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NAZI PRISONERS HERE FOR WORK ! Tw0 hundred and fifty German r prisoners, who arrived Mon 7,; night at the internment camp ♦ 'the former NYA training center the Carolina Beach road east here, are making Qie 0 * habitable in preparation for ,Cl r temporary stay here to re !";e labor shortages in fertilizer '’‘it^was^not clear just when the tenners of war will be assigned ? ’ :(y-k in this area, but Felix A. ‘"Lgs manager of U. S. Em i vment Service, predicted it will E i^te this week, and after t h e ELp has been placed in order.” Apparently the Nazis were hap ! , about their “new surroundings” they went about the job of - cting Army cots and other du e.lf 0{° repairing the internment i ““ i„ an energetic manner. it was not all work to them, I ,.eVer, for one prisoner tossed ‘l0" of (his section’s familiar cock Tburrs at another' who dodged e'd laughed. Another German af“ned himself to an acting oar rerted between two pine trees. £iij, American officer predicted Nazis would have the camp Eery “home-like” soon by flowers bP,ng planted about the two bar lacks mess hall and dispensary. He said they are ’’good workers ” Sightseeing trips to the intern ment camp are apparently taboo L Lieut. J. T. Hayes, assistant s '! officer, said spectators will not L‘“ allowed to loiter about t h e ♦ amp He said it would be ap pl(dated if the public would not visit there. Highway signs to direct traffic to “move along” in that area are i-pected to be erected by the it'iahu-av Commission, he said Attired in black trousers, w;th undershirts, sweatshirts and other fatigue clothing worn at random. ttie°former members of Genera1 : i-ommelTs Afrika Korps worked energetically at their tasks Tues day morning in the 25-acre rec tansular enclosure. Lieutenant Brown, an American officer, said the Germans, all en list personnel, would for the f rsi time as prisoners sleep on mattresses Wednesday night, a policy just announced by the War oupartment. The camp will not be affected bv Tuesday night's practice black out in this district, and it will be Pulped along the fence and with other huge floodlights. Guards will be stationed along the barbed wire fence and at watchtowers at three locations. The prisoners of war here range in age from 17 to 42 years, Lieu tenant Brown said, and most of them have served six years in Adolf Hitler’s army. About 20 per cent speak English, he said, and others are learning the language at night classes. One of the Ger mans was reported to have lived in Brooklyn, N. Y., for eight years. He was said to have re turned home to visit relatives and at that time was placed in the Nazi army. The Germans came here from Camp Gordon, near Augusta, Ga. The local industries which have been certified to obtain prisoners by the State War Manpower Com mission, and the approximate number they will secure are Swift Fertilizer company, 50; Virginia Chemical company. 40; Naco Fer tilizer company, 50; International Minerals and Chemical Corpora tion, 20; and the F. S. Royster Guano company, 40. The other 50 will be used on camp details, Scroggs said. Plans call for the work of pris oners on local farms with the completion of employment in fer tilizer plants. They will work six days a week under guard. Under a new policy governing the establishment of temporary camps where prisoners are to be employed to relieve labor short ages. agricultural and industrial interests asking for war prisoners must contract to pay the cost of housing, water, light and fuel, ac cording to Capt- Richard W. Smith, of the War Labor branch of Fourth Service Command in At lanta. First Lieut. R. H. flazel is com manding officer of the camp. Moroline is top qual I ity. Ideal for minor I burns—cute, chafe. World’s largest seller at ) 5c. Triple size, 10c. MOROLINE WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY r A SKILLFUL BLENDING I A skillful blending i; ; oi distinctive whiskey quali ties . ;; carefully chosen from Calvert’s choice blending stocks . . . gives Calvert Whiskey its char acteristic combination ol flavor, bouquet and body. Calvert RESERVE $1-75 PINT $2-70 4-5 QT. ICalvertl PRESEWI*! H Mwrni«m»n» Cat*tftT wmii"< «» CCalvert Distillers Corp., New Yeek. City. BLENDED WHISKEY Calvert “Reserve”: 86A PiwoI-©fc Gram Neutral Spirits. Zebulon Rotary Club To Have Special Meet j? eD. 8—(/P)—Approxi mately 200 Rotarians and Rotary Anns, representing the 53 clubs in the 189th District, from High Point to the coast, have accepted invitations to come here Friday night to help the Zebulon club celebrate its fourth consecutive year of 100 per cent meetings. Chartered May 8, 1929, the Ze bulon club is credited with a no table record of achievement. In order to attain a four-year per fect attendance record, it has had to hold several meetings in the homes of sick members. One meet ing was held in a hospital. The entire membership of the Wendell and Clayton clubs will be represented at the Friday night meeting, and all other clubs in the district have been invited to send several representatives. The speakers will include State Senator R. Gregg Cherrry of Gas tonia, Edmund H. Harding of Wash mgton, the humorist; and District Governor Robert W. Madry of Chapel Hill, Gene Newsom, Dur ham, past international president, will also speak if he can arrange to attend. Seated at the speakers’ table will be the four past district gov ernors, under './lose administra tion the perfect attendance record was made; Hal S. Orr, Rocky Mount; H. D. Jones, Graham; Wil ’iam B. Kiker, Reidsville, and Car ter Darrow, Tarboro. Their Ro tary-Anns will also attend. The celebration will get under way at the high school auditorium r.t 7:30 o’clock with Early H. Mo ser, president of the Zebulon club, presiding. Vaiden Whitley, of Ze Dulon, will give the welcome, and Hugh A. Page, secretary of thi Clayton club, who organized thi Zebullon club, will respond. Entertainment features will in cude skits by Woody Haynes an< a group from Raleigh and voca selections by Mrs. Luther M. Mas sey. Senator Cherry is scheduled ti speak on post-war planning whicl is being emphasized by Rotary’! 5.000 clubs in more than 50 coun tries this year. Dr. Luther M. Massey of th( Zebulon club is chairman of the committee on arrangements. -V Two Men Are Arrested Following An Unusual Series Of Events Hen Ivory Bryant, and James Bat son, both Negroes, were held in jail Tuesday afternoon under $10( and $2500 bonds, respectively, aft er having been arrested following a rather unusual series of events Tuesday. State Highway Patrolman J. L, Flowers arrested Bryant for speed ing on the outskirts of Wilming ton, and for having no proof oi ownership of the car a ’41 Buick sedan, which he was driving ai the time. Batson was also in the oar at the time of the arrest. Officer Flowers removed the cai Keys from Bryant’s car and told aim that he could not drive the oar until he produced proof of ownership. The patrolman then :ook Bryant to the police station for arrest. Batson, who apparently had a Junlicate set of kevs. stole the car Woodrow Wilson Hut Is Beign Remodeled Improvements in the Woodrow Wilson hut, city-county project op erated for servicemen, are cur rently under way and will affect physical properties as well as ov cr-all program policy, Jesse A. Reynolds, director of municipal recreation, announced Tuesday. Mr. Reynolds said that the hut is closed this week, to be re-open ed Saturday. Plans call for a refinishing of floors, the raising of the stage in preparation for Army floor shcjjvs, addition of Venetian blinds in the rest rooms, construction of a check room, acquisition of uphol stered settees and chairs, pur chase of new draperies, and a gen eral re-decoration. According to Reynolds, the City recreation officials will meet with the house committee of the hut to discuss the new program-schedule to be set-up. It is possible, he said, that the property may be utilized more fully for day-time activities for servicemen on leave. Physical improvements are ex pected to amount to approximately $700. Mrs. Ethel Powers is the hostess of the hut, and is assisted by Lily Harper, Ruby King and George Mann. Administration of the proj ect is handled by the city recrea tion department. -V Resolution Repealing Chinese Exclusion Act Signed By President WASHINGTON, Feb. 8— UP) — President Roosevelt signed a pro clamation today putting into ef fect the repeal of the Chinese Ex clusion Act and fixing a Chinese immigration quota of 105 persons a year. The ban on Chinese immigration was repealed by Congress last December in a move sponsors said would offset Japanese propaganda claims that the United States dis criminated against Orientals. while the patrolman was in the police station with Bryant, drove it for about a mile, and com pletely wrecked it in the vicinity of Seabreeze. The wheels of the car slid for fifty-three yards be fore the car turned over, the pa trolman state. Bryant, upon being questioned, said that the car was the proper ty of his mother, and that Batson had at no time been given per mission to drive the car. -V ALLIED HOSPITAL . BOMBED BY NAZIS (Continued from Page One) morrow. 11 will be laid to jest in a common grave in the new Amer ican military cemetery at Nettuno. “We’ve been asked not to go to the cemetery,” Lt. Col. Binkley told correspondents. “So many combat dead still await burial, and our presence would interfere.” Some of the witnesses estimated the plane swooped in as * low . as 500 feet and dropped its load of anti-personnel bombs, which tore through the big green hospital tents—located a mile from the nearest military objective—and in some cases shredded the canvas like fishnets. The -ray laboratory was wrecked and considerable equip ment, critically needed to care for the wounded from the continuing struggle on the beachhead, was de stroyed. A survey today showed 29 of the 32 hospital tents with holes ripped in them from the bombing or from flak and shrap nel from previous air raids in the coastal area. The p 1 a n e’s anti - personnel bombs landed at the very edge of the Red Cross insignia surmount ing the hospital, a cross 45 feet square with bars six feet wide. In the same hospital zone are three other hospitals, and in one of them, directly next door to the target of yesterday’s bombing, a German pilot is being cared for today. He bailed out over the beachhead yesterday morning and is suffering from a neck wound. -V HOPE FOR EARLY CONQUEST FADES (Continued from Page One) en up before they reached their objectives. The score was a typical one. Nineteen Nazi planes were sent crashing to earth three of them victims of an American Negro fighter squadron. In all, 26 enemy craft were destroyed during the day, including two gliders downed over the Gulf of Genoa. Five Al lied planes were missing. Exhaustion o. both sides brought a lull in the bitter street fighting for Cassino, but opposing artillery kept up their duel under a dense smoke pall that spread southward over the town and across the Liri plain. American Doughboys held on to previously won positions, but dispatches reported that they did not exert any pressure of conse quence yesterday. As the Americans clung to their ground on the monastery heights behind Cassino and in the town below, Fifth Army artillery pound ed the battered town and a Ger man-held crag below the abbey on Monte Cassino. The ancient stone castle just behind the center of Cassino was a daylong target, as the Germans have been using it as a gun position since they forced American troops to retire from it Sunday. --V WRlUHl Dnuinuns An airship was built and suc cessfully piloted by Dr. Solomon Andrews before the Wright broth ers were born. The ship was built in 1863 and flew over New York City in 1866 with several passen gers aboard. -V The new Dvorak typewriter key board, which gives the right hand 56 per cent of the work, instead of the conventional 43 per cent, enables skilled typists to type 180 umrflm a minnta. i City Briefs PATE TO SPEAK The Rev. E. W. Pate, Wil , mington Associational Mission ; ary, will speak at the South side Baptist church Wednesday night at 8 o’clock. * PRAYER MEETING Temple Baptist Prayer meet ing wlil be held Wednesday at , 8 p. m. Special honor will be paid to the Young Women’s Auxiliary, in recognition of YWA Focus Week. YWA mem bers will participate, and all are urged to be present. MEN’S CLUB The regular monthly meeting of the Temple of Israel Men’s Club will be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the home of Rabbi M. M. Thurman. All members are urged to attend. DANCE The 556th battalion of Camp Davis will hold a dance at Service Club Number One Wednesday night. All Wilming ton girls who are members of the Defense Dance Club are invited. Busses will leave the Woodrow Wilson Hut at 1 p.m. VALENTINE DANCE The Carolina Beach USO Club will sponsor a Valentine dance Thursday from 8 to 11 p.m. at the City Hall auditor ium. The Fort Fisher orches tra will provide the music. All Wilmington junior hostesses are invited. _v ‘KNOW YOUR ALLY’ FILM SHOWN HERE “Know Your Ally, Britain,” was the name of an official picture shown to members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in a regu lar weekly meeting of the group last night in the banquet hall of the Friendly Restaurant. The pic ture was presented through the courtesy of the Public Relations of fice at Camp Davis. The film was dominated with the idea that Great Britain and the United States are different, but they are unmistakably fighting for the same ways of life. Scenes showed how little the Americans know and understand the English people. Feature of the film was the his tory of Britain’s entry into the war and her relations with the United States and other countries —the teamwork of the great leag ue allies. According to the picture it was one full year before the Lion oi Britain began to awaken and slash back with timely victories. The United Kingdom existed for one year as the only major power fighting the greatest military ma chine in the world, before the bells rang a song of victory and thanksgiving for England’s batter ed towers. On the ground, in the air and on the seas, Britain began to fight back with everything she had. The film showed Britain’s war time rationing program in prac tice. The English, according to the commentator, are allowed one egg a week. If women are lucky, they can buy one pair of stock ings per month. Rich men, iJ there are any left, pay an income tax of 97 1-2 per cent. And there is no gasoline for civilians. Before transacting final busi ness of the meeting, Claude O’ Shields, editor of the J. C. Bui letin, requested members of the organization to turn in names ol any servicemen they would like tc receive copies of the publication. -V WILSON ELECTED GREENSBORO, Feb. 8— (JP) - George P. Wilson, professor oi English at the Woman’s College, •las been elected secretary-trea surer of the American Dialect So ciety. Wilson, a pioneer in collecting and preserving American dialect h: published form, will be relieved of part of his college teaching so that he may devote adequate time to work of the society. Happy Relief When You’re Sluggish,Upset WHEN CONSTIPATION makes you feel punk as the dickens, brings on stomach upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort, take Dr. Caldwell’s famous medicine to quickly pull the trigger on lazy “innards”, and help you feel bright and chipper again. DR. CALDWELL’S is the wonderful senna laxative contained in good old Syrup Pep sin to make it so easy to take. MANY DOCTORS use pepsin preparations in prescriptions to make the medicine more palatable and agreeable to take. So be sure your laxative is contained in Syrup Pepsin. INSIST ON DR. CALDWELL’S—the favorite of millions for 50years, and feel that whole some relief from constipation. Even finicky children love it. CAUTION: Use only as directed. DR.CA1MHUS SENNA LAXATIVE CONTAIN!D IN SYRUP PEPSIN FDR WILL STUDY NEW TAX MEASURE (Continued from Page One) cause it would produce less than a quarter of the $10,500,000,000 in new wartime revenue sought by the Treasury. Murray wrote the President to day that Congress left him “no al ternative but to veto this travesty on wartime tax programs.’ He said the measure “flouts your oft repeated call for a fair and real istic tax program.” Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill Re publican members of the House Ways and Means Committee call ed for immediate action toward simplification of the income tax laws. They declared they would sees immediate committee action on the subject, without awaiting recom mendations of the Treasury De partment or the congressional staff of tax experts. The Republi can committee-men are sponsoring a bill by Rep. Carlson (R.-Kas ) which, they said, would accomplish reforms as follows: 1. Only one tax on income woulc be imposed, with a single bast and a single set of rates and ex emptions. 2. Persons whose income tax is substantially paid at the sourrt through withholding would be ex cused from filing returns except a' their own option. This would bene fit about 30,000,000 taxpayers. 3. The use of the short form o: return would be permitted up t< $5,000 gross income, instead of $3. 000 as at present. 4. Drastic simplification would b< brought about" in both the shor form of return and the long form 5. Taxpayers would be given un til Januray 15, following the disc of the taxable year, in which tc file amended declarations of cur rent tax liability, “thus eliminat ing all guesswork.” The ways and means committee will meet tomorrow to take up the simplification problem. Recreation Centers Are Well Attended Attendance at the comparative ly new recreation centers inaugu rated under the Municipal Recrea tion department, and financed by funds from the Lanham Act and a city appropriation, proved ex cellent, a report of the Recreation department to City Manager A. C. Nichols disclosed. Figures reveal that 11,115 per sons made use of the facilities at Woodrow Wilson hut, 975 played on the golf course, 6,628 white per sons attended the supervised cen ters, and 7,000 Negroes visited Ne gro centers, and outdoor areas at tracted 8,768. Highlights of the recreation de partment’s month included an in stitute conducted by Miss Helen Dauncey of the National Recre ation association and the swing into operation of six athletic teams in the servicemen’s league; eighl teams in the shipyard league, five, in the junior set-up, and six ir the midget group. Plans are under way for th< opening of centers at Isaac Beai and Peabody school!; the conduct ing of table tennis and badminton tourneys, issuing of a complete recreation booklet listing all avail able recreational activity—private, oiganizational, and public—in the city, and development and im provement of grounds and facili ties looking forward to the,spring program. The department now employes a superintendent, director of ath letics, woman supervisor, stenog rapher-clerk, supervisor of Negrc activities, five full time recreation center directors, maintenancs men, part - time laborers, foui Woodrow Wilson hut workers, anc four golf course workers. -V “FISH TALK" /Hie men who operate the sen sitive listening devices on our sub marines are trained to distinguish between the sounds made by pro pellers and fish by the use of spo* cial recordings of "fish talk” made by the Navy. Piscatorial sounds ranging from grunts and purrs to those that sound like steamboat whistles have been re corded. -V American Navy gun crews walk on what might be called carpets of jewels. Garnets, pulverized into . coarse grains, form the abrasive : ; part of non-skid covering foe decks of our warships. NOW SHE SHOPS “CASH AND CARRY” Without Painful Backache Many sufferers relieve nagging backache • quickly, once they discover that the real cause of their trouble may be tired kidneys. . The kidneys are Nature’s chief way of tak ing the excess acids and waste oufc of the blood. They help most people pass about 3 pints a day. When disorder of kidney function permits poisonous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nagging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with smarting and burning some times shows there is something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Don’t wait! Ask your druggist for Doan’s Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poison ous waste from your blood. Get Doan s Pills. Grandma Didn’t Fool Around When Her Family Had A Cold Pioneer Home Principle Helps Chest Muscle Tightness Lessens Couzhinsr. Loosens Phleom. Aida Sl**n When grandma’s family had a cold she used mutton suet medicat ed in her own simple "home reme dy” way and rubbed it on to relieve chest muscle tightness, rest disturb ing night coughing, throat tickle, nasal and bronchial irritation. To day, there is a salve that conforms to these pioneer principles — it’s Penetro. Science has combined five active ingredients in a stainless white base containing mutton suet. Just rub on Penetro. It works two ways: (1) Outside, it acts like a plaster to stimulate a congestion easing flow of warming blood. (2) Inside, its aromatic vapors soothe and comfort nasal passages. Pene tro quickly eases chest musculai tightness and pain, helps loosen phlegm, lessens coughing and aids easier breathing ana restful sleep. Purchase price of first jar refunded if not satisfied. Generous size 25c, double quantity 35c, economy size 60c. Today, get original Penetrc f ~ \ tftm eea/ffmc^OHf deserves a w That coal merchant of yours ... it’s high time he was cited for service! About everything has happened to him these past two years. He’s lost yard and delivery men... and others are hard to find. Repairs and new equipment are a headache... not to mention war-restrictions on his truck mileage, gas and tires. Even his coal supply has been unpredictable ... what with labor trouble at the mines and with the war taking 40% more coal for power, steel and endless other tasks. Still he has had just as many (often more) cus tomers to serve and he has gone about it patiently ... doing his level best, always! Such service on the home front deserves our cita tion and yours! Nothing else is more vital to wintertime health and comfort in America’s homes or more nec essary to backing up the war effort in every neighborhood. 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