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BRITISH ADVISOR ARRIVES IN N. Y. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross Lands At LaGuardia Airport NEW YORK. June 28—UP)—'Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief econo mic advisor to the British govern ment, and Sir Earle C. Page, for mer Australian prime minister and recently Australian representative the British war cabinet, arrived at La Guardia field today aboard a transatlantic clipper. Both men said they will go to Washington where they will discuss post-war reconstruction and post-war relief. Sir Frederick said he would re main in this country for six weeks at the invitation of the State De partment to “consult on long-range economic problems.” Dr. Page, who has been abroad since October, 1941, said he plan ned to return to Australia after holding conferences with officials in Washington. Five Swedish newspapermen, who will make a four-months tour of the United States at the invita tion of the National Press Club through the Cultural Relations di vision of the State Department, also were among the 12 passeng ers on the clipper. DESERT BATTLE RAGES IN EGYPT (Continued from Page One) three armored divisions backed by infantry and artillery. Some positions west of Matruh were by-passed but the main Allied positions held firmly intact. (Spanish press carried a report attributed to the New York corres pondent of the EFE agency—uncon firmed from any other source — that United States troops now face Rommel. U. S. supply troops are in Egypt behind the battlelines, but there have been no authoritative accounts that American Army forces are in the battle.) As the sun set last night behind clouds of choking dust raised by the clanking treads of tank runners which tore up the hard, brown des ert floor, the . fighting continued. The official British communique summed up the opening phases of the fighting, some 115 miles inside Egypt and 165 miles from the vital naval base at Alexandria: “Our forces closed with the ene my yesterday and heavy fighting followed all day,” it said, “Enemy armored forces which have by - passed our position west of Matruh were met by our battle troops. Some of our armored forces at tacked enemy armored forces west of Matruh. The battle continues.” 'The Italian communique said the Axis army had reached a posi tion on the coast road about 19 m les beyond Matruh and that sev eral hundred prisoners were cap tured and “several dozen” tanks and a number of batteries were de stroyed. The Italians also acknowl edged that two of their generals had fallen on Egyptian soil. ACKNOWLEDGED BY ROME ROME (From Italian Broad casts), June 28— (#) —Two Italian generals fell in action on Egyptian soil two days ago, the official Ital ian news agency, Stefani, announc ed today, identifying them as Gen eral Ettore Baldassarre, comman der of an Italian army corps, and i General Guido Piacenza. NEW GUNS ARRIVE CAIRO, Egypt, June 28— W) — counter the advantage held by Ger many’s famous 88 millimeter can non, the British have rushed to the Egyptian front a large number of newly-arrived guns, especially an anti-tank six-pounder. Artillery is playing a greater part in the struggle now that in fantry and fixed positions count for : 'less than in the earlier stages. Each side is moving its artillery rapidly around the desert sands, seeking good positions to ambush enemy tanks. 3 CAROLINAS STRUCK f BY GAS SHORTAGE ;X (Continued from Page One) Salem, N. C-, one company with 35 retail outlets reported that only two had any gasoline last night. . Most stations were closed Sun day under governmen regulations ■ as to weekly opening hours but a large number in numerous and va - tried points in the two states were not expected to open as usual to morrow. Motorists who made no effort to beat the price rise and anticipated obtaining an alloted six gallons on Monday for operations the first of the week were expected to find it difficult to get fuel. CONGRESS DISCUSSES VISIT OF CHURCHILL (Continued from Page One) moves had been made toward clos er cooperation and united action by the two fleets. Noting that the President and Mr. Churchill had said that pro duction of shipping was increasing greatly each month, Senator Ellen der (D.-La) said something more than that had to be done. “The mere fact that we are building ships as fast as they are sunk is little consolation for the loss of lives and property on the high seas,” he commented. 3 JAPS HIT HARD BY U. S. FLIERS (Continued from Page One) been having to take Japan’s in discriminate air attacks without striking back, saw in their own United States pledges of aid ;n growing air force fulfillment of United States pledges of aid in the air against the Japanese. News of the aerial blows to the invader were coupled with an of ficial announcement of the recap ture of Linhsien, in Honan prov ince, last Tuesday. The high command said 1,000 Japanese were slain or wounded in this operation and that more casualties were inflicted when Chinese forces thwarted an enemy counter-attack. Several Japanese units were reported surrounded and cut to pieces in the surround ing mountains. Yukan, a town in northeast Kiangsi, was reported also recap tured after a three-day battle. With this province now the cen ter of Japan’s major effort to press her recently launched westward drive from China’s seaboard, the Chinese said Yukan fell after the advancing enemy had seized Kiang kiapu and Lungtsinshih in the area southeast of Lake Poyang. GERMANS LAUNCH KURSK OFFENSIVE (Continued from Page One) was said to have thrown back 16 enemy attacks in three days. The Germans have announced that the operations in the Kharkov front have been successfully con cluded but Russian battlefield dis patches refuted this with reports that the Red army was counter attacking heavily in several areas and forcing the Germans to re treat. These reports said the German push through Kupyansk, 60 miles southeast of Kharkov, had been halted. The Russian communique, say ing that fighting “continued,” in dicated the Kursk offensive might have been launched before today’s report, but this was the first men tion of the new drive. Kursk, strategically important, is on the Moscow-Crimean rail road. It is about 125 miles north of Kharkov and the report of the new fighting is evidence that the German high command is progres sively putting on the pressure in a northward trend. The Kursk region is just north nf the Ukraine. It is cut by nu merous river and stream valleys mid is predominamtly agricultural. The city of Kursk, with a pop- : illation of 64,230 in 1926. manufac tures cartridges. The Red forces destroyed 334 Enemy planes last week against 1 Soviet losses of 171 planes, the communique reported. The dispatechs from the Kharkov "ront said the Russians with tanks, guns, planes and even an armored train, slashed at the new enemy tines jutting out from Kharkov and that the horizon was black with ‘ the smoke of burning German . :anks. USING GAS MOSCOW, June 28—(A>)—'The Rus sian news agency, Tass, in a dis- ; patch from the Kalinin front, said :oday there was evidence that Oerman punitive detachments had jsed poison gas against “recalci trant” peasants, accused of help ing guerrillas. A guerrilla leader reported that on June 2 he found 19 bodies in a cellar in the village of Ustya. One was a woman with a child in her arms. They had no wounds and examination led to the con clusion that all were poisoned with gas, Tass said. CLIAM HEAVY LOSSES BERLIN, (From German Broad casts), June 28—(IP)—'The destruc tion of the Second Soviet army and parts of the 52nd and 59th Russian armies and the capture of 32,759 prisoners and a quantity of guns and material were an nounced today by the German high command in a special communi que. The Germans declared the Rus sian forces were encircled in the Volkhoy front south of Leningrad after months of bitter fighting. “The casualties suffered by the Soviets are many times as high as the number of prisoners,” the announcement said. The Russians succeeded in cross ing the frozen Volkhov river north of Lake Ilmen and driving a deep wedge into the German defenses last February, the high command announced. rm_ ri_ 4._ _ Then German troops, supported by formations of Spanish, Dutch and Flemish volunteers and the Nazi air force, cut off the se armies from the rear communica tions in the succeeding fighting, pressed them closer and closer to gether, and ‘today finally destroy ed them,” the high command ad ded. The communique summed up the action as follows: “The Soviets, according to re ports so far available, ave lost 32,759 prisoners, 649 guns, 17 1 tanks, 2,904 machine guns, trench mortars and pistols as well as oth er war material.” NAZI GOVERNMENT THREATENS.BRAZIL (Continued from Pare One) stand “did not correspond with the feeling of the Brazilian people” and called President Roosevelt one of the main instigators of the Bra zilian government’s action, “In so far as the Brazilian gov ernment does not take measures without delay to put an end to these grievances,” the statement concluded, “the Reich government will take counter-measures.” 3 r I DOUGHBOYS WANT LOTS OF GOOD TIMES American Soldiers Go In For Popular Music In Big Way NEW YORK, June 25. — (Wide World)—All that fuss and bother the boys of Tin Pan Alley were put to at the beginning of the war has apparently come to nothing. They rhymed Japs with taps and slaps and raps and dashed off some tunes which have been mer cifully forgotten since Pearl Har bor. But the service men, it now appears, like the same songs thp civilians sing, and the civilians in, this war are going in for the same old pre-war stuff. Edward Arthur Dolph, editor of “Sound Off!”, a collection of sol dier songs from the American Rev olution to the current war, main tanis in the preface to his book which Farrar and Reinehart pub lish that the soldier likes to sing of his profession. But Dinah Shore, the singer, be lieves otherwise. “A singing army is a cheerful army, and a cheerful army is in vincible,” writes Dolph. “And some day, God willing, there will be added to this collection the ex ultant lines some airman sings as he bombs Tokyo, and the ribald ballad some doughboy shouts as he marches into Berlin.” That, plainly, is the he-man ap proach. t Miss Shore, having made a sur vey of the camps, says the men want ballads which move a little and that “Tangerine”—a fox trot ballad—was top choice. Second favorite was the torch ballad, “I Don’t Want To Walk Without You.” Some camps prefer swing, ac cording to their bandmasters. On the Pacific coast, blues topped the list. Fort Hancock, N. J., reported swing music most in demand, though the boys are not averse to the sprightlier slower tunes. Fav orites listed were “Tangerine.” “1 A In The Army,” "Buckle Down, Winsocki!” and "Sleepy Lagoon.” “I wonder,” wrote the bandmas ter, Chief Warrant Officer Edwin Bishop, “if you’d be surprised to know that very few of the men go for the gushy, flag-waving songs or the melancholy numbers.” Southern camps apparently hold Eew jitterbugs and can do without swing, but like ballads, Miss Shore’s’ poll indicated. Fort Ben r.ing. Ga.. men picked “Moonlight Cocktail,” “String of Pearls.” “Tangerine,” “I Don’t Want To Walk Without You,” “Miss You.” “Deep In The Heart Of Texas,” and “You Made Me Love You.” The men at the Presidio, San Francisco, prefer “My Man,” “Jim.” “Miss You,” “Blues In rhe Night.” and “Stardust” and i few of the patriotic airs. At San Luis Obispo, Calif., they arefer blues and swing. “We’ve had to turn our regi mental band into a swing .organi sation to meet this demand,” wrote Warrant Officer F. A. Ruggieri, band leader. So Ruggieri Is the rugcutters delight. At the Infantry Replacement Training Center at Camp Roberts, Calif., the men like songs like “String of Pearls,’’ “Shrine of St. Cecilia.” “Moonlight Cocktail,” “I Don’t Want To Walk Without You,” “Tangerine” and “Jersey Bounce.” The Marines at base headquar ters company, San Diego, Calif., like the classics as well as swing, with these songs among the lead ing popular pieces: “I Don’t Want To Walk Without You,” “The Shrine of St. Cecilia,” “Chatta nooga Choo-Choo,” “Perfidia” and “At The Balalaika.” The Marines at San Diego are versatile lads: They have a pop ular hillbilly band, two swing bands, a 36-piece orchestra and a 90 niece military and concert band. Fliers at Keesler Field, Mass., choose swing and sweet ballads, voting for “Tangerine.” “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree,” “I Ddn’t Want To Walk Without You,” “Miss You” and “Skylark.” Dolph, to return to the author of “Sound Off!” observes that "al though at the beginning of every war new songs are at first pro duced mainly by professional song writers, the soldier himself soon makes his contribution.” “His work may lack the polish and lyrical quality of his profes sional competitor,” he says, "but it is infinitely more satisfying and self-expressive. It may not pass muster in the drawing room, but it preserves for posterity the spir it of the men and the times and the places that make it. “Out of this war, with its far flung lines stretching from Iceland to Australia, will come many a ballad as lusty and bawdy as ‘The Mademoiselle From Armentieres,’ or as stirring and virile as ‘The Caissons Are Rolling Along’.” CONGRESS FACING LEGISLATIVE JAM (Continued from Pafe One) the farm bill is a Senate provision to permit sales of government owned surplus grain at prices be low parity (the price at which a farm commodity has the same pur chasing power as in a previous period, usually 1909-14). The Sen ate last week instructed it's con ferees to insist on this provision, while the House ordered its repre sentatives to hold out for elimina tion of the Senate proposal. The conferees will meet again tomor row. Rents Will Be Reduced In Metropolition Areas • w_i WASHINGTON, June 28— MB — Sections of the. country in which more than a fourth of the nation's population is housed will be brought under Federal rent con trol Wednesday, cutting the cost of housing back to pre-boom levels. There were indications, however, that Price Administrator Leon Henderson might face major bud getary obstacles in extending rent ceilings to all the 366 areas in which he says rents have been ar tifically inflated. Effective July 1, some 60 com munities — including such impor tant cities as Chicago Philadel phia San Francisco, Pittsburgh and SABOTEURS WILL BE HANDLED SWIFTLY (Continued from Pare One) subversive activities) resorted to the expedient of smuggling in sabo teurs showed that Nazi attempts to build up a sabotage system in pre-war days had been crushed, of ficials said. At New York, J. Edgar Hoover said that all of the eight men ar rested had been members of either the German-American Bund or the Friends of New Germany before they went to Germany some time between 1939 and 1941. NEW YORK, June 28— UP) — Along the entire stretch of the At lantic coast today the ceaseless vigil against enemy action was in tensified as a result of the capture of eight submarine-borne German experts in sabotage bent on mis sions of havoc in the United States. Laden with high explosives and carrying almost $150,000 in Ameri can currency, two groups of four each were disclosed by the FBI last night to have been landed on Long Island and on a Florida beach but their plans to spike the Ameri can war effort and weaken morale were thwarted by Federal agents j. nagar Hoover, chief of the FBI, declared that one result of the arrests had been instructions to increase the coast patrol in the event further efforts were made to land enemy agents along the deso late stretches of the Atlantic sea board. Hoover said four of the Germans, all carefully trained for a mission they were .prepared to carry on for two years, landed by rubber boat June 13 from a submarine within 500 yards of the beach at Amagan sett, Long Island, a sparsely set tled section about 100 miles east of New York and not far from the extreme tip of Long Island. Four days later, he added, the other group was put ashore from a German submarine believed to have come from a German port in occupied France at Ponte Verda Beach, near Jacksonville, Fla. The FBI chief did not explain how the information of the land ings was received, but immediate ly FBI agents began a search whicr. resulted eventually in the capture of all eight. Six are in Federal custody in New York and the other two are at Chicago. “We have their full statements of confession,” Hoover said. “WTe have all the plans they brought with them.” These plans called for destruc tion of key railroad centers and bridges in and near New York city, the bombing of three plants of the Aluminum Company of America, destruction of the hydro electric plant at Niagara Falls, bombing of New York city’s water supply system and disruption of certain inland waterway links. The main attack called for by the mission appeared to be cen tered on the light-metal industry by which the Nazis hoped to delay the United States program of air plane construction. For these purposes, Hoover ad ded, the Germans brought with them large cases of explosives, bombs looking like lumps of coal, pen and pencil bombs, fuses, de layed timing in.fruments, incen diary pistols and a collection of acids. The materials were buried in the beach sands and have been recovered by the FBI. The plans also called for plant ing bombs in public places with tha J obvious intent of shaking civilian morale. -V INQUEST SLATED IN NEGRO DEATH *. — - Coroner Allen Announces Hearing For 10 O’Clock This Morning An inquest into the death of Her bert Singleton, negro ice man who was fatally stabbed about 10:45 Sat urdy night at 1019 Hall street, will be held at 10 o clock this morning in the grand jury room at the county courthouse, Coroner Asa W. Allen said Sunday night. Lonnie Manning, 34-year-old negro express man at whose home Single ton was killed, is being held by po lice in connection with the stabbing. Coroner Allen said he would em panel a jury composed of L. D. Thompson, E. K. Sherman, F. S. Garrison, B. T. Hopkins, O. ft. Mar tin and W. C. Riggs at 9:30 o’clock this morning at Shaw’s Funeral home. Officer J. T. Rich said Manning told him he stabbed Singleton after a fight between the two following an argument over a woman. Police said Singleton was stabbed in the chest three times with a butcher knife. Manning was placed in jail after receiving treatment at the James Walker Memorial hos pital; Newark, N. J. — will be added to the 20 areas in which rents were reduced June 1. The new regula tions will apply to hotels and room ing houses as well as to apart ments and rented homes. The 80 areas embrace a popula tion of about 38,000,000. Dates to which rents must be cut back vary in different sections —January 1, April 1 or July 1, 1941, or M«rch 1, 1942. Officials said that plans for the remaining communities designated as "defense-rental areas” would depend largely on the fate of the OPA’s budget requests, now be fore Congress. A house subcom mittee has voted to slash the $166, 000,000 budget by nearly half. The rent administrators for the 60 areas to be covered July 1 probably will be announced tomor row. Officials cautioned that tenants paying July rent in advance should pay only the rent charged for their apartments on the maximum rent date fixed by OPA. The tenant may ask the landlord to advise him of the rent charged for the apartment on the maximum rent date. No refunds will be ordered if the tenant overpays his landlord In July. Before August rent is due, however, the Federal rent director for each area will fix the exact amount of rent each tenant should pay, and landlords will be held liable for violaton. Another price ceiling order, peg ging charges for consumer serv ices at the highest levels of March, also becomes effective Wednesday. The order covers such services as laundries, garages a nd repair shops, but exempts professional services such as those of doctors, lawyers and barbers. -V City Briefs HEAR FROM SON Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Ketchum, 417 Castle street, received a ca ble Friday night from their son, Allen Harold Ketchum, who revealed he is overseas. Young Ketchum said he arrived safely, and is feeling fine. DINNER All negro churches in this section are invited to attend a dinner at four-mile stop on Market street road on July 4. Proceeds will go towards the construction of Sweet Pilgrim Baptist church, of which the Rev. Simpson is pastor. TO RESUME CLASSES The Red Cross Home Nursing course, taught by Miss Pearl Staplin, will resume classes Tuesday night, 7:30 o’clock, at the USO club, Fifth and Orange streets. GRANDS CLUB The Past Noble Grands club of Letitia Rebekah Lodge, No. 3, will meet Thursday evening with Mrs. L. T. C. Skipper, 210 North 11th street. UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs. S. W. Brinson, of Win ter Park, is resting comforta bly and her condition is not se rious following a major opera tion at Bulluck hospital Satur day morning. SHIP NOW BUILT EVERT SIX DATS (Continued from Paje One) Scott, of Newport News, Va., both sisters of the sponsor. Shipyard officials said produc tion of 10,000-ton freighters for the Maritime commission at the yard reached the rate of one every six days with the launching of the Up. shur Sunday. Production is to be stepped up shortly with the com pletion of improvements which are now under construction at the yard The sponsor and matrons of honor are great nieces of Abel Parker Upshur, who served as sec retary of state following the res ignation of Daniel Webster. Upshur, a native of eastern Vir ginia, was killed while aboard the USS Princeton on the Potomac riv er on February 28, 1844. His death was caused by explosion of a gun which was being tested before an official party including the Presi dent. -V FAMED CATHEDRAL DAMAGED BY NAZIS (Continued from Page One) where Queen Elizabeth stayed, was burned out, as well as several places with Dickensian associa tions. Prominent residents of the town said morale never faltered. One of them said: “I still wonder at the perfect calm and courage of the people of Canterbury. Hundreds of people are homeless but the only anxiety expressed was “how much can I do for somebody else’” -V All Cape Fear Games Postponed Due To Rain All Cape Fear league baseball games, scheduled for Sunday after noon, were postponed because of rain, officials said Sunday night. League officials will meet at 7:30 o’clock tonight at the county court house to map plans for the second half of the season. LAGUARDIA TELLS PUBLIC OF STAND Says Only Threat Was To Hitler; Many Men Have Enrolled In 0. C. D. NEW YORK, June 28—(IP)—In a reply to charges that his letter to New York city 3-A draft registrants advising them to enlist in the city patrol corps was a “threat,” Mayor F H. LaGuardia declared in a radio address today that “tha threat was to Hitler.” Describing his letter as a “call for volunteers,” Mayor LaGuardia said, “the New York Times called it a “threat.” The threat was to Hitler, New York Times! The threat was to Hitler!” The letter v, arned 3-A registrants that their names would be reported to local draft boards if they did not volun teer for civilian defense. The plan was worked out 10 months ago when he was director of civilian defense, the mayor said , “The Selective Service Adminis tration was informed of it, and ordered all local boards to notify deferred men of civilian defense activities,” he said, adding that it was by this means the services of thousand of air raid wardens were obtained several months ago. The mayor spoke over station WNYC, the city’s municipal radio station. Meanwhile, it was learned that approximately 90 per cent of the 7,000 men to whom the mayor’s letter was sent have applied for enrollment in the city patrol corps, whose members guard vital places in the city. --—V Nazis Recruiting Wives Of Imprisoned French For Work In Industries VICHY, France, June 28— UP) — French women whose husbands have been in German prison camps for the last two years and who seek work in towns near where their husbands are imprisoned are a source of enlistment for work in the Reich, the French news i 'ency CFI disclosed today. The government “department of French labor in Germany in a statement said it had nothing di rectly to do with recruiting such labor but was only protecting its interests. -V Special Gunlock On Sab Noted By Crew Of Ship LONDON, Monday, June 29.—(iP) —The News Chronicle quoted a member of the crew of a British ship today as saying that a sub marine which destroyed his vessel ^vas equipped with a special gunlock from which gunners wearing strange helmets covering both face and head, emerged ready to fire immediately. Ordinarily gunners must scramble out of the conning tower to man a submarine’s deck guns after it comes to the surface. The New Chronicle’s naval com mentator said that submarine gun locks are not new, but in the case of all previously known tyeps gun ners must get to their post through the conning tower. -V Obituaries C. J. MARSHBURN WALLACE, June 28 — C. J. Marshburn died suddenly Saturday at his home here. Funeral arrangements were in complete Sunday. Mr. Marshburn had been con nected with the Farm Security Ad ministration in Duplin county for several years. Suriving are his widow, Mrs. Co rine Powell Marshburn; two sons, Norwood Marshburn, Wallace, and Freeman Marshburn, Kessler Field Miss.; one daughter, Mrs. J. T. Lane, Siler City; one sister, Miss Addie Marshburn, Wallace; two brothers, Dr. R. F. Marshburn, Sa lemburg, and J. H. Marshburn, Rosehill. 3 MRS. ANNA GRANT Mrs. Anna Grant, 35, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. F. Smith at W’rightsville Beach, Sunday night at 9 o’clock. She is survived by three daugh ters, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. C. David Jones of this city, and Mrs. Hans Klopsch of Mystic, Conn.; three grandchildren, Miss Grant Jones, Miss Patricia Grant and Mrs. Rich ard Rowland, all of Wilmington; and one grandson, Windsor Bissell of Wilmington. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 5 o’clock from St. James church, with the Rev. Mor timer Glover in charge. Interment will follow in Oakdale cemetery. Active pallbearers will be: Julien K. Taylor, Allen Whitehead, W. L. Lucas, Donald C. King, R. O. Grant and W. F. Register. Honorary pallbearers will be: Dr. G. M. Koseruba, Dr. J. D. Freeman, Joe E. Brinkley, John Carter, Pred Poisson, Lacy King, Herbert Kendall, H. R. Gardner, Dr. H. K. Thompson, and Dr. J. A. Oldham. ROBERT M. CAIN Robert Meredith Cain, of Lufkin, Texas, brother of Mrs. E. Z. Mil ton of Wilmington, died Friday night after a brief illness. A native of Wilmington, Mr. Cain had lived in Texas for 40 years. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Cain of Wilmington. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Hattie Walker Cain and one son, Jimmy Cain, both of Lufkin. % BREMEN ATTACKED AGAIN BY BRITISH (Continued from Face One) places in northwest Germany, air fields and war plants of inland and coastal France and Nazi shipping in the channel. The Lannion airdrome, in Brittany, came in for a particul arly violent attack. One enemy ship was bombed and left aflame off Cherbourg. The operations cost the British 11 planes — nine bombers and two fighters — the air ministry an nounced. The German radio claimed destruction of 14 RAF craft. Acknowledging that the northwest German coast was hard hit during the night by British high explosive and fire bombs, the Berlin radio con firmed that Bremen was the main target but — as usual — contended that only residential areas suffered. BRITISH WAIT” FOR CHURCHILL (Continued from Pare One) spiked by a Churchill statement of confidence that Egypt would not be lost and his report on the Wash, ington conversations which seem to foreshadow opening of a second front at the earliest time possible. On one vital point, however, it was thought the issue would ines capably be joined — whether the prime minister and the minister of defense would remain one. Evi dently sentiment for their full sep aration is growing. J.nis division of functions at the top is central to the whole problem of war direction,” said the Sunday Times which emphasized that the presence in Washington of Church ill and the chief of the imperial general staff “reinforces the argu ment that the prime minister, in spite of his great experience, ought not also to be minister of defense.” “The position of minister of de fense is now, with the best organi zation—and ours is not of the best —a full time job for any man. Who. ever holds the office should con centrate his whole mind upon it in the whole of his working time with out the distraction of competing duties. That he should also be prime minister is to ask for trou ble.” Lord Winster, former parliamen tary secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at Ipswich said “the country has no wish to lose Mr. Churchill as prime minis ter but it is idle to deny it has lost confidence in his direction of the war and would like to see him abandon and abolish the office of minister of defense. “We want a government which presents us with some victories, not with a string of excuses for a series of defeats. Parliament is beating the wind in debating the question of confidence in the gov ernment because confidence, so far as the public is concerned, went after Singapore.” 3 WEATHER (Continued from Page One) WASHINGTON, June 28— {&)—'Weather Bureau records of 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 _ 81 64 0.00 Atlanta _ 90 68 0.00 Boston_ 78 61 0.00 Buffalo _ 82 57 0.00 Chicago _ 92 71 0.00 Denver _ 78 49 0.00 El Paso_ 98 73 0.00 Fort Worth _ 106 97 0.00 Galveston _ 90 79 0.00 Jacksonville _ 92 70 0.00 Key West _ 86 78 0.00 Memphis _ 97 73 0.08 New Orleans _ 92 77 0.00 New York_ 80 61 0.00 Norfolk- 77 71 0.00 Portland. Me. _ 77 52 0.00 Savannah _ 88 72 0.00 Tampa - 87 72 0.75 Vicksburg - 96 71 0.00 NEW RATIONING CALLED “FARCE" Lawyer Criticizes Perm* nent Coupon Method Of Doling Gas ASBURY PARK, N. J. Jlm. , —OP)—1The permanent coupon r? tioning system for gasoline seh? uled to go into effect in east coast states July 22, was critic ? today as a “farce” by Sol ? Herzog, general counsel of th Eastern Seaboard Retail Gasni? Dealers conference. Herzog, attending a meetir,, called by dealers seeking J”'. from a motor fuel drought that h pushed more than half th» au? mobiles in this area off the hie? ways this weekend, said in an » terview the new rationing Svst? would not be any impr™lm ever the old. Of the present pi?; he declared: p au '“There were more tickets son sea? baU game than there »£ Earlier, addressing 200 deale from states reaching from Ma‘"' to Georgia attending the session a the Berkeley Carteret hotel n? John W. Frey, director of marU ing for the Office of the Petroleum coordinator. indicated Eene»! gasoline rationing would be #v tended to neighboring states verv shortly. • , Stocte (of gasoline) jn zones adjacent to the rationed area; are dropping,” said Frey. "Thev mav soon join you.” ' J Meanwhile, New Jersey and othe. eastern areas were undergoinr their most acute ”gasless” week" end since the start of rationing Motorists swarmed around the fev, fortunate dealers who managed to obtain supplies of the precious fue and wiped out their scant stock; m a matter of minutes. Most motorists accepted the inevitable and kept their cars in garages. Those lucky enough to have a few gallons sloshing around in their tanks confined their driv* ing to short trips. -V ART EXHIBIT FORT BRAGG, June 28.— (Jp) — Art work by three Fort Bragg- sol diers — Corporal Melvin Robbins. Corporal Technician Ray Langet and Pvt. Lester Polakov — will lie included in an exhibition at the Nt tional Gallery of Art in Washington which opens July 5. Keep Your Car In Shape. Expert Motor Repair. 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