AVENGE NVN IlNpi W^I IIl'I ’~~^3Bl^Bil!I^Mv,:)— The Office of Price Administra tion said today that permanent ceiling prices would be placed on flue-cured leaf tobacco “shortly” to replace the temporary order now in effect. OPA said it agreed with trade spokesmen that the present sys tem of allowing private buyers to purchase flue-cured tobacco for two separate periods beginning (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Heavy Guard Is Placed Around Vichy Buildings ■ ■ --- VICHY, Unoccupied France, j Sept. 12 —UP)— Springing up at dawn and without any warning, soldiers and police manned ma chine guns at strategic points in | Vichy today and heavily guarded all government buildings and dip- j lomatic hotels in mysterious man- j euvers which authorities dismissed ; as mere practice. Whatever the reason for the brist ling of arms all over the city, it was noted that the guns were point ed at roads leading into Marshal Petain’s capital city. Up to 10:30 a. m. soldiers with full machine-gun equipment guard ed the postoffice which also houses Family Devotion Lead s To Lifer’s Undoing Mrs. Louise O'Brien sits in car with son, Jimm y, 9, as she awaits further word of her husband whose fingerprinting for a defense job led to his unmasking as Ormund Westgate, who escaped from Joliet prison 18 years ago while serving a life term. Westgate (right) took the name O’Brien and led a model life. He voluntarily submitted to fingerpr iuting in New York while seeking a better paying job due to his wife’s illness. He was serving life on a robbery charge. Broughton To Study Housing Problem; Seeking Fayetteville Pipeline Project PROMISES HELP Will Also Give Attention To Pressing Need For Hospital Expansion The critical shipworker housing shortage here and the pressing need for expansion of Wilming ton’s present hospital facilities are two things to which Governor J. Melville Broughton is going to give iris immediate attention, North Carolina’s chief executive prom ised in an interview here yester iay. Climaxing an inland water trip from New Bern to Wilmington by iis first full-dress inspection of the North Carolina Shipbuilding com pany, the governor said that he talked to many workers on the job yesterday morning and that their only complaint was lack of suitable housing for themselves and for their families. Promises Aid “Expansion oi Wilmington’s present hospital space is very bad ly needed,” Governor Broughton declared. He said that he intend ed to do everything in his power to expedite relief for both situa tions. Granting of priorities for an 800 unit demountable unit shipworker project and for an 1,100-unit dura tion dormitory project for married and single workers, both being built by the Federal government here, has speeded up work on the two projects and both are expected to be available by December. However, shipyard officials have estimated that both projects are needed to take care of the present housing shortage and more Fed eral housing will be needed to take care of future increases in employ ment. j A Federal grant has been made for the construction of a three story addition to James Walker Memorial hospital and condemna tion proceedings are underway to obtain land for the site of the addi tion, next to the present hospital plant, but members of the hos pital’s board of governors have j been unable, as yet, to obtain suit able priorities for the new build mg. Sporting a coat of tan from a two-day trip down the inland waterway from New Bern. Gover (Continued on Page Two: Col. 3) the telephone exchange, the rail way stations, and bridges and roads into the city. Outside the city, from which Chief of State Petain was absent on a tour of the unoccupied area, soldiers were massed at strategic spots—heavily at the airfield. There was popular speculation as to whether a serious internal difficulty was expected but authori ties explained that it was practice to test a plan to cope with any possible disorders which might be directed against Petain’s govern ment or the town. I (C» ntinueu on Page Three; Col. 6) - ii Earle Dickinson Wins More Navy Decorations ■ WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—GP) The Navy cross with two gold stars, equivalent of three Navy crosses—and ail air medal for heroism—have been awarded Lieutenant Clarence Earle Dick inson, Jr., 29. The Navy said today that Dickinson won his decorations for four actions against the Japanese in the Hawaiian, Mar shal and Midway islands. He is tlie second man to win three Navy crosses. The other was Lieutenant Noel A. M. Gayler who received his awards a week ago. Dickinson, a native of Wil mington, N. C., now is on duty at the Corpus Christi, Tex., air station. STEEL STRIKERS ARE SUSPENDED Forty Who Halted Work Punished For Violation Of Union Contract GARY, Ind., Sept. 12—UP)—Ap proximately 40 workmen who halt ed production at the Carnegie Illinois steel plate mill by strik ing last night were summarily suspended today for violation of their union contract. The mill, largest of its kind west of the Alleghenies, rolls 160 inch plate for the Navy and Mari time commission. Normal opera tions were resumed late today after the strikers, all cranemen, loaders or hookers, were replaced. A company spokesman who would not permit the use of his name said the suspensions were made with the approval of the men’s union, the United Steel Workers of America (CIO). Union officials branded the walkout a wildcat strike. “This action represents a stif fening of the attitude of both the company and the union to work stoppages which interfere with war production,” the company spokes man said. He explained that a contract signed by the union and the steel corporation in Pittsburgh a week ago provided that workmen re sponsible for stoppages “may be suspended or dismissed.” Ten of the strikers have been given no tice of their suspension “subject to dismissal,” and the rest will be notified as soon as possible. Work at the mill is so inte grated. the spokesman said, that the strikers were able to halt production entirely for about 20 hours. The strike began at 4 p.m. yesterday. Late this morning foremen and other work supervisors, with ap proval of the union, manned the cranes to get the line going again. Regular operators were obtained for the shift beginning at 4 p.m. today ROUTE REVERSAL Plan Would Serve To Re lieve Gasoline Shortage In This Section A reversal of the route by which oil and gasoline products flowed frcm Wilmington to up-state local! ties may serve to relieve southeast ern North Carolina’s present gaso line shortage due to transportation difficulties, Governor J. Melville Broughton revealed here yesterday. The governor said that he was working on a project whereby the present pipeline into the state from oil fields of Texas via Charlotte tc Greensboro would be extended from Charlotte to Fayetteville. WOULD USE BARGE Gasoline barges which in times oi peace haul the petroleum products from tankers here in Wilmington to Fayetteville could then brins gas from the pipeline terminus ir Fayetteville to Wilmington for dis tribution. “The method is quite practic able.” the governor declared. He said that he had conferred with Senator Josiah W. Bailey, chairman of the Senate’s commerce commit, tee under which pipelines come, several times on the subject. Loss of ocean-going tankers in the Atlantic to Nazi submarines and the diversion of the remaining tank ers to other routes has cut the movement of gasoline products through Wilmingtcfci to a trickle. The city once ranked as the leading oil port on the east coast. Failure to utilize the inland water, way for transportation of gasoline and other products was scored heavily by the governor in the course of the interview7. “In our trip here along the water, way from Morehead City, Friday, a distance of some 95 miles, we saw only one ship of any size.” Gover nor Broughton said. “I was appalled to find that a thoroughfare which was designed for this sort of an emergency sc lttle used.” The one vessel, however, was an oil barge, he said. “I am going back and report that to Washington as one of the many circumstances indicating the neg (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) Indians Propose F.D.R. Mediate Their Problem LONDON. Sept. 12—<-P)—Indian proposals that President Roosevelt be invited to mediate the trouble some Indian problem found echo in Britain today, now that the way to direct negotiation apparently has been closed by Prime Minister Churchill’s sharp criticism of the congress disobedience campaign. “We should swallow our pride and invite the President of the United States to arbitrate on In dia,” the labor peer, Lord Strabol gi, said in an address at Basing stoke. He took cognizance of Churchill's suggestion that a Japanese fifth Ticket Sales To Be Opened Here Monday Movie Actress Jane Wy man And Jinx Falkenburg Will Be Present SLATED NEXT SUNDAY Everyone Who Attends Will Be Reauired To Pur chase $500 Bond Pre-sale reservations for the “Stars Over America” dinner here next Sunday at which Cinema Actresses Jane Wy man and Jinx Falkenburg will be present, are being made at a rapid rate, Allen C. Ewing, chair man of War bond and ticket sales for the day, said yesterday. Tickets for the event, which will be held in the Cape Fear country club at 2 p. m. will officially go on sale Monday at the city’s banks, building and loan associations and by special salesmen selected for the event. Prerequisite to the purchase of a $1.50 ticket is the purchase of a minimum of a $500 War Savings bond which retails for $375 and Chairman Ewing said he was con fident that many of the guests at the dinner would purchase bonds of even higher maturity value boosting the average “admission” to the luncheon to better than $500. Others Limited Since Wilmington is the only southeastern North Carolina town at which the stars, now touring the country under the sponsorship of the Treasury department, will appear, an invitation to citizens of surrounding towns and counties to attend the dinner and the rally which will follow in the auditor ium of New Hanover high school has been extended by J. G. Thorn ton and Emsley Laney, city and county War Bond sales chairman, and by A. G. Grist, special War bond sales chairman for this month. Residents of other counties can purchase tickets for the dinner through their county* War Bond chairmen or in Wilmington, Chair man Ewing said, and added that he expected every one of the 200 (Continued on Page Two; Col. I) FURTHER CHANGES IN TAX BILL to Treasury Tells Senate Group Only $830,000, 000 Added To Plan it WASHINGTON. Sept. 12.—UP)— Members of the Senate Finance committee, told by the treasury to day that their action on the tax bill had added only $830,000,000 to the annual revenue provided by the house, indicated that they might consider further changes in the lev ies on individuals. With a reopening of the tax sched ules which already have been tent atively adopted, sales tax advocates hoped to revive a levy of this type and there were indications that a modified version of the "pay as you go” plan might be considered. Calling a meeting of the commit tee for Monday morning, Chairman George (D-Ga.) told reporters the bill still was open to last minute changes but would not predict whether any would be made. He said the treasury had esti mated that as the measure stood it would raise $7,100,000,000 more (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) column might be working in India by telling labor party members: “I fear a repetition of what hap pened in Burma where important elements turned to the Japanese after being rebuffed in London.” Lord Winster, another laborite, spoke at Cardiff criticizing Chur chill’s statement, saying: “The time has long since gone by to talk about India in the tone of a cavalry subaltern of the 1870’s.” In line with other laborites, how ever, Lord Winster declared that (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1)