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GOTHAM BLACKED
OUT20 MINUTES
Thousands Of Citizens Sit
Underground As Serv
ice Is Halted
NEW YORK, June 5.— Iff) —A
complete blackout descended over
the nation’s greatest city tonight
as more than 2,000,000 homes were
' plunged in darkness for 20 min
utes.
Thousands of the city’s 7,000,000
residents sat or stood underground,
for service was stopped on two of
its three great subway trunks for
the first time in more than three
decades.
The five boroughs—Queens, the
Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and
Staten island — cooperated in the
first city-wide blackout on an eight
hour notice. Minor violations were
noted by city officials in all bor
oughs, but the consensus was ex
pressed by Mayor Fiorello H. La
Guardia. who watched the 320
square-mile area go dark from the
Empire State building:
‘‘I think it was realty oeyona
expectation.”
Some 800 feet above Rockefeller
Center, atop the observation tower
of the RCA building, the city look
ed like this:
There wasn’t a light perceptible
in Brooklyn.
One street light shone in the
Bronx.
You couldn’t see a light in Stat
en island.
A cluster of 12 lights—presum
ably railroad yard lights—shone in
Long Island City across the East
river.
About 24 red lights glared up
ward from La Guardia airport in
Queens.
Several street lights shone for
10 minutes, then were turned out
in Central Park. Manhattan.
In Manhattan below 50th street
more than 50 office building lights,
apparently forgotten, annoyed air
raid wardens. 3
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Two Jap Planes Shot
Down Over Rangoon
WASHINGTON. June 5.— IJPI—
Major General Lewis H. Brereton
reported today t hat American
army heavy bombers shot down
at least two enemy planes in a
daylight attack on the harbor of
Rangoon. Burma. One American
plane failed to return.
The bombers, led by Captain
Frank D. Sharp, raided enemy
shipping and docks yesterday, but
because of a heavy overcast it was
impossible to determine the dam
age inflicted.
Reporting the raid in a com
munique, the War Department said
12 Japanese fighter planes attack
ed the American force, which also
encountered heavy anti -aircraft
fire. Two enemy planes were shot
down and a third is believed to
have been destroyed, the War De
partment said.
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Americans Included
On Commando Staff
WASHINGTON, June 5.— UP) —
Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mount
batten, the youthful chief of. the
daring British Commandos, dis
closed today that the Commando
general staff included American
Army officers.
He made this disclosure in a
brief talk to American newspaper
men in which he told how the
Commandos raided the headquar
ters of Field Marshall Rommel in
Africa, with the intention of killing
Rommell and his staff and depriv
ing the Nazis of leadership at the
moment of the last great British
offensive there. Rommel, it devel
oped. was in Rome attending a
birthday party, but the Comman
dos got his staff.
"He had to get a new staff,”
Mountbatten said, “but unfortun
ately he was still the same Rom
mel.” 3
MERCHANT SHIP
SUNK OFF COAST
(Continued from Page One)
were picked up by a British
freighter and brought into port
The two U-boats appeared with
out warning out of the darkness on
each side of the vessel and began
their sheiling. Approximately 60
shells struck their target but not
a man was injured.
The ship’s gunners, using gun
flashes from the sbumersibles as
targets, fired 18 or 20 rounds at
the attackers but in the darkness
it could not be determined whether
any hits were registered.
After the order to abandon ship
had been carried out an authorita
tive voice, using perfect English,
came from the conning tower of
one of the submarines.
He asked the ship’s name, her
cargo and destination. The men
said their answers were repeated
by another voice evidently record
ing the information. Pieces of
wreckage floating in the water
were picked up and taken aboard
the U-boats.
Capt. T. H. Matthews gave the
order to abandon ship a short time
after the shelling began and the
vessel sank within five minutes aft
er the crew left.
The port life boat foundered and
it was not until after the subma
rines had gone that Captain Mat
thews and his men came back to
repair it.
A metal cased cigarette lighter
of George Dennis Clark, swarthy
South African seaman gunner, pro.
vided the only fire for cigarettes
and pipes in the lifeboat and ra
tions consisted of four biscuits a
aieaj and one cup of water a day.
U. S. Alaska Base Bo mbed By Jap Planes
Shown here is the anchorage at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, which was raided twice
by Japanese bombers. The town of Unalaska is in the foreground. The Dutch Har
bor naval base is around the point to the left. The first attack in which four bomb
ers and 15 escorting fighters participated inflicted no serious damage and caused few
casualties, it w'as announced by the Navy. There are no details available on the second
foray. This is the first time in history that North America proper has been attacked
by air.—Central Press.
INDIA OPPOSES
AMERICAN PLAN
Proposals For Mission To
Increase India’s War Ef
fort Get Objections
WASHINGTON. June 5.— W —
Proposals of an American techni
cal mission for increasing the war
effort in India have encountered
objections from the Indian govern
ment on many points, it was dis
closed here today.
The office of the agent general
for India made Dublic an Indian
government summary of recom
mendations by the American mis
sion, headed by Henry F. Grady,
former assistant secretary of stat-\
together with what were described
as the government’s “explanatory
remarks.”
Some of the recommendations
and observations as outlined in the
release were:
“The mission suggests a sub
stantial increase in the Indian
army. Large scale expansion of
the armed forces is not merely a
matter of manpower or popula
tion strength, and the mere act of
enrolling a large number of men
into the armed forces does no*
create organized formations of
trained men for fighting. The In
dian army is now being expanded
to its maximum extent keeping in
view the fact that the quality is
of more importance than the quan
tity.”
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Lightning Is Fatal
To Three Persons
MURPHY, June 5.— W —Three
persons were killed by lightning in
Cherokee county this afternoon.
The dead are:
Mrs. John O. Anderson, of Club
erson; Barbara Sue, four-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Anderson, and
Simmie Frees Woody of near.
Blairsville, Ga.
Mrs. Anderson and her small
daughter were killed instantly
about 4 o’clock at their home. Mrs.
Anderson was sweeping the porch
and her daughter was with her
when they were stricken.
Woody was killed by lightning
while he was in the tunnel at Ap
palachia dam on Hiwassee river
below Murphy. The lightning
struck a steel rail at the mouth of
the tunnel and entered the tunnel.
Bids For Furnishing
Nine School Buildings
Received Until June 16
Bids for furnishing and installing
equipment for nine school build
ings will be received until noon
June 16 by the Board of Educaton
of New Hanover county, Dr. John
T. Hoggard, chairman, announced
Friday.
Doctor Hoggard said proposals
must cover all materials and la
bor necessary to install the speci
fied equipment.
The furnishing will be used to
equip the new buildings and add
tions to present buildings being
erected under the expansion pro
gram.
Doctor Hoggard said time for
the completed installation of the
equipment would be 75 calendar
days.
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Woman Hangs Self
At State Hospital
RALEIGH, N. C., June 5.—Iff)—
A 29-year old woman inmate of
the North Carolina hospital for the
insane hanged herself by impro
vising a noose and scaffold from
a piece of sheet and the bar on
her bedroom window here today.
Coroner Roy M. Banks issued
a certificate of death by suicide.
Dr. J. W. Ashby, superintendent
of the hospital, said the women,
Mrs. Beatrice Mooney of Ayden’
was confined in the Clark build
ing, where persons with suicidal
tendences are quartered.
She was admitted to the hospital
on April 18, Dr. Ashby said, “with
a history of attempted suicide.”
Obituaries
CHARLES EDWARD HALL
Charles Edward Hall, 80, retired
employe of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad company, died at 6:15
Friday evening at his home in
Winter Park after an extended ill
ness.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs.
J. B. Heidt, Wilmington; one son,
James S. tiall, Wilmington; seven
grandchildren and four great
grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements were in
complete early today.
C. E. HERSHMAN
C. E. Hershman, 82, died Friday
afternoon at his residence, 215
South Eighth street, following a
short illness.
Surviving are the widow; one
daughter, Mrs. G. L. Bell; and
one son, J. M. Hershman.
Funeral services will be con
ducted Sunday afternoon at 4
o’clock from the First Baptist
church by the Rev. Sankey I..
Blanton. Interment will be in Oak
dale cemetery.
ROBERT H. ROCHELLE
JACKSONVILLE, June 5.——
Robert H. Rochelle, 79. well known
farmer of the Harris Creek sec
tion, died Friday morning at his
home.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed Saturday afternoon at 3
o’clock with burial in the family
cemetery.
Mr. Rochelle, who was a resi
dent of Onslow county for 65 years
is survived by his fwife, Rachel,
and four children; two daughters,
Mrs. Berenice Lanier and Mrs.
Della Burton, two sons, Roy and
Ralph Rochelle, and sixteen grand
children.
REV. CHARLES A. JONES
COLUMBIA. S. C., June 5.-W1
—The Rev. Charles A. Jones, 73,
a leader among Southern Baptists
for many years, died at his home
here last night.
Jones a native of London, Eng
land, was executive secretary
treasurer of the State Baptists Gen
eral board the last 17 years. He
was a past president of the Bap
tist secretaries in the South and
vice president of the Southern
Baptist convention the last two
years.
He assisted in forming the re
tirement plan adopted by church
es in 18 southern states.
DONALD RAY YOUNG
Donald Ray Young, infant son
of Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Young of
215 Princess Parkway, died at
James Walker Memorial hospital
Thursday night at 11:30 o’clock.
In addition to his parents, he is
survived by one sister.
The body will be taken to An
gier for burial.
MRS. REBECCA B. HUFMAN
Mrs. Rebecca B. Hufman, 44,
died at her home, 202 Orange St.
yesterday morning at 5:45 o’clock.
She is survived by her husband,
M. V. Hufman: two sisters. Mrs
A B. Mintz, and Mrs. Ida Merce.:
one brother. L. D. Bordeaux; one
daughter, Louise Hufman, and
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday afternoon at 3 _ o’clock
at the late residence with the
Revs. H. S. Strickland and J. O.
Walton oficiating.
Interment will be in Oakdale
cemetery.
MRS. J. W. WILSON
Mrs. J. w. Wilson died yesterday
morning at 10:30 o’clock in a local
hospital following a lingering' illness.
She is survived by the following
children: Mrs. B. C. Blanton and
Mrs. Joe Cortez of Rocky Mount;
Mrs. Fob Barnhill, Mrs. Roy Barn
hill and Thomas Wilson, all of
Rocky Point; Mrs. W. W. Bordeaux
of Carolina Beach; Walter Wilson
of Castle Hayne; Mrs. J. M. Hales
of Colonial Village, Wilmington;
Mrs. W. P. Shepard of Ward’s Cor
ner; two sisters, Mrs. W. C. Sessoms
and Mrs. J. Melvin, and 31 grand
children.
Funeral services will be conducted
Saturday afternoon at 3; 30 o’clock
with the Rev. C. L. Taylor, pastor,
assisted by the Rev. H. S.. Strick
land, officiating. Burial will be in
the family cemetery. Services will
be held from Riley’s Creek Baptist
church..
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ABOL ION OF CCC
VOI D BY HOUSE
-7—
Funds Denied By Count Of
158 To 21 Despite Strong
Administration Pressure
WASHINGTON, June 5.— (JP) —
Born of the depression nine years
ago. the Civilian Conservation Corps
was denied funds to carry on its
work today as the house withstood
strong administration pressure for
wartime continuance of the organ
ization on a semi-military basis.
The house voted, by tellers’ count
of 158 to 21, against a motion which
would have added a $.75,818,000 allot
ment for the CCC to a $1,058,451,660
supply bill for several agencies, in
cluding the Labor Department and
Social Security Board.
Late in the day the house passed
the $1,058,451,660 bill and sent it to
the senate after rejecting by a voice
vote, Rep. Taber’s (R-NY) motion to
send the measure back to committee.
If upheld by the senate, the vote
on the CCC fund — would write
finis — probably for at least the
duration of the war — to the triple
“C,” which since its creation in 1933
has cost about $3,000,000,000.
The vote came after House Major
ity Leader McCormack (D-Mass), in
a desperate attempt to turn the tide
of opposition, declared that the vote
would be "a test today as to whether
there is going to be politics in war
measures,” he argued that the issue
was one of following President
Roosevelt or Rep. Engel (R-Mich)
who opposed the CCC fund.
The republican minority voted al
most solidly against the CCC alloca
tion, along with more than a score
from the democratic side who con
tended the corps had no place in a
war-time ecoriomv.
No Changes Result
From Recount Of Vote
ROCKINGHAM, N. C., June 5.—
UP)—The board of elections recount
ed 'today the ballots cast in last
Saturday’s democratic primary in
Richmond county, but there was
no change in the standings of the
candidates.
By last Saturday’s count. R. L.
Saunders appeared to be trailing
J. C. Sedberry for the runner-up
position for sheriff by 16 votes.
The recount showed that Sed
berry’s plurality over Saunders
was 14.
In the race for the House of
Representatives, the recount show
ed that Earl Greene had a lead of
50 votes over Scott Thomas instead
of the original 59. Greene was in
second place in the race.
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Pepper Urges Passage
Of Bill For Benefits
For Civilian Casualties
■
WASHINGTON. June 5.— Of) —
Senator Pepper (D-Fla) said to
day he would urge speedy Senate
action next week on a bill which
would provide benefits of $30 to
$85 a month for civilian casualties
resulting from the war.
"The bill, approved in revised
form by the Senate Appropriations
Commtee today, would provide
protection against a broad range
of war risks, including injuiies or
death occurring as a result of prac
tice blackouts.
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Danish Leader Killed
In Action, Germans Say
BERLIN, (From German Broad
casts) June 5—W—Commander of
the Danish free corps von Schal
burg was killed in action on the
Eastern front last Tuesday, Ger
man officials announced today. He
was 46 and a captain of the Dan
ish guards.
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UNEQUAL IMAGES
A special study of 400 aviation
cadets showed that two out of
every 25 men had aniseikonia—a
condition which produces unequal
images in the two eyes—to the
extent of one-half of 1 per cent or
more. Difference in visual images,
however, in no case was more
than 1 per cent.
BRITISH REPULSE
ROMMEL ATTACK
Combatants Prepare For
Renewal Of Indecisive
Desert Struggle
CAIRO, Egypt, June 5.—(3*)—The
British have repulsed weak efforts
of German tank-dive bombers teams
to erase the desert anchor at Bir
Hacheim, military quarters said to
day, as the 11-day-old battle de
creased in intensity and the com
batants prepared for a renewal of
the indecisive struggle.
With supply the whole battle, a
force of British torpedo carriers
3ank an enemy merchant ship, de
spite its destroyer protection, in the
Eastern Mediterranean, while other
British planes hammered at German
transport, bases and airfields and
ranged on to attack Catania in
Sicily.
Possibly indicating an even more
ferocious phase of the battle, the
German high command declared
British prisoners captured hence
forth would be denied food and
drink until the British cancel an
order which the Germans said did
not permit Axis prisoners to have
rest, food or water until they had
been questioned by officers.
The German charge was banded
as without foundation.
The carefully-husbanded dive
bombers of Rommel were brought
into use against the Indian and Free
French—dubbed the fighting French
by Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck — at
Bir Hacheim, but British fighters
twice intercepted these vulnerable
warplanes and shot down six of
them as well as three of other types.
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City Briefs
classes at beach
Classes in shorthand and
typing are being held from 12
until 4 o’clock in the after
noons in the city hall at Caro
lina Beach. Persons interested
in taking beginners’ or ad
vanced work should register
with Mrs. FF. C. Seigler as
the first classes were held
Thursday. Mrs. Seigler said
no tuition would be charged
as the classes are a part of
the vocational training pro
gram for adults.
WILLETTS APPOINTED
Frederick Willetts, owner of
Willetts Realty, today was ap
pointed to serve on the Nation
al Council of Real Estate Tax
payers committee, represent
ing the North Carolina Asso
ciation of Real Estate Boards.
Mr. Willetts will be among five
other North Carolinians serv
ing on the committee.
CANTEEN CLASS
An important meeting of the
Junior Canteen class will be
held at the Home Demon
stration agent’s office in the
customhouse at 9:30 o’clock
Saturday morning.
RUBBER, GAS
ARE CONSIDERED
Roosevelt And Ranking
Aides Study Twin Prob
lems At Session
WASHINGTON, June 5.— W) —
President Roosevelt and his rank
ing aides dug into the twin prob
lems of rubber and gasoline today,
while a hundred House members
at a boisterous meeting asserted
their opposition to gasoline ration
ing unless shown “facts” to prove
its necessity.
No decisions were reached at the
White House session, its partici
pants said as they left, but one of
them, Archibald MacLeish, direc
tor of the Office of Facts and Fig
ures, intimated that Mr. Roosevelt
would issue a statement in a few
days.
The hu n d r e d Congressmen
adopted a resolution criticizing the
government for “bureaucratic
methods” and "distatorial pol
icies,” and objecting to the ration
ing methods used by Leon Hender
son, Price Control Administrator.
The resolution was proposed by
Reps. Rankin (D.-Miss) and Har
ness, (R.-Ind.) and was accepted
after revision to include a state
ment that the meeting favored any
necessary war sacrifices. Rep. Kle
berg (D.-Tex.) was authorized to
appoint a five-man committee to
“determine what steps are neces
sary.*’
"Earlier Joseph B. Eastmen, de
fense transportation director, said
in a letter to Rep. White (D.-Ida.)
that there was no hope that rubber
would become available for mak
ing tires for civilian owned cars
for several years and called gaso
line rationing the “most practical
way to conserve rubber.” 3
Robeson Candidate
Will Not Petition
For Second Primary
LUMBERTON, June 5.— (ff>) _
Robert A. McIntyre, second high
man in the race for nomination to
the State Senate from Robeson
county, announced today'he would
not ask for a second primary.
McIntyre, who represented
Robeson county in the 1939 Senate
finished only 18 votes behind Car
son Barker in Saturday’s primary,
and was 12 votes ahead of the
third candidate, Frank McNeill.
Plan USO Activities For WAAC
The United Service Organizations plan to furnish
the girls in uniform with a “home away from home,”
when the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps is formed this
summer. Discussing plans of the USO for the WAAC
are Mrs. Maurice T. Moore (left) of New York City,
chairman of the USO National Women’s Committee and
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, head of the women soldiers.—
Central Press. __
There’s A Layman Who
Owns A Bishop’s Hat
----:-—
Bv SIGRID ARNE
SEATTLE, ' June 5. — (Wide
World)—Big-wigs of the Episcopal
church trooped into London a few
years back for a world-pow-wow.
They came from all over the
world. And it’s reported the gen
tlemen from the far spots were
slightly informal, you know—a n d
none quite so informal as ruddy
faced, plain-spoken, the Right
Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, the
bishop of Alaska.
And to this day Bishop Rowe
chuckles about it.
You see, the bishops were asked
to tea at Buckingham palace.
Rowe hadn’t given Buckingham
Protocol much thought because his
working clothes for years had
been high boots and an Eskimo
parka. But his son insisted. "Fa
ther, you know you must wear a
bishop’s hat to Buckingham.”
“What? Where do you buy the
things?”
The bishop bought ‘the thing,”
wore it, and felt silly.
Then the conference ended. The
Rowes, father and son, were pack
ing in a rush when the bishop
found the silklined box holding his
little bishop’s hat. He scowled at
it, then chuckled, turned to a char
woman in the room and said.
“Here, give this to your husband.”
So somewhere in England
there’s a layman who owns a bish.
op’s hat.
Rowe’s whole career has been
unorthodox for a churchman. It
had to be because the tough, big
hearted men who built Alaska
would have given little house room
to a bishop touched with anemia.
Rowe now is the oldest bishop
in the service of the Episcopal
church anywhere in the world. His
86th birthday rolls around this
November. But he's still in har
ness.
He spends the winters in h i s
Seattle office, some leisure time
in Victoria, B. C., and the sum
mers touring his diocese, an area
a third as large as the whole
United States, where fishing, to
tem poles and poverty about tell
the story.
Right now Rowe, in his 85th
summer, is coddling plans to slip
his doctor’s noose. He’s itching to
be off to the 39 stations in Alaska
where the Episcopal church keeps
alive the word of God.
Rowe travels now by boat and
plane. But in 1895 when he first
took his job as ‘‘bishop of al 1
out-of-doors” he walked, took dog
sleds, and made his own boats to
slip through river rapids no white
man had seen.
He arrived when streets were
either frozen, mud, or flying dust.
Rowdy saloons stood side by side
on main streets. Card games were
settled with 45’s.
He looked over Fairbanks for a
possible pulpit, and quite sensibly
decided on the place which drew
the biggest crowds: Cy Marx’s sa
loon. He startled the rail denizens
somewhat, but there’s something
even now about the bishop’s b i g
shoulders and his glinting eyes
which probably quieted the crowd.
He preached, leaning against the
bar, and when he bowed his head
to pray, the sourdoughs followed
suit after a sheepish glance
around. The bishop ended, and
Cy Marx turned his hat upside
down, plopped a ten dollar gold
piece into it, and made the rounds
of the big room. The collection
that day was $1,400.
Rowe put the hat under his arm
and set out to build himself a lit
tle church. He did it personally.
Sawed, climbed, nailed, until there
was one wooden church to com
pete with the 14 wooden saloons.
His fame spread. It got around
that he didn’t haul out the Bible
to minister to hungry sourdoughs
on the trail. He offered them, in
stead, a bowl of hot mulligan.
He asked no special favors as a
churchman. He got his own dogs,
and mushed to every settlement
worthy the name, in blizzards that
even the Eskimos didn’t dare.
He became known as one of the
bravest men in Alaska. He’s been
the first white man to visit innum
erable Eskimo villages, and no w
both the hymnal and prayer-book
are translated into Eskimo for the
Arctic circle communicants.
He dressed for the trail in regu
lar sourdough clothes. He carried
some kindling, a gun to shoot his
dinner, and his church vestments
which he always wore even when
preaching to 30 Eskimos in an ig
loo.
His vestments were the simplest,
since Rowe puts little stock in
trimmings. He didn’t bother to
iron them, but he kept them spot
lessly clean himself, washing them
out on stop-overs. He has a fa
mous pectoral cross, studded with
gold nuggets from the Klondike,
but he only wears it when he goes
back east to seek funds for his
missions.
His magic probably lay in the
fact that he took people as he
found them. He fed the hungry.
He started hospitals for the sick.
His first hospital was built with
Tex Rickard’s help. He even
taught himself the simpler surgi
cal technique.
His quiet, mind-my-own-business
attitude is the basis of many
stories. Like the one when he met
two prospectors on the trail one
day. They were traveling in oppo
site directions, so Rowe stopped to
ask how the trail was ahead.
“It’s the worst blankety-blank
string of black gob south of the
blank-blank Arctic circle,” s a id
one man. “How’s it your wa y,
brother?”
“The same gentlemen,” said the
bishop with a twinkle.
In Rowe’s first 30 years in Alas
ka he only “came out” 10 times.
He’s constantly asked now when
he intends to retire. But his son
tells this story on him:
Two summers ago—when the
bishop was 83—he volunteered to
take another Anglican to Alaska,
a man whose health had broken.
There was some to-do about the
baggage before they started, and
the bishop confided to his son, “the
old man certainly r»eeds care,
hope I can help him.”
The son got the other man aside
and asked his age. It was 65!
The bishop’s son saw them off.
Rowe carried his friend’s luggage
up the gangplank. 4
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Two Japanese Subs
Are Reported Sunk
During The Week
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
Australia, June 5.— <AP) — Allied
fliers sank two and probably
three Japanese submarines for a
week total of perhaps seven in
swift retribution against enemy
undersea stabs at the continent’s
vital supply lanes, headquarters
announced today.
Four midget submarines were
sunk Sunday night in and around
the great Sydney harbor.
The communique from Gen
Douglas MacArthur’s operational
base said of the latest successes:
“Allied aircraft of one Nether
lands East Indies and two Austra
lian squadrons on reconnaissance
off the east coast located three
enemy submarines on the surface
in widely separated localities. In
ensuing attacks, two submarines
certamly were destroyed, and a
third probably sunk ”
Virginia Lee Corbin,
Former Child Movie
Star. Dies At Chicago
CHICAGO, June 5.—W—Virginia
Lee Corbin, the child star of the
movies some 15 years ago, died
today of heart disease in a sani
tarium near Chicago. She was the
wife of Charles Jacobson, a Chic
ago broker.
Miss Corbin, who was born in
Prescott. Ariz., Dec. 5, 1910, was
a Mond, blue-eyed child actress
who starred in “The City That
Never Sleeps" "The Perfect Sap".
?dS* Up and ‘,Knee High,"
the last one in 1929. IJ
‘THIOKOL’ RECAPS
STAND ROAD TESTS
Synthetic Rubber Discov
ered When Chemist Tried
For Anti-Freeze
TRENTON, N. J„ Jun« 5
Old tires recapped with "shioko'
a synthetic rubber made f r'r
readily available materials J"1
exhibited today by their develop
as models of casings which mil*
carry millions of motorists 0\
their war transportation problem'
The recaps, still showing
tread after actual road tests f
ported a1 upwards of 5,000 c
were surfaced with a nibs'.'"
discovered by a Kansas Citv
chemist in 1923 when he was'5'
perimenting with what he intend
to be an anti-freeze solution -
auto radiators.
Dr. Willard H. Dow. presi,
of the Dow Chemical company -
Midland. Michigan, which is'd.'
veloping the product with -T
Thiokol company of Trenton nr,'
dieted today in the mid-west cm
that once the search for rubV
substitutes among thermo-piastV
was pushed to its height the' na'
ti°n may never reurn to natuni
rubber “However abundant it ma
become.”
Bevis Longstreth, president 0f
Thiokol, explained the produc
proudly, but with more conserva
tive promise.
•Our primary objective.” he said
“is to help make tires available
to get war industry workers to
their plants and to meet anv
needs we can for the government
The chemist who started “thk.
kol” on its road trip. Dr. Joseph
C. Patrick, sat by quietly while
Longstreth explained how f0ur
major manufacturing companies
were experimenting with the s;t
thetic substance. Then he told hew
in his Kansas City laboratory,
which he set up after quitting a
medical practice which he said was
uninteresting, he chanced to rr.i
ethylene dichloride and so die
polysulfide in his anti-freeze &
lution experiments.
“There was a violent reactionb^
tween the two.” he said. “Whet
it was over. I had a soft, gummy
rubbery substance. And it reaiiy
bounced.”
Chief advantages of “fhioko!".
its sponsors said, were that ail
ingredients were commonly avail
able in continental United States,
and that it could be manufacture!
quickly in simple, inexpensive
plants.
CIO Pledges Fight
In Bridges’ Behalf
WASHINGTON. June 5 - M -
The CIO executive board today
pledged a fight in behalf of Harry
Bridges, Pacific Coast longshore
man’s leader, and declared the de
portation order of Attorney Gen
eral Biddle was based “neither o;i
the facts nor on common sense.
The board, winding up a three
day meeting, also expressed its
desire for perfecting unity With
the AFL, urged closer cooperation
with organized workers of all tr.e
United Nations, and laid down ‘
taxation program with the asser
tion that the House Ways and
Means committee had “fa®
miserably.”
A resolution declared the or®
to deport Bridges on the grouc
that he was a Communist was «
blow not only to all concepts
American justice but even more *
blow to national unity and morn*
necessary to victory." It said ■
attorney general chose to rely J
hearsay evidence."
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Man Is Bound Over
On Assault Charsi
Charged with assault >
deadly weapon on a ferna.e ■ ■
intent to kill, Woodrow W_
son was bound over to • UP'‘.,
court under $400 bond on pi°
cause. . . hf,.
Robinson is charged wi.n ■- .
ing Carrie Mae Robinson on ■ •
*"Rommell Dixon was sentenced ^'
30 days in jail to be assigned t
roads on a charge of vagr. ■
In the case of Clifton Gu.
charged with assault vith a ,
ly weapon with serious injury
plea of assault with a denalj ^
on was accepted and Gram,
ed the cost and restitution
sum of $27 to Commum ,'
Charged with hit and - h” ^
damages, Woodrow A.
fined $50 and cost or f>0 ,
default. Brew gave notice; .
peal to Superior court and *
was set at $200.
Dennis P. Lancaster »as
$50 and cost on a charge 0 ,
less operation of a^auto^^^g.
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other number on bidl'■ 11 e.
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