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(METRIC BODY
MEETS JHIS WEEK
Wartime Practices Will Be
Discussed At Sessions
In Raleigh
RALEIGH, June 12.—‘(A’)—The
North Carolina Optometric Society
will hold its 36th annual conven
tion here Wednesday and Thurs
day, and the convention theme will
center around wartime practices
of the optometrist.
Business sessions will be he»a
Wednesday morning and afternoon,
with Mayor Graham A Andrews
of Raleigh giving the welcome ad
dress at the opening session. Ur.
James A. Palmer of Charlotte,
president of the society, will re
Epond. ,
Other events on the opening day
of the convention will include
memorial services for deceased
members, to be conducted by Ur.
G. C. Hudgens of Raleigh, at the
morning session.
Major E. D. Peasley of State
Selective Service headquarters
will give the opening address at
the afternoon session. His topic
will be “why men are rejected
for military service.” Dr. Henry
B. Day of Raleigh will speak on
“reconditioning faulty or weak
color perception in Army and Navy
rejectees ” Dr. Palmer will dis
cuss “ethics and economics” at
4 o'clock.
The convention s annual banquet
will be held Wednesday night at
7 o’clock, with Lester Rose, sec
ratary of the Raleigh Chamber of
Commerce, as toastmaster. A
dance for members and their
wives will follow.
Thursday's program includes
business sessions in the morning
and afternoon. Dr. Aubrey Palm
er of Charlotte will speak at the
morning session, using as his sub
ject “what’s new in optometry,”
and Dr. Henry Day of Raleigh
will discuss “contact lenses and
subnormal vision devices.” Dr.
Alam Bisanar of Hickory will also
speak.
The woman's auxiliary of the
society, of which Mrs. George E.
Bisanar of Hickory is president,
will hold sessions Wednesday
morning and afternoon, with a
luncheon and bridge party as fea
tures.
FUGITIVES^ SOUGHT
IN BLADEN COUNTY
(Continued from Page One)
ter it had been inspected by a
prison guard. Belk and Cutts piled
rubbish from the heap on the two
while the guards were not look
ing.
When the truck reached the
dump on the eastern edge of Ra
leigh, the two prisoners leaped
out and brandished knives and an
ice pick at Guard Captain Henry
Smith and a prisoner-driver.
Ordering the guard and driver
to get out of the truck, the two
drove away. Near the woman’s
prison the prisoners abandoned
the truck and commandeered Miss
Tatum’s car, which was parked
at the curb on a main street.
They drove away in the direction
of Smithfield.
At Benson, in Johnson county,
Massey and Cromwell released
Miss Tatum unharmed. She said
they treated her very well, but
did not discuss their plans.,
CURB ONMOSQUITO
BREEDING SOUGHT
(Continued from Page One)
“So if the people don’t want
to get bitten by mosquitoes, they
had better take the necessary mea
tures of preventing their spread,”
he cautioned.
Dr. Elliot also commented on
the typhoid innoculation climes
which are being conducted here,
saying that while a great many
persons had taken advantage of the
clinics by receiving the necessary
innoculations, there were still
many persons who had not had the
“shots.”
“We want everybody to be in
noculated for typhoid fever, either
by their own physicians or through
our clinics,” he declared.
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Naval Academy Graduates Discard Hats
High in the air go the discarded caps of the 765 members of the graduating class at Annapolis,
Maryland, June 9th, after the graduates received their diplomas and commissions as ensigns in the
Navy. Scene took place in Dahlgren Hall as the iargest class in the Academy’s history was graduated.
U. S. WILL SPEND
106 BILLIONS ON
WAR DURING 1943
(Continued from Page One)
20 per cent undar the end of
1942, and inequalities of distribu
tion will “aggravate the burden
of. consumers.”
Meet Requirements
Actual war production “in most
categories fell short of scheduled
production throughout most of
1942,” Nelson said, because the
goals were unrealistically high and
for other reasons, but in the main
production “met the requrrements
of our war strategy: and the pros
pects for 1943 are for a quantity
and a quality of production that
will realize to the full the tre
mendous potential of American in
dustry.”
“We have met with some disap
pointments and have made some
errors in achieving the results,”
the letter to Mr. Roosevelt said.
“The important point, in my judg
ment, is that an unprecedented
and, on the whole, a balanced
output was achieved.
“Today, we are turning out near
ly as much material for war, mea
sured in dollar value, as we ever
produced for our peacetime needs
—and we have enough industrial
power left over to keep civilian
standards of living at a level high
er than many of us dared hope
for.
“This record could not have been
achieved in so short a time had
we not taken some short cuts, made
some compromises, and assumed
some risks.
“I am personally confident that
in the months ahead the produc
tive record of American labor,
management, agriculture and gov
ernment, working together, will
fully meet the demands of the
armed services in pressing home
the attack on every front.”
“Formidable” Task
The 1943 arms program is a
“most formidable” task for in
dustry. It was conceded. The build
ing and equipping of industrial
plants and cantonments, a rela
tively easy job, is only 13 per cent
of the total instead of 30 per cent
as in 1942.
But munitions production must
jump 125 per cent and in some
specific weapons vastly more. War
planes, for instance, are to riso
3 1-2 times the output of last year,
when 47,694 planes were produc
ed.
(This does not mean that nearly
167,000 planes will be turned out
because production is rated on to
tal weight and value. With the pre
sent emphasis on heavy bombers
and heavier planes of all types,
probably between 90,000 and 100,
000 will be built.)
Similarly output of spare pro
pellers, engines and parts must
be 2.7 times the 1942 level; small
fighting ships, including destroy
er escorts, nearly 4 times; ground
signal equipment, over three times.
"These categories are obviously
the ones in which attainment of
the 1943 goal Is likely to present
the greatest difficulties,” the sum
mary observed. “Their predomin*
ance reflects changes in the im
portance attached to various cate
gories of fighting equipment in the
light of the shifting fortunes and
strategy of military conflict.”
“Substantially greater quanti
ties” of nearly all critical mater
ials will be chewed up by the war
machine this year, it was disclosed
—31 per cent more steel; 100 per
cent more aluminum; 100 per cent
more nitrogen, for explosives; 200
per cent more magnesium; and
450 per cent more Ethyl alcohol,
for synthetic rubber and smoke
less powder.
Virtually all the increased de
mands for metals must come from
new supply, because the civilian
economy has been cut so deeply
that “virtually no further diver
sion to military production can be
expected from this source.”
All but about $500,000,000 worth
of the construction projects will
be finished by the end of this year,
although the report warned that s
two or three months delay may be
expected in completion of nearly
all construction jobs because of
bottlenecks in production of ma
hinery and equipment.
The report forecast that addi
tional new buildings would be need
ed for the aircraft program and
for high-octane gasoline. (Since it
was prepared, a 20 per cent in
crease in high octane plant capa
city has been approved.)
-V
Negro Social Workers
Will Meet In Raleigh
RALEIGH, June 12.—(AV-The
17th annual public welfare insti
tute for Negro social workers of
North Carolina will be held at
Shaw university June 24-25, Mrs.
W. T. Bost, state welfare com
missioner, announced today.
Appearing on the two-day pro
gram will be representatives of
private social work agencies and
county welfare department in the
state; R. L. McMillan, state
civilian defense director, and
members of the staff of the state
board of charities and public wel
fare.
Jesse O. Thomas, special assist
ant to the American Red Cross
domestic director, and Inabel
Burns Lindsay, acting director of
the Howard university social work
division, will be among the
speakers.
-V
Saccharine is 300 times as sweet
as sugar. It was discovered acci
dentally by an American scientist
in 1878.
DRIVE TO BREAK
JAPS’ ALEUTIAN
HOLD UNDER WAY
(Continued from Page One)
ported to be burning their
dead or burying them under
the snow so their bodies could
not be found. Total garrison
strength on Attu was believed
to be about 2,500 or 3,000. The
force on Kiska probably is
two or three times that' figure.
Kiska is understood to be
strongly defended, with shore
guns and anti-aircraft weap
ons ringing the vulnerable
points.
Hope for a not too costly
conquest of the island, there
fore, lies in smashing by air
those defenses and supplies
which already have been es
tablished on the island and in
blockading the base by air and
sea so that more supplies and
defense armament cannot be
delivered.
DE GAULLE^ GIRAUD
REMAIN ESTRANGED
(Continued from Page One)
until his program is adopted in
all or in part, well informed
French circles in Algiers were
generally optimistic over the pos
sibilities that a reconciliation
would be effected soon.
It is considered certain that Gi
raud will accept de Gaulle's pro
posal that the minister of war in
the new government have at least
equal responsibility with the
commander in chief of the army
and that he will also agree to the
removal of a number of officials
whom de Gaulle has accused of
collaborationist tendencies.
NATlOlfsARMED
FORCES RECEIVE
PRIORITY ON BEEF
(Continued from Page One)
plies of pork and lamb have been
somewhat more plentiful. It also
folia’,vs action of the office of
price administration increasing
ration point values of beef cuts.
PARITY REQUESTED
BY TOBACCO MEN
AH Officers Of South Caro
lina Association Re
Elected At Meet
MYRTLE BEACH, S. C., June
12._UP)—Members of the South
Carolina belt warehouse associa
tion adopted a resolution at thei
annual convention here today ask
ing the federal government to nuf
South Carolina on a party as to
tobacco prices with atl other
bright belts.
The association also heard an
address by Governor Olin D. John
ston and at a business session
that followed re-elected its offic
ers and conducted an open dis
cussion of problems of the tobacco
industry. ,
These officers were re-elected;
President, W. Wesley Singletary of
Lake City; vice president, A. E.
Garrett of Fairmont, N. C.; secre
tary-treasurer, Lawson Jordan of
Mullins. All the directors were re
elected except George Myers, Jr.,
of Chadbourn, N. C., who expects
to enter the armed service short
ly. Roscoe Coleman of Tabor
City, N. C., was elected in Myers’
place.
Lieut. Gov. Ransome J. Will
iams spoke briefly, after which
Brig. Gen. Halmes B. Spring of
Myrtle Beach, state director of
selective service, introduced Gov
ernor Johnston.
The governor commended South
Carolina farmers for the part they
are taking in winning the war and
said, “The labor shortage has al
most wrecked the farmers of South
Carolina. This is not time for
loafing. Every able-bodied person
should either work or fight.”
SHOE BUmTwAVE
SWEEPS OVER U. S.
(Continued from Page One)
for four and one-half months —
11 days longer than stamp 17.
Translated into family terms, it
means to many parents that the
children will have to go through
the summer without getting addi
tional shoes, if they are to have
a new pair with which to start
school, or else that papa or mama
will have to turn over their No.
18 stamp. The regulations permit
transfer of shoe stamps within a
family.
OP A said the and one-half
month period for use of No. 18 is
in line with its policy of allowing
an average of about three pairs
of shoes per person per year.
The OPA announcement squelch
ed . reports which had circulated
widely that the rationing agency
would encourage use of stamp 18
to buy white summer shoes. Offi
cials made clear there were no
plans for an extra stamp with
which to buy shoes of the purely
summer variety.
SIX CIRCUSVLIONS
ARE RECAPTURED
(Continued from Page One)
was Caesar who demonstrated his
ability. He crawled under a porch
at 1060 Sheridan avenue and Pa
trolman Hans Mogensen bent over
and looked at the crouching lion.
Caesar darted from under the
porch, leaped over Mogensen’s
back, and climbed to a nearby
porch, where he remained until
he was captured.
-V
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Oldest agricultural college in the
United States is the Michigan
State College of Agriculture and
Applied Sciences, in East Lansing.
It was noted on recently cap
tured specimens of Messer
schmitts that no provision was
made for jettisoning fuel in case
of emergency, although no skill
or material was spared to pro
vide other safety devices.
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Farewell For “Memphis Belle” After 25 Bombing Missions
The crew of the retired Flying Fortress “Memp his Belle,” watch Lt. Gen. Jacob I.
manding general of U. S. Forces in the European theatre, bid farewell to Pilot Roherf ir er?V com"
(back to camera) of Asheville, N. C.. as the plane was inactivated at an American bombing*aB
England. The plane, with 25 bombing missions of the Axis to its credit, was named fer^nri ln
garet Polk of Memphis, Tenn., fiancee of Pilot Morgan. It was retired to return to AmpriL f!? Mar*
bond selling tour. (Photo by Radio From London.) " Amerlca » war
LAMPEDUSA FALLS
TO ALLIED AIRMEN
(Continued from Page One)
it was air power which once more
shattered the occupants into sub
mission, and gained experience for
bigger things to come.
Pantelleria yileded between 10,000
and 15,000 prisoners; the size of
Lampedusa’s smaller garrison was
not yet determined.
All this morning and until late to
day relays of American and British
bombers, escorted by many types of
fighters, raked and blasted the is
land which was the last potential
danger to Allied shipping convoys
crossing the Mediterranean.
Blockade Island
British naval forces supported the
operation as they had done in the
reduction of Pantelleria, blockading
the island to prevent supplies be
ing shipped from Sicily.
But Allied planes assumed the
major role, smashing Lampedusa’s
airfields, patrolling the skies
against the possibility of supplies
being dropped by parachute, and
methodically blasting to bits the
coastal and anti-aircraft artillery
emplacements.
(The Algiers radio reported in a
broadcast recorded by the Associat
ed Press that 30 enemy planes at
tempted to attack an Allied force
landing on Lampedusa but were
driven off. A similar attark was
broken up yesterday at Pantelleria
when 50 to 60 German dive-bombers
were engaged by American Light
ning fighter pilots over the landing
parties).
Earlier in the day a broadcast
Italian communique said Lampedu
sa was fighting back heroically in
answer to an Allied ultimatm for
surrender.
There was no confirmation of the
ultimatum until the surrender and
occupation were announced tonight
in a special communique from the
headquarters of General Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
It said: "After 24 hours of inter
mittent naval and air bombardment
th" island of Lampedusa today sur
rendered and is being occupied by
our forces.”
Begin Siege
The mighty air offensive turned
on Lampedusa around noontime
yesterday when the white flag was
hoisted on Pantelleria. and some of
the bombers headed there wer de
tourd to Lampedusa to begin the
24-hour naval-air siege.
American Maurauders were first
to turn their attack on Pampedusa,
an island seven miles long and two
miles wide, located about 80 miles
south of Pantelleria.
Then other Allied bombers joined
in the assault during the afternoon
and still others kept up the bom
bardment after dark.
They hit a large merchant ship
in Lampedusa harbor and damaged
several smaller craft with large ex
plosions:
"After the fall of Pantelleria
yesterday the northwest African air
force turned their attention against
the island of Lampedusa,” said a
communique issued earlier today by
General Elsenhower's headquarters.
"The bombing which commenced
early in the afternoon continued
throughout the night:
"During the day's operations. 14
enemy aircraft were destroyed.
Three of our aircraft are missing.”
Determined
(Although it had been regarded as
obvious that Lampedusa was bomb
ed as soon as Pantelleria fell, the
speed with which the Allies moved
in to take over the airport base was
believed to be evidence of their de
termination to carry the assault
swiltly and relentlessly against It
aly’s main coastal defenses.
(In London, unooficial sources ex
pressed the belief that Sardinia
would be next. They pointed out
that although it does not afford a
concentrated target for the air and
naval battering which caused the
smaller islands to give up, it is
beyond the defensive range of the
Axis unless Italy’s harbored fleet
ventures out into action.)
Lampdusa is 150 miles south of
Sicily and 100 miles west of Malta.
It has been cut off for weeks by
Allied air and naval control of the
surrounding waters.
Although Allied air attacks re
cently have kept the Axis from us
ing Lampedusa’s air base, motor
torpedoboats and submarines have
used its harbors to menace the Al
lied sealane through the Sicilian
strait.
It was disclosed that the fortifica
tions and garrison at Lampedusa
did not compare in strength with
those at Pantelleria, which capitu
lated yesterday in the 20th day of
terrifying assault from air and sea.
It was officially announced also
that not a single soldier
when units of the veteran' '
First Army swarmed ^
Pantelleria yesterdav ,< °«
atter
bomb-dazed garrison had 111
This refuted German Ma,
an attack by 50 to 60 \Ws t:'at
bombers at the climax . ■ ’
cupation had sunk an s ot.r the *
lied troop transport and 13 I0" *J'
boats and done serious j
several British warships
in the landing. Fourteen
tacking dive bombers Wer ,te it
ed by alert American figi'. 's:r'?'
ering the movement. ' er* <#»
Estimates of the number ,
ian prisoners taken on p,p°‘ ^
were placed officially
10,000” while an unoffic. "Sr*f
placed the latest bag ,Jt- y
fighters at 15,000. There, I
believed to have been a r;,’! *1 1
the lot. Three thousand’’,?^1
already, were enroute to 1 '■
join their legion of conirai l,l
ready behind Allied blockade,' * I
BRANCH POSTOFFICr
NEW RIVER, June nil,
ization has been received hor'?'
Postmaster R, R. Eag£
establishment of a fifth i "’i
postoffice at New Rjver fo!‘'a
purpose of serving the
Camp Lejeune. The new bra
will be at the new naval kosm
It will be manned by naval m i
clerks.
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