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"Served By Leased Wire Of The ft^ W - -- ASSOCIATED PRESS J-fllt. I ^ * * itVit *> 4 REMEMBER ~zij uaumtiujlmt Utortrotg mar r«r ^ '^N()-_2_29----TWELVE PAGES_WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1942 FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. U. S. Soldiers Reach Northern Ireland Base heavily armed and wearing steel helmets, these United States soldiers march to a training center in Northern Ireland after a gigantic convoy landed tens of thousands like them at the American Expeditionary Force base at the end of a 2,400-mile voyage. Tanks and heavy artillery accompanied the troops. This picture was cabled from Lon don. Federal Inquiry Exonerated Walsh, Barkley Tells Senate No Truth To Charge He Visited ‘loreign Agents9 Report Shows WASHINGTON, May 20. — (/P) — Democratic Leader Barkley (Ky.) told a tense, hushed Senate today that a thorough investigation by the Justice Department had completely exonerated Senator David I. Walsh (D-Mass) of an “unjustified, malicious, degrading charge” that Walsh visited a house of ill-repute in Brooklyn and could be accused “of conspiring with alien enemies” there. displaying documents turmsnecH lo him by Attorney General Biddle, Barkley said there was “never the slightest foundation’’ for state ments published in the New York Post that Walsh had been a fre quent visitor to a “house of de gredation ' in Brooklyn. The senate leader said there were reports soldiers and sailors were “plied ®>th liquor’ ’there in order to ob tain from them information on ship movements. (In New York, Ted O. Thacitery, editor of the Post, said in a state ment that the paper’s only aim "as to "arrive at the truth openly aud publicly” and that it would continue to demand a full public senate investigation.) . Barkley’s remarks about the cnarges and the Justice Depart ment investigation came before a crowded senate, with Walsh as one the few absentees. Reachd by rporters later, Walsh had no com ®ent and declined to discuss any u|“re.action he might take. Outlining the case slowly and euberately, Barkley said the New i Wk ^os.t had charged in its May • -942. issue that a member of me senate frequently was seen in ‘‘ mouse of degredation” in Brook -U. Gustave Beekman, alleged op rator of the house, was convicted Brooklyn for an offense Barkley few Was "*00 lithesome to men on the senate or in any group ‘Mies and gentlemen.” earned Senator J?le Post story said, Barkley ' on- that a member of the ■dte had been observed in the dce talking to an alien suspected i oemg a «spy in behalf of the «. d' A few days later, he said, ,°'st named Walsh as the sen alor involved. ':sv3,rk,‘ey said a purported affi 1 ! signed by Beekman was storv tu the basis of the Post’s 5 ; ■ - ‘‘e Democratic leader said inentan sut>seciuently made state s' ,s to Department of Justice m ts that Walsh was not the idpirTf- came to his house and bp: llle<t the picture of another as Place man wbo did visit the DrJ*1^6 Barkley sai-d he was not f,:„pared to commit himself on a st ,re course in the matter, his it, e,rnent brought immediate de cs from senators Wheeler (D •toiuinuei on Pa*e Two: Col. 5) i PRIORITY SOUGHT FOR WATER LINE Wilmington Project Back ed By Maritime Commis sion; WPB Asked To Act By HOWARD SETTLE (Star Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, May 20— A high priority rating for Wilmington’s $2,620,000 water supply expansion program has been recommended by the Maritime Commission and only the final approval of the War Pro duction Board is necessary before the necessary materials may be secured, Mayor Hargrove Bellamy revealed here tonight. Mayor Bellamy has scheduled conferences tomorrow with officials of the WPB’s division of priorties and hopes to obtain a final answer during these meetings. The program provides for an out right federal grant of 60 percent of the total amount involved in the project frith the City of Wil mington to supply the remaining 40 percent of $1,048,000. Mayor Bel lamy said he anticipates no trouble in obtaining approval of a bond is sue since “the people obviously want an adequate water supply system.” The pending project v uiid pro vide for extension of a 30-inch con crete line from the present intake at Toomers creek to Kings Bluff. The priorities order will be neces sary to enable purchase of valves and fittings. -V British Attack Axis Convoy In Mediterranean VALLETA, Malta, May 20—W —British naval aircraft attacked an Axis convoy in the Mediterran ean last night and probably hit a merchant vessel and a destroyer, it was announced here tonight. Malta’s anti-aircraft guns shot down one Axis bomber duiing the day and damaged two others. 5 MORE LAND ASKED FOR AIRPORT HERE Tract Sought By Govern ment To Extend 3rd Run way Another 1,000 Feet Request to acquire more land at the Wilmington Army Air Base for extension of the north-south run way an additional 1000 feet so as to make the three runways at the airport 5,000 feet in length was received Wednesday by Chairman Addison Hewlett of the County Com mission from C. C. McGinnis, WPA State administrator. Mr. McQinnis contacted Mr. Hewlett by telephone and also pass ed on to him information received by the WPA in a telegram from the CAA showing that the request originally came from the Army Air forces. The wire reads: “Washington office CAA advises that the Army Air Forces have requested the extension of airport facilities at the Wilmington air port to make it equal in size of any in the south. This work is of primary importance to Air Force plans and should be undertaken im mediately and completed in the shortest possible time. CAA Re gional Office will confer with youi office in the prearation of pro ject and description and cost to (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) -V WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA — Slightly cooler inter, ior Thursday with scattered thunder showers east and central portions. (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. 70; 7:30 a. m. 73; 1:30 p. m. 80; 7:30 p. m. 74; maximum 82; minimum 68; mean 75; normal 72. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 95 7:30 a. m. 86; 1:30 p. m 52; 7:30 p. m. 78. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches; total since the first of the month, 4.79 inches. Tides For Today: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington - 1:48a. 9:17a. 2:19p. 9:09p. Masonboro Inlet-11:43a. 5:45a. ll:54p. 5:52p. Sunrise 5:06a; sunset 7:llp; moonrlse 10:22a; moonset—. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Wednesday at 8 a. m., 12.85 feet. (Continued on Page Three: CoL 1) V Drastic Hikes In Income Tax RateProposed It Would Double Levy On Persons Who Earn Up :To $4,000 Or $5,000 NETS $2,756,000,000 Graduated Surtax Rate From 6 To 77 Per Cent Also Asked By Committee WASHINGTON, May 20— (#*)—Drastically increased in dividual income tax rates which would double the tax of persons who earn up to $4,000 or $5,000 and which would bring $2,756,00(5,000 into the treasury were approved tenta tively today by the House Ways and Means committee. The new schedules include an increase in the noraml tax rate from 4 to 6 per cent and a gradu ated scale of surtaxes ranging from 12 per cent on the first $2,000 of net income to 81 per cent on more than $5,000,006. Present sur taxes are from 6 to 77 per cent. The present 10 per cent earned income credit would be retained in computation of normal taxes and the credit for dependents would remain at $400. No earned income credit is allowed in figur ing the surtax but the credit for dependents may be taken. The committee previously had voted to cut the exemption for single per sons from $750 to $500 and for married couples from $1,500 to $1, 200. The committee’s new income tax program rejected a recent sugges tion by President Roosevelt that no individual be permitted to keep more than $25,000 after payment of taxes. The members also took no action on a coupled recommenda tion that corporations might well be confined to a more or less fixed percentage of profit. Based on the new exemptions and rates, a single person with a net income up to about $3,000 would pay a tax at least double th£t of last year At least twice as much as last year also would be paid by married persons with no dependents who have a net income up to about $4,000, and by married persons with two dependents with a net income up to about $5,000. The new program would compel single persons with an income of about $10 a week to pay federal income taxes for the first time. Under present law, a single man has to have an income of about $15 before he need walk up to the collection window March 15. -V Hoover Asks Dictatorial Powers For Roosevelt NEW YORK, Hay 20—(^—Her bert Hoover said tonight that if the United States is to win the war President Roosevelt “must have dictatorial economic powers” be cause he said “plain Fascist econo mics” is necessary to triumph in total war. "There must be no hesitation in giving them to him and upholding him in them,” the former presi dent said. “Moreover, we must ex pect a steady decrease in economic freedom as the war goes on.” “We must start our thinking with a disagreeable, cold, hard fact. That is, the economic mea sures necessary to win total war are just plain Fascist economics.” 3 -V Allied Planes Attack Jap Bases On Timor ALLIED HEAQUARTERS, Aus tralia, Thursday, May 21.— (A1) — Allied bombers destroyed two grounded Japanese planes, damaged the runway and started large fires yesterday in an attack on Koepang, Dutch Timor, and also attacked military objectives in Dili harbor in the Portuguese half of the occupied island. Launching To Highlight ‘Maritime Day’ Program 1 1 M. ■ ■ ■■ ' ■ _ Launching of the S. S. William Moultrie from the ways of the North Carolina Shipbuilding com pany here Friday afternoon at 4:40 o’clock will highlight Wilmington’s observance of national “Maritime Day.’ Other activities of the day, which will see thirty ships luanched at shipyards in various sections of the country, will be marked with a dinner to be given Friday night at the Cape Fear Country club by the Wilmington’ Propeller club, which is in charge of arrange ments for ceremonies here. Outstanding officials will come to Wilmington for the celebration and the occasion will be the most notable event at the shipyard since launching of the first ship from it’s ways in December, 1941 Exercises at the shipyard will begin at 4:15 o’clock, two short speeches being scheduled to be de livered by Representative J. Bay ard Clark, of the Sevnth North Carolina district, and S. Duvall Schell, executive director of the Maritime Commission. The William Moultrie, twelfth Liberty freighter to be launched (Continued on Pnge Three; Col. 4) RUSSIANS STILL ADVANCING ON WIDENING KHARKOV FRONT AS BRITISH BUST MANNHEIM 40,000 Fire Bombs Drop ped, Followed By Heavy Explosive Missies DAMAGE IS EXTENSIVE Raid Described As Prelude Jo Attacks Using Up To 1,000 Planes By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, May 20.—(/P)— Forty thousand incendiary bombs and “great loads” of the biggest explosives from hundreds of bombers were showered upon the German industrial center of Mann heim last night, the British said today, and even greater attacks employing up to 1,000 RAF and American bombing planes a night were promised for ^the aerial offensive against the Reich. Air Ministry quarters said the 40,000 fire bombs were dropped by one detachment of four - motored Stirlings, leaving hundreds of fires for the succeeding waves of Hali faxes, Lancasters, Manchesters and Wellingtons with their “heavi est high explosive bombs” to shoot at. Intelligence reports quoting tne raiders said the destruction in the big chemical, armament and en gine building center reminded them of Germany’s ruined Baltic port of Rostock. It was the 54th raid on Mann heim, a city of 283,000, and the first against Germany since the weather forced a lull in Britain’s air offensive 11 days ago. Lifting the curtain on the plans for this offensive, authoritative quarters said they were building up to the point where 1.000 bomb ers would be sent against Germany any night the weather permitted. United States palnes would fly with the British, it was indicated. “A thousand planes Is not a fan tastic figure,” the source said. “At present we have the facil ities for sending 800 planes on raids, and these can be expand ed.” The informant added that most British bombing now is being done by four-engined planes with a min imum bomb load of four tons each. Thus, he said, a thousand such planes could carry 4,000 tons of explosives — or enough “to blow anything in Germany apart.” The submarine base at St. Na zaire, France also was strongly attacked last night, but the British said three-fourths of the bombers were sent against Mannheim. Fourteen planes from the raid ing forces failed to return. By contrast, only zu planes at tacked a north coast English town. Reconnaissance planes also sought the 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen, the “clay pigeon” of the German fleet, but authoritative sources said they did not know where she had gone. Disclosing new details of the at tack off Norway Sunday night, in which at least two torpedo hits on the Eugen were claimed, author ized quarters said more than 50 planes swarmed down upon the cruiser. Acknowledging the loss of nine of their planes, the British said the cruiser was screened by 40 Messerschmitts. 3 -V Packard Is Pressed To Obtain Materials DETROIT, May 20.—W—George Christopher, president of the Pack, adr Motor Company which now makes airplane and motor torpedo boat engines, said today that if he could get materials, he “would be able to build as many as any body wanted.” Packard is now in productin of 1,350 horsepower Marine engines for Navy motor torpedo boats and also Rolls Royce aircraft engines.5 Lew Ayres Reports For Induction Lew Ayres (left foreground), the movie star, falls into line with other draftees for induction into the Army at Portland, Ore., after announcing his draft board had granted his, ,1-^qnpst for non-combat service. That permit ted him to leave a conscientious objectors’ camp at Wyeth, Ore., without compromising his views against bearing arms. Rationing Program May Be Extended Shortage Of Goods Hints Action Within Next Year By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON, May 20.—(JP)—Shortages of certain goods available for civilian consumers are expected to result in rationing of 15 major items within a year, well informed officials said tonight. To administer tnese programs, as well as the big enforcement job necessary for universal price control, the Office of Price Admin istration contemplates a staff of 90,000 persons. Such a growth, necessarily a rough estimate but one that is be ing used for preliminary budget preparations, would make Price Administrator Leon Henderson's agency the third largest in the government, outranked only by army and Navy. OPA now has about 7,500 on its payroll in addition to some 20,000 volunteers on local ration boards. Officials said it is not contemplat ed to increase the number of un paid workers. The 15 scarcity items mentioned w-ere said to include the six al ready rationed or about to be: sugar, gasoline, tires, typewriters, automobiles and bicycles. The other nine were kept secret, for officials fear that pre-mature disclosure of any one of them might touch off a buying wave which would complicate conserva tion efforts vastly, besides thwart ing the purpose of rationing — which is to guarantee that a 11 shall share alike in the available supplies of scarce necessities. The hint was dropped, however, that some of the nine general cat egories likely to be affected would include many, types and sub-class ifications of goods, bringing the war home to civilians with com pelling force. On the other nana it was certain that some scarce articles would not be rationed despite failing sup plies. Among these are most of the “standard of living” items the production of which has been halted to convert plants, workers and materials to armament pro duction-such things as radios, re frigerators and washing machines, which can be spared for the war’s duration. These and perhaps certain tood items like tea probably will be allowed to dwindle and possibly disappear entirely from shelves and sales floors. Tea sales to deal ers have been cut in half, a con trol measure expected to make the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) VESSEL ATTACKED BY THREE SUBS Repeated Torpedo, Gunfire Attacks Made Before Ship Is Sunk TAMPA, Fla., May 20—UP)— All hands and the dog came safely through repeated torpedo and gun fire attacks when their ship was sunk by submarines last month and now the sailors and their dog are ready to go back to sea. Fifty-thrfee men and an Airedale named Mickey reached this port recently, survivors of a medium sized U. S. merchant ship sunk April 29. The sinking had previous ly been announced by the Navy. The survivors spent about 84 hours in open boats, rode a sub chaser to a Caribbean port and another ship to Tampa en route to New York. MicKey is tne pet oi captain .Ernest V. Farrow of Staten Is land, N. Y., has. sailed with his master for three years and is re garded so much as a member of the crew that when rations were being -doled out in lifeboats. Miek ey got his full share along with the rest. Struck first by a torpedo about 2 a.m., the ship was not disabled and was able to maintain speed with the submarine in pursuit. Soon, two other submarines ap peared on the surface and for 15 minutes a brisk battle was fought With naval gun crews aboard the ship answering the cannon and machine gun fire from the sub mersibles. The ship was damaged, but not disabled, by this gunfire and those_ aboard her were unable to say if the subs were struck. A second torpedo smashed into her three hours after the gunfire died away but again she was able to main (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) •v Gain Despite Close-Quarter [Tank Attacks, Move Jo Turn Flanks ENEMY IS REPULSED Fighting Also Continues On Kerch Peninsula Where Germans Claim Victory Bv HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Thursday, May 21. — (/P)— The Red army’s smashing drive on Kharkov in the Ukraine, now in its second week, was reported to day still gaining ground de spite close-quarter Nazi tank attacks and a German at tempt to turn the southern Russian flank in the Barven lfova sector 80 miles south of that great industrial city. The midnight Russian communi que said: “During May 20 in the Kharkov direction our troops conducted of fensive battles, and repulsing ene my tank attacks, continued to ad vance.” Moreover, the Russians declared their armies still were fighting near Kerch in the eastern Crimea (where the Germans claimed com plete occupation of bridgeheads on the narrow straits opposite the Caucasus). Attacks Repulsed In the Barvenkova sector where the Russians yesterday acknowl edged the Germans had begun a counter-offensive, the Soviet com munique said “our troops repulsed several attacks of German Fascist troops.” A Soviet ship also was credited with sinking three enemy trans ports totaling 26,000 tons in the Barents seg, and Red airmen were delcared to have won a 27-to-l?. advantage in aerial combat Tues day. • Russian sources in London re- ■* ported Timoshenko had driven “in to the heart of the city’s defenses” in a mechanized onslaught which thus far had cost the Germans 600 tanks. (London quarters also suggested that the German announcement of Baron Von Richthofen’s presence in the Nazi Kerch peninsula offen sive indicated a possible prepara tions to use'a German parachute army of 100,000 in a bid to bridge the narrow strait of Kerch and drive directly toward the oil fields of the Caucasus. (Richthofen, a cousin of the World War flier who made the name famous, directed the desolar ing bombing of Belgrade in April, 1941, and prepared the way with heavy dive-bombing for the para chute invasion of Crete last May, He also is a glider-transport ex pert.) The communist party paper, Pravda, denied the German high command’s claims to have cleaned up all the Kerch peninsula, said Soviet troops were continuing in tensive battles against superior en emy forces and predicted: ‘‘Even greater battles are ahead.” The German offensive begun yesterday in the Barvenkovo and Izyum sectors 80 miles south ot Kharkov apparently was intended to divert the massive Russian pres sure from Kharkov, key to the present situation in the Ukraine, but the Russians refused to be drawn out of position. Speed Emphasized Soviet front-line messages said the speed of the push toward Khar kov was shown in the recapture of a village where the Germans fled so quickly that they left dinner steaming on the table. At another point the 31st German artillery regiment was caught, un. able to move, because its horses had been sent back to Kharkov for feeding and a brief rest, said the Russians. The great plains battle area was overhung with a pall of smoke from villages being burned by the Germans to keep them from Soviet hands, the accounts continued. In one recaptured village which once had 108 houses, only seven re mained standing when the Red army moved in. In one tank battle, the quarters were so close that the German’s planes could not risk helping their tanks for fear of hitting them, Red Star, the army paper, said. Folly six Nazi tanks were reported burn ed or blasted on the single field. Overhead, Soviet planes shot down seven of the Wheeling German air men, the paper added. In another clash, 51 German tanks were destroyed by bigger Russian machines, it said. Bitter Fight To show the sort of fight it is, Red Star told of these indicents: (Continued on Page Eight; CoL ti
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