munitions, work crews were said to be build ing a new network of railways in supporting areas of the low coun tries and Northern France. Preparing a system of defense in depth, they were reported con verting farm houses and buildings dotting the countryside into a pill boxes and fortifications. British military experts, howev er, said these defenses could not stand up under the bath of fire which the RAF and American Air Forces are prepared to spread be fore advancing armies. Weather kept the RAF from its heavy raids last night, but two American . built Hudson bombers attacked a convoy off Holland and scored hits on two of the four sup ply ships. 3 -V INDIANS DECLARE WAR SYRACUSE, N. Y., June 12. —(A*)—^he New World’s oldest democracy today moved nearer a formal state of war with the Axis, as Indian chiefs of the Iroquois Confederacy voted to join the United Nations in bat tle. A council of chiefs signed a resolution urging a tribal decla ration of war by the Confeder acy’s six nations against Ger many, Italy, Japan and their Allies with whom the United States is at war. 4 JAP CARRIERS BELIEVED SUNK Three Battleships; Eight To Eleven Others Damaged PEARL HARBOR, June 12.— W) —Four Japanese aircraft carriers were destroyed in the battle of Midway Island, it was indicated to day on the basis of battle reports received by Navy sources. Official communiques of the bat tle so far issued have claimed the sinking of two enemy carriers and possibly a third, but these were based on reports received up to two days ago. In addition, the of ficial announcements said th r e e battleships and eight to 11 other ships were damaged. The Japanese death list in this historic engagement, which routed the enemy attempt to invade the Hawaiian islands, will be more than 10,000, based on these incom plete returns. The four carriers had a comple ment of 1,500 each. At least three transports have been reported tor nedoed, and they carried some 6,000 troops. Loss of life on these troop ships must have been heavy SERVICE MEN GET FAMILY ALLOWANCE (Continued from Page One) ment adding $10 for each child. If the service man had no wife or children but wished to contri bute to a mother, or other imme diate relatives then $22 would be deducted monthly from his pay. To this the government would add $15 for one parent, $25 for two parents, and $5 for each dependent brother, sister, grandparent or grandchild. Government contribu tions for Class B dependents would be limited to $50. If the service man had Class A dependents for whom $22 was de ducted from his pay and also wish ed to aid Class B dependents, then only $5 additional monthly would be deducted. The government would make the same contribu tions but the totals would be small er. A soldier with no Class A de pendents and a mother he wished to aid would contribute $22 and the government would add $15, or a total of $37. If he had Class A dependents, he. would contribute $5 and the government $15 or a total of $20 for the mother. A. C. LAWAITING NEW LOCOMOTIVES (Continued from Paje One) road and switch Diesel locomotives. The three switchers will all be assigned in 24-hour service, one on the belt line working around the shipyard and oil terminals in the southern part of the city, one at Smith Creek yard and the ad jacent industrial area in the north ern part of the city, with the third dividing its time between those two services. Those three switchers will com pletely dieselize the Wilmington terminal insofar as “classification” work and heavy industrial switch ing in the outlying sections is con cerned, leaving only the lighter switching operations in the down town section to be handled by steam switching locomotives. The Diesel ty:- o of switch loco motive is available for service 24 hours per day without interruption reauiring only infrequent refueling, unlike steam locomotives which must be frequently taken to coal ing stations and water tanks for replenishing coal and water dur ing the course of a day’s opera tions and must be periodically drawn into the engine house for cleaning fires, boiler washings, and so on. Russian armies ATTACKING NAZIS (Continued from Page One) gagements against advancing ene my tanks and infantry.” A subsequet mid-day war re port, which did not mention the Kharkov front, said there had been no important changes along the battle line. Red Star said that despite the local improvement in the Russian positions around Sevastopol the sit uation there remained “extremely tense.” The army newspaper said the Germans were repulsed in some places at the very walls of Russian fortifications where they were mowed down with terrible losses by point blank artillery and ma chinegun fire. In other places Black Sea naval infantry and Red army troops were said to have taken a heavy toll of the Germans by pinning their ad vanced .forces between flanking counterattacks. Guerrillas operating behind the German lines in the Crimea were said to have blown up 13 bridges and done serious damage to the in vaders’ supply lines. Meanwhile, behind their own lines, the Russians were preparing to handle the fresh flood ‘of sup plies to be received from the Unit ed States under the lend - lease agreement. The Kirov railroad, connecting Northern Russian ports with Cen tral Russia, wa?s reported operat ing regularly despite German bombing. Pravda, the government news paper, said “war material and arms as well as food and raw ma terial is proceeding to the front and rear” as new shipments reach the Soviet Union. 3 Coffee On Ice Members of the cast of “Stars on Ice,” which will open next month at New York’s Center Theater, relax during rehearsal by having coffee and sandwiches. Today an J Tomorrow _ BY WALTER LIPPMANN - America At A Turning Point Of The War THE formation of the Nelson Lyttelton agency, known as the combined production and re sources board, marks an important stage in our conduct of the war. Theoretically, such a board might usefully have been created six months ago when Mr. Churchill was in Washington. It was not created then for various reasons, among them the fact that neither here nor in Britain was there then any one with tire authority over production which Mr. Nelson and Captain Lyttelton now possess. But there was almost certainly a deeper reason. Six months ago American industry had not yet been converted to war, and Amer ican production of actual weapons was still very much inferior to the British, and scarcely sufficient for mere defense and training and some contributions under lease lend. We have now reached a volume of production which is equal to that of Great Britain, and we now have the facilities and are tooled up for production which in the coming months will far exceed that of any other country in the w'orld. The point has, therefore, been reached where it is possible to ‘ake the of fensive. And it is, therefore, neces sary to make sure that the surplus of arms we shall produce is now used directly to wage offensive war on the enemy. This is the purpose of the Nelson Lyttleton board: to see to it that our industrial power, no longer a blueprint and a promise but an act uality. is used to wage, not a theo retical war, but this war here and now. We have come, so to speak, to graduation day in the American war effort. We are at the great turning point. Having been the ar senal, we are now able to be an ally. From “production” for “de fense” we are now beginning to be equipped to wage war. From a position where for six months the best we could do was to plug the holes in defensive positions a 1 1 over the world, we are now able to plan campaigns for the purpose of winning the war. This requires an improvement in the direction of the wrar. The Nel son-Lyttelton board is a very im portant, though surely not the fi nal. step. It will do much, no doubt, to dovetail British and American war production. An ob vious example is; as regards Eu rope, to have Britain concentrate on the short-range fighter planes and the United States on bombers which can be flown to Europe. But what is even more important, the new combined board should do much to make war production fit directly the actual plans for waging the offensive campaigns of 1942 and 1943. This calls lor another adjustment of men’s thinking. Broadly speak ing. during the first six months, we have had to overcome the habits of business as usual. This has given us a great arsenal. Now, speaking broadly again, we have to over come the habits of mind which might be called “militarism as usual.” These are the habits, of mind, which tend to develop among professional soldiers and sailors the world over, by which they seek to wait for the theoretically absolutely perfect condition of equipment and preparedness. In actual war perfect preparedness is never attained, and the art of war consists in the wise choice of what Admiral King has called “cal culated risks ” The dispositions which led to the success at Midway seem to be a shining example of this very thing. The conduct of the anti-sub. marine war is, on the other hand, a rather h^d example of militar ism as usual —in this case the unreadiness to act with all the means that can by improvisation be made available and the ten dency to wait because the more desirable equipment is not ready. In the larger operations of the war the effect of militarism as usual is to aim at the too perfect equipment of larger forces than can be made ready soon enough where they are most needed to affect the course of the war. Since unlimited equipment can never be available, the practical effect, as one competent judge of these mat ters has put it, is to equip 100 mil itary units 30 per cent instead of 30 units 100 per cent. Yet it is the fully equipped units at the scene of the battles wTiich we need now to think about—now that we have passed from the passive phase of defense and preparedness to the active business of fighting our enemies. -V EASTERN LIBYAN BATTLE STARTED (Continued from Page One) Gazela on the sea end of the origi nal Gazala-Hacheim line. Axis supply lines were shortened and secured by the capture of Bir Hacheim, and Rommel was free now to concentrate in the main battle area behind the Gazala line. Curiously enough, however, an Italian broadcast heard by Reuters said tonight that the Axis offen sive was not aimed at Tobruk or Egypt, but, instead, had the pur pose of forestalling a British of fensive due to start next month. In any event the British armored forces in the Harmat area were reported to be very strong and the defenses of the Tobruk perimeter, which the Axis found inpenetrable last year, again are at full strength With the remaining Axis and British t a nk strength believed about equal, it was conceded that the fall of Bir Hacheim had pro duced conditions favorable to em ployment of the favorite German tactic—concentration of forces for a bold attack on a narrow front. But the British have the advan tage in that the major battleground remains relatively near the coast, where the supply problem is com paratively simple. -V DRIVE FOR SCRAP RUBBER MOVED UP (Continued from Page One) gram in the two days intervening. To facilitate the movement of scrap rubber, filling stations have volunteered to serve as deposi tories, and gasoline distributors will gather the rubber from them and ship to plants designated for its re-conditioning. The filling stations will pay con tributors one cent a pound for all rubber goods delivered to them. The question has arisen whether contributors may give the rubber without compensation, Mr. Vogler explained that such gifts are not a part of the government’s pro gram, as a price has been set for its purchase. If the owner wishes, there is no reason he should not use the money he receives for de fense stamps, or as a gift-to some charitable organization. Mr. Vogler also explained that all rubber, from hot water bottles and worn out hose to tires and tubes, is salvageable. It is estimated that 2,000,000 tons of scrap rubber are to be had if every household strips its cellar and garage. Of this 15 per cent is redeemable by mixing it with raw rubber. Inasmuch as our armament is built around rubber, and that fully 97 per cent of our normal supply has been cut off by the war in the Pacific, Mr. Vogler explained there should be no difficulty for anyone to realize the tremendous burden that has come to the war program to replace this loss. Planes, war ships, gun bases, trucks, military motor cars require great quantities of rubber and there has not been found any satisfactory substitute for it. It is hoped that the coming cru sade will produce at least the 2 - 000,000 tons anticipated by the gov ernment. If it does not, the requi sitioning of private automobiles al. ready discussed, will be further considered, said Mr. Vogler. 3 HULL CONDEMNS NAZI BRUTALITY Heaps Scathing Abuse On Hitler’s Program Of Mass Terrorism WASHINGTON, June 12.— (IP) — Secretary of State Hull scathingly condemned tonight the brutal ven gence visited by Nazi Germany on the Czechoslovakian village of Lidice, which the Nazis alleged had harbored the assassins of Reinhart Heydrich, Reichsprotec tor of Bohemia. "This latest example of mass terrorization through wanton butchery of hostages and brutal torture of innocent women and children,” Hull said, “has shocked and outraged humanity. Savage tribes at times followed such vile practices, but quickly turned away from them as being so utterly in human and beastly as to be un worthy even of savages. I am not surprised that Hitler has devised this unspeakable relic of the dark est periods of history. His act is in thorough keeping with all thaf he represents.” CARRIER LOST IN CORAL SEA (Continued from Page One) plans to invade Australia or is land bases on the American-Aus tralian shipping route, and 2. The shattering of an enemy invasion fleet with the destruction of at least 15 vessels and heavy damage to 20 others, some of which probably were sunk. One of the Japanese craft cer tainly sunk was the Ryukaku, a 20,000-ton aircraft carrier so new that it is not listed in standard naval reference books. Four cruis ers and two destroyers also are known to have been sunk and one of the ships heavily damaged was another aircraft carrier, the Sho kaku, a 14,000-ton craft laid down only in 1939. All these Japanese losses had been previously reported, but not in such detail. A large part of'the personnel of the Lexington, the Sims and the Neosho were rescued, the Navy said, in the case of the Lexington about 92 per cent. The 33,000-ton vessel normally carried a comple ment of about 2.300 men and 80 to 90 aircraft. Whether any of her air craft were saved was not disclos ed, Naval officials commenting only that “obviously, planes were lost.” Ill-luck played a part in the car rier’s loss. In the first place, the enemy had the good fortune to lo cate her on May 8 at a time when most of her aircraft were away pounding the enemy fleet. She was hit by two torpedoes, at least two bombs, and also damaged by near misses. Nevertheless, she was able to pick up her aircraft and was head ing at 20-knot speed toward safety when a terrific internal explosion rocked her and set fires at many places. It was first thought, the Navy said, “that the explosion was the result of a ‘sleeper bomb.' Investi gation revealed, however, that the probable cause was the ignition of gasoline vapors which resulted from leaks in ruptured gasoline lines in closed compartments be low decks.” Her crew battled the flames for five hours handicapped by the fact that much fire-fighting equipment was destroyed by the explosion. Destroyers came alongside and poured on water and chemicals from their hoses. But there was no saving her and finally the order to abandon ship was issued. Her commander, Capt. F. C. Sherman, was the last to leave her to go aboard an attend ing destroyer. As he slid down a line from the deck to the water, the flames reached the ship’s tor pedo warhead locker. There was another great explosion and mo ments later the Lexington sank. The Sims, a 1,570-ton desttoyer commissioned in 1939, and the Ne osho, a 25,000-ton vessel commis sioned in 1937, were lost the day before the Lexington. The Neosho, with a destroyer escort, was head ing across the Coral Sea with fuel for the task force engaging the en emy when Japanese airplanes spot ted her and attacked. The Sims went down at that time and the Neosho sank several days later as the result of damage received. -V— 7,500.000 Pounds Paper Collected In Campaign WASHINGTON, June 12.— OP)—Budget Director Harold D. Smith claimed today an an nual saving of 7,500,000 pounds of paper worth $1,250,000 as the first result of a campaign to cut out red tape and excessive “paper work” throughout the government. -V GOEBBELS WARNS ALLIES BERLIN (From German Broad casts), June 12. — (TP) — German Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, writing in the weekly Das Reich, has threatened Britain with “something worse than Dun kerque” if the United Nations open a second front in Europe. -V NO MORE SPARE PARTS BUFFALO, N. Y., June 12.—(IP) Japanese Emperor Hirohito won’t get additional parts for his fleet of Pierce Arrow, motor cars, but if he’s patient the steel involved may yet arrive at his island em iVre—ln the form of bombs and shells. Man In Hospital After Shooting Self In Chest Charles Tevie, white, of 411 North Second street, was admitted to James Walker Memorial hos pital late last night suffering from a gunshot wound in the chest, it was learned at police headquar ters. Tevie’s wife told police that her husband had been drinking and that he had left the house for some time. Upon his return, he went to the kitchen and shot himself. The bullet was found to have penetrated the lower portion of his left chest. Hospital attaches de scribed his condition as satisfac tory. -V Obituaries JACOB H. BOUSE CLINTON, June 12 — Funeral services for the late Jacob H. Rouse, 76, who died at his home near Rosehill, early Thursday night, will be held Saturday at 3 o’clock at Charity Methodist church with the Rev, A. H. Butler in charge. Burial will follow in Dunn cem etery. The deceased, who was w e 1J known throughout Duplin and Sampson counties, is survived by his wife, Mrs. Anna R a c k ley Rouse; six daughters, Mrs. R. W. Pope, Dunn; Mrs. J. A. Smith, Magnolia; Mrs. T. C. Carr, Rose hill; Mrs. W. F. Calloway, Clin ton; Mrs. Archie Brock, Selma; Mrs. Norwood Johnson, Goldsboro; three sons, F. H. and J. S. Rouse of Greenville and J. B. Rouse, Dunn; two sisters, Mrs. B. S. Mat thews, Falcon; Mrs. Annie Lanier, Rosehill and two brothers, R. H. Rouse, Rosehill and J. A. Rouse, Wilmington. eugene v. McKenzie Funeral services for Eugene V McKenzie, 83, of 804 Dock street who died Thursday night at i local hospital, will be conductec at 4:30 o’clock this afternoon frorr Trinity Methodist church by Dr Fred W. Paschall and the Rev S. L. Blanton. Interment will be in Oakdale cemetery. Pallbearers will be: Active, Eu gene Smith, Gregory Smith Frank Smith, Lonnie Peck, Miltoi Peck and Carlton Parker; honor ary, Freeman LeGwin; honor Clarke, E. Boushee, R. S. Me Keithan, E. L. Mathews, Ralpl Hodges, George S. Boylan, Kyli Bannerman, W. G. Evans, J. A Lawson, John McDougal and G T. Morgan. The body will be removed fron the Yopp Funeral home to thi residence Saturday morning t< await the funeral hour. He is survived by one daughter Mrs. A. G. Smith, of Wilmington: two sons, W. K. McKenzie, of Eliz abeth, N. J., and George R. Me Kenzie, of Wilmington; one sister Mrs. E. M. Parker, of Savannah Ga., and the following grandchil dren; James L. and Milton M Peck, of Wilmington; A. Gregory Eugene M. and G. Franklin Smith of Wilmington; Bobby and Joat McKenzie, of Wilmington; Virginia McKenzie Himbel, of Washington and E. L. McKenzie, Wilmington Del. MRS. ELLA ROOKS PINER Funeral services for Mrs. Ell; Rooks Piner, 79, who died Thurs day night at her home near Bolton were conducted Friday afternooi from Shiloh Methodist church, nea: Bolton, by the Rev. Earle L. Brad ley. Interment was in the churcl cemetery. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Idella Odom, Bolton; Mrs Mary Price, Wilmington, and Mrs, Etta Piner, Willard, two brothers, James Rooks, Wallace, and Thom as Rooks, Thomasville, Ga.; 35 grandchildren and five great-grand children. Pallbearers were: active. J. P Long, W. C. Sealey, Jim Carroll, W. W. Carroll, George Carroll and J. C. Long: honorary, Hackett Ap plewhite, H. A. Long, B. H. Brown E. M. Herren, Armlin Holmes, J. F. Wilson, A. B. Ward, Wade Dow less, J. ,W. Brinkley J. C. Nye, E. E. Nye, G. D. Nye and A J. Harriss JOHN ALFRED NIXON Funeral services for John Al fred Nixon, 89, retired wholesale merchant of Wilmington, who died Thursday at his home at Topsail, were conducted Friday morning from Topsail Presbyterian church by the Rev. C. C. Myers, pastor Interment was in the church ceme tery. Mr. Nixon is survived by the widow, Mrs. Minnie S. Nixon, Top sail Sound; two daughters, Mrs Thomas Sidbury, Hampstead, and Mrs. T. Henry King, Topsail Sound; one sister, Miss Mary F Nixon, Topsail Sound, and onc grandson, Alfred Nixon, Topsail Sound. Pallbearers were: Active, John Henry King, C. F. King, Clarence King, Eugene King, Thomas Sid bury and Walter Alexander; honor ary, Jim Powers, A. W. Sidbury, Herbert McClammy, Joseph Shep ard, Jim King and Ed Boushee. HOUSE COMMITTEE HIKES REVENUES To Increase Taxes On Life Insurance Policies; Other Taxabies WASHIGTON, June 12 The House Ways and Means r " mittee boosted the total of revenue bill to $6,201,000,1)00 l!fv by deciding to increase the on telegraph and teleoh(,ne 5 life insurance companies photographic equipment. an<1 Thus, with consideration of ■ Treasury’s recommended 4 000,000 tax program virtually I plete, the committee wa„ COrn' $2,500,000,000 short of the ^ which Secretary Morgenthavf said was the minimum that shorn be raised in additional reven. These tentative actions were T\ en by the committee before „ journed over the week-end „ paratory to discussing a minor matters and possibh- , question of a general sales'tax The present telephone toll SPn. ice charge of 5 cents ,M a cl', ' of from 24 to 50 cents was cbm ed to a flat 20 per cent tax 0» ■ ' amount of the toll. Tlie' io 'e cent tax on telegraph and cafe messages was increased to n , ^ cent. Estimated yield in adding revenue, $26,800,000. The present 6 per cent lay „„ local telephone bills was increased to 10 per cent. Estimated vr $36,800,000. 51eli The present 10 per cent tax manufacturers' s a 1 es nf „hol" graphic equipment was raised to 25 per cent’ except on camera weighing more than four pounds which are exempt. Estimated vi«■■ $10,800,000. Method of figuring tax on i,(e insurance companies was revise with substitution of a "reserve ar’' other policy liability deduction" fo. the present reserve earnings de duction. Estimated yield 000,000. ‘ ’ Mutual insurance companies 0!h er than life are exempt if they dn not have more than $100 000 ■> assets or more than $50,000 a rear in income. It was decided to repeal excise taxes on washing machines, oF. cal equipment, electric signs and advertising devices and rubber i tides because, Rep. Cooper ij. ( Tenn) said, it had been found that they had produced Jiitle 1 revenue. It was announced that the Treas ury had withdrawn its original re t quest that the 4 1-2 per cent tax , on transportation by pipe line bt ; increased to 10 per cent. PRICE COMMENDS j U. S. NEWSPAPERS Head Of Nation’s Censor ship Lauds Publications On Molotov Secrecy WASHINGTON, June 12- L - Byron Price, director of censor ship, today issued the following statement: “The newspapers and broadcast . ers of the country in general have performed magnificent!.' in holding information about the v:;.t i to this country of V. M. Molotov, the Soviet foreign mini.-'.er. “The facts about this visit were known to hundreds ot newspaper men and broadcasters, it was ro of very high importance. But voluntary wartime codes issued s the Office of Censorship had r quested that news of all such events be withheld from pubic, tion or broadcast for rea.-ons >• safety until official annout cet was made. “The result was that, so far we have been able to learn. premature mention of the vis.l1 made on any broadcast or i. newspaper of the United i except one. This is a pet which reflects great credit the patriotic self-discipline of publishing and radio inm mses. -V JOINS WFB ATLANTA, June 12.-- 'L '■;? pointment of J. H. Barnett o ford, Va„ as chief of tr.e regie* wood-working section of the -j Production board was vs today by J. L. Mason, dm southeastern field ope tions. 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Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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