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y M. C. A. AGENT FEELS NAZI WHIP Huntington Tells Of Flor ence Native’s Experien ce With Gestapo jjow the Nazi Gestapo held a vylCA secretary prisoner for Months, and tried to wring from j,:m by torture political secrets he d’dn't possess was revealed today J. j B. Huntington, general sec retary of the Wilmington YMCA. The man is James W. Brown, j r many years our representitive ‘- Rumania,” Mr. Huntington said. Tm now at liberty to state the facts, as conveyed to me by our Rational Council in New York, be cause Brown is safe. He returned to this country in an exchange of our diplomats and nationals for nf our enemies. -Brown had been 21 years in Ru mania as staff worker for the In ternational Committee of the VMCA: His welfare efforts for Ru manians and Polish refugees prob. ably put the Nazis on his trail. The Gestapo first arrested him August jo on charges of espionage for the British. He was held for 48 hours. -Just before Rumania declared uar on the U. S., Mr. and Mrs. Brown left Bucharest for Turkey; but at Svilengrad, Bulgaria, they were detained and turned over to the Gestapo. ‘You’re prisoners of war. Gestapo agents told them, and they were sent back to Bucha rest under guard. At Bucharest ijrs. Brown was permitted to re turn home, under house arrest, and grown was taken to the German Secret Police jail. There, after six days in solitary confinement, his ordeal really began. - I was questioned and beaten the first night from 10:30 until 4:30 i a. m..' he says. ‘I was stripped and hung to a rod by the wrists while the stool was pulled from under me. They kicked me in the kidneys ; and hit me. They said I could give them information about the work of cur legation, and the Commis si:r. for Polish Relief. I hung there 45 minutes. In pulling me down one of the guards twisted my wrist so that the bones cracked. ■I was pretty much of a wreck by the time they returned me to r.y cell. I had only black bread and watery soup during the next five ays of my imprisonment.” ' Intercession by the Rumanian prime minister procured Brown’s release from the secret prison on Christmas Eve. Mrs. Bown was trimming a little tree, as a spiri tual link with her husband, when he walked in. ‘He bad aged so much that I was frightened,’ she said. ‘The Browns remained in their home, closely guarded, never sure i their safety, until the diplomatic wain that was to take the staff of the American Legation out of Ru mania was ready to leave on Jan uary 27. The last night they passed at the legation. Colonel John Rat ay. American military attache in Bucharest, took them into his own compartment on the train to pro tect them from being kidnaped by the Gestapo at the Bulgarian bor der. A day later they reached Lis bon.” "Brown is a retiring, friendly, middle - aged little man, widely known and regarded in all Ruman ia for his welfare work. He is a native of Florence, S. C. Mr s. Brown is an attractive, blue-eyed blonde.” 3 -V BOMBERS COLLIDE MACLEOD, Alberta, June 15— if—Two Canadian bombers collid ed in the air northeast of Granum today, killing an undetermined number of Canadian air force fliers. The planes were in a for mation. Do you covet a superbly flavorful whiskey, Sahib? Then, 0 My Weary One, remembert “The my best buy is the whiskey that's dry — Paul Jones!" —From the dry sayings of the Paul Jones Camel A ' il Paul Jones 5130 $055 I A PINT L A QUART •4 blend of straight whiskies—90 proof. Frankfort Distilleries, Inc,, Louisville & Baltimore. \ The Official Score, Jap Sea Power Hard Hit [BATTLE SCORE —MIDWAY AND CORAL SEA JAPANESE I UNITED STATES ~ ~T~ ”1 I PROBABLY | | PROBABLY _SUNK DAMAGED SUNK DAMAGED SUNK DAMAGED SUNK DAMAGED BATTLESHIP~S " ^_~_“_"_“_"_“ “air^af?" 3211 11"* CARRIERS1J__* CRUISERS ^ 31_ 2 “ * " * DESTROYERS ^ ^1“_2_”“" TRANSPORTS___”“”““~ misc. 8 13--1 TOTAL | 18 | 27 j 3 1 4 | 1 [ - 1 -J hatt£renfS fflCiali)°+l SCnre °,D the JaPanese and American sea losses in the great battles of Midway and the Coral sea. Th e Japs came in a bad second._ COUNTY SECOND IN LIQUOR SALES Over Million Dollars Worth Spirits Sold In The State In May RALEIGH, N. C., June 15.—(A>)— The State ABC board reported to day that $1,247,463,35 worth of liquor was sold in county operated liquor stores during May, an in crease of $517,195.25 over the $730, 268.10 worth of liquor sold in May, 1941. Carl Williamson, State ABC board chairman, asserted that the sales report was “not a true pic ture” of the increase in liquor sales. Because although there was an increase in the amount of liquor sold, it did not correspond to the huge increase in receipts. A federal tax of 75 cents a gal lon which bcame effective last October increased the price of liq uor and ABC store customers ap parently are purchasing more of the higher priced spirits William son said. Williamson also pointed oht that most of the ABC counties are in the eastern part of the state which is booming and has experienced a population increase because of the war. Durham county continued to lead the 25 ABC counties in sales, re porting $192,560.55 worth of liquor sold in May compared with $106. 003.55 in May, 1941. New Hanover was second with $150,538.20 compared to $82,653.65. and Wake reported sales totaling $143,077 compared to $96,360.55. 3 CITY SALVAGES 3,500 LBS. SCRAP RUBBER (Continued From Page One) and cellars were thoroughly comb ed for the precious substance Collections in the New YorK area ranged from bloomer elastics to an 11-pound rubber tube used in a mechanical Player piano. A filling station at Watertown, Mass., was almost swamped by its first contribution when a building sup ply company dumped six tons ot old tires into its front yard. Filling stations in the southeast said most of the rubber was be ing turned in by children, who collected the penny a pound; adults donated theirs mostly. One “my stery” item contributed was final ly identified as an old-fashioned girdle. Contributions at a Des Moines station included: From a small boy, a basket of toy trucks and tanks made of rubber; from a dog, several rubber bones; from a man, one rubber band (he said that was all he could find). Six Girh Scouts were given three rubber tire? from the Iowa governor’s office— they came off the governor’s asn h ays. Nick Mourat, 16, of Hollidays Cove, Pa., gathered more than 100 pounds of rubber heels, most of them from a shoemaker’s dump behind a baseball park where N'ick works chasing fouls. A Standard Oil agent who can massed homes and offices in Potosi, Mo., (population 2,017) collected 8,500 pounds of scrap rubber. A Detroit man turned in a 250-pound bale of crude rubber he “caught” off the Florida coast while sail fishing. A vessel carrying crude rubber had been torpedoed. At Little Rock, Ark., members of the exchange club, voted to turn in the rubber floor mats from the trunk compartments of their- au tomobiles. STATE YIELD LARGER RALEIGH, June 15.— UP —Presi dent Roosevelt’s campaign for the collectoin of scrap rubber got un derway in North Carolina today and reports from some sections in dicated that it was doing very well. J. B. Vogler, state executive sec retary for the Bureau of Industrial Conservation, said that in William ston so much scrap rubber was collected that filling stations there didn’t have enough cash to apy for it—at a penny a pound. From Goldsboro came a report that two fishermen had bad luck with fish in the Neuse river and decided to fish for tires and inner tubes. Result—600 pounds of rub ber. Vogler said that Henry G. Tay lor of the Bureau of Industrial Con servation office at Charlotte had instructed his field men to visit all automobile graveyards in North and South Carolina and request op erators “to immediately turn in all of their available scrap rubber.’ Today an d Tomorrow - BY WALTER LIPPMANN _ Statesmen At Work The decisive move in the agree ments which have just been published is registered in Part II, Article 3, Paragraph 2, of the Russian-British treaty. There the two powers make it clear and bind ing that they will police Europe for at least twenty years after the armistice, “pendng adoption” oi proposals to unite with America and other like-minded states ”for common action to preserve peace and resist aggression in the post war period.” Thus the Britsh - Russian mili tary alliance becomes a fixed point in the organization of power during the negotiations and debates which will be required to establish a larger and more permanent sys tem of international security. The President has acted with great understanding and practical foresight in associating the United States with this procedure. For Britain and Russia are able to make now-binding commitments for the long future: under our con stitutional system that is not fea sible. or at least too difficult. Therefore, London, Moscow and Washington have found a way to do what was immediately neces sary with the actual means im mediately available. They have fortified the British-Russian all iance. Thus they have guaranteed to Europe the minimum of power needed to restore order. They have made certain that at the very least the British - Russian power will be there during the formative years to give practical effect to any wide system of peace They have established it that when we, and other nations, come to the de bate on the ratification of a wider system of peace, the real choice will be whether this British-Rus sian alliance is to be generalized or whether, by our returning to isolationism, all nations are again to live in a world of special mili tary alliances. The negotiations which have led to these arrangements show in a most convincing fashion that the more definite and firm are the guaranties of security which na tions obtain, the more liberal and enlightened can be their policy. When Britain and France allowed themselves to become isolated from Russia in the Munich sur render. the state was set inevitably ffot only for the conquest of France but also for the Hitler-Stalin pact of August, 1939, for the Russian entrance into Poland and into the Baltic states and for the first Fin nish war. We can all see now, what few of us saw then, that Russia was too terribly threatened on her frontier to pursue a large and liberal rather than a narrow and strictly defensive policy. We now see the same principle in reverse. Fro mMr. Eden’s visit to Moscow last December until Mr. Molotov’s recent visit to Washing ton, Russian statesmanship has be come more liberal as the Russians have become convinced of British and American power to wage the war and our determination to act as allies of Russia. When it had not yet been proved that we could or would wage total war against Hitler, when there was still ground for the ancient suspicion that we were unfriendly to Russia, the claims of Moscow vrere for strat egic security in the Baltic states certainly, in Finland and Poland very probably. The Russans have now agreed to the liberal principles of the At lantic Charter. Why? Because the Briti'' government and the Amer ican ve proved their military power; because they have convinc ed the Russians that their alliances with Russia are now recognized by both of them as a genuine vital national interest. To the Russians there is now a greater guaranty of securty in a dependable alliance with the mounting power of the English-speaking nations than in the military occupation of the bor. der states. Thus the alliance has made possible a liberal policy. In turn, the liberal policy will now give Russia a stronger frontier than she could obtain any other way. The border states, secure in their independence under the Rus sian-British and eventually under the American guaranty, can be the friends of Russia, and will now have every interest in becoming the allies of Russia. They themselves can, therefore, pursue the more, liberal policy, car ing more for their internal solidity than for strategic frontiers, impel led less, therefore, to play powder politics on a small scale as against one another. It may be said, indeed it has been said private conversat on, that the liberal character of the Russian-British treaty is due to our firm insistence on the principles of the Atlantic Charter. This is a misleading and dangerously self righteous view of what happened, and it does a grave injustice to American statesmanship. The truth is that Russia was able to take the liberal view when the British convinced the Russians that the Munich mentality was finally gone: that conviction came to the Rus sians when in the course of the long negotiations Mr. Eden show ed them that the British govern ment had fully recognized that Russia’s strategic needs in eastern Europe were as genuine and re spectable as Britain’s strategic needs in western Europe, or Amer ica’s in the Caribbean. When that had ben recognized, it became possible for Russia to accept as liberal a policy as we pursue among our border states in the Caribbean. It became possible for Mr. Eden to deal faithfully with Russia’s strategic interest, and it was pos sible for the British to make the alliance which made the liberal policy possible, when they fell rea sonably certain that we were not likely to go isolationist again, and demand at some later date the abrogation of the Russian ailance as the price of our friendship. It was necessary, therefore, that we should develop our position to the point where little doubt remained that we really meant to pursue a United Nations policy during and after the war. Our declaration of war against Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary has clarfied our position. The ne gotiations we are conducting under the aegis of lend-lease for relief, rehabilitation and reconsturction have made it evident that we real ly mean to perform and not merely to promise. Thus the truth is that we have contributed decisively to the mo mentous understanding — not be cause we stood primly, piously and privately for abstract principle, but because we have been taking measures, and are preparing to take more measures to play our necessary part in supporting the only kind of order in which a lib eral policy is possible for any na tion. JAPANESE NEARING CHINESE RAILWAYS (Continued from Page One) pied Shangjao, 25 miles west of Kwangfeng, if true, this would narrow the gap between the Jap anese columns to less than 75 miles.) Shangjao, some 50 miles inside Kiangsi province, was raided by “scores of airplanes” operating in relays, the communique said. Sev eral fires were set. Much-bombed Yushan, a sham bles just within Kianagsi, has fallen to the Japanese. Yushan and Shangjao have been the most heav ily bombed points in eastern China since Brig. Gen. James Doolittle led his U. S. army planes over Tokyo and three other Japanese cities in a destructive raid April 18. (The Japanese apparently were striving to find and destroy the “Shangri-La” bases from which the U. S. planes operated.) The main objectives of the cur rent Japanese offensives appeared to be to sever southwest China from the rest of the nation and to protect Japan’s western flank against ai_- raids. Authorities here also have expressed belief that the Japanese are attempting to seize complete control of railways and highways along the Eastern Seabord to provide a direct over land communication route from the Japanese mainland througn French Indo-China and Thailand to Malaya and Singapore. Such an achievement would go far to consolidate the sweeping Japanese conquests in her six months war against Britain and the United States, and relieve the strain on her merchant fleet. OFFICERS PRESS HUNT FOR KLUTTZ Politician Wanted On Ca pias For Contempt Of Court CONCORD. June 15—</Pt— Officers were hunting Stoner W. Kluttz of Salisbury, a lawyer and republican senatorial candidate in the recent primary, tonight to serve a capias for his arrest to answer a citation for contempt of court. The capias was issued by Su perior Court Judge Zeb V. Nettles, who is holding court here, after Kluttz failed to appear t the court’s order. Just before issuing it, the judge overruled a motion by Buford Blackwelder, Concord attorney, seeking to disaualify Net tles as the presiding judge. Kluttz had charged that the court had entered into a conspiracy to deprive him of h's rights as a citizen and was held in contempt by Judge Nettles, who previously had ordered him to appear at had ordered him to apear at Asheboro June 23, but amended his order in a move to disoose of the matter while he was here this week. The contempt charge grew out of Kluttz’ contentions that he and a court defendant for whom he was bondsman had been unfairly treated because he was a repub lican and the opposing council was a democrat. After issuing the capias. Judge Nettles continued the hearing until 2 p.m. when Kluttz failed to show up at that hour, an indeterminate recess was ordered pending his arrival. Officer H. A. Logan, who went to serve the capias on Kluttz, said the Salisbury lawyer got out of a downtown office about the time he arrived Sheriff R. C. Hoover and Patrolman Frank W. Reynolds rode out the Salisbury road in the direction Logan said that Kluttz was heading. From Salisbury, officers report ed they still were trying to find Kluttz. ENEMY RAIDERS RETURN TO GULF (Continued From Page One) six lives and 27 men were res cued. Survivors of the larger Ameri can merchant crart, sent to the bottom June 1 south of Cuba, twice out-argued would-be rescuers to wave them out of the danger area. Fifty-three men then made port in two lifeboats. Second Mate Wil liam J. McCarty of New York city said both attempted rescues were made by Brazilian ships but that the men finally convinced the two to get out of the danger zone. Two seamen were killed In the sinking. Argentine maritime police re ported the torpedoing of the 9, 234-ton South Africa and said that 23 survivors refused rescue by an Argentine tanker which sighted their lifeboat off the northeast coast of South America. An offi cial announcement said the men were given food but declined to board the passing vessel. From an east coast Canadian port came word of the landing of 25 survivors of a ship sunk in the Atlantic. Three women were re ported in the group. Meanwhile, 13 seamen from a medium-sized freighter whose sinking was announced last Thurs day landed at an eastern port and told how the submarine’s' crew apoligized for killing some of the freighter crew. One of the U-boat’s officers also told the survivors that “Germany and America should not be fighting each other”. Before submerging his craft, the officer discussed the merits of American and German beer with the victims. -V Mrs. Gros Convicted On Conspiracy Charge LOS ANGELES, June 15.—(iP)— Mrs. Frances Goellert. Gros, con victed on charges of conspiring with her husband, *Dr. Hans Hel mut Gros, to send defense infor mation to Germany, was sentenc ed today to 18 months imprison ment. Gros, wh?) told government op eratives he came here from Ger many with sabotage orders' from Reinh. rd Heydrich, Naz: execu tioner recently assassinated by the Czechs, is under 10 year sentence on a similar'charge. Next time you need calomel take Calotabs, the improved calomel compound tablets that make calo mel-taking pleasant. Sugar-coated, agreeable, prompt, and effective. Not necessary to follow with salts or castor oil. Use only as directed on label. ) Nuisance To Japs a hat bullet wo,und over the eye of Frank L. Melo, 21, of Astoria, New York, doesn’t bother him half as much as he annoyed the Japs. It’s a souvenir of the Midway battle. He was in an army medi um bomber- in the thickest part of the fighting and helped launch a torpedo at a fleeing Jap carrier.— Plionephoto by 7tli Air Force. Navy Warns Residents Of Area To Beware Of Explosives On Beaches Warning to coastal residents of this area to beware of any torpe does, mines, aerial bombs, deptn charges, or other objects suspect ed of being explosive which may wash on beach was issued Mon day by the Navy. Such explosives—of enemy or Al lied origin—may be expected to wash ashore, particularly after rough weather. Some of the mines now being used are so sensitive that the mere footsteps of a person approaching too close may set them off. Under no circumstance should they be touched or moved, except by a disposal expert of the Navy. When in doubt as to whether an object on the beach is an explo sive, the safest procedure is to keep as far away from it as pos sible, until an expert arrives at the scene, officials of the Sixth Naval District said. The area should be cleared im mediately and then roped off so that no one can come closer than 1,000 yards. Guards should be post ed, and the Inshore Patrol, Sec tion Base, Charleston, S. C. should be notified. The telephone number is 20525, extension 24, and the charges of long distance calls may be reversed. Persons who find objects sus pected of being explosives also may notify the nearest Navy, Coast Guard, Marine or Army of fice, with instructions that the in formation be relayed to the In shore Patrol. In case you don’t know what mines, torpedo es and depth charges look like, here’s a brief description of each, as furnished by the Navy: Mines — Some are spherical, some are cylindrical or torpedo shaped. The spherical ones have a diameter of about three feet, and sometimes have horn-shaped pro trusions. The c; lindrical or torpe do-shaped mines are five to eight feet long and about two feet in diameter; one end is rounded like a bullet, and the other end may have fins. Torpedoes—These are cylindri cal, with double propeller and rud ders at tail. The usual size is about 16 feet long and 18 to 21 inches in diameter. Depth charges—These are cylin ders, shaped like small kegs or ash cans. They usually are two to three feet long and 15 to 18 inches in diameter. 2 -V The Ruhr mines produce three fourths of Germany’s coal. Eight Men Convicted On Gambling Charges Eight persons were taxed one third of the set cost on charges of gambling at hearings Monday . morning in Recorder’s court. Taxed on the charge were Har ry Conyers, Christopher Bryant. Giles Bullock, Willie Sims, Chal mers Stover, Troy Murphy, Pres ton Washington, Jr., and James Williams. Charged with violation of the stop law, Willard E. Hasty, George E. Johnson, James IV. Spiers and at the expiration of the sentence third of the set cost. Willie Hankins was sentenced to 30 days in jail to be assigned to the county farm on a charge of assault on a female. The sentence was ordered to begin July 20. Charged with tampering with an automobile, LeRoy Lennon was sentenced to serve four months on the roads. Livingston Mayes, charged with escaping from the county farm, was sentenced to one month in jail to be assigned to the county farm with the sentence to begin at the expiratio of the sentence; he is now serving. Charged with assault with a deadly weapon, Hallie Barton was fined the cost and restitution of $18 to the affiant or 30 days in default. Martha E. Brown was sentenced ! to six months in jail to be assign ed to Camp 404 on a charge of prostitution. Charged with assault with a deadly weapon, George Dixon was fined $30 and cost or 30 days in default. James Edward Cottier was fined $10 and cost on a charge of speed ing. Charged with assault with a deadly weapon, Levance Dixon was fined $15 and cost or 20 days in default. He was granted a 10 day stay under $25 bond. T. J. Gurganious was fined $50 and cost, $20 of the fine being re mitted, on a charge of speeding. Charged with fornication and adultery, Clara Hayard and Bill Dennis were sentenced to t h ree months each on the county farm. They were granted a 10-day stay under $200 bond each. Bill Dennis was sentenced to two months in jail to be assigned to the county farm on a charge of violation of the liquor law. The sen. tence was ordered to begin at the expiration of the sentence above. Dennis was given a 10-day stay with bond in the case set at $100. Charged with fornication and adultery, Sam Coleman and Mable Davis were fined $25 and cost each, the fine being remitted as to each after their marriage license was exhibited in open court. Mrs. J. L. Foy and Leonard W. McBroom, charged with occupying the same bedroom for immoral purposes, were sentenced to three months in jail each to be assign ed to the county farm and the roads, respectively. Both gave no tive of appeal to Superior court with bond for Mrs. Foy being set at $150 and for McBroom at $250. -V APPOINTED FORT JACKSON, S. C., June 15 —W—Lieut. Col. Paul R. Younts, former Charlotte, N. C., postmas ter, was appointed today personnel (G-Q) officer on the 30th Infantry Division staff. He was training and operations (G-3) officer. COST OF LIVING SHOWS DECREASE Very Slight Downward Trend Shown But Is Balanced WASHINGTON, June 15.— « — rhe cost - of - living in large cities Iropped slightly in the last half of Hay, the Labor department report. ;d today. The decrease was only 0.1 per :ent but it was the first time the ndex has shown a change in that iirection in 19 months, or since November, 1940. From mid-April to mid-May there was a net ad vance of 0.8 per cent in total liv ing costs. “The stabilization of the index in this period (May 15 to June 2),” said Secretary Perkins, “repre- * sents in large part a balance be tween increases in the prices of certain foods which are not subject to control and decreases in prices of controlled foods, clothing, nouse furnishings, and rents in some areas.” The cost of food subject to the general maximum price regulation declined an average of 1.1 per cent from May 15 to June 2. but foods not subject to price ceilings rose an average of 2.4 per cent in cost. Retail price regulation became effedtive on May 18 but did not cover about 40 per cent of the av erage city family’s food budget, the bureau said. The increase in the total food bill of the average city family in 21 cities was 0.3 per cent. This is the lowest rate of increase observ ed this year. In the month preced ing price control, the rate of in crease in 51 cities surveyed wai 1.7 per cent. -V KICKED BY HORSE WHITEVILLE, June 15—Elmore Hooks, 5, son of Leroy Hooks of near Whiteville received a broken jaw yesterday afternoon when kicked by a horse. Eases the Pain —■ Soothes the Nerves The quick-acting ingredients in the “BC” formula ease headaches promptly and gently soothe nerves upset by the pain. Also relieves neu ralgia, muscular aches and func tional periodic pains. 10c and 25c sizes. Use only as directed. Consult a physician when pains persist. PROFIT OPPORTPHITY Great demand for trailer homes for defense workers presents real profit opportipiity. Business assured for the duration and afterward selling rSCHl'LT, the nation's leading house trailer. This is one of the few' territories open for Sclyilt representation. Become a distributor or dealer. Moderate investment pays excellent returns. Many have built fine permanent businesses. Write today. SCHULT TRAILERS, INC. Elkhart, Ind. ! ——a—— If you are planning to move and want telephone service at your new address, please call the Tele phone Business Office. ' Because of the recent conser vation order designed to divert large amounts of critical materials to war production, we may not be able to meet your telephone re quirements at some other address. So before you make arrange ments to move, ask the business office about the possibility of get ting service at your new address. W. B. BRYAN, Manager SOUTHERI) BELLTELEPHOnE RnD TELEGRAPH COIRPHnU INCORPORATED
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