The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-05-07

with the price contrOl act 5 ueIlnltl0n
of a commodity" are exempt also.
In addition Mr.. Henderson issued
orders for rent sterilization in 800
areas of As states and Puerto Rico,
housing more than rs million per-
sons. Four-fifths of the rents vii.
be frozen as of March /, 1912. The
remainder were ordered cut back
to early I941 levels.
President Roosevelt said the cost
of living has advanced about 10
percent since the autumn of 1889.
and eve must now act to keep it
from soaring another 80 percent
or 80 per cent during the next year
or two-to hold it to somewhere
near the present level" The Pre-
sident said "The only effective
course of action is a simultaneous
attack on all of the factors which
increase the cost of living . . .
prices, profits, wages, taxes and
debts"
Rationing
The Office of Price Administra-
ton said five different gasoline ra-
ton cards will be distributed dur
ing registration in II eastern States
and the District of Columbia May
1914. One card will be for nom
essential users and the other four
will designate varying degrees Of
essential users. Commercial and
Government users of gasoline will
be exempt from the card ~rationing
plan, OPA said, and such vehicles
need not be registered if they are
plainly marked.
The OPA announced appointment
of 60 specialists to OPA offices
throughout the country to serve as
technical aides in handling problems
arising from the sugar ~rationing
program. Motor vehicles in essential
services may not have new tires if
recapped ones will serve their pur-
poses, the Agency said. New and
used %tyepwriters are not under quota
restrictions but are available to eli
gibles who can establish their need
for them, OPA reported.
War Strategy
The President in a radio address
said American Warships are in COM
bat in the Artic, Mediterranean and
in the North and South Pacific. AM
erican troops are at stations in
South America Greenland, Iceland,
The British Isles, the Middle East
and the Far East, the continent of
Australia and many islands of the
Pacific. American planes manned by
Americans are flying in actual COM
bat over all the oceans and all the
continents, he said, and flying fort
resses will soon be fighting for the
liberation of Europe.
Australia, New Zealand and mucn
other territory will be bases Tor of
fensive action, the President said,
and the U. S. is determined that
the territory which has been lost
will be regained.
The War Front
Admiral William Stark, Command.
ing U. S. Naval Forces in European
waters, said the submarine menace
off the u. S. Atlantic coast is being
beaten. General MacArthur's head.
quarters in Australia reported a six
day aerial offensive by United Ma.
tons bombers against japanese
bases north of Australia destroyed
more than so enemy planes, sank one
transport and inflicted heavy dam
age on enemy ground installations.
Air raid alarms on C%orregidor Is
land passed the $50 mark, but the
attacks began to lessen in intensity,
U. S. gunners in the Manila Bay
forts shot down five bombers and
damaged two others, sank an armed
japanese vessel and scored hits on
troop and truck columns and supply
dumps.
Army and Selective Service
The War Department established
an eastern military area, including
all of the Atlantic Seaboard. Seere-
tary Stimson said no mass evacua-
tons of citizens are contemplated,
but vital areas will be policed to
prevent potentially dangerous per-
sons from entering them. The Army
announced establishment of Port
Agencies" in principal U. S. sea-
ports to coordiate and speed ship
ment of war supplies to all United
Nations. Mail to American prisoners
Of war in the far east whose names
have appeared on official lists of the
Provost Marshal General may be sent
postage free, The Red Cross said.
College students enrolling in ad-
vanced ROTC courses will be re-
quired to enlist in the Army En-
tied Reserve Corps if they have
reached the age Of Is, the War
Department said. The Department
r. ported 1927 Negroes are enrolled
M Offica- Cane late Schools. Selec-
tive Director Hershey said men who
registered last February 16 will be
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