Brazil Opens Espionage
Ring Round-Up On Nazis
(Continued from Paso One)
. -nn-munication between Brazil
'i1(i thFUnited States.
\n political quarters a disposi
1 L. the closest possible co
1,011 tied with the United States,
0pemilita"y and economic matters,
‘"s manifest.
. political quarters also the
I eCt that other South Amer
states might be drawn into
lC war against the Axis was be
studied. The decision of Bra
"•f for" a mihtary show-down with
r‘ Asis, jt was said, is sure to
®'e a profound influence on the
o; of Uruguay. Colombia
a‘ a Venezuela, which are believed
. ipe on the verge of war.
r Argentina and Chile which
sJB ‘tjji maintair-'ng diplomatic
3r.e.;"„; with the Axis powers.
reiMm
- (he surface the most obvious
ojpce that Brazil had joined
II United Nations in war was the
pjf' ri to break up d huge potential
column.
The population was calm today
- noisy demonstrations last
S and streets of Rio de Ja
' ir0 and other cities wre still lit
(jrfd with signs and placards bear
; ,he legend "Death to Ger
many.
Feeling against fifth column ac
• rtv in”Brazil was high because
citizens were convinced it was
agents in their midst who com
municated with Axis submarines
which sank five Brazilian vessels
off the coast of Bahia last week.
Sn intense did the hunt for unre
liable and suspected persons be
come that in several communities,
especially along the coast, citizens
of German and Italian blood were
reported to be registering volun
tarily at police headquarters to
protest innocence, to give informa
tion on espionage activities which
thev disapproved, and to ask for
protection against demonstrators.
The Spanish ambassador. Rai
mnr.do Fernandes Cuesta. made a
public denial of published reports
that Spanish ships along the coast
bad betrayed the location of Bra
zilian vessels to Axis submarine
raiders.
A circumstance bringing home
to Brazilians the fact that their
country is at war was the begin
ning of practice blackouts. Com
munities along the country’s 5.000
mile coast were the first to extin
guish light which provided land
marks and navigation guides for
enemy sea and air marauders.
From a military viewpoint the
coast became Brazil's most urgent
concern. To guard it Brazil was
ready with a rapidly growing air
force in which there were many
modern North. American planes,
and with a navy designed for pa
trol duty. The immediate assign
ment to both navv and airforce
was to keep Brazil's end of com
munications with the United States
and Europe open. That function
will increase in importance, it was
said, as the South Atlantic is
drawn more directly into the con
flict.
NAZI WARNING ISSUED
BERLIN (from German broad
casts! Aug. 23 -(.ft- Brazil, now
that it is in the war. can look for
ward to only “blood, sweat and
tears the diplomatic co-respond
ent of DNB. official German news
service, wrote tonight!
The German view was that there
is nothing in store more for South
Americans than was vouchsafed
«>r the British people by Prime
- mister Churchhill when he warn
a ne would require the most ex
*‘®e sacrifices.
The German agency said Bra
into the war was ac
‘.pished by “wire pullers’’ in
Washington.
t P0,:se(3uently one should not at
tach importance to the pretext
cominued. de Janeiro’” DNB
tjjrect mention was made of
Germ=nklnVjf Brazilian ships by
merman submarines.)
WING WRITER.
POSSIBLY t IVE
'Continued from Pase One)
ThLoairived at Port Moresby.
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night th dailed (JUt- and spent the
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look 6 Vlllagc from where he
Moresby Sma11 stcame'- to Port
'■ay^i'n'fh'* wa"dered f01' three
fore f;„uhe lungle without food be
*111011 h dl"g a half-rotten potato
'eached-,a!e'u °n the fifth day he
hj „ a "nlage and was guided
,ves ,0 the coast. From
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Amo. :atlon exercises here.
Artlii,,. dlTose commissioned was:
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Success Story
Beauteous Margie Stewart, feteli
ingly posed above in a bathing
suit, lias a long term contract at
KKO studio in Hollywood after a
record short screen test. A di
rector spotted her in a commercial
short showing how to open and
close a car doer. She was on
screen 45 seconds but it was
enough to get her a contract.
She’s 22, 5 feet 4, and brunette.
NEW ARMY GROUP
SET UP IN EAST
(Continued from Page One)
of General Auchinleck’s command,
but difficulties of maintaining com
munications were said to be the
reason for establishing an indepen
dent command.
Four hundred miles of desert
separate Iran and Iran from the
present middle east command in
Egypt. Road communication are
poor. Sea lines also are long since
it is necessary to send ships around
Saudi Arabia from Egypt. Com
munications are equally bad
around egoGi .shrdshc lirdl shr
between Indian and the new com
mand area.
The three British commands in
the Middle East and East now
are:
1— Facing the Japanese on the
eastern border of India.
2— Facing the Germans and Itai
ians in Egypt.
3— Facing northward in Iraq and
Iran toward the Caucasus where
the Germans are advncir.g.
Chief Air Marshal Sir Arthur
William Tedder, with headquarters
in Egypt, will retain command of
the RAF in all three areas.
General Wilson, who is 60 years
old and who is known as “Jumbo”
because of his size, served as right
hand-man to General Sir Archi
bald P. Wavell in the campaign
which drove the Italians across
Libya in the winter of 1940-41. At
that time Churchill spoke of him
as “one of our finest tacticians.
He became commander-in-chief
of the British troops in Egypt in
1939 and was responsib'e for the
defense of the western desert during
the difficult months after the col
lapse off ranee. He commanded the
British Expeditionary Force in
Greece in 1941 and after that
country was evacuated he was
named commander of Palestine and
Trans-Jordan He also commanded
the successful British campaign
in Syria.
The text of the war office com
munique:
“It has been decided to establish
a new independent army command
to be known as the Persian (Iran)
Iraq Command. His Majesty the
King has been graciously pleased
to appoint Sir Henry Maitland
Wilson, G.B.E., K.C.B.D S.O., to
be General Officer Commander
In-Chief, Persian-Iraq Command.’’
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MRS. W. E. FLOYD
RALEIGH, Aug. 23 —UPh- Mrs.
W. E. Floyd, 38, of Oxford died to
day after, Cornor Roy Banks said,
she took poison, slashed her throat
with a razor and inhaled gas. She
was visiting a sister here.
BRAZILIAN MOVE
TESTS ARGENTINA
(Continued from Page One)
Italian residents of Brazil crossed
the border to escape the wrath of
the wa’r-fevered Brazilian popula
tion. Authorities ordered a round
up of Axis nationals in the Santa
Anna Do Livramento and Acegua
areas in order to force those il
legally residing there to return to
Brazil.
Officials reports from northern
Uruguay said two submarines had
been sighted 150 miles north of
Chouy.
There were reports that some
submarines, resumably German,
also were prowling off the mouth
of the Plate river, the artery
which links Buenos Aires to the
Atlantic.
It seemed certain, informed
sources said, that Argentina’s
neutrality would undergo a test
should Germany declare the coast i
of Brazil a blockade zone.
Although observers in Monte
video said,there was a possibility
that Uruguay would accompany
Brazil into war, informed sources
declared Uruguay’s first official
move would be to declare Brazil
non-belligerent, permitting Brazil
to use Uruguayan ports as in
peace time.
These sources said this decision
might be followed by more drastic
measures against the Axis but
they would depend largely on Ger
many’s answer to protests over the
sinking of two Uruguayan mer
chantmen. Uruguay was particu
larly incensed because the sub
marine which sank the Maldonado
took aboard her captain, brother of
a cabinet minister.
Argentina will decide her offi
cial attitude Monday, it was re
ported, but it was a foregone con
clusion that she. too. would declare
Brazil a non-belligerent as she did
the United States after Pearl Har
bor.
The Chilean government main
tained official silence, although it
previously had expressed solidar
ity by protesting to Berlin against
the sinkings of Brazilian ships
which touched off the Brazilian
declaration.
It was believed Chile would an
nounce her position tomorrow.
URUGUAYACTION
EXPECTED SOON
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also the obligations contracted with
the other American states in the
declarations at Lima and Panama,
and especially the resolution at
Havana which makes the contin
ent a single nation against aggres
sions of a non-American state
against the integrity or inviolabil
ity of the territory and against the
sovereignty or political independ
ence of an American state.”
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Clinton Man Appointed
To N.C. Merchants Group
CLINTON, Aug. 23—L. A. Cor
bitt, chairman of the membership
committee of the Clinton Mer
chants association has been ap
pointed by President C. C. Shell
of the North Carolina Merchants
association to membership on the
Research and Extension commit
tee of the state association, accord
ing to information received here
today. Mr. Corbitt, who is also a
member of the Board of Directors
of the state body, directed the
membership drive of the local as
sociation last spring and which re
sulted in a gain of 63 per cent or
enough to win the president’s cup
awarded annually at the state con
vention to the local association
showing the largest percentage of
membership gain during the past
fiscal year.
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JUDGE CRANMER
DIES SUDDENLY
(Continued from Pare One)
Minta, Alice Juanita and Rudolph
Mintz.
Funeral services will he held
Tuesday afternoon in the South
port Methodist church, where
Judge Cranmer was a member.
Interment will follow in the
Southport cemetery.
Southport and Brunswick county
officials will serve as active pall
bearers and attorneys of the eighth
judicial district will act as honor
ary pallbearers.
RALEIGH, Aug. 23—W— Gover
nor Broughton paid tribute today
to former Superior Court Judge
E. H. Cranmer, the second state
jurist to die within a week. Judge
N. A. Sinclair died in Fayette
ville last Wednesday.
The Governor said:
‘‘The death of Judge E. H. Cran
mer removes from active public
life another of the outstanding
iudges and public leaders of our
state. Judge Cranmer served with
distinction as superior court judge,
from which position he voluntarily
retired a few years ago. His record
on the bench was notable and his
death is a distinct loss to the state.
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MRS. KATE WALKER
RALEIGH. Aug. 23 —I®— Mrs.
Kate Dibrell Walker, 85, a Rich
mond, Va., native whose late hus
band was a tobacconist and for
many years identified with the
State Revenue department, died
here today.
Mrs. Walker was the sister of
the late Alfonso Dibrell and Rich
a"d L. Dibrell, Richmond tobacco
nists, and William E. Dibrell,
Richmond newspaperman.
Jap Counter-Attack Hit In Pacific
U. S. attention snapped back to the Pacific war area
with the weekend as signs grew that the Japanese were
massing for what appeared to be an effort to throw U. S.
forces back out of the recently captured Solomon Islands.
This map shows the route U. S. bombers were taking in
heavy force to smash at a concentration of Japanese
warships.
Chinese Recapture
Two Vital Villages
(Continued from Page One)
tance of Japan, had given the Chi
nese control of the middle sec
tion of the Chekiang-Kiangsi rail
way to a depth of over 80 miles.
Yushan, five miles from the
Chekiang border; Yingtun, 70 miles
southeast of Nanchang, a main
Japanese base in Kiangsi; Kweiki,
ten miles south of Yingtun, and
Shangjoa and Kwangfeng, also on
the railroad were in Chinese hands.
Front line dispatches Saturday
said large fires were burning in
side Kiangshan, indicating the
Japanese were preparing to aban
don the city, which lies only 20
miles from Chuhsien. Chuhsien was
one of the principal Japanese ob
jectives in their Chekiang-Kiang
si campaign because it was a po
tential bombing base.
A high command communique
today said remnants of the Japa
nese who were driven out of Kwei
ki and Yingtun Friday retreated
towards Tengchiapu on the Cheki
ang-Kiangsi railway and towards
Yukiang on the Kwangsin river.
Yukiang was captured Saturday
and the occupation of Tengshiapu
was reported to be imminent.
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NELSON PRAISES
2-MAN INDUSTRY
(Continued from Pa ye One)
of the example the entire working
force of your plant Is setting for
the rest of the nation.”
Nelson suggested the working
schedule of Sparling and Fogelsong
er was “a little too strenuous for
some even younger workmen to
maintain, even though you two
gentlemen seem to thrive on it.”
The Sparling-Fogelsonger “labor
management committee” makes
flanges used oh wooden pipes that
are installed in large defense plants.
Sparling ran the tiny shop by
himself befor the war making
pulleys and doing odd jobs repair
ing machinery. His “explination”
for war production consisted of
hiring Fogelsonger, who had been
in the habit of spending much time
in the shop anyway.
Labor-management relations have
been “ideal,” according to Spar
ling. When they need money,he
explained, he goes to the pipe
company which uses thei" flanges
to “take out what we need for grub
and living expenses and buy bonds
with what’s left.”
AMERICAN LABOR
PARTY STRENGTH
(Continued from Pare One)
by a plurality of only about 04,000.
This time labor party members
presumably will throw their weight
to Alfange whose selection also
was viewed as a bid for the sup
port of any Democrats who may
have opposed the nomination of
Bennett on grounds that President
Roosevelt’s choice was Senator
James M. Mead.
Many republican leaders hope
that the three party struggle will
result in the election of a republi
can governor for the first time
in 20 years, particularly if Dewey
is able to poll votes as well as he
did four years ago.
Bennett was backed by former
Democratic Chairman James A. I
Farley.
Born in Istanbul of Greek par
ents, Alfange is a Phi B3ta Kappa
and a veteran of the first world
war. His book, “The Supreme
Court and The National Will.”
published in 1937, won the Theo
dore Roosevelt Memorial award
for the best non - fiction writing
job of the year.
IT
WATER SCHOOL OPENS
BREVARD, Aug. 23 —<£>>-—'The
American Red Cross opened its
second aquatic school of this season
today at Camp Carolina here. It
will last until September 2 and
will be the last of the 18 similar
schools conducted over the country
by the Red Cross this summer.
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Britain launched 1,250,000 tons of
shipping in 1941 j
EIGHT ARE HURT
AS CARS COLLIDE
Auto - Truck Crash Near
Whiteville Sends Per
sons To Hospital
WHITEVILLE, Aug. 23—Eight
persons were injured today at noon
in the Bird Cage section, two miles
north of Chadbourn on Highway
74, when an automobile driven by
Thurman White, mail carrier of
Chadbourn, was in a collision with
a pickup truck.
The injured, all occupants of the
truck, driven by Emory Scott of
Orrum were: Emory Blackwell,
G7, with a broken leg and lacera
tions of the head; Mrs. Frances
Blackwell, 60, with an injured
back; Miss Venie Hayes, 29, with
a back injury; Frances Scott, 6,
Rodney Scott, 4, and LeRoy Scott,
3, all had minor injuries, and a
two-year-old baby, brother of the
trio last named, had a broken
collar bone. The name of this
child was not learned. The driver
cf the truck was not seriously
hurt, and Mr. White, who was
riding alone at the time, was un
injured.
- All the injured were taken to a
Laurinburg hospital immediately
after the accident, by ambulances
called from nearby towns.
State highway patrolmen investi
gating the accident said that Em
ery Scott, Emory Blackwell and
Mrs. Frances Blackwell were rid
ing in the cab of the truck while
the others were riding in the rear.
Officers said that from their in
vestigation it appeared that White
was coming down Highway 74 in
the direction of Chadbourn when
the truck drove out into the high
way directly in his path. The
truck ws coming out of the Bird
Cage road, which intersects with
the highway.
The truck was almost complete
ly demolished, and White’s ma
chine was badly damaged.
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3 PLANE CRASHES
FATAL TO 21 MEN
(Continued from Pafe One)
La., the Harding field public rela
tions office announced.
Two bodies were found in the
twisted wreckage of the plane by
ambulance and crash crews and
one body was thrown clear. It
also was announced that two other
men were removed from the craft
and taken to a hospital, where one
died shortly afterward.
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Duke Slates Grid Tilt
With Florida Air Base
DURHAM, Aug. 23.—(JP)—Duke
university has scheduled a football
game with the Jacksonville Naval
Air Base in Jacksonville on Novem
ber 28, making a 10-game card for
the Blue Devils this fall.
George MacAfee, great back of
1939, is stationed at the Air Base
and may see action against his Alma
Mater.
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There are 2,000 Chinese Indus
trial Co-operative societies.
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE ^ ~
YOU MEAN TO
SW EVERYONE
BUT YOU IN YOUR
VILLAGE IS
DEAD? BUT HOW
DID YOU ESCAPE
L the bombing?
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13 VESSELS ARE
SUNK IN WEEK
(Continued from Page One)
Leland P. Lovette, newly appoint
ed director of the office of public
relations for the Navy. He declared
that not more than five ships out
of 2,000 convoyed along coastal
areas had been sunk since May 14
and added that for the first time
since January and Febuary, Ameri
can shipyards last month built
more ships than were lost.
The tabulation:
Week Since
Aug. 16-22 Pearl Harbor
Off the U. S. ..0 171
Off Canada _0 41
In the Caribbean 4 143
Gulf of Mexico 0 43
South American 9 41
Totals . 13 439
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Christian Scientists Hear
*Mind* As Lesson-Sermon
“Mind” was the subject of the
Lesson-Sermon in all Christian Sci
ence churches hnd Societies on Sun
day, August 23.
The Golden Text was from II
Timothy 1: 7. “God hath not given
us the spirit of fear; but of power,
and of love, and of a sound mind.”
Among the citations which com
prised the Lesson-Sermon were the
following from the Bible: “Be of
the same mine one toward another.
Mind not high things, but condes
cend to men at low estate. Be
not wise in your own conceits.
Recompense to no man evil for ecil.
Provide things honest in the sight
of all men. If it be possible, as
much as lieth in yo«, live peace
ably with all men. Be not over
come of evil, but overcome evil
with good.” (Romans 12: 16-18,
21).
The Lesson-Sermon also included
the following passages from the
Christian Science textbook, ‘‘Sci
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy:
“It should be thoroughly under
stood that all men have one Mind,
one God and Father, one Life,
Truth, and Love. Mankind will
become perfect in proportion as
this fact becomes apparent, war
will cease and the true brotherhood
of man will be established. Hav
ing no other gods, turning to no
other but the one perfect Mind to
guide him, man is the likeness of
God, pure and eternal, having that
Mind which was also in Christ ”
(Page 467).
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The wild plum is the leading na
tive tree fruit of Canada.
S. C. CANDIDATES
LOOK FOR VOTES
(Continued from Page One)
the senate. Maybank, in reply,
said the matter was for the indi
vidual states to decide.
Maybank, who attended few of
the campaign meetings and re
mained in Washington, pledged
continued support of President
Roosevelt in everything connected
with the war effort, and Blease,
who is a half-brother of the late
Cole Blease, attacked what he
called waste and extravagance in
government.
Only two candidates are in the
race for governor—Former Gover
nor Olin D. Johnston, and Wynd
ham M. Manning, of Sumter. Three
of the six representatives in Con
gress have opposition. Rep. James
P. Richards of Lancaster is op
posed by Grover F. Patton of
Winnsboro; Rep. John L. McMil
lan of Florence by Claude T. Mc
Donald and Fred W. Willis, his fel
low townsmen; and Rep. Butler B.
Hare by John C. Taylor of Ander
son.
SENATE FACING
TAX PROBLEMS
(Continued from Pare One)
approved were due for careful
consideration. However, he said
he believed any such increase*
should be equalized by provisions
to prevent the tax burden from
bringing distress to persons al
ready saddled with heavy debt
commitments.
Suggestions of witnesses during
the open hearings ranged from re
quests for sharp tax increases in
the lower bracket', to pleas for
placing more of the load on in
comes above $10,000. Direct with
holding levies on wages, interest
and dividends, and sales taxes
from 5 to 10 per cent have also
been proposed.
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DEATH, DESTRUCTION
One home out of avery five has
been destroyed or damaged in air
raids over Britain. Over 44,000
civilians have been killed and over
50,000 injured. One thousand were
killed in April of this year.
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HOW MANY CUSTOMERS
MAKE A BUSINESS!
Carl Crow, the author of "A Hundred Million Customers," tells of Chinese
merchants who depended upon their relatives for their trade. Fortunately
or unfortunately, depending upon your viewpoint, American business men
can't reply upon their families to keep them in commercially profitable enter
prises.
No customer in this country does business with a merchant simply be
cause he wants to help that man make a success. And no merchant can rely
upon a choice few customers paying far higher prices than they would have
to pay elsewhere. The American system of business is based upon free
enterprise, and American customers buy where they can get what they feel
is the most for their money.
How do people get the greatest possible value for their money? Usually,
by trading with a firm that does sufficient business so that it doesn't have
to depend upon a large profit on each transaction. If a merchant.must make
$50 a day to keep his store operating at a profit, his customers can obviously
do better if they number a hundred than if they total ten.
The more cuslomers a store has, the less reason the merchant has for
exacting a high profil-per-sale. And how do stores get cuslomers? The most
economical and efficient known method is through consistent newspaper ad
vertising. Newspaper advertising covers a retail merchant's entire market,
without waste. It takes his message to more prospective customers then he
could reach in any other way, at any comparable cost. Because it does such
a thorough job, the customer who trades with a regular advertiser knows
that he is not being asked to pay nearly so high a profit as a non-advertiser
would have to exact.