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Full Blackout
Scheduled For
Air Raid Test
. Defense Commander Points
Out Definite Orders
On Defense Drill
ALL MUST CONFORM
All Lights To Be Extin
guished, Traffic Must
Stop On Signal
Tonight’s air raid drill will
definitely be a total blackout,
Commander C. David Jones
declared last night, and the
idea that only a dimout is to
be observed is wrong.
All lights must be extin
guished upon hearing the
first blast of the air raid si
ren and remain out until the
all-clear sounds.
No Definite Time
No definite time has been set
for the start of the blackout, Com
mander Jones pointed out, other
than it will take place between
the hours of 7 p.m. and midnight.
Neither has any length of time
for the blackout been announced,
j
No Calls Answered
The Wilmington Star-News
announces that in compliance
with the request of defense of
ficials regarding the needless
use of telephones during the
iaekout tonight no telephone
calls will be answered by its
office during that period.
he continued, but it is assumed
from information from Raleigh
fiat it will extend over a period.
of about 45 minutes.
During that time, all vehicles
except those specifically exempted
t\ the civilian defense committe
and the military will come to a
complete stop, extinguish all lights
and the drivers must leave the
cars or other vehicles unlocked
but with the ignition key removed.
Persons on the streets have only
three minutes to arrive at their
homes or lodgings, otherwise they
must find suitable shelter in any
j available building. Only persons
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NEW FUEL RATION
PLANS ANNOUNCED
’ Will Enable Public To Pro
vide For Unexpected
Seasonal Changes
WASHINGTON. Spt. 28.— (IP) —
The new fuel oil rationing plan
will divide the heating season into
five periods to enable home own
ers to budget their rations in ac
tnrdance with the seasonal fall and
rise of temperatures, the Office
of Price Administration announced
today.
Coupons numbered from one to
five will be issued for specific pe
riods and will be valid only within
those periods, OPA said. However,
provision for advance use of cou
pons will be made to meet the
needs arising from unusually cold
spells.
The periods will vary slightly
strong the four “thermal zones’’
recently announced. Although the
dates separating the periods now
are only tentative, the heating sea
son will be considered as starting
on October 1.
This means, OPA officials said,
that any fuel oil on hand October 1,
or purchased after that date will
be part of a householder’s ration,
regardless of the date on which
coupons actually are made avail
able for purchases of oil. October
15 is the date tentatively set for
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temperature Drops
To 53 Degrees Here
As Fall Makes Debut
Extra quilts and blankets
were taken from storage
places and put into use last
night as the thermometer nose
dived to a low of 53 degrees in
the city.
In many homes fireplaces
and stoves were lighted for the
first time since last spring as
King Winter paid the coast an
early visit. The highest tem
perature yesterday was only 68
degrees, while the mean tem
perature was 60, according to
government weatherman Paul
Ress.
The forecast for today is
continued cool.
A New
Named for the aircraft carrier which performed gal lantly in three engagements with the Japanese before
she was sunk in the Coral Sea battle, the new U. S. Navy Aircraft carrier Lexington slides down the ways at Quin
cy, Mass, on Sept. 26. Here the big carrier is seen just a? she splashes into Weymouth Fore River. She was built
at the Bethlehem Steel Company’s shipyards. Originally scheduled to be named the Cabot, her name was changed
after an appeal by the captain of the lost Lexington.
Camp Davis To Lend Army Trucks
ToAidlnScrapCollectionHere
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Local Salvage Committee
Is Notified Of Army’s
Wish To Participate
Under authority of Major Gen
eral Frederic H. Smitn, command
ing officer of Camp Davis, Lieut.
Z. M. Bosky, salvage officer at
the camp, notified the local scrap
salvage committe yesterday that
army trucks from Camp Davis will
be loaned to the group for salvage
collections.
Thursday will mark the begin
ning of the newspaper-sponsored
scrap campaign in Wilmington and
in North Carolina, it was pointed
out by Alex Sprunt, chairman of
the local committe.
At a meeting yesterday of the
committee, W. J. Murray, assist
ant superintendent of scrap metal
collections for the WPA, explained
the operation of the local salvage
groups in the drive.
All monies obtained from the
scrap will be turned over to what
ever agency the donor directs, Mr.
Sprunt revealed.
“The public is requested to aid
this drive with everything they
have,” Mr. Sprunt declared. “All
old metal which is not needed for
safety or comfort should be do
nated.”
The trucks loaned by the army
for the collection will be available
in the city and county as long
as the drive lasts. Information on
where to call for pick-up service
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CHOLERA CONTROL
FOR HOGS NEEDED
Farm Agent Here Asks
County To Aid In Fight
For Inoculations
A plea to get State Department
of Agriculture aid in the control
of hog cholera in New Hanover
county was made to the Board of
County Commissioners at their
regular meeting yesterday after
noon by R. W. Galphin, county
farm agent.
With the resignation of Dr. Cox,
state veterinarian, farmers in the
county are stranded with no means
of having their hogs innoculated
with cholera serusm, Mr. Galphin
explained. His plan, approved by
the commissioners, proposes the
appointment of four men in vari
ous sections of the county, to be
trained to give the vaccination to
hogs suffering with cholera. Ap
proval of the State Agricultural
department is needed, however, to
put the plan in action. It was de
cided at yesterday’s meeting that
Mr. Galphin, accompanied by a
member of the board, would pre
sent the situation in person to au
thorities at Raleigh.
“Unless something is done about
the cholera situation in the county
soon, it may become uncontrolla
ble, Mr. Galphin told the board,
“and result in a loss of thousands
of dollars ii pork.”
That the state highway depart
ment open up the extension of
Chestnut stret, between Kenwood
avenue and Williams street, faas
recommended by the board. 1
The Scrap
Front
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBUS, O.—The scrap cam
paign yielded—of all things—one
nice set of burglar’s tools, complete
and in good working order.
But the safe-cracking kit came
from the Franklin county prose
cutor’s office.
CANTON, O.—A 1,500-pound safe
owned by President Warren G.
Harding when he was publisher of
the Marion, O., Star is going into
war implements.
The safe, bearing Harding’s name,
was contributed to the scrap drive
by Brush-Moore Newspaper,s Inc.,
which bought the Star from Hard
ing.
"This is the way President Hard
ing would have had it were he
here,” said Louis Brush, president
of the newspaper syndicate, as he
helped dump the safe on the junk
pile.
ELKHART, Ind.—Sam Dudley has
become a “key” figure in the scrap
drive. Dudley, a repairman and key
maker, turned in 1,000 old kevs and
metal filings equal in weight to
another 1,000.
HARTFORD, Conn.—Mrs. Tru
man S. Lewis of Waterbury donated
two 75-year-old flower urns, totaling
300 pounds, from the family ceme
tery plot.
WASHINGTON—The District of
Columbia’s salvage collection yes
terday in the western half of Wash
ington netted at least 3,370,000
pounds of metal, thus making a
total of 5,242,000 pounds collected
on successive Sundays. The east
ern half was c-ombed a week ago.
SYRACUSE, N. Y.—A 12-ton 155
mm. German field piece, gift of
trie Americacn Legion from in front
of its clubhouse here, started back
for war today but on the Allied side
—by way of the scrap pile.
Among hundreds of tons of scrap
collected early here today was an
iron chair from beside the grave
of John R. Clancy, congressman. It
was the gift of his 81-year-old
widow.
SPRINGFIELD, 111.—Springfield
feels mighty proud of the almost
one million pounds of scrap it col
lected. Louis Schwartz, member of
the local War Production Board,
said the drive here was the most
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Nation Begins All - Out
Drive In Many Areas;
Scrap Piles Growing
NEW YORK, Sept. 28— UP) —
Americans today began throwing
together a mountainous pile of
scrap that will mean steel death
for the Axis.
From coast to coast—in farms,
factories, homes—the three weeks’
nationwide drive to find junked
metal and iron started under the
leadership of more than 1,600 news
papers.
Typical of the gravity of the hunt
for metal scrap so vital to keep the
steel mills from lagging was the
declaration by Connecticut’s Gov
ernor Robert A. Hurley that an
emergency existed in his state.
In a ringing appeal to his people,
tne governor said:
’“Until we have exhausted every
last possibility of providing our
factories with materials they need,
each man, woman and child of
Connecticut is a member of Con
necticut’s citizens’ army.”
As the scrap piled up across the
nation, stories piled up, too, show
ing that Americans were throwing
into the junk heap that will be
come planes, tanks and ships not
only their old iron beds but even
their heirlooms handed down from
Revolutionary times.
Example:
Mrs. Clayton Squires of West
Simsbury, Conn., contributed 51
knitting needles an ancestor used
to fashion socks for George Wash
ington’s soldiers.
Eighteen states thus far have re
ported that every one of their
newspapers, both daily and weekly,
were lined up solidly in the cam
paign requested by Donald M. Nel
son, War Production Board chief,
when he saw scrap collection lag
ging a month ago, and the list is
growing.
The general committee for the
newspapers’ united metal scrap
drive announced solid eighteen
states were:_Connecticut, Virginia,
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Da
kota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Ok
lahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Ore
gon.
But those solid states were only
part of the picture for all over the
nation—in cities, towns, villages,
counties—campaigns were under
way under newspaper leadership.
In some places they had been go
ing on already.
The steel mills will need 17,000,
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Stalin DevotedTo Cause
Of Saving Reds From Axis
(Editor’s note: The follow
ing: impressions of Premier Jo
seph Stalin were written by
Wendell L. Willkie, President
Rooseveltr's personal represen
tative, at the request of Wid
World, shortly before Mr. Will
kie concluded his visit to Rus
sia and left for China).
By WENDELL L. WILLKIE
MOSCOW, Sept. 28.—Mr. Stalin
and I had been in lively conver
sation for some two hours. Among
the subjects which we discussed
was Russian industrial production.
I was telling him of my visit to
Russian factories and some com
parisons I had made wtih Ameri
can industrial organization and
production.
His interest was alert, his un
derstanding comprehensive.
As a pleasantry I. said, “Mr.
Stalin, you know I have been in
business and at the bar all my
mature life. I am rather glad
your lot was not cast in America.
You would have made tough com
petition.”
He laughed. He was obviously
pleased. Men are frequently re
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FARM COMPROMISE
IS TURNED DOWN
Senate Bloc Tenders Pro
posal But Administra
tion Rejects It
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.——
Apparently' sensing defeat in its
drive to force higher farm parity
prices into the anti-inflation bill,
the Senate farm bloc offered a com
promise today but administration
force*!, flatly rejected it.
The compromise would require
President Roosevelt to fix agricul
tural price ceilings in such a way
as to reflect, “all productive costs,
including labor.” It was offered
as a substitute for the amendment
by Senators Thomas (D-Okla‘ and
Hatch (D-NM), which would have
altered the parity or “fair farm
price” formula by introducing farm
labor costs into, it for the first
time.
Administration men complained
that the latter proposal would raise
the cost of living $1,000,000,000 to
$3,500,000,000, a year. They said
the present parity formula, which
would be the basis of ceiling under
the pending anti-inflation bill, was
fair because it reflected the price
of things the farmer buys.
After a hastily called meeting of
the Senate Agriculture Committee
today, the farm bloc leaders laid
the compromise before Senator
Brown (D-Mich., in charge of the
administration anti-inflation bill,
which calls for stabilization of prices,
wages and salaries.
Brown swiftly rejected the com
promise, on the ground that it
would alter the parity idea by in
troducing “cost of production” fac
tors. President Roosevelt has ex
pressed unalterable opposition rto
changes in parity.
Brown announced that the admin
istration forces would fight it out
on the basis of the Thomas-Hatch
amendment vs. a plan offered by
Senator Barkley (D-Ky., majority
leader. This would direct the Presi
dent to make adjustments in farm
price ceilings where such action
appeared necessary to increase war
production, or where the ceilings
fail to reflect increased labor costs.
The rejection of the farm bloc
compromise led Senator Hatch to
declare bitterly:
"For the life of me. I do not un
derstand how the administration
can expect to produce farm or other
commodities at less than the actual
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WEATHER
FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA — Continued
cool today.
(EASTERN STANDARD TIME)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday:
Temperature: :
1:30 a. m. 63: 7:30 a. m. 54: 1:30 p. m.
67: 7:30 p m. 60; maximum 68; minimum
52; mean 60; normal 70.
Humidity:
1:30 a. m. 91; 7:30 p. m. 72; 1:30 p. m.
36; 7:30 p. m. 54.
Precipitation:
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. m., 0.72 inches; tMal since the irst
of the month. 3.89 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY:
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) :
High Low
Wilmington_12 :44a. 7 :49a.
1:12p. 8 :27p.
Masonboro Inlet_10:45a. 4:29a
ll:08p. 5:02p
Sunrise 6:05a; sunset 6:00p; moonrisc
9:31p; moonset 10:43a.
% -
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette
ville on Monday, at 8 a. m., 9.5ft feet.
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NAZIS CRASH THROUGH
STALINGRAD DEFENSES
IN NORTHWEST SECTOR
American Airmen Smash
49 Japanese Airplanes
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—(/F)
—Smashing with terrific force
at the Japanese in both the
Solomon and the Aleutian Is
lands, Army - Navy - Marine
Corps airmen in the last five
days have destroyed 49 enemy
planes and damaged five
ships, one of which probably
sank, without the loss of a sin
gle American plane in combat.
A Navy communique an
nounced that in an attack by
the enemy on Guadalcanal Is
land yesterday (Sept. 28 East
Longitude), Navy and Marine
Corps fighters intercepted a
large Japanese formation not
oply forced the enemy bombers
to jettison their bombs at sea,
but shot down 23 of the 25
bombers and one of the 18 es
corting Zero fighters.
On Saturday a formation of
18 Japanesee bombers escort
ed by 13 fighters attacked the
Marines” position on Guadal
canal, but Navy and Marine
Corps fighters turned them
back, destroying four bombers
and give of the fighters. These
attacks on Guadalcanal fol
lowed heavy assaults Friday
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 2)
LAVAL STIFFENS
ON FRENCH BOR
Premier Gives Nazis Choice
Of Keeping Him Or
Risking Revolt
BERN. Switzerland, Sept. 28.—
(#i—pierre Laval gave the Ger
mans the choice today of keeping
him in office or risking revolt in
France over compulsory labor con
scription, reliable advices from
Paris said tonight.
Informed observers believed La
val had a good chance of winning
his point with a plea that public
reaction must be considered, but
they were uncertain of the final
outcome of the arrest of some 300
Americans by the Germans in the
occupied zone, presumably as host
ages for future exchange.
Official American quarters stiu
lacked formal information on what
was going on in occupied France.
The seizure of the Americans, most
of them in Paris, caused no sur
prise because those in the occu
pied zone were liable to intern
ment as enemy aliens.
The situation served with other
factors, including U. S. endorse
ment of the British occupation of
Madagascar, to intensify the acute
status of American-French rela
tions. But Laval’s apparent stif
fening on the labor program, it
was pointed out, could be an im
portant factor in avoiding a rup
ture.
By his current stand against
compulsory conscription to raise
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M’NUTT REVEALS
LABOR W NEED
WMC Chairman Indicates
Congress May Hear New
Measure On Workers
A
WASHINGTON. Sept. 28.— <A>> —
War Manpower'Chief Paul V. Mc
Nutt indicated today that an ad
ministration proposal for a national
service act, which might empower
the government to make compul
sory assignments of workers o
jobs where they are most needed,
would be submitted to Congress
soon.
Testifying before the House Ag
riculture Committee inquiring into
farm labor shortages, he said “per
suasion is not enough, and there’s
not sufficient patriotic urge” to
deal with the manpower problem.
“I hope in the very near future
that certain recommendations will
be made,” he added. “It is not
an easy task. We have never had
such legislation. Certain constitu
tional questions are involved.”
McNutt told the committee that
on way to keep labor on the
farm was to narrow the differen
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At* VAR UNREST
S IN BALKANS
Conditions Described As
Similar. To Those In
1918; Rumania Active
LONDON, Sept. 28.— (tft—Increas
ing anti-war sentiment in the Bal
kans was reported by Allied gov
ernment sources tonight and a Yu
goslav official described conditions
as similar to those in 1918 shortly
before the collapse of Bulgaria,
Austria and Hungary.
The reasons were listed as
these:
1. The lengthening death list on
the'Eastern front. Rumania alone
was said to have lost more than
300,000 men in Russia and Ger
many was reported demanding 50,
000 additional.
2. Decreasing food supplies.
3. Increasing Axis pressure for
‘‘closer collaboration.”
‘‘The Rumanians are particular
ly bitter toward both Germany and
Hungary,” a fighting French
source said, ‘‘for the first time
since the war began the word
‘pace’ (peace) is seen scrawled on
pavements and buildings through
hundred men and women were
out the country. Recently several
tried by court martial for unpatri
otic activities, including sabotage.
‘‘The majority of the people fee!
that they have received nothing
from Germany except additional
demands, and they are bitter at
Hungary because they were forced
to yield Transylvania to her”
In an effort to counter dissen
sion in Hungary, Germany recent
ly gave Hungary 200,000 acres of
rich Serbian agricultural lands, the
Yugoslav government announced.
The lands adjoin Bachka province
which prevoulsiy had been ceded
to Hunary. The inhabitants of 62
villages were evicted.
Hungary also was reported wor
ried by decreasing war goods pro
duction because of the flight of
workers to the country after an
air raid on Budapest, the Lenin
grad radio said.
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‘Old Glory’ Again Waves
Over Municipal Building
Making its first appearance
over city hall in a number of
years, Old Glory is flying from
the new flag pole on the south
lawn of the municipal build
ing this week.
Moved from Greenfield Park
by City Manager A. C. Nichols,
the flag pole, which at one
time did duty in National
cemetery here, has received a
fresh coat of paint and been
adorned by gilt eagle and
weatherpane atop the staff.
Although the pole was set up
last week, it was not put into
service until Sunday to allow
time for the concrete base to
harden and for the paint to
dry.
15,000 Die Each Year
From Fires In Nation
“Fire accounts for more than
15,000 lives each year and 60 per
cent of the fatal fires get their
start in private homes,” Fire Chief
J. L. Croom said last night, as
he urged local citizens to take an
active part in the observance of
National Fire Prevention Week.
“You have read the casualty lists
appearing in the papers since
Pearl Harbor,” said Chief Croom.
“Civilian casualties that take place
even in peacetime are rarely
brought before your attention. Yet
fire alone takes over 15.000 lives.
In time of war this figure may
be materially increased.
“One of the main reasons of
Fire Prevention Week is to edu
cate civilians in the fire defense
of their own homes.
“Civilian defense leaders have
complete information on the most
effective means of extinguishing
incendiary bombs.
“Heating equipment, including
stoves, flues and chimneys is a
frequent cause of residential fires,
and should be checked by an ex
pert. Examine all exposed wiring
and extension cords for worn in
sulation. The family should be
taught the danger of leaving cords
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BATTLE IS CONTINUING
Russians Admit Numerical
Superiority Of Ger
man Attacks
FIGHTING IN STREETS
Conflict Still Raging Inside
City But No De
tails Available
MOSCOW, Tuesday. Sept.
29.—(/P)—Two fresh German
infantry divisions and 150
tanks thrown into the falter
ing assault on Stalingrad
:rashed through Russian lines
on the northwestern outskirts
of the city yesterday, and the
Soviet High Command again
acknowledged the numerical
superiority of the enemy as
the siege entered its 36th
day. -
The midnight communique
telling of the grave turn for
the Stalingrad garrison said
of that development:
“After stiff fighting a
group of enemy tanks man
aged to penetrate a workers
settlement, where the fight
ing continues. During the
day our men annihilated
about two German infantry
regiments and disabled about
50 enemy tanks.”
1,000 of nemjr Killed
Northwest of Stalingrad, presum
ably above the sector where the
Soviet lines were cracking, the
Russians said their troops had
killed more than 1,000 Germans
and destroyed eight Nazi tanks in
the past 24 hours.
The Red army had been holding
generally northwest of Stalingrad
and even gaining ground in coun
ter-attacks during the past week.
Inside the city savage street
fighting continued, but the latest
communique gave no details of
that struggle. Front dispatches
said at least 36,000 German troops
were engaged in the swaying bat
tle amid the skeleton ruins of the
Volga industrial center.
On the central front before Mos
cow the Russians reported another
Red army advance northwest of
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ALLIES STRIKE
IN NEW GUINEA
Take Offensive For First
Time In Area Of Owen
Stanley Range
GEN. MACARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, Tuesday,
Sept. 29—IS)—Allied ground forces
in the Owen Stanley moutnains of
New Guinea have now taken the
initiative against advance Japa
nese troops and “are making pro
gress,” a communique said totfay.
The action, described as an in
filtrating and outflanking attack,
took place on Ioribaiwa Ridge,
about 32 miles north of the Allied
base at Port Moresby where the
Japanese advance through the
mountains was halted about two
weeks ago.
The Allies, after -having fallen
back before successive Japanese
advances toward Moresby which
began with the enemy landing at
the Gona Mission July 21, thus
have now-taken the offensive for
the first time on New Guinea.
An Allied Army spokesman em
phasized, however, that this was
not “over the top” fighting like
that of the First World War, but
a peculiar type of jungle warfare
which the Japanese employed so
successfully in pushing through to
the present lines.
The fighting is taking place in
some of the world’s worst jungle
country, but the spokesman indi
cated the Allies had been able to
bring up artillery and 25-pounders
for the attack.
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mington Morning Star,
Phone 3311 before 9:00 a.
m. and one will be sent to
you by special messenger.