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BRITISH EVACUATE FORTRESS OF MATRUH (Continued from Page One) arrived and that more were being rushed to the desert battle scene In> jcated every effort was being made ‘ )l(1lster the wavering British eighth army. Shortly afterwards it was dis. flowed that fl-esh troops also had ‘ n thrown into the battle, includ . \ew Zealand units. lHc * Pommel's greatest problem now . his distance from supplies, espe '■ally gasoline for his tanks and ar moved vehicles. The Germans cap nred some food, vehicles and shells ,t fcobruk, but almost all the fuel there was set afire. The British also succeeded in de stroying gasoline stores at Matruh a„d in the region where the tight jir was going on tonight. The Geitnan claim that they • stormed ’ Matruh caused amuse ment in Cairo, since the fortress there was denuded of men and ma terials and was only a dummy to make him use up his supplies. The two ships which the Axis claimed to have set afire in Matruh harbor were disabled vessels which had been there for the past year for ,l,e express purpose of baiting bombers. The decisiv e struggle churned and crashed over a wide expanse of the Egyptian desert less than 175 miles ;10ni Alexandria, Britain’s chief naval base in the eastern Mediter ranean and a keystone in the United Nations' defenses. The American Air Corps already is heavily engaged in the battle for Egypt, flying wing-to-wing with the RAF in strafing and bombing the battle area and ceaselessly attack ing the enemy s lengthening and tenuous supply lines. The Americans also have helped the RAF assault Tobruk and Ben gasi. Axis supply bases in Libya, anil strike back at the Italian bat tle fleet attacking convoys. At least 35 bomb hits were scored by the p, s. fliers on two Italian battle ships. p. ft. Army bombers and the RAF attacked enemy tanks and supply columns throughout the day and night, while on land mobile British artillery pounded vigorously at the advancing Axis Africa corps in a desperate attempt to stem the tide. Great fires of gasoline dumps were set aflame between Matruh and Salum as the Allied fliers strived mightily to cripple Marshal Erwin Rommel’s tenuous supply lines. The British announcement that Matruh was ‘‘evacuated’’ was taken to mean that the eighth army had retired in good order. -V U. S. BOMBERS RAID TINY WAKE ISLAND (Continued from Page One) a former quarterback at West Point “We gave them everything we took over and all our planes return ed without casualties. Only one plane was hit, by a fragment of anti-aircraft. “Credit was shared by all who went on the mission but we cannot disclose all the names. I would give the most credit to the naviga ors who made a perfect flight like oicking up a handkerchief in the ccean. “In fact, it probably was the longest range over-water bombing flight ever achieved. The naviga tion was so excellent that it amaz sd me, and I would have said it couldn't be done when they hit the corner of the tiny island as they said they would.” • Wake is 2.000 nautical miles due west of Hawaii). Meehan added: “We were one minute out when the first burst of anti-aircraft fire just beneath us rocked the squad ron. this being the nearest shot the Japs got at us. I was over the tar gets for five minutes. It was a beautiful sight, like the fourth of July on Coney island, only not so peaceful. They had plenty of for tifications but couldn’t see us and missed their mark. when we came over the island it was the most beautiful sight I ever saw. There was perfect moon light and it was clear, after being overcast all the way over. We hit all our targets, set the main build ing afire, leveled everything on the surface. One plane started to take off from Wake but didn’t get far. Two others got into the air and one tailed us but didn’t attempt to at tack. ‘‘I don't think they’ll get any more planes off from there for some time, and I don’t think we left any for them to take off with. “I never saw such enthusiastic crews, all raring to go and ready to carry this offensive to all the Jap islands. We dropped our bombs from a medium level. There were no lights showing and the Japs seemed slow to go into anti aircraft action after the first burst, but when they did, everything lit up.” Meehan lives in Indianapolis. His wife is at Newburgh, N. Y. Lieut. T. N. Warren, (1781 Napier Ave.), Macon, Ga., one of the nav ■gators, said: “I’m ready to start out again tonight.” BEAT-HEAT After bathing is a good time to apply Mexican Heat Powder to relieve heat rash, and help prevent it. Absorbs perspi ration, often the cause of irritation. Always demand Mexican Heat Powder. 1 ----m AJUAfAAilU A Vll iUVlViim I Parachutists From Crete Seen As Threat To Eeynt British military observers say they expect the next German move in the Libyan agyptian campaign will be co-ordinated with a Nazi parachute invasion from Crete (broken arrow), intended to strike behind British lines in Egypt. German forces in Eibya (mack arrow) now are poised at the Egyptian border, ready to attempt to drive eastward (broken arrow), with the Suez canal as a main objective. Today an d Tomorrow j - BY WALTER LIPPMANN __ The Case Of Professor R ouine ume ago coiners “Weekly” published an article and maps by the professor of geo. graphy at Teachers College, Co lumbia University. It was called “Maps for a New World.” It was an astounding performance. Much the most important aspect of it is not what Professor Renner thinks our war aims ought to be, but how he thinks about them. For while he has no political influence, he is a teacher in an institution which trains teachers who go to all parts of the country. He is a professor in an institution which exercises immense influence upon American education. The outlook for American civili zation would be, I submit, very dark indeed if Professor Renner’s habits of mind were to become at all general in American colleges. For they are the habits of mind which have caused the deepest con cern to lawmakers and to teachers and to the doctors of religion in all ages and in all places. They are the habit of thinking of others as if they were inanimate objects, and the habit of thinking of oneself as above all human standards of good and evil. Professor Renner is no doubt a man of blameless life. But when his ways of thinking are found in a man of violent and ac tive character, it may take a world war to subdue him. * * * A In this way of thinking we fin’d always an overwhelming convic tion that the man is appointed by destiny to improve the human race, to solve its ancient problems, to inaugurate a new order. The man is always convinced that he has heard voices, or that he has intuition, or that he has “scientific knowledge” available only to him self and a few of the specially initi ated. These warning symptons are present in what, speaking “scienti fically,” we may now call the case of Professor R. His special knowl edge is what he calls “political geography”; his appointed missidft is the ‘designing of a new world map to meet democratic specifica tions.” So he clears the ground for his task by dismissing all “the am ateurs of the state departments of the various nations of the world and goes on to say that “every map or blueprint for peace so far has been drawn by self-appointed amateurs.” Professor K’s new world map to meet democratic specifications confirms the clinical picture which these preliminary warning symp toms would lead a student of the human mind to anticipate. In those maps we behold a mind uncon sciously conceiving a series of atrocious and irreparable crimes in order to make a more perfect world. Thus it is Professor Rs view, arrived at by special geo graphical insight, that in a perfect world there would be “a Europe consisting of nine strong nations, any one of which would be strong enough to discourage aggression. Therefore, in order to make tne nine strong nations Professor R. advises the United States-to murder the small nations . and feed them to the bigger nations. He believes, for example, that “to meet democratic specifica tions,“ we should exterminaie the Swiss Republic, and then divide up its territory and its citizens among Germany, Italy and France. The reader must bear with me: I know this is revolting but I must repeat that Professor R. wishes to found a democratic peace on the political murder of the most ancien- repub lic in the Western World. After more than six centuries of Swiss independence, he wishes us to cele brate our victory over Hitler by dismembering the Swiss nation and placing the Swiss people under the domination of three strong foreign powers. We may note in passing that Pro fessor R has not specified whether the destruction of Switzerland is to be done by American troops, or whether we are to incite German, Italian and French troops to do the political murder for us. In any event Switzerland is to be mur dered. * * • We are now no longer astonished at anything that Professor R may propose. Portugal, which has been an independent state for seven cen turies, mus also die. says the pro fssor, because he likes only big, strong states. Belgiurti, too, must die, and the carcass of the Belgian nation is then to be devoured by France, Germany and the Nether lands. For the Netherlands, Professor R in his fine scientific geographi cal spirit has conceived a more subtly refined and masterly end. Having invited it to commit canni balism on Belgium and insuring it the everlasting hatred of the Bel gians, Professor R. wishes the Netherlands tc incorporate itself within the British Commonwealth of Nations and end its days in the enjoyment of “full dominion status.” * • * * His object is, as we have seen, to have Europe made up only of big, strong states. Therefore, Professor R. proceeds to work out a plan by which Germany, which is already big and strong, may be made still bigger and stronger. Now Profes sor R. is no Nazi. In fact he is dif ferent from the Nazis, as any one must see from his proposal to make a somewhat bigger Pan-Ger many than the Nazis used to claim. Thus, in addition to most of Swit zerland, Professor R. gives to Pan Germany Alsace-Lorraine, Luxem burg. some of Belgium, some of the Netherlands, all the Sudeten land, a large part of Poland, all of Austria, all of Hungary and a good fat slice of Rumania. Professor R seems to feel that if the United Nations defeat Hitler they may be able to compel the Germans to ac cept the responsibility of becoming the biggest and strongest of the big strong nations of Europe. Italy makes an equally fat profit out of the war which Professor R says we are fighting for democ racy and to prevent aggression. As a reward for having been defeated, Professor R. gives Italy the whole coast of Dalmatia and most of the coast of Albania, a cut out of Swit ! zerland, a bite of France, Corsica, most of Tunis, Malta and a greatly J enlarged Libya. On his ruling principle that the strong should devour the weak, France does badly as against Ger many and Italy. France also loses Calais to England. But against smaller states France does very well indeed. Professor R gives France a cut of Belgium, Switzer land nad Spain, thus making it cer tain that France will be hated by all her smaller neighbors and that France will hate all her large neighbors. That will do for the present as evidence that Professor Renner is a case worth some more study, and so in the next instalment of this fascinating story (which, being a days’ vacation) we must try to find out how Professor R. got to be the serial, enables me to take a few way he is. 3 WEATHER (Continued from Page One) WASHINGTON, June 29—(/£p)—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. Atlanta _ 89 70 0.00 Atlantic City _ 77 65 0.00 Birmingham _ 90 70 0.00 Poston _ 78 63 0.00 Buffalo _ 88 60 0.00 Cleveland _ 92 62 0.00 Denver _ 75 53 0.12 Detroit _ 90 $ 84 0.00 Ef Paso_ 98 71 0.00 Fort Worth_ 99 74 0.00 Galveston _ 90 79 0.00 Jacksonville - 88 72 0.00 Memphis - 95 72 0.00 Meridian - 93 71 0.42 Miami - 89 67 0.00 New Orleans - 89 77 0.00 Norfolk _ 79 69 0.00 Fortland, Me. ^- 78 54 0.00 Tampa _ 90 74 0.1? Washington- 83 65 0.00 Wilmington -— 84 69 0.7? EIGHT SABOTEURS MAY BE EXECUTED (Continued from Page One) shortly after landing on our coasts from Nazi submarines. “A further and more detailed an nouncement concerning this matter may be expected within 48 hours. ’ Among the problems raised in connection with the prosecution of the case is the fact that two of the eight men are American citi zens. Another question which must be settled and on which nothing has yet been made public is whether the members of the groups landed from the submarines were mem bers of the German military. If so, they could be treated as spies because they were found in this country in civilian uniform. The penalty for spies is death, the same as it would be in the case of treason, a charge which could be placed only against American citi zens. DETAINED HERE Two of the eight Nazi agents, captured by Federal authorities after they had been landed on the beach at Long Island, N. Y., and Jacksonville, Fla., by German sub marines, were among the seven German crew members of the 45 foot yawl Lakala which was de tained for nine days at the Marine service pier at Wrightsville sound by government authorities in De cember, 1939. The two men, who, together witl, their comrades, carried a total of $170,000 in U. S. currency and cases rf high explosives when captured shortly after they were put ashore from the submarine, were Edward John Kerling, alias Edward Kelly, 32, who described him self as master of the Lekala when she wras detained here, and Her man Neubauer, 32, a crew member of the Lekala who told authorities at the time that he was in a hurry to reach Florida where he had a job as steward in a hotel. Kerling was described by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the “group leader” of the four men who came ashore in a rubber boat from a submarine about 500 yards off Ponte Vedra beach, near Jacksonville, changed into civilian clothes, and buried the explosives and the money in the sand of the beach. Neubauer was also a memoer of the Florida group. According to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, all eight men were specially trained by the Ger man high command for thir worn of sabotage and had detailed plans of action against American defense plants and public buildings which would have taken two years to carry out. / The Lekala was first boarded and searched by the Coast Guard in Topsail Sound about 2 a. m. on December 5. It was then brought to Wrightsville sound and kept at the Marine Service pier until December 14 under the supervision of the Coast Guard patrol boat 228. All the seven German crew members contended steadfastly that they bought the expensive yawl for a “pleasure cruise” down the ijiland waterway from New York to Miami. The boat, however, was heavily provisioned and Collector of Cus toms John Bright Hill served an order forbidding the yacht to leave the jurisdiction of the United States because "the United States finds reasonable cause to believe that said vessel Lekala is about to carry arms, ammunition, men, supplies, dispatches or information to some war ship, tender or sup ply ship of a foreign, belligerent Ease Headaches Soothe Nerves The quick-act ing ingredients in the “BC” Head ache Powder formula work ex tra-fast to ease headaches and sooth nerves up set by minor in handy 10c or 25c sizes. Use only as directed. Consult a physician when pains persist. YY lUXUliY VJ X , iY. NEGRO KILLED BY LIGHTNING Camp Davis Worker Fa tally Injured By Bolt Sunday Afternoon One person was killed instantly and another seriously injured Sun day afternoon when lightning struck a frame building in the western area of Camp Davis. Elijah Butler, negro civilian employe, was killed and E. R. Mur phy, Sr., white employe, was in jured. Station hospital attaches said Monday that Murphy “has a good chance to recover.” Butler was a resident of Bolton while Murphy’s home address was given as 625 Bohler Ave., Augusta, Ga. The building, the public rela tions officer reported, caught afire after it was hit but it was nut badly damaged The blaze was quickly extinguished. Some of the interior walling was knocked off by the bolt of lightning. -V Britain-Russia Sign Financing Agreement MOSCOW, Tuesday, June 30.—UP) —Great Britain and the Soviet Union have signed an agreement providing for financing of British military supplies sent to Russia, the Moscow radio announced to day. The agreement was signed June 27 in Moscow by the British am bassador, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, and A. I. Mikoyan, Soviet foreign trade commissar. nation, to-wit, Germany, in viola tion of the neutrality laws of the United States.” The order, said at the time to have set a precedent, was drafted by U. S. District Attorney J. O. Carr at the request of the collec tor of customs. The boat was allowed to con tinue to Miami where, according to Acting Collector of Customs E. C. Snead, it was sold by the Ger mans. “She later came back through the Inland waterway here under a new owner,” Mr. Snead said today, in recalling the case. According to Associated Press dispatches, Kerling came to this country,in. 1929, when he was 20 years old, and was employed by a New Jersey oil company. From 1930 to 1939, he and his wife were employed as domestics in Greenwich, Conn., and Short Hills, N. J. In 1936, he was a guest of the German government at the Olympic games at Berlin. The dispatch declared that Ker ling and his friends, all active in German bund activities, bought the Lekala to return to Germany. Neubauer entered the U. S. un der an immigration quota through the port of New York as a sea man aboard the S. S. Leviathan. LEGION PROPERTY BOUGHT BY COUNTY (Continued from Page One) concessions as had been asked by C. B. Parmelee, spokesman fo r Coastal Fairs, Inc., committee, to read that the county pay $15,000 for the property and permit the American Legion use of the part now occupied by trailers on a monthly basis with either the coun ty or Legion holding the right to withdraw the agreement on 30 days notice. Commissioner Geroge W. Trask originally moved that the county offer Coastal Fairs, Inc., the $15, 000 and right to lease the part oc cupied by trailers for the duration of the war. On mot ion of Commissioner Trask the board voted to pay for the property in full, today, after Coastal Fairs, Inc., presents the deed to the property and it has re ceived approval of the county at torney. The land consists of between 15 and 20 acres in two tracts—one tract lying between county prop erty at the stadium and the Caro lina Beach road and the other be tween stadium lands and Green field Lake. In speaking for his committee, Mr. Parmelee first proposed that Coastal Fairs, Inc., would sell the property for $15,000 in cash with the proviso that they have a five year lease on the part of the land not in use by the county, but which is being used by the Legion. He explained that the organization on ly wanted use of the property so long as the Legion could get reve nue from it by renting space for trailers. “I wouldn’t vote for that propos al,” Commissioner Gardner declar ed. “I think the property should be directly in the hands of the county and not leased to some individuals or organization. I’d rather let them use some other county property and fix this up as a park.” Mr. Parmelee then explained that the organtzation had put in septic tanks and lighting facilities at some expense to get money from the property. “I wouldn’t like to lease the property for five years, but I don’t mind going on a month to month basis and when we need the space we can take it over,” declared Commissioner James M. Hall. “That part of the land has never been used for parking,” Mr. Par melee explained. “They are now getting sofne revenue and I don’t think it would hurt the county when housing is neded.” commissioner rrasx men ex plained “I don’t think it is needed for parking and I would be willing to let the Legion use it for the dur. ation of the war” and followed his comment with his motion, which failed to get a second. Commissioner L. J. Coleman commented that “the county needs the American Legion and the Le gion needs the county. I am of the opinion expressed by Mr. Gardner and think that we ought to buy out or sell out. The matter has come to a head now and they say they will sell the property if we don’t buy.” “The facilities placed there for j—wnn unmj use by occupants of the trailers have been helpful to folks during the housing shortage,” Chairman Addison Hewlett commented. In formation I have is that they have recently installed facilities and we might let the folks use them.” “I think we would reimburse them for cost of installation of the facilities by giving more than we offered originally,” Commissioner Gardner declared and then offered his substitute motion. Members of the committee rep resenting Coastal Fairs, Inc., were Jack Nigel, George Hutaff, Sr., Walker Taylor, and Mr. Parmelee, SOLONS CRITICIZE GAS RATION PLAN (Continued from Pare One) titioner qualified to administer to the religious needs of the members of a congregation.’ The latter change, OPA explain ed, placed on the same basis with ministers “practitioners or relig ious groups such as the Christian Science church.” At the same time, the regula tions were changed to deny tires to a vehicle owned by a physician, minister and others in the same category unless it is used "ex clusively” for professional services or religious duties instead of "prin cipally” as heretofore. * STATE PROTESTS RALEIGH, N. C., June 29—(Pi State highway chairman Ben Prince today protested a two and one-half cent increase in the price of gasoline permitted by the Office of Price Administration on the Eastern seaboard. Asserting that the increased cost of gasoline transportation could be distributed by a small increase throughout the entire nation or by a direct Federal subsidy to the oil companies. Prince estimated that the increase, on the basis of last year's consumption, would cost the people of North Carolina $12,000,000 a year and the state itself $450, 000 a year. "This will result in burden of war falling with greater severity on this section,” Prince said. The price increase was effective today. PROFIT OPPORTUNITY Great demand for trailer homes for defense workers presents real profit opportunity. Business assured for the duration and afterward selling SGHLT.T, the nation’s leading house trailer. This is one of tlie few territories open for Schult representation. Become a distributor or dealer. Moderate investment pays excellent returns. Many have built fine permanent businesses. Write today. SCHULT TRAILERS, INC. Elkhart, Ind. Wanted: Bids On Garbage Sealed bids will be received by the City of Wil mington, North Carolina, until 9:30 o’clock A. M. Wednesday, July 8th, 1942, at which time they will be publicly opened and read at a meeting of the City Council for the Sale of Garbage collected by the Public Works Sanitary Department. City will deliver said garbage or swill within one mile of City Limits to purchaser in vats to be provided by the purchaser and approved by the Board of Health. Bidders will stipulate the amount of their bids on a yearly basis, contract to begin October 1, 1942, and run through September 30, 1943. Monthly pay ments to be made in advance on or before the 10th of each month. Bidders are advised that the City of Wilmington collected approximately 12,000 barrels of garbage during the past year. Further information can be obtained from the office of the Superintendent of Streets. Address all bids to the undersigned marked on the outside of envelope “Bid On Garbage.” The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. CITY OF WILMINGTON BY J. R. Benson Dated this 30th day of June, 1942. You Are Cordially Invited TO DINE AT THE VICTORY RESTAURANT Formerly The Colony Restaurant 219 Princess Street THIS POPULAR EATING PLACE IS NOW UNDER New Management Mr. Stetson, manager, will do everything possible to make your visit here one of satisfying pleasure. New Chefs Who have had many years experience in preparing fine foods, have been secured so that the patrons of the VICTORY are served the most palatable food possible. A i r- Conditi on ing Assures you of cool, healthful comfort at all hours. Moderate Prices Prices have been revised and now you are able to get fine foods of quality at reasonable prices. COME— Bring Your Friends And Family 1 And You'll Be Sure To Come Again
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