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RHD CROSS NAMES division leaders _ r,-t-:re leadership of aU di Tne nf Wilmington’s 1945 Red visl°nSr.ampaign has been named Crf rtported and most of the i"d 'ave been recruited and teaPed ' according to an an Sncement from headquarters vesterday. ’ „ uert Strange, chairman, said ^"organization would be ready w ;.f the campaign on schedule a complete u in the same way’ the time came for intensive ‘Heading ihe Public Employe di i - in the effort to raise $88,000 vlS1 is Robert R. Romeo. Per neffor this division, embrac ,U public governmental agen Ts schools and social agencies, P' announced also. Heading the groups are: G. F. ”*on building inspector, city Partments; A. B. Rhodes, regis “;nf heeds, county departments; if'! p C- Sneed, U.S.N.R., direc ,: 0{ the port, federal depart ments H. M. Roland and J. W. :ip ’ superintendent and assist b: ‘ i. i . e_’_i __ an* 'Upt'; imcnutiik vyx **-«*-, * v, ■■ectively, schools; William Stew eXecutive director Of the Bri gade Boys' club, social agencies. 5 n;r strange said that a more comprehensive and elaborate phy jcal structure had been set up ,i;s year so the campaign could be conducted with more ease and " minimum of time on the part c[ volunteer workers. He has addressed a communi cation to the clergy, suggesting that Sunday, March 18, be de clared Red Cross Sunday and ask jno that suitable announcements be'made in the church bulletins ard from the pulpit. -V There are more ants in the world than any other single crea IMVISIBLELIQUiD proves great success for SKIN IRRITATIONS Promptly relieves itching—aids healing Here’s a Doctor’s formula — Zemo—a stainless liquid which appears invisible on skin—yet so highly medicated that first applications relieve itching, burn ing of Eczema, Psoriasis and similar skin and scalp irritations — due to external cause. Zemo also aids healing. Won’t show on skin. Apply any time. In 8 different sizes. ^ ZEMO Hitler Reported Blaming Japan For Present Plight LONDON, March 8—(UP)—Adolf Hitler, in a speech February 24 admitted Germany had lost the war, said he would leave the en tire country in ruins and accused Japan of treachery in not declar ing war on Russia, undergroud reports reaching Stockholm from Berlin said to day. Hitler was said to have announc ed that Germany's war losses to taled 12,500,000 men—6,300,000 kill ed, 3000,000 seriously wounded and 3,200,000 prisoners. "I have fallen a victim to the biggest treason in history,” Hitler was quoted. “I have decided to leave only ruins, rats and epidem ics to the Bolshevists Jews and plutocrats.” He added, according to the re port, that he had named Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler as "spe cial commissioner for destruction” of German cities and industries and if necessary the German air force would be set loose on its own people. His plans, he was quoted, includ ing killing all German political prisoners and hostages. He was still considering means of dealing with war prisoners held by Ger many. it was added. There was naturally no way of confirming the reports or of getting an authentic denial. According to United Press Stockholm dis patch the reports reached Sweden by underground channels. It was said the speech was made to a meeting of 3 trusted party lead ers. It sounded like the speech of a madman, but it fitted curiously with a disptach sent to London last night by S. L. Solon, News Chroni cle correspondent at the headquar ters of Field Marshal Montgomery, which had a different twist. Solon quoted German prisoners that Hitler had made a long speech recently to his generals, hinting at mysterious forces operating in Ger many’s favor. “God help me for what I will do in the last eight days of Jiis war,” Hitler was quoted. Last night reports of a most un usually optimistic nature were cir culated in British political quar ters here as to the desperation of Germany’s plight. Tonight an ex change Telegraph agency Stock holm disptach quoted a “promin nent Swedish resident of Berlin,” just returned to Stockholm, as ex not hold out longer than one month. The Swede was quoted that Ber liners expected Fussian troops in their suburbs any day and only Nazi party armed power prevented a revolt. There have been optimistic re ports after every big Allied drive has got under way. There has been no sign that the Nazi leaders in tended to surrender themselves to the Allies, with death facing them or that there was anyone else in Germany who could surrender. Stockholm said the Hitler speech was supposed to have been smug gled from Germany despite Ges tapo vigilance. Hitler was said to have put all the blame for losing the war on German “reactionaries” and on treacherous allies, including Japan which, he was quoted, was sup posed to attack Russia when Ger many did. Commenting on the recent Big Three Crimea conference, Hitler was quoted: “The three world pirates thought they could share the bear’s skin. But when they march through Germany they will find not the bear’s skin but ruins, stone heaps, rats, epidemics, hunger and death. It is our holy duty to leave no other inheritance for the Bolshe viks, Jews and plutocrats. There by Western civilization shall de cline.” Hitler was quoted that each time he nearly won the war treacherous generals sabotaged his plans. He wanted to invade Britain after Dun kerque, he was quoted, but was prevented by a reactionary high command. German officials, he was quoted, deceived him on Russia’s strength, and he added that after the attempt on his life last July, the Gestapo found that several secret weapons had been betrayed to the Allies. “We do not know yet for certain who is to blame that Japan did not enter the war against Russia with us, but probably it was the reac tionary officer group,” he was quo ted. “They gave Japan the impres sion It would be wiser to await the outcome of the fight.” -V_ STUDENT ORATORS TO SPEAK TONIGHT The annual declamation contest finals at New Hanover High school, sponsored by the Wilming ton Lion’s club, will be conducted at 8 p.m. today in the high school auditorium. Chairman of the program will be Jimmie Burns, president of the student council, and chairman of the Lion’s club Declamation Con test Committee is Dr. Herbert Coddington. Contestants who have reached the finals, and their topics fol low: Freshman-sophomore girls: Bet ty Britz, “Two Letters from a Rookie,” Lorraine D’Lugin, “I Die at Dawn,” and Ann Jordan, “I Know What I’m Fighting For.” Freshman-sophomore boys: Alan Block ‘‘President Roosevelt’s Message to Congress, Jan. 6, 1942,” Hampton Frady, “The Constitu tion,” Charles Russell, ‘‘President Roosevelt’s Speech on the Status of War, Dec. 9, 1941.” Junior-senior girls: Cynthia Johnson, “Sixteen”, Helen Hicks, “The Highwayman”, and Joan An drews, “My Country”. Junior-senior boys: Bill Lassiter, “Soldiers in the Streets”, Lonnie Williams, “Soldiers of Fortune”, and Winfield Wilson, “A Runt of a Horse.” Music will be furnished by the New Hanover High school ROTC band and the glee club octet, com posed of Calvin Bullard, Bobby Melton, Bobby McKenzie, George Jones, Melrose Straughan, Connie Herbert, Marianne Mann and Mavis Sykes. Special selections will be given by Eugene Mauney, pianist, and Virginia Franks, who will sing. Special awards will be presented by William B. Campbell on behalf of the Lions’ club. Judges will be Mrs. E. B. Snipes, Dr. William Crowe, Jr., and Kenneth Burgwir.. ■XT CREST OF FLOOD APPEARS LOWER PORTSMOUTH, O., March 8.— (JPl—The Ohio Valley appeared to be winning its fight against the third disastrous flood in its his tory tonight, but the issue was un decided at some points. The cost was terrific. Although less serious than floods of 1937 and 1913, the rain-fed Ohio river and its tributaries laid seige to hundreds of war arsenals in the rich industrial valley, took at least 10 lives and forced possibly 150,000 persons from their homes. The crests, however, were head ed downstream to the broad Mis sissippi, and there, flood control provisions were expected to keep the waters in bounds. Portsmouth was the scene of the stiffest fight against the Ohio. Sandbag and earthwork d i ke s were erected atop the city’s 62 foot floodwall as waters of t h e Ohio and the Scioto rose above the permanent barrier. NEGRO DIES Scippio Mack, Negro, of 515 Dickinson street, died yesterday en route to- James Walker Me morial hospital, according to po lice, after he had been picked up from a sidewalk between Princess and Chestnut streets. Tl^ coroner said that he died from natural causes. n iiii'iiii v7 x vi’i auv/*»* ’ ■** « Obituaries MRS. ALICE R. CLEMMONS Mrs. Alice R. Clemmons, 72, died at 3 p.m. yesterday at her home at 108 Spofford street. She is survived by five daugh ters, Mrs. H. H. Caison, Miss Edie Clemmons, Miss Florence Clem mons, Mrs. Henrietta Wrench and Miss Gladys Clemmons, all of Wilmington; and four sons, J. T. Clemmons, of Bolivia, J. A. Clem mons, Isaac Clemmons and Van der Clemmons, all of Supply Funeral services will be con ducted at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the graveside by the Rev. J. O. Walton and James Pate. Burial will follow at Prospect cemetery, near Supply. Active pallbearers will be R- B. King, G. W. Murray, W. M. Blan ton, Charles Jarrel, W. M Ed wards and W. F. Batson. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Johnson, Dr. Barefoot, J. Holmes Davis, Jr., W. C. Scoggins, E. W. Walden, L. F. Herring, W. C. Bradley and C. T. Riven-bark. MRS. SUDIE P. MILLER WARSAW, March 8—Mrs. Sudie Pyatt Miller, owner and publisher of the Pender Chronicle at Bur gaw, died at 3 a.m. today follow ing an illness of several months. Prior to going to Burgaw, Mrs. Miller was with the Duplin Times for several years, as feature writer and reporter. For several years she was correspondent for the Wil mington Star-News. She is survived by her husband; a daughter, Elwina; and three brothers and a step-mother. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow from the Bur gaw Methodist church. The Rev, I. J. Strawbridge, pastor, assisted by the Presbyterian and Baptist pastors of Burgaw, will officiate, and burial will be in the Bryan family cemetery, near Kenansville at 4 nm. MISS MITTIE S. JONES Funeral services for Miss Mitti* Jones were held at 4 p. m. yester day from the residence, 1012 Soutl Fourth street. The Rev. J. F. War ren and the Rev. Baker officiated Surviving Miss Jones, who was known as “Aunt Mitt”, are a brother, J. Hinton Jones, of Tam pa, Fla.; a brother-in-law, John A. Yopp, of Wilmington; a sister in-law, Mrs. Eva Jones, of Wil mington; and several nieces and nephews. Active pallbearers were Charles C. Walker, Elmer Jones, C. W. Wilson, Herbert Farrar, Lawrence Duke and Robert S. Bell. Honorary pallbearers were Cecil Everette, James Spivey, Robert Shipp, L. L. Mills, Walter Mills Clyde Anderson, Dewey Hobbs anc S. M. Creech, all deacons of th< Tabernacle church, and G. C. Edge, G. Pittman and H. L. RegiS fpr MRS. SUSAN S. SESSOMS LUMBERTON, March 8 — Mrs Susan Singletary Sessoms, 63, wife of R. L. Sessoms, died at 9:15 p m. Wednesday at her home or Route 1, Bladenboro. Born in Bladen county the daugh ter of Norval and Mary Ann Single tary, Mrs. Sessoms is survived by her husband; three sons, Fred of Butters, Rob of Raleigh, and Har vey Sessoms of Wilmington; three brothers, Owen, of Latta, S. C., Charles, of Bolton, and Q. R. Sin gletary, of Hamlet; five sisters, Mrs. C. D. Singletary, and Mrs. I. N. Davis, of Butters, Mrs. Al bert T. Harris, of Carolina Beach, Mrs. Dan Stewart, of Laurinburg, and Mrs. J. Walter Mearers, of Lumberton; and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Single tary cemetery near Butters with the Rev. Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn of Lumberton, officiating. MRS. LUCY M. WATKINS CHADBOURN, March 8.— Mrs. Lucy Mae Watkins, 26, wife of Pete Watkins, S 2-c, U. S. Navy, died in Thompson Memorial hos pital .i Lumberton today. She is survived by her husband, two sons, Jerry and Jimmie; her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Gooden; three brothers, Al fred, of Clarkton, Pvt. Leroy, of Buffalo, N. Y., and Staff Sgt. W. D. Gooden, in England; and a sister, Mrs. Joe Turberville, of Cerro Gordo. Funeral arrangements are in complete and the body will remain at the Peacock runeral home until word is received from her hus band. « T * XJUiTAXll VJT X V/il p il. ' Goebbels Avers War Gone Beyond Climax and End May Come Soon, CBS Says NEW YORK, March 8.—UP)— CBS said tonight it had record ed a broadcast by the station at Leopoldville, Belgian Africa, asserting that the German agency DNB had quoted Paul Joseph Goebbels as saying that “the war has gone beyond its climax and will have a sudden end.” The broadcast said Goebbels’ forecast was made in his week ly article in his magazine, Das Reich. No other version of the ar ticle was immediately available. DNB /emissions recorded else where had not mentioned it. -V Two Men From This Area Liberated i n Philippines The War Department last night announced the names of two civil ians from southeastern North Car olina who have been released from Japanese confinement centers in the Philippine Islands by United States forces. They are Joseph D. Collins, brother of Mrs. Fannie Collins Blackwell, of 315 South Pearl street, Rocky Mount, and Harry M. Hodges, son of H. M. Hodges, of 310 Hinsdale Avenue, Fayette ville. City Briefs BROTHERHOOD PROGRAM Dr. Fred W. Lewis, acting paster of St. Andrew’s Coven ant church, will be featured * speaker at the monthly meet ing of the Temple Baptist Church Brotherhood, to be held at 7 p.m. today. Arthur John will render several vocal solos, it was announced. MAN IS SOUGHT City police were trying yes terday to locate Ernest Holla way, a one-time resident at 212 South Second street, to notify him that his _ wife, in Kannapolis, had been 'taken to a hospital seriously ill. BREAK-IN The operators of a Sinclair service station at Third and Harnett streets, W. H. Bailey and L. H. Halterman, yester day reported to police the theft of $15 worth of merchan dise and two pints of whiskey from the establishment Wed nesday. City police and Harry E. Fales, of the City-County Bureau of Identification, are conducting an Investigation of the break-in. -V You can wipe windows once a week during the winter with paper napkins and remove dirt. YANK DIVISION TAKES ARINGAY (Continued from Page One) porting action of any ground cam paign in the Southwest Pacific. Heavy bombers sank 11 freigh ters in wide sweeps of the China sea and areas around the Philip j pines. One was a 10,000-ton tank er, sunk off Formosa. Among rival ground target* pounded war* air* drome* on Formosa and Min da* nao, southernmost of the Philip* pines. MscArthux announced that Aus tralian forces in an amphibious operation had landed without op position on Saposa Island, at ths southern entrance to Matchin Bay, off the northwestern coast of Bou gainville, -V It is usually most economical to select a lean piece of meat and have it ground into hamburger. - — ECONOMY GROCERY 3rd and Castle Sts. FRYERS, Dressed, lb. 47c HENS, Dressed, lb. 42c FRESH PORK HAMS, lb. 33c ASST. FLAVORS ROYAL DESSERT, pkg. Sc (PINK) SALMON, can. 28c PURE PINEAPPLE PRESERVES, lb. glass. 29c fruit COCKTAIL, 2Vi lb. can. 41c kitchen MATCHES, 8 boxes. 35c WHITE LAUNDRY SOAP Imported by W. A. Taylor & Company New York City' BIO BOTTLE 150 PIUS DEPOSIT Cheerful Earful! Drinks mixed with Canada Dry Water even sound better. “Pin Point Carbonation’’ gives them a sparkle you can hear.. • a liveliness that last*. 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