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Selected Stocks Increase
Sales Due To War Reports
.•f\V YORK. July 16—[S)—In
““j mainly by the exceptional
sP‘‘e d war news, selected steels,
ly-f° rubbers, utilities and spe
ra! L were given a smart recov
ca““ ush in the early part of to
■ l-tock market although many
frked away at the last.
wC • still bad to contend with
*Lr profit taking on the re
“r‘.'‘ advance to best levels in
ceIi‘ {our years but the sharp
■:e8lbf „{ the preceding session
i£- in the reinstatement of com
Ied, ‘ nts here and there on the
r' a' moderately healthy techni
faa correction had been accom
"'nfp cularly pleasing were the
,a;in, from Sicily, Russia and
94 Pacific indicating Axis
' '.; ;ents were in real difficult
“f fn addition, the Roosevelt
r-,chill ultimatum to Italy to
fni ulate or take the consequen
served as a further argument
C, short-war thinkers and prop
;ed peace stocks to a considerable
direction was irregularly
“rd a’ the opening. Plus
marks running to a point or so
1 ; -ell in the majority by mid
but top quotations were re
■d or converted into declines
the final gong sounded.
hre Associated Press 60-stoc*
finished unchanged at
J.i of 897 issues traded, 523 were
'" or unchanged and 374 down,
re pace was sluggish at inter
vals and transfers totalled 1,049,
;50 shares compared with 1,223,
CiO the day before.
s.pels exhibited strength in the
m Xg in the wake of U. S. Steel
F-Dort" Co. survey indicating
(jpjvy post-war demand in this in
C Fevamping of Washington eco
rW:n controls received attention
Hroadrooms but failed to dim
inflation psychology to any great
d North American and U. S. Lines
wte among favorites in the “new
v,,v class. In front elsewheie
rat Bethlehem. Santa Fe. New
p.'lVF preferred, Chesapeake &
Ohio Goodyear. Sears Roebuck,
Prs-Cola. Western Union, Pub
lie Service of N. J., National Pow
e- k Light. Continental Motors.
Pan American Airways, Pennsyl
vania-Central Airlines and East
man Kodak. Losers included
Chrysler. U. S. Steel, N. Y. Cen
tral'. U. S. Rubber. American Can.
Douglas Aircraft. Deere and J. I.
Care. . , .
Bonds were up m spots, a: uni
ca^o declines of 1-4 to 5-8 of^ a
cent a bushel were suffered bv
wheat, 5-8 to 7-8 by oats and 1-4 to
1 1-4 by rye. Hogs were up 10
cents. Cotton was 25 to 35 cents a
bale in arrears.
In the curb improvement was
retained by American Cyanamid
■B”, Cities Service and Phoenix
i Securities. On the offside were
American Gas, Pantepec and
Standard Power and Light, Turn
over here was 258,615 shares ver
sus 386.710 Thursday
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CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
CHICAGO. July 16.—iff)—Live
hogs advanced about 10 cents a
hundredweight on smaller receipts
today, but cattle were weak and
lambs about steady:
The top on hogs advanced a
dime to $14.00 with ail weights
sharing the upturn. Bulk of sales
on choice 180 to 270 pound hogs
were made between $13.75 and
S14.00. while best lightweight
sows were up to S13.25. Salable
receipts were 10,000, against ad
vance estimates of 12,000. and
shippers took 3,000. In addition
big packers received 14.000 on di
rect consignment.
Strictly choice fed steers and
yearlings were absent in the run
of 1.000 cattle, which was largely
co vs. Both steers and heifers sold
at new low levels for the crop,
with the top on fed steers $15.40
and best heifers at S12.50. Bulls
and vealers were steady.
. ChoicP native spring lambs sold
between $15.00 and $15.50, the lat
!1,e top. There were no year
‘nEs and slaughter ewes were
steady at $7.75 down. Receipts
"fre 1.000. plus 5.500 shipped di
rect to packers.
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SALE OF WOOL
BOSTON, July lf>.—fJP)—) U. S.
Uept. 0f Agriculture)—Sales of
y Purchase fine graded wools
erc ]Pade in Boston at prices
sereral cents below ceilings. Me
.'uL‘ Peniestic wools continued in
emand and sales were made at
o.nmodity Credit Corporation
50Pnmnm prices- Approximately
IMOO.OOO pounds of domestic
n„°s ^ave been purchased by
j ,rnm°d,:ty Credit Corporation to
„ ‘e- Wlth the exception of medi
k ‘ "°°'s very few of these lots
•we been resold to mills
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RALEIGH POULTRY
JUUdGH. July 16,— UR—Poultry
r^eiplc rnar!tets steady with light
(cua’ei§h~U: s- grade A large
an n "'bite i 46 grade A hens,
1; "'eights, 20 to 25.
Washington-u. s. grade A
fryers. 28°]42: S°me broilers "”d
vr.-v
■MAV ORLEANS SPOT
Ji?RLEANS- July 16-W
a bale i °n closed <luiet 75 cents
dline irUQ-er‘ ^ales 613. Low mid
*aW^oC‘idlin-g 20'45, g00d
I82,78e “ ‘°'90' recc‘Pts 767, stock
Service On
Popular Type Key*
r:H’SEY'S
J*»er Market and 12th
Bond Quotations
. „ DOMESTIC
ACL 4%s 64 _ 72%
B and O 4s 1948 _" 73%
CB and Q 4%s 77 . 82%
C and El Inc 97 _ 47
CGW 4s 88_ 75 %
CRI and P Ref 4s 34 .. 34y4
Cle Ut Term 4%s 77 . 77%
D and R GWest 5s 55_ 8%
FEC 5s 74 - 32%
Hud C 5s 62A _ 58%
Hud and Man 5s 57.Ill 58%
111 Cent 4%s 66 _ 52
Int Gt Nor Aj 6s 52 IIIII 24%
L and N 4%s 2003 _104%
Mo P G 4s 75 __ _ 26 y>
Nyc Rfg 5s 2013 _III' 63%
Nor Pac 6s 2047 _ 793/,
Penn R R 4%s 65..110
Ph Rdg Ci 6s 49 __ 133/.
Sal C 6s 45 _ 29
So Pac Rfg 4s 55 ... 88
So Ry Cn 5s 94 _ 105%
So Ry Gen 4s 56 .. 78
West Md 4s 52 _ 93
FOREIGN BONDS
Aust 5s 55 _ 93
Aust 414s 56 _ 89
Braz 614s 26-57 _ 4414
Final bond sales $11,950,500.
DOMESTIC
2%s 60-55 --__ 112.11
214s 68-63 . 100.21
214s 69-64 . 100.14
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NEW YORK COTTON
NEW YORK, July 16.-—(JP)—Cot
ton futures closed 25 to 35 cents a
bale lower today on scattered liqui
dation and increased hedge-sell
ing attributed to favorable war
news.
Part of the selling was caused by
Commodity Credit Corp. Action
in calling 1941 cotton crop loans
of September 15, indicating in
creased loan cotton would enter
the market. Mills were showing
little interest.
Futures closed 25 to 35 cents a
bale lower.
Open High Low Last
Jly 20.70 20.70 20.60 20.64 off 6
Oct __ 20.06 20.07 19.99 20.03 off 6
Dec .. 19.88 19.90 19.81 19.86 off 6
Mch 19.72 19.73 19.66 19.70 off 7
May __ 19.60 19.62 19.53 19.57 off 5
Middling spot 21.41. off 9.
The July option expired at noon
today.
N-nominal.
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NAVAL STORES
SAVANNAH, Ga., July 16—(A5)—
Turpentine 67 cents a gallon; of
ferings 90 (50 gal bbls); sales 1950
gallons; receipts 122 barrels; ship
ments none; stocks 33,554 barrels.
Rosin (100 lb drums) offerings
311; sales 295; receipts 372; ship
ments none; stocks 82,708,
Quote: B 2.82; D 3.09; E 3.54;
F 3.56; G H and I 3.68; K 3.80;
M 3.81: N 3.83; WG 3.87: WW and
X 4.38.
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RALEIGH LIVESTOCK
RALEIGH, July 16.— UR—Hog
1 markets steady with tops of 13.60
at Richmond and $13.45 at Rocky
j Mount.
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Third Break-In Probed
By Wilmington Police
The third break-in of business
establishments in two nights was
accomplished at the Carolina Cut
Stone company. 715 McRae street,
Thursday night, Joe J. Eiden, as
sistant manager, reported to po
lice Friday.
In all cases the intruders are
not believed to have removed any
valuables and the attempt to enter
B. May’s five and dime store was
halted by neighbors who held the
trespasser at the point of a shot
gun until police arrived to make
the arrest.
Mr. Eiden told police he found
the front door of the McRae street
establishment about one inch open
when he arrived at work Friday
morning. There is a Yale spring
lock on the door.
While no valuables were remov
ed, Eiden said “it’s a wonder the
place wasn’t burned down,” for
charred matches were scattered in
profusion about the first floor of
the building. The first floor is not
lighted by electricity.
The other business firm ran
sacked this week was Kosch Fur
niture company, Sixth and Castle
streets, on Wednesday night.
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RICHMOND LIVESTOCK
RICHMOND, Va„ July 16.—(IP)—
fU. S. Dept. Agr.)—Livestock—
(Hogs good and choice 160 to 300
lbs 13.60. 100 to 120 lbs 12.10. 120
to 140 lbs 12.60. 140 to 160 lbs 13.10
over 300 lbs 13.35. Sows under 350
lbs 12.85; 350 to 500 lbs 12.60; over
500 lbs 12.10. Good stags 9.60.
Cattle: Steers medium tud good
slaughter, 15.00 to 16.00. Fat dairy
type cows 10.00 to 11.00, canner,
cutter and common grades 7.00 to
10.00. Sausage bulls 13.00 down.
Vealers top 15.50, good and choice
spring lambs 13.50 to 14.00.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, July 16.—(TP)—
Cotton closed steady 45 cents a
bale lower.
Open High Low Close
Jly .. 20.88 20.91 20.54 --
Oct — 20.32 20.34 20.27 20.30 off 9
Dec „ 20.16 20.18 20.09 20.12 off 9
Mch __ 20.02 20.02 19.97 19.97 off 9
May __ 19.90 19.90 19.81 19.83
B-bid.
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CHICAGO BCXTER-EGGS
CHICAGO, July 16.— UP)—Butter,
receipts 1,273,340; steady; prices
as quoted by the Chicago price
current are unchanged.
Eggs, receipts 13,102; unsettled;
prices unchanged at OPA ceilings.
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MIDDLING
NEW ORLEANS, July 16.—Wl—
The average price of middling
15-16ths inch cotton today at 10
designated Southern spot markets
was 40 cents a bale lower at 20.86
cents a pound: average for the
last 30 market days 21.07; mid
dling 7-8ths inch average 19.87.
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CHARLOTTE SPOT
CHARLOTTE, July 16.——Spot
cotton 21.10.
Closing Stock Quotations
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Adams Exp _ ll7/s
(Adams Miilis _ 31
/Air Reduction _ 17
Alaska Jun _ 6 Vi
A! Cnem and Dye-lb/ %
Aiiegnany _ 3
Allis Chal Mfg _ 40%
Am Can _ 90%
Am Car Fdy _ 38%
Am For Pow _ 1%
Am Pow and Lt _ 3%
Am Rad and St S- 10%
Am Roll Mill _ 13%
Am Smelt and Ref _ 43%
At ana T _ 156%
Am Tob B _ 04%
Anaconda _ 28%
Arm 111 ..- 5%
At and Sf _ 03
ACL .. 34%
Atl Ref - 26%
Atlas Pow _ 08%
Aviat Corp _ 5%
Baldwin _ 11%
B and O __- 84/4
Barnsdall -. 184/2
Bendix Aviat _ A
Beth Stl . 84%
Boeing Airpl _ 4^/4
Borden _ 281/8
Borg Warner - 38
Briggs Mfg . 29%
Budd Mfg __ 84/4
Budd Wheel . 9
Burl Mills . 38/f
Bur Add Mach ..-. 14%
Calumet and Hec - 8
Can Dry _ 24
Can Pac -... 18%
Case J I .— 1184/4
Caterpil Trac - 53
Champ P and F - 23 /2
Ches and O _ 48 4/2
Chrysler . 834/4
Coca Cola . 149%
Colum G and E .— 44/2
Coml Credit _ 41/2
Coml Solv _ 10 “
Comwlth and Sou - '8
Consol Edis _ 24
Cont Can .-. 35/8
Corn Prod _ 5878
Curtiss Wright - 8
Curtiss Wright A- 22 /8
Davison Chem - 12
Del Lack and W . 33/4
Doug Aire ... 83
Dow Chem.-.- 14448
Dupont ---
Elec Auto Lt - 38/8
Elec Pow and Lt - 378
Firestone _ 42/8
Freeport Sul _ 3278
Gen Elec . — 384f
Gen Foods ..- 4342
Gen Mot -.-.— 3342
Gillette . 8/4
Glidden -.-. 22 ,
Goodrich . 413/8
Goodyear.. 41%
Graham Paige - 4/4
Gt Nor Ry Pf . 314,8
Hud Mot .-.— 11
Hupp Mot - 2
111 Cent ...
Int Harvest - "J.:*
Int Nick Can- 3342
Int Tel and Tel . 1448
Johns Man_ 8344
Kennecott _ 33/4
Kinney . - 4/8
Kroger Groc - 31 /4
Libby 0 F G1 __ 42
Ligg and Myers B - 44 4
Loews _ 83 ,
Lorilard _ 28/4
Louis and Nash ..__ 77%
Mack Truck _ 36
McCrory Stores _ 16%
•Mo K T . 2%
Mont Ward __ 48%
Murray Corp_ 10%
Nash Kelv . 1312
Nat Biscuit -. 22%
Nat Cash Reg __ 28%
Nat Dairy Prod _ 21
Nat Dist . 33%
Nat Lead- 17%
Nat Pow and Lt _ 7y8
Ny Cent... 18
No Am Aviat _ 11%
North Am _ 17y2
Nor Pac .. 16%
Ohio Oil . 19%
Otis Elev __ 20%
Pac G and E .. 29%
Pac Mills . 26%
Packard _ 4%
Param Pix _ 28%
Penny J C . 99%
Penn Dix - 3
Penn R R _ 30
Pepsi Cola - 53
Phillips Pet —. 48%
Pitt Scr and B - 5%
Pub Svc and B . 5%
Pullman _ 38%
Pure Oil-- 18%
Radio --- 11%
Rad K O .. 9%
Rem Rand - 18%
Reynolds B - 31%
Seab A L - 1
Sears---.. 84
Shell Un - 28%
Socony Vac - 14%
Sou Pac - 27%
Sou Ry - 26%
Sperry -- 29yi
Std Brands - 7%
Std Oil Cal _ 39%
Std Oil Ind - 37%
Std Oil N J -.—- 58%
Stewart Warner - 13y2
Studebaker - 12%
Swift ---.. 26%
Tex Co _6- 52%
Tex Gulf Prod - 6%
Tex Gulf Sul - 41%
Timken Det Ax .. 29%
Transamer - 9
Trans and West Air - 24y4
Un Carb —. 84%
Un Pac.. 102
Unit Aire . 3o%
Unit Corp ---. 1%
Unit Drug —.- 14
Unit Fruit - 72%
Unit Gas Imp . — 1°
Us Ind Alco . 42%
Us Pipe —. 36%
Us Rub - 43ib
Us Smelt and Ref —. 57
Us Steel -.. 58
Vanadium - 24%
Vick Chem - 43%
Va Caro Chem - 5%
Warner Pic —. 15%
West Mary . 5
Western Un - 39%
West El and Mfg .. 97
Wilson -.- 7%
Woolworth - 40 Va
Yell T and C - lSVs
Youngs S and T-— 40
Final stock sales 1,040,750.
FINAL CURBS
Can Marconi -- 2%
Cities Service . 16%
Colon Dvmt ..~ 7
El Bond and Sh . 8%
Gulf Oil - 48%
African Fighter
A steel-helmeted, mounted French Chasseur D’Afrique proudly
carries the regimental banner somewhere in North Africa. This regi
ment, composed of armored cars and mounted troops, helped oust
the Axis troops from N. Africa.
Allied Armies Sweeping
Through Sicilian Lands
(Continued from Page One)
cano itself, according to the Ger
man radio, which reported the
fuel dumps were ignited by re
peated naval shelling and air at
tacks.
Allied warships bombarded the
Catania airfield and other coastal
positions of the enemy while fleets
of Allied sky raiders pounded the
Axis at every point of concentra
tion on the island and smashed
at vital shipping and industrial
centers on the Italian mainland,
almost at will.
On the southwestern front, the
American Seventh Army of Lieut
Gen. George S. Patton Jr., which
took five of the 12 new towns,
some of them of the greatest
strategic importance, was credit
ed with the capture of 15,922 of the
more than 20,000 prisoners now in
Allied hands.
The Allied headquarters com
munique said “severe losses were
inflicted upon the enemy” by the
American Seventh Army which
“advanced several miles across
difficult hill country and captured
further important positions.”
The British Eighth Army, the
communique said, “made further
progres against German troops who
desperately contested every inch
of the ground.”
While the Allied war bulletin
"the speed of the advance is very
satisfactory,” it called attention
to the limiting factor of Allied
transport and supporting weapons
at the present stage of the cam
paign.
BABYFLATTOPS
BATTLING SUBS
(Continued from Page One)
sume the attack near sunset. An
Avenger found the fifth U-boat
running on a course to intercept
the merchant ships. Its crew was
caught napping when the bomber
screamed down in a dive and re
leased its depth bombs. The sub
marine went out of control and
submerged. It apparently came
back an hour later and this time
was hit by an entire load of bombs
directly beneath its stern.
Definitely out of control, it set
tled, climbed back above the sur
face on a sharp angle, started
down again, came back, and crew
men scrambled overside. A de
stroyer picked up 21 enlisted men,,
two pe+ty officers and the U-boat’s
skipper, thus registering a “def
inite kill.”
That wolf-pack was licked, and
more important, not a single sub
had been able to get within 18
miles of the convoy.
Back in action again on convoy
patrol in the Atlantic, the little
carrier beat off a second wolf
pack which slipped in to attack
at. dusk, converging on the mer
chantmen from all directions.
Two Avengers scored the first
hits, dumping their depth bombs
around a submarine, which “was
unquestionably damaged.”
Simultaneously other bombers
attacked two U-boats on opposite
sides of the convoy. Each strad
dled its target, but neither pilot
claimed “the captain’s h a t” al
though both said they were sure
they had inflicted damage.
In a parting shot at this wolf
pack the following morning, an
other U-boat was bombed miles
away from the convoy, with tan
gible evidence of a kill.
The second wolf-pack had been
driven off in 14 hours compared
with almost 24 hours of fighting
the first pack.
Three Avenger bombers joined
in the next engagement, attack
ing a surfaced submarine which
was damaged severely, but suc
ceeded in putting ack-ack shells
into one of the planes. The plane,
however, made the deck of its
carrier safely.
The final engagement in the se
ries, the Navy said, was one of
the shortest, lasting only 28 min
utes and ending in “bringing back
the captain’s hat.” Four Avenger
bombers and two Wildcat fighters
cooperated to destroy a subma
rine on the surface in a series of
quick-punching bombing and straf
ing attacks. The submarine blew
up and 17 of its crew were cap
tured.
NAZIS WARN DUCE
ON CAPITULATION
(Continued from Page One)
hands of the Germans They will
not be so naive this time as to
think that German aggression is
dead the day after the German
armies surrender. But for Italy
we have othei hopes. Our quarrel
is with Fascist Italy alone. To
Italy rid of Fascism we shall ex
tend a helping hand, and, after a
decent interval, which the Italians
themselves can shorten, a friendly
hand.
For in the great basin of the
Mediterranean Italy remains for
ever one of the main pillars of
our civilization. The Berlin radio
has told the Italians that we shall
close many universities and for
bid the teaching of classic history
and literature which celebrate the
historic greatness of Rome. On
the contrary, we shall, by destroy
ing Fascism, make it possible for
the Italians ro re-open their own
universities and to restore them
as seats of universal learning. And
nothing will more quickly revive
the deep affection which civilized
men have for Italy than that Ital
ians should turn from the idiocies
of the Fascist ideology and the
imported barbaric mythology,
should turn back to the humanist,
classical and universal tradition
of Rome. Florence, Bologna, Pa
dua, Perugia and Naples.
As for the dire threats from
Berlin that we mean to close down
the Italian industries and do all
kinds of things to Italian agricul
ture. there is a simple and con
clusive answer. As our troops
march on Italian soil, not the least
of the pre-occupations in Wash
ington and London is how best to
carry the burden of seeing to it
that the Italians are adequately
fed and supplied when we occupy
Italy.
The problem is not easy. The
longer the Italians resist, the more
we shall destroy the Italian rail
roads and power systems on which
the Italians will depend for their
own recovery and reconstruction.
The quicker they surrender, the
easier it will be not only to re
lieve their immediate needs, but
to enable them to work out their
own future.
As for their empire, the simplest
GRAY LADIES MAY
STILL GET HELP
Popular New Volunteer
Service Open To New
comers Until July 31
The Gray Ladies, popular new
volunteer service unit of the Red
Cross, will be open to new mem
bers until July 31, according to
Mrs. Vernon G. Avery, chairman
of the group. Applications for
membership may still be made at
Red Cross headquarters in the
customshouse.
The training course by means
of which Gray Ladies prepare
themselves for service will begin
August 3 at Camp Davis. Trans
portation will be provided.
Mrs. Avery explained Friday
that Gray Ladies will have no
nursing duties. Their function in
military hospitals is wholly of a
recreational and diversional na
ture. They administer to the
spirits of the convalescing sol
diers by way of games, books,
conversation, hobbies, and hand
craft.
“The Gray Lady must give
fresh currents to tired minds. She
will be the symbol of a friendly
presence, the visible proof that
there is someone who cares,”
Mrs. Avery declared.
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SENATORS SEE
WALLACE’S END
(Continued from Page One)
over policies of Crowley’s new
agency.
It forbids the agency to spend
any money outside the United
States except “for the purpose of
executing general economic pro
grams or policies formally approv
ed in writing by a majority o* the
War Mobilization Committee” and
filed with the State Deartment.
On this committee, in addition
to Byrnes, are Secretaries Stim
son and Knox, Chairman Donald
Nelson of the War Production
Board, Harry Hopkins and Fred
M. Vinson, economic stabilization
director.
Byrnes alone was given power
to order transfer of additional
functions from the RFC subsidi
aries to other corporations, or to
authorize foreign purchases by
agencies outside Crowley’s agen
cy. In addition, he wa" directed
to arrange for "unification and co
ordination of activities of the fed
eral government relating to for
eign supply, foreign procurement
and other foreign economic af
fairs” in conformity with State
Department policy.
The new grant of authority to
Byrnes, who already has been
dubbed the "assistant president”
because of his powers in domestic
matters, brought fresh talk in po
litical circles that he might be the
second man on a Roosevelt fourth
term ticket, although Byrnes said
recently that he had no political
ambitions. Another mentioned, on
the presumption that Wallace is
not to be considered, was Speaker
Rayburn.
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ELECTED PRESIDENT
RALEIGH. July 16—Iff)—Mrs. H
A. Holder of Garner was elected
president of the Wake countv
council of Home Demonstration
clubs yesterday.
thing to say is that Berlin is right
here, and that the Fascist empire
is destroyed and will never be re
stored. But that a free Italy will
be given the right to colonize
peaceably in Africa is certain.
That right, however, will have to
conform to the rights of others,
the Greeks, for example, to whom
the Italian nation owes in all jus
tice moral and material repara
tion for having put up with and
followed so long a band of crim
inal leaders.
SIDE GLANCES
MPR. 1M1 BY HER SERVICE. INC. T. H. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.
“I don’t see any sense in entering a beauty contest, Aunt
Hattie—it seems an awful waste of time with all the fel
lows my age in the service!’’
Obituaries
JAMES C. JONES
James C. Jones, 70-year-old for
mer Pender county resident, died
at his home in Seaford, Del., at
3:30 a. m. Thursday after an ill
ness of several months.
Funeral services will be held at
11 a. m. Saturday, July 17, at
Pike Creek Presbyterian church
with the Rev. Clark of Burgaw
officiating.
Interment will be in the cnurch
cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be J. A.
Murphy, John J. Futch. R. H. Bal
comb, Dewey Futch, Charlie
Brown and W. W. Pearsall. Jr.
Honorary pallbearers will in
clude W. W. Pearsall. Sr., S. E.
Loftin, Dr. R. P. Williams, T. E.
Hayes. P. P. Pearsall, John Free
man, W. A. Brown. J. P. Harrell.
A. N. Rhodes and Robert Pearsall.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Martha Hines Jones of Seaford,
Del., four sons, James C. Jones,
Jr., of Newark, N. J., Donald
Jones of Newark, Gaston Jones of
St. Augustine, Fla., and Paul Jones
of Corpus Christi, Texas; and by
two daughters, Mrs. Mary B. Sea
holtz and Mrs. Howard Calloway,
both of Seaford.
JAMES D. BIVINS
ALBEMARLE, July 16— (JP) —
James Daniel Bivins, 74, connect
ed with the publishing industry
here since 1890, died yesterday.
He was president of the Press
Printing company, publishers of
The Stanly News and Herald. He
was postmaster here in the Wilson
administration.
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MRS. NOLIE FIPPS
TABOR CITY, July 16— Mrs.
Nolie Baldwin Fipps, 7'. died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Ivy Cumber, here at 5:15 a. m.
today after a short illness.
Funeral services will be held at
10 a. m. Saturday at the residence
of B. H. Cumber, in the New Life
section of Columbus county, with
the Rev. Winfrey Davis, pastor of
the Tabor City Baptist church, of
ficiating.
Interment will r in Spivey ceme
tery.
She was a member of the Tabor
City church.
Surviving are five daughters,
Mrs. Bruther Fipps, Mrs. Cumber,
Mrs. Ola Williams and Mrs. Lot
tie Cannon, all of Tabor City; and
Mrs. Nettie Young of Columbia,
S. C.; four sons, A. W. Fipps and
M. W. Fipps, both of Columbia,
S. C., S. C .and F. H. Fipps, of
Dunn, and L. A. Fipps of Tabor
City; two sisters, Mrs. Belle Bald
win of Tabor City and Mrs. Viola
Carmichael of Myrtle Beach, S. C.,
and one brother, Jettie Boswell of
New Bern.
RUSSIANS CRACK
FOE IN OREL WAR
(Continued from Page One)
south. They said the new front ex
Germans sprang their own abor
tive offensive July 5 to pinch off
the Russians’ Kursk bulge in sim
ilar fashion.
The capture of Orel would hard
ly be less than another German
debacle, provided the Russians
could slam shut the escape corri
dor behind Orel into the northern
Ukraine.
For the first time, the German
radio admitted breaks in their
lines guarding Orel without the
customary claim that the breach
es had been sealed. The Germans
said the Russian offensive was a
‘‘relief attack to ease pressure on
the 165-mile Kursk salient just
south of Moscow from which the
tended 90 miles north of Orel to
Sukhinichi and the Transocean
propoganda agency remarked:
Merely in some places of the
Orel-Sukliinichi section have the
Russians been able to break into
German lines to a minor ex
tent and fighting continues. Great
numbers of tanks are being used.
Far-reaching Russian penetra
tions, which Moscow said ranged
up to 28 miles by last night, were
denied as “absolutely incorrect.’’
Transocean went further than
the German communique which
said the Russians “w'ere repelled
everywhere.’’ The Nazis asserted
.that they destroyed 530 tanks and
49 planes and made more gains in
the Belgorod area, 165 miles south
of Orel, and had encircled a strong
Russian tank group. Russian
counter-attacks near Belgorod
were said to be weakening.
The battle in the Kursk bulge
was by no means ended. The Ger
mans still were attacking bitter
ly on the southern end at Bel
gorod, but Russian dispatches
said the Red army was method
ically whittling down the lone
German gains.
RULING ON HOMES
EXPANDED IN AREA
Additional Categories Of
War Workers May Now
Occupy Units
Eligibility requirements for se
curing homes in war housing proj
ects here have recently been
broadened, by order of the Na
tional Housing authority, to include
additional categories of Wilming
ton war workers, Henry R. Emory,
executive director of the Housing
Authority of the City of Wilming
ton, said Friday.
The executive director also re
vealed that 18 homes in the new
est section of Maffitt Village had
been occupied, making a total of
4.256 war housing units, under the
control of the housing authority,
now occupied.
When Maffitt Village is complet
ed and occupied, 6.029 war indus
try families and individuals will
be living in government housing
here.
Under the new eligibility require
ments. Mr. Emory said, the fol
lowing persons may secure hous
ing either in a government project
or in apartments produced by the
homes conversion program of the
Wilmington War Housing center:
Employes of the Tide Water
Power company, Western Union,
Postal Telegraph, the city’s water
department, the Southern Bell
Telephone company and the Ethyl
Dow Chemical company: doctors,
dentists and nurses: and civilian
employes of the Army at Camp
Davis, Fort Fisher, the Wilming
ton Army Air base and the Wil
mington District U. S. Engineer
office.
Up until now, employes of the
North Carolina Shipbuilding com
pany have been the chief class
of war workers eligible for hous
ing.
In addition, Mr. Emory said,
applicants must be indispensable
to their jobs, must have come to
Wilmington recently, and must
have come to Wilmington to fill
a war job.
Applications for war housing are
made at the plant or industry
where the worker is employed,
Mr. Emory said, and as fast as
vacancies occur or new homes are
completed, employers are notified.
MUNDABLASTED
BY U. S. FLIERS
(Continued from Page One)
Above Australia on the Aroe is
lands, Hudson bombers started
large fires at the enemy seaplane
base of Taberfane.
The night raiders on Taberfane
were followed in daylight by
long range fighters who strafed
barges and villages in the area.
One enemy floatplane tried to in
tercept, was damaged, driven off
and its rear gunner was believed
killed.
The air raid on Munda, virtual
ly a daily performance in the
Solomons sector, exceeded in ex
tent even that of July 10 when over
100 American planes plastered the
air base defenses with 70 tons.
“Our (Avenger) torpedo and
(Dauntless) dive bombers in two
strikes in close support of our
ground forces dropped 82 tons of
high explosives and fragmentation
bombs on enemy positions in the
Munda area,” the communique
said.
To the north of New Georgia, Al
lied planes for the third straight
day struck at enemy shipping off
Vella Lavella island.
Four patrolling fighters strafed
and set an enemy barge afire in
Tambala bay.
After Allied attack planes over
the New Guinea jungle front raided
the enemy positions at Bobdubi, a
four-engined bomber flew over the
isthmus on which Salamaua is
located in the Huon gulf and start
ed three large fires with its bombs.
The menace to Salamaua has
been increased by the capture of
Japanese positions at Mubo, 12
miles below it.
-V
WAR PRODUCTION
WASHINGTON, July 16.—f/R—
The Commerce Department esti
mated today that 60 per cent of
all small manufacturing plants
are engaged in war production,
and said that 40 per cent of their
combined output represents war
material.
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