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Served By Leased Wire Of The - ASSOCIATED PRESS REMEMBER WIDE WORLD With Complete Coverage Of PEARL HARBOR State and National News AND BATAAN 75-”“NO. 235 ——- - ■ ■ - - - ESTABLISHED 1867, 600 Million Fund Asked To Build Defense Housing - M___ I D. R. Seeks Living Quarters For Thou sands Of Workers SPEED IS ESSENTIAL Meanwhile OPA Serves No tice Rent Ceilings Ef fective June 1 WASHINGTON, May 27.— (/P) _ President Roosevelt asked Congress today for a quick $600,000,000 to provide living quarters for thousands of workers in overcrowded war production centers and'ixN avoid any loss of efficiency in the plants themselves. Meanwhile the omce or rrice Administration served notice that rent ceilings would become effec tive in twenty industrial areas June 1. It said voluntary compli ance thus far had been insufficient and warned that unless landlords cooperated, federal action would be taken to enforce the ceilings. The President’s special message estimated that 1,600,000 workers would migrate to war - industry areas in the year beginning July 1. Existing housing facilities are in sufficient, Mr. Roosevelt said, and the excess population must be pro vided for by new public construc tion "largely temporary in nature” and designed for workers in the lower income brackets. *?hus far,” he said, “Congress has shown a lull appreciation of this need and has made $1,020, 000.000 in appropriations available for the construction of war hous ing. This figure reduces to its true perspective when we realize that it is less than one per cent of the funds made available for war pur poses. A Wise Policy "The allocation of war funds for the shelter of the men and women leaving their homes to serve our war industries is a wise and estab lished national policy. “That policy should continue.* War production is now increasing in geometric ration. Plant capac ities are expanding faster and fast er. Consistent reports from all over the country indicate a rising need for housing, running far ahead of the supply and threaten ing seriously to reduce the effec tive use of these plants unless rem edied at once.” The President emphasized the need for swift Congressional ap proval of the appropriation be cause of a necessary time lag be tween the time funds are author ized and the facilities can be con structed. He said that a large por tion of the funds would be returned to the government in rents and through sales after the war is over. The 20 rent ceiling areas were notified March 2 to put the ceilings In effect June 1. "In no area was it found that the price administrator’s recom IContinued on Page Eight; Col. 2) CHESrGROUP MEETS TODAY Formal Organization To Be Carried Out At Meet ing At 5 O’Clock Plans for the organization of a community Chest in Wilmington hi be drawn at a meeting of a “Vnittee on organization to be ., a afternoon at 5 o’clock in e offices of the chamber of com merce. A permanent chairman will be . °?en.an{I the set-up formulated having our formal organization, Th8 ®nnounce(3 by E. A. Laney. endcf immunity Chest has been tjor tsed by a number of organiza .1?’’hose representatives will at Aw meeting. uU attendance is anticipated. StQte Allotted 408 New Cars For June VAmINGT0N’ May 27- — MB — tnari °™ce. of Price administration in ,e available today for rationing „ Une the same number of new cafS^nger automobiles as was allo Mav monthly m March, April and ri»l’ plus any unused quota car over at the end of May. *luded JUne quota states in , Alabama 54; Arkansas 204; Flori r° • : Georgia 456; Kentucky 340; auisiana 421; Maryland 818; Mis ■ssissrppi 204; N. Carolina 408; ennessee 456; Virginia 844; Dist. Columbia 216. 1 To Pen For 82% Year* Eugene Levine (above), 31, stands before the bar in court at New York and waits for Judge Louis Goldstein to sentence him to serve 82 1-2 to 165 years in prison for attacks on six women victims. Previous to his indictment on six counts, Levine admitted attacking "about 100” women in the last two and a half years. Judge Goldstein recommended that he be kept in solitary confinement at Sing Sing. CHINESE BATTER JAPS AT KINHWA 15,000 Out Of 100,000 Killed; Defenders Suc cessful At Back Door BY SPPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, May 27-Am— The Japanese army of 100,000 which launched the offensive in Seaboard Chekiang province has been deci mated, having lost 15,300 in cas ualties, at least 10,000 of them dead, and still has not been able to take Kinhwa, the provincial cap ital, the Chinese reported tonjght. At the sane time Chinese advices from the backdoor battlegrounds of Burma and Yunnan province painted a more favorable picutre. The American Flying Tigers were reported still hammering Japanese troops, who now apparently had been stripped of effective air pro tection, and Chinese troops report ed successes. About 1,500 Japanese were killed when they advanced through a Chinese mine field, exploding 70 or 80 of the buried mines, the communique added, and only about 200 of the Japanese who later succeeded in entering the suburb of Kwangkitow managed to escape from a Chinese bayonet charge. The situation of Kinhwa was still precarious, however, with fighting continuing to rage on three sides of the city. An enemy unit also was reported repulsed east of Lanchi, 15 miles northwest of Kinhwa, after losing 1,300 casualties, and prisoners were reported taken in attacks on the Japanese rear north of Kienteh. (The Japanese, who were claim ing two days ago that their troops (Continued on Pafe Two; Col. 7) Gestapo Purge Master Is Wounded At Prague ——————— M -—— 4 LONDON, May 27—<«—Reinhard Heydrich, acting Reich’s protector of Bohemia and Moravia and Ges tapo purge master for Nazi-con quered territory, has been wound ed in an assassination attempt in Prague and the threat of swift and terrible reprisal executions hung heavy tonight over old Czecho Slovakia. One Berlin broadcast said Hey drich’s wound was not expected to prove fatal but gave no other intimation of the seriousness of his condition. Another said the attack occurred at 1 p.m. today on the Prague-Berlin highway but within the limits of greater Prague. Whoever fired the shot, which Czech circles here feared would touch off an unprecedented whole sale slaughter of their countrymen apparently escaped. The German radio said a reward of 10,000,000 crowns (worth $235,000 at the last quoted exchange rates a year ago) would be paid for his" capture. Martial law was clamped on im mediately under which Karl Her mann Frank, Heydrich’s deputy, announced: “No civilian is permitted to leave (Continued on Pa»e Two; Col. S) <* i Hous $50 For_ Measure Sent Back To Con ferees Who Has Recom mended $42 Month PAY BOOST DELAYED No Chance Of It Going Into Effect Now Before July First Of This Year By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, May 27.— (&)—For the second time in two weeks, the House over whelmingly voted today for a minimum pay of $50 monthly for service men. It sent back to conference a compromise proposal worked out by a Senate-House committee rec ommending $42. The action virtually eliminated any chance for a service pay boost becoming effective before July 1 since the bill provides that any raises shall become effective on the first day of the calendar month following its enactment. For the increase to go into effect June 1, the conferees would have to reach an, agreement, and both branches and the President ap prove it, by Sunday. House leaders already have announced their in tention of adjourning after tomor row. Senate and House consideration of the bill providing allowances for service men’s dependents, a companion measure, also may be delayed. _ Cries of “politics” and putting “a dollar sign” on patriotism high lighted the one hour of debate that preceded the 332 to 31 vote on a motion by Rep. Rankin (D.-Miss.) to reject the compromise and in struct the conferees to stand by the House figure. The vote was al most identical with the 332 to 28 count by which the House on May 13 turned down the Senate-approv ed $42 scale. Recommended $42 Rankin’s motion took precedence over one by Chairman May lD. Ky.) of the military committee that the compromise be accepted. The committee had recommended $42, an increase of $12 over the $30 monthly now paid a private and an apprentice seaman after four months of service. Men entering the service receive $21. The committee also had recom mended that first - class privates and second-class seamen be boost ed from $36 to $48, but the House insisted that its action of May 13 raising this figure to $54 be upheld by its conferees. May declined to disclose what course he would follow next in be half of the $42 originally proposed by the Army and the Navy but several other conferees predicted the joint committee would stick to its guns and report the $42 again. This procedure, it was thought, might persuade $50 advocates to yield rather than incur a dead lock. Fifty dollars, Rankin told the House, was what nine-tenths of the House membership and the nation wanted. He cited high wages being paid industrial workers. Rep. Sut phin (D.-N. J.), referring to indus. trial profits on war contracts, said that if the members failed to vote for at least $50, “we should hang our heads in shame when we pass an enlisted man on the street.” Australians Higher Fan* Rep. Reed (R.-N. Y.) comment ed that Australian privates, “prob ably getting paid out of lend-lease funds,” receive more than $50. “The tinge of politics is bound to color what we do here today,’ declared Rep. Costello (D.-Calif.). He contended it was not a matter of providing adequate pay because a soldier’s value could not be mea sured “with dollars and cents. “You cant pay for patriotism like that shown at Bataan, he ad ded, pleading with his colleagues not to “smear patriotism with a dollar sign.” Costello scoffed at Rankm s con tention that the $50 minimum (Continued on Page Two; Co!. »> RUSSIANS MAKE DETERMINED ADVANCE ON KHARKOV AND BARVENKOVA FRONTS; U. S. FREEZES WAR INDUSTRY LABOR -- ■ 4 WPA Takes Action To Stop Tabor Pirating’ By Manufacturers _ t ORDER FAR-REACHING U. S. Employment Services Alone Will Hire Men For Critical Skills By FRANCIS M. LEMAY WASHINGTON, May 27.— (JP)—A “freezing” of essential workers in critical war indus tries to their present jobs was decided upon today by the war manpower commission to stop “labor pirating,” de scribed as a severe interfer ence with war production. In this far-reaching move, the United States employment service was made the “sole hiring agency for critical skills in critical areas.” There was no immediate esti mate of the number of workers who would be affected, but it was expected to run into hundreds of thousands if not millions. A commission spokesman said the action meant that henceforth essential workers would, be “un able to change from one war plant to another without approval of the United States employment serv ice.” The policy will become effec tive, he told newsmen, as soon as the proper directives can be draft ed, “which means immediately.” He declined to discuss the pos sible effects the policy might have on the stabilization of wages in war plants. Agency to Hire “This simply means,” he said, “that all rcraalfflyaaBBt in rritipal war plants will benandled excf&M sively by the United States em ployment service. Pirating of la bor has become acute, especially in the aircraft industry. The pirat ing usually is done by a plant of fering more money to a worker in another plant. This practice, the commission has found, causes in stability and slows down produc tion.” The policy could be enforced, through war contracts, but he ex pressed an opinion that “employ ers will go along and we do not think compulsion will be neces sary.” The commission also took furth er steps to make certain that men irreplaceable in prod uction may be deferred from the draft and remain at their work benches. Preliminary plans were drawn for a classification of war plants according to their urgency, and for a system of manpower prior ities to assure the critical plants ample supplies of skilled lab nr. The commission previously had asked that local draft boards con sult with the federal employment (Continued on Page Four; Col. 4) WATERPROlCT BOND VOTE SET Citizens Will Ballot On $600,000 Issue Here On June 30 Approval or disapproval of a $600,000 city bond issue to supple ment federal funds to build the proposed King’s Bluff water supply project will be expressed June 30 by residents of Wilmington. Date for the city election on the issue was set at Wednesday’s meeting of city council. Registration books for the elec tion will be open in the wards and precincts here from June 6 to June 20 but persons who regis tered for last December’s bond election will not be required to register again in order to be eli gible to vote in the bond election. Funds Necessary Both Mayor Hargrove Bellamy and City Attorney W. B. Camp* bell emphasized Wednesday morn ing that the new $600,000 .bond issue was necessary to provide funds for the King’s Bluff project which was not included in the waterworks improvement program for which a $525,000 bond issue was authorized to match Federal funds last December. The entire waterworks improve ment program, including a new filter plant at Hilton, two 75,000 steel storage tanks, extensions to the present system of mains here and the King’s Bluff project, is estimated to cost $2,620,000 of which the Federal Works agency (Continued on Pace Three; CoL IX : ~ --¥ German Ship Scuttled In Madagascar I • '•—■ ... I This aerial view shows the German ship “Warenfels” which was scuttled at Diego Suarez on the island of Madagascar as the British invaded that strategic French pos session in the Indian ocean. The vessel was refitted in dry dock when the British started action and the German crew attempted to destroy her. But the British say the scuttling was not completely successful and the ship can be salvaged. The picture was radioed from Cairo to London and then cabled to the United States. Germans Open Major Offensive Against British Army In Libya Armored Forces Are Engaged In Bitter Conflict In Desert By EDWARD KENNEDY CAIRO, Egypt, May 27.—(/P)—Strong Axis tank col umns thrown forward in an effort to flank the southern most point of the British Libyan triangle based on Tobruk and Ain El Gozala were engaged tonight by British armored forces in action so heavy as to indicate that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel may have opened a major offensive. The first indication that Rommel, was again on the march eastward, unfavorable though the season is I for broad operations because of the J intense heat, was given in the reg ular communique of the British Imperial command which noted that his forces “including tanks in some strength” were advancing. Then, in a subsequent special communique, British GHQ thus dis closed that the fiercest action in some weeks had quickly developed: “During the night a large enemy armored force advanced from the west to the south of our positions around Bir Hacheim (which lies southeast of coastal Ain El Gazala and southwest of coastal Tobruk). Early this morning the enemy was being engaged by our armored forces. No details of the fighting are yet available.” From other sources, nowever, it was learned that a fierce battle was raging along a line running south from Ain El Gazala. The Nazis struck first at British positions near the Bir Hacheim waterhole about 50 miles below the coast, their tanks being met by (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA — Warmer in interior Thursday. SOUTH CAROLINA — GEORGIA— FLORIDA — Warm and humid, scat tered .thundershowers Thursday. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7(301 p. m., yesterday): (By U. S. Weather Bureau) (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 60 : 7:30 a. m. 68: 1:30 p. m. 78; 7:30 p. m. 88: maximum 80; minimum 63; mean 72; normal '74. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 83; 7:30 a. m. 78; 1:30 p. m. 45; 7:30 p. hi. 90. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.03 inches; total since the fihst of the month, 6.01 inches. Tides Far Today: (From Tide Tables Published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High - Low Wilmington___8:00a. 2:55a 8:40p. 3:Q6p. Masonboro lnlet — 5:38a. 11:57a. 6:20p. -p. Sunrise 5:03a; sunset 7:15p; moonrise S:38p; moonset 3:57a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Wednesday at 8 a. m., 18.40 feet. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3> NC POSTMASTERS MEET AT BEACH Seventh Annual Conven tion Opens At 10 O’Clock At Wrightsville Beach Gathering at Wrightsville Beach today will be postmasters — ap? proximately 360 of them—frdm all sections of North Carolina for the seventh annual convention, which will open at 10 o’clock this morn ing. Wilmington s Postmaster Wilbur R. Dosher, host of the meeting, said Wednesday evening that more than 100 reservations had been made at hotels and cottages. Miss Amelia Copenhaven, presi dent of the Tennessee chapter of National Association of Postmas ters, has accepted an invitation to be among the principal speakers at the Friday morning session. She will speak at 10 o’clock. Among the other distinguished guests planning to attend the con. vention will be M. J. McAuliffe, manager of the 4th U. S. Civil District, Washington. The convention opens Thursday morning at 10 o’clock with regis (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) Incentive Bonuses Saved Millions Congress Told WASHINGTON, May 27.— UP — James F. Liocolin, president of a company handling millions of dol lars of war contracts, testified to day that his system of incentive bonuses for employes, ranging as high as $50,000 a year, had saved the government $35,000,000 through increased working efficiency and reduced costs. He flatly denied that he had installed the system in an attempt to evade excess profits taxes, and told the House Naval Committee that he had conceived the idea of stimulating cooperation after hearing Resident Roosevelt’s “great speech or the abundunt life” in 1933. His statement came after Ed mund Toland, committee counsel, contended that the Lincoln elec tric company of Cleveland, Ohio, which Lincoln heads, would have paid $4,438,916 more in taxes for the period 1939-41, inclusive, were it not for bonuses totalling $2,000, 000 in 1941 and establishment of a $1,000,000 trust fund. The com pany turns' out electrodes and weld ing equipment. Earlier in the day, Toland in (Continned on Pare Four; Col. S) ■ * - SAILOR RIDES GUN DOWN WITH SHIP Cannon Fires Just As Tor pedoed Vessel Takes Death Plunge NEW ORLEANS, May 27.—W Naval gunner Woodrow Wilson Har rison of Augusta, Ga., tried so hard to bag the Aixs submarine that sank the medium sized Am erican freighter on which he was stationed on May 19 in the Gulf of Mexico that he went down with the ship riding the carriage of his blazing gun. The second class seaman, re portedly only 17 years old, was the only man lost aboard the snip itself, which sank in five minutes in early afternoon, but 19 crew members in a lifeboat struck by the stricken submerging ship were sucked under and lost. Twenty-two men were rescued 28 hours later by a passing ship and brought here. The sinking produced two other remarkable adventures, one of a gunner whose foot was caught in a rope and pulled under the sur face before an explosion freed him, and the other of the submar ine commander pulling two crew men from the sea, treating one’s injuries and giving them cigarettes before putting them aboard the only life raft that remained afloat. Second mate Amigo Soriano of Seattle, Wash. ,and Theodore Snow of El Segundo, Calif., said the sub commander wore shorts and spoke perfect Esglish with an Ox ford accent. He dressed Snow’s cuts with alcohol, and said: “Are you American boys? Sorry we had to do this, but this is war.” They (Continued on Page Four; Col. 5) Reds Consolidate Gains Near Kharkov, Beat Germans In South 4,500 NAZIS ARE KILLED Eighty-Two*Planes Report ed Destroyed During Tuesday's Fighting By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Thursday, May 28.—(fP)—Russian troops bat tling on the Kharkov-Barven kova fronts were reported to day to have beaten their way forward in both areas after killing 4,500 more Germans and capturing large quantities of equipment. The midnight Soviet communi que announced that the Red army had consolidated their gains be fore Kharkov while defeating fierce Nazi attacks in the Izyum Barvenkova sector 80 miles to the south. A supplementary communique said 1,400 Germans had been slain “in the Izyum direction,” by the men of one rifle unit, and that in another sec/tor the Germans were in retreat after having failed to ford a river—an attempt that was broken up by Soviet artillery firing at short range. The Germans lost 1,000 dead in that river action, and Soviet caval rymen stabbing 40 miles behind the German lines in another area slew 2,100 Germans. Eighty-two German planes were declared destroyed in Tuesday’s fighting, while Soviet losses were listed as 12 craft. Front dispatches had said earlier that the Red army, backed up against a river in the Izyum-Bar venkova area, had counter-attack- • ed in a daring stroke that consid erably lessened the Nazi flanking threat there. One Field of Combat Intimating that these two battle fronts now had become practically one vast field of combat, Maj. Gen. Niolai Zhuravlyer, a military reviewer, said all the fighting was “closely bound up from the opera tional point of view.” He declared the German failure to break through in the Izyum. Barvenkova area, despite a tre mendous massing of tanks, was proof that the Nazis no longer en joyed their former superiority in armament. Already, in these initial opera tions of spring, the Germans have been forced to use 30 per cent of the tanks and armored cars they have on the Russian front, he de clared. All Soviet accounts stressed the number of tanks the Germans were employing (without mention, ing an over-all estimate). And the numbers the Russians were de» stroying. As a typical incident, Red Star, The army paper, said the Germans (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) U. S. MAY MODIFY TRUCK LOAD LAW Order Expected To Relieve Hardships Recent ly Imposed BY HOWARD SUTTLE (Star Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, May 27.—Revs, sion of regulations governing movement of supplies by motor truck to relief hardships imposed upon those who handle freight transportation into rural areas is expected to be ordered here with in the next few days, probably to morrow, by Joseph B. Eastman, director of the office of defense transportation. Revelation of Mr. Eastmans in tention to revise the order, which was to become effective June 1, came simultaneously with an nouncement of creation of a di visional ODT office at Charlotte with Lafayette R. Stallings, of Rocky Mount, former co-owner of the Stallings transfer service, as manager, the entire Carolinas area has been served since April 20 by the ODT regional office at Charles ton. The Star correspondent was ad vised tonight by a usually informed source that the ODT will postpone until July 1, the effective date of an order requiring trucks carrying freight to leave their sources fully loaded, but carrying not more than 120 percent of designated ca pacities, and return with loads rep (Continued on Page Two; Col.
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