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RIFLE CLUB HERE
AWARDS MEDALS
'Junior Organization
Changes Name To New
Hanover Rifle Club
Officers and members of the
Junior Rifle club, at the meeting
of the organization during the past
week, distributed a number of
medal awards and diplomas for
earned ratings in rifle marksman
ship. and. at the same time, voted
unanimously to change the name
of the organization from the Junior
Wilmington Rifle club to the New
Hanover Rifle club, to avoid con- ^
flict with the activities of the sen
ior rifle club.
Comprised mostly of boys of po
tential draft age. and headed by
Ned Herring, president. Edgar Wil
liams. vice-president. Thomas L.
Brinson. Jr., secretary, and Ray
mond Meshaw, executive officer,
the junior group has been receiv
ing basic marksmanship instruc
tion for the past several months ■
at the hands of Edmund McLaur-,
in. qualified expert rifleman and,
instructor of the National Rifle as
sociation, and J. B. Dubois and
V, L. Smith, similar instructors, j
Mr. Dubois moved to Wasmng- j
ton. D. C.. some weeks ago. his;
phase ot the work being taken;
over by V. L. Smith, who now
heads a special group of boys
chartered as the Sons of the Amer
ican Legion. The boys fire in a
joint session under the supervision 1
of McLaurin and Smith.
Small bore rifles of the .22 cali
ber class are used in the training. |
the boys furnishing their own
equipment, and firing sessions are;
held on Wednesday nights at the
Legion Exhibit building.
Not only are the instructors en-1
deavoring to teach their pupils |
how to fire safely and expertly. |
but efforts are being made to give
such thorough training that the
trainees, on completion of the;
course, will be qualified to stand j
the rigid examinations for instrue 1
tors, and 'thereby be in a position j
to teach rifle marksmanship un-:
der ROTC and other recognized
programs.
Lieut. Coi. Emil Engel, head of
the local ROTC unit, has com
mended the two instructors for the
excellence of the work done, point
ing out that the supplementary
training being given the ROTC
boys is doing much to develop,
capable instructors for the ROTC
program of the High school.
McLaurin and Smith, who have I
! Nazis Waged All-Out
U-Boat Drive In May
MARGATE, England, June 19—
OP)—Germany threw her greatest
submarine force in history into an
all-out sea offensive against Aliied
shipping in May, Sir Harold Bal
four. undersecretary of state for
air. told an audience today at a
"wings for victory” bond selling
campaign.
He repeated Prime Minister
Churchill's' assertion that Brit
ain's May losses, nevertheless,
were lower than any month since
the United States entered the war.
The German offensive against
ships laden with food, munitions
and men was “the biggest effort
to date” and was fought out over
10.000,000 square miles of sea. he
said.
N.C.GUARDUNIT
TO ATTEND CAMP
First Company Will Leave
July 18 For Two Weeks
At Fort Bragg
The First company of the N. C.
State Guard unit here will leave
July 18 for Fort Bragg to attend i
the summer encampment for two
v, eeks. officers announced Satur
day.
Three officers and 50 men of j
the company are expected to at
tend this summer's first regular
encampment for the State Guard
since the military branch was or
ganized in October. 1941.
Approximately 2.000 officers and
men from all North Carolina
Guard companies will undergo
regular Army training at the Fort
Bragg encampment.
XOGCES TO REST
LISBON. Portugal. June 19.—1-V'
—Gen. Auguste Nogues. former
resident general of French Moroc
co. arrived at Lisbon by airplane,
today and said he intended to take
a long rest. Nogues. one of the
French North African officials to
whom Gen. Charles de Gaulle ob
jected for alleged pro-Vichy con
nections. was succeeded in Moroc-1
co by Gabriel Puaux.
i
long been interested in educational j j
and recreational programs for the \
youth of the city, serve without, ,
compensation. j <
Various changes in the by-laws'
and other governing club rules ,
and regulations were also made; j
at the recent session.
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Sir Gerald Campbell Will
Speak At Gathering In
Winston-Salem
WINSTON-SALEM, June 19—6P1
—Sir Gerald Campbell, G.C.M.G.,
British minister to the United
State and special assistant to the
British ambassador at Washing
ton. will speak to the North Caro
line Press Association on Friday,
July 16 during its annual conven
tion here. President W. K. Hoyt
announced today.
Campbell, who has had a long
career in the British diplomatic
and consular services, is expected
to address the newspaper execu
tives on some of the international
phases of “post war planning,
which will be the general theme of
the meeting.
The Robert E. Lee hotel will
be headquarters for the associa
tion’s conclave, which will get
underway Thursday night, July 15,
and \.’ill continue all day the 16th
and p -obably through the morning j
of Saturday, July 17.
In addition to Campbell, two
other outstanding speakers will
be heard on the full day’s pro
gram being mapped for Friday.
These are to be announced at a
later date.
Born in England m 1879, bir
Gerald Campbell v. as educated at
Repton school and Trinity college,
Cambridge, and entered the Brit
ish consular service in 1906. serv
i ing his country in Rio de Janeiro;
; the Belgian Congo; Venice. Italy;
and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He
came to the United States in
1920 and served as consul-general
I in Philadelphia from 1920-22: in
‘San Francisco from 1922-31: ana
: in New York from 1931-38.
In 1938 ne was appointed high
commissioner for the United
Kingdom in Canada, and three
years later, in January. 1941. re
turned to the United States as
envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary at Washington. In
June. 1941 he became director gen
eral of British information serv
ices and served in that capacity
until June. 1942. Since then, he
has come back to Washington in
his present office of minister and
special assistant to the ambassa
dor, Lord Halifax.
Campbell is an honorary D.C.L.
of the University of Bishop’s col
lege. Lennoxville. Quebec: and an
an honorary LL. D. of Rutger’s
university. Queen’s University,
Ontario. McGill university. Toron
to university. New York univer
sity and union college, Schenec
tady. In 1911 he married Margaret
Churchill Juler. daughter of the
late Henry Edward Juler of Lon
don. He has three daughter*.
Among other business to be
transacted at the convention, the
71st to be held by the associa
tion. will be the election of offi
cers for the coming year. Present
officers, in addition to President
Hoyt, are John B. Harris of the
Albemarle Stanly News and Press,
vice-president: Miss Beatrice Cobb
of the Morganton News-Herald,
secretary-treasurer: and Clarence
Griffin of Forest City, historian.
The executive committee is com
posed of the president, vice-presi
dent. secretary-treasurer and the
following: Ed M. Anderson of Wil
liamston. Frank Daniels of Ra
leigh. R. E. Price of Rutherford
ton and Dr. Julian Miller of Char
lotte.
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Rev. Hornsby Accepts
Call To Clinton Church
CLINTON. June 19.—Announce
ment has been made here by D. V.
Carter, member of the pulpit com
mittee of Clinton Baptist church,
that the Rev. C. H. Hornsby, for
the past four and one half years
pastor of the Timmonsville. S. C.,
Baptist church has accepted a call
to 1he pas'crate of the local church
and will arrive here to take up his
residence at teh parsonage short
ly after July 15.
A call to the Rev. Mr. Hornsby
was extended by the pulpit, com
mittee following a vote of the con
gregation of Ihe church. The Rev.
Mr. Hornsby on invitation, preach
ed at 1he morning service here on
June 5. One week later he ten
dered his resignation to the con
gregation of the Timmonsville
Baptist church.
The Rev. Mr. Hornsby will suc
ceed the Rev. S. Lewis Morgan
who resigned December 1, 1942,
In accept a call to the First Bap
tist church of Dunn.
PFC. Johnstone Wins
Song Contest At Davis
CAMP DAVIS, June 19—Briga
dier General James R. Townsend,
commanding general of the Anti
Aircraft Artillery Training Cen
ter. awarded a $50 war bond to
PFC. Michael Johnstone, winner of
the Camp Davis song contest, at
a concert by the Fourth AATC
Band Thursday night.
PFC. Johnstone wrote the win
ning lyrics for the new AA March,
composed by Warrant Officer Dan
iel B. Wolfsie, leader of the Fourth
band. The presentation of the
award was made at an open-air
concert, ‘‘A Fight in Spain,” with
M-Sgt. Morton Daniels as master
of ceremonies.
Gen. Townsend, in making the
presentation, lauded the outstand
ing work of Warrant Officer Wolf
sie and PFC. Johnstone in com
.posing the music and lyrics. Such
tunes are definite morale build
ers, he declared, and the AA March
is likely to become as famous
as songs and military airs of other
servic* branches.
S. S. Vance, First Liberty Freighter
Built In State, Is Still In Service
The first Liberty ship built in
North Carolina—the S. S. Zebulon
B. Vance—is still in service today
with a battle-scarred record that
includes more than 35,000 miles of
travel through enemy-infested wa
ters of the European and African
sea fronts.
The life of the 10,500-ton vessel,
first large cargo carrier construct
ed in the state since the days im
mediately following World War I,
has been a trying and dangerous
one.
Launched by the North Carolina
Shipbuilding company a few hours
before the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, she has plowed her
way into more than a dozen wide
ly flung ports from Philadelphia
to Murmansk and the African
coast. She has sped from subma
rines and ner decks have rung
with the crash of shrapnel time
and again. She has escaped when
ever the axis has sought to de
stroy her and has sailed on to
more important missions.
Censorship clouds her where
abouts today but it is known that
she is engaged on another import
ant assignment in delivering the
necessities of war to the nation’s
fighting men and their allies.
Participated In Invasion
Her crowded career is highlight
ed with participation in the inva
sion of Africa when she not only
earned supplies but many troops
who went over her sides in land
ing barges and, despite resistance,
occupied a port just east of Oran.
Later she returned to the United
States Kingdom and carried more
Army materiel to Africa.
The story of the S. S. Zebulon
B. Vance was told here recently by
her master, Captain G. W. Hud
gins. It began when she was load
ed at an East, coast port in March,
1942.
“Before sailing, the ship was
supplied with extra heaters and
thoroughly insulated on all sides
and throughout for weather pro
tection: the bows were • also
strengthened for ice breaking. She
sailed alone, fully loaded with car
go, drawing about 30 feet of wa
ter. About ten miles from a north
ern port a submarine appeared
and we immediately stepped up
the speed.”
“From there we went in convoy
to Iceland around the last of
March and laid up there for about
15 days in order to get the con
voys together. We sailed from Ice
land to Murmansk, Russia, and
while on this length of the jour
nev, another ship was hit by a
torpedo and blew up right along
side of us. We were covered with
shrapnel. Finally we reached Mur
mansk. after encountering many
floating mines and many near
misses from bombs and aerial tor
pedoes. There was one other Am
erican Liberty ship in our convoy.
W'hile unloading our cargo at the
port of Murmansk, we were bomb
ed and quantities of shrapnel were
dropped on the Vance on numerous
occasions. A bomb landed right
along side of us and missed us by
inches. We were in this .port also
for 15 days, and while there the
Russian government gave all the
crew members an extra month s
^ “We returned to Iceland, then
to a Canadian port, with acargo
of goose feathers and ore obtain
ed in Murmansk. We carried ore
in Numbers 1, 2 and 3 hatches, and
feathers in No. 5 hatch, thus caus
ing the weight to be mostly in
the stern and very unequally dis
tributed. However, the ship carried
this maldistributed cargo in grand
style, without a mishap, attribu
table’, doubtless, to the excellent
workmanship that went into the
construction of the Vance.
“From there we came in convoy
to an east coast port and dis
charged the ore cargo.
"After reloading with general
cargo, we set forth again to Eng
land, where we unloaded, then fit
ted out for the African invasion.
We sailed in main convoy and
were the third ship in line at an
African port just east of Oran. We
had quite a number of troops on
board who went over the sides in
landing barges and occupied the
port. However, we encountered re
latively small resistance compared
to some other ports, and it was
decidedly less than we had expect
ed. We were completely equipped
with fighting units, and each tank
had a special crew to man it. We
left port for England, via Gibral
tar, and went on up to another
port where we loaded some addi
tional Army equipment and re-1
urned m convoy to Africa. From
here we recently returned to the
Jnited States.
“We had left the U. S. with 10,
100 barrels of fuel oil, the voyage
lovering eight months, yet we re
iurned to the States with over a
ihousand barrels left.
“We all attributed our good luck
10 our little mascot, a Scotch Ter
rier which we picked up at an
East coast port before making our
Eirst trip and which we named
'Zebby.’
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INQUIRY COMPLETED
BEAUMONT. Tex., June 19—Oft
—Col. Sidney C. Mason, command
er of state troops enforcing mar
tial law after race riots took two
lives and caused considerable
property damage, said today the
military court had completed its
inquiry and had Pia,oa
in custody of city ^ 28 f- ?n
ficials. He said char*, : *
would be filed against
day. '■ l«etn v>
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