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OPM CLAMPS DOWN ON TWOMATFR1ALS Vanadium And Chlorinated products Made Subject To Complete Allocation WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—MP)—The 0PM clamped down today on the pee of vanadium and chlorinated products, subjecting them to allo cation ontrol. Heneefo'th, Donald M. Nelson, priorities director, will make monthly allotments to manufac ture]- from available supplies of vanadium. The metal is used in manufacture of steel for machine tools, special casting, armor plate, and alloy iron. A similar program with respect to chlorinated products will be put into effect Feb. 1. During the day, the Office of Price Administration issued a new price schedule on acetone, butanol, and ethyl alcohol, basic industrial chemicals. The new levels, effective Janu ary l, put a maximum of 15.8 cents a pound on acetone compared with the original ceiling of 7 cents; the butanol ceiling, formerly 10 3-4 cents a pound was raised to 15.8 cents; and the ethyl alcohol maxi mum was increased from 24 1-2 cents a gallon for the basic for mula to 50 cents. Price Administrator Leon Hen derson also announced that ceiling prices would be established on all types and grades of leather at levels prevailing between Novem ber 0 and December 6. A conference of representatives of the machine tool industry here on January 7 was called by the OPA to discuss details of a pro jected price ceiling on new ma chine tools. -V Malta Sends Message To Men At Hongkong NEW YORK, Dec. 20.— <5>) —The hard hit British Mediterranean is land fortress of Malta, which went through its 106th airraid today, took time cut to send a message of en couragement to its beleagured broth er fighters in Hongkong, the British radio said tonight. The message signed by Sir Wil liam Dobey, governor of Malta, read: ''In the name of the people of Ma ta I send the warmest greetings and sympathy. ‘ Our hearts are with you in your gallant defense against the Japanese attacks.” CBS heard the broadcast. -V A new steel frame, canvas-cov ered hangar has recently been an nounced which appears' to be a satisfactory solution to the storage problem for private planes. ARMY MEETS AN EMERGE NCY WITH COLORS FLYING ------. Ah%c,ty of Fayettevllle' N- C" was fntert aining 20,000 soldiers from nearby Fort Bragg in a JJSSSSK V,aJ program* a«» emergency arose when a baby became separate from its nurse in the throng. ^rt fht t[!ese brawny mili^ry policemen took cha rge of the situation. Private Vincent O’Bara is holding Carl tfoHhi fF*yett'ffl ' VaUSh" ,S temP°rary cus todian of the bottle. The baby later was identified as F.D.R. CONSIDERING CREATION OF COUNCIL (Continued from Page One) indications that Willkie would be given a prominent place in the defense effort. Willkie lunched with President Roosevelt last Monday, and at that time there was wide spread speculation that he would be appointed moderator of the new industry-labor conference. That position was not tendered, however, ’and subsequently there were general reports that Mr. Roosevelt had a more important position in mind for his 1940 op ponent. There have been repeated re ports that Leahy would be called back to this country to take a more active part in the war effort. Wallace naturally would be ap pointed to any war council, it was said, first, because of his position as vice president, and, second, be. cause of the President’s confidence in his ability to work out economic and sociological problems. Whether Murray might be given such a post, informants declared, probably would depend upon whether the Chief Executive felt Most Everybody Trades at the Jewel Box | T^vci / 11 I;.| fc—^ V^^TRakeT Christmas Dollars Go Timber h„ not Taster! js PAY NEXT YEAi Easy Weekly or Sem i- * Monthly Terms to Suit your Convenience 17-JEWEL i movement ■ 17-JEWEL* MOVEMENT .»l3fei 15-JEWEL ! MOVEMENT I L *4 *HK |( 19-JEWEL ; MOVEMENT iHjsa wC£h f. -tk LT ■ ' OPEN AN ACCOUNT it advisable to have a labor repre sentative on that type of council. Informants said the general idea was that the war council would have power to work out differ ences between various depart ments and agencies, would per form “special tasks” which would not fall directly under the jurisdic tion of any one department, and would relieve the President of many Questions of policy which he now must handle. As an example of how the coun cil might work, one informant told reporters that if the President was dissatisfied with coordination be tween the Army and Navy he might delegate one member of the supreme group to give any “di rect action” orders necessary to bring about harmony. Along with the supreme war council idea, the President was said to be considering an arrange ment for unifying military com mands by geographical regions. This would involve placing a sin gle commander in charge of all allied forces in a single area. 2 -V I.A.F. DOWNS FOUR JAPANESE PLANES (Continued from Page One) encountered ten Japanese planes detailed to raid Kunming, impor tant terminal, on the Burma road, and shot four of them out of Yun nan province skies without a loss to themselves. At the same time Chinese Army headquarters announced its forces operating at the heels of the Japa nese attacking Hongkong had pene trated to Shumchun on the Canton Kowloon railway right at the main land frontier of Hongkong colony. Apparently the thrust was only a raid, for the Chinese said heavy fighting subsequently developed about 10 miles northeast of Shum chun after the Shumchun railway station and Japanese defense works had been blown up and de stroyed. However, the attack had the re sult of forcing the Japanese to divert some of their forces from the attack on the hard-pressed de fenders of Hongkong to defend their rear, the Chinese said. Present area of the fighting, as described in Chinese dispatches, would be in the neighborhood of Pinghsan where the Chinese have been reported active previously. Details of the first action of the International Air Force were not available here. Long in procesS of organization, its strength and equipment are se cret. _ 2 WEATHER (Continued from Page One) WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.— (A1) — Wither Bureau records of temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m., in the principal cotton grow ing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Alpena —_ 18 14 Asheville -- 56 42 Atlanta - 64 41 Atlantic City -—-- 46 32 Birmingham -—-- 67 33 ' Boston - 43 19 Buffalo - 29 16 Burlington _ 16 06 Chicago -- 39 29 Cincinnati —- 50 Cleveland _ 32 27 Denver--— 65 31 Detroit_ 28 22 Duluth---n- 23 0.i El Paso- 66 37. Fort Worth- 63 39 Galveston - 70 56 Havre _ 62 • 35 Jacksonville_ 69 46 Kansas City - 67 42 Key West- 72 68 Little Hock_ 67 35 'Los Angeles - 65 50 Louisville - 55 30 Memphis - 70 34 Meridian - 66 44 Miami_ 75 65 Minn.-St. Paul- 33 21 Mobile _ 70 54 New Orleans- 70 53 New York _ 44 28 Norfolk _ 58 42 Pittsburgh_ 33 28 Portland, Ore._ 50 44 Portland. Me. —_ 30 11 Richmond _ 57 40 St. Louis___ 66 34 San Antonio_ 72 57 San Francisco_ 53 50 Savannah_ 71 49 Tampa _ 73 57 Vicksburg --- 69 35 Washington _ 45 36 Wilmington- 64 47 EMPTY STOCKING NEARING CLOSE (Continued from Page One) will know none of the joy and hap piness experienced each Christmas for 1941 years. It will mean these children will awake next Thursday morning to find their stockings empty — the most tragic and heartbreaking ex perience that could befall any child. You don’t want this to hap pen in Wilmington, do you? Then come to the Star-News of fices Monday and leave your con tribution to the Empty Stocking fund. Or you can leave it with J. Henry Gerdes at the Peoples Sav ings Bank and Trust company. These poor children will be grateful to you forever. The fund to date: Previously acknowledged .$1109.17 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Loyal Union No. 495 . 5.00 Tommy & Pat. 2.00 A Friend . 2.00 A Friend . 1.00 The Texas Co. Employes .. 10.00 A Friend . 1.00 Onicron Alpha Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 5.00 J. A. Lawson . 2.50 Donald Eugene Brown . 1.27 Benefit Wrestling Match at Thalian Hall . 10.00 Aggie . 1.00 A Friend .25 A Friend . 2.50 Office of Gen’s Supt. Motive Power ACL RR . 10.50 Tide Water Power Co. Em ployes Party . 28.65 Police Sergeant . 1.00 A Friend . 1.00 Employes Of Cape Fear Ter minal . 25.00 A. C. L. Car Dept. Em ployes . 8.55 Atlantic Tobacco Co. 15.00 George C. Lewis, Jr.50 Manor Theatre Matinee ... 80.10 TOTAL .$1,262.99 -V BRITISH PROLONGING HONGKONG’S DEFENSE (Continued from Page One) chief of the tired and tattered forces of defense. This news, a spokesman said, “shows that some troops are still fighting.” “Hopeless” At the end of the day he added: “If we hadn’t lost the Prince of Wales and the Repulse (capital ships sunk last week off Malaya) it might have been different. Now, apparently, we haven’t the strength to get a relieving force all that distance. Surrounded by hostile seas on one hand and hostile land on the other, Hongkong’s position is as hopeless as her fight is mag nificent.” Other spoKesmen neia no nope that poorly equipped Chinese troops, battering by day and night at the back of the Japanese forces on the mainland opposite Hong kong, could exert enough pressure to relieve the garrison. The Chinese did, however, report that they had raided Shumchun, on the outer mainland border of the Crown colony, Friday, destroying Japanese defenses, burning down the railway'station and exploding an ammunition dump. This, a Chungking dispatch said, forced the Japanese to withdraw troops from the Hongkong mainland area to fight the Chinese northeast of Shumchun. Hongkong came under full siege at dawn last Sunday, when the Ja panese, having occupied the main land part of the colony, launched a ferocious offensive by air and land. They fought their way across the mile-wide strip of water to the island heart of Hongkong Thursday night under cover of dive bombing and artillery barrage . -V-i— The paint shop of the new "blackout” plant of an aircraft plant at Bethpage, Long Island, is operated with air pressure higher than that outside the plant. When the shop doors are opened, the air pressure forms an invisible "wall,” preventing the entry of dust. JAYCEES ARRANGE SOLDIER DINNERS Citizens Asked To Volunteer To Entertain Soldiers On Christmas The Junior Chamber of Com merce has established temporary headquarters in the Woodrow Wil son hut to arrange Christmas din ners in Wilmington homes for serv ice men. Several hundred men from Camp Davis and surrounding military centers have accepted invitations for Christmas dinners here. Most of them will not be able to be at their homes on that day because of recent changes in furlough re strictions. The office will be attended by a group of WPA secretaries, in co operation with the USO, who will see that every soldier desiring a Christmas dinner gets an invita tion. It will be open daily from 9 a. m. until 11 p. m. beginning December 21 and through December 25. Men in the service have been asked to call at the Woodrow Wil son hut and leave their names at the desk. Then, when they return on the morning of December 25 be tween the hours of 9 and 11 a. m„ they will be given the name and address of their host. Citizens of Wilmington wishing to entertain a soldier at dinner on* Christmas have been asked to tele phone Jaycee headquarters at 2-1262 or the Woodrow Wilson hut at 2-1104. Simply call and tell the secretary how many men you wish sent for dinner. The Jaycees asked that ministers in Wilmington churches make an nouncements of the Christmas din ner arrangements in their churches. ENEMY SUBMARINES SINK U, S. SHIPS (Continued from Page One) ficer at an Atlantic naval base re cently heard a radio announcement of sub-freezing weather in the Dako tas and a temperature of nine de grees at Dulutn. From his knowledge of continental weather tracks, he deduced that a few days later “his patrol area would have a clear day or two with high visibility and conditions ideal for enemy submarine attack.” “Special precautions were taken in patrol work on the calculated day, which turned out as predicted, ana in the course of operations it be came apparent that enemy sub marines had also picked up the same information and made the same deduction. “It was pointed out that the in formation so inadvertently broadcast would also have been of benefit to an enemy air attack along any port of the “weather route* in the North American continent.” The Japanese troop transport bagged today was the second such reported sunk by a U. S. submarine. Blockade Started? The submarine operations were widely taken as an indication that the Navy had begun the long and laborious process of laying a block ade about Japan to cut off the flow of raw materials to her industries and of food to feed her overpopulat ed islands. The meaning of the Japanese landing on Mindanao awaited clari fication, but it was thought signi ficant that the landing was made at a point where the people are pre ponderantly Japanese, and fifth col umn work was commonly thought to have figured in the operation. The Navy said in its communique that there were no developments to report in any American war theater except the Far East, leading to the supposition that the Marines at Wake Island were still in command of the situation there. Referring to the Far East, it said: “A U. S. submarine sank an addi tional enemy transport, Cavite sus tained a heavy bombing raid at noon of the nineteenth, this raid caused some damage to property, but only light, casualties to our own forces and civilian personnel.” PENANG ISLAND TAKEN BY JAPAN (Continued from Page One) Hongkong. A Domei broadcast in dicated the island’s capitulation was expected today or tomorrow. British guns on Victoria Peak were reported sporadically shelling the invaders, but the Japanese al ready were said to have captured more than 500 vehicles, 22 big oil dumps, supplies of -ice, flour, and medicine, and have disarmed many imperial troops. British guns on Mount Davis Fort were reported put out of ac tion, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking corporation’s main office was destroyed, and big fires were raging in the colony. In the Philippines, the Japanese claimed that six American planes were shot down and five others on the ground set afire in an air attack yesterday at Delmonte. (No such town is listed in Gazeteers.) Eight other American planes were reported destroyed in attacks on Nichols Air Field and other military camps, and two more planes, a hangar and an oil depot destroyed in Thursday’s attack on noilo, Panay Island. The crown council, met today at the Imperial Palace with Emperor Hirohito and later it was said that the government would make “a statement on an important diplo matic affair” at noon tomorrow. KING GIVEN FULL COMMAND OF NAVY (Continued from Page One) unpreparedness for the Japanese at tack on Pearl Harbor. Apparently it was a shakeup in organization as well as in personnel, for in his new post, King outranks the Chief of Naval operations, Ad miral Harold R. Stark, and is to be responsible only to the Secretary of the Navy and President Roosevelt. He has been serving as command ant of the Atlantic fleet, directing its patrol and convoy work for months before America’s actual par ticipation in the war began. Rear Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll was ap pointed to that i post. Under the old setup, the chief of operations was in supreme command of the Navy. Under him was the commander in chief of the United States fleet, with authority stemm ing from him to the commanders in chief of the various fleets. Kimmel, while in direct command of the Pacific fleet, was simultaneously commander in chief of the United States fleet. Under the new arrangement, King will have charge not only of the Navy afloat, its operating forces in the Atlantic, Pacific and Far East, but also of the coastal defenses, and air bases off the coast. What duties and responsibilities remain to the office of chief of naval operations and to Admiral Stark, remained unclarified. How ever, no orders were announced abolishing that post. King’s appointment was a con tinuation of an apparently new ad ministration policy of giving air men the big Army and Navy Jobs. The Pearl .Harbor shakeup includ ed the removal of Lieutenant Gen eral Walter C. Short as commander of the Army’s Hawaiian department and the appointment to that post of Lieutenant General Delos C. Em mons, chief of the air force combat command. When Kimmel was replaced by Rear Admiral Chester V. Nimitz, disappointment was expressed by naval fliers, some of whom think that recent developments had re duced the ships of the Navy to the position of auxiliaries to the air force. Many of them thought that a proper recognition of air power would have placed King in the job. Their elation was consequently great when they learned tonight that a flier had been given command, not of the Pacific fleet alone, but of the entire Navy. They were pleased to learn, too, that Major General James E. Chaney, also an airman, was the Army’s representative in preliminary staff talks in London. They recalled, too, that some months ago Colonel Henry Harms of the Air Corps was given command of ground troops ae well as air forces. -V A quail can travel about 85 feet i per secor.d. JUST RECEIVED SHIPMENT TRIKES CHAIN DRIVE $21.95 FIRESTONE 220 Market Street Dial S170 EASY BUDGET PAYMENT PLAN EFIRD’S Last Minute Gift Suggestions EVENING WRAPS Long and short velvet and wool crepe with lining. With and without hoods. Some fur trimmed. 7.95)019.50 Chiffon EVENIHG HAKKIES All Colors 97c EVENING DRESSES Lovely styles in nets and se quin trimmed taffeta. Combi nation sequin trims; crepes, chiffons and satins. 10.75 to 19.50 Coty Talcum TOILET WATER SETS 1.85 Elmers Creole CANDIES Delicious Creole Nut Rolls, Cocoanut Fingers, Brazils in Creams, Creole Pecan Chews, Jelly Bon-Bons, Chocolate Pralines. / Special Xmas Tins | C A 2^-lb. Tin.l.Uv The Ideal Gift SODA MIZER Don’t be without one of these perfect dispensers during the Christmas holidays. It will save you money and time. 1.00 ■ Beautiful TABLE LAMPS Many new arrivals just in time for Christmas giving. .. Complete with beautiful parchment shades. 97c lo 195 GIFT ROBES | Satin, Chenille, Flannel, ! Crepe and Quilted 3.95 lo 16.50 Ladies' Silk SLIPS 1.95 Gill Items From 3rd Floor Chenille Spreads___IT_1.65 Colored Bordered Pillow Cases.._79c pr. Cannon Towel Sets_39c to 2.98 Lace Cloths 72x90 _2.95 Linen Bridge Sets_2.95 Lace Scarfs _1.29_ Hudson NYLON HOSE Just received large ship ment in Nylon. Toe, heels and tops. Four shades to select from. aH&tmatamswgHm SILK HOSE New shipment of pure thread silk hose. Full fash- a ion in all wanted colors. ^ 1.15 WILMINGTON, H. C. Our Store Will Be OPEN UNTIL 8 P.H. Every Night Until Christmas
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