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The Daily Times from Salisbury, Maryland • 2

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The Daily Timesi
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T1TE SALISBURY TTME3. SALISBURY, MP- WEDNESDAY. JUNE 5. 1940 PAGE TWO eluded: U. S.

Steel, Bethlehem, National Steel, General Motors, TO SEEK CHANGE IN SCHOOL BUS ROUTES' As Dunkirk Rescue Fleet Dashed Into Smoke of Battle GIL FIRM ACQUIRES MILL PROPERY HERE FOR STORAGE TANKS AAA' ID IK IE IT D3EIPDIRTS Chrysler, Sears Roebuck, Caterpillar, Douglas, United Aircraft, Margin, Owens-Illinois, Eastman, DuPont, Westinghouse, American Smelting, Kennecott, American Woolen, International Paper and Union Pacific. If was noted that the movement in steels, metals and wools was exactly opposite to earnings reports and short-range prospect, indicating the market's complete absorption in the European struggle. Bonds and commodities fell off, with rubber and hides among the hardest hit. Sterling was quoted at 3.18, Transfer of the D. 3.

Elliott Mill property on Lake Street to the Eastern Shora Oil Company was completed today in one of the largest recent deals in Sslisbury. The property has a 400-foot frontage on Lake Street and the Wicomico v. a and a depth of 300 feet. DIAL EXCHANGE FOR WEST SIDE TOWNS TO OPEN THIS MONTH Erection of three oil storsge tanks on the property with a capacity of 1,500,000 gallons will make it the largest oil terminal between Wilmington and Norfolk. Willard I.

Donohoe and Harry D. Peters, trading as the Eastern Shore Oil Company, contemplate an ultimate increase in the capacity to more than 3,000,000 gallons, Some of the mill buildings will be converted into a modern storage plant and an office and warehouse will be erected. The company operates a fleet of transport trucks. S. Denmead Kolb was broker in the transaction.

tlcean City, Jane 5 Transportation of all school children living in' the Tenth Election District of Worcester County to the Ocean City High and Elementary Schools is being urged by the Ocean CitySf Parent-Teacher Association. At present, many school children living across the bay on the Worcester mainland and on Sinepux-t-ent Neck, within the Tenth District, are being transported by" school bus to the Berlin schools, six miles distant. The Ocean City Association has appointed a Committee of Six to bend every effort to have the bus system changed by the Worcester County Board of Educaton before the public 4rkools reopen next Fall. Those on the Committee are: Daniel Trimper, III; Lester F. Esham, Cecil Blake, Mrs.

James Jones, Mrs. James Kelly and Mrs. W. Preston Laws. Members of the P.T.A.

Commit- tee yesterday deplored the present trend toward consolidation of northern. Worcester County rural schools with the Berlin High and Elementary schools. They claim- ed that both Berlin schools were already overcrowded with students. The Tenth Election District, known as Ocean City District, ex- tends from the Glen Riddle Farms, 3 miles east of Berlin, eastward to the Atlantic Ocean, including all of 8inepuxent Neck area and the town of Ocean City. Bus routes to the Berlin schools now cover almost the entire district.

Baltimore, June 5 (AP) Produce: Apples: Steady, and W. Va. 1 16 u. bcxes U. S.

Is 2 inch minimum Delicious, Winesaps 11.90-2.26; Ben Davis Bo. baskets U. S. Is 2V4 inch minimum Delicious Romes Ganos Winesaps Various varieties U. S.

Is 2 '4 inch minimnm U. S. commercials and unclassified, Potatoes: (Old) Steady. Rail: Maine 100 ib. sacks Mountains U.

best few higher; poorer 100 lb. sacks Katahdins U. S. Is (New) Slightly weaker. Truck; S.

C. 100 lb sacks Cobblers U. S. Is 2.00-35c; Ga. Bliss Triumphs U.

S. Is few higher; N. C. 100 lb. sacks cobblers U.

S. 2s 10-40c; Rail: FJa. 100 lb sacks Katahdins U. S. Is washed S.

100 Ib sacks cobblers U. S. Is Bliss Triumphs U. S. Is Sweet Potatoes: Dull.

N. C. bu. baskets Puerto Ricans and Nancy Halls U. 8.

Is ungraded 75-90c. Eastern Shore Md. bu. baskets Goldens U. S.

Is few higher; ungraded Nancy Halls U. ungraded 75-80c; white Yams U. S. Is ungraded 60-75c. Poultry: About steady.

Chickens: Rocks 22-26c; crosses 21-24c; mixed colors 22-24c; Leghorns 2V lbs. and up 20c, smaller 18-19c. Fowl: Rocks 17-19e; mixed colors i5-18c; Leghorns 13-15c. Roosters: mixed colors 10-12c; Leghorns 7-10c. Ducks: young Pekins 5 lbs and over 15-16e.

Philadelphia. Jane 5 (AP) Eggs: Weak 5,903 cases. Extras whites, 19-20ic; U. S. Standards, numbers 1 and 2, 18s-18c; U.

S. standards, numbers 3 and 4, 17-1 8c; trades 16-16c; mediums, extras or better, whites, 16H-18c; mediums, standards 15-16 ATTENDANCE HONORS A new dial system will be placed in service during the latter part of June for subscribers in the Bivalve-Nanticoke Tyaskin communities, according to 11. T. Witmyer, local manager of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, The new system will serve approximately 100 telephones, and will be operated as the Nanticoke central offce. The new dial office will be similar to others on the shore and will be located in a new, attractive building situated at Bivalve.

The structure has been especially designed and constructed to accomodate the new equipment. Progress is now being made in installing equipment in the new GIVEN SUSSEX PUPILS! Vnder ceaseless bombardment nf Orman plane and artillery, Dunkirk, French channel port from which trapped Allied farces made their historic escape, lies blazing under an awesome mountain of smoke. Some of the intrepid rescue fleet, from one of whose snips Una picture was taken, can be seen steaming into the inferno. Laurel, June 5 Mrs. H.

Bertrude Lewis, visiting teacher for the Western Sussex County, reports that 210 pupils have been BRITISH CHEERED BY FIGHT TO THE swarded certificates for perfect attendance covering a period of three or more years; and 018 pupils received awards for perfect attendance of from one to three years. HITLER LAUNCHES TOTAL ATTACK 1 AGAINST FRANCE building at a cost of approximately $8000.00 and new telephone instruments are beinir placed on the premises of the telephone subscribers. The following pupils received 8 LEGION TO HONOR rnrtn nnf vvz (Continued from Page 1) Prior to actual conversion to dial each subscribed will receive person al instruction in the operation of the new system. The new system is being provid emy border fortifications south of Namur and thereby create a precondition for destruction of the French and English armies north of the Aisne snd Somme" rivers, the High Command said. "At the same time," it added, "Holland was to be occupied swiftly and thereby eliminated as a base for a planned English operation' by land and in the air on the north flank of the German army." Removal of Allied troops from the German trap In Flanders, ssid the communique, "was not a heroic retreat of the English army as the English propaganda seeks to present it, but one of the greatest catastrophes in history." "The great battle of Flanders and Artois is ended," said the High Command.

"It will go down in war history as the greatest destructive battle of all times." ed at no additional cost to the subscribers, although the number of parties on any line will be reduced in many cases. All telephone num year certificates: Burdette Johnson, Greenwood; Esther L. Brown, Geraldine White and Clarabelle Figgs, Delmar. The ones receiv-ing 9-year certificates were: William Adkins, Robert Adkins, and Sebastian Trigilia of Delmar, and Clarence Robert of Seaford colored school. Ten-year certificates were awarded to Blanch Dukes of Laurel, Robert Hayman of Delmar, and Richard Higgins of Seaford.

Catherine Beauchamp and Rosalie Selby of Delmar, and James Griffith of Seaford were awarded 11-year certificates; and Charles Allen, of Laurel, was the only pupil in western Sussex to get a 12-year perfect attendance The new drive earns without a pauss after the final cleaning up of the Flanders battlefield, and became the next step in what the Army High Command said in a long statement lata last night would ultimately be the "complete destruction" of the Allies. Spirits were buoyant and morale high as the German army resolutely faced its next assignment. The general expectation was that it would be to deliver at the heart of francs another smash such as that in Flanders, described jubilantly by the High Command as "one of the greatest victories of world history." In a special announcement from Fuehrer Hitler's headquarters at the front, to which the entire nation was advised to listen by radio, the High Command last night presented its summarised version of what has happened since May 10, when the German army launched its drive through th lowlands and France, The "strategic goal" of this drive "as given by the Fuehrer" was ta "force a break-through in the sn- Berlin, June 5 Two inscribed bronze plaques, costing $50 each, denoting the establishment of A-merican Legion Citizenship awards to one boy and one girl student annually, have been placed in Buckingham High School at Berlin and in the Ocean City High School, by the Boggs-Disharoon Post No. 123, American Legion of Berlin. First winners of the citizenship awards, whose names have already bers will be changed coincident with the conversion and they will appear Live Poultry: Fowls, fancy Ply in the new telephone directory scheduled for delivery at the end of June.

(Continued from Page i) rith which the German people frea now on, will again accompany their sons." lie told the army: "The plutocratic rulers of England and France, who pledged each other to avoid with all means bloom of a wt and better world, want a continuation of the war. Their desire shall be realised." Hitler said "many new divisions" were assisting in the new onslaught. In looking for a drive on Paris, informed Germans discounted as of no value, the statement of General Maxime Weygand, the Allied Generalissimo, of French determination to stave off an advance in the Aiane-Somme sector from trench lines. been inscribed on the bronze plaques BERLIN CHURCH ELECTS DEACONS and who won 1940 honors are: Miss Mary Lee Ruark and Her bert Ranoport, of Ocean City High School. FARM woman is INJURED IN MISHAP REV.

COLLINS GIVEN RECEPTION BY CHARGE is intended to assure the United States that Britain never would surrender her fleet so long ss the Empire held together. Both the press and the public showed increasing interest' in the United States' attitude. Some quarters suggested that the United States could give the Allies valuable aid by helping to rearm the B. E. F.

All commentators agreed that Britain's immediate task was to speed up arms production to make up the loss of some 1,000 guns, the transport and armored vehicles in the withdrswal of 335,000 British and French troops from Dunker-que. The press voiced approval of the fighting spirit of Churchill's speech to Commons yesterday and the frankness of his announcement of personnel losses 30,000 killed, wounded and missing. From Socialist and Liberal quarters came the suggestion that the House of Commons in a secret session, next Tuesday would resort to plain talk about who was responsible for the inferiority of B. E. F.

equipment against the Nasi military machine. Former Prime Minister Chamberlain, who still is a member of the War Cabinet, was expected to be called upon to defend the measures taken while he directed the Empire's war efforts. Miss Norma L. Tarr and John W. Carter, of Buckingham High School, at Berlin.

Medals were given Miss Ruai and Mr. Ranoport at the Ocean aty High School commencement held last Monday night. The two Berlin winners will receive merlais Seaford. June 5 -While working on a hay rake in the fields near her homo in Keal's District, mouth Rocks, 17-19c; mixed colors 18-17c; Leghorns fancy 14-16c; ordinary 14-15c; old roosters 10-1 3c; roasting chickens, Plymouth Rocks 26-27c springers, Plymouth Rocks turkeys, hens, 15-16c; gobblers, 13-15c. Dreaeed Poultry: Fowls, fresh killed 17-20C iced chickens 22-31c; lb.

roosters 1315c. New York, June (AP) Eggs: 33,051 cases: weak. Mixed colors to extra fancy, extras 17s-17e; firsts, l4-16e; mediums, 14-144c; dirties, No. 1 144c; average checks, Wi-flSSc. Whites resale of premium marks, 22-24 'sc.

Nearby and mid-Western premium marks, 20-21 He; specials, 19Hc; standards, 17-174c; resale of exchange to fancy heavier mediums, 17c; nearby and mid-Western mediums, 17c. Browns nearby fancy to extra fancy, 20-21 neargy and mid-Western specials. 19 He; standards, 16i-17c; mediums, 16HC. Duck eggs, 17-1 9c. Live Poultry: weak.

By freight. It 'tcHisii i 1 I near here, yesterday, Mrs. j-aui Messick received a broken ankle at the Buckingham High beliwl Berlin, une 5 Four new elders and five new deacons all elected by secret vote have been installed and ordained by Rev. William F. Logan, Jr.

pastor of Buckingham Presbyterian Church here. Deacons Were elected for the first time by the Church. New Elders are: Covington D. Powell," William S. Hudson, Delos A.

Cutripht, J. E. Shockley. Incumbent ciders in addition include Horace Davis, John W. Humphreys, Ernest E.

Burbage. and Robert J. Massey. New Deacons are: W. Earl Tim-mons.

Roland P. Trader, Ralph Davis, C. Vincent Holland and John Calvin Taylor. Commencement tonight. when she was thrown from the vehicle when the team ran away.

TODAY and THURS. Her First Role Since In recognition of the beginning of his second conference year as the pastor for the South Salisbury Methodist Charge, a reception was held at the St. Andrews Church last nitrht in honor of the Rev. W. Irvin Collins.

The program was presented by departments of the church school. The Washington Church at Shad Point is the other church in the charge. A highlight of the evening was an old-fashioned pounding in honor of the pastor. CAB? Members of her family ran to her aid and she was taken to her home and later moved to Peninsula General Hospital, Salisbury. 4JS CALL "GONE WITH THE WIND" A Sensational New Hit Don't Miss It! A Duffy tab Is Always At Your Command.

We Have 13. i it 1 sCL fowls, colored. 17c; Leghorns, 15- TONIGHT Turns. 2 FEATURES lftc. Ducks, 10c.

By express, broilers. Rocks, 25-2 (V; crosses. TOLL OF WAR IN FLANDERS 22'-24c; Reds 22c; Leghorns, lanre 20c; small 16-17c. Fowls, colored. 7 X.

M. Continued from Page 1 Wwssm 17-17e: Leghorns, 164c; Southern, 15-16c. Pullets, Rocks, 30c; Reds. C9c. Old roosters, 12c.

Turkeys, hens 164e; old and young boms mixed, 11c. Ducks, 10c. UiY MOM'S A WFUL SMAsZJ 1 ttSSff ya Ripley, "Royal SHE ALWAYS BUYS iCTVt Crow? won 4T i II I Is out of 10 certified tj jk tl- after-school appe- JLj YV e'p TT1'''' tiff Crown Cola on ice! X-J4 eUf1 KST IT TASTE-TEST Vsl Ml i I fit I JL-Ji-SvzriM'-' i nine other commercial ers, three submarines, war vessels and 68 FRI. SAT. Gala Stage Frojrnim New York.

Jane 5 (AP) Depressed by developments of the SUM GAII.LAKD AND HIS FLAT FOOT FLOOGEE BOYS Err ships and transports. Allied vessels "damaged and partly destroyed" by bombs ten cruisers. 24 destroyers, three torpedo boats, 22 other war vessels JACKIE COOPER-BETTY FIELD and 117 commercial ships and trans battle in northern France, traders sold stocks off by as much as three points today. Transactions were hesitant toward the final hour and were at a rate of only about 700,000 shares for the full session. Leaders of the down turn m- Stars Radio and Screen THE FIVE CABIN KIDS Juvenile Favorite the Airwaves A ports.

Allied ships sunk by German "light ses forces" is destroyers, two submarines, one transport, one auxiliary cruiser and "one other warship." Germans killed from Msy 10 to June 1052 officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers. Germans missing 8,643. Germans wounded 42,523 officers and men. German airplanes lost 432. 1 mz mi OX THE SCREEN JOHN ANN PAT GARFIELD SHERIDAN O'BRIEN CASTLE ON THE HUDSON Rill 1 Johnson Co.

VNtftA. tMRICTOft to Sahthtrg Since 77 Ts'sse a XEHI BOTTLING CO. OF SALISBURY, INC. Snow Hill Road Telephone 1038 Salisbury, Md. BY V.

T. HAMLIN ALLEY OOP EXDSTOMTE! V. Bruce l. Morgan "FLIGHT ANGELS" P. M.

Lorraine Day MUSIC JAWBONE "And One Was Beautiful" NOW MAT1NEE.SAT. THl'RS. FRI. SAT. Matinee Thurt.

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