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Served By Leased Wire Of The -- “™ ™ REMEMBER With Compleie Coverage Of PEARL HARBOR Siaie and National News AND BATAAN V O],. 75—NO. 209 _ _ ESTABLISHED 1867 --—__________ __ 1UU II 1 VIOLENT LIFATTA C'P DRA WING NAZI PLa. 7/ FROM RUSSIAN FRONT .. . - sb- _ With Bombings Stepped Up British Experienc ing Stiffer Opposition 18 PLANES ARE LOST Diversion Of Nazi Fighters Means Raids Paying Off, Say Britishers Bv DREW MIDDLETON LONDON. April 27. — (/P) British bombers and fighters smashed violently at German air bases across the channel today and encountered their heaviest opposition of the (spring, indicating the RAF was beginning to achieve one of its main objectives by i foil ing Hitler to divert his aerial strength from the east ern front. The size and quality of the opposition was emphasized by the loss of 18 British craft— 16 fighters and two bombers _a rainst 11 Nazi craft de stroved. and by reports of RAF pilots that their chal lengers were more experi enced and their planes better ih;,,n heretofore. If the British offensive has com pelled Hitler to withdraw consider able formations from the East to ■ ect the RAF in the West Indies sources said the massive British aerial offensive was paying a big dividend. They added however that it would be the end of the week before it is known definitely wheth er its purpose has been accomp lished. Hundreds of British planes roared over the channel in six major sweeps from dawn until after dark during today’s opera tions, cutting away at the Nazis’ air strength and daring them to make good Hitler’s threat of full scale retaliation. Blast Rostock The Germans did strike back, raiding a town in East Anglia to night, but there were no immedi ate indications that this was any thing like the furious RAF assaults The day’s raids, centered on Mardyck and Le Touquet, followed the fourth consecutive overnight at (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) ROSTOCK GUTTED BY RAF BOMBERS Swedish Correspondent In Berlin Says 10,000 Families Homeless STOCKHOLM, April 27.—<#>—Ten thousand families in Rostock are homeless as a result of the four raids there by the Rritis.'. RAP, the L rlin correspondent of the "Dagens Nyheter in Berlin reported tonight. Ho said the damage in Rostock was worse than in Luebeck, previously raided by the British. The Berlin correspondent wrote the British had dropped leafets 1 • r Stralsund, about 45 miles north east of Rostock on the Baltic, warning that similar raids would be mode there. He told of planes fly ing low over Rostock, using ma 1 Tine-guns and cannon. Creat emphasis was being put on Dew reprisal raids in Berlin, he •aid, quoting one Berlin source as saying: ‘■\Ve know exactly where the Tudor houses, cathedrals, Windsor ro -ties and other buildings three • torred in Baedeker's (tourist guide) arc situated.” 1 Hie Swedish correspondent s dis p'h tallied somewhat with a re i from the air ministry in Lon d' a saying the people of Rostock, ike of a Heinkel plane factory, were inarming out of their devastated city. The air ministry’s news aveney said pictures taken after tlie third raid or. Saturday night showed great crowds of Germans heading for Rostock’s railroad sta tion. (Radio reports from Berlin like wise emphasized that reprisals would be taken by the German airforce for what the Germans called “barbaric attacks” on the Hanseatic cities of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) I 5,135 Answer Registration SummonsHere AH Men In City, County, 45 To 65 Registered For Possible Service Five thousand, one hundred and thirty-five men in Wilmington and New Hanover county, between the ages of 45 and 65 years old, regis tered here yesterday for possible military service. They were regis tered under the terms of the Selec tive Service Act. Of those registering, 3,375 were through the city board and 1,760 were through the county board. The registration, officials said, w a s about what had been expected. Approximately 400 of the reg istrants in the county were men who are employed at the North Car olina Shipbuilding company yards here. Figures for the city board were as follows: Cornelius Harnett, 570; Hemenway school, 246; Courthouse, 540; O’Crowley’s, 287; Isaac Bear school, 240; Tileston school, 223; Fifth and Castle fire station, 454; William Hooper school, 282; High school, 155; Seventeen and Dock fire station, 322; hospitals, etc., 56. Tabulations for the county dis tricts were not .'.vailable last night, but officials said they would be In the hands of officials this morning. Those registering will not neces sarily be called to service, but it is probable that some of them will see non-combat duty if there is a severe drain on American manpower. With yesterday’s registration, all men in the country between the ages of 20 and 65 are now registered for possible service. Three hundred thousand were registered in the state yesterday with the national figure approach ing 13,000,000. Coffee Consumption Ordered Cut Fourth WASHINGTON, Apr. 27 — W) — The War Production Board today ordered a 25 per cent cut in the consumption of coffee, because of “uncertainties about future sup plies.” The cut was brought about by an order reducing the amount of coffee which may be delivered by roasters and accepted by whole salers in any month to 75 per cent of deliveries in the corresponding period of 1941. The government will not attempt to ration coffee at the consumer level, WPB, said, but the whole salers are “expected to pass the cut along to their customers as equitably as possible.” “This action was taken to con serve supplies now' on hand for the Army, Navy, and civilian pop ulation and to make future sup plies go as far as possible,” the Board’s announcement said. 3 \T Young Woman Slain At Filling Station MARINSVILLE, Va„ Apr. 27.— (J>)—Mrs. Josephine Heneley, of Spray, N, C., 30 year old mother of three children, was shot and fatally wounded today at a filling station near Boxwood, a short dis tance fom the North Carolina line. Japanese Drive Within 85 Miles Of Mandalay 1 —-- X NEW DELHI, Apr. 27.— ffl — Swift Japanese shock troops were reported by the British to have reached a point 85 miles directly east of Mandalay tonight in a pow erful thrust from captured Loilem which gravely threatened the rail way to Lashio, terminus of the Burma road. Another version of the Salween front combat came from Chung king, where a Chinese command communique acknowledged that Loilem, 120 miles southeast of Mandalay, fell Friday and said the Japanese had driven 75 miles to the east. Such a move apparently would be designed to encircle troops in southeastern Burma com manded by Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, U. S, A. (The two accounts, however, could mean that the powerfully reinforced Japanese had thrust two columns from Loilem, one east and the other north. Either would gravely endanger the whole Al lied position in Eastern Burma, the backdoor to China.) The British communique said: “Reports from the Chinese ex peditionary force indicate that the (Continued on Page Three; Coi. 3) Canada Votes To Send Men To War Fronts Government Released From Pledge Not To Use Con scripts Overseas OTAWA, Apr. 27.— W —The Canadian government was given a free hand by Plebiscite today to send conscripted soldiers out side the Dominion and into battle anywhee in the world. With only predominantly French Canadian Quebec province dissent ing, as expected, the electorate was shown by incomplete returns tonight to favor overwhelmingly the release of the MacKenzie King government from prior commit ments promising only domestic service for drafted men. The Canadian press announced flatly at 10 p. m. Eastern War Time, two hous after the polls closed in the eastern provinces, that the Prime Minister’s appeal for a free hand in the use of man. power had won out. The votein Quebec, where the draft was violently opposed in the last war and where riots' broke out in consequence, showed 339,329 negative votes to 109,596 affirma tive io the first 2,795 polls reported out of 7,962. The cry of ‘‘A bas conscription” (down with conscription was ais ed in recent disorders among the French-Canadian populace during campaign demonstrations. In contrast to Quebec’s opposi tion. Ontario province voted at the rate of 588,545 to 193,768 to release (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) --V U. S. TO PROBE RENTS IN CITY Investigations Planned To See If It Must Step In And Cut Them WASHINGTON, Apr. 27 — W! — The government will start investi gation at once of residential rents in the 20 defense rental areas des ignated March 2, in order to de termine whether Federal authori ties must step in to cut rents to the prescribd levels.. Price Administrator Leon Hen derson announced that offices would be opened about May 15 in areas w'here the rent recommenda tions are not complied with. “In these areas Federal regula tion will take effect with June rents,” the head of the Office of Price Administration said. OPA’s recommendations for the 20 con gested areas directed that local authorities being about a reduction in rents down to a specified 1941 level, in most cases April 1, 1941. The local officials were given 60 days to comply with the recom mendations, at the expiration of which the OPA may step in to force compliance. The 20 areas include Bridgeport, Hartford-New Britain, and Water bury, Conn.; Schenectady, N. Y.; Birmingham, Ala.; Mobile, Ala.; Columbus, Ga..; Wilmington, N. C.; and the area of Hampton Hoads, Va. _ p Asks Freezing ^Of Prices, Wages, Limit For Incomes WASHINGTON, Apr. 27.—UP) —President Roosevelt outlined to Congress today a broad anti inflation program which would fix general price ceilings, freeze most wages “at existing scales” and syphon into gov ernment coffers all individual income over $25,000 a year. These steps, with taxes that would lap up all corporation profits not necessary to con tinued production, with a re duction in the present legal maximum prices for farm pro ducts, with increased war bond buying and debt paying, and with rationing of scarce essentials, would he predicted, avert the cost of living hard ships of the First World War. we cannot fight this war, we cannot exert our maximum effort on a spend-as-usual bas is,” Mr. Roosevelt said in a special message to Congress. “We cannot have all we want, if our soldiers and sailors are to have all they need.” By implication he opposed any change in the wage-hour law, asserting that most de fense workers were not work ing more than 40 hours a week, and that they should be paid time and a half for overtime, lest there be a reduction in their weekly pay envelopes. In addition to slashing high er salaries down to $25,000 by taxation, he foresaw a process of stabilizing wages through protests to and decisions by the War Labor Board, which would “continue to give due consideration to inequalities and the elimination of sub standards of living.” Existing contracts between employers and employees should, he said, be fully honored “in all fair ness.” Price Order The Office of Price Adminis tration is expected to announce tomorrow a general price order, freezing prices as of some time in the recent past, probably March. Tomorrow evening. Mr. Roosevelt will make a radio address explain ing the program to the people of the nation. Except for taxes and for re ducing the limit on agricultur al prices, Mr. Roosevelt said in his message that no new (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) 50,000 In America Earn Over $25,000 F. R.’s Salary With Those That Would Be Limited ‘To Fixed Figure WASHINGTON, Apr. 27.-W—At last 50.0CG persons, including President Roosevelt himself, have incomes over $25,000 a year—the figure which the Chief Executive said ought to be an individual’s maximum after payment of taxes. In 1940, last year for which in come tax studies are available. 50.747 persons reported incomes of $25,000 or greater. However, prob ably no more than half that num ber at most had $25,000 left after paying the tax collector. Under present tax laws, a per son can earn up to about $40,000 a year and, after paying federal taxes, stay within the President’s limit. But in about half the states, state income taxes also take a chunk out of large incomes. President Roosevelt’s salary is $75,000 and he has additional in come from personal property. He pays federal and New York State income taxes. (Incidentally, in connection with the talk of salaries, White House officials said today the Chief Exe cutive is a poorer man than when he became President. While his mother left him an estate of more than $1,000,000, it was explained, he will not come into possession of it for another year because it is in process of settlement.) Mr. Roosevelt, however, would be far down any list of persons with big incomes. Treasury reports — the latest available — show that 41 persons paid tax on 1939 incomes in excess of $1,000,000 but do not disclose their names. Here are some salaries paid to individuals in 1940 as disclosed by corporation reports to the secur ities and exchange commission: Louis B. Mayer, $697,048 as man aging director of production for Loew’s Inc., motion picture com pany; Eugene G. Grace, $478,144 as president Bethlehem Steel C'orp. George W, Hill, $456,415 as presi (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) __ WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina: Slightly colder east portion and continued mild west portion Tuesday. South Carolina: Continued warm Tuesday excxept not quite so warm east portion late afternoon. (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. 64. Maximum 86. 7:30 a. m. 63. Minimum 59. 1:30 p. m. 85. Mean 72. 7:30 p. m. 67. Normal 66. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 75. 7:30 a. m. 87. 1:30 p. m. 22. 7:30 p. m. 81. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending at 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 -- 7:38a 2:26a 8:12p 2:47p Masonboro Inlet_- 5:16a 11:38a 5:52p - Sunrise: 5:26a. Sunset: 6:53p. Moonrise: 4:35p. Moonset: 4:04a. Cape Fear river stage at I%yette ville on Monday at 8 a. m. 10:25 feet. (Continued on Page Two; Col, 5> PLANS ARE DRAWN FOR ‘BOND WEEK’ Pledge Campaign Will Be Conducted In City Week Of May 4 To 9 Plans for a defense bond and stamp pledge week campaign May 4-9 were made Monday morn ing in a meeting of Wilmington women’s clubs representatives. The women’s club were previous ly designated by the city and coun ty War Saving's Staff committees to make the canvass and this morning they named committees and out lined plans for the county-wide so licitation. Mrs. Wayne Spencer, genera! chairman of city and county defense bonds pledge week campaign, pre sided at the meeting in the board of directors room of the Wilmington Savings and Trust company. Committees were appointed as fol lows; Entertainment: E. A. Laney, chairman, Mrs. John Hoggard, Mrs. Eugene Philyaw, and Airs. J. D. Freeman. Decorations: Mrs. O. H. Shoe maker, chairman, Mrs. William Goldberg, Mrs. A. T. St. Amand, Mrs. N. L. Foy, and Mrs. Richard Rogers. Publicity: Miss Sarah Bradshaw. The following organizations were selected to have charge of the head quarters office at No. 7 North Front street: D. A. R., April 29; Hadassah. April 30; U. D. C., May 1; r.-T. A., May 2; Senior Sorosis, May 4; East (Continued on Pase Three; Col. 2) -v Bellamy Did Not Leave In Disgust, Campbell Asserts City Attorney W. B. Campbell, j who was a member of the Wil mington group attending the hear ing in Raleigh last Friday on the Tide Water Power and Light Com j)any rates, declared late Monday afternoon that the Associated Pres dispatch from the state capital which said that Mayor Hargrove. Bellamy left the hearing “in seem ing disgust” is erroneous. “At the time Mayor Bellamy left the hearing room,” said Mr. Camp bell, “he had fully completed all matters pertaining to the City of Wilmington, and there had been a full discussion of Wilmington’s case between him and members of the utilities commission. “At no time was there any dis play of dissatisfaction or irritabil ity.” Councilman Edgar L. Yow, who also attended the hearing, and was interviewed by this paper follow ing Mr, Campbell’s declaration, not only confirmed the city attor ney’s statement but added: “Throughout the hearing M ayor Bellamy conducted himself in a commendable manner, and was never in a better humor than while presenting our case and in leaving the hall when the case was com pleted.” County Asks State Probe Of Power Co. Commission Urged To Seek Funds To Investigate Tide Water Properties BOARD DISSATISFIED Raleigh Hearing Ended ‘Just As I Expected/ Gardner Declares A resolutior requesting the state commissioner of utilities to request the governor and council of state “for an allot ment from the emergency and contingency fund to defray such expenses as may be nec essary in making a thorough, independent appraisal, inves tigation and audit of the properties and operations” of the Tide Water Power com pany was adopted by the county commission at the Monday meeting. The resolution was passed on motion of Commissioner L. J. Cole man after it had been presented by Commissioner Harry R. Gard ner. Before presenting the resolution Commissioner Gardner said the hearing Friday before State Utili ties Commissioner Stanley Win borne in Raleigh “came out just about as I expected as we went up there unprepared to defend our cause. The substance of the reso lution is to take the expense off | the people of this county.” Had No Argument After pointing out some figures presented at the hearing, Commis sioner Gardner said “we had no thing to combat their statements. Only one side of the case was prepared and we had to depend on the weakness of that case.” Commenting after the reading of the resolution Chairman Addison Hewlett said the Utilities commis sion should have the facts in the case since they are supposed to represent the people. Following the adoption of the resolution, the commission voted on motion of Comissioner Gardner to send copies of the resolution to officials of towns in the area affected by the rates. The resolution follows: “Whereas, the Tide Water Pow er company has, for many years, penalized the commercial, residen tial and power consumers of New Hanover county and southeastern North Carolina with rates in ex cess of those charge^ by the major utility companies of this state in areas similar to New Hanover coun ty and southeastern North Caro lina, and Whereas, in the opinion of this board such rates haVe retarded the development of this area of North Carolina and placed this section of the state at a grave economic disadvantage to those areas served by the other major public utilities of the state, and “Whereas, the history of both the Tide Water Power company and its parent organization, the Associated Gas and Electric com pany, present a highly involved and complicated financial structure and asffords evidence of finan cial manipulation which has load ed the local rate payers with un fair inequitable light, »as and power rates, and "Whereas, in the opinion of this board, the public interest will be greatly served by an independent appraisal of the properties of the said Tide Water Power company, the investigation of the legitimacy of its expenses and an independent (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) Raid Warden Set Up Will Be Reorganized ■ -- it A re-organization meeting for all air raid wardens whose residence or place of emergency duty is in Wilmington has been called for 8 o’clock Tuesday night in the high school auditodium by Chief Raid Warden F. P. O’C'rowley. The meeting will be important, Mr. O’Crowley pointed out Monday, because specific duties will be as signed every block and zone and other warden. Additional volunteers and owners or managers of large buildings may also attend. The city has been divided into 10 zones, each zone subdivided in to 8 to 10 sectors by technical ad visor, M’Kean Maffitt. The estab lishment of a warden’s post for each sector, will be discussed, with suitable signs to designate these posts officially so that the public will know where they are located. Building wardens will be assign ed to the larger office buildings, department |tores, theatres, hotels and. apartmiht houses. Their par ticular duties will be to supervise the air raid precautions for these properties. The communications system, both by phone and mes senger, between the wardens’ posts and the control center will be ex plained. 250 INJURED ARE REMOVED TO HOSPITALS —-j Cape FearCab Owners Held In Tire Theft Arrests Made As Officers Seize Approximately 30 Tires, Some Tubes With the arrest • 1 Jack Geldbaugh and Mrs. Mary Geldbaugh, owners and operators of the Cape Pear Taxi company at Third and Harnett streets, last midnight on charges of larceny and receiving of automobile tires, the drive against tire thefts in New Hanover was continued. Additional evidence of furtherance of the drive was the arrest of L. A. Massingale, of 513 North Third street, on a similar charge Monday afternoon. The Gelbaughs, who were arrested by Harry E. Fales, superintendent I of New Hanover Bureau of Identifi cation, and Detective Sergeant W. D. Thompson of the city police depart ment, were charged with larceny and receiving of tires from an automo bile owned by E. K. Miller, 1 Hy drangia street. Tires Found Oil Cabs Officers sai.' the tires from the Miller automobile were found on equipment owned by the Cape Fear Taxi company and the Geldbauglis were unable to explain where they secured the tires. The Miller automobile was taken on the night of April 21—the same night Dr. H. K. Thompson’s car was stolen—and abandoned after the tires had been stripped from it be tween Oleander and Biytlie’s Bay. Thirty tires of all description and some tubes and rims were brought to the Bureau of Identification from the Taxi company by the officers because the Geldbaughs couldn’t tell them where the tires came from except three. Officers said they left tires on one taxicab and two others at the company office because “they satisfied us of the origin of the tires.” Mr. Fales gave as another reason for bringing the tires in as for the purpose of people who have lost tires to come to the bureau and in spect them to see if they can iden tify them. Held Under Bond Jack Geldbaugii is being- held on the charge under $1,500 bond and Mrs. Mary Geldbaugh was “recog nized” under $500 bond. Massingale, who was taken into custody Monday afternoon at ThiM and Red Cross streets, is charged with taking a tire from C. Y. Milton, of 517 North Third street on March 28. He is being held under $500 bond. Mr. Fales again urged that auto mobile owners take the serial num ber, name and size of their tires and send them to the Bureau of Identification. “If the people want protection,” Mr. Fales said, “they must help us give it to them by co operating in this manner. It doesn’t cost one dime to send this informa tion to us.” At the request of Solicitor Win field Smith, Acting Recorder Hardy Ferguson Monday morning contin ued the date of trial for Russell Moore, taxi driver, and D1 C. Howard, service station manager, charged with stealing two auto mobiles here and stripping them of their tires, until Thursday morn ing at 10 o’clock. Solicitor Smith said he was re questing the continuance to give city and. county officers a further (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) Main Street In Pryor Laid Waste In Storm Last ing Only Few Minutes EVERY BUILDING HIT Town In Darkness As Mu nitions Workers Search Ruins For Bodies PRYOR, Okla., April 27.— (TP)—A brief, violent tornado reportedly killed at least 100 persons and injured 250 late today in this war boom town, and left the main business district in ruins. First reports from rescuers containing these figures were received by R. W. Stinson, Muskogee district manager for WPA, in a telephone call from his workers on the scene. The storm struck at about 5:50 p. m., roaring down the main street, tearing down buildings and leaving the street filled with debris and the dead and dying. Three persons were reported killed and at least 15 injured near Talala and another person was killed at Tiawah, southeast Claremore. as the tornadic winds fanned out over this northeastern Oklahoma area. Une eye-witness reported he saw 11 dead and scores of injured aft er the brief, furious storm struck. Town In Darkness The town was in darkness and phone communications within the city were disrupted, hampering rescue work. F. C. (Dick) Dickinson, a Grand river dam worker at Lang ley, Okla., said he had just driven into town when the tornadic storm struck. “It was over in a matter ol minutes,” he said. “My old car was battered and I crouched down on the floor boards and emerged safe. “I think I’m safe in saying there isn’t a two story building left along Main street.” The wind storm was accompan ied by hail and rain which witnes ses said “fell in buckets.” Dickinson said he counted 11 bodies in five blocks of Main street and saw about 50 persons he be lieved seriously wounded and 50 others less seriously hurt. “I couldn’t attempt to estimate the number of dead and injured,” (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) SCHOOLS MAY LOSE CAFETERIA HELP WPA Workers Scheduled To Leave Today; Conler ference Scheduled Today After hearing a request from rep resentatives of four New Hanover schools “to ask WPA authorities to take a broader view so that helpers in cafeterias in these schools might be maintained”, the county commission Monday reces sed to meet with these representa tives and Miss May Campbell, of Raleigh, state director of Women’s WPA work, and Mrs. Gladys B. Proctor, area supervisor, this morning at 10 o’clock. Mrs. L. W. Porter, representing the Winter Park school, said su pervisors of the cafeterias were notified Monday that the WPA help, which had been furnished all winter so that free lunches could be given underprivileged children, would not be available Tuesday. She explained that with the small amount of commodities furnished and the WPA help the schools had been able to give lunches to chil dren who could not pay for them. Mrs. Porter said there was noth ing in the treasury to hire helpers as the cafeterias were operated on a non-profit basis. Helpers Furnished Two helpers had been furnished at Forest Hills, four at W i nt e r Park,two at Sunset Park and three at Wrightsboro. Representing the schools were: Sunset Park, Mrs. G. Register; Forest Hills, Mrs. Leslie Hummell; Wrightsboro, Mrs. O. B. Ives, and (CoDiinuod on page Two; Cat, M
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