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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08

lis fashioned along the lines Of 2
regular transport truck.
Similar one car vehicles have
been in use for the past seven
years but this is said to be the
first full train of its kind.
The smaller models are used bv
several railroads for inspection and
track maintenance work.
The construction is of light
weight materials and eliminates
large quantities of steel and other
essentials necessary in the build
ing of standard locomotives and
freight cars" a company spokes-
men explained. ''It is also more
economical to operate
He said the Army has found it
invaluable for military purposes"
since it not only permits move
ment OF materials to areas other
wise inaccessible, but enables ship
ment by single unit instead of
having to switch from freight cars
to trucks.
The train will be previewed by
company and government officials
Monday, after which it will be sent
to an undisclosed destination. 8
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08
LISTING OF HOMES
FOR RENT IS HINTED'
Landlords May Be Requir-
ed To Register With Lo-
cal Federal Office

Registration of all rented dwell
ing accommodations in New Han
over may be required under feder-
al rent control, Price Administra-
tor Leon Henderson announced
Thursday through the information
division of the state Office OF
Emergency Management.
According to the announcement,
landlords would be required to reg
lister at local federal rent ad-
ministrator' office.
Owners of houses, apartments,
trailers and other property rented
for living quarters would be af-
fected by the registration, the an
nouncement said.
A similar registration would be
neld for hotel and rooming house
operators.
"These regulations will become
effective only on specific orders
from Henderson, and only in de-
fense rental areas where, after a
60-day period, a finding is made
that recommendations for stabili-
zation of rents have not been met, -
the announcement concluded.
Price Administrator Henderson
on April 4 ordered rents here re-
turned to the April l, 1941, level
in an order affecting 20 American
defense centers.
A survey is now being made
here by the research staff of the
Works Progress administration to
determine present rent levels.
Apparently, the order setting up
a rent control office and requiring
the registration is awaiting the re-
suits of the survey.
Mayor Hargrove Bellamy said
that he had received telegram
from the price administrator which
said that Wilmington was being
designated a defense rental area
on April %.
Complete details of the defense
rental area requirements, which
the telegram declared were being
forwarded to the mayor, have not
been received, Mayor Bellamy
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08
BLONDE
LEAPS TO DEATH
Waves To Crowd, Swings
Legs, Then Plunges From
Eighth Floor Ledge

BUFFALO, N. Y, May 7.-LP-
An unidentified blonde woman.
about 80 years old, perched on an
eighth-floor window ledge of the
Genesee hotel in downtown Buffalo
today, swung her legs, waved at a
crowd gathered below and leaped to
her death.
The woman, who registered at the
hotel this morning as 'M. Miller,
Chicago" entered the eighth.floo
woman's restroom, locked the door
from the inside and crept out onto
the ledge.
She sat in the precarious position
for about 20 minutes before jump
ing in view Of hundreds of persons
and before firemen and policemen
could effect a rescue.
"She Just sat on the ledge swing
ing her legs and occasionally an
arm" Assistant Detective Chief
Thomas V. Coyne said. "Then she
turned towards the building wall.
She grasped the window ventilator
with both hands and dropped her
legs over the edge.
"She just hung there with her
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08
c. Of e. Committees
To Be Named Next Week

Selection of new standing COM
mittees of the local Chamber of
Commerce is expected to be made
next week, according to Executive
Secretary John L. Morris.
The appointment will be made by
President E. A. Laney, subject to
ratification by the board Of directors
at the next meeting on Monday,
May 1S.
Following ratification by the di-
rectors, the committees will be called
for organizational meetings.
The following committees must
be named: finance, membership.
merchants, advertising and publici-
ty, industrial, sports, Army and
Navy affairs, distinguished guests,
inter-city relations, aviation, public
relations, agriculture, port develop
ment highway, tourist and conven-
ton, transportation, legislative and
civic affairs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08
Mrs. Dahlir Fractures
Heel In Fall Thursday

Mrs. Elsa Dahlin, 1924 Tenth
avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y, was treat
ed at James Walker Memorial hos
pital about o'clock Thursday aft
ernoon for a fracture of the heel
bone.
The injury was sustained when
Mrs. Dahlin stepped from the curb
at the Southeast corner of Second
and Princess streets. She told DO.
lice who investigated the accident
that broken place in the curb
tripped her and she fell heavily on
her heel.
Mrs. Dahlln was taken to the
hospital by police car, and upon
an X-Ray examination was found
to have fracture of the heel bone,
Her foot was placed in cast and
she was admitted to the institution
for treatment. 8
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08
JAPS TRAIN BIG
GUNS ON CHINESE
Indications Point To Often
sive Against Free China
OF Chungking
By SPENCER MOOSA

CHUNGKING, China, May Up
The Japanese armies which have
raced into China proper on the
Burma Road brought up artillery
today in a savage attempt to break
the Chinese defense lines, made
ominous indications of general Of
fensive against the. free China of
Chungking and Chang Kai-Shek.
Driving so hard and so fast that
the defenders We're unable to con.
duct planned demolitions along the
great supply road, the Japanese out
of Burma were known to have
forged ahead at least as far as
Chefang, 25 miles behind the fallen
border town of Wanting.
Heavily supported by their mobile
artillery as well as from the air,
they were attacking time after time
and, although the high command
said the Chinese were holding their
lines for the time being and inflict-
ing heavy casualties, it was in.
dicated that the defenders chief
hope in this Yunnan province area
lay in thanking attacks on the in
vaders' extended lines.
(To informed students of Japan's
military intentions it appeared the
invaders may well be planning to
synchronize drive northeastward
through Yunnan province toward
Chungking with a new offensive
\ fro 1n D1I iyrn ncsr
fronts in Shansi, Honan and Hupen
provinces, northeast and east OF
Chiang's capital.
(The Japanese themselves limited
today that they planned to use the
Burma road as a major avenue o1
invasion when they said the CHIEF
objectives of their Burma campaign
had been attained with the entry
into Yunnan and occupation OF
Akyab on the Burma west coast)
On the Burma road some Loo
miles deeper into Yunnan froI.1
Chefang lies Paoshan, which has
been bombed so heavily as to sug.
gest it is an immediate objective
of the invasion columns. The JAP
anese also may believe it to be a
base for Chinese and American Vol
unteer group aircraft.
Other of humans chief towns
are being bombarded in strong
force, perhaps to paralyze the move.
ment of Chinese reinforcements or
to soften the defenses for the in.
vading forces.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08
Seven Vital Spices
Are Barred By WPB

WASHINGTON, May 7.-LR-The
War Production board today i'm
posed restrictions on deliveries of
seven important spices which will
have the effect of cutting retail
sales by so per cent.
The orders, effective tomorrow and
made necessary because "the avail
ability of future supplies is uncer-
tain" affect white pepper, allspice
(pimiento), cinnamon ssia)
cloves, ginger, nutmeg and mace.
Deliveries of black pepper are per-
mitted at the same rate as a year
ago, and WPB said thre was two
years supply of black pepper in this
country.
There are many caves in the
Rock of Gibraltar, which is com.
posed of limestone.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08
CLINTON PROTESTS
GASOLINE RATION
Perishable Crop Threaten
ID Merchants Tell State
Rationing Chairman

CLINTON, May 7 - In an effort
10 protect Clinton's $300.0o0 per-
ishable truck market, which is
threatened seriously by virtue of
nossible stringent gasoline ration
inc officials of the Clinton Mer-
chants Association this afternoon
forwarded the following telegram
10 T. S. Johnson, chairman OF the
State Rationing program:
"T. S. Johnson. chairman, State
Rationing Board, Raleigh, N. c.
"On behalf farmers, merchants
Sampson county. we petition your
aid in seeking liberalization gaso-
line rationing program for pro-
duce growers. Stringent restric-
ton gasoline use will seriously ef-
feet marketing balance strawberry
crop and half million bushel small
vegetable crop here. Use of small
trucks necessary to insure prompt
marketing perlshables, major crop
of Sampson farmers Signed:
Clinton Merchants Association"
Copies of the above telegram
have been sent to the North Car.
olna Congressional delegation ir
Washington and to ]. M. Brough.
ton Governor.
The Clinton Merchants Associa.
ton delegates to the North Caro-.
lima Merchants Association fortieth
annual convention in Raleigh next
Monday and Tuesday will join with
delegates from New Hanover, Co.
,umbus and other truck producing
counties in request to the conven-
tion to pass a resolution, which
would have state wide backing
along similar lines.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08

back towards the street. It was
just "a moment. Then. suddenly, she
let 60"
Fingerprints were taken in an at
tempt to establish identity. She was
about five feet, six inches tall,
weighed 105 pounds, had brown eyes
and wore brown, print dress.
Coyne asserted a black leather
purse containing SIS bill, some
change and what apparently was a
rent receipt dated May 5 was found
in the rest, room. The receipt was
signed Nellie Miller
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08

whereas totaitarians must keep
undisputed rascals in.
"Politics constitutes double dis
cipline," he declared. First, there
is the discipline which toughens its
practitioners to stand constant
stream of criticism and yet to do
their best for the critics under the
worst conditions. Secondly, that
discipline which enables good citi-
zens to stomach the best that poll
ticians can do with the worst
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08
Goodness Requires
Disciplined Politics

CHAPEL HILL, N. c., May T.
that goodness re-
quires the discipline of politics,
and, in turn, politics 'is the media
tor required to save conscience
from fanaticism,'' DR.. T. v. Smith.
University of Chicago philosophy
professor and former senator and
congressman-at-large from Illinois,
said here tonight that democracy
IS superior form because demo
Gratis can turn suspect rascals out
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08

Smiling happily, Sergeant Victory T. Kirby and his
bride, Elsa Kochs Atherton Voris pose
for the cameraman in Miami Beach, They married
after fast coursp despite the protests of the brides
parents Mr. and Mrs. August Kochs, of the welknown
barber supply family Mama and papa went far
to enlist the aid of army colonel in their efforts to
prevent the marriage, but cupid out - Central
Press.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08

Wash your car less and take
hour.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08

The average aviation cadet who
flies bombers and transports,
weighs 100 pounds and is 5 feet,
II inches. p.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08
Now Many Wear
FALSE TEETH
80 With Little Worry

Eat, talk, laugh or sneeze without fear
of insecure false teeth dropping, slipping
or wabbling FASTEETH holds plates
firmer and more comfortably. h i
pleasant powder has no gummy, gooey.
pasty taste or feeling. Doesn't cause
nausea. it's alkaline (non-acid). Checks
plate odor" (denture breath). Get FAS-
TEETH at any drug store.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-08

About 81, 900 fires in New York
City during 1881 took, toll of 122
lives, including those Of six fire
men.
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01

"A indicates of New Guinea where te
  nd
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
Japs Menace Entire Burma Front
Ice Went Out At Nenana 1:28 D. m. April 3Oth
SSO,OOO Nenana Ice Pool Won By5
 Individuals and ) Companies

FAIRBANKS April 3O $50 p,m.-830 am. 1st, - Muddy ice inched downstream the Panama River at Nenana at 1:28 pm Fairbanks time, pulling tn string and tripping the elaborate timing device, bringing young fortunes to numerous players in the Alaska Annual Guessing game The total value of winnings estimated at $80,000
 The winners included five individuals and five tick cts held by combination. The individuals are J. W. Murch, Adolph Ochauer R. D. Oander Olso Eikland, and one other whoe name not shown in the official ice pool book.
 The group tickets signed by A. Seisinger Leslie J. Kem and company, Tom Vim and company Mrs. M. LofneSs and company and ohanna V. Zanlen and company Company indicates not corporation but merely pool group. No addresses are available until the winners identify themselves
 The list of guesserS included in the huge green book necessary articles in most Alaska offices listing thousands of names whose idead when the ice would move, varied from March 3rd to July 4th The July 4th guess hazarded by one Gandopho Q McDuff, but was further unidentified Joe Carroll also unden~
 fed headed the early gueSsers with the March 3rd sug gestion
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
Japanese At LashiO Menace
 Entire Burma War Front

CHUNGKING, April 30, 8:59 am-4 pm. (AP)- With the Jap invader standing at Lasho, head of the Burma Roads most important back door to China, the whole Burma defense menaced by enemy envel- opment and another major to the United Ma tonS. The threat to bomb-ruined and out-fanked Mandalay never graver.
 Fierce fires are reported raging in Lashio indcat- ing either that Burmese fifth column incendarists have risen there that the Japanese have actually penerat ed the towns outlying positions or that the aies them selves, giving LaSho up as lost putting the torch to the place At least of the ease-end supplies on the Burma Roads burdened truck transports, which failed to to China, are known to have been destroyed.
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01

Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
NAB WOMAN GERMAN SPY IN MEXICO

Mexico City - The news paper Novedades reports that an attractive woman spy. arrested by Gen. Bap tiste Merida, gave a clue to a cache of aviation gasoline for submarine fuel on the island of Mujeres off the tip of the Yucatan Penin- sula.
 The woman was identi- fled as a member of the German American Bund in the United States. It is said that she was arrested on a tip from United Stat es officials and has been returned to the States for further questioning.
 Mexican tankerS were summoned and the cache of gasoline has been pump ed dry.
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
Flyers Make Daring Raids
 Jap Fields

Allied Headquarters in Australia, May 1 (AP) - Thirty Jap Warplanes lin- ed up on an airdrome at Lac, on the northeast coast of New Guinea, were plas- tered with bombs and ma- chine gun fire yesterday by daring Allied air raiders.
 Three other Jap planes, all fighters, attempted to intercept a simultaneous as sault on Salamaua, 20 mil es to the south, and were shot out of the air by AL lied bombers, which went on to unload their eXplosiv es on ground installations, a communique said. Our losses were slight" declar- ed a bulletin.
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
Four Men Killed, 3 Injured In
 Crash Patrol Plane EnrOute Alaska

SEATTLE, April 30 LOG p.m.-l:10 pm. (AP) Three officers and enlisted man killed and enlisted men were injured in the crash of a Navy patrol plane the akeof for Alaska from the air tion here, the Thirteenth Naval District announced
 The dead are: Ensign Frederick Andrew Smith pi- lot and commanding officer; Ensign Glenn R. Van Bramer, navigator Ensign John B. Carroll co-pilot, and Harold D. Cunningham, 2nd class aviation ma- chinst's mate
 The injured are Alvin S. Zettel radoman 3rd class; Clifford A. King, End class; and Ralph Mitchell radioman 3rd class The Navy didn't give the date nor the location of the crash but said of the injured men were in a serious condition Their home addresses were not immediately available
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
RAF Assault Europe Continues
 Report Nazi Peace Is Offered

UNDATED April 30, 8;59 am. - pm (AP) - Brtain's laundering aerial offensive struck the Ger many foundries of Paris before dawn while Lon don heard unconfrmed reports that Germany has offer ed "a Nazi peace" to England three times since mid- March.
 Simultaneously Tokyo broadcast quoted well n- formed circles in Berlin saying that Hitler and Mus solin will meet in few days agency affiliated with De Gaule's Free French government said the German peace offers were based on ninep page mem orandum by Goerng, which would give the Reich disputed mastery over continental Europe
 Vchy broadcast said 52 persons were killed and a hundred injured in section, by the RATS heavy assault Paris, the fifth in less than two months A large number of houses reported destroyed
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
British Make Withdrawal At Irrawaddy

New Delhi, May l (AP) - British troops fighting a de laying action against Jap attacks towards Mandalay reported they have aban- doned their positions on the Irrawaddy river bend, west of that city and are withdrawing Successful ly" to the north bank. The Wearied forces thus appar- ently left Japan the area around Myingyan where he IrraWaddy makes a big bend to the west where ear Her attempts to guard the Allied right flank failed.
 The Allied defense con- tinued on the southern front near Kyaukse, less than 30 miles from Man dalay, where a commun- ique described a brilliant and successful fight with tanks by a Ghurka brigade which inflicted 800 casual ties on the Japs at a cost nf nnlu ten nf their own
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
Factory In Belgium Is Blown Up

London, May 1 (AP) - The chemical factory at Tessenderloo, in the new industrial district in north ern Belgium is gone due to the activity of the "anti- German white brigade" in conquered Belgium, de- stroyed by an explosion, ac cording to the German ra- dio and 250 were killed and about 1000 wounded.
 Berlin belatedly relay ed the announcement by the Nazi-dominated Bel gian government that not only the plant bu the tech nical school and a number of nearby houses were de- stroyed or severely damag- ed by the blast two days ago.
 No cause was given. The announcement emphasized that the factory produced artificial fertilizers of var ious kinds and washing pre- parations for the Belgian market only.
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01

the ground, including the Frisco Cafe and the Sour dough Bar.
 The Fire Department, with the aid of volunteers, succeeded in getting the blaze under control before too much damage was done
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
Brig. Gen. George, US. A.. and
 M. Jacoby. Reporter, Die In Crash

Allied Headquarters in Australia, April 30, 859 -4 pm. (AP) - The death in airplane crash. of Brig. General Harold H. George, U. S. Army Air Force, announced Melville Jacoby, Time and Life magazine correspondent also killed in the crash
 Jacoby to Australia last month from Bataan with his wife, after living with the beleaguered U. S. and Filipino force defending the Peninsula against the Jap invaders.
 One of the brilliant stag officers who served with Gen. MacArhur in the Philippines, Gen, George, aged 49 accompanied MaArthur to Australia in the epic jour- ney last month
 The accident occurred late Monday but details withheld for the time being The War Department at Washington announced the posthumous award of the Distinguished Service Medal to Gen. George.
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
FLYING HERO O'HARA MAY
 BE PROMOTED


 Washington - President Roosevelt asked the Sen ate to approve the advance ment of Lieut. Command CT Edward OHara, flying hero of the Pacific. 30 mum berS in the Navy promo tiOn list.
 O'Hara doWned five Jap anese planes and damaged a sixth in engagements oV- CT the Pacific recently.
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
Marie DiOnne Examined For Ailment

TORONTO -- Little Marie Di- onne, smallest of the famous quintupletS, has a definite vast ing of tn right thigh and calf, but there is conclusive evidence of no organic nervous lesion. three physicians reported.
 When Marie was nine weeks old, tumor was removed by radium treatment from her right leg. The quints will be eight years old on May 28.
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
FIRE DOES DAMAGE AT ANCHORAGE

Anchorage - A fire of un- determined origin which
 broke out here recently is reported to have done $50,- 900 damage and burned several frame buildings to
The Nome nugget., 1942-05-01
ANNOUNCE ALASKA'S OPA MAN

Washington - The Office of Price Administration announced the appoint ment of Rupert Emerson as Regional Director of the new Region No. 9, which in cludes Alaska.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Mortimer 0. Sfab|er,
County COP Leader, Dies
BY 4 Staff Correspondent Of The star.

BY Staff Correspondent Of The star.
SPENCERVILLE, Md. Aug. T.
Mortimer o. Stabler, 70, retired
farmer and one of Montgomery
County's Republican leaders, died
yesterday at the Montgomery
County General Hospital, Sandy
Spring. He was a son of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa M. Stabler and
was a lifelong resident of the
Spencerville neighborhood.
For many years he was an active
member of the Montgomery County
Farmers Club of the Sandy Spring
area and former president of the
animal Montgomery County Farm
ers' Convention. On a number of
occasions he was candidate for
ofiice.
For the past IA years he had been
county representative Of the Gran
gers Mutual Fire Insurance Co..
succeeding to that position on the
death Of his father.
Mr.. Stabler is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Duane DVorak Stabler,
and a brother, Herbert o. Stabler of
Atlanta, Ga.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow at the Friends Meet
ing House at Sandy Spring. Burial
will be In the Friends Cemetery at
Sandy Spring.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Alexandra Faces
Further Shortage
Of Housing
20 CoIored Families Will
Be Made Homeless by
Building Of Garage

| Building of the A. B 65 w. Tran
sit Co.'S new garage on a square
bounded by Pitt, Royal, Pendleton
and Wythe streets will leave 20 COL
ored families homeless and will in
crease the already serious shortage
of houses for colored residents of
Alexandria, City Manager Carl Bud
wesky said today.
Mr.. Budwesky said he received a
delegation headed by Thomas Bon
ner of 422 Pendleton street, asking
for help in finding quarters for the
families affected.
Mr.. Budwesky has asked the de-
partment of welfare to give tenn
porary relief, but he believes pri-
vate individuals should he asked to
cooperate In a self-sustaining prof.
ect to obtain additional housing.
According to Mrs. Ellen Harper,
director of the Alexandria Homes
Registration once, no rooms or
houses for colored residents have
been listed in the last three months.
In the last few years many houses
occupied by colored people have
been torn down and only one low
cost project has been built for the
colored people, the George w. Parker
Homes, containing Ito units.
/ Mr.. Budwesky says that adequate
housing must, be provided and fears
that under present crowded condi-
tons the city may be faced with a
serious health situation.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Youngb|ood Is Appointed
| Montgomery Raid Deputy

Mayor o. w. Youngblood of Ia
koma Park has been appointed
deputy chief afraid warden for
Montgomery County. 1t was an
nounced today by Chief Warden
Arch Mcdonald.
Mayor Youngblood succeeds JOS
eph B. Simpson, jr, who resigned
last week because of duties in con-
nection with the Maryland State
Guard and Minute Men.
Thirty-nine members of the Medi-
cal Cadet Corps, Seventh Day Ad-
ventists, were sworn in as aides to
the Medical Corps of the Montgom-
cry County Civilian Defense Council
at ceremonies last night at the
Washington Missionary College.
DR.. Dexter NJ Bullard, chief OF
emergency medical services for the
county, and Judge Albert E. Brault,
executive director of the Montgom-
cry County Civilian Defense, spoke.