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NICARAGUAN AND U. S. SHIPS SUNK Of Life Heavy As Sub marines Continue Attacks Against Shipping an east COAST PORT, June 20.—(/Pi—Two more merchant ves sels. one a small United States ship m the Caribbean and the other a small Nicaraguan vessel have been sunk by enemy tor pedoes with loss of life in eacn sinking, the Navy announced today. Only five of the 25-man crew escaped the swift destruction of ;he Nicaraguan ship on the night of June 15. A torpedo from a German sub marine sent the little vessel to the bottom in a minute and a half, some 60 miles off shore. The five who escaped did so by cutting a lifeboat free and jumping in as the sea swirled up to it, ac cording to the naval announce ment. xnev estdpcu a. secona lime a few minutes later when the at tacking submarine, apparently ac cidentally, damaged the lifeboat. One man was taken aboard the raider for questioning. In the other sinking, the heroic captain of the small United States freighter shepherded his crew off the ship as the submarine maneuv ered to launch a torpedo, put his own lifebelt around a sailor, ana then died when the explosion came. He was identified as Capt. Wil liam H. Lane of Philadelphia, ana described by Jacob L. Gregory, second assistant engineer, as "the bravest man who ever looked death in the face.” Despite his efforts, a lifeboat containing four men disappeared when the torpedo struck and the t’3 surviving crewmen expressed belief that it was blown to bits. The ship sank in .50 seconds after the attack on June 1. Chief Officer Walter Ruge of (444 E. 92nd St.) New York city, saw the submarine on the surface, some minutes before the torpedo was launched. He gave the alarm. Captain Lane ordered boats to pull away and told Ruge to jumu over the side and swim for a life boat. The captain took off his lifebelt and tossed it to a seaman who dived over the side and swam for safety. One boat was slow in getting away. Captain Lane stood on the deck, encouraging the four men in it to pull away from the doomed craft. At that moment the torpedo exploded. The boat, its men and the captain disappeared. -V LEON HENDERSON OFFERS TO QUIT 'Continued from P*(e One) rinch the title in view of “some things still to be done.” Discussing the $161,000,000, ap propriation request—which he had said might be pared in a move to iiscipline him—he described it as modest in view of the huge eco lomic job undertaken by OPA. If he agency is not allowed suffici ?nt funds, he declared, consumers md merchants would be the ones .0 suffer. 2 WEATHER (Continued from Pace One) WASHINGTON, June 20.—(/P)—Weathei Bureau report of temperature and rain all lor the 24 hours ending 8 p. m.: station High Low Prec Asheville - 90 66 0.00 Atlanta - 94 72 0.00 Birmingham - 92 70 0.00 Boston - 81 60 0.00 Bharlotte - 92 72 0.00 Chicago - 80 64 0.64 Detroit - 81 60 0.52 Galveston _ 90 80 0.00 -ouisville _ 88 64 0.00 Memphis _ 91 73 0.00 Miami _ 89 72 0.00 Mobile _ 86 71 1.00 Sew Orleans _ 88 79 0.42 N'ew York_ 89 65 0.00 Norfolk_ 91 68 0.00 Richmond_ 91 67 0.00 Si Louis _ 90 73 0.00 savannah___ 94 75 0.00 Washington _ 92 71 0.09 Wilmington_ 93 66 0.00 -v SOAP BUBBLES—$40,000 WORTH That was quite a soap bubble party put on in Long Beach, Calif., by ten-year-old Jack and seven year-old John. The boys admitted to police they turned a fire hose “-and a total loss. Nice Slock Of PIANOS AT PRE-WAR PRICES BUY BEFORE STOCK IS EXHAUSTED NcGRATH & GO. 108 Market Dial 354< WILL LOVE TAKE LOY OFF SCREEN? Honeymooning at Miami Beach, Film Actress Mvrna Loy is non committal about possible retirement from screen. New husband, John U. Hertz, Jr., indicated wife’s plans didn’t include film work. Obituaries ' • — WILLIAM N. BETTS William N. Betts, 58, died in a local hospital yesterday morning at 7 o'clock after a two weeks ill ness. Mr. Betts was the son of the late William C. and Mary Haynes Betts, of Wake county. He had re sided in Wilmington for the past 51 years and had been manager oi the Blue Top lodge, where he re sided, for five years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jessie Kirkman Betts, of Wil mington; a son, W. W. Betts, ot Dallas, Texas, and a brother, Dr. E. M. Betts, of Charlottesville, Va. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 4:30 o’clock from the Yopp Funeral home with the Rev. J. Roy Clifford in charge. The body will be sent to Greensboro for interment in Greenhill cemetery Monday morning at 11 o'clock. The Rev. Clyde Turner will have charge of the services there. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. W. A. Kamer, Dr. W. C. Mebane, McLean Glenn, W. D. Hewett, E. M. Farabow, Tom Croom, O. O. Whitlock, Matthew Guthrie, N. j_i Foy, Ira Ferrell and W. F. Cox. MBS. MARY D. BARNHILL ROCKY MOUNT, June 20—<A>>— Mrs. Mary Daws Barnhill, 81, nother of Associate Justice M. V. Barnhill of the State Supreme :ourt, died at a hospital here last light. NATHAN MURRAY Nathan Murray, 93-year old far rier, died at his Maple Hill home it 7:15 o’clock Saturday night ifter an illness of seven weeks. Burial will be at the Cedars :emetery near Wallace at 4 I’clock Sunday afternoon. Mr. Mur ray was a life-long member of the Trinity Baptist church. CHINESE INTERCEPT JAPS NEAR HSIAYI (Continued from Page One) ng in the suburbs of Kwangfeng which is 20 miles inside Kiangsi Erom neighboring Chekiang prov ince. One Japanese column broke through a Chinese cordon at San :hi, five miles southeast of Kwang Eeng early Friday and retreated iorth, a communique said. An other force forced a crossing on the Sin river and captured Wutu, out the Chinese retook the town in the afternoon. In the southeast province of Kwangtung—of which Canton is near the center—counterattacking Chinese forced a crossing of the Pa river from the north and at tacked Yungtam, a town on the Canton-Hankow railway about 40 miles north of Canton. Japanese communications were said to have been disrupted when the Chinese cut the railway south of Yungtam -V—-— Twenty million flowering plants and shrubs were planted along boulevards and in squares of Mos cow, Russia. NAVY SAYS MINES CAUSED SINKING (Continued from Pag;e One) number of long-range submarines equipped for mine laying. Avail able records show several ocean going U-boats of more than 1.000 tons displacement are fitted for minelaying and naval experts be lieve Germany has been busy building more. These are in addi tion to many coastal type U-boats used for laying mines in the wa ters around England and in ship ping lanes leading from that country. Moreover, the Germans recent ly announced what they called an intensive submarine campaign against all shipping along the coast of North America and ex tending east to the shores of Eu rope. While the announcement set June 26 as the deadline for ac tion in that area, it was possible the enemy had started off his cam paign early with minelayers sup plementing the already extensive operations of the torpedo-firing submarines. After the United States entered the first World war, German mines were laid along the Ameri can coast. INCREASE DEFENSES NEW YORK, June 20.—Wl—The Germans acknowledged tonight that the Allies have “strongly in creased” their defenses against Axis submarine attack, particular ly along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the United States. “The fight against enemy sup ply shipping and patrol and escort vessels of the enemy assumed par ticular fierceness in the past week.” said the Berlin radio in a German-language broadcast for European consumption, recorded here by CBS. It continued: “The enemy has strongly in creased his submarine defense and convoy protection, and is using for the battle against the ever-great er submarine danger all available craft. “It could be observed that along the east coast of the United States small and very small coastal ves sels were used for coastal patrol and also for convoy service. “Blimps of the American Navy and all types of land and sea planes are patrolling the 3,000-kil ometer long south and southeast coast of the United States in or der to discover the positions of the Axis underwater raiders.” 4 --—V DEFENSE WORKERS ELIGIBLE FOR TIRES (Continued from Page One) the worker applying for the tire rationing certificate is a perma nent employe, has no other means of transportation, lives two miles or more from his place of em ployment, and regularly carries at least three other workers with him. The new regulation will become effective July 15. 4 SPECIAL SALE RADIOS -BIG SAVINGS EMERSONS — STEWART WARNERS CROSLEYS MOTOROLA AUTO RADIOS BUYNOW —SAVE 220 If fllin Dial 6671 BASES AT RABAUL AND LAE BOMBED Allied Bombing Planes Fight Their Way Through Jap Fighter Defenses ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Sunday, June 21.—(#*)— Allied bombing plans have fought their way through Japanese fighter defenses and bombed the enemy held air bases at Rabaul and Lae, General MaeArthur’s headquarters announced today. At Rabaul, New Britain, the Al lied bombers hit wharf installa tions *n what was termed a suc cessful night attack. At Lae, an important base in New Guinea, the raiders directed their fire on the airdrome, destroy ing two enemy bombers on the ground. The Japanese defense, in which Zero fighter planes took to the air, was described in the daily headquarters communique as inef fective. NAZI ARMY PRESSES DRIVE ON SEVASTOPOL (Continued from Page One) the Black sea fleet stayed aloft to challenge them. In 10 days Rus sian fighters and ground batteries were reported to have killed 2,000 German infantrymen and destroy ed 34 tanks. Situation Grave But the situation there was one of increasing gravity for the stout Russian defenders. Soviet dispatches said the Ger mans made eight successive as saults on the south side June 18 only to be repuled each time by the Red army defenders. One re pulse was carried out at bayonet point, the Russians destroying a regiment of Nazi infantry and de stroying about 2C tanks. Even fiercer fighting was re ported around the northern fortifi cations where the Germans exert ed their greatest effort, with sev eral infantry divisions and many heavy tanks massed in single sec tors. The Red army, both at Sevasto pol and on the other fronts, was considered far stronger, better or ganized, armed and trained after almost a year of war in which millions have fought, bled and died. Across Hitler’s path they stood, from the Arctic to the Black sea, determined to make 1942 the year of his debacle. The Germans at Sevastopol, no longer the cream of Nazi manpow er, hurled themselves against the flaming trenches and concrete blocks in the hope of presenting their fuehrer with the naval base as a present on the first anniver sary of the Russian-German strug gle, next Monday. ±*umsn i>azis But the sailors and gunners, “defending with their breasts every inch of Soviet land,” were punishing the Nazis mercilessly. The Black sea fleet continued to shell the enemy lines and to bring supplies, arms, munitions and food to the besieged garrison. Warships and long range guns wiped out numerous enemy troops in positions well behind the front, military advices said. The cruiser Red Crimea escaped repeated at tempts of the Luftwaffe to si n k ler near the city. There were more than 200 raids on the ship. ;he dispatches said, but she was lot hit. Meanwhile the Russian high command masked its intentions west of Moscow. Soviet military authorities were silent on German reports that a lew Russian offensive had been opened against Smolensk, with waves of infantry attacking behind tank and air support. (An important town in the direc tion of Smolensk was recaptured, said a British broadcast of Mos cow dispatches.) But observers recalled that it was several days after the begin ning of the Russian’s Kharkov of Eensive on May 12 before an an nouncement was made. That of fensive was launched to upset Ger man plans for a German offen sive against Rostov, designed as a companion to the Kerch peninsula drive in the Crimea. Soviet reports told of two bat tles on the Kalinin front, north of Smolensk, in which 1,500 Germans were killed in a 48-hour fight, and more than 700 wiped out in an other two-day combat. Since the ending of the Russians’ winter offensive they have held two salients pointed at Smolensk, which is 220 miles west of Mos cow. One reaches to Dorogobuzh, 50 miles southeast of Smolensk, and the other runs through Toro petz, 120 miles north of Smolensk and extends on into White Russia between Smolensk and Velikie Luki. Caught in the bulge are Gzhatsk, 35 miles west of Moscow, Vyazma and Rzhev. 4 T T General MacArthur Is Named ‘Official Father’ For 1942 SPOKANE, June 20. — — Gen. Douglas MacArthur has been named “official father” for the observance of Father’s Day. Mrs. John Bruce Dodd, foun ier, said the International Father’s Day Association had ^elected him in recognition of his inspirational leadership in (he Philippines and Australia. Actor Lionel Barrymore was given the designaton last year. PASTOR’S CLAIM TO WILL CONTESTED The Rev. Henry Darlington, rector of an Episcopal church in New York, and his wife stand in the corridor of the coiurt building at Whitg Plains, N. Y., during a recess of the hearing in which relatives of the late Mrs. Anna H. Paton contested her $1,000,000 will which named Dr. Darlington as principal beneficiary. The court heard the reading of letters in which the rector expressed love for the wealthy widow who was 78 years of age. Dr. Darlington is 51. -v-----■■■ - ' ■ BRITISH REPULSE TWO AXIS COLUMNS (Continued from Pa*e One) stretches, and were harassing the enemy with repeated raids. Then attacks were exploiting the main problem confronting Marshal Er win Rommel—his lengthened sup ply lines. The Germans surround Tobruk but have not yet moved up to lay siege or assault that strong hold which hurled back every Axis attempt to take it last year in the eight months it was iso lated. The strong defense works at the port continued to threaten the Axis rear. The British also were consoli dating their new positions, much nearer their supply bases, after withdrawing and geting into the strongest possible positions for both defensive and offensive ac tion. Military experts said the situa tion is similar to that of last year just before Gen. Sir Claude Auchinlcck started his offensive which drove the Axis half way to Tripoli before stalling at El Aghei la. (The German high command said “German and Italian troops are carrying on the attack and pursuit of the enemy. Several hun dred prisoners were taken and important supplies captured.” The Italians said Tobruk was bombed.) While critics in London clamor ed for a parliamentary debate on the latest British defeat, it was disclosed that the turning point in the fight came one week ago when a large British tank force ran into an ambush of the effec tive German 88-millimeter guns. COMMITTEE KILLS SALES TAX PLAN (Continued from Pare One) up again for many months, if at all. Tlie vote against a sales tax was not announced but was reported to have been 13 to 8 with two prox ies cast. Representatives McKenough (D 111) and Healey (D-Mass), who led the fight against such a levy, con tended that it would fall dispropor tionately heavy on those with low incomes. By a 10 to 9 vote, the committee agreed tentatively to the pay-as you-go system of collecting individ ual income taxes. It is designed to complete in two years a shift from the current system of paying one year’s taxes the next year to a program of paying at least part of current taxes out of current income. Generally speaking, the new plan would work like this: An ' individual’s annual personal exemptions would be determined and divided by 52 to ascertain the week ly exemptions. A 10 per cent "with holding tax’’ would be levied on that part of the weekly pay check not covered by the exemption. Half of the pay deduction could be used as a credit against 1942 taxes due beginning next March 15, and the other half would accumu late as a credit against 1943 taxes due March 15, 1944. Beginning in 1944, the full 10 per cent deduction would be applied"against 1944 taxes. In order to reach those whose in come is not in the form of regu lar checks, the Treasury proposed a separate treatment for such persons as business men and recipients of rents. TABLE WASHINGTON, June 20. — (IP) — Following is a table of basic exemp tions under the proposed plan for deducting income taxes from the tax-payer's regular paychecks. All income above the amount listed in each category would be subject to a 10 per cent withholding tax: 4 Payroll Single Person » . Period (Not Head of Family) Weekly _$ 11 Bi-Weekly _ 22 Semi-Monthly _ 23 -Monthly _ 46 Quarterly _—— 13S Semi-Annually - 27)1 Annually _ 55? 9,106 REGISTER FOR BOND VOTE Supplement To Federal Funds Needed For King’s Bluff Water Project Registration of voters for th« $600,000 city bond election on Julj 1 ended last night with a total ol 9,106 persons listed on the voting books at the city’s ten precincts. Approval of the bond sale as * supplement to federal funds for the King’s Bluff water supply is soughi in the election. Results of the poll will be based on a majority of votes cast. Registration by precincts: First ward, 655; Second ward first precinct, 795, second precinct 733; Third ward, first precinct, 978, second precinct, 1050.. Fourth ward, 1194; Fifth ward first precinct, 906, second precinct 790; Sixth ward, first precinct, 720 second precinct, 1285. Three Japanese Ships Sunk By British Subs LONDON, June 20. — (A1) — Three large Japanese ships have been tor pedoed and sunk by British subma rines in the narrow straits of Ma lacca, the waterway separating Ma laya and Sumatra, the admiralty an nounced today. One of the submarines, attacking a convoy of three ships, picked oi . the largest and sank it, the commu nique said. Two other vessels were listed as destroyed by another sub marine, but it was not made clear whether the second submarine at tacked the same convoy. The date of the sinkings was not disclosed. -V-— 25 New Automobiles Lost In Harlan Fire HARLAN, Ky., June. 20.—(A)— Twenty-five new automobiles and 25 used cars and trucks were lost in a fire here today which destroy ed the building and contents of the Harlan Motos company. ' A. T .Billips, company manager, estimated the damage at $100,000. He sail none of the loss was .cov ered by insurance. The blaze start ed on a grease rack. -V Prohibition Proposal Denounced By Veterans CHICAGO, June 20. — UP) — The 33rd Division War Veterans’ Asso ciation today denounced proposals for establishment of prohibition areas around military camps a “stab in th eback” to service men. The association, in its annual re union, also voted to return to the state treasury "for the duration” $150,000 appropriated by the legis lature in 1939 for erection of a monument in honor of the division. -V Names Are Selected For New Convoy Ships WASHINGTON, June 20 — (A0 — Ten new convoy escort vessels of the United States Navy will bear the names of ships lost since the outbreak of the war December 7. Secretary of the Navy Knox se lected the names today. They are the Edsall, Jacob Jones, Robert E. Peary, Pillsbury, Pope, Reuben James, Sims, Stewart, and Sturte vant, all destroyers, and the Lang ley, a seaplane tender. The escort vessels are a type of ship built especially for convoy duty. [arried Person or Each Head of Family) Dependent * 26 $ 8.50 52 17.00 55 18.00 110 36.00 330 108.00 660 216.00 1,320 432.00 Sixteen Crippled British Tanks Force Nazis Back During Clash By STEPHEN BARBER CAIRO, Egypt, June 20.— UP — flow 16 crippled British ta n k s, some without ammunition and others with jammed turrets, rum bled out of repair shops and forced an attacking unit of 25 German tanks to withdraw was told today by a middle-aged British major. The major learned the German tanks were shelling the British five miles south of his workshops. Be rounded up 16 tanks and from lancers and Hussars and tank corps men waiting for machines to be repaired recruited a force to drive them. “When I had assembled th e m behind a slight rise, I gave or ders that they were to fire at any thing they could see when they went over the ridge,” the major related. The major stood up in his staff car and fired his revolver as a sign for the first wave of jalopies to advance. “The enemy saw our three waves of tanks coming into action ever the ridge,” he went on, “and for a moment I thought he had called our bluff as he began throw ing over a lot of stuff, supported by artillery. “But this was before he had seen cur heavies. When he saw them— wrecks though they actually were —he turned and withdrew.” As “reinforcements” the major sent forward a young lieutenant in cne tank. , The young officer had no radio. He did not hear the order to with draw when the action ended and chased the German squadron un til he himself was knocked out. The lieutenant managed to es cape with his crew and hid until nightfall. When he returned, the major said, he asked for another t a nk and apologized for losing his own. “Then he handed over two ene my vehicles he and his crew had captured on the way back.” 4 JUNE VALUES FOR THE HOME CHENILLE BEDSPREADS Beautiful new selection of neat patterns and designs in pastel colors. Large variety to select from. One of these spreads on your bed will give your room a cool atmos phere. $J.94 to $0.95 Chenille Bath Room Sets Again we offer you this special. Washable, tufted bath mat and seat cover in a beautiful assortment of pastel colors combinations including pink, 01 OQ blue, green, peach, lavender and rose UPHOLSTERY MATERIAL Save your furniture by reupholstering it with some of this quality material that we have in stock. Floral de signs and solid colors. 36 and 54 inches wide. WILMINGTON, N. C.
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