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Evening star., 1942-07-06
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Plans being made for saboteur trial
on Wednesday. Page Az
Federal agents taking Bundist Kunze
to New York. Page Az
Navy reports sinking of three more
ships. Page AS
Oumansky denies giving Nazi data
provided by U, S. Page AS
Soft coal stock pile held made
quate. Page 40
Dutch Harbor wounded urge more
work, less talk. Page Bill
Washington and Vicinity.
Maryland's most ambitious road
building under way. Page A-1O
Child killed in accident; Districts
57th traffic death. Page B-I
Heaviest week end influx Of service
men reported. Page B-1
Blackout bill to be pushed by House
group tomorrow. Page B-1
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Labor Priorities Used
To Force Standard
War Plant Wages
Monpower Commission
Authorizes Contro! by
Employment Service
Py the Associated Press.

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In shaping its policy of labor
priorities, the War Manpower
Commission appeared today to
have forged a powerful lever to
bring about wage Standardization
in war production plants.
Commission Chairman McNutt
advised the United States Employ
ment Service that it may deny
labor priorities to industries "in
which wages and conditions of work
are not at least as advantageous
to a worker referred to job open
ing therein as those prevailing for
similar establishments in the in
dustrial area"
Such denial would mean that
plants paying substandard wages
would not obtain workers through
the Employment Service until after
the requirements of plants with
priority ratings were filled.
Rosters Are Prepared.
Government sources said they ex-
-pected this would force manage
ments to standardize and possibly
to stabilize wages in various pro-
duction areas.
At Mr.. McNutt's direction rosters
now are being prepared of skills
and of war plants in the order
of their urgency, with the double
purpose of deferring skilled men
from military service and making
certain that the most vital war
plants get first call on their services.
One of the toughest problems OF
the manpoWer mobilization for pro-
duction has been the variance OF
wages paid for men of similar skllls.
Labor Piracy" Denounced.
Many instances have been re-
ported of plants bidding up wages
to attract skilled workers from 9TH
er plants. This has been denounced
by Mr.. McNutt as labor piracy
and to combat this practice the
ManpoWer Commission announced
in May it intended to make the
employment service the sole hiring
agency in critical production areas,
meaning that workers could not
move from one war plant to another
without approval of the employ
ment service.
This step was met with resist
ance by considerable number of
workers who objected to being fro
zen" to their jobs. So far, the
method is being applied only on a
limited test basis
That the Government is firmly
convinced wage stabilization is
necessary to obtain the essential
rhythm for full war production was
shown in the establishment of a
wage stabilization branch within
the War Production Board. This
agency now Is seeking to work out
wage agreements between workers
and employers In the various work
classincations on Z zone basis.
Evening star., 1942-07-06

Foreign
U. S. will be limited to essentials this
year, Wickard says. Page Al
American flyers in China blast Jap
anese airfields. Page Al
Fierce battles fought around Belgo-
rod and Volchansk. Page AS
Nazis claim sinking of nine ships in
Russia bound convoy. Page A
Port Moresby attacked by 80 Japa-
nese warplanes. Page Az
National
Senate action to speed output of
grain rubber forecast. Page AL
Nelson protests rubber from grain
proposal. Page Al
Wallace and Wickard take opposing
sides on farm bill. Page Al
McNutt acts to force wage standard
ization in war plants. Page Al
Rationing curbs limited: mems cloth
Ing prices cut. Page Az
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Refusal Of Two 10 Buy
War Bonds Causes Strike

3, the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla. July GA strike of
laborers in a small defense factory
was reported today because two OF
their fellow workers refused to sign
agreements for the regular purchase
of war bonds or stamps.
Joe Parker personnel manager of
the Metal Trades Corp, said trouble
developed in the plant last week
when one employe said he couldn't t
afford to buy war stamps regularly
and another said he wasn't inter-
ested
The boys wanted to make it 100
per cent Mr.. Parker said. There's
been lot of grumbling. This morn
ing it came to a head. There was
demonstration and the boys
walked out. They say they won't
come back until we fire the two
men who wouldn't join up"
Pickets carried placards, one of
which read:
I'VE won't work with slackers." :"
Mr. Parker said 20 men in one plant
were affected.
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Prisoners at SevostopoI
Total 81, 900, Nozis Soy

BERLIN (From German Broad
casts, July 6 P).-German troops
have crossed the Don River in Rus
sia at several places. the Nazi high
command announced today.
Al the same time. the high COM
mand reported that the number OF
Soviet prisoners captured in the
battle of Sevastopol now totaled
$1,000
Crossings of the Don were said
to have been accomplished after
fierce fighting on a broad front.
Heavy battles also were reported
raging in other sectors of the east
ern front The high command said
127 Russian planes had been shot
down yesterday in accompanying
air combats.
Only three German planes were
lost in this action, it was said.
The Germans reported that among
the prisoners captured at Sevastopol
tSee RUSSIA Pare A-61
Evening star., 1942-07-06
i. ). Will Be Limited
To Essentials This
Year, Wickard Says
Depends on Other Nations
Of Western Hemisphere,
PorIey in Mexico Told
3, the Associated Press.

3, the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, July 6.-Citi-
zens of the United States will find
it difficult to purchase amy
thing beyond the essentials of
living by the end of this year,
Claude R. Wickard, United States
Secretary of Agriculture, said in
an address prepared for delivery
late today to the Second Inter-
American Agriculture Confer
ence.
Il know that the people of othe,
American nations are making sacri.
fees, and we in the United States
are making ours" Secretary Wickaro
told delegates from almost all the
81 American republics.
by the end of this year it will be
difficult for citizens of the United
States to purchase any luxury goods
Or, for that matter, anything be-
yond the essentials of living"
Depends on Other Republics.
Asserting that the United States
has shipped about two-and half
million tons of farm products to
Britain and Russia under the lease
lend program, the Secretary said the
United States was depending on the
other American republics to produce
rubber, cocoanut, palm and vege-
table oils, quinine, hbers, other agri-
cultural products and many min
erals.
He urged that factories and farms
be converted to produce the neces-
sary materials and crops for war.
He said the Rubber Reserve Corp. of
the United States had contracted
for the purchase for the next five
years of all the rubber that can be
produced for export by several
American countries with wild rub
ber trees.
Discussing the shipping shortage,
Mr.. Wickard said sugar is avail
able, but there are not enough ships.
Movement of coffee and bananas
is becoming more difficult. Wheat
is piling up in Argentina and the
United States"
Il see no likelihood that the
shipping situation will so improve
in the year ahead that we will be
able to move anything but the
essentials" the secretary added.
Urges Student Exchange.
Urging that the American repub-
lies have plans ready for the end
of the war, the Secretary said, The
immediate problem when the war
ends will be relief: the nations of
this hemisphere will be able to
prevent large-scale suffering and
starvation by prompt action"
He also urged a greater exchange
of agricultural students between the
United States and the other Ameri-
can countries.
Delegates from almost all the 81
republics, including many
of their Ministers of Agriculture,
attended the conference.
Theme of the conference is "The
present emergency and its effect on
the present and future economic de-
velopment of agriculture in the
Western Hemisphere"
Evening star., 1942-07-06
300 Croats and S|ovenes
Are Reported Executed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July ga Yugoslav
government spokesman said today
that word had been received of the
execution of 300 Croat and Slovene
peasants by Italian forces in the
region of Yugoslavia facing Fiume
in Northeastern Italy.
1t was said six villages were razed
by the Italians on the grounds that
the peasants had aided guerrillas
opposing the Axis occupation Of
Yugoslavia and that the Italians
had shot IL persons and burned 40
houses near Split on the Dalmatian
coast.
Evening star., 1942-07-06

assured Mr.. Nelson the committee
would defer action until Mr.. Nelson
could present additional objections
within a week
An accusation by Senator Norris,
independent, of Nebraska that the
War Production Board was doing
nothing about the production of
synthetic rubber from alcohol" drew
an emphatic denial from Mr.. Nelson.
That's very unfair statement"
he retorted.
"Why?" inquired Mr.. Norris.
Because we are doing something
about it and when I appear before
the committee again I will make a
statement about that situation
Mr.. Nelson said a program had
been approved requiring production
tSee RUBBER, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1942-07-06
100000 Are Reported Hurled
Into Kursk Drive by Germans;
RommeI's Army Still Retreats
WoveN Is Reported
In Cairo to Confer
With AuchinIeck
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. July 6.-The Paris
radio broadcast a report today
that Gen. Sir Archibald P.
Wavel. British commander in
chief in India, had arrived at
Cairo and gone into immediate
conference with Gen. Sir
Claude J. E. Auchinleck, his
successor as Britain's COM
mander for the Near East.
Evening star., 1942-07-06

Opposing bill calling for crea-
ton of a rubber supply agency to
direct manufacture of synthetic
rubber from grain alcohol, Mr.. Nell
son told a Senate agriculture sub
committee sponsoring the measure
that construction of such distill-
cries would require copper and steel.
Every pound of copper and steel
taken away from our present sup
ply" he said, would hinder the
war program, and that is of para
mount interest.
Further, by placing production
of synthetic rubber under an agen-
cy director, you would take from
the President his control over pri-
critics. This director could do any
thing he wanted to direct the flow
of materials needed for war"
Accordingly, Chairman Gillette
Evening star., 1942-07-06
jap Gunboat Is Sunk
In Yangtze by New
American Air Force
More Than Is Aircraft
Destroyed at Honkow,
Canton Airdromes
Es the Associated Press.

| f. the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, July 6-The
newly established United States
Air Force in China was reported
today to have sunk a japanese
gunboat in the Yangtze River
during the Americans destruc-
tive opening attacks on japanese
airflelds and bases in China.
Unofficial press reports reach
ing Chungking said the American
bombers destroyed more than 25
japanese planes at Hankow and
Canton airdromes alone.
The first communique to be issued
by the new United States 23d Pur-
suit Squadron said Hankow was
raided July l, Nanchang July and
Canton on July 4.
During the Hankow raid, when
more than 10 of the invaders planes
were reported destroyed on the
ground, the Americans were said
to have struck on across the Yangtze
River at the naval airdrome of
Wuchang, on the opposite bank from
Hankow.
1t was during this attack that the
Japanese bunboat was said to have
been sunk at her moorings along
the customs jetty.
IN Ian p1o R1c,,,, r.
The Americans circled the area
for several minutes and streaked
away before so other japanese
planes, caught completely by sur
prise, could get into the air.
Press reports said the Americans
concentrated on White Cloud air.
drome in their July raid on Can
! ton, blowing up Is of 20 japanese
planes which were on the field.
| AT HankoW, too the Americans
PICKED cantonments as targets. They
left these japanese troop quarters
blazing, smashed river landings
along the Yangtze, and left other
military objectives in flaming ruins.
it was reported.
The Americans were known. also,
to have extended their operations to
Tungting Lake in Northern Honan
Province and Poyang Lake in North
ern Klangse Province. The Jap
anese have gunboats on both of these
lakes. The results of the attacks
were not disclosed.
Japs Raid Chinese Fields.
Escorted by Flying Tigers of the
subsequently absorbed American
Volunteer Group, squadron of
bombers opened the assaults with a
raid on Hankow July l. another on
Nanchang the next day. and the
, third on Canton on July 4.
In the same four day period, the
communique said the japanese raid
ed Chinese air fields with only minor
damage, losing six planes to the
AVG AS previously reported in un-
I official accounts.
Indicating the Americans deter
mination to press home their air wal
against the japanese in China, a
note at the end of the first war bull
letin said "comrnuniques will be
issued daily"
Enemy Strikes Back.
The Japanese struck back with
bombing sorties against Hengyang
! and other airdromes as we'll as Ho-
hien. highway center in Eastern
KWangsi Province: Kweilin, capital
Of KWangsi; and Lingling, southwest
of Hereyang.
l. These, however, were declared of :
flcially to have caused little dam
/ age despite the japanese switch to
night attacks in an effort to avoid
the fierce fighter plane resistance
/ they met from the flyers of the 23d
! Pursuit Group.
Steadying Chinese ground resist
ance and the rising might of the
Z United States Air Force slowed
down the Japanese and confronted
fSpP CHINA pape A-0l
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Davies Will Talk
On Oil in Forum

Fuel oil distribution as it
affects the East Coast par
ticularly will be discussed by
Ralph K. Davies, deputy pc
troleum co-ordinator for war,
in the National Radio Forum
at $50 o'clock tonight. The
forum is arranged by The
Star and broadcast over the
Blue Network. 1t can be
heard here on Station WMAL.
Evening star., 1942-07-06
Nelson Opposes Senate Plan
To Produce Rubber From Grain
Production Chief Says Distieries Would Use
Copper, Steel VitoIIy Needed in War Program


Donald Nelson production chief protested today against
proposed produce synthetic rubber from
tending would require critical materials urgently needed for
he war eff
Evening star., 1942-07-06

(See CONGRESS, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1942-07-06

tSee RUSSIA, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1942-07-06
A 1.-THE for Victory

The Government is asking citizens
to invest 10 per cent of'earnings IN
War Bonds. The money is needed
for war financing. Have you done
your part?
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ZION HILL SERVICES

The annual decoration service
at Zion Hill cemetery will be held
the second Sunday in July, this
year, beginning at ten o'clock
eastern War Time), according to
Rev. Carl F. Sturgill, of Rugby,
Va.
1t is desired that all who are in
terested in the service may know
of the change, which was form
erly set for the second Sunday in
August.
There will be preaching at the
church following the decoration
ceremony, and the Lords Supper
and foot-washing, will follow the
preaching service.
On Thursday, before the decora-
ton, the cemetery is to be pre-
pared, and to those who are in
terested in the Identification pro-
gram and who cannot. actively
participate, it is suggested that Of
ferings be sent to Rev. Mr.. Stur-
gill, who will disburse funds to
this end.
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Sugar Stamps
Value Is Raised
Two Pounds Allowed On Ra-
ton Stamps 5 And 6;
Cover Full Month

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Of
flee of Price Administration an
nounced last week that the value
of sugar ration stamps 5 and 6
had been increased to two pounds
each-but that each stamp would
cover a period of a month in
stead of two weeks, continuing
the weekly ration to each con-
sumner at half pound.
OPA explained that stamp No.
4, now valid for the purchase of
pound of sugar, would expire at
midnight, July IS, whereupon
Stamp No. 6 will become valid
until August %.
Sometime before August %,
OPA will announce the period of
time to be covered by other
stamps in the ration books.
The ration stamps numbered
from l to 4 each permitted pur-
chase of one pound of sugar and
covered a two-week period. OPA
offerd no official explanation Of
the extension to a month, but it
was evident that the move to
make a stamp last longer and
would reduce the number of
stamps which grocers would have
to handle.
At the same time, OPA dis
closed that, effective Saturday,
June 20, it would permit institu-
tional and industrial users to OBJ
tain sugar allowances for two
month period, instead of the one
month now permitted.
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previous month, with a descrip-
ton adequate to identify the i
TENS.
The record keeping provisions
of the Regulation require the re-
taller to do six things:
l. Preserve all existing records
of March 1912 prices.
2. Keep the same kind of re-
cords or documents relating to
prices charged after May Is.
3. Prepare statement Of high
est prcies charged in the base
period (March) :. Carbon cop
les of reports turned in to War
Price and Rationing Board are
sufficiently
4. Keep records showing the
basis for determining the maxi
mum price of any item sold after
May 18.
5. Continue to provide custom
ary sales slips and give receipts
Of store has previously carried
this out. If they have not it is
not required that they do unless
their customers demand this SER
vice.
6. Properly identity all merchan-
disc in displaying prices or pre-
pairing statements ,of maximum
prices.
Several of the merhants' have
purchased through local print
ing company, forms on which to
make their reports. These forms
are all right for the reports as
they follow closely all require
ments of OPA on filing the max
imum price reports" Mr.. Camp
bell said.
Many questions are being asked
as to when and where the next
for more canning SUI
gar will be held. .... .
If, possible, the rationing board
will make arrangements or the
next registration to be held in all
high school buildings of the coun-
ty. No definite date has been set
for the next sugar registration.
Due to the gasoline registration
July 9, 10, & II, the sugar regis
traton will be he'd sometime a
round the middle of July. This
registration will probably cover
all fruits for the rest of the can
ming and fruit season.
All persons are warned against
foolishly using their gasoline ra-
ton cards as they are expected to
last then until the 22nd of
July when the coupon system for
gasoline rationing will 60 into eff
feet.
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REFUGE
Martin V. Craft

(Read Psalms 27:1 and 46:D
The Lord is our light and saliva
ton; IN
Do we then have aught to fear
For the safety of our Nation,
Though the scene be dark and
drear?
The Lord is the strength of our
living;
Of whom shall we be afraid?
If to win, our all we're now CIV
ing;
In Gods time we'll be repaid.
Our refuge is Gods own assur-
ance
That the Right must needs prevail,
So, in steadfast faith and endur-
ance,
We shall WHINE cannot fail!
s'
A very present help in trouble
Is our God. Though hope be dim,
He will render unto us double
For the loss. All praise to Him!
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Merchants To File
Ceiling By First
Must List Highest Price Dur
ing March; Not To Ex-
coed This Limit

w. Ralph Campbell, clerk of
Ashe County War Price and Ra-
tioning Board, stated here Mon
day that all merchants must file
statement of maximum prices of
cost-of-living commodities with
local War Price and Rationing
board by July first.
Every retailer must file a state
ment of his ceiling prices for all
cost-of-living commodities carried
BY him with the Ashe County
War Price and Rationing Board
by July l. This date was extend
ed from June l as originally re-
quired by the o. P. A. He may
use his own paper in standard
letter size and the statement
should preferably be typewriter,
but if typewriter'is not available,
carefully written in ink. The
exact name and address of the
establishment should be Indicated
on separate title page or at the
top of the first page of the state
ment. All the pages of the state
ment should be securely fastened
together by staple or otherwise.
Items are to be listed as follows:
(For a typical clothing STOREY
CD Name of commodity (2) Man
ufacturer, name or code number
and style number (3) A brief de-
scription of commodity and (4)
the Maximum or ceiling price.
The report to be turned into the
War Price and Rationing Board
by the grocery stores is slightly
different from that of the clothing
store in that it should be as fol-
lows: CD Name of commodity,
(2) Brand, 90 Size of unit, az
Grade and 50 the Maximum or
ceiling price.
The maximum price must be
listed TO reach cost-of-l living COM
modify sold by the retailer. One
entry for a group of (identicaD
items is sufficient. Each item of
merchandise must be sufficiently
described by such means as
brand, grade, size, manufacturers
name or code number, the retail
er's own lot number, or other
means so that the merchandise
can be identified in his store.
In addition, the retailers GUS
tomary discounts; allowances and
price differentials during March
to- different purchasers or classes
of purchasers must be set forth,
on a separate sheet if, preferred.
Any related group of items selling
at the same price may. be record
ed together in this statement pro-
vided that the description given
is sufficient to describe all items
in the group.
The statement of maximum
prices for "cost-of-living commod-
tiles" must be kept up to date by
month after July a statement of
filing on the first day of each
maximum prices for any cost-of-
living commodities newly offered
for sale by the retailer during the
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE

NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
Under and by virtue of a power
of sale contained in a certain deed
of trust executed, by ]. F. Rash
and wife, to T. c. Bowie, Trustee,
dated the 18th day of August,
1929, recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds of Ashe Coun-
ty, in Book 20, page 232, default
having been made in the payment
of the balance of the principal
and interest due on said deed of
trust, and at the instance and re-
quest of the cestui que trust, I
T. c. Bowie, will sell to the high
est bidder for cash at the Court
house door in Jefferson, N. c., at
one o'clock P. NJ, on Wednesday,
July Is, 1912, the following de-
scribed real estate, lying and be-
ing in Ashe County, N. c., and
bounded as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a Black Walnut
and running South u West 33
poles to a stake at the turn of the
fence on the North side of the
branch; thence South SIS West
Al u poles to a stake and Poplar
in Phipps' line; thence North 1874
West 14A poles to 3 Buckeye,
Phipps' and Rash's corner; thence
North 81 West 40 poles to a Hick-
DRY Stump; thence North So East
3 3-5 poles to a Hickory; thence
North 1917 West Is 3-5 poles to
a Beech; thence North 10 East
"a poles to a White Oak; thence
North "a East 1914 poles to
a Chestnut Oak; thence North
561A East 1872 poles to a
Spanish Oak; thence South
AZ West 43 3-5 poles to a stake
on the ridge at the fence; thence
South 8112 East 33 poles 221a
links to a stake in the hollow;
thence South liz East 20 poles
to the beginning, containing AZ
acres 1914 poles.
This June Is, 1912
T. c. BOWIE,
Trustee
6-18-4T
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perior Court of said county in the
Courthouse in Jefferson, N. C..
within 80 days after the 9th day
of June, 1912 and answer or de-
muir to the complaint in said ac-
ton, or the plaintiff will apply to
the court for the relief demanded
in the complaint.
This the 18th day of May, 1912.
J. D. STANSBERRY.
Clerk Superior Court
GAIT
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'".'wtt. WASHINGTON
flIl::1il&::fIIlL

satisfactory that most of them did
not even experience it in peace"
Congress now has before it a
new all-time record appropriation
bill asking $39,417,827, 1897 for the
war department which, if passed,
will bring the money appropria-
ted for the war to just about 200
billion dollars.
Buy War Savings Stamps