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N.C. STATE GUARD DUTIES EXPLAINED Lions Club Hers Talk On Working Of State Mili tia In Wartime The workings and duties of the Start Guard were explained to mem bers of the Wilmington Lions club at their regular w'eekly luncheon meeting yesterday afternoon at the Friendly Cafeteria, by Captain George L. Cain of the First Com pany, North Carolina State Guard. The guard has 40 companies located in 40 cities of the state, Captain Cain pointed out, with headquarters at Henderson. The guard is used primarily at the direction of the state’s governor in times of emergency including dis asters, riots and invasions and works under ordinary circumstances in cooperation with the local sheriff and police departments. Although the guard, Captain Cain stressed, has no official connection with the local civilian defense set up they are prepared to aid it in the event of an emergency. The Guard is a member of the armed forces and have 75 hours of drill each year. The local company is composed of 50 men and three officers, the captain said. All male citizens of the United States with out physical defects are eligible to enlist between the ages of 18 and ' 45. At the business meeting D. C. North and Lee O. Williams were appointed to a membership com mittee. A membership contest is being planned for the near future, it was announced. President Wick Twining, presided. -V Woman Dies 4s Result Of Brunswick Blast The mysterious explosion which wrecked a room of “The Pines,” Brunswick county roadhouse lo cated about seven miles from here, early Sunday morning claim ed its second victim yesterday V'hen Grace O’Neill, 31-year-old Beaufort native, died in James Walker Memorial hospital here at 10:50 o’clock. N. R. Porter, Wilmington taxi driver wno, Brunswick Sheriff Dil lon Gainey said, was falsely reg istered as man and wife with the O’Neill woman at “The Pines,” oied in the hospital here early Monday morning as a result of the explosion. , No witnesses to the explosion, presumed to have resulted from the ignition of a quantity of gas from a heating unit in the room, remain since Miss O’Neill and Porter were alone in the room at the time and Mrs. Agnes Har vell, proprietor of the tavern, was at the front of tile place. Sheriff Gainey said. Porter was scheduled to have gone on trial in Brunswick record er’s court at Southport the day of his death for allegedly trans porting a man and a woman from Wilmington to “The Pines” for purposes of prostitution. He was a native of North Wilkesboro. -V Banner A banner year for American live-stock and crop production ap pears to be in the making as a result of excellent growing condi tions over most of the country this year. BROKEN OUT SKINS" RELIEVE SORENESS-PROMOTE HEALING Ease itching—burning with antiseptic Black and White Ointment. Use only as directed. Sold in 10|i, 25i, 50c sizes. Cleanse with Black and White Skin Soap. \ GET YOUR S ANTI FREEZE NOW Limited Quantity CAUSEYS Corner Karket and 12th OLD IN NAME HIGH IN QUALITY 85 PROOF NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION, NEW YORK, N. Y. Bulldozer On Alcan Highway Ten months after the first bulldozers, like the one shown, left the southern terminal of the Alaska-Canada Highway at Edmonton, Alberta, U. S. Army engineers have completed the last link in the strategic roadway; The Alcan will be ready for use by December, months ahead of schedule. It winds 1,600 miles over moun tains, glaciers, and swamps, and through hitherto im penetrable forests.(Central Press) NAVY WANTS 300 MEN FROM AREA Raleigh Recruiting Office Wants Number For Navy Day Enlistment The Wilmington Navy recruiting station ’s being asked to send 300 men for enlistment to Raleigh on Navy Day, October 27. It will be the twenty-first celebration of Navy Day, and this year is the first war time Navy Day in his tory. Many distinguished men from ihe Navy and civil life have been invited to participate in the Navy Day program, among them Sec retary of the Navy Frank Knox, senators and representatives from North Carolina, the leaders of government in the state, and many others. In addition, a dozen bands wm parade down Fayetteville street in Raleigh with 1.000 pre-flight cadets from the University of North Carolina, an^ the Naval Re serve training units from other colleges. Since Pearl Harbor, a total of 868 Southeastern North Carolina men have enlisted in the Navy through the Wilmington recruiting station, R. L. DeLoach, chief re cruiter, revealed today. The enlistments from December 8, 1941 to October 1, 1942 have been at the rate of 2.9 daily. Navy enlistments here since Pearl Harbor are as follows: Dec. 8 through Dec. 31, 1941, 66; Janu ary, 57; February, 46; March, 52; Aptil, 44; May, 38; June, 107; July, 101; August, 200; and Sep tember, 157. -V Harbor Island USO Club To Roll Bandages For Army Bandage rolling will be conducted every Tuesday and Thursday, be ginning October 13, at the TJSO club at Harbor Island, Mrs. T. D. Collison, in charge, announced last night. First day’s activities will begin at 9:45 a. m. next Tuesday Mrs. Col lison said, and all women of the Wrightsville Sound area are invited to attend. Subsequent meetings will be held from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m., she said. This is the same group that met during the summer months at the Ocean Terrace Hotel at Wrights ville Beach. City Briefs NEW CHIEF Commander C. David Jones yesterday announced the ap pointment of Burrows L. Smith as chief air raid warden of Zone 22 at Wrightsvilie Sound, Smith succeeds E. R. Taylor, who has entered the armed forces. SEEK MAN The Wilmington chapter of American Red Cross has been requested to get in touch with Joseph F. Rosner, 23-year-old son of Mrs. A. E. Rosner, of Baltimore, Md. Anyone know ing his whereabouts is asked to communicate with the chap ter, room 125, at the custom house. MACHINE NEEDED An appeal for a dictaphone or ediphone machine, both dic tating and transcribing, was made yesterday by Mrs. Ida Speiden, executive secretary of Wilmington chapter of Ameri can Red Cross. Anyone who will rent or loan such ma chines should communicate with the Red Cross office, room 125 at the customhouse. _ INJURED IN COLLISION James Haywood, colored, was treated for a possible fractured elbow yesterday, received when the truck he was driving collid ed with a car operated by Phil ip McRay, white, Court J, Lake Village, police reported last , night. Haywood was treated at the James Walker Memorial hospi tal and released. Both the truck and ear were damaged. The accident happened at Fifth and Meares streets. BITTEN BY MONKEY Miss Marilyn M. Lyerly, 817 Chesnut street, was bitten on the right leg by a monkey with ,which she was playing in the yard of her home, police report ed last night. She was treated at James Walker Memorial hos pital and released. The mon key is owned by Mrs. George Parker of Holly Ridge. -V Obituaries MRS. KATE SANDLIN Funeral services for Mrs. Kate Ketchum Sandlin, 54, who died at her home here at 2 o’clock Wed nesday afternoon, will be held this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, from Southside Baptist church. The services will be conducted by the Rev. J. O. Walton, pastor and burial will follow in the family cemetery at Verona. Active pallbearers are Lonnie Wolf, S. W. Brinson, C. B. Gore, R. B. Webb, H. H. Caison, and C. B. Kornegay. Acting as honorary pallbearers will be J. H. Curtis, W. D. Mills, Guy King, A. L. King, George, McFayden, M. V. Hufham, E. L. Avery and L. L. Wood. She is survived by her husbaijd, D. F. Sandlin; six sons, Albert F., Arthur C , Woodrow, David F. Jr., Samuel and Harry Lee Sandlin; three daughters, Miss Nellie Rae Sandlin, Miss Ruby Sandlin and Miss Mary Hester Sandlin; four brothers, Will Ketchum and Allen Ketchum, both of Wilmington; Tom Ketchum of Jacksonville, and Ross Ketchum of Vesta; and two sisters, Mrs. Will Sandlin of Verona and M”S. R. L. Piver of Wilmington. Early Cattle Country America’s oldest cattle country is not Texas, Wyoming or New Mexico, but the eastern tip of Long Island, at Montauk Point. The early colonists here were graziers rather than farmers and as early as 1660, great herds of cattle roam ed over the terrain, tended by hard riding, practical cowboys. -V French. Afflicted France has one blind person in every 500 inhabitants, which is a larger ratio of blind population than in other nations, except 'China, Egypt and Spain. & Large Firm LETTUCE 2 Heads V h HERE i Are Your Vitamins | Variety Values Fancy Tokay GRAPES 3 lbs. for SWEET POTATOES ..6 - 25c TJ. S. No. 1 Eating Apples 5lbbaTsh 35c New Crop Florida Grapefruit 3 for.... 25c Juicy Sweet California ORANGES.dot. 35c Home Grown SALAD 3 o™ 25c Bird's Eye Frozen UNA BEANS pkg. 29c Large Home Grown TURNIPS 2BXhes25c Bird’s Eye Frozen STRAWBERRIESpk 33r r 71 doiTt-] I forcetJ ; &;SSf0»I I Sp ||% „„r<! 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Bot. 10c Large Lima BEANS . . 2-Lb. Cello 25c Land 0; Lakes CHEESE .... Lb 33c Colonial MILK . . 3 Tall Cans 26c Clapp’s or Gerber Baby FOODS 3 4i-Oz. Cans 20c Plain Handle Elk BROOMS • a m Each 29c Palmolive SOAP a a a Bath Size 9c HONEY NUT : MARGARINE ■ 2 £ 33* ! GRAPEFRUIT Del Monte 2 No. 2 Cans 33c I V-8 VEGETABLE Cocktail 2 18-Oz. Cans 27c - HURF’S VEGETABLE SOUP i*** e» 13c NABISCO OYSTERETTES . . 10c I l JEWEL OR VEGETOLE Shortening 1-Lb. Ctn. 18c I h DRY DOG FOOD High Lite 2 T-Oz. Bags 9c I h PALMOLIVE SOAP Regular Size 3 Bars 19c f 1 SUPER-SUDS L i Med. £k0 Large 0 Giant 0 ^ Pkg. Pkg. Pkg. JL
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