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r vuiv __ River Improvements Mark New Measure (Continued from Page One) three miles to the main channel in the river, at an estimated cost of $675,000. Major Werner said that it is be lieved that these modifications will insure greater safety in handling fully loaded vessels and make the facilities at this locality more near ly comparable with those at simi lar ports on the South Atlantic coast. The Senate document provides for increasing the depth to 32 feet from Wilmington to the ocean and in turning basin and anchorage ba sin, including lengthening the ap proach to the anchorage basin at an estimated cost of $790,000. This increased channel depth, it is be lieved. will result in savings in transportation costs on cargo car ried in larger vessels loaded to economic capacity, avoid delays now experienced by larger vessels awaiting favorable tides, eliminate losses due to groundings, and re duce maintenance costs. In addition to these provisions for the Cape Fear river, the bill #lso contains an authorization of $73,000 for the Northeast (Cape Fear) river and provides for a channel 25 feet deep and 200 feet wide, with increased width at bends, extending from Hilton Bridge to and including a turning basin of the same depth and 600 feet wide, at a point one and one quarter irdles above. The bill contains a provision for providing a channel eight feet deep and 90 feet wide, extending from the inland waterway via Mot te and Banks channel to a point just within Masonboro Inlet at Wrightsville Beach, at an estimat ed cost of $9,000. Other North Carolina projects in cluded in the bill are the following: Pembroke Creek, $9,500 to provide a channel 12 feet deep and 80 feet wide for 500 feet from the improv ed channel in Edenton Bay and thence eight feet deep and 50 feet wide to the wharf of the United States fish hatchery. The present channel is not considered adequate and causes loss of time to hatchery boats. cnannei irom raraiico souna 10 Rodanthe, $5,000 to provide a chan nel six feet deep and 100 feet wide to include a basin of the same depth at the shore end, 80 to 100 feet wide and 1,200 feet long, in cluding arms. It is believed the improvement will benefit the ac tivities of the Coast Guard and those of the National Park Serv ice. It will also provide a harbor and facilitate the transfer of fish and incoming supplies. Chowan river, $15,000 to provide a channel 12 feet deep and 80 feet wide from the mouth of the Chowan river to the confluence of Notto way and Dlackwater rivers. It is thought the improvement will pro duce large savings due to north ward shipments of wood pulp and lumber products and return ship ments of salt products, in addition to its value to general commerce. Channel from Pamlico Sound to Avon, $16,500 to provide a channel six feet deep to and including a basin at Avon. The value of this project is believed to be the fact that it will provide a protected harbor and allow safer transpor tation and handling of supplies for the locality which is largely de pendent on water transportation. Rollinson channel, $27,000 to pro vide a six foot channel 100 feet : wide from the existing channel to : and including a six foot depth in i S. S. Ruth Lyke s Launched Here j The S. S. Ruth Lykes, 203rd ship to near comple tion at the yard of the North Carolina Shipbuilding company, was christened yesterday morning at 9:30 oclock by Mrs. Mildred W. Chandler, wife of U. S. Senator Albert B. Chandler, of Kentucky. Shown above are the members of the launching party. Left to right are Solon Turman, of New Orleans, executive vice president of the Lykes Brothers Steamship company; Capt. Roger Williams, president of the shipyard; Mrs. Turman, matron of honor; P. F. Halsey, vice president and general manager of the comp any; Mrs. Chandler and Mrs. Mildred Cabell, matron of honor. The C-2 type ship was the second of sev eral to be built here for the Lykes Brothers company. front of the wharves at Hatteras. General navigation is expected to be benefited by this improvvement as well as the services of the Coast Guard. Weather Bureau and Na tional Park Service. Waterway c o n n e cting Swan Quarter Canal to a basin eight feet deep at the head of the canal near Swan Quarter. The town of Swan Quarter has no railway facilities and the improvement is expected to effect substantial savings by eliminating delays in the shipment of farm products. Neuse and Trent Rivers, $11,000 to prqvide at New Bern a boat basin 600 feet long and 250 feet wide and a repair basin 300 feet long and 220 feet wide at the adjacent boat works, with access channels 90 feet wide to each basin, all to a depth of eight feet at mean low water. The cost of this improve ment is $16,500, which includes a local contribution of $6,500. The work is required to provide for added safety and convenience of fishing boats and recreational craft. Channel connecting Thorough fare Bay and Cedar Bay, $20000 to provide a depth of seven feet. Waterway connecting Pamlico sound and Beaufort harbor, $35, 000 to provide channels seven feet deep and 75 feet wide, located near the east and west ends of Harkers Island respectively, and for a side channel 75 feet wide and five feet deep to and including a basin of the same depth. 150 feet long and 130 feet in width at Davis. Saving in time of commercial fishermen going to and from the fishing grounds, the permitting of heavier loading of boats and avoidance of groundings with possible loss of catch is expected to be effected by the work. Another improvement of the same waterway is proposed to provide for dredging a side channel 75 feet wide and seven feet deef> from that depth in Core Sound to and including a turning basin of the same depth, 200 feet wide and 500 feet long at Sealevel. The estimated cost is $8000, of which $1,000 will be contributed by local interests. Channel from Back sound fo Lookout bight, $50,000 to provide for a dredged channel seven feet deep and 100 feet wide from deep Egyptian Premier Slain After Nation Enters War On Axis (Continued from Page One) Although the war has been fought on Egyptian soil, the country never was a belligerent. The agreement dissolving the British protectorate over Egypt in 1936 ended British military occupa tion of the country, but British in terests in the defense of the Suez canal were maintained, permitting full use of Egyptian bases by the British when the Germans invaded North Africa. Rommel’s eastward advanc-s carried well inside the western border of Egypt and within less than 60 miles of Alexandria, but it was the British army, not the Egyptian, which defended the country and subsequently drove the Germans back. The decision of Egypt and other nations of the Middle East, like that of Turkey, is explained in diplomatic circles to be the result of the Big Three agreement mak ing a declaration of war on the Axis a condition of participation in the United Nations meeting at San Francisco April 25. For Egypt the question became complicated with internal politics and opposition groups were fight ing the war declaration. A vote was not necessary under Egyptian law. however, and the premier re commended that the king declare war by decree. The parliament was convened at 5:30 p. m., and Ahmed Maher made a brief statement reviewing the reasons for the government action, then formally read the royal decree. He was heard in absolute silence. Concluding, he stepped from the speaker's dais and walked toward a corridor. A newspaper photographer halted him, asking that he pose in the doorway. At that instant a young man stepped close, produced a pistol and fired into the premier’s body at point-blank range. The wildest tumult ensued. Scores of deputies rushed ito the corridor as the premier sank to the floor. A well-known Egyptian physician, Aly Ibrahim Pasha, who was seat ed in the chamber, went to the pre mier’s side, but death occurred be fore he could stanch the flow of blood. It was made known that regard less of the assassination, the de cree placing Egypt at war stands as read. The cabinet issued a formal an nouncement of the death, express ing its sorrow and declaring, “a criminal hand has assassinated him. He died wh le carrying out his duty in the ,-ervice and to the glory of his homeand and his king.” water in the Sound to deep water in the ocean. It is belffeved that this improvement will provide a safe and convenient channel for a large fleet of Menhaden boats. Beaufort harbor, $54,000 to pro vide for the enlargement of the existing basin at Beaufort. It is expected that this will relieve the congestion now prevalent in the harbor; facilitate maneuvering of vessels using the inland waterway and encourage greater use of the harbor by othe rcraft. Inland waterway, Beaufort to the Cape Fear river, $24,000 to pro vide for the construction of six mooring basins along the main channel of the inland waterway at points north and south of Morehead City, and in the vicinity of Swans boro, Peru, Seabreeze and Fish Factory. In the same bill, preliminary ex aminations and surveys of the following localities were author ized: Channel from the Thoroughfare to Albemarle sound, either by way of lower Cashie river, Middle river and Bachelors Bay, or by way of any other route. Purvlance Creek, New Hanover county. When the bill becomes a law, these two examinations will be re ferred to the appropriate district engineer for examination and re port. Hearings will be held for In terested parties to submit their views and to state what improve ments are desired. -V »»’«oAvnq i\m ctamvc Motorists May Deduct State Gasoline Taxes North Carolina motorists may deduct on their Federal Income tax returns this year the money they paid out in state gasoline taxes in 1944, Coleman R. Rob erts, president of the Carolina Motor club, announced yesterday. The state tax rate is six cents per gallon. “It must be added,” the motor club official said, “that any de ductions, whether based on a state gasoline tax or on other items,, may be only when the taxpayer reports his income in detail on form 1040. In the main, no deduct ions may be claimed by those who file a withholding receipt as a return, or who use form 1040 and take advantage of the tax table or standard deduction. The blanket allowance granted in the latter cases is deemed to be sufficient to cover allowable personal de ductions,” A detailed listing of deductible items has been prepared by the American Automobile Association and a supply of copies is on hand at the offiices of the Carolina Motor club for the benefit of motorists in making their returns. -V_ Jewish Appeal Near $15,000 Goal Here The $15,000 local goal of the United Jewish Appeal is being neared, according to latest reports. Credit for part of this success is given to group meetings held in the homes of Sam Berger, chair man of the Initial Gifts committee, and Abe D’Lugin and William Block, members of the executive committee. B. Kingoff is general chairman of the Appeal, and B. May is co-chairman of the Initial Gifts committee. REDS WITHIN 33 MILES OF DANZIG (Continued from Page One) enigsberg. besieged East Prussian capital. The assault on Breslau, Ger many's eighth largest city of 630, 000 population, mounted in inten sity and an enemy broadcast said that in a wild melee in the streets one Soviet force had penetrated to the neighborhood of the German barracks deep inside the city be fore being thrown beak to the out er town ring. Berlin said the Russians, were using “several army corps * and that these had been ordered to take the important industrial and com munications city quickly and avoid a long siege. Russian aitillery bar rages had been stepped up, and Berlin acknowledged that German nests inside Breslau had been wip ed out by the Russians. Savage Resistance A Nazi garrison believed to number 100,000 men fought sav agely to hold Breslau and delay the Russian advances on Berlin and Dresden. Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky’s Second White Russian Army at tacking on a 70-mile front gained up to seven miles from their pre vious positions, capturing 10 local ities in the Polish “corridor” and in Pomerana on the west. Flanking the Vistula river town of Gniew one Soviet group seized Dzierzazno, four miles east of Gniew and 33 miles south of the former free city of Danzig. In this area the Russians were within eight miles of the border of Dan zig territory and were attacking toward the 10-way road and rail junction of Starogard on the Ger lin-Canzig trunk railway. -- -- Army Air Medal Awarded Posthumously To Orrell The Air Medal, with two Oak Leaf clusters, awarded posthumous ly to S-Sgt. Claude D. Orrell, son of the late Claude D. Orrell and Mattie Orrell Wright, of Wilming ton, has been received by his moth er, at her home 206 North Seventh street. The medal and clusters were pre sented for “meritorious and heroic conduct while engaged in aerial combat operations over enemy tar gets during April, May and June, 1944, and the destruction of one enemy aircraft on his final mis sion, June 6, 1944.” S-Sgt. Orrell’s mother previously had received the Purple Heart for her son, together with the Presi dential Citation, given for valor and heroism while in action against the enemy. He was nose turret gunner on a Liberator bomber, and was attach ed to the 15th Air Force, stationed in Italy. He was killed during com bat with enemy fighters while on a mission over the Ploesti oil fields in Romania. He is buried in the American cemetery near Bari. Italy, on the Adriatic coast. S-Sgt. Orrell was 21 years old and was a graduate of New Han over High school, class of 1942. ..... L HEARINGS PLANNED ON ELECTION RULES (Continued from Page One) agreement that had arisen as to the legal effect of the referendum under the 1943 act. Scheduled for introduction to the General Assembly this week by Mr. LeGrand is the amendment to the City Pension act that would provide benefits for employees of the Associated Charities, Alcoholic Beverage Control board, and Wil mington public health nurses, he said. , , , . Presented last Thursday by him was an act enabling city and coun ty to rebate taxes assessed against the American Legion home. It is now being held by t h e Finance committee, as Mr. LeGrand is awaiting word of approval from the city and county. He said he had been informed the bill had been endorsed by the two govern ing bodies, but that later he learn ed through the press that the coun ty had disapproved the measure. In connection with a bill receiv ed by him to enable the City Coun cil to relieve churches from pay ing street paving assessments, Mr. LeGrand said he had asked the local minister presenting it to him to obtain approval first from the Council. Pointing out that he had just been presented the item of legislation that would allow the city and coun ty to set up a domestic relations courts, he said he would “have to study it before I render a deci sion.” -V Pidgin English is often used in official documents, especially in New Guinea. — Bombers Blast Oil Plants, Ship Yards (Continued from Page One) [•esses and Liberators and 500 Mus tank fighters of the Eighth Air Force. They blasted oil refineries at Misburg near Hannover, Ham burg and Hamburg and submarine construction yards at Bremer, and Hamburg. Later in the day, RAF bombers, escorted by British Spitfires and Mustangs, hit a synthetic oil plant at Kamen near Dortmund in anoth er unrelenting blow at Nazi fuel supplies which already are crically scarce. Most of the target areas were covered by clouds and bombing V3 by instrument. But crew m« ?er c°uld see great columnj-aj >m<ke rising above the cloud UyJ It 11,000 feet. 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