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GAS CURTAILED FOR EAST COAST (Continued from F»*u One) the area now to maintain sales t consumers at the current rate fc about that long. Some gasoline i transported to the East by barg via inland waterways, they pointe out. Indications of the probable si riousness of the oil situation in Nei England came with the statemer in telegrams sent to the oil firm by Ralph K. Davies, deputy c< ordinator: "It is imperative that tank ca shipments to New England state be immediately increased.” The directions did not specify pre cisely what the increase in tanl car shipments of heating oil to Nev England should be or how long thi increased shipments Should con tinue. The directions covered the move ment of heating oil and gasoline to the six New England and 11 other Eastern Seaboard states com prising district 1, where gasoline rationing is now in effect. Davies’ move was made as he awaited Justice Department approv al of an order to direct the sharing of oil company facilities to the East in order to boost the movement oi petroleum to that oil-short area. OPC officials declined to esti mate the increase that could be obtained through the pooling ar rangement, but they said it would be “considerable.” BRITISfREACH ISLAND CAPITAL (Continued from Page One) defense” of the capital. These were heard after he was reported a fugitive somewhere in the south of the 1,000-mile long island, fourth largest in the world. There was no indication as to how Annet hoped to make good his escape from the Eritish. However, it was recalled that at the outset of the campaign to dis lodge Axis-inclined elements final ly from the island unofficial re ports told of Japanese submarines using more harbors for refueling and supply and of Nazi agents operating in connivance with the Vichy colonial administration. These reports were circulated in London after the sinkings of several Allied merchant ships in the Mozambique channel, the United Nations’ sea lane to the Middle East and India. The announcement of Tanarive’s occupation was heard in Port Louis, on the British island of Mauritius lying out in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar which will now be denied to the Axis for the duration. -V Railroads oi the U. S. alone use about 1,275,000,000 cross-ties. PARK&ULFORD RESERVE PARK AT11P0RD me.. *•»»•»*■ ■•». * ■A .. j CD Needs Nurses Aides: zil i- (Women Only) r Doties: To assist the regular * nurses so that they may be s able to serve a greater num ' ber of patients during an emergency. r Training: Special course giv 5 en bv American Red Cross. Eniisted to date 29; Quota ■ 300. Enlisted yesterday: Chaplain . 3 Air Raid Warden . 2 Aux. Firemen .... 1 Filter Center . 1 Total .:. 7 LOCAL SHIPYARDS LARGEST INDUSTRY (Continued from Pure One) were employed In the shops, yards and offices of the company. Payroll figures at the present time are not available from the shipyard. Builders of 10,000 ton Liberty ships, the shipyards were built on a swampland site about 1 1-2 miles south of the city limits on the Cape Fear river. Construction of the yards was begun in February of 1941 and the first ship, the Zebulon B. Vance, named for the governor of North Carolina during the Civil War period, was launched on De cember 6, 1941. It was christened by Mrs. J. Meville Broughton, wife of the state's present Governor. Since that day less than a year ago 29 Liberty ships have been completed and launched at the yards here. The latest, the Ben jamin Williams, named for an early North Carolina governor, was christened yesterday morning. A • subsidiary of the Newport News Shipbuilding company, the shipyards were located here after an exhaustive study. Although many Wilmington persons were engaged in promoting the city as the site of an additional shipyard on the Atlantic coast, it was the New Hanover Defense Council that took the lead in bringing the city’s potentialities as a shipyard site to the attention of the Newport News firm and the United States Mari time Commission. After the site was selected, the yards were built at a jCOst of $9,000,000. With the shipyards now expand ed to the largest industry in the state, Wilmington has the right to claim a place as a major contri butor to the war effort, it was de clared. SCRAPC0LLECT0RS AVAILABLE HERE (Continued from Pag® One) ians in the drive has been good to date and about 100,000 pounds of metal has been contributed dur ing the last two weeks, Mr. Stew art revealed. C0NV0YARRIVES IN RUSSIAN PORT (Continued from Page One) that six warships escorting the convoy were damaged or sunk. To this the Admiralty replied that not a single convoying vessel was lost. Then, in a final jab at the Ger man claims of almost total de struction of the convoy, the Ad miralty declared: "It is not intended to assist the enemy by informing him of the extent of his lack of success against this convoy.” It was the second time in three months that the Germans had claimed a triumph over a convoy heavily laden with aid for Russia. The German communique broad cast from Berlin Sunday recalled previous Nazi claims, not con firmed, that 35 ships in a convoy of 38 had been sunk in the same Arctic waters between July 2 and 7. In connection with shipping, Prime Minister Churchill today told a conference of the ship building industry that the ship ping position "has improved re cently” but it "still is grave and we are in urgent need of every ship that can be built.” In a message read at the con ference, Churchill urged the build ers “to strive your utmost for only thus can you compel victory. Without ships we cannot live and without them we cannot conquer.” -V GASOLINE FIGHT WINSTON-Salem, Sept. 23—UP)— A determined gifht to obtain es sential gasoline for traveling men and others who make their living by the use of the automobiles will be given added impetus at a meet ing in the Forsyth county court courthouse Saturday night at 8 o’clock. I PROTECT TOUR CAR WITH SEAT COVERS See Our Complete Line CAUSEYS __Cornei Market and 12th [DELINQUENT RISE NOT NOTED HERE . (Continued from Fafe One) said. This compares with 347 in 1941 and 258 in 1940. In New Hanover county thus far this yea: 26 juvenile cases have been ad justed while 18 were heard in tht whole of 1941. The rather sharp increase be tween the 1940 and 1941 figure can be accounted for, he said, by the enforcement of an ordi nance by the city during tha1 period which regulated the activi ties of shoe shine boys on the city streets. There are more instances oi juvenile delinquency during the school year, Mr. Hollis said, than in the vacation period, since tru ancy cases are handled by the juvenile court. Petty thievery is the most common complaint. Placing children, either orphan ed or taken by court order from their parents, in foster homes is an important function of the court. There is an acute need, he stressed, for locating good fos ter homes where children are boarded at the city and county’s expense. At the present time there is but one licensed foster home in New Hanover county. “We need at least a dozen,” the superin tendent said. “The number of juvenile delin quents in New Hanover county may appear small in comparison with counties in other states,” Mr. Hollis said. “This is explained by the fact that in North Carolina, persons over 16 are outside the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. In most states the age is extended to 18 years.” Prospects of a tremendous crime wave after the war hinted at by Mr. Hoover, is a possibility that New Hanover County is striving to avoid, Mr. Hollis said. It is through a satisfactory adjustment of the child’s problems that youthful crime can be cut down. N£w Hanover County’s two child welfare workers are every day affecting these adjustments, Mr. Hollis averred. SCRAP-SUPPUES DECI ARFn RETTER (Continued from Ptfe One) spection tour of plants In this area. Olds said every ton of steel pro duced by the concern and its sub sidiaries in this district was used in the war effort an that facilities in this section would provide 10,000, 000 tons of Ingots a year—one third of all produced by TJ. S. Steel. He added that one subsidiary, the Carnegie-Illinols Steel corporation, was building a tank armor plate plant and, in addition, was expand ing other installations at a cost of more than *67.000,000. Olds declined to discuss .common stock dividend prospects pending clarification of the tax outlook. He said the industry’s financial condi tion was “tight” because of in creased labor costs. The future price of steel, he added, would de pend on the tax bill. The officials expressed the opin ion that the directors should gather from time to time in various pro duction centers, and reported they probably would meet in Pittsburgh, Birmingham and other cities in the future. BLACKOUTSLATED FOR WILMINGTON (Continued from Page One) followed here is exactly like that to be used in the 18 other districts. The blackout signal will be flash ed here from Raleigh filter center. Receiving the alert signal will be Fire Chief C. H. Casteen, air raid warden. He in turn will dispatch the signal to the county defense control center and from there word will be sent to local zone air raid wardens. After this will come the air raid signal to extinguish light*. Over 3,400 volunteer civilian de fense workers in the city will take part in the trial test, Mr. Bell said. FREIGHTERBUILT IN ONLY 10 DAYS (Continued from Page One) heads and said we could not do it. Yet here beside us is this great craft—only 10 days from keel lay ing to launching; and in a few days she will be on the ocean, bearing cargo to our Allies and to our sol diers. It is a miracle, no less—A miracle of God and of the genius of free American workmen.” Kaiser’s son, Edgar F., manager of the yard, said the great speed in building the Teal had not penal ized other ships being built. “The yard in September, in every depart ment, has increased its production per man, as well as building and delivering this fast ship.” Henry Kaiser saw in the new record a promise of future pros perity for the nation. “If American brains and ingen uity do what they should do,” he said, "I will have no fear of the future. We will have to rebuild what we have destroyed. Prosper ity can go on and on and on.” -V VICTORY FLEET DAY RALEIGH, Sept. 28—UR—Gover nor Broughton today issued a statement calling attention to the observance of Victory Fleet Day next Sunday. *■ City Briefs SOLDIER WOUNDED Lonnie Brooks, Camp Davis negro soldier attached to the 450th Coast Artillery Regiment, is confined to the station hos pital at Camp Davis with a gunshot wound in the foot. Brooks was shot in the foot by an unidentified negro in the Brooklyn section of the city early Tuesday morning, city police said. APPOINTED Mrs. Michael Scollin has been appointed a temporary clerk in the office of the clerk of superior court, A. L. Mey land announced yesterday. BIBLE CLASS MEETS The Earnest Workers Bible class of Immanuel Presbyte rian church will hold its meet ing tonight at 8 o’clock at the church. Memebers and friends are urged to be present. REGISTRATION OPEN Courses in the academic sub jects at the New Hanover High schohol are still open for regis tration, Mrs. George West, an nounced yesterday. A total of 200 had enrolled Monday after noon. PLEAD UU1L1I Three negro men and three negro women plead guilty to morals charges at a, hearing before Judge Alton A. Lennon at Recorder’s court here yester day, and two tvere given road sentences. Two Army privates, William Justice of Fort Jackson, S. C., and John D. Britt of Camp Davis, were taken into custody by city and military police and are being held on charges of desertion. WARDEN MEETING SET A meeting of air raid war dens of sector 30 will be held tonight at 8 o’clock at Hemen way school. Sector 30 runs from the east side of 8th street to the west side of 11th street and from the nortl side of Princess street to the south side of Grace street. All war dens are urged to attend the meeting. BRITISH RA IS SMASH AT BE SI (Continued from Page One) aircraft which tried to attack the raiders. That was the night of September 13 to 14. Two nights later the highly mobile raiders descended on Gialo Oasis, deep in the desert 235 miles south of Bengasi, occu pied it and fought a battle of sev eral days duration during whicn “considerable casualties were caus ed to the enemy garrison.” Ammunition dumps at Gialo were destroyed by British cannon which, amazingly, the raiders dragged across the hundreds of miles of desert. Italian accounts said the British withdrew from Gialo after six days of fighting, and then only when an Axis motorized column came up. It was the most spectacular com bined assault yet undertaken in three years of rapidly changing fortunes on North African battle fields. The British said the raiders now had returned to their bases, but they did not mention the starting point or the routes taken. The radio at Lyon, in unoccupied France, suggested that the raiders operated from Kufra Oasis, 250 miles south of Gialo, which the fighting French occupied in 1941. Even from Kufra, however, the raiding patrols would have to have traveled some 500 miles to reach all their objectives, roving over the waterless wastes at night and mak ing their own tracks, since all known desert trails converge upon Axis occupied oases. Allied heavy, medium and light bombers took up the work of de struction where the desert raiders left off. Today’s communique list ed a successful attack Tuesday on Bengasi, in which two vessels were set afire in the port, and Monday night raids on enemy landing grounds in the El Daba area which caused a large firr and explosion. WEATHER (Continued from Pmje One) WASHINGTON, Sept. 23—VP)—Weather Bureau report 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 - 76 47 0.00 Atlantic City - 70 57 0.00 Boston - 66 53 0.00 Burlington - 59 42 0.00 Chicago - 60 47 0.33 Cleveland - 68 40 0.00 Detroit -—- 62 39 0.00 Galveston - 82 66 0.00 Kansas City- 75 52 0.00 Memphis - 83 54 0.00 Miami- 81 74 0.00 Mobile - 83 57 0.00 New oYrk- 80 57 0.00 Pittsburgh - 70 49 0.00 Richmond -—- 78 49 0.00 I Tampa - 80 81 0.00 Washington - 76 54 0.00 Weary Feet Perk Up With Ice-Mint Treat When feet burn, callouses sting and everv step is torture, don t just groan and do nothing. Hub on a little Ice-Mint. Frostv white, cream-like, its cooling soothing com* fort helps drive the fire and pain right out . . . tired muscles relax in grateful relief A world of difference in a few minutes See how Ice-Mint helps soften up corns and callouses too. Get foot happy today the Ice-Mint way. Your druggist hat Ice-Mint! NATION READYING FOR SCRAP DRIVE (Continued from Pace One) other thousands of dollars In awards being offered by various groups and businesses across the country. The mills could be turning out millions of more tons of steel for tanks, planes, guns and ships, if they had the scrap with which to work. Steel is made half from iron ore, half from scrap metal. The mills have the furnaces and ore or the job. But the scrap is short. The WPB has been campaigning for scrap collection for months, will continue till the end of the war. But this intensified newspaper drive officially starts next Monday, ends October 17. In some areas the drive will start later, end later. In other sections newspapers already have led such campaigns, will do so again, are doing it now. The newspapers’ job is to get housewives, farmers, buiness men to root out from their factories, of fice buildings, homes, farms, base ments, attics and garages those items of iron and steel no longer needed, such as metal beds, springs, irons, tractors, garbage cans, metal golf clubs. Getting those items found, routed out and collected calls for planning that varies by cities, towns, vil lages, counties and states. Heart of the effort is voluntary work by men, women and children, business and women’s groups,, fra ternal organizations, truckers and ■\ orkers who pitch in to help when their regular day’s work is done. Nerve center of this intensified drive is a small committee of out of-town newspapermen, experienced with scrap collection campaigns in their own cities, who have come to New York to work around a conference table high in a mid-town office building. From them flow suggestions and queries to the nation’s newspapers on the drive. Back to them flow telegrams, letters and long-distance telephone calls in which the in dividual papers or state associations explain what they are doing in their areas. une example ot the kind of direct appeal being made to newspapers appeared in Virginia's Martinsville Daily Bulletin which got right to the point in a way that probably has had few parallels m American journalism. Sweeping aside all war or domes tic news, the bulletin devoted its entire front page to an advertise ment on the scrap drive — carried at its own expense. In the center of the advertise ment. which explained the need for immdiate all-out scrap collection, was this question in large type: “Whose Boy Will Die Because You Failed?” Next to that question, the Bullet in carried this note to the readers: “The front page of every news paper is reserved for the most news of the day. The Bulletin considers that the most important news today is the fact that a shortage of scrap material seriously threatens the pro duction of arms and ammunition for the fighting forces of this country. “The front page of this news paper is therefore dedicated today to a plea for your help in over coming this imminent and immedi ate peril to our armed forces.” The point emphasized by the gov ernment and the newspapers is that scrap must be turned in, no mat ter how. it can be given to municipal or charity scrap piles or it can be sold to a junkman. The government cannot accept a gift of the scrap but any citizen wishing to help the government di recetly can sell his scrap to a junkman and then buy War Bonds with the proceeds. The newspaper and other prizes are mostly in War Bonds and will be awarded for the outstanding effort to individuals, groups, com munities- and counties. ■\r CONSTABLE KILLED DACCA, INDIA, Sept. 23—(#>—A constable was killed and several persons wore injured yesterday at Nowabganj. 18 miles from Dac ca, when police fired on a mob which attacked the local police station with crude bombs, spears and staves. PICKING UP SPEED WASHINGTON,. Sept.. 23—(>P'— The commerce department said today that the nation’s economic machine was continuing to pick speed despite “loud engine knocks” which resulted from the severe pressure of trying to reach un know limits in output. When Mpesky” little FACIAL BLOTCHES Externally Caused mar your appeal Try This for Relief Refreshing!}, cleanse skin with the Dland, fluffy, easy-rinsing lather of pure Resinol Soap. Then smooth on some medicated, quick-acting Resinol to curb itchy * irritation and thus hasten healing. Lio this daily and watch results. Resinol°r I FOR CORRECT TINE DIAL 3 5 7 5 —Courtesy— Stalingrad Garrison Holding Against Axis (Continued from Page One) 42 in another, and 23 in two other areas. Two thousand Germans were killed in one unidentified sector, the same number in another, and the Volga river flotilla’s guns were credited with annihilating at least two battalions of Germans and Rumanians in the last few days. Rear guardsmen fighting inside the city were said vo have beaten off steady attacks by huge Ger man infantry, tanks and air for ces. In the Mozdok area of the Mid Caucasus the Russians said they killed 200 attacking Germans and destroyed five tanks and 24 trucks. » More than 1,500 Germans were said to have fallen in the Voro nezh area of the Upper Don where the Russians have beaten off re peated Nazi attacks on that left flank of the advance on Stalin grad. The Germans were believed to have lost more than 10,000 men in the past four days in the Stalin grad sector without making any vital gains in their month-old siege. Reports late yesterday had told of the Red Army’- loss of a few more shell-pocked streets, but said these were balanced by new ly-won Russian gains northwest and southwest of the city. The Russians loss was reported in a communique which said “in one sector enemy infantry, oper ating with the support of over 100 tanks, succeeded in pressing back our troops somewhat and captured several streets." This apparently was a record for the use of tanks in a street battle. The gains were announced by the army* newspaper, Red Star, which said Russian forces lashing out southwest of the siege city re captured a village, while to the northwest other forces crossed the Volga by night, struck at the Ger man flank upriver from the city, and drove the Germans back. An important road in the Stalin grad battle zone also was report ed wrested from the invaders. Pravda, which reported the Nazi air assault intensified to more than 1,000 bombing flights a day, said reinforced Russian fighter planes had proved equal to the new challenge. Tass dispatches gave vivid ac PIMPLES ‘S5? RELIEVE ITCIEERG — FRbMGTE HEALING Ease Boreness—burning with antiseptic Black and White Ointment. Use only as directed. In 10^, 25c and 50<i sizes. Cleanse with Black and White Skin Soap. -1 counts of the devastation and the slaughter in the fight which the Russians said had cost the Ger mans almost 6,000 men in the past three days. ' The news agency said Ruman ian and Italian divisions had been hurled into the battle to support the Germans, but were halted aft er paying heavily at the outskirts of the city. The approaches to the city and its outskirts are littered with thou sands of enemy bodies, and hun dreds of disabled German tanks, planes, guns and other equip ment,” Tass reported. ‘‘Although bleeding wnite,” the news agency said, “the enemy keeps bringing up fresh reserves.” The battle swelled to new fury, too, in the Caucasus. Red Star said a fierce fight had developed for control of an import ant pass southeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossisk in the mountains barring the road to the south. The army newspaper said Soviet forces there repulsed the Germans in the first tests of pow er, but indicated that the Nazis still were attacking, supported by a'tillery. -V TOBACCO SALES RALEIGH, Sept. 23—Ufh—Price [trends were firm on tobacco mar kets of the Eastern North Carolina Belt and mixed on the Middle belt today, the Federal and State de partments of Agriculture report ed. On the Middle Belt, 3,523,218 pounds were sold yesterday at an average of 38,82 cents a pound and sales for the season mounted to 21,591,472 pounds, at an average of 38.30 cents. Through Monday, 160, 378,468 pounds had been sold on the Eastern Belt at an average of 34.86 cents a pound. “Throw your scrap into the fight.” Moroline is top quality, EjT ^ smooth spreading. Ideal for jfl ; „f minor cuts, burns, chafe. J^^j^^^JWorld’s largest seller at 5r. w/moroline ^^WHITE^PETROLtUIVMElLY^ MANOR K Bette Davis—Ann Sheridan —IN— "THE NAN WHO CANE TO DINNER" —with— Monte YVooley — Jimmy Durante ALSO COMEDY WILLKIE CONFERS " with_red^Remier (Continued from Pajt 0>() He has spent his tin . , , cow mainly talking £ !" *«i and seeing points of L 0r*«i the city. interest a On all sides during his (,• Moscow he has been tuaHy the same question^ about a second front?" Once before, when he «... that question, Willkie sairt to check a lot of things Besides seeing Stalin vV, had a long talk with MnW he has been promised ».°V ar< the war front. a triP to He plans to go to Ch> he has completed visit. wsiisy WiUkie announced Aur-i, would make the trip aL 2(1 he was his own idea. Silti it would perform certain S(Jil4 he the United States govern^ Next you ncad ct'**. Calotabs. the E, «' compound tablets that m.i,“'oatl mel-taViing pleasant. Susans'0 agreeable, prompt, a n d ?,“ «• Not neceacary to follow Jus'1"1 cr castor oil. W WJl Mfc Use only as directed on lab* 10ME ^ early: | A Musical Miracle: John Payne, Bettv Orable Victor Mature 4 Jane Wvntan I In “FOOTLIGIIT SERENADE Plus! “WORLD AT WAR” S^^Here's niirth in Your Eve! | j |J Kay Kyser and Band. 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