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NO ACCORD MADE ON INFLATION BAN Barkley Predicts Legisla tion Will Provide For Control Of Wages WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 — <J» — A further round of conferences to day failed to produce an agreement among congressional leaders on terms of the legislation demanded by President Roosevelt to curb in flation but Senate Majority Leader Barkley of Kentucky predicted it would provide specifically for con trol of wages as well as farm prices. , Meanwhile a labor department survey showed sharp and unseason al increases from July 15 to Aug. 15 in the price of foods exempt from control with the cost of liv ing index for large cities rising 0.4 per cent for that period. Sentiment among the congres sional conferees appeared to be that a brief resolution to authorize the President to take the necessary action to hold down the cost of liv ing, advocated by some house lead ers, would be unacceptable to many members of both chambers. Barkley reported that while “we haven’t ruled out anything,” the proposal to give the President gen eral powers over wages and farm prices was “not running very strong now'.” Chairman Wagner (D-NY) of the Senate Banking com mittee said he did not believe the senate would accept a bill “so gen eral as not to contain a formula for both wages and farm prices.” Senators Barkley, Wagner and Brown (D-Mich) met late in the day with Chairman Steagall tD Ala) of the House Banking com mittee in what Barkley described as “a purely preliminary discuss sion.” Another session will be held tomorrow' afternoon. "1 wouldn t want to predict any. thing at the moment, but I certain ly hope we’ll be able to introduce a bill by Monday,” Barkley said. The senators still were hopeful of working out in advance a bill sat isfactory to house and senate cut Barkley remarked that "sometoing will have to be introduced as a starter.” Mr. Rooseveit set Oct. 1 as the deadline for the legislation. Barkley sai dit still was planned to begin hearings before me Senate Banking committee Tuesday. Fmst witnesses will be Secretary or Agri culture Wickard, Price Administra tor Leon Henderson, and William H. Davis, chairman of the war la bor board. MANY RESERVATIONS MADE FOR DINNER (Continued from Pare One reservations to the luncheon to be taken by the middle of the week. The two stars will-arrive at the Union depot here next Sunday morning on the Augusta: train and will be met by a special recep tion committee, headed by Mayor Hargrove Bellamy. Escorted by motorcycle police, Miss Wyman and Miss Faikenburg will be carried to the Cape Fear hotel for a short stay after which they will drive to the country club. Rally Follows The rally in the High school auditorium will follow immediately after the dinner. Miss Wyman, who has starred in a number of motion pictures in re cent years, has a husband in the armed services. Miss Faikenburg is perhaps better known to Wil mingtonians through her frequent appearances as the “cover girl” on a number of popular national publications. In addition to the banks and building and loan associations, tick ets and*bonds will be on sale at each of the city’s motion picture theatres, now celebrating “Salute to Our Heroes” month, at the treasurer’s office of the Atlantic Coast Line railway and the Wil mington furniture company and by Salesmen C. B. Parmele, R. Stew art, Albert Perry, Walker Taylor, Dr. J. W. Hooper, Bruce B. Cam eron, Thomas H. Wright, P. Nichols, E. B. Bugg, Lewis Wood berry, Louis Poisson, E. L. White, Harriss Newman, Ben Washburn, E. W. Carr, Adrian Ludke, S. L. Marberry, D. M. Darden, Ham Marks, Alex Fonvielle, W. M. Hill, Fred Willetts and Howard Penton. Robert Strange, past Legion com m artier here, is general chairman of “Stars Over America” day next Sunday. Mr. Wright is chairman of the transportation committee for the day, Mrs. Hargrove Bellamy of the decoration committee, Mrs. Thomas Wright of the menu com mittee, and R. B. Page of the publi city committee. -V Workers in the aeronautics in dustry suffered only 7.40 disabling injuries per 1.00,00 man-hours as compared with an average oi 15.39 for all 31 industries. Motorists Needed To Make Unique Gas Saving Tesi Every patriotic North Carolim citizen interested in saving gaso line for Victory will welcome th achievement of an American inven tor. Already thousands of car own ers are using his invention and the; report gas savings of un to 30% a: well as more poweT. quicker pick-u] and faster acceleration. The device called the Vacu-matic. operates oi the super-charge principle. It is en tirely automatic and allows the me tor to breathe. The manufacturer? the Vacumatic Carburetor Co., 7611 2916 W. State St.. Wauwatosa, Wi? consin, are offering a Vacu-mati free to those who will test it oi their own cars and help introduc it to others. Write them today! Winner ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Sept. 12.—(/P)—"Miss Texas,” 18-year old Jo-Carroll Dennison (shown above) of Tyler, captured the 1SJ42 "Miss America” crown in Atlantic City’s annual bathing beauty contest tonight. The Texas girl, with dark brown hair and greenish-brown eyes, succeeds Blonde Rosemary La Plance of Los Angeles as mythi cal bathing beauty queen of the United States and territorial pos sessions. Second place went to Miss Chicago, Bette Brunk. 18, and third place to Miss Michigan, Patricia dine Hill, 21, of Detroit, who boasts she was born in Brooklyn. City Briefs mr SETTLED Tit* sue driver didn't give tim -.he t»E*es: change Friday unac. Vase* Dowling said, so iigat. Yisco Dowling saici yes ierday. so be ended the dispute bj rasing she Carolina cab and driving it home. Dowling said that the company sent him the correct change Friday night and came to his house Satur day morning for the cab. FIREMEN CALLED Carl Causey, group com mander of auxiliary firemen in city Zones 1, 2, and 3, re quests auxiliary firement in those zones to report to the fire station at Seventeenth and Dock streets Tuesday night at 8 o’ciock for a “drill test.” MAIDS OF HONOR Articles in the News and the Star announcing the launching of the Richard Spaight by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company on Friday, failed to say that Miss Juliette Robert son and Miss Irene Vendig were maids of honor. The Rich ard Spaight was the 28lh ship to slide down the ways at the yard. IMPROVING Friends of Miss Betty Wil liamson will* be glad to iearn she is improving following a major operation at the Medical Center of the University of Virginia at Richmond, Va. TO SING C. E. Watson of New York city and the Camp Davis OCS will be the guest soloist this morning at the First Christian church. He has appeared on several coast-to-coast broad casts including Metropolitan opera auditions and Mozart opera series and has sung in Carnegie hall with Schola Can torum. VETS TO MEET Regular meeting of the James A. Manley Veteran of Foreign Wars post will be held at 8 o’clock Monday night at the Second and Orange CISO club. All men who have serv ed on foreign soil or in hostile waters are invited to attend. VISITING HERE Miss Lorena Thigpen of El kins has been visiting her sis ter, Mrs. W. H. Gaylor on North Second street. ! MEETING SET The Wilmington Light Infan try reserve corps will meet at 8 ' o’clock Monday night at the W. . L. I. armory. , -V-— TWO PLANES DOWNED ! CAIRO, Sept. 12 -MV- British - fighters chased German Stuka dive , bombers and their escorts in and • out of cloud banks in a 15-minute ‘ encounter over the Western des ' ert today, shooting down two and , damaging 12. Many others were believed destroyed. BROUGHTON PLANS STUDY OF LOCAL HOUSING PROBLEM (Continued from Page One) nor Broughton declared that yesterday morning was the firsr ooportunity he had had to take a really good look at the shipyards here. He has previously been present for two launching cere monies. “I am tremendously pleased at the way work is being done there,” he commented. Inspects Ship In addition to viewing everv phase of production of the 10,000 ton Liberty freighters at the yard, the governor went over the Roger Wiliams, launched August 30 at ”M” pennant day exercises at which the chief executive was present, from engine room to bridge. He said he was looking forward to coming to Wilmington again to be aboard on a trial run of one of the Liberty freighters built here The governor and his party left New Bern Thursday aboard the O’Henry, cabin cruiser of Ken neth O. Hobbs of Charlotte, and spent the night at Morehead City Friday, the party came on down tne inland waterway and stopped off to look over the Marine base at New River in Onslow county. During the trip over the vast i Marine base reservation with Col. D. L. Brewster, executive officer of the base, the governor saw the Marines stage a number of demon strations of the battle tactics taught at the base, inspected equipment, barracks and hospitals and ended up by lunching with a group of Marines in a company mess hall. ’The food was very good in deed,” he said. Game Conservation Governor Broughton waxed en thusiastic over the program of game conservation now being car ried on at the reservation under the direction of Col. Brewster with the active cooperation of the State department of conservation and development. “There is some of the finest game lands in the state,, if not in the United States, there,” he said Quail, turkey, deer and other term of game abound.” Fields of lespedeza and other nish food and shelter for the wild legumes have been planted to fur game on the reservation and a very definite and elaborate pro gram of conservation has been worked out. ‘Instead of the establishment of the base proving detrimental to game and wild life, it’s working out so that there will be more game than ever before when the war is over,” Governor Broughton added. A projected trip through Camp Davis by the governor and his party had to be cancelled because of lack of time and the O'Henry tied up at Wrightsville sound Fri - day night where the governor spent the night as the guest of Bruce B. Cameron. He left for Raleigh yesterday afternoon. “I have had an opportunity to observe beacn areas on the Atlan tic coast from Atlantic City to Miami in the last few months, as well as the Gulf coast, and I be lieve that Wrightsville beach is tiie most efficiently dimmed out resort of them all,” Governor Broughton said. He said that he was pleased with all features of the beach dimout, t’r.e efficiency of the officers, the dimout of the individual cottage i and the dimmed out motor traf fic. In general, the dimout along the entire North Carolina coast is su perior, he added. In the party with Gov. Brough ton and Hr. Hobbs were State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson, James R. Witherspoon, president of the Durham Life Insurance com pany of Raleigh, and Walter Lam beth of the American Trust com pany of Charlotte. JAP PLANES DOWNED IN SOLOMON RAIDS (Continued from Page One) terior of Guadalcanal, using small boats which can sneak ashore un detected at night, but that the ma rines, supported by dive bombers and fighters, “continued to seek out and engage’’ these units. The action was reported in Navy department communique No. 123 as follows: (About 200) “South Pacific: (All dales given are east longitude). “1. The Japanese are continuing their determined efforts to dislodge American forces' from the Guadal canal—Tulagi area of the Solomons. "2. Enemy air raids against our positions in this area continue. On September 0. 2fi enemy bombers es corted by Zero fighters attacked our installations at Guadalcanal. United States aircraft shot down five bombers and four fighters. On September 10. 27 enemy bombers at tacked Guadalcanal and four of the Japanese planes were allot down. On September II, 2(> enemy bombers With fighter escort, again attacked the Guadalcanal installations. Six bombers and one fighter were shot down by United Stales planes. “3. Enemy destroyers have shelled our positions at night but no dam age has resulted. "4. On September 11 our Doug las ‘Dauntless’ dive bombers attack ed enemy installations on Gizo is land in the New Georgia group. A small enemy surface craft was sunk and considerable damage was done to buildings and installations. “’5. United States marines assist ed by dive bombers and fighters continued to seek out and engage enemy troop units in the interior of Guadalcanal. The enemy has re inforced and supplied the units by means of small craft which approach the shore under cover of darkness. Despite opposition to these landings, it has not been possible to pre vent them entirely.” Interpreting The War BY KIRK L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst Prime Minister Churchill’s war review ringing with confidence of ultimate United Nations vitcorv and stern with warning to Hitler of events in the making, had no other angle of special interest and significance to this writer. It was his reference to the dramatic story of American fly in fortress planes and their American crews as it is being written in deeds.of skill and valor on both sides of the world. “United States (air force) day light bombing is a new and in creasingly important factor and there is no doubt, both in accuracy cf high-level aim and in mutually defensive power,” Churchill said, “that new possibilities of air war fare are being opened by our Amer ican comrades and their flying fortresses.” ' Tribute That statement is a striking tri bute to the American air dread naughts, to the crews that fly them and to the technique of their oper ation. It falls sweetly on the ears of this writer because only re cently it was his good fortune to tour Boeing plant number 1 at Seattle where the conception of this huge, high-flying plane with its bomb-sight of uncanny accuracy was born and brought to reality. It would hearten any American to witness the smooth coordina tion of workers by the tens of thou sands and machines by the bun dreds to put better and better fly ing fortresses into the air faster and faster. This plant’s production capacity is already great and could be tripled, Boeing engineers say. Yet it is only one of the huge factories at work on the job, some of them even larger, fantastic as that seems to any one who has visited the Seattle nerve center of the flying fortress industry. Many Changes Probably no fortresses of the model I saw turned out have yet reached the front anywhere. They embodied at least a hunderd structural changes from the pre ceding model, most of them dic tated by battle experience, yet the plant output did not falter even for a day or an hour as one model succeeded the other. Plant records prove that. The defensive as well as the of fensive power of these great ships is stunningly apparent. They bristle with quick-firers of half-inch cali ber. They have no blind spot. Ja panese attackers ultimately learn ea that to their sorrow when they sought to get “on the tail” of them only to find a deadly sting located there. The Churchill reference to the the American fortress planes as demonstrated in daylight raiding over the continent touches on some armament, how'ever. It has to do thing other than their individual with squadron flight where each ship *in formation is a unit in a defensive fire pattern. That has repeatedly foiled the efforts of the most modern high level Nazi interceptors to break up the American daylight attacks. It has sent many Nazi fighters down in flaming death while the fortresses plowed on to their tar gets. BRITISHADVANCE IN MADAGASCAR (Continued from Page One) vices here told only of small ef forts so far. The native Malagasy population v/as reported maintaining a ne r tral attitude, and even the Vichy government has taken a resigned view that completion of the British occupation, which begaa with the seizure of the northern naval base of Diego Suarez in the initial opera tion last May, is but a matter of time. HOLDING GROUND VICHY, Unoccupied France, Sept. 12—{IP)—The Vichy govern ment said tonight that French troops still were holding their ground at Haevatanana, 90 miles from Majunga, one of the three points where the British landed in their new blitz on Madagascar. Fierce fighting was continuing there at 3:20 p. m., 42 hours after the vanguard of South African troops reached there, a telegram from the French commander said. The telegram said the French also were holding up the British advance above the confluence ot the Okopa and Betsiboka rivers, where a second column of South Africans was driving toward the Madagascar capital, Tananarive. --V NEW CLASS WASHINGTON, Sept. 12— (fl) — The Navy announced today the creation of a new class of special ists, to be made up of former policemen assigned to shore patrol duty. -_V Figures for 1941 show th a t while automobile deaths from col lisions were up 24 per cent, and non-collision deaths registered a 21 per cent increase, pedestrian deaths increased only 7 per cent over 1940. I S I R COiBFfT TIME B DIAL \ fl 3 5 7 5 E "Wilmington's Original CUT-RATE Drug Store" Specials <»* Monday & Tuesday Show off your lovely legs with DOROTHY ORAY ‘LEG SHOW* A SLEEK FINISH for your legs...as flattering in shade as the sheerest hose you've ever worn I Dorothy Gray Leg Show smooths on evenly ...a luscious, dusky tan color. Dozens of applications in big 10-oz. bottle, $1. 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