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Southeastern North Carolina ★ ★ ★ NEWS TIDBITS * * * BLADEN — BRUNSWICK — COLUMBUS_CRAVEN POPLIN - ONSLOW - PENDER - HOBESOH - SAMPSON rOREST fires SOUTHPORT, March 31. _ High winds, which seem to have arrived along with equal ly possible dry weather, are causing the Brunswick county forest fire prevention officials to be very much on the alert. During the past several weeks a number of small but damag ing fires have occurred. In joine instances the loss to tim ber would have been heavy but for the fact that the under growth was rather ramp. Should both winds and dryness come now County Forest Fire Warden Dorman Mercer is rather worried at what the ef fects may be. He is appealing for public cooperation in pre venting forest fires. receives discharge CLINTON, March 31. — pfc. Columbus Strickland, who serv ed in the armed forces for 23 months. has received his honor able discharge from the army. Strickland is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Strickland, Newton Grove. REPUBLICANS to meet SOUTHPORT, March 31. — Unless some of the would be candidates are dissatisfied and stage a contest, Brunswick county Republicans will not enter the primary election in May. Chairman F. L. Lewis arc Secretary Charles Trott of the Republican executive com-. mittee, have called a conven tion to meet at Supply on Tues day, April 9th, for the purpose of nominating the Republican candidates. treasury awards CLINTON, March 31. — J. L. Bcyette, chairman of the War Finance Committee for ' Samp son county and Mrs. O. J. Peterson, Women’s Division chairman, have received awards from the treasury department for services render ed during the war in connection with war finance work. Samp son county’s record in all the campaigns has been termed enviable. EARLY CORN SOUTHPORT, March 31. — Much early planted Brunswick county corn is already up and thriving. According to state ments a number of farmers will begin cultivating this crop during the present week. Truck crops and small grain continues to look exceptionally well. The acreage in small grain is g very large one and practically all of the acreage is also sown in lespedeza. SIX PEOPLE HURT IN HIGHWAY CRASH Collision Near New Bern Demolishes Two Ve hicles Saturday NEW BERN, March 31.—Six persons were injured at midnight Saturday night when two cars were almost demolished in a head on collision on the Morehead City highway a few miles south of New Bern. All received hospital attention, but their injuries were not con sidered serious and they have been permitted to return to their homes. Sgt. T. B. Brown and F. W. Hines of the State Highway patrol are investigating the accident. Wesley Conkling, Jr., of Jackson ville, who was in Naval service during the war, was driving one car. With him were Naomi Conk ling of J/acksonville and Margaret Burkhart of New Bern. Driving the other automobile was Roy B. Evans of Bridgeton. Other occupants were Francis J. 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Offer limited. Send st once. All druggists sell Swamp Root. • What of the future of Aviation? ® What of its past? KINGOFF’S JloncjinaS - Wittnauet ■fiyancy directs your attention to an outstanding series of radio dramas for the answer to these questions. "Over" THE ROOF OF THE WORLD” Listen to the toe-tingling re-creation of the brave efforts of Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth to link the old world with the new by blazing a trail over the short but danger-studded North Polar route. 'Tka Wotld s Most ijonotad Watch PRESENTS "The IVodd’i Mo it 4jonot*d FLIGHTS WITH CAPT. EDDIE RICKENBACKER Host and Commentator WMFD Tonight 7:30 P. M. ★ ★ ★ Authorized Agency For Longines-Wittnauer Watches 10 NORTH FRONT ST. If It’s From Kingoffs It’s Guaranteed JAPANESE FORCED ESCAPE PLEDGES American Officer Tells Court Men Were Lined Up Before Firing Squad YOKOHAMA, March 31.—(JP)— Naval Capt, Samuel S. Newman told a War Crimes commission Sat urday that he and other prisoners of war were forced by tha Japa nese to sign a pledge not to try to escape. He said they signed only after they were lined up before a firing squad, to which ammunition was issued. The statement they signed stipu lated that if attempting to escape they would lose all rights as pri soners of war and be subject to any treatment the camp command er saw fit, Newman testified. He said he told the men to sign on the theory that it would mean nothing. Newman, from Pittsburgh, re turned to Japan from the United States to describe three and one half years as a prisoner. Eight Japanese * are being tried on charges of killing, beating and torturing prisoners and misappro priating Red Cross supplies ,at the Kawasaki prison camp. “SHORTIE” COATS MAY COME ALONG ■ Civilian Production Admin istration Does Unwilling About Face On Item WASHINGTON, March 31.—fU.R) —The ladies may get their “s!»ort ie” coats for spring after all be cause the Civilian Production Ad ministration may do an unwilling about face. When CPA discovered that some manufacturers were violating its style order by illegally shortening spring coats — and thus saving many dollars in the fabric costs— the agency was* both shocked and incensed and put out an edict. It ruled that stores must cease selling such coats immediately and that the manufacturers must get on the right track—with coats at least 33 inches long—before the garments could be sold. A great feminine moan went up from coast to coast. There was Easter Sunday, national sartorial parade day, only a few weeks away, and the gals had their spring coats literally yanked off their backs. Ironically, the Office of Price Administration which speaks most authoritatively when its regula tions are flaunted, wasn’t parti cularly disturbed this time because it has never defined a coat by inches and there were no unseem ly bursts through the price ceil ings. The CPA got busy and discov ered, much to its consternation, that the length violation was so widespread that nearly all spring coats are abbreviated. HOUSE OF BISHOPS TO MEET IN STATE North Carolina Gets 1947 Meeting For First Time In History Of Church WINSTON-SALEM, March 31.— (IP)—Selection of the St. Paul’s Epis copal church here as the site of the 1947 meeting of the denomination's House of Bishops has been confirm ed by the Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker of New York, pre siding bishop of the church. The meeting, which will continue five days, will be held next Jan uary at dates to be determined. In addition to the 150 American bishops, delegates will attend from Canada, England, India, China, Japan and other foreign countries. The Rev. James S. Cox, rector of St. Paul’s church, said it would be the first time in the American Episcopal church’s history that its House of Bishops has met in North Carolina. Screaming Women Rout Man Attempting Robbery WASHINGTON, March 31.—(JP)— The holdup man who picked out the Silverman Dry goods store Sat urday night didn’t reckon with Mrs. Lillian Silverman’s sewing circle meeting in a rear room. Mrs. Silverman stepped into the store, found her 14-year-old daugh ter, Elaine, confronted by an arm ed intruder, and promptly went into action with a chair. A dozen circle members rushed in and start ed screaming. The robber went away—fast. First 1946 Typhoon Nears Philippine Island Group MANILA, March 31.— (A1) —The Weather Bureau reported Sunday that the season’s first typhoon was more than 100 miles west of Guam and moving toward the Philippines with undiminished intensity. The Bureau said it was likely that the storm would veer north west, possibly missing the Philip pines, but the U. S. Army and Na vy planned to send out observa tion planes, and American-bound aircraft were grounded /o JSIDE DRAMA AT KILLING PROBE THIS DRAMATIC BEDSIDE SCENE shows weeping Mrs. Goldie White leav ing the bedside of her former husband, John J. Coston, suspected of slaying her naval officer husband, Lt Marvin L. White. Coston, wounded at the time of the shooting, turns his head away from his ! questioners in a San Francisco hospital. The other woman in the pic ture is Mrs. Barrett L. Senti, witness in the case. (International) Zany Zoologist Plays April Fool Joke On Army CHICAGO, March 30. —(U.R)— R. Marlin Perkins, director of the Lincoln Park zoo, was in exceptionally good humor Sun day to handle pranksters’ April fool day calls to the zoo. For years the zoo has as signed extra girls on April 1 to take telephone calls for “Mr. Fox,’ ‘Mr. Lion,’ or ‘Mr. Wolf.’ Perkins assigned girls this year. But he was lighthearted about it. He had good reason to be: Last Thursday the downtown headquarters of the Army re cruiting service received a postcard from a “Joe Busky xann.’’ The card said the writer would be 18 Monday and pre ferred enlistment to being drafted. “I’m awfully sorry,” the card said, “but I can’t come in per son to your office. I'll be home between nine and ten Sunday morning and would like to know what you can do for me. The address is 2210 North Inner Drive. The Army, not missing any enlistment bets these days, as signed Sergeant Donald M. Barnes, although the office is closed Sunday, Barnes, whose hame is in Aurora, 111., isn’t too familiar with Chicago’s northside, but he started out. He became suspicious when he found the 2200 block was in Lincoln’s Park. He had to make sure. His fears were con firmed in Perkins’ office. “April first, you know,” Per kins said. “Somebody has been fooling you about our gorilla, Bushman. He really is 18 to day. Come take a look at him. At the cage of the six-foot, 550-pound Bushman, Perkins pulled a telegram from his pocket. It was signed, "Susie, Cincinnati zoo.” Susie is a female gorilla, an old girl friend of Bushman. Barnes had his answer then. “You sent us the card!” he accused Perkins. “That’s one on us.” “Yep” Perkins confessed “And if I do say so myself it was a pretty good joke. Isn’t April fool’s day a wonder^l idea. I feel marvelous!” Sergeant Barnes showed the Army can take it. He marked his interview card: “Rejected: overweight.” TAXES ON LIQUOR TAKE HUGE JUMP February 1946 Revenue Receipts Show $116,808, 975 Gain Over 1945 WASHINGTON, March 31.—(fP)— February at peace brought much higher federal income from drink ing, smoking and card playing. Americans paid a lot more taxes to Uncle Sam on jewelry, toilet goods, travel tickets and club dues than they did the same month a year ago when the war was on. Sharply higher went the trea sury’s take on admission tickets, radio sets, refrigerators, phono graph records, musical instru ments, automobiles and camera apparatus. Huge Increase Altogether, a treasury report Sunday showed, the Bureau of In ternal Revenue realized $4,102, 126,414 for the month, topping the previous February by $116,808,975. Retailers’ excise taxes, at $71, 775,619, went $14,280,770 higher with the increases apportioned as: jewelry, $8,816,016; furs, $1,741,663; toilet preparations (perfumes, etc) $2,330,874, and luggage, $1,392,215. Club Dues Up Admissions to mgnt clans, theaters and concerts brought in $31,466,372 in Federal taxes, a gain of $5,167,960, and club dues and fees $1,671,117, a gain of $327,219. Taxes on coin-operated devices yielded $301,915, an increase of $69,689, and those on pool tables and bowling alleys drew $54,063, a gain of $9,811. The take from taxes on playing cards was $790,796, compared with $540,184. Liquor Take Jumps Levies of all kinds on liquor, wines and beer brought the govern ment $201,021,315, a gain of $15, 427,175. Cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products yielded a total take of $89,495,941, including floor taxes, an upswing of $23, 449,280. Individual income taxes also went higher, mounting to $991,483, 888, a gain of $156,489,510, and all income, excess-profits and unjust enrichment levies yielded $3,206, 274,282, an advance of $48,320,212. One Decline In contrast, employment taxes of all kinds dropped off, going to $299,139,747, a fall-off of $317,411, 701. ROSS DIES BOISE, Idaho, March_ 31—(IP)— C. Ben Ross, 69-year-old ex-Gov ernor of Idaho, who served three terms, died Sunday in a Boise hos pital. Occupation Forces Carry On Like True Americans WASHINGTON, March 31.'-(#)— Secretary of War Patterson said Sunday that American soldiers are carrying out their occupation tasks in Germany and Japan “with skill and dignity.” In an address prepared for broadcast over NBC he said the soldier at home and abroad had earned American respect and af fection and deserved unstinted loyalty and support. The War Secretary in a plea for recruits reported men are volun teering “by the thousands" for oc cupation duty but t*at more are needed. EX-JAPSRETURN HOME WITH HONOR Nineteen Men Given Letters For Work With Amer ican Army Forces LEGASPI, P. I., March 31.—(JP)— Some day soon 19 former members of the Japanese Army are going home with the distinction of being honorary GI’s. They have letters from an American general saying so. wnen tne American xoatn regi mental combat team landed on Noemfoor island off New Guinea in July, 1944, the group of 19 un derfed, overworked Formosan members of a Japanese Army la bor battalion surrendered. Their spokesman, Ko Sei Kei, who was promptly nicknamed “Smiley,” told Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider, “we don’t like Japanese. We like Americans and want to work for you.” The general gave them their chance, and in American jungle green garb and GI boots they land ed on Luzon on D-Day and parti cipated in some of the roughest bushwhacking battles of the Philip pines campaign, ending up on the Bicol Peninsula at the southwest ern tip of Luzon. Pearl Harbor Committee To Resume Investigation WASHINGTON, March 31.—C^P)— Hearings by a joint Congressional investigating committee on the Pearl Harbor catastrophe will re open next Thursday. Witnesses will include Gen. George C. Marshall and Admiral Harold R. Stark, res pectively Army chief of staff and Navy chief of operations in 1941. i SENATORS START ! ANTI-VETO MOVE Republicans, Southern Democrats Plan To Use Price Bill To Get Parity WASHINGTON, March 31—m— A powerful movement was report ed under way in the Senate Sun day to use the price control exten sion bill as a vehicle for a revised farm parity formula if President Truman vetoes the minimum wage bill to which it currently is attach ed. Farm State Senators, including midwestern Republicans as well as Southern Democrats, are deter mined not to lose the advantage they gained Friday in rolling up a 43 to 31 majority for the parity proposal. They accomplished this ih spite of the President’s an nouncement that he would be “compelled” to veto the wage bill if it came to him carrying the parity rider. Twice in House The parity change, which in volves figuring in the cost of farm labor, has been approved twice by the House ia the form of separate legislation. It never had won in the Senate until last Friday’s vote. A Southern Sena‘or who helped plan the strategy which led to adnntinn nf the amendment said he regarded the roll call on that vote as a virtual guarantee that the parity proposal can be written into the price control extension legislation, if that is what it takes to make it law. He regards the OPA measure as practically veto proof. Enough Votes Even if three or four Senators should reverse their stand', he claimed that several who were absent Friday would support parity revision. Stabilization Administrator Ches ter Bowles completed the adminis tration’s case for the OPA exten sion before the House Banking committee Saturday with argu ments that failure to give OPA a new lease on life after June 30 would create fear and make it im possible to block inflation. The committee will start writing a bill inclosfed session this week with indications that curbs will be put on OPA. Hard Fight Mr. Truman’s decision to use his veto power against the farm price rider, even if he has to h!t the wage bill too, underscored the hard fight the administration waged against it. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson, Bowles and Price Administrator Paul Porter have declared it would be infla tionary. Bowles contended it would add $125 a year to the average [family’s grocery bill. Kindness Pays Off mmmm WHILE James Kilpatrick, 26, of Glendale, Cal., was serving over seas he shared part of his GI ra tions with an old French lady. His solicitude so impressed Madame Jeanne Marchal, 83, of Baccarat, France, whose seven sons were killed by the Nazis, that she willed Kilpatrick $50,000 before her death two months ago. The ex-service man is pictured after receiving the good news. (International) i PRESIDENT TRUMAN RETURNS ON SUNDAY FROM RIVER CRUISE WASHINGTON, March 31—(#)— President Truman returned short ly after noon Sunday from his week end cruise on the Potomac. The White House said there were no overnight guests on the Presi dential yacht Williamsburg. Mr. Truman caught up on his official reading after Senators and others came ashore Saturday. The party sailed Friday afternoon. There was no appointment, the White House press office said, for Mr. Truman to see Secretary of State Byrnes here over the week end from the United Nations meet ing in New York. However, if one should decide he wants to see the other, there is only a narrow street between their offices. Capt. Bill McCurdy, 1937 Stan ford track team captain, is sta ioned at Camp Lee, Va. PHILADELPHIA BOY BACK WITH FOLKS Refuses To Disclose Where He Has Been During 4 Days Of Absence PHILADELPHIA. March 31—(IP) -Three-year-old Mayer Trobman rejoined his deeply grateful par ;nts, Sunday, ending four days of snguished waiting. Little Mayer disappeared from :he steps in front of his home last Wednesday but was found at At :ica, N. Y., two days iater. To all questions from his par* ;nts, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Trob* man, the blue-eyed boy merely said: ‘T’ve been away." Deep Mystery What happened between the time , he disappeared and when he was found remained a mystery—at least so far as what the little boy ,’ was able to say. Emilia Regina Sobka, 23-year* old parolee from the State Refor* matory for women at Clinton, N. J., was brought with the child t® Philadelphia for questioning aftef her arrest by Attica police. Charges Dropped auc . o. ctiiuiiif.V ai cuuaio } first filed charges of kidnaping against the woman but later with drew the charges. A Philadelphia police official | who declined use of his name said the woman would be charged with , violation of the Pennsylvania kid naping laws. , Denies Crime Miss Sobka denied abducting the j boy. She said she was in a truck | whose driver gave her a lift "some< where north of Philadelphia.” A hundred relatives and friend* of the boy greeted the party, pre- ' ceded by a police escort, when it arrived here. At City hall, the boy’s parents and two older broth-" 1 ers were waiting. The joyous reunion was eon-t tinued at the Trobman home, i where Mayer and scores of neigh-i i bors were treated to * chicken dinner. 1 tip to Police i Mayer's mother said again she did not wish to press charges against Miss Sobka. ‘T leave it all in the hands of the police,” she said. Detective Lt. Bart Gorman said the woman will be questioned be-" fore being formally slated. i ! RELIABLE ' !1 ; Watch Repairing :: B. C* R* Jeweler :: 264 N. 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