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RUBBER ‘PROVISOS’ OUTUNEDBYBURCH tot- War Transport Head Gives Method Of Get ting Synthetic Item cprretary J. T. Burch Execute . war transportation t theJe yesterday revealed the (omrmttee j through which civi. seven proviso e.ve synthetic rub. lisns,f*e summer of 1943 in a wr by*n Wilmington War trans *&£ Administrator N. E. Drexler. ™ . onTy a plan which has first—the government, been Prcse" , has not been adop and apParent™ n ' ted 85 fVhe plan is Predicated .font availability of required “S-At best, the plan would If keep passenger cars opera tor to next two years on «s ^Fourth—No one can judge wheth /^necessary materials will Lmp except those agencies officially’concerned with supplying military needs. Fifth—The purpose is not to pro vide normal vehicle use, but rath „ to keep cars operating to an Lent limited to essential usage Sixth—The plan requires maxi mum speeds of all vehicles not n Less of 40 miles per hour; aver L passenger car mileage reduced hv 40 per cent under 1941, and nioper tire care by car owners. Seventh-Tire ration cenmcaie. wuld be denied those who do not agree to sha’-e the use of then cars with others. While we are all anxious that a wan may be developed so that rub ber for tires may become avail able for civilian needs next year we cannot be too optimistir a( this time. If we proceed on the basis of "hope” and use up our piesent tires then a failure of the questionable plan would cause un , told economic distres in the not too distant future. In commenting on this matter, Mr. Drexler stated that “we warn me pubic to have the benefit of any information that we have’ ’and no quoted from a recent statement aiade by the Goodrich Rubber company concerning this matter: '■ . . We know as much about synthetic rubber as anyone else in the country. And we’re walking, or taking buses, or doubling up— right here in Akron.’’ _v_ WHEN TAKE UP MACHINE WORK About 30 Enrolled In NYA Center Here; To Enter War Industries Taking machine shop courses at the NYA center on the Carolina Beach road are about30 women, who are preparing to enter war in dustries. Personnel Officer Judson White disclosed yesterday. Many ot the women are wives of ship yard workers or former “white collar” employes. ■While they do not become bona fide machinists, said Mr. White, these women learn basic informa tion and technique of machines and will be accepted on defense jobs. They will find jobs at the Nor folk Navy Yard, Glenn L. Martin Aircraft company, Baltimore, Mid Fairchild Aircraft company. Bur lington. Many women have already been p(la<ced, in war work from this state, he said. Morning and after noon classes of machine shop train mi are taught. A number of the students are . ung married women, whose hus v"ds are employed at the sh: - se.d,her,e' Others formerly held ecretarial positions, but through are to enter defense work, are taking the course. takintfrfh6nt about 30 women are said '?urse> but Mr. White rolled ‘ 15 more could be en Tobacco Mart C This Morning; (Continued from Pago One) smallest since 1932. The total in come last year in this state was $14,61,366,166, or an average of $25.20. In the North Carolina portion of the belt, 1041 porducers’ sales ag gregated 66,160,000 pounds which brought $17,302,362, or an average of $25.90. This year’s crop is un officially estimated at 16 per cent more than last year’s. Reports from various markets said the tobacco thus far deliver ed was of the best quality produced for several years. Favorable weather conditions during the growing and curing season were given credit. A festive atmosphere was noted in the market towns as the actual opening came within a few hours. At Lake City, merchants of the town arranged to entertain farmers and their families with various free attractions, including a band con cert, picture shows, swimming parties and a square dance in Main street. Reports so far have not mention ed any inconvenience caused to farmers by tire and gasoline re strictions. However, W. P. Hedrick, tobacco marketing specialist of the North Carolina department of Agricul ture, speaking at Raleigh urged farmers of the belt to conserve their tires as much as possible by selling on the nearest markets. Hedrick pointed out that the sel ling season this year might be 30 days longer than usual as the re sult of markets acceding to a re quest of the tobacco association of the United States that sales be con ducted more slowly than in the past. More attention can therefore be given to the value of each pile as it is auctioned. Mullins is the largest market in the belt. Others in South Carolina are: Timmonsville, Kingstree, Lake City, Loris, D/llon, Conway, Darlington and Pamplico. The North Carolina markets are: Lumberton, Tabor City, Fair Bluff, Chadbourn, Fairmont, Whiteville and Clarkton. 3 _17__ TIDE OF WAR TURNING SAYS DUTCH PREMIER (Continued From Fare One) of the fleet, whose light craft are scouting the waters off the gun studded invasion coast of France after a series of sharp battles. A. V. Alexander, first lord of the Admilalty, announced in the house of commons today that Kennedy Purvis had been appointed de puty first sea lord and assumed his duties July 29. Invasion of the continent obvious ly would be difficult because of a lack of shipping. Every alternative undoubtedly is being discussed, however. These, it was said, possibly include a limited diversion at some point where the German advantage of interior lines of communication would be slight, and an attempt to seize a bridehead somewhere on the continental coast and hold it for subsekuent exploitation by Brit ish and American Armies. Parliament recessed today after Cripps, spokesman for Prime Min ister Churchill, that it would be re called if an “unexpected situation” developed. The second front, the most wide ly discussed public question of the day, was not mentioned in the house, although the public discus sion continued. The enemy continued to advertise the strength of his fortifications along the European coastline. -V Twelve Volunteers Sign With Information Center Twelve vounteers signed for work at the Wilmington Information and Filter Center during the past week, Major Oscar C. Tigner, regional signal officer, announced yesterday. The recruits are Miss Shirley Colkitt, Mrs. Florence Y. Wright, Mrs. Gladys Salyer, Mrs. Coline Abee Hansen, Miss Doris .Dickens, Miss Catherine Hadwin, Miss Mar tha Stack, Miss Betsey Wallace West, Miss Edith C. Harrell, Miss Mildred Evans, Miss Blanche Ja cobs and Mrs. Mary Chapman Mitchell. * _ •pens In N. C. All Is Ready City Briefs DEFENSE POLICE SCHOOL Classes for members of the auxiliary police force will be gin at 8 o’clock tonight in room 109 at New Hanover High school, Sergeant Thomas B. Hughes of the city police force, instructor, announced Wednes day night. The classes will be held at the High school instead of in the council chamber at city hall as planned originally since the council room already is in use. PLAN REUNION , The second session of the Corbett family reunion will be held Sunday, August 9, at the home of D. W. Lewis in Rocky Point. All that are related to the family by birth or marriage are expected to attend. CRAFT ADDED Three more small craft own ers were sworn into the mili tarized Coast Guard auxiliary here Tuesday afternoon and yesterday morning with the rating of chief boatswain. They were George McFarlan, Wil liam E. Poole and R. B. Page. CALLED TO DUTY J. Orvlng Corbett has been commissioned a lieutenant (jg) in the United States Coast Guard Reserve and called to active duty in this section. ■-v Obituaries MRS. NANCY F. RIVENBARK Mrs. Nancy Ellen Rivenbark, 82. widow of David R. Rivenbark, died after a long illness at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Pope, near Burgaw at 7:45 o’clock Tues day night. She is survived by five sons, C. M. and B. V. Rivenbark of Wilmington, A. T. Rivenbark of Jacksonville, D. M. and J. C. Rivenbark of Burgaw, and four daughters, Mrs. James Pope, Mrs. F. L. Wells of Burgaw, Mrs. J. O. Worrell of Ashton, and Mrs. R. H. Wells of Whitakers. Also surviv ing are 42 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be con ducted this afternoon at 3 o’clock from the home of Mrs. Pope by the Rev. C. C. Myers of Wilming ton and the Rev. P. L. Clark of Burgaw. Burial will be in the fami ly cemetery. Active pallbearers will be grand sons of the deceased. Honorary pallbearers will be E. W. Ward, Dr. N. C. Wolff, Dr. W. I. Taylor, Dr. Colan Shaw, J. S. Austin and Walter Marshburn. MISS MARY LOU WARD KERR, Aug. 6.—Miss Mary Lou Ward, 41, died in Duke hospital 3arly this morning after a short illness. Miss Ward was a daughter of the late W. P. and Florence Ennis Ward of the Harrell’s Store com munity. Funeral services will be held Fri day morning at 11 o’clock at the residence with her pastor. Rev. M. W. Warren of the Garland church in charge. Miss Ward is survived by three brothers, Robert W. and Preston J. of Kerr, and Alfred G. of Wil mington; two sisters, Mrs. Charlie Newkirk of Willard and Miss Melissa Ward of Kerr. _v____ Chapel Hill Business Man Now On UNC Staff CHAPEL HILL, Aug. 5 —UP)— Grady Pritchard, well known Chapel Hill insurance man, and ior eight years a member of the Carolina coaching staff and as sistant graduate manager of ath letics, has been added to the var v5ty football coaching staff of the University of North Carolina for the 1942 season, it was announced here tonight by R. A. Fetzer, di rector of athletics. Cobbs Crook BLENDED WHISKY g A blend containing 4% of 6-year-old, 7% 5'year old, and 19% 4-year-old whiskies with neutral spirits. 86.8 proof - 70% grain neutral spirits $010 4m QUART «k| .■? CONTINENTAL DISTILLING CORPORATION, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ALLEN RECOUNTS MDffAY BATTLE Wilmingtonian Piloted Big Bomber In Fight; Scor ed Many Hits A native Wilmingtonian—Lieut. Col. Brooke E. Allen of the Army Air forces—piloted a giant bomber that scored hits on a Japanese car rier, a battleship and a cruiser during the battle of Midway, the army revealed yesterday, o Lieut.-Col. Allen directed one of the Army’s bomber flights in the battle from the Flying fortress. His account of the battle. “We were after the Jap carriers. We found them in the middle of a fleet of almost 30 fighting ships. “It was a sight we’d all been waiting for since December 7— to get a chance at ’em. We had to check our instruments—make sure we were all set. We were pretty high—about 20,000 feet, and using our oxygen masks. “From where we were flying it was quite a picture. Jap carriers were squirming around pretty fast, in a violent maneuver attempting to hide under clouds and avoid our bombs. There were four of them at least generally running abreast. I picked out one carrier, and we got direct hits on it. My trail ing plane picked up his target— another carrier—and planted hits on it, too. “We then headed back to Mid way , but the Japs were attacking the island, so we had to stay up for the all-clear signal. “That night while we were grab bing some shut-eye beside our planes, a Jap submarine came up and started shelling the island. We thought for a minute that the whole Jap fleet had arrived.” Lieut.-Col. Allen is a graduate SOLON FLAYS NAVY ON TANK CARRIERS (Continued From Pate One) make it public if Knox believed the committee should not do so. Tru man said the testimony had been taken in executive sessions re cently. “But I cannot condemn too strongly the negligence or will ful misconduct on the part of the officers of the Bureau of Ships en trusted with this vital matter,” Truman wrote, "involving as it did both the success of our military forces and the lives of American Marines, sailors and soldiers.” of New Hanover High school and of Davidson college. With him in the fortress during the attack were: Second Lt. Rob ert C. Gaskell, Los Angeles, Calif.; First Lt. Richard Toler, Musko gee, Okla.; Master Sergeant Ken neth Lawton, Millville, Pa.; Cor poral Frederick Herman, Adrian, Mich.; Sgt. William Lindley, Doni phan, Mo.; Private First Class Zigmund J. Balamut, Winslow, Maine; Corporal Virgil A. Stewart, Richland Center, Wis.; Staff Ser geant W. E. Portzline, Trevorton, Pa. Give Your Feet An Ice-Mint Treat Gtl Happy, Cooling Relief For Burning Callouses—Put Spring in Your Step Don’t groan about tired, burning feet. Don’t moan about callouses. Get busy and give them an Ice-Mint treat. Feel the com forting, soothing coolness of Ice-Mint driv ing out fiery burning... aching tiredness. Rub Ice-Mint over those ugly hard old corns and callouses, as directed. See how white, cream-like Ice-Mint helps soften them up. Get foot happy today the Ice Mint way. Your druggist has Iee-Mint, IT'S TEN TO ONE SHE'LL KISS YOU -- (And not just once,either) WHEN YOU PRESENT HER WITH A MANHATTAN WATCH Styles Low As $21-75 Credit Terms MAKE YOUR CHOICE NOW - MAKE HER HAPPY A LIFETIME We Have An Assortment of Beautiful Styles To Select From THRIF-T-STORES, - 25 South Front Street GOLD SEAL CONGOLEUM Famous for iis lasting beauty. We carry a wide variety of patterns and sizes. 9x12 $6.95 Crescent Seal Linoleum 9x12 $5,500 PORCH SWINGS Complete with chain and hooks. 36" Wide- -Strong—Comfortable Only $4.50 TABLES - END TABLES Cockiail, Pier, Radio and Lamp Tables. Cedar Chests, low as $22.95 ICE BOXES - 95-lb. Capacity now $45.95 Rock Wool Insulation THRIFT-STORES, - 25 So. Front Sireet Dial 3972 Panama Canal Zone Needing Workers The expanding program at Pana ma Canal has created an even great* er demand for skilled workers, the Fourth United States Civil Service District announced today. Once again the call has been issued fpr boatbuilders, boilermakers, copper smiths, machinists, riveters, ship fitters and shipwrights to fill im portant vacancies in the Canal Zone. The pay ranges from $1.48 to $1.52 per hour with time and a half for overtime. Healthful living quarters are furnished at reasonable prices and meals are Inexpensively obtain ed at government operated restau rants. Room and board should not exceed $50.00 or $60.00 per month. In addition employees are given transportation from the point of res idence to the canal. All qualified workers, in good health may now patriotically give their skilled services to the war ef fort Apply to the Secretary, Local Board of United States Civil Service Examiners, L. A. Beck, or the Man* ager. Fourth United States Civil Service District, 930 F street, N.W., Washington, D. C. FOR \ MINOR 1 Burns cuts YOUR HAIR ALWAYS look* better groomed witn Moroline Heir Tomle. Keep* unruly hair In place. Gives lustre. Big bottle, only 10c. sold ererywberfc Hot Weather Specials! LADIES' DRESSES REDUCED CREPE DRESSES $3 00 Come early and make your selection from these lovely rayon crepe cotton sheers and other wanted materials. . . Light and dark ground prints. SHEER DRESSES $2-00 Cool summer voiles and flock dots, neat styles. COTTON DRESSES $3-00 Smartly styled spun rayon. Sheers and Bembergs, reduced for clearance. COTTON SHEERS sj.oo Large rack of summer cotton wash dresses, neat styles, for clearance. Toddlers Hand Made DRESSES Made of chantung, check gingham and broadcloth. Pastel col ors of blue, pink and yellow. Women's Novelty SHOES 200 pairs of novelty and sport shoes, white, brown and white, tans and blacks, low and medium heels. Values up to $4.00, broken sizes. $J.98 Toddlers Pinafore DRESSES Neatly trimmed In con trasting colors, dotted swlss and dimities . . . White, pink, blue and yellow. $1.19 MEN'S CLOTHING REDUCED Tropical Worsted SUITS Men’s Priestly’s Nor-East Tropical Worsted Suits, light, dark and pastel shared, plain or patterned. $31-75 DRESS SHIRTS Well tailored in smart fancy patterns, guaranteed fast colors, sizes 14 to 17. $1.48 Men’s Slack SUITS Neatly tailored of cotton fabrics, oat meal patterns, white and colors. All sizes. . sj.98 AirweighI Pajamas Neat fancy patterns, light in weight and cool. Oatmeal cotton crash, two pocket sport shirt, slacks. $1.75 SPECIAL SALE Jayson Sport Shirts Regular $2.50 Values V Smart style two flap button pockets, made of crepes, chantung and other cool summer materials. Short sleeves, two way collars in colors of blue, tan, creme, green and white. 0 Jayson Crepe Sport Shirts Regular $1.95 Value Cool, washable crepe, solid colors and stripes. Two button pockets and sport collars in colors of creme, tan, green, blue and white in all sizes. Boy Your Defense Savings Stamps Here
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