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Served By Leased Wire Of The ___ ASSOCIATED PRESS nrMrMDro WIDE WORLD litPltPIHLn » Complete Coverage Of PEARL HARROR Siaie and National News . L . —— AND BATAAN VOL. 75—NO. 206 . . . _ ^ !_ _ “ ESTABLISHED 1867. I), s. PLANE THAT BOMBED JAPAN LANDS IN SIBERIA Finns Reinforce German Armies Before Kalinin ' *—_ Participate In Local But Nevertheless Fierce Fight ing With Russians RESERVES MOVED UP Nine-Tenths Of Nazi Army | Now Reported Conceit* trated On Eastern Front Bv EDDY GILMORE KOBYSHEV, Russia, Apr. 23.—!7P)—Finnish troops ap peared for the first time to day on the Kalinin front, in the broad area northwest of Moscow, participating in local but nonetheless fierce corn bus as both the Russian de nders and the Axis invaders piled up reserves for the ex pected gigantic conflict of spring and early summer. The hotly fought local ac tons were repeated on many sectors. The Communist party paper Pravda said the invad ers were launching numerous counter-attacks but that all had failed. These feeler thrusts came as an official Soviet spokesman said nine ienths of the whole German army teas on the Russian front and that Adolf Hitler had called up 1.900, 300 reserves but that the Red army is moving up men to meet this immense threat. iHow or in what strength the Finns got to the Kalinin front was not disclosed. At latest reports, they were engaged in furious bat tle with the Russians on the Svir river front in the North, with both sides claiming success.) No sign ot intensive Constant skirmishing, some of it violent, continued on the v a st quagmire of the front, but there was yet no sign of a Ge r m a n spring offensive and Red army dis patches laid stress on the fact that no major action was being joined. Russian reports did say, however that aerial activity was mounting sharply in several sectors, with in tensified German bombings but (Continued on Page Four; Col. 4) TORPEDOEDSHIP LIMPS INTO PORT Crew Warned Of Attack By Planes That Also Dropped Charges NORFOLK. Va„ Apr. 23.—(ffl— Crewmen who brought an Ameri can cargo ship limping into an east coast port the day after it was attacked by an enemy submarine off the Atlantic coast on April 18 said their skipper was warned of the approaching torpedo by a Navy plane zooming low over the water. Captain John D. Baldwin, of Brooklyn, N. Y., master of the medium-sized vessel, barely had time to shout “hard aport’’ and five the alarm before the torpedo from the unseen raider struck for ward on the starboard side. TJhe explosion left a gaping ifole, buckled deck plates overhead, made a shambles of the wheel bouse and caused minor injuries to the Captain and a crewman. The Fifth Naval District public relations office, in announcing the torpedoing today, quoted crew members as saying that vessels ana planes in the vicinity dropped B number of depth charges in the area where the attack occurred. Chief Mate Matthew T. Hannah, C Paterson, N. J., and Chief En gineer Andrew H. McGarigle, of Cliff wood, N. J., told Naval offi cers they saw the wake of the tor pedo. I saw the torpedo break water t rice about 30 seconds before she kit,” McGarigle said, adding that toe explosion “felt like we had hit a tremendous sea/’ Second Mate Lars Oien, a nat uralized Norwegian, whose home Is in Brooklyn, N. Y., said he had keen torpedoed twice during the first World War. ; "But they warned us then and Save us time to get off in the life boats,” he added. 3 Women In Slacks Taboo In Council At Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, April 23.—(/P) —Comely Dorothy Foster walked into city council chambers to day wearing slacks—and walked right out again, followed by dark official frowns. Her boss, City Clerk Walter Peterson, told Miss Foster she must not enter the chambers again clad in such garb. _ “I have no personal objec tions,” he explained, “but some of the counciltnen have, so we will act accordingly. ’ The council Monday failed to act on a proposal to permit wo men city employes to wear slacks. Then Mayor Fletcher Bowron added the clincher in a statement suggesting, “Let’s keep ’em feminine.” HOS AL WORK HERE IS HALTED It Must Be Shown Addi tions Are Essential Before Priority Granted Construction of the additions to James Walker Memorial and Com munity hospitals is at a standstill pending procedure in which it must be shown that the additions are nec essary in the community in order to get priority rating to obtain critical materials. Alan Marshall, attorney for the James Walker, and Emmett H. Bellamy, counsel for the Commun ity, said Thursday after returning from a conference with officials in the regional office of the Federal Works Agency that they were told they must obtain a “certificate of necessity” from military or na val authorities before they could obtain any critical materials. The attorneys were told to ob tain the “certificate of necessity” from local military or naval au thorities if they have the authority to give the certificate, and if not to get it from district naval or military authorities Mr. Marshall ss*S the James Walker board or directors would meet today to decide upon the procedure to take. He said he un derstood if the certificate were granted the authority giving it would write a letter recommend ing that a higher priority rating be given. Mr. Bellamy said officials must be convinced that need for the ad dition to the Community exists and is essential, vital and necessary to the community to get the "cer tificate of necessity” and enter a higher priority rating. Contract on the Community ad dition was let three weeks ago and construction work has been in progress for 10 days, Mr. Bellamy said. Mr. Marshall said contract for construction of the James Walker addition could not be let until the higher priority rating is obtained. The James Walker addition would add approximately 108 beds to the facilities of that hospital while the community project would make space for from 50 to 75 additional beds. ‘Motoring As Usual Out’ But Slim Ration Doubted By FRANK LEMAY WASHINGTON, Apr. 23— UP) — The severity of card rationing of gasoline in the East, effective May 15, became a matter of conjecture tonight after petroleum coordinator Harold L. Ickes labeled as “with out justification” a semi-official prediction that motorists would get only 2 1-2 to 5 gallons a week. All officials dealing with oil and transportation agreed, however that the government no 1 o n g er would risk lives of American sea men “so someone will have gas oline to go to a bridge party or a ball game.” Price Administrator Leon Hen derson who operates the govern ment’s rationing program, an nounced last night that curtailment of gasoline consumption by use of cards would begin May 15 in 17 eastern states and the District of Columbia, and a source in Hen ; derson’s organization said each r ';>.4sed ongress Measure Authorizes Rene gotiating Of Contracts Where Profits Excessive ANOTHER ACT SOUGHT It Would Increase Exces sive Profits Tax Up To 60 To 85 Per Cent WASHINGTON, April 23. (A3)—Legislation intended to curtail war profits won final congressional sanction today, but only after numerous ex pressions of dissatisfaction on the Senate floor and declara tions that the last word on the subject was yet to come. Representing a compromise between previous House and Senate actions, the Senate sent the limitation provision along to the White House at tached to a $19,151,597,000 military appropriations bill, providing funds for 31,000 new Army planes and equip ment for 3,600,000 soldiers. The profits provision would auth orize heads of war agencies to re negotiate contracts and subcon tracts above $100,000 if profits, were considered excessive. On the other side of the capitol, a formula calling for an excess profits tax ranging from 60 to 85 per cent—much higher thah recent tax recommendations of the treas ury—was presented to the House Ways and Means committee today by one of its tax experts. Informed sources said that Colin F. Stam, making tax studies for the committee, laid this program before it as an alternative to the recommendations of Secretary Morgenthau: 1. Retention of the normal tax of 24 per cent for corporations with net income of more than $25, 000. 2. A war surtax of either 12 or 16 per cent He estimated the low er figure would yield about $570, "000,000. (The treasury recommend ed a flat 31 per cent for corpora tions with more than $25,000 net income.) 3. Excess profits taxes ranging from 60 to 85 per cent, with 5 per cent graduations based on pres ent brackets. (The treasury pro posed a scale of from 50 to 75 per cent; the present rates are from 35 to 50 per cent). This plan was offered at the end of a day-long discussion of the United States excess profits tax and similar levies imposed in Great Britain and Canada. 100 PER CENT TAX During this discussion, one of the members said that Great Brit ain imposed a 100 per cent excess profits tax at the start of the Euro pean war but found that it was too heavy and resulted in a rearda tion of the war effort. The rates subsequently were lowered. Before the Senate approved the $19,000,000,000 ar m s measure, Chairman George (D.-Ga.) of the Senate Finance committee declar ed that the profits amendment would “serve certain good pur poses’’ but “does not solve the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) r automobile would -eceive as little as 2 1-2 to 5 gallons weekly. “We refuse to believe people will be put under such short rations,” Ickes told his press conference. “Whoever gave out those figures was a poor prophet. If we are able to carry out our plans there will be no such severe cut.” He emphasized that Henderson’s formal announcement mentioned no curtailment figures, and he said no reduction of such severity had been discussed in the petroleum coordination office. The price administrator, he said, previously had followed the coordination of fice’s recommendations on the ex tent of gasoline curtailment now effective in the East and Pacific Northwest by limitation of supplies to filling stations. One of Ickes’ aides estimated that 25 gallons a month per auto mobile would be a ‘more likely (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 8) v Lack Of Materials Forces Nazi, French Plants To Shutdown STOCKHOLM, April 23.—</P>— A lack of raw materials, power and transport facilities is caus ing many French and northern German factories to shut down, reports reaching here said today. From the Nazi standpoint the closings have provided an added inducement to Frenchmen to answer the call to work in Ger many, as well as removing pro duction from the more immediate areas of danger from RAF bombs, it was said. But in France industrial cir cles regard the development as the first step toward transfor mation of that defeated nation into an agrarian state. (A Paris dispatch received via Vichy said the 150,000th French workman had gone to Germany as a “volunteer laborer.”) In Germany, the government ordered the closing of a number of textile factories as part of a drive to release workers for more direct war labor and to reduce production of consumers’ goods. guardecalled TO COMBAT FIRE Governor Says Pisgah For est Fire Has Reached Critical Stage WEST JEFFERSON, April 23. —1?)—Governor J. M. Broughton today ordered sweeping measures taken to combat forest fires in the Pisgah National forest, mobiliza tion of one more guard companies for use in the area, and the use of civil air patrol planes to spot new fires as they start. Declaring there was "detinue evidence” of incendiarims in con nection with the fires which have destroyed 14,000 acres of timber land since Sunday, the Governor also ordered the state bureau of investigation to send agents to the area to seek the firebugs. In addition, he directed that ad ditional state highway patrolmen be assigned to the region, and ap pealed to CCC and WPA author ities to send any available men as reinforcements to the fire fight ing crews now engaged. He authorized adjutant General J. Van B. Metts at Raleigh to mobile thi necessary state troops. Reports from the Pisgah forest area, the Governor said, indicated the situation was still critical, al though newspaper reports had said officials in charge considered con ditions as better, with some signs noted that the fires were being controlled. The situation, the Governor said, is ‘‘so extremely critical” that in dustries of the vicinity are being jeopardized, and ‘'fee beautiful na tional forest” seriously damaged. The Governor came here to en joy a day of trout fishing and to deliver the commencement address at the Jefferson high school to night. He caught eight trout before interrupting his outing to take ac tion on the fire situation. He sent instructions to Theodore S. Johnson, state director of civil defense, at Raleigh to arrange for the air patrol of the forest area. While he was moving to halt the Pisgah fire, 300 men were fighting another woods fire near here, in Wilkes and Alleghany counties where an estimated 15,000 acres of timberland, much of it near the Blue Ridge parkway, have been burned over since Sunday. This fire ate its way slowly fro front. Some of the acreage burned over is in the Bluff Park area, a scenic park of 50,000 acres near Laurel Springs. 3 -V Italians Decorate Admiral Raeder BERLIN, (From German Broad casts) Friday, April 24.— (A3) — Grand Admiral Erich RaReder, com mander in chief of the German navy, and Field Marshal Gen. Wil helm Keetel, chief of the army high command, have been awarded the grand cross of the military order of Savoy by King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, the Berlin radio said today in a Rome dispatch. -V Auto Junk Dealers Told To Clear Yards CINCINNATI, April 23.—(IP)—Jo seph Murphy, chief of the automo bile graveyard section of the Office for Emergency Management, an nounced tonight that junk dealers throughout the country were being ordered to clear their yards of all old automobiles by June 30 to supply the scrap needs of steel mills. Fifty per cent of the cars must be moved to the mills by May 31. OEM officials estimated there were 20,000 auto graveyards in the country, with an average of 60 junked cars in each. Build Folks, Then The City, Chamber Told Charles W. Phillips Speaks At Annual Meeting Of Trade Organization OFFICERS INSTALLED Accomplishments Of Past Year Cited In Report Of Secretary Morris Reverse the order in “build ing a community” by building folks first, building character and stamina, and then, if they are necessary, build roads, in dustries and other physical facilities, Charles W. Phillips, member of the faculty and di rector of public relations of the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, advised members of the Greater Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, Thursday night at the first annual dinner meeting of the organization in Hotel Cape Fear. Think of building a community in a more real sense—not in more miles of pavement, not in more skyscrapers, not in more smoke stacks—but to stand the test by enlarging the spirit of things and the development of character, Mr. Phillips declared. 'Not many years ago, m me pages of history, we began our country on the shores of North Carolina and Virginia — of'bourse, Boston claims a small share—to build a community to have the things we were not accustomed to, to build a greater community than we had lived in before. Our fathers began to build our country from settlements at Manteo and Roa noke Island and continued to go across to the west. I can imagine what difficulties settlers at Manteo had with mosquitoes and Indians. Those fellows didn’t lie down and quit. Those type fellows began our country and went west somehow. Not so long ago they reached the other side and ten years ago news-, papers, speakers and radios said (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) HEARING ON POWER RATES SET TODAY Large Delegation In Ra leigh To Protest Against Charges By Tide Water RALEIGH, April 23.— (/P) —Pro tests by officials of Eastern North Carolina communities that rates of the Tidewater Power company are too high will be heard tomorrow by the State Utilities Commission. Mayor Hargrove Bellamy of Wil mington one of the leader of the delegation that will appear, said representatives from more than 20 eastern counties will attend the meeting. “We are going to request an im mediate, drastic reduction in rates, so the people of Eastern North Carolina can enjoy the same advan tages of equitable, competitive rates as other cities in the state,” Bel lamy declared. WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA — Little change in tem perature Friday except slightly warmer along the coast. (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday): (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 50; 7:30 a. m. 48; 1:30 p. m. 72; 7:30 p. m. 62; maximum 72; minimum 43; mean 58; normal 64. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 73; 7:30 a. m. 75; 1:30 p. m. 17; 7:30 p. m. 58. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches; total since the first of the month, 0.87 inches. Tides For Today: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington_— 4:02a. 11:35a. 4:36p. ll:49p. Masonboro Inlet_ 1:25a. 8:04a. 2:08p. 8:26p. Sunrise 5:30a; sunset 6:50p; moonrise 12:31p; moonset 1:32a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Thursday at 8 a. m., 9:95 feet. (Continued on Page Thirteen} Col. 6) PILOT LOSES BEARINGS, MAKES FALSE LANDING, BROADCAST DECLARES * Citizens Asked To Use 10 Per Cent Of Income Monthly For War Bonds WASHINGTON, Apr. 23—(A>)— Secretary of the Treasury Mor genthau tonight launched a campaign to get 50,000,000 Americans to invest at least 10 per cent of their income every month in war bonds. Morgenthau participated in a radio program over the Blue network in which the campaign was endorsed by Lieutenant Commander Edward H. O’Hare naval pilot who won the Con gressional Medal of Honor for shooting down five Japanese bombers, and leaders of labor, agricultural and business. Morgenthau said, “You and I, as civilians, are just as deeply involved in this war as Lieutenant Commander O’Hare when he fought those Japa nese bombers. “It is now high time for us civilians, as individual, to make our own declaration of war against the enemy — to fight, to work, to save with all our heart and soul. . . . “All of us who get a regu lar income should set aside at least 10 per cent of it every pay day for war savings bonds, and those who have been earn ing especially high pay in the war industries are going to set aside even more. . .We have got to enlist an army of 50, 000,000 war bond buyers.’’ At the same time, the Treas ury made public quotas which each state and territory is ex pected to fill in order to boost bond sales to $600,000,000 in May, compared with a monthly average of $437,951,243 in the period from July, 1941, to Jan uary, 1942, inclusive. The (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 1) Price Ceiling Placed On Household Goods -— W--— War Against Increases Carried To Kitchen, Cup board And Closet WASHINGTON, Apr. 23.— UP) — The government carried its cam paign against rising living costs into the kitchen, cupboard a nd closet today by placing price ceil ings on China and pottery and a long list of cotton products includ ing sheets, blankets, diapers, tow els and ginghams. In addition, a permanent price lid was put on used egg crates, an element in the cost of eggs. The two major orders affected prices at the manufacturers’ level and, in the case of cotton, should bring about “considerably lower” prices than those prevailing, OPA said. The chinaware order, govern ing hundreds of china and pottery items, including cups, saucers, dishes, plates and bowls, was in effect a denial of a price boost requested in February. The cotton products action, sup plementing seven existing price or ders on cotton yarns and goods, brought practically every product of the cotton textiles industry under price control, price adminis trator Leon Henderson said. Effective May 4. It is effective May 4 and bases prices on the levels prevailing July 21 to August 15, 1941. The ceiling is a flexible one, designed to let prices fluctuate with raw cotton quotations. Additional finished articles af fected include bedspreads, table cloths, napkins, corduroys, flan nels, cottonades and chambrays, and among the unfinished goods covered are shirting, sateens, ga bardine, industrial fabrics, ducks, and wide goods of 42 inches and over. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) CITY GETS BERRY FREEZING PLANT Operations Will Be Carried Out Here By J. E. Town send Co. For Birds Eye A contract for the quick freezing of strawberries in Wilmington by J. E. Townsend, Jr., Co., of New Castle, Del., for Birds Eye Frosted Foods, of New York, was announced last night by Joseph E. Quinane, production manager for Frosted Foods Sales Corp. Announcement of the acquisition of this industry was nude through the Great Wil mington Chamber of Commerce, which has been working on the project with Birds Eye officials since September of 1941. The industry has leased more than 10,000 square feet of floor space in the Southeastern Ship ping Service building, from M. M. Riley. The negotiations which began in September were followed by several conferences between Birds Eye and Chamber of Commerce officials, and were conducted both here and in New York. The site, said by Birds Eye officials to be ideal for this operation, was located by the Cham ber of Commerce and negotiations for its acquisition begun in De cember. Since that time various contacts have been established and further surveys carried out by Townsend Company and Birds Eye officials, leading to the signing of the lease. Actual operations are expected to start next week. Officials of the Greater Wilmnig ton Chamber revealed it has just concluded two surveys which may (Continued on Jage Thirteen; Col. 2) Today an j Tomorrow _ BY WALTER LIPPMANN - Political Warfare In his address at the Associated Press luncheon Mr. MacLeish told us that there were many indica tions—from the broadcasts out of Vichy and from other sources— that “an Axis ‘peace’ offensive is in the cards for next summer.” Now that the national committee has declared that the Republian party will recognize no peace “ex cept peace with victory” and that it “will never entertain any pro posals of peace until such victory be won,” there can be no doubt anywhere in the world where the United States will be standing if our enemies in Berlin and Tokio offer us another Kurusu mission. Mr. MacLeish was concerned, however, with the subtler and more insidious form of enemy propaganda, so effectively practic ed in France, which is designed to destroy the will to fight, to di vide the people, to poison our re lations with our allies and to con fuse the strategical conduct of the war. He asked how the govern ment and the press, having warn ed the people, are “going to arm against” the “political warfare” of which ‘we, as a people, have had little knowledge and even less ex perience.” s * * Mr. MacLeish is, I submit, mis taken in thinking that the United States has little knowledge and even less experience of political warfare. He has forgotten Wood row Wilson, who, as applied to the modern age of direct and imme diate communication across the battle lines, was the discoverer and the first and most successful prac titioner of political warfare. Presi dent Wilson, moreover, knew quite well how to arm the American peo ple against the insidious wiles of enemy propaganda. His method was not to think up what Mr. MacLeish calls “a strategy of the defense” against peace offensives • (Continued on Fare Eight; Col. S) > Russians Say Crew Intern ed In Accordance With International- Law OTHER SOURCES SILENT] Red Announcement Is First Report Made Of Landing Of Any Of Raiders MOSCOW, Friday, April 24. (/P)—The official Tass news agency announced today that an American plane identified by its crew as a participant in the air raids on Japanese cities last Saturday made a forced landing in the Siberian Maritimes after losing its bearings. The text of the Tass state ment broadcast by the Mos cow radio follows: On April 18 an American war plane landed in Maritime territory. “According to the state ment of the plane’s crew on that day this plane had par ticipated in an American air raid on Japanese islands and, having lost its bearings, made a false landing on Soviet ter ritory. “In accordance with International law, Soviet authorities interned the American plane and its crew.” (This was the first direct word from any source of the landing of any of the planes which raided Japan. There still has been no word from any other United Nations source regarding the raids. (The British News agency Reuters reported in London that the Moscow radio broadcast that reports from Khabarovsky said the plane landed in Russian Far East territory. (It was not stated where the plane landed by Khabarovsky is 200 miles west of the Sea of Japan and 400 miles north of Vladivostok, Russian Siberian port). (Japanese Imperial headquarters announced last Saturday that the great cities of Japan—Tokyo, Yoko hama, Kobe and Nagoya — were bombed for the first time In history by planes which bore the insignia of the United States Air Force. (There have been frequent refer ences to the raids and the planes since then on Axis radios but there ( has been no comment from the Unit ed Nations on the raids). GERMANS RELEASE TWENTY HOSTAGES Those Who Aided British Commandos In St. Naz aire Raid Are Freed VIGHY, France, April 23.—(A”'— The twenty hostages of St. Na zaire, seized by the Germans be cause Frenchmen of that impor. tant coastal city participated in the British Commando raid on the Naval base last March 28, were freed today by the Germans. It was the second such act of intended conciliation toward th e French in two days, although it came after a total of 123 German executions of Frenchmen since the first of April. These executions were carried out in an attempt to stop a series of outbreaks against the German soldiery in widespread areas of Occupied France — Paris, Normandy, Brittany and the north eastern departments. (The status of other hostages marked for execution, including 80 supposedly due to be shot today or tomorrow at Rouen as a second installment reprisal for the wreck ing of a troop train April 16, was not clarified). Yesterday the German military commander in Paris released 20 hostages who would have been shot within a week for the killing of a German soldier in Paris Monday night. Fifteen hostages already had another German killing, but the Germans explained the twenty were freed because the Monday night killer had been arrested. Today, the 20 St. Nazaire hos tages were freed, after French au thorities had made personal rep. resentations in their behalf. Among (Continued on Pare Thirteen; CoL O
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