Died of Heart Attach
Suddenly Wednesday
Morning at Hk Summer
Home at 'Atlantic
Beach" . - *
Greenville, Jane 18.—E. G. Flanagan,
66, outstanding Greenville and
Pitt comity citizen, died Wednesday
morning at his summer home at Atlantic
Beach. Death was the result
of a heart attack suffered shortly
after his return from a fishing trip
with a party of friends. The fatal
attack waa one of several Mr. Flanagan
had suffered within the past iew
weeks.
Funeral services were conducted
Thursday afternoon at five o'clock at
the home, 802 Evans street, followed
by interment in Cherry' Hill cemetery.
Active pallbearers were J. J. White,
A. M. Moseley, James T. little, If.
R. Lang, W. H. Wooburd, W. N.
Spruill, Dr. W. I. Wootetn.and N. O.
Warren.
hong active in business educational,
religious, social and political affairs,
Mr. Flanagan was well known
throughout the state.
In addition to his wife, who before
their marriage was Miss Rosa M.
Hooker of Gfeene county, he is survived
by one daughter, Mrs. T. L
Wagner; thrli* sods, Edward Graham,
John and Charles Flanagan; two sisters,
Mrs. James F. Davenport and
Mrs. .Dot PatrjSk, all of Greenville,
and a number of grandchildren and
nieces and nephews.
A native of Greenville, Edward
Gaskill Flanagan was bora December
3, 1875, the sua of the late John
Flanagan and l(ary Wise Gaskill
Flanagan. Be received his education
in private schools of Greenville, the
Green vile Academy and afterwards
competed a business course in Georgia.
Shortly after hia return to Greenville
from business college he altered
the undertaking business and soon
became ymidUut of the North- Carolina
Funeral Directors and Embarlmen
Association, fie helped create
the State Board of Embalming and
was the first person toftake the examination
from the board and received
license Number One.
He later joined his father in the
John Flanagan Bjjggy Company, a
concern established by his father in
1866 for the manufacture of,buggies
and wagons. When the <i*y of the
horse and buggy began to fade from
existence, the company in 1915 took
the Ford agency in Greenville and
has held the same up to the present
time. For the past several years
Mr. Flanagan had beeni practically
retired from act^ttty in connection
with titer firm, its management havnig
been turned over to his son,
Edward Graham Flanagan. For the
past twenty-seven yean Mr. Flanar
gaa had been president of the
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
and' had devoted much of his time
thanking affain and looking after
his other varied taterests, including
large holdings of nal estate. At
the time of his death, in addition
to being president of the bank, he
Service Piy f t
™ ^Bill Signed
President Affixes Sigi;:_ture
To Higher Pay
Measure . '
Washington, June 17.—A measure
boosting the minimum base pay of
the nation's fighting force* to $60
a month was signed into law today
by President Roosevelt.
F6r moat of the mem, It means at
least $20 more each month for necessities
and entertainment on their
time-off, or to send back home to
dependents. The bill carried a clause
making the increase retroactive to
June 1.
The measure coven ranks up to
and 'including that of second lieutenant
in the Army and the comparable
grade of ensign in the Navy,
whose base pay would be increased
from $1,500 to $1300 a year.
The bill also will boost rental allowances
for officers. Under exist*
ing law, enlisted men abroad or on
sea duty receive an extra 20 percent
and officers 10 percent of thfcir
monthly pay. / j
AIR WAR
London, June 17.—Germany's sabmarine-construction
eater in Emden,
the famous Nordsee Werke shipbuilding
yards, was smashed badly by the
'RAF in the heavy bombing of June 6,
shortly after the 1,000-ylane attack
on Cologne, the Air Ministry "News
Service announced today.
Photographic reconnaissance, the
news service said, showed that one
large shop, built in the yprds during
the war, was gutted; that another
large shop was damaged severely by j
fire; nine smaller buildups destroyed
and two large warehouses demolished.
The general picture was one of
"large areas of destruction."
The raid, the RAF added, "must
certainly have done much to hamper
and delay building of submarine#."
Harbor facilities and warehouses
also were hit so severely that it would
be difficult for Emden to handle
shipments of inn ore and timber
from Scandinavia, the "service declared.
The, RAF took another crack at
the industrial Rhur and Rinetwnd last
night in J* brief setup in bad midJune
weather which had kept the
bombers earth-bo£nd for a week.
*,' ■ RUBBER yp>
The sowing of 21,000 pounds of
guayule on 260 acres has been completed
in Salinas, California, as one
of the first stepe toward providing
rato to, th. ^T.
[vantage Of
gar Ration
>*or Canning
UTlg—OPA offithat
a major por,080
fruit and berry
KM wilt be loe<
War provided
rice Administration
Georgia, Tennessee
is that
Japati S&ifting^War
Strength From South
To North
Chungking, June 17.—Chinese and
other Allied Jptefilgwx* reports of
ipaneae warplanes streaming northward
in large numbers from conquered
areas In southsast Asia to Japan
and Manchuria strengthened the belief
today that a Japanese attack on
Rossi* is imminent.
"It is obvious that the Japanese
an shifting' their main weight from
the south to the north," one informed
military source said.
The reports indicated that the
Japaneae were transferring iMtem
from not only the" Philippines and
the Netherlands East Indies, where
major operations have ended, but
also Burma, where every available
bomber and fighter plane would
seem to be needed for operations bi
India after the monsoon or for
pressing the drive up the Burma
Road into China.
Other reports said that many
Japanese troops are being moved
to Manchuria from Formosa, hitherto
used exclusively for concentrating
and training soldiers for campaigns
in the south, and from Nojth China.
Thdae are reinforcing the 38 divisions
•—perhaps more than 600,000 men—
allegedly poised already in Manchuria
to strike at the Russians.
- Weal# Soap Pisct.
The Chinese T- executive yuan—
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's
'cabinet—has not yet discussed the
possibility of Japanese invasion of
Siberia, official quarters said. As
Chinese and foreign circle* here!
have believed increasingly that Tokyo
intends-to scrap its 1942 neutrality
pact; With Russia and invade Siberia,
however, Chinese military leaders are
certain to have, worked out the details
of operations to assist the Russians.
Thaw who are convinced that
Japan is about to launch an offensive
in the north offer the following arguments:
1—The Japanese fear that the
Washington-Moscow agreement on
the opening of a second front in
Europe this year may involve Russian
assistance against Japan in the
future.
— 9r—Tokyo's beat move to keep Germany
in the war would be to weaken
Russian resistance in the west by
opening up a new front in the Far
East
8.—The Allies have become, too
strong in Australia and India for
Japan to attempt invasion.
4.—Japan's conquests in southeast
Asia are useless ss long as Russia's
maritijne province threaten her
homeland.
Some observers view the Japanese
attacks in the Aleutian Islands as
designed to protect the northern
flank of a possible invasion of
Siberia.
Takes Suicide Route
Rather Than Take
J^dEnances At Hearing:
Waterloo, ln<L, Jane 16.—George
Froboese, 42, at MUvnwkee, Wfa.,
Bond committee who was en route to
New York in answer to a Federal
th^ng hii3?bSri ^New YoS.
Central passenger train at the Waterloo
depot, the Federal Bureau of In
1
Commerce and Merchant'* Association
nut Thursday and the
starts will be closed between the
(fat Release June 16th)
The Office of Price Administration
fixed July 1, 2 and 3 as the dates
for motorists in tfce Eastern States
aid the District of Columbia to register
for their new gasoline ration
books. The permanent system in
the East becomes affective July 16.
and the unit value of existing ration
curds was doubled to six gallohs to
carry motorists ,to- this date. The
OPA said motorists who held A or B
cards and have uaed all the unit* on
them will not be able to get my
more gaaoline for the nest 80 days
unless they show need to a local
rationing board. JHB
Orfy A books wfll he issued by
seho^i registratrars. Supplemental
B and'C permanent ration books, and
bus and truck's books, will be issued
by local rationing boards any time
between July 1 and July M>. These
books will be "tailored" to fit needs
at individual motorists and companies,
the office add. B books containing
16 additional, coupons will
■have a variable expiration date: C
books containing as many as 96 additional
coupons will be issued for
three months, bdt coupons in excesl
of motorists actual needs wHl be
removed before the book is - issued.
Bus and truck's books will be good
for four months and will cover just
enough fuel for the mileage allowed
in forthcoming' .ODT "regulations.
Gasoline service station operators
will be required to turn over to sujh
pliers the exact number of stamps
for the amount of gasoline delivered
to their station* , V, »
tensive drive this week and next to
collect from homes, offices, farms
and factories all articles of rubber
that ham beat or can be discarded.
The scrap rubber is being collected
by the nation's gasoline filling stations,
transported to central collection
points by petroleum industry
trucks and sol0 to the Rubber Recovery
Corporation. Filling stations
are paying a cent a pound for. the
rubber. Under-Secretary o' War
Patterson reported Army and Navy
crude rubber requirements during the
21 months, after April 1, 1942, will
be 806,000 tons, compared with the
present U. S. Reserve of 600,000 tons.
He mid he hoped the difference would
be made up by the synthetic production
program; ;,v JB&aafeki
Commerce Secretary Jones said
the RFC will fbfrnee the construction
of a 24-inch pipeline from Longview,
Srt'oT
be completed December 1 and will
have a capacity of 800,000 barrels a
day. It will require 1*5,000 tans of
steel, the WPB said, but will not
interfere with steel deliveries for
Army, Navy and Maritime Commis-'
One of Farmville's Distinguished
Sons Returns
To Speak at Community
Celebration on
July 4th
fe. A community wide event, which
will bring hundreds of visitor* to
Faraville, July 4th, will be the patriotic
celebration at which Brigadier
General Allen H. Turnage of the
United States Marines and a native
son. Will be an honored guest and the
featured speaker.
General Turnage was nominated
for promotion from Colonel to this
high rank in the Marine Corps by
President Roosevelt this month. The
General, who has maintained a residence
at 1707 Duke Street, Alexandria,
Va., was assigned to duty at
Marine Corpe headquarters in Washington
aa executive officer at the
division of plans and policial in April
1941. Since his promotion tius month
he has been assigned command of
the Marine Base at New Biver.
The Marine officer figured prominently
in an international Incident
which grew out of a cabaret fracas
,tn Peiping, China, on New tear's
Eve, 1M1, arid which was widely
publicised in |ke American press.
Involved in the incident were American
Marines . commanded byv Col.
Turnage at Peiping and several Japanese
officers. The General has
served with the Marines in Haiti and
France as well as China.
fieiArmy Takes
Offensive Again
Gradually Turning Tide
f In Kharkov Battle;
Sevastopol Struggle
Rages On
Moscow, June 18.—The Bed Army
gradually shifting over to the-initiative,
killed 1,500 German troops and
destroyed 15 tanks yesterday in fierce
battles around Kharkov, from which
.the Germ ins have evacuated all civilians
in fear ot an uprising, the Russians
reported today.
A Soviet, communique said the
defenders of Sevastopol beat off all
German attacks during the 12th day
of the siege after smashing the
strongest assault of all in a 20-hour
battle the southern approaches
of the Black Sea base.
Formidable hostilities erupted in
an unidentified sector of the smoldering
Russian front, the high command
announced. Bed Army tanks
and infantry, apparently on the offensive,
were said to have crippled
eight German tanks and destroyed
14 field guns, in addition *to disspersing
a battalion o£ enemy infantry.
"On Wednesday in
direction, our forces repelled fierce
enemy attacks," the early- morning
communique said. "In the Kharkov
direction, our unite fought fierce
battles, destroyed 16 tanks, and kill,
ed some 1,500 German*.*
Civilians IMl
The govmmmA newspaper Iv«.
tia reported -earlier that the Ger
»
Thousands at Virginia
Beach See Planes and
Surface Ships Seek To
Blast Enemy U-Boat
Norfolk, Vft» June 16.—An enemy
Norfolk, Vfc, June 16.—An enemy
submarine torpedoed two large
American merchant ships yesterday
within view of thousands of peCaoas
at a Virginia beach resort who (tared
seaward spellbound as "bombing
planes, a Navy blimp and • half
dozen naval surface ships roared over
the area in search at the daring undersea
raider, dropping bombs and
depth charges that sent huge geysers
of water skyward.
The Navy had no comment as to
the fate of the submarine in announcing
the twin attack today.
Only one man Wad killed in the
torpedoings, which occurred about
80 minutes apart. He was Rubin
Redwine of Philadelphia, second assistant
engineer aboard one of the
ships. Then were 46 in the crew of
the vessel and 62 in the crew of the
other.
One Ship Sunk.
The first' ship attacked remained
afloat until late last night and the
other. vWMB towed into a port.
Soldiers, sailors and Coast Guardsmen
cleared the resort beach for a
stretch of 100 yards in front of a
Coast Guard station and held bade
the qrowds as a surf boat brought
ashore three empty lifeboats and
the body of Bedwine, which was
found floating about a half mile
from his ship. His shipmates believed
he was hurled overboard by
the explosion of the torpedo.
A breathless hush fell over the
throng of bathers jmd pleasure seekers
as itedwine's body, covered with
oil, was removir'l from the surfbeat
and carried to the Coast Guard
'a# i^;S8|
<r F. a LaGuai
nds Official V
e to New York
iterranean; Axis Counters
With Claims
Branded fantastic'
, London, Jane 16.—The MM .
State Army's four-motored "Liberator*,"
RAF torpedo ptanea mad warships
of the British fleet ware «*•>
closed tonight to have mk one of
Italy's tiro remaining heavy cruisers,
left two Italian tistMnshtf hafteied
and burning, and destroyed or damaged
at least six ether enemy nw tfwar
in the battlsa which hairs chained
the central and eastern Mediterranean
since Saturday.
It waa the first offieiaUy recorded
participation of U. S. sir forces te
the Mediterranean theater, now biasing
into full summer activity.
Special communiques from the
RAF command in Cairo and from
London piled up the i&prosvive reports
of AUiad suitaasss after two
days of -extravagant Asia claims af
the smashing of two great convoys,
bound from both east and west for
Malta and Tobruk. The Germans
ami Italians, in all, mmmmced that
a total of 1« Allied vessels, including
eight cruisers or destroy era, had
beau sunk for sore and that SB other