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s Mtlmtnrjtmt ifanung §>t<xr ,0ri^aug_ WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1943 FINAL EDITION -ESTABLISHED 1867. Farm Measure Fails To Win Majority Vote Bankhead Bill Appears Headed For Uneasy Rest ing Place For .Time want VETO SUSTAINED Agricultural Group May Receive Proposal For Later Action WASHINGTON, April 6.— («pj—The Bankhead farm bill, vetoed by President Roosevelt on the grounds it is inflation ary. tonight appeared headed for an uneasy resting place with the Senate Agriculture Committee, possibly to be brought up again at some lat er date. At the end of a day of tense Senate debate, Senator Bank head (D-Ala), author of the measure designed to raise some farm price ceilings, con ceded that the two-thirds vote necessary to override the president's veto was lacking. He asked that the bill be sent to the Agriculture commit tee, but a vote on his motion iva< deferred until tomorrow. Majority Leader Barkley of Ken tucky said he would ask that the veto be sustained, an action which would kill the bill for this session, but doubted that the necessary votes to defeat Bankhead’s motion could be mustered. Only a bare majority is needed to carry the motion. While some Administration men said returning the bill to commit tee muld mean it was dead. Bar kley told reporters it would be ‘like a shotgun behind the door” since it could be brought up again whenever the Farm Bloc felt it had the votes to pass the measure over Mr. Roosevelt’s veto. ‘‘To settle this thing now,” Bar kley said, “would do more to strengthen the morale of this coun try than anything else that might happen. It might settle a lot of problems that are around the cor ner.” Senator Bailey (D.-N. C.), asking that the veto be sustained, told the Senate the issue should be clear-cut. “We are dealing with necessity,” he said. "We’ll either stand on our stabilization program or falter down the road to its wreckage.” President Roosevelt, at his press conference, asked reporters what the Senate was doing about the bill and, told it probably would go to the Agriculture committee, remarked that was one way of not having to commit yourself. Bankhead indicated the farm members felt they would gain some advantage by returning the bill to committee. Asked if this meant the measure might be held as a club over the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) f---. CUSTOMS REVENUES Customs collections are drop ping consistently, the report of E. C. Sneed, collector of V. S. customs here, revealed Tuesday. Lack of imports, a reflection l)f war conditions, was ascribed as (lie reason for the drop-offs ni customs receipts. 'larch collections totalled i88.751.93, as against the $638, 903.96 realized in the same month of 1942. Customs receipts during the Past month were $247,754.56 be low the -January, 1943 collec 'ions, ami were S36.328.87 be 'ow February receipts. He Raided Paris Lieut. Harold W. Whiteman. 23, of Atlanta, Ga., was the navigator of the “Fighting Pappy,” one of the U. S. Flying Fortresses which raided Paris April 4 to bomb the Renault motor works. “We really plastered the target,” said the youthful lieu tenant when he and his companions returned to their, base in England. — SOLDIER DIES FROM INJURIES Driver Of Truck Re-Arrest ed On Charge Of Man slaughter Here O. H. Kesse of 214 North Second street, driver for the MacMillan and Cameron Oil company, was re-ar rested by city police on charges of manslaughter Tuesday night after Pvt. Lloyd W. Slover, Camp Davis soldier, died at the station hospital at the post Tuesday afternoon of injuries received when he was struck by an oil truck, allegedly driven by Keese, here Sunday after noon. The driver was released under $2,000 bond for his appearance in recorder’s court here Wednesday. Keese had previously been await ing trial on charges of reckless op eration and driving without an op erator's license, brought by investi gating officers shortly after the ac cident at the intersection of Fifth and Orange street. According to the police account of the accident, Slover, in company with Pvt. Thomas Soad of Camp Davis, was walking across Fifth street toward the west. Keese’s truck, they said, was trav eling west on Orange street, also, and as it reached the plaza in the center of Fifth street swerved sud denly into the right-hand lane of Fifth. As the truck made the turn, It struck Slover who was in the act (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) -v 1ST RENT TRIAL REQUESTED HERE OPA Seeking Prosecution Of Local Landlord On Excess Rate Charge Alleging violation ol maximum rent regulations, the Office oi Price Administration ill seek prosecution of L. E. Ev :rett, 604 South 16th street and his agent, Mrs. Millie Everett Smith, through the Federal courts, Clerk of U. S. Court, W. A. Wylie revealed Tues dety. . • According to Mr. Wylie, this is the first case of violated rent reg ulations to be introduced by OPA here The case will be heard by Judge I. M. Meekins at Wilson on April 12. The plan tiff, listed as Prentiss M. Brown. OPA national adminis trator, alleges that Everett has been receiving a monthly rent of $25.00 on a domicile, occupied by (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) Civic Clubs Here Urged To Bolster Home Morale The leaders of civilian com ^unities throughout the land are People who will determine "hether we win the war. Gentle men' it is up to you!” Major Gen fral Homer R. Oldfield, command. general of the Antiaircraft Artillery Training Center at Camp 5 avis told the 100 members of *ervice clubs in the city who at Bded an Army Day luncheon in ■r" Haul’s pafish house at noon 'Uesday, tied*16 Army Day celebration, plan ar 8S .a i°int program for all v.a uervice clubs in Wilmington, . s held in honor of distinguished votary personnel who staff the n°us Army posts in this area, dn Ial°r General Oldfield, intro Ce<3 by James L. Allegood, pro chairman, reminded the or 0lTlen that it was the cracking ^ civilian morale that lost the v ‘ 'y°rld War for Germany, and 'he war for the Allies. The general, in calling for "all out” civilian effort in behalf of victory, said that his soldiers were ‘‘working a 100-hour week without complaining. Day and night they work and learn about fighting and winning a war,” he said. Colonel A. E. Potts, camp com mander at Camp Davis, traced for the audience the origin and sig nificance of Army Day, which was officially designated by Congress in March, 1937. ‘‘It was on April 19, 1775 that the shot was fired'which was heard around the world,” Colonel Potts said. He listed the other signifi cant military events in the history of the country which have occurred during the month of April: the beginning of the Mexican War; the firing of Fort Sumter guns on ‘‘The Star of the West”; the clos ing of the Civil War; in 1898, the (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Reds Drive Nazis Back Near Izyum Acknowledges Ger > ^ n Defensive In Vital Sector ^ <ER FIGHTING SEEN jharp Battles Reported In Chuguev Area South east Of Kharkov LONDON, Wednesday, April 7. — (A1) — The Rus sians announced today that they had driven the Germans tacked Russian positions, fi tion in a strong counterattack south of Izyum on the Do nets front, and late broad casts from Berlin acknowledg ed that the Nazis were on the defensive at one point in this sector. The Red army counterat tack was launched after the Germans had frequently at tacked Russians positions, fi nally becoming exhausted in stubborn fighting, said the Moscow midnight communi que as recorded here by the Soviet monitor. The Russians also reported sharp fighting in the Chuguev area of the Donets basin, southeast of Kharkov, a consolidation of Soviet positions on the Smolensk sector of the western front, and fighting in the western Caucasus in which Red troops captured a populated place. After noting that “no substantial changes” occurred along the en tire front during Tuesday, the mid night bulletin told of “stubborn fighting” south of Izyum. About 400 Germans were killed, six of their tanks disabled and five of their guns destroyed. Two more German (Continued on Page Six; Col. 2) NEW VICTORY TAX RETURNS PLANNED Employers Prepare To File Initial Payment On Wage Deductions Wilmington employers are pre paring to file their first quarterly payments for the Victory Tax, the new five per cent wage tax which went into effect January 1, Ray mond D. Christman, deputy collec tor of internal revenue, announced Tuesday. Returns may be filed either through Mr. Christman’s office, in the post office building, or through internal revenue headquarters in Greensboro. Employers in the area are al ready receiving the forms V-l on which they are to report the total amount of victory taxes withheld from wages of their employes dur ing the quarter. Individuals who do not receive the forms through the mail may contact Mr. Christ man, in the post office building. Victory tax represents five per cent of all wages paid in amounts over and above $1200 per week, which is the exemption for each person. “There seem to be a number of people who expect to file Form V-2 at the same time,” Mr. Christ man declared. “V-2 is not to be filed except when an employe leaves the service of an employer. Thus the form is only an informa tion return and not a tax return.” “If an employe remains with an employer for the entire year, he (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) -V WEATHER FORECAST North Carolina: Slightly warmer to day. (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.f yesterday. Temperature 1:30 a. m., 59; 7:30 a. m., 51; 1:30 p. m., 62; 7:30 p. m., 60; maximum 64; minimum, 49; mean, 56; normal, 59. Humidity 1:30 a. m., 52; 7:30 a. m.. 30; 1:30 p. m., 1; 7:30 p. m., 25. Precipitation Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month, 5.89 inches. Tides For Today | (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _ 11:46a 6:36a _p 6:46p Masonboro Inlet _ 9:35a 3:25a 9:50p 3:36p Moore’s Inlet _ 9:40a 3:30p 9 :55p 3 :41p New Topsail Inlet_ 9:45a 3:35a (Elmore’s) _ 10:00p 3:46p Sunrise. 5:51 a. m., sunset. :37 p. m., moonrise, 7:51 a. m.; moonset, 9:33 p. m. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) Back From ‘Death’ ■-/. — | Given up for dead long ago, Lieut. Eugene D. Wallace of Los Angeles and two fellow fliers of the Army Air Forces were rescued after hid ing for 10 months in a .jungle of Japanese-held New Britain island north of Australia. They took to the jungle after their plane crashed on the water near Rabaul. MEAT BLACK MART INDICTMENTS MADE "" - m 7 Corporations And 11 In dividuals Charged With OP A Ceiling Violations NEWARK. N. J„ April <5. Federal authorities disclosed today the indictment of seven corpora tions and 11 individuals in five states on charges of conspiracy to violate meat price ceilings and quo tas. Their scheme reached "through out the entire United States,” the indictment alleged. It was return ed last Tuesday but impounded un til today. Named in the bill were these slaughter houses, packing plants and individuals: Peter Golas. Morris Freund, the State Packing company, Inq., and the Superb Packing company. Inc., all of Chicago. Nathan Krupnick, George Moran and the Enkay Packing company, Ind., of Paterson, N. J. Sam and Albert Simon, Jacob Schmidt, the U. S. Packing com pany, Inc., and the Kansas City Dressed Beef company, Inc., of Kansas City. Leo Waxenberg, Samuel E. Jac obs, Jacob R. Cohn and the Ne braska Beef company of Omaha, Neb. Herbert C. Liebman and the Lieb man Packing company, Inc., of Green Bay, Wis. In Omaha, Jacobs denied the charges, asserting "we’re as inno cent as they make 'em.” In Kan sas City, officials of the United States Packing company, Inc., and the Kansas City Dressed Beef company asserted the Office of Price Administration had checked both companies recently and found everything in order. "There’s some mistake; they’re just guessing,” said Sam Simon, one of the United States Packing company’s owners. The indictment charged that Go las and Krupnick met between last July 13 and February 27 and ar (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) Battle Of The Atlantic Reported In Axis Favor WASHINGTON. April 6.— UP) — The battle of the Atlantic has taken a turn for the worse, with attacks by German U-boats on Al lied shipping to England and Afri ca increasing, Secretary of the Navy Knox disclosed today. Ship losses were higher in March than in February, Knox told a press conference. Losses in Feb ruary, however, are reported to have been among the lowest of any month of the war and the in crease in March was interpreted as indicating a trend rather than as marking a new peak of destruc tion by submarines. The secretary’s statement left no doubt that the German spring of fensive in the Atlantic—an offen sive designed to disrupt Allied plans for heavy military pressure on Europe this year—was actually under way and probably would be stepped up as the Germans throw more and more subs into combat duty. The Nazis are still reported to be producing U-boats well in ex cess of their loss rate. Knox said that up to the present the Nazi attacks had developed “as we expected.” The Germans apparently are employing some new tactical maneuvers, however, for the secretary added that “they’ve changed their tatics more or less.” He did not explain what changes had been observed. The U-boat blows are falling chiefly in mid-Atlantic along the supply routes to England and Af rica, Knox said. This gives them an area of operations out of range of Allied air patrols but their im munity from air attack may be of short duration. Scores of auxiliary aircraft car riers suitable for convoying are now being pushed to completion and some already are in service. The Navy is counting heavily on these new ships and the destroyer escorts, which are also being built in great numbers, -to check the U-boat offensive. Knox said that the rate of launch ings of destroyer escorts is now very good and that the problem of supplying them with engines is being overcome. As an example, he told of a General Electric plant at Syracuse, N. Y., which is turn ing out 50 turbo - generators a month, enough to equip 25 destroy ers. Asked for comment on the aerial attacks from Britain against Ger man submarine pens on the Euro pean coast Knox said it could be assumed that “the bombings must have embarrassed the Germans some for even if it did not destroy the pens it at least destroyed the towns around them.” The situation in the Pacific is still quiet, the secretary said, and the Navy has given out all the news about what is going on there. He described as “somebody’s pipe dream” a report that good news was being withheld, and he said that “we aren’t telling anybody” when a reporter inquired whether the recent heavy bombing of Japa nese bases on Kiska in the Aleu tians signified an expansion of the American positions in the islands. U. S. SLUGS IT OUT American P-40 Fighters Shoot Down Four Enemy Planes RAISE YANKEE TOTAL Single Squadron Racks Up 79 Axis Craft De stroyed In Battle AT A FORWARD UNIT ED STATES FIGHTER BASE IN TUNISIA, April 5. — (Delayed) — (/P) — Unit ed States P-40 fighters slug ged it out with the German air force in one of the most furious running battles of the North African campaign to day and shot down four ene my planes to boost the total score of their group to 41 vic tims in the past two weeks alone. Two of the day’s bag were Messerschmitt 109’s brought down in quick succession by Maj. Levier Chase of War wick, N. Y. The twin killing boosted his total of enemy planes destroyed to ten and made him the leading ace in the United States Air Force in this theater. Italian riRIliri unnuru Capt. John Crowder of Route one. Richmond, Va., encountered two Italian Maochl 202's. He shot one down in flames and shot up the other so badly it was listed as prob ably destroyed. The fourth victim was a white nosed Messerschmitt 109 shot down by Maj. Franklin Horton of 20 South Irving street, Ridgewood, N. J. In addition, Lieut. Lassiter Thompson of 1516 Hardaway, ave nue, El Paso, Tex., was credited with one Messerschmitt probably de stroyed — it was seen going into a spin with its engine badly hit — and another Messerschmitt dam aged. The day’s fighting increased to 79 the total number of Axis planes shot down in North Africa by the “mob” — the title given the veter an P-40 group in honor of its 26 year-old commander, Col. William W. Momyer of Seattle who less than a year ago was a first lieutenant and now possibly is the youngest full colonel in any branch of the United States forces. Yesterday the group racked up a brace of victories when Lieuts. Den ver Division of 621 Northwest 40th street, Oklahoma City, Okla., and Bert Goulaitt of 415 Kenny boule vard, Mount Pleasant, Mich., each shot down a Messerschmitt 109 and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) Navy Wings Over Malta Albacore planes of the Royal Navy fly over the rugged coastline of i Malta as they set out on a search for Axis shipping. Below them are i the small, irrgularly shaped fields of Maltese farmers. MacArthur’s Bombers ! Blast Many Jap Bases ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA ,Wed nesday, April 7.—(TP)—Salamaua and Finschafen in New Guinea, Cape Gloucester and Gasmata in New Britain and the islands of Aroe and Tinimbar have been bombed in new raids by Allied planes, the high command announced today. Despite the wide area involved, operations were on a somewhat limited scale. Only in the raid on Salamaua. Jap anese base on the Huon gulf, was more than one plane in i volved. In that raid, medium bombers started big fires in the BERLIN HARD HIT BY BRITISH RAID Aerial Reconnaissance Shows Many Burned Out Factories And Homes LONDON, Wednesday. April 7. _(#)—Thirty Berlin factories, large blocks of centrally located busi ness offices and railway repair shops in the Templehof freight yards were destroyed or b a dly damaged in the RAF raid on the German capital March 1. the Air Ministry announced today. The official statement said re connaissance photographs showed vast destruction after the r a id which was regarded as one of the “most successful” ever made on Berlin. The capital was twice pounded heavily later in the month —so heavily, in fact, that German (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) Admiral Vickery Pays Flying Visit To Local Shipbuilding Company Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, commissioner of the United States Maritime com mission, paid a flying visit to the North Carolina Ship building company here yester day. The admiral, who was flown to the airport here, spent the afternoon inspecting the yard and conferring with officials. Admiral Vickery seemed pleased with the operations of the yard and with its produce tion record, officials said. The North Carolina company has launched 83 Liberty freighters for the commission to date and has contracts for eight more Liberty vessels ori ginally scheduled, plus new contracts for 36 more Liberty type and 60 larger C-3 type ships. NOTICE! If your carrier fails to leave your copy of the Wil mington Morning Star, Phone 2-3311 before 9:00 a. m. and one will be sent to you by special messenger. town and silenced anti-aircraft po sitions. Later a single four-motored bccnber bombed the jetty, demolish ing supply warehouses. A single heavy bomber strafed the airdrome at Finschhafen, on the Huon peninsula, at low alti tude, starting fires. One heavy bomber raided the airdrome at Gasmala, New Brit ain, and strafed an enemy coastal vessel in a nearby harbor. A single heavy bomber also strafed the waterfront area at Cape Gloucester. A medium bomber raided enemy installations at Wokam and Ke nari on the Aroe islands, which are 500 miles north of Darwin, Aus tralia. A medium bomber raided the village of Alitit on the Tanimbar islands. It was also announced by Gen eral MacArthur’s headquarters that the Sutherland commission has returned to Australia. Maj. Gen. Richard K. Suther land, chief of staff for General Douglas MacArthur in Australia, and Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney, commander of Allied air forces in the southwest Pacific, headed the Army mission which conferred last month in Washington on plans for future campaigns against the Jap anese. Members of the mission, return ing to Australia to report to en erai MacArthur, had no comment to make on the success of their mission. It had been reported here that (Continued on Page Three; Col: 1) NEW DRIVE BEGINS Montgomery Hurls Mighf Against Foe After Aerial Bombardment 1ST OBJECTIVES TAKEN Mighty Push To Drive Eri* emy From Africa Con tinues Through Night ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 6.—(/P)—Gen. Sir Ber lard L. Montgomery’ British Eighth Army, striking out af ter aerial preparations more crushing than those preced ing the victorious attacks on the Alamein and Mareth lines opened a new offensive at dawn today against Marshal Rommel’s improvised defens es at the wadi el Akarit. The first objectives were taken by storm and the mighty push to drive the Ax is finally out of Africa con tinued throughout the day and into the night. The wadi is some 60 miles south of Sfax, where Rommel may elect to make one of his last stands in Tunisia. I'se Clockwork Precision With clockwork precision, Mont gomery’s fighting men moved for ward against the entrenched Ger man machine-gune and infantry positions at 5:30 A.M. after a fierce bombardment through the night by concentrated British artillery. At bayonet point British troops smashed into outlying enemy posts and. with veteran tank columns in support, the battle to drive Rom mel into the narrow confines of the Tunis-Bizerte bridgehead in north ern Tunisia continued. Montgomery, the master of Rom mel in every encounter of the last eight months, carefully set the stage this newest drive by a one week pause about 30 miles north of Gabes to bring up his troops and supplies. The Wadi el Akarit. winding across the desert coastal plain from (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) CHINESE FIGHTING CHUNGKING, April 6.—OP)— A Chinese raiding party, op erating 100 miles behind Jap anese lines in the coastal pro vince of Shantung, has been engaged in brisk fighting with 3,000 of the enemy, the Chi nese communique said today. The deep penetration oc curred in an area where the Chinese have presented a con stant threat to major Japanese rail communications, particul arly the line running from Tsingtao on the Yellow Sea to the inland river port town of Tsinan. This railway is an important link in the system supplying Japanese forces at the front. In this clash, the Chinese claimed to have killed more than 100 of the enemy. In another engagement, 200 Japanese were killed out of a force that thrust into Chinese territory m northern Honan province to lest the strength of defenses there, it was stat ed. NLRB Order Dismissed In Pennsylvania Court A National Labor Relations board oorder against the Sun Ship building and Drydock company of Chester. Pa., alleging unfair labor practices, was dismissed by a unanimous decision of the U. S. Circuit court of appeals in Phila delphia last week, it was learn ed here Tuesday. The NLRB had ordered the company to disband the Sun Em ployes’ association as a company union. It had also ordered the company to reinstate with back pay four workers allegedly dis charged for joining the Interna tional Union of Maritime and Ship building Workers of America (CIO). The decision of the circuit court was received here with consid erable interest because the case is similar in some respects to that of the NLRB against the North Carolina Shipbuilding company. Late last month the NLRB order \ ed the local shipbuilding company to cease support of or “dominat ing or interfering with the admin* istration of the Cape Fear Ship builders association, Inc., or any other labor organization of its em ployes.” It also ordered the Wil mington firm not to recognize the Cape Fear Shipbuilders’ associa tion as the bargaining representa tive of its employes and directed the company to reinstate certain employes. Officials of the North Carolina company have announced that they will appeal the NLRB order “to the highest courts.’” Attorn eys for the Cape Fear Shipbuild ing association have also said that the order will “most definite ly” be appealed. The decision given by the court in Philadelphia holds the Sun Em ployes’ association is a bona fide (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6| * -
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