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gUSTI ffilmimjtmt ifcrmttg Star- | Sr VOL. 75—NO. 210 _____-TW.?Ju£oQ ‘AGES WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. _ : --__—— MAXIMUMPi j^-VELS DECREED TO STABILIZE U. S. COST OF LIVING -—-- n Virtually Everything Amer icans Eat, Wear And Use Included In Order SOME FOODS EXEMPT Henderson Says Action To Reduce Expenses 3 Pet. Below Current Prices WASHINGTON, April 28. —(/P)—With one broad, inclu sive order, the office of price administration tonight fixed war-time maximum prices for “virtually everything Ameri cans eat, wear and use” at the levels prevalent during the month of March. After May 18, under “the general maximum price reg ulation,”' no retailer may charge more for an article than the highest price at which he sold it in March, j The same restrictions will ap f ulv. after May 11, to manu 1 facturers’ and wholesalers’ prices and, after July 1, to a long list of service establish ments such as laundries, tail ors. auto repair shops, radio repair men, etc. Simultaneously, the price agency in effect froze rents in 302 centers of war effort or war production. Mostly, they were fixed at the rents paid on March 1, of this year. In 64 of the areas the sta bilization was as of the rent paid on Jan. 1, April 1, or July 1, 1941. The actions, taken together rep resented an essential segment of President Roosevelt’s over-all plan for stabilizing the cost of living, and preventing an inflationary price rise. Heavy Tax on Profits Along with these orders, go pro oosed heavy taxation of profits, stabilization of most wages at pres ent levels, taxation to hold indi vidual incomes to a maximum of f25,000, rationing, encouragement of war bond buying, debt payment and savings, and discouragement of credit or installment plan buy ing and expenditures for non - es sentials. Exempted from the price ruling, however, was a list of food items representing, OPA officials said, 25 to 40 per cent of the food usually purchased. •Some of these were excepted for seasonal reasons. For example, the price of fresh vegetables was at its seasonal peak in March, and since it normally declines after that month, it was thought unwise to establish March prices for such commodities. Eggs and poultry, milk and milk products, were exempted, it was said, because they are under considerable competitive pressure which tends to keep their prices from shooting skyward. But most of the food exemptions were the result of the price control law, which says that maximum prices for farm products may not be fixed at a point below 110 per cent of parity (a formula for de termining the agricultural price level at which a farm product has the same purchasing power it had in 1909-14>. Mr. Roosevelt h a demanded that Congress change the law to permit maximum prices at parity, and the OPA’s announcement said it was “planned to set maximum prices for certain agricultural prod ucts as soon as such action is con <Contlnued on Page Two; Col. 8) ADVERTISE WHERE 85.000 PEOPLE SHOP —at One Time Or Another It is a known fact that most newspaper readers shop in the Want Ads when they want to find living quarters or some of the other 101 things offer ed through the Want Ads. For as little as 24c a day The STAR-NEWS will dis tribute 18,50 copies of your ad to 18,500 families. READ and USE STAR-NEWS WANT ADS REGULARLY U. S. Price Control Order In A Nutshell WASHINGTON, April 28.—OB)—Price control in a nutshell: Beginning May 18, an absolute ceiling is placed on millions of retail prices; they may not exceed the highest levels which each individual seller charged during March; the ceilings apply to practically everything Americans eat, wear and use, the only exceptions being a limite'd list of food commodities. Beginning May 11, manufacturer and wholesale prices and the prices for wholesale and industrial services must not exceed the highest March levels for each sellex\ Beginning July 1, no one may charge more for services sold at retail in connection with a commodity than he chai-ged during March. This applies to laundries, tailors, dry cleaners, auto repair shops, radio re pair men, etc. Bents: orders were issued preparing the way for federal control of rents in 302 defense areas housing more than 76,000,000 persons. Penalties: retail or wholesale establishments violating the regula tions may be forced out of business by losing the licenses which they automatically receive as the controls become effective. In addition, maxi mum penalties of $5,000 fine and a year’s imprisonment are provided for certain violations. • Raid Warden Set-Up t Is Explained Here L. Additional Men Register a For Duty In An Emergency Organization of the air raid warden set-up in the city was explained hy F. P. O’Crowley, chief air raid warden for the city, handbooks distributed and more men registered at a meeting of the group Tuesday night in New Hanover High school. Before arm bands were distributed to those who have completed the required courses, Mr. O’Crowley asked “if an emergency occurred now how many of you really would un derstand the terror? If you would see someone come out with an arm band on it would give you that little confidence needed. “The men in charge themselves* don’t know where they are. What if the enemy should attack?” he asked. Mr. O’Crowley explained that in New York hotels, stores and racing parks posters were dis played telling people under whose charge they should put themselves in case of an attack by the en emy. “We represent the most import ant factor," Mr. O’Crowley said. “We have the control room oper ated by volunteer people. What are they down there for? They are hoping and praying that they will never be called on to do what they are supposed to do if the occasion should arise. If that time should come it’s up to us to do our part.” “Without an arm band,” Mr. O’Crowley told the wardens, "you have no more business on the streets in case of a blackout than any other person.” In explaining the set-up, Mr. O’Crowley told the wardens there were 10 zones in the city and eight, nine or ten sectors to each zone depending upon the area of the zone in the city. He said there were four zone wardens—no more block crptains or senior or junior wardens—and 40 sector wardens to each zone. George L. Stearns said approxi mately 125 new wardens were reg istered at the meeting before which only 137 had been registered at the volunteer office. Mr. Stearns said the total required for the city was more than 360 as it is esti mated that eight wardens are needed per 1,000 population. According to the records, Mr. Stearns said six men had complet ed training for arm bands. How ever, during the meeting a num ber of wardens furnished informa tion that they had completed the required training and received the bands. The number one warden in each of the ten zones was presented helmets. -V AMERICAN LOST LONDON, Wednesday, April 29. —(jp)—pilot Officer John Flynn, of Chicago, was lost in aerial com bat over France Monday when his American Eagle comrades shot down five Nazi planes._ CITY WILL RAISE NAVY RELIEF FUND Campaign To Obtain $5, 000 Will Be Launched Here Today Wilmington’s campaign to raise $5,300 toward the $5,000,000 Navy Relief Society fund is being launch ed in earnest today, with the ap pearance of groups in each of the four banks armed with emblems and subscription blanks for. all comers. The emblems cost $1.25. Sub scriptions may be any amount, from a dime to a million. Mrs. Tom Wright and Mrs. Holmes Davis, Sr., will be at the Peoples bank; Mrs. David Murchi son and Mrs. George Lynch at the Security bank; Mrs. R. B. Hare and Mrs. R. N. Brand at the Wil mington Trust and Savings bank and Mrs. Kirk Wagenseller at the Morris Plan bank. Mrs. W. W. Storm, chairman of this branch of the work, has secur ed the services of groups for ev ery day at the banks, and the gen eral committee sponsoring the drive has announced that ladies will take up the selling crusade at other strategic points. This is the first step in the cam paign. It will be followed by solici tations in principal places of busi ness and industries by an initial gifts committee. Because the time is short and the need great, this phase of the drive will be chiefly conducted through members or employes of the various firms among their own staffs. This is under direction of Warren Johnson, president of the Peoples bank. As at the banks, both emblems and subscription blanks will be offered. Headquarters for the drive will be at 7 North Front street, where Daughters of the American Revo lution are on duty to enroll work ers for the intensive war bond cru (Continued on Page Tow; Col. 8) Landlords Put On Notice To Reduce Inflated Rents _ - By STERLING T. GREENE WASHINGTON, Apr. 28— W) — Areas housing 76,000,000 persons— more than half the nation’s popu lation—were put on notice today to reduce inflated rents or have the government do it for them. A total of 302 war-swollen sec tions were designated de f e n s e rental areas, as “an essential part” of the overall freeze of prices announced by Price Administrator Leon Henderson, and maximum rents were recommended for each. In four-fifths of the areas, rents were ordered cut back to the levels of March 1, 1942, thereby, eliminating increases made during spring moving and leasing. In 64 of the areas, 1941 dates were chosen, January 1, April 1 or July 1. “Next to food, this is the largest single item in the family budget”, Henderson said. “Effective price control requires rent control.” Under the Emergency Price Con trol Act, local authoities are giv en 60 days to stabilize rents as ordered by Henderson. If this is not done, OPA may enforce the maximums. Violators of the ceil (Contlnnad on Pari Three: Col. 8) Reds Increase Recent Gains At Lake Ilmen Nazi Positions Outflanked North And South Of Northwestern Front BOROK IS RECAPTURED Germans Admit Heavy Rus sian Attack Breaks Their Lines North Of Orel LONDON, April 28.—(/P)— The Russians reported today they had recaptured Borok, railway town on the west side of Lake Ilmen, outflanking German positions both to the north and south of that sec tion of the northwestern front. The entire Lake Ilmen re gion apparently now is in Russian hands except for Staraya Russa, directly to the south, where a dwindling Ger man army has been reported trapped for months past, and Novgorod on the north. ' The Berlin radio broadcast tonight that a heavy Russian attack, sup ported by armored trains and tanks, had broken the German lines at one point northeast of Orel, some 200 miles south of Moscow. The an nouncer added that the “situation | later was restored.5' Violent Fighting A roundabout report from Buch arest, which Reuters heard the Vichy news agency broadcasting, said violent fighting was in progress for Kursk, 280 miles south of Mos cow. The Russians were reported to have reached Korennaya Sunday in their drive for Fatezh, SO miles northwest of Kursk on the road to Orel. Kursk is being outflanked to the north, the Vichy report said. The Russians also were said to be at tacked near Byelgorod in an attempt to bypass Kursk from the south. Other fighting was reported around Isyam, 80 miles southeast of Khar kov in the Ukraine. Russian troops concentrations were reported in the Taganrog area on the Sea of Azov and the Red army was said to be building strong defenses against an expected Ger man offensive aimed at the oil riches of the Caucasus. All roads between the Sea of Azov and the Donets Basin have hardened sufficiently for use, it was said, and the German air force has stepped up its bombings of Soviet communi cation and rear position in that sec tion. New squadrons of Russian fight ers were reported moved to that front and anti-aircraft defenses have been strengthened. Nazis Repulsed A Russian communique also said the Red army had repulsed repeated German efforts to pierce the Russian lines on the Smolensk central front. The Germans have lost 1,000 dead there in the past two days, the Rus sians said. An intimation that bigger-scale fighting might be expected was con tained in the assertion that the Ger mans were using strong tank forces —a certain sign that the ground was getting firmer with the advance of spring. The Germans themselves claimed they had destroyed 19 Russian strong points in the Smolensk sector. On the Kalinin front northwest of Moscow, teh Russian communique said 20 German blockhouses and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) FOUR"CONVICTED IN ‘DOPE’ CASE Restaurant Operator, Three Soldiers Sentenced For Selling ‘Reefers’ RALEIGH, N. C., Apr. 28 Three Negro soldiers and a Negro restaurant operator pleaded guilty in Federal court here today of selling marijuana cigarettes to Ne gro soldiers at Wilmington and Judge I. M. Meekins sentenced all of them to terms in the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta. The defendants were Washington Fortune, Edgar D. Wall, Zemus Mack, all soldiers, and L uthe r Armstrong, the restaurant opera tor. Fortune, Wall and Mack were sentenced to 18 months each, and Armstrong drew a one-year term. Fortune was charged with being leader of the marijuana ring. A witness said that enough mari juana for 3,325 cigarettes was found in his room. The Federal grand jury returned true bills in the four cases this afternoon and the guilty pleas were entered immediately. , SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSANDS AMERICAN FIGHTERS ALREADY OVERSEAS, SAYS ROOSEVELT The Commander-In-Chief Signs Up President Roosevelt, commander-in-chief of the United States armed forces, was among some 13,000,000 Americans in the 45 to 65 age group registering April 27 in the Selective Service manpower inventory. James D. Hayes, chairman of the local draft board, watches the President sign in the White House executive office at Washington. Hundreds Of British Bombers Attack Nazi Bases In France ..””.—." '." *--— Trondheim Is Among Targets Heavily Hit In Mass Assault By RUSSEL C. LANDSTROM LONDON, April 28.—(A3)—British bombers and fight ers in uncounted hundreds — a single attacking unit covered a square mile of sky—smashed with unprecedented violence today at German bases in France in the wake of tremendous overnight raids spread from the Nazi battleship nest at Trondheim, Norway, to the war plants of the Rhineland. As the day wore on, one great British formation after another swept out over the channel coast in what had be come a grand, unhalted offensive with at least three main ob j ectives: 1. To break the already weaken ed German air power on Hitler’s western flank. 2. To further disrupt the restrict ed flow of German war supplies to the Russian front. 3. To clear away the German threat to the Allied sea routes to the northern Russian ports by blows upon the key to German sea power in the north. This key was Trondheim, where British bombardiers over night flung down tons of exploding steel upon the harbor and dock installa tions—“trying to knock them down as fast as they can put them up,” explained an air ministry official Whether the four German war ships believed anchored there were also attacked was not made clear. They are the 35,000-ton battleship Tirpitz, the 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen, the 10,000 ton cruiser Hip per and the 10,000-ton pocket bat tleship Admiral Scheer. The air ministry’s communique said merely: “The effect of this attack may not be known for some time.” It was explained in other quar ters that vital above all else was the destruction of Trondheim as a Naval base, particularly since its facilities are essential to the Nazis for overhauling damaged big ships, among them the Prinz Eugen. Today’s principal RAF targets were such French coastal points as St. Omer and Calais- Six British planes were lost in these sweeps; three German fighters were shot down. Overnight British assaults were over a far pattern. Aside from Trondheim in th e north, Cologne and other vital in dustrial points in the Rhineland were hard hit, as were the docks of Dunkerque, enemy airfields in occupied territory and enemy ship ping. Of the Cologne raid the air min istry reported: “Targets were easily seen and large fires were left burning.” Summarizing the reports of pi lots, the air ministry news service (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) CEILING PLACED ON GAS PRICES Slight Advance Is Allowed In 17 Eastern States By Price Board WASHINGTON, Apr. 28— UP) — Price Administrator Leon Hender son tonight placed a ceiling on the retail price of motor fuel through out the country. In all localities except for 1 7 Eastern states and the District of Columbia the retail price may not exceed the maximum charged by each individual service station dur ing March. For the Atlantic seaboard states the maximum price was fixed at the highest rate charged during March plus 0.4 cent a gallon for gasoline and 0.2 cent a gallon for Diesel fuel. The new maximums will become effective May 18. DRIVE ON TIRE THEFTS PRESSED James Wilson Arrested On Charge Of Stealing Tire From C. Y. Milton With the arrest of James Wilson, 21, of Turner’s Lane, Tuesday night on charges of stealing' a tire from the automobile of 0. Y. Milton, of 517 North Third street, Harry E. Fales, superintendent of New Han over Bureau of Identification, and Detective Sergeant W. D1. Thomp son, of the city police department continued the drive launched Sun day against tire thefts here. Apprehension of Wilson brings to seven the total number of persons to face trial Thursday morning in Recorder’s court on tire theft charges. ' Mr. Fales said that L. A. Massin gale, charged with the same theft, had confessed to buying the tire from Wilson. Massingale is being hfcld under $250 bond pending the hearing. Others held und bond on charges of tire thefts are Jack Geldbaugh and Mrs. Mary Geldbaugh, owners and operators of the Cape Fear cagTaxi company; Itussell Moore, a Cape Fear cab driver; D. C. Howard, manager of the Cape Fear Service station, and Robert Jenkins. The raids have resulted in a total of 43 automobile tires being brougdit to the Bureau of Identification of fice. Thirty of the tires, along with some tubes and rims, were brought from the Cape Fear Taxi company Monday night following the arrest of the Geldbaugh- who could not explain to the officers where the tires came from, except there. Again Mr. Fales urged motorists of this area to "take the serial num ber, name and size of their tires and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Burma Fight Becomes Battle Of Demolition _ _ By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, China, Apr. 28—UP —The battle of Burma became to night a desperate melee of demo lition, evacuation, last-stand de fense and reckless counter-attack by trapped or menaced Chinese and British defenders fighting in the first gales and showers of the approaching monsoon to hold open the door to Free China. The Chinese and British armies shortened their thin line of tired infantrymen and shell-s c a r r e d tanks defending Mandalay w h ile the Japanese armored spearheads from the Shan states advanced on Hsipaw and Lashio on the all-im portant Mandalay-Lashio railway, 130-mile steel artery in the supply system to China from the United Nations. Maymyo, 40 miles East of Man dalay on the railroad, was evac uated by the Burma civil govern ment; the Chinese were moving essential supplies from bombed, blazing Lashio, terminus of the true mountainous Burma road to Kunming, China. While the roads ahead of the Japanese drive through the Shan (Continued on Page Threej Col. 5) President Tells U. S. Work, Sorrow And Blood Are Price Of Civilization THINKS JAPS CHECKED Chief Also Warns Vichy Allies Will Prevent Axis Use Of French Territory WASHINGTON, April 28. — (JP) —President Roosevelt, revealing officially for the first time that “several hun dred thousands” of American fighting men have already been sent to battle the Axis in distant lands, rallied the na tion to a gigantic war effort tonight by saying that the price of saving our civilization “must be paid in hard work and sorrow and blood.” In an address to the coun try and the world, delivered from the White House, he also expressed the view that the Japanese southward drive had been checked, and de clared that Australia, New Zealand and adjacent islands are now to become “bases for offensive action.” The disclosure about the size of the Army expeditionary forces and naval contingents sent abroad was made in the form of an interpola tion in the President’s advance text. Since Pearl Harbor, he said, “we have dispatched strong forces of TEXT ON PAGE SEVEN The text of President Roose velt’s address will be found on page seven of this issue. our Army and Navy—several hun dred thousands of them—to bases and battlefronts thousands of miles from home.” Mr. Roosevelt also warned the Vichy government that the United Nations would take any action ne cessary to prevent the use of French territory by Axis forces, and guaranteed a continuation of the delivery of arms to China, re gardless of Japanese successes in Burma. Bluntly, he informed the civilian population of the United States that its every member would feel the effect of his ne*vl yannounced pro gram for stabilizing the cost of living, and called upon it for self denial and sacrifice, in the inter est of victory. Need Courage, Loyalty “Never in the memory of man,” he said, “has there been a war in which the courage, the endur ance and loyalty of civilians play ed so vital a part.” And, he vigorously attacked all who might be “impeding” the war effort: the “faint of heart”; those “who put their own selfish inter ests”; those “who pervert honest criticism kjto falsification of fact”; the “self styled experts who know neither true figures nor geogra phy”; a few “bogus patriots” who, invoking freedom of the press, “echo the sentiments” of Axis pro pagandists, and “above all,” the “handful of noisy traitors. . . would be dictators” who “in their hearts and souls” would yield to Hitler ism. Heroes Lauded Praising the fight which Ameri cans have given the enemy the world around, Mr. Roosevelt, at the same time, singled out two men and a ship for special cita (Continued on Pare Two; Col. ») ■-V WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina: Little change In tem* perature Wednesday except slightly warmer extreme west portion, scatter ed thundershowers northeast portion. South Carolina: Little change in tem. perature Wednesday. (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) (Meteorological data for the 24 hourk ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday). Temperature 1:30 a. m. 63; 7:30 a. m. 64; 1:30 p. m, 75; 7:30 p. m. 69; maximum 76; minimum 61; mean 68 normal 66. Humidity 1:30 a. m. 94; 7:30 a. m. 91; 1:30 p. m. 66; 7:30 p. m. 73. 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 Far Today (From Tide Tables published by U. *. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington_8:30a 3:18a 9:02p 3:35p Masonboro Inlet_6:08a 12:15a 6:43p 12:27p Sunrise 5:25a; sunset 6:54p moonrise 5:42p; moonset 4:43a. Cape Fear River stage at Fayette ville on Tuesday at 8 a. m., 9.8# feet. (Continued on Page Two; CoL •)
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