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NEW FIRM TAKES OVER BUSES HERE i Continued from Page One) estate or buildings were transfer red. Headquarters of the transit com pany for the time being will be at Tide Water's garage, Ninth and Or ange streets, which was not in cluded in the sale. Mr. Self said the concern plans eventually to con struct a terminal here. Safeway officials said princi pal objective of the firm “will be t0 render to the public an efficient and satisfactory system of bus transportation.” Tide Water auth orities added that it is believed •the community will be better served by a concern whose princi pal business is strictly transporta tion.” Investigation by the Tide Water power Co. of the purchasers before the sale, officials said, disclosed they were financially responsible, familiar with bus operations and fully competent to operate the sys tem. In determining the sale was not against public interests, the Utilitie - Commission found these facts o be true. Samuel A. Jessup has been named president of the local cor poration; Claude A. Jessup, gen eral manager and treasurer for the present; and Mr. Hildreth, secret.iry. Mr. Self will also serve in the capacity of assistant sec retary. In addition, Samuel A. Jessup serves as president of Safeway Trails, Virginia Stage Lines, Vir ginia Pepsi-Cola company, Monti cello Dairy, Inc., Colonial Brick Co., Inc., and City Laundry, in Charlottesville, Va. He is a direc tor of Jackson Park Hotel Corpora +>/-m onH nf Vicnnia Ant.n Mutual Insurance Co. He is a member of the Advisory board of National Trailways Motor Bus System, Kiwanis club, Redland club, Cham ber of Commerce and other civic boards, and board of Peoples Na tional bank, in Charlottesville, Va. Besides being president of the Charlottesville and Albemarle Bus system, Claude A. Jessup is vice president of Safeway Trails. He is secretary and treasurer of the Vrginia Stage Lines, Colonial Brick Co., and Virginia Pepsi-Cola Co. In addition, he is a member of the Farmington Country club, Rotary club, Chicago Motor Bus club, Membership committee of the Standardization group of National Trailways Bus system, and board of directors of the Virginia Cham ber of Commerce. Mr. Hildreth is president of the Peoples National bank, vice president of Cassco corporation, secretary and treasurer of Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, and a city commissioner in Char lottesville. He is a member of the Redland club, Farmington Country club, Colonnade club, and Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the board of Natural Bridge of Va., Inc., Alberene Stone corporation, Cassco Corporation, Cassco Berkley corporation, Cass co Refrigerating Corp., The Michie Co., Chesapeake Western Railway, and Peoples National bank. A senior partner of C. F. Cas sell and Co., investment bankers, Mr. Cassell is vice chairman of Albemarle chapter of American Red Cross, president of the Vir gins Mortgage Co., Inc., and chair man of Virginia State committee of Southeastern group of Invest ment Bankers association of Am erica, and a member of its Legis lation committee. He is a mem ber of the Rotary club, Redland flub, Colonnade club, Farmington Country club, and Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the board of Old Virginia Pack ing Co., Front Royal, Va.; River Ion Lime and Stone Co., Riverton, Va.; and Crozet Cold Storage Co., Crozet, Va., and a member of Ex ecutive committee of the latter firm. Mr. Self was for 27 years chief clerk and director of transporta tion for the N. C. Utilities com mission. He is now secretary and treasurer of the N. C. Railroad Co., and its subsidiary, the Hoke Real Estate Co. He authored the N. C. Motor Carrier act, and the rules and regulations standardiz ing modern motor bus service in North Carolina. He is a member of the committee of the national association of Utilities commis sions, which drafted the Federal Motor Carrier act of 1935, and a member of the committee on uni form practice and procedure. -V Indian Troops Face Bitter Jap Fighting Near Taungup, Burma CALCUTTA. April 5.—(U.R)—Em Dire troops of the 15th Indian Corps hghting in the coastal region of Burma’s Arakan sector, have cap hired hills dominating the town of Taungup and an airfield, it was announced today. Japanese resistance was bitter, • Southeast Asia command com munique said, and the enemy at tacked and gained foothold on a 'ill three miles north of Taungup before they were beaten back. , Capture Taungup would elim nate the only Japanese escape from this sector of-Burma over the Arakan mountains to the oitress of Prome on the Irrawad V 'iver. Empire troops alreadv have cut this road. ——__ -V __ 1!1 v war bonds and stamps as Pure as MONEY CAN BUY ,^'!'SlPr,,Nonesurer- None better. No first' ran d°,‘-ore for you. And it’s the Asririh°‘Ce ?f miUions- Get St. Joseph hkfion'largestgeiler at 10c. The wfvlablet bottle coata only35c- ai Js be sure to get 6t. Joseph Aspirin. Allies Plunge Within 17 Miles Of Hannover City (Continued from Page One) and pianos to supply advanced spearheads. One enemy report said tanks were landed to reinforce Pat ton at the newly captured Langen salza airfield, only 135 miles south west of Berlin. Patton’s troops, at their closest point, are 126 miles from Berlin. Lt. Gen. .Alexander M. Patch’s American Seventh Army, advanc ing on Patton’s flank, was meet ing stiff opposition in southwestern Germany. (The Brussels radio broadcast a dubV.-s report that the Seventh Army was threatening Fuerth, a suburb of the Nazi shrine center of Nuernberg, after a 35 mile advance.) . Patch’s Third Infantry Division pushed across the Main river south east of Wuerzburg and drove with in 23 miles west of the big ball bearing center of Schweinfurt. Oth er Seventh Army troops cleared one-third of the Neckar river fort ress of Heilbronn. Gen. Jean de Uattre de Tas signy’s French First Army drove near Pforzheim in an advance to within 21 miles of Stuttgart. The Ninth Army, joining the First in driving against 150,000 Ger mans in the encircled Ruhr, cap tured the great rail center of Hamm on the northern side of the pocket. As the Allies advanced on all fronts, Gen. Omar N. Bradley, U. S. 12th- Army Group commander, said in an Army Day celebration during flag raising ceremonies over the Ehrenbreitstein fortress at Coblenz, that the Germans were near total defeat. "This time we shall leave the German people with no illusions about who won the war—no legends about whc lost the war,” he said. . . Until the German pride in conquest is mangled beneath our tanks we shall not find peace.” Hodges’ First Army reached the Weser river line with both tanks and infantry on a 25-mile front north of Kassel, striking between Patton’s Third Army in the south and Simpson’s Ninth Army in the north. The tanks jumped off at noon Thursday and raced 22 miles due east of Paderborn across forested hills to the vicinity of Bruchhausen, before they halted for the night. Taking the road again in the morning, the armor drove three miles along the Nethe highway to the town of Amclunxen, within two miles of the Weser. Another tank column to the south drove five miles to a point three miles north east of Borgentreich, where they ran into resistance by civilians armed with antitank guns. Infantry joined the drive from the west and south, jumping off from the area of Panderborn short ly after the tanks started and ad vancing seven miles east ot capture Hofgeismeer, 12 miles north of Kas sel, in a drive parelling the armor. From there they pushed on east again in the morning, driving eight miles to within a half mile of the Weser at a point three miles north of Hann Muendern, nine miles northeast of Kassel and 161 miles southwest of Berlin. Another infantry force fought in to Hann Muenden and battled house to house through the town against German mortar and ma chinegun fire at Hann Muenden the Weser, Fulda and Werra riv ers join. North of the First Army, the British-American drive on Hanno er vaulted the Weser river at sev eral new places in the area of Min den during the past 24 hours and drove on at least five miles to ward the doomed city. xiic uiubMuga in me iviiiiueu cu. t*a where light resistance was report ed on the approaches to Hannover already has outflanked the port of Bremen and threatens also to cut off Hamburg. Germany’s second city with a population of 1,682, 000. * (The Federal Communications Commission said Radio Bremen no longer was broadcasting.) The drive on Hannover was clouded by security silence, but front dispatches said the 30th In fantry and Second Armored Divis ions which crossed south of Hame lin Thursday morning had gained another five miles toward the city, placing them within 17 miles. Infantry, also crossing at Min den, drove five miles beyond, and spread north and south along the east bank. Front dispatches said the American Fifth Armored Di vision was searching the river, 80 yards wide in that area, for a good crossing point. Foot soldiers mopping up be hind ths race to the Weser were taking thousands of trapped Ger mans in Ihe Muenster-Osnabrueck Bielefeld Iriangle, where a ma jority of the 17.404 prisoners ta ken by the Ninth Thrusday were captured. This bag ran Simpson’s total since crossing the Rhine to above 60,000. The British 11 Armored and Sixth Airborne Divisions, according to the German radio, stormed the We ser at Stolzenau, 28 miles norih west of Hannover. 35 miles south of Bremen' and 71 miles south west of Hamburg. (A British broadcast reported by CBS said Allied troops are less than two miles from Hannover ) -V NEGROES BEGIN HEALTH SURVEY The Negro staff of the N. C. School Health Coordinating Serv ict began work in the Negro schools of Wilmington April 2 with a meeting of all Negro principals and teachers. The staff is composed of a phy sician, Dr. W. J. Hughes who serves as Director, a nurse, Eu genia C'ardice, a health educator, Jennie L. Douglass, and a nutri tionist, Lydia Williams. The program will consist of work in ihe schools and commun ities of both the City and Coun ty. Teacheis will be taught to rec ognize deviations from the normal in children so as to screen out those children whom they think need to be seen by the physician. The teachers will become better acquainted with the resources available that might aid in the cor rection of physical defects. There will be a sanitary inspection made of all of the schools. Special work will be done in the field of nutri tion through lectures, demonstra tions, and conferences. An effort will be made to improve the school feeding programs. Improved methods and materials for health teaching will be emphasized and a special effort made to vitalize health teaching so that health knowledge will become a definite part of the child’s life. Projects and activities will be suggested that might extend from the class room into the community as a matter of educating the adult pop ulation and improving the homes and their environment. A special effort will be made to work with the adult population through organized groups such as, home demonstration clubs, churches, civic organizations, in dustries. Parent Teachers Associ ations, and others. Dr. Hughes ■and his staff have done a similiar work in various counties all over the state, and their coming to New Hanover county has been anticipated for some time. Their work in Wilming ton will continue through May 5. -V oin/iiinT i mv AnAim ununnAii tiKuur OPENS CONVENTION (Continued from Page One) their stay. Members will attend the funeral of George P. James today in tribute to his membership and interest in the society. The Society of the Cincinnati was founded May 13, 1783 on the banks of the Hudson river. Instru mental in the founding of the soc iety was General Henry Knox, chief of artillery during the revo lution. George Washington was the first president-general and Alex ander Hamilton the second. In over 162 years there have been but 13 president-generals of the society, the first 12 having died while in office. The organization is composed of approximately 1,500 members, representing the 13 state societies (the 13 original states) and France. There are about 200 members of the North Carolina branch, of which Bartlet F. John ston is president. Membership to the society is open only to the eld est son of the descendants of of ficers who served three years or more in the American Revolution. LECTURES PLANNED CHAPEL HILL, April 6.—(IP)— Junior Senator James William Ful bright of Arkansas, former presi dent of the university, of that state, will give the annual series of weil lectures on citizenship at the Uni versity of North Carolina, tomor row Saturday and Sunday nights in dll hall. His general theme' will je "America and World organiza tion.” City Briefs FILES FOR COUNCIL T. A. Croom, of Carolina Beach, announced yesterday that he had filed for council man of the resort at the gen eral election May 1. RETURN TO CITY Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Green have returned to the city from Bartow, Fla., and are visiting at the home of their son and daughter-in-law, Pvt. and Mrs. E. H. Green. Pvt. Green and his wife, who have been re siding in Wilmington, Calif., are expected to arrive in the city early in the week. BOUND OVER ' Thelma Rhodes, Negress, of 121 Harnett street, charged with breaking and entering and larceny and receiving, was bound over to Superior court, yesterday in Recorder’s court. Her bond was set'at $700. She was charged with taking $600 from the wardrobe of Sol Shain of 412 Campbell street. PRE-SCHOOL CLINIC A pre-school clinic for chil dren entering Tileston or Cor nelius Harnett schools during the fall term will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Tileston school, it was announced. SERMONS SCHEDULED Spirital sermons will be held at 7=45 p.m. daily at the Wesleyan Methodist church through April 15, it was an nounced. The Kev. Carl V. Sparks of Radford, Va., is evangelist. The Rev. S. T. j Baf'se is pastor. . - 1 Red Cross War Fund cam- j paign headquarters in the lob by of the Tide Water build- . ing will close today, it was an- j n o u n c e d. Future reports j should be turned in to chap- } ter headquarters at room 125 1 of the Custom House. BUS DAMAGED i Slight damage was reported j last night when city firemen : extinguished a blaze in a Queen City bus at the bus ter minal at Second and Walnut streets about 7:15 p.m. i y In The Service SERVING IN FRANCE Pvt. Guyman R. Quinn, Mag nolia, husband of Mrs. N a z r ine Quinn, of Wil mington, issues rations at a h e a d q uarters company of a Q u a r termaster unit in the 12th Armored division some where in France. Overseas QUINN four months, Pvt. Quinn was a shoe repairman for J. B. Willmans, of Wilmington, prior to entering the Army a year . ago. BRONZE STAR Corporal Bryant K. Williams, brother of Mrs. Ruby W. Hamil ton, 517 C Brickett street, Maffitt Village, recently was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious serv ice in combat in Sicily and Italy. He is serving on the Fifth arjpy front in Italy as a driver fn the 178th Field Artillery battalion. Charged with supplying the for ward observation post with all types of supplies, he voluntarily drove through German shell and mortar fire to the rear for needed items. On one occasion his vehicle was struck by fragments from an enemy shell, wounding the officer he was driving and damaging the tires. Under harassing fire, Williams j repaired the tires sufficiently to j evacuate the wounded officer to a medical aid station. SERVING IN PHILIPPINES Corporalj James T. Strick land, son of Mrs. 1 Mary K. Strick land, and whose wife, Gladys L. Strickland, and daughter, Bar bara Jean, re side in Claren don, is the chief clerk in the op erations, plans, and training sec STRICKLAND tion at the head quarters of an aircraft mainte nance unit of the 13th AAF Ser\*- j ice Comrrtand, veteran jungle air force that has battled the Japs from Guadalcanal to Formosa. Corposal Strickland, who has been on foreign duty for nine months, wears the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre ribbon with one battle star for par ticipation in a combat area, and also the Good Conduct medal. The soldier entered the army in November, 1942, and was stationed at Camp Kearns, Utah, before go ing overseas. Corporal Strickland was formerly employed as bill clerk by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company in Wilmington. PROMOTED Adding a third chevron to his sleeve, Henry P. Stone of 119 Spof ford Mills, is now a sergeant at the auxiliary field of the Cherry Point Marine Corps Air station. He enlisted in the Marines May 16, 1943, at Lumberton and is serv ing as an aviation mechanic with a unit of the Ninth Marine Air craft wing, which is in combat training at Cherry Point. GRADUATES «. A graduate of advanced pilot training, Thomas Morton, son of Mrs. J. W. Mor ton, of Wilmmg ton, recently re ceived his wings and commission as a second lieu tenant in the Army Air For ces. Morton was graduated from Episcopal High MORTON school and was employed as a shipfitter by the 'forth Carolina Shipbuilding com 3any prior to entering the service. SILVER STAR First Lieutenant Clarence Marsh >urn, 512 Queen street, was re cently awarded the Silver Star or heroic achievement in action igainst the enemy in France. The citation accompanying the award -eads in part: “While advancing vith his platoon to an outpost Dosition, he encountered a strong 'orce of the enemy which com cletely surrounded his group, seizing an automatic rifle, he im nediately ordered a withdrawal ind furnished cover for his whole jlatoon while they fought their vay back to their battalion. His >ood judgment and quick action crevented the retreat from becom ng a rout and reflected great credit upon himself and the mili ary service.” -V-A Smiley’ Burnette, Movie Actor, To Aid Clothing Campaign at N. C. Yard “Smiley” Burnette will appear it the North Carolina Shipbuild ng Co. in behalf of the United "rational Clothing Collection for Var Relief at the 11 a.m. lunch leriod today. The program will include music aid entertainment of a varied na ure. Officials in charge of the cam laign said it is hoped that his ap learance will spur clothing collec ion at the yard. For ihe past ten years. Bur lette has-been co-starred with lene Autry in various screen and adio. shows. He is also appearing t the Carolina theater today. -—V-— Lithosphere is the name of the olid earth, and hydrosphere of uatar. Enchanfingly New GOTTO NS < The seasons is on for cottons, and we have the cream of the crop in our unusually large cotton section. See the pretty prints, the charming stripes, the feminine lines and the seductive coolness, of the colors and the styles that you will just about live in all this season and the rest of the summer. Dressy enough to wear on the best of dates and also casual enough to be in step with any outdoor stroll you may be going on. „ $12-98 PRINTS AND CHECKS POLKA DOTS AND SOLIDS ONE PIECE AND TWO PIECE STYLES EYELET AND EYELET COMBINATIONS SEERSUCKERS AND GINGHAMS LUANAS AND SPUNS AND TAFFETAS New Shipment Just Received All Elastic Two-Way Stretch Girdles » Close-Out Pastel Beanies 50c 1 ... ■ I)'' >
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