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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
new VICTORY TAX
FORMS SENT OUT
Treasury Begins Distribu-
ton For Employers
Deduction Plan

WASHINGTON, Dec. 49, Up
The Treasury began distributing
to internal revenue collectors to-
day two forms to be filled out by
employers who begin withholding
the five percent victory tax next
month from their employees pay.
The forms, about the size of
bank checks, are identified as vi
and w. Employers must fill in
form vi with information on the
amount of victory tax withheld
and sent to the internal revenue
collector at the end of each quar-
ter, with complete schedule of
employees and deductions.
Form W. is the employees re-
ceipt which the employer must fill
out in duplicate, giving one copy
to the employe at the end of 1943
and sending the other to the COL
lector of internal revenue.
The victory tax, effective Janu-
ary l, applies to every Individual
having gross income of more
than 1924 a year. In the case of
persons working for wages, the
tax will be collected at the source,
employers being required to with
hold five percen tof wages paid
employees in excess of $12 a week
or $52 a month.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
MANY R0BBERIES
HAPPEN in CITY
Police Records Reveal
Large Number of Thefts
Over Short Time

Records of the city police de-
partnlent Friday showed large
number of robberies. Investigating
officers warned citizens that there
would be some 'prowlers' w h o
would want money for Christmas
and cautioned people against car
rying large sums Of money on
their person, or leaving it in their
rooms.
Norman Burns of Hillcrest Place
told police officers that while he
was at Joe Powell's place at 18th
and Dawson streets, a thief had
stolen his billfold containing $95
and a wristwatch. He said the
total robbery represented $140.
John B. Hewett reported to the
police department that he had lost
his billfold containing $42 on Front
street between Chestnut and Mar
ket streets. Friday.
Mr.. Baker Of the State Distribut-
ing company, reported Friday that
approximately 10 quarts Of CHAM
| pdSIle I1du UGeu StOlGu lIOI1l tIllo
establishment at 420 Martin street
Mr.. Baker told investigating Of
ficers that the thief had evidently
entered by breaking a side of the
building down.
George w. Faison of 20 South
Third street, told police that some
one had entered his room during
the time he slept Thursday night,
and had robbed him of $685.
Clyde Moore said that someone
had broken into the City Service
filling station at Lingo City, steal
ing $45, Wednesday night.
H. D. Walker, of 502 Market
street, told police Friday tn t
someone had ransacked his apart
ment at that address late Thurs
day night.
Mrs. Elizabeth Crumpler, also
of 502 Market street, told investi-
eating officers that a prowler had
taken $500 from her pocketbook
sometime the same night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
FRANCE CUT OFF
FROM ALL WORLD
London News Sour,e De.
cIares Country Isolated;
Considerable Mystery

LONDON. Dec. 1S.-tP)-The
Daily .Iail reported in a dispatch
from Madrid tonight that France
has been cut off completely from
+hs rest of the world for the last
tuo DAYS and that there is consid-
sra,,la mystery about what is TAX
ins place
The only news available is from
German sources. the dispatch said,
since Havas. French news agency,
shut down its foreign service.
Tie few foreign newspapermen
in Vichy other than Germans and
Italians. are not allowed to travel
over 10 miles - presumably to pre-
vent their giving information at the
border 49, the dispatch said.
Passengers on the Lyon-Geneva
train which runs three times week
ly were turned back at the Swiss
border it was reported.
This Daily Mail dispatch appar-
entity referred to news from the
fomer unoccu3ied zone as the
Swiss newspaper Geneva Tribune
today carried dispatch from Pa
ris
News from France, available
principally in the dispatches of
Swiss or Swedish correspondents,
has been subject to frequent inter-
ruption since the Nazis occupied all
The country.
All telephone and telegraph COM
munication was cut for a period
about two weeks ago.
The Germans also have taken
measures to control travel, refus-
ng to honor French passports at
The Swiss border and requiring vi.
sas to he signed by the German con.
sulate-general at Vichy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
RANKER RESIGNS
POSITION HERE
lanes K. Paul Of Security
National Bank to As
sumo Other Duties

:, WAS announced today by H.
Rorison. vice-president and
u..,,,ington " branch manager of the
c,m,ritv National Bank, that James
y paul. who has been assistant
d, a.sbier q the Institution for some
Va ars has resigned, effective about
w. first of next year, to become
.a.sociated a in business with Charles
a Towrimore, c. P. A., of this
M N.Y. Rorison stated that the bank
,as sorry to lose the services OF
W, w" paul who majored in account
w. w. at the University of North
a. rarolina and is well known
throughout the state.
- pichard Paschal of Wake Forest,
.bo has been assistant cashier
" tbe Security National Bank in
y p.lpigh and who has had many
raors m of banking experience, will
.,Icceed Mr.. Paul in the Whining
I'M Branch. Mr.. Paschal was with
.,o Scottish Bank of Lumberton,
hofore becoming connected with
tfe Security National.
If was also announced by the
h.nk that Ralph V. Huband, who
~. been associated with the Will
,o;noton branch of the bank since
h organization, has been elected
m an assistant cashier and will con-
tnne TO be located in Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
u. S. Employment Office
To Close For Christmas

The United States Employment
Service office will remain closed
on Christmas day only, Felix A.
Scroggs, local manager reported
Friday. The office will be open for
business on December 26.
Mr.. Scroggs declared that the
Employment Service was gener-
ally successful in it's efforts to
obtain extra holiday workers for
local stores, approximately $50 hav.
ing been referred from mhis office
within the past week. Most Of the
workers, he said, were interested
only in temporary employment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
typewriter Problem
Solved For General
Assembly Of State

RALEIGH, Dec. 18. -(R)- The
typewriter problem has been set
ued so far as the 1943 General AS
Sembly is concerned.
Governor Broughton said today
mat State departments had been
c0moed thoroughly for writing
,nachlnes and that enough had been
i0und to do the job. At least rs
were required.
government restrictions pre-.
Sellled the typewriters from being
rented, as in time past.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
lwo N, Y. Newspapers
Increase Sale Price

NM M" YORK, Dec. 1S.-(RLBe-
snig ssluilAg Sunday the cost of the
T;u TTS;luay editions of the New York
mn lines an3 the New York Herald
IN ,Dule e IN the area outside of the
n -'dle Ion SUBURBAN districts and up
IN wv mules will be increased from
bots ~ IL cents, representatives of
% T Papers said today.
dia. III 'ne area beyond the 1OO-rnile
viii I1lc's the Sunday paper cost
coat pe increased from IL to Is
- with some exceptions.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
PATIENT AT HOSPITAL

BALTIMORE, Dec 18- (P =
Sonora Manuel Quezon, wifi eof the
president of the Philippines, was
a patient at the Johns Hopkins
hospital today for treatment for
an undisclosed ailment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19

or small-judge and expect them.
selves to be judged. Hence, we
shall have much to say about the
destiny of our era, in so far as
we know how to say things which
belong within the growing but per.
ennial body of that tradition.
Because this tradition is univer.
sal, there is much room within it.
1t is only the Philistines, of whom
there have always been many, VINO
think that all the choices are ex-
elusive, and that all the issues are
irreconcilable. and that the order
of human life must be just this
or 'ast that. i, truth tho reality
of life on this planet is infinitely
more varied and exuberent than
it is made 10 appear by those
who have been frightened by read
ing few gandist tracts. For
only the frightened and inadequate
tell us that the future belongs
either or to Fascism
or Communism, to free enterprise
to collecSivism, or even, in the
extreme cases of self-induced fear.
to the New Dealers or the anti
New Dealers
The earliest and most certain
symptom of frightened mind is
that it is always reacting against
something. For this means that it
lacks any susta aisling and positive
conviction of its own, and has,
therefore, no inward strength to
face reality and Withstand it and
be the master of circumstances.
Strong and healthy men, Ii k e
good generals, do not let their op-
ponents rule their minds. They do
not look to see what so,nebcGv
else thinks before they know what
they do not think. And whenever
you find q public man who never
knows what he thinks till he has
found some one to disagree with,
you can be reasonably sure that
he is frightened, and that his own
philosophy is barren impulse to
oppose what some one else pro-
poses rather Il, an 10 do something g
positive himseif.
These frightened people are in
danger to themselves and to others
because in any crisis, as, for ex-
ample, when fire breaks out in a
crowded place, the cause of the
panic is that the panic de-
stroy the courage and the. self
restraint Of the crowd. The fright
ened people will have to be watch
ed in the critical days to come,
and especially when the disciplin-
ary effects of the war itself come
to an end, and the tendency will
be so strong to start stampede
to get hold of the most comfort
able places in the postwar world.
That is when the frightened lead
ers of opinion who are already
cultivating the fears and griev-
ances of groups and factions and
parties will be most dangerous to
the state.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19

Contrary to public opinion, the
United States has an extensive
cargo plane building program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
TODAY and TOMORROW
BY WALTER LIPPMANN
On the Sterile Criticism of Politics
ALTER LIPPMANN

or small-judge and expect them.
selves to be judged Hence, we
shall have much to say about the
destiny of our era, in so far as
we know how to say things which
belong within the growing but per.
ennial body of that tradition.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-12-19
North Carolinian
Prisoner Of Japs

hhHR. Dec. 16.-According to a
elegfam from Washington under
tdye b OF December Is, received by
S ls parents here, Lieut.. John c.
gadW' Of Kerr, first lieutenant in
on ~.s infantry, is being held pris-
Ia sl ol war in the PHILIPPINE is
S sS+iuS by the Japanese. Lieutenant
bn' 5n'"' son of D. G. Shaw, has
SseN Stationed in the Philippines
Nnce January 1871.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Curran Reopens Probe
Of Fatal Gasoline Fire

United States Attorney Edward
M. Curran today ordered a reopen
ing of the investigation into the
death of James Kitsoulis, aged 5,
who was burned to death on May
30 in a garage where several cans
of gasoline we're stored
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
had declared the death an accident
and held no inquest. but Mr.. Cur
ran said today the facts would be
presented to the District Grand
Jury.
Mr.. Curran ordered 1t. Joseph
Shimon, head of his special inves-
tigating squad, to probe all angles
of the case.
Young Kitsoulis was playing in an
automobile in a garage at 638 Quebec
place NV. Spiro lis was pouring
gasoline into the automobile at the
time. An explosion occurred and
the fire followed.
Mr.. Zis was later fined 500 in
Police Court for illegal storage Of
gasoline in a garage. He lives at
1864 Girard street NV.
At the time. Mr.. lis told police, he
did not know the child was in the
automobile.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Kelly Orders Police on Alert
For Bus and roIIey Violations

dents. During the first five months
of last year only five persons had
been killed by streetcars or buses.
The figures for the first 20 days of
June last year are not available,
but during that period of June this
year four deaths resulted.
The general accident rate this
year has declined-but the number
of accidents involving streetcars
and buses has increased. Last May,
for instance, there were 1,443 acci-
dents here, of which SO involved
buses and cars. This May there
were 97l accidents and 145 involved
buses or cars.
Last month 90 streetcars were in
volved in accidents which injured
50 persons. There were As bus acci-
dents, injuring 10 persons. This rep
resented an increase Of IS per cent
in streetcar accidents and IL per
cent in bus accidents over the same
period last year-while the general
accident rate was decreasing 80 per
cent.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Briton Asserts Roosevelt
And Churchill Lack Unity

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, June 23-Lord Stra-
bolgi, Labor party leader in the House
of Lords, complained in a speech at
Bedford today of the divided con-
troll" between President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill.
"All these comings and goings OF
kew men across the Atlantic showed
there was not real unity of COM
mand." he said after declaring that
IF a second front had been opened
in Europe last autumn the Germans
could not have spared the arma-
ments with which Rommel defeated
us tin Libya."
1T is more necessary than ever
now to strike at German territory In
Western Europe over the short sea
route" Lord Strabolgi declared. and
added it was "strategically wrong
to regard Libya as a second front
when supplies and reinforcements
had to be sent $4,000 miles.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Wool, Cotton, Wheat
Rationing Not Needed,
Army Tells House
But Armed Forces Foce
25,0O0-Ton Rubber
Shortage, Hearings Show
e. the Associated Press.


Brig. Gen. L. D. Clay of the
general staff told a House Ap-
propriations Subcommittee in
hearings made public today that
the fighting services face a U.s.
000-ton rubber shortage for their
program up to the end of 1943.
The computed needs of the Army.
Navy and lease lend during the
period from April of this year up
to December 81. l943, Gen. Clay
said. are 5000 tons.
If We add essential civilian uses,
that required for busses and trucks,
not for private automobiles he
told the committee, I'VE get a total
over the period of 1902 900 tons"
Gen. Clay said that figure prob
ably represented a maximum re-
Quirement because the Army is ex-
perimenting in rubber economy and
it may be possible to cut require
ments by as much as 10000 tons
Synthetic Supply Estimates.
He said there was available for
use in the United States approx
mately BAL 900 tons for the same
period. but that those responsible
for synthetic rubber production nave
estimated they can turn out 1923 900
tons, an estimate he termed as
optimistic.
Stocks Of rubber in Britain he
estimated at 10000 tons.
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
See RAT1ONING, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Libya Reverse Stirs
Revolt in Commons
Against War Chiefs
Eighth Army Reinforced,
AttIee Soys; Churchill
Statement Is Demanded
E, the Associated Press.

me hSSDCldtto
LONDON. June 23.-Dissatis-
faction with Britain's military
leadership flared openly in the
House of Commons today as it
received it's first accounting OF
the defeat in Libya.
Although the heartening news
came that Britain's desert fighters
have been reinforced and that more
reinforcements are on the way, the
House learned that the naval side
of the Libyan struggle cost Britain
seven warships. including a light
cruiser. and 80 planes.
Clement Attlee, Dominions Secre-
tarv. made the report in the absence
of Prime Minister Churchill in the
United States. but offered little ex-
planation of the sharp, sudden set
back which pushed the British 9th
Army to the Egyptian border.
The House, apparently deter
mined to fix the blame for the de-
feat. cheered when Conservative Sir
John Wardlaw- Milne. from Mr..
Churchill's own party, declared that
some members mo longer have con-
fldence in the military direction of
the war"
When Mr.. Attlee suggested that
ne was seeking a scapegoat. voice
cried out from one of the benches:
why not?"
Churchilrs Overthrow Sought.
A group of members disclosed
that they were trying to get sufi-
cient signers to motion which II
passed would constitute an over
throw of Churchill and creation OF
a new cabinet.
The proposed motion asked Com
mons to declare 1T has no conn
dence in the central direction and
general strategy of the war" and
appeared based on the old criti-
cism that Mr.. Churchill, as defense
minister, takes too large hand IN
military affairs.
Mr.. Attlee said the Axis lost
heavily in the twin convoy battle,
with a battleship torpedoed and a
cruiser of the 8-inch gun Trento
class and two destroyers sunk.
The convoy from the east passed
supply ships into Tobruk. he said,
and then steamed on toward Malta.
When it was informed that the
1coo COMMONS Page ABB
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Japs Reported Halted
Along Vital Routes
In Two China Areas
Enemy Making Strong Bid
For RoiIwoys' Control,
Spokesman Declares
BN Ire Associated Press.

. CHUNGKING. June 23.-The
japanese are making a powerful
bid for control of railways in
East China in the hope of
quickly linking Shanghai and
Singapore by rail, but have been
stopped along vital routes in
Kwangtung and Kiangsi Prov
inces, a Chinese spokesman de-
clared today.
Using more troops and planes in
Kiangsi Province than anywhere
else in East China, the japanese
have even brought up reinforce
ments from the South Seas, the
spokesman said, but still have been
unable to close the 50-mile gap in
the northeast-southwest railway
that traverSes that province.
Fighting still is raging around
Shanghai on the east and Kwelkl
on the west, he said, and japanese
plan to invade the coastal province
of Fukien from Kiangsi has been
thwarted.
The japanese also have been
stopped in all sectors in Kwangtung,
the southern province which has
Canton as it's principal city, particu-
larlv along the important Canton
Hankow Railway, the spokesman
asserted.
Asks for More Arms.
Appealing for more arms. he de-
clared Japan's achievement OF
railway connection from Singapore
to Shanghai was the key to sue
cessful continuation of her war
against the United Nations
Another objective is elimination
of East China bases from which the
Allies could attack Japan.
The Japanese. following their old
principal of concentrating on one
main theater at time, have taken
number of cities from us the
spokesman conceded. but our
troops are penetrating the enemy
flank and rear and the battle Is
anything but decisive. despite pre-
pOSterouS enemy claims
The Chinese spokesman quoted
the japanese news agency Domei as
saving yesterday:
japanese railway authorities have
completed a master plan to link
Shanghai and Singapore by rail via
China, Indo- China, Thailand and
Malaga
Cites Naval Losses.
With their naval losses mounting
daily, the Japanese know they must
rely more and more on overland
TRANSFORMATION for effective prose-
cution of the war, the spokesman
said.
He warned that Shanghai
Singapore railway was not an i'm
possibility If the japanese were
able to gain control of Chekiang,
Fukien and Kiangsi Provinces" The
three provinces are in Southeastern
China between Shanghai and the
Indo-China border.
The Illustration of the japanese
drive in progress in these three prov
inces is all-important, the spokes-
man said.
ITO fruStrate the japanese drive
speedily and without too high cost
We must increase the striking power
of the Chinese Army by removing
the disparity between the combat
| fighting strength of our army and
the japanese Army" he said.
Evening star., 1942-06-23

Maj. Edward j. Kelly, superin-
tendent of police, today ordered all
members of the department to di-
rect every effort and attention" to
the prevention Of speeding. reck-
less driving and other traffic vio-
lations by street car and bus opera
tors in an effort to check the in
creasing number of accidents in
volving these vehicles.
The order was sent by teletype as
Flash Note to Force" and ad-
vised foot patrolman. motorcycle
and scout car operators to act with
out hesitation to apprehend bus and
street car operators who violate
trafnc laws.
Police statistics show an alarming
increase in the number of fatalities
resulting from street car and bus
accidents. as we'll as an increase in
the number of accidents involving
these vehicles.
So far this year Is persons have
been fatally injured in such acci-
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Senate Committee Votes
28O Million for WPA

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee today recommended a $780,
900. 900 work relief appropriation for
the next fiscal year. the same
amount voted by the House.
About s5O,OOO,0OO additional is
available from unspent previous ap-
preparations.
Senator McKellar, Democrat, OF
Tennessee. who presided at closed
hearings on the measure, said that
WPA intended to retain Offices in
each State, but would close regional
Offices in New York City, Chicago.
Atlanta. New Orleans, ST. Paul and
Salt Lake City.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Bv the Associated Press.


AN EAST COAST PORT, June
23-Two torpedoeS fired in
quick succession by an enemy
submarine sank a medium sized
American freighter in three
minutes off the coast on June Is
with a possible loss of 88 lives
the heaviest in American coastal
waters since the United States
entered the war-the Navy an
nounced today.
OF the 88. the Navy announced
that two are known dead and 86
missing.
Eighty-one persons. including %
United States soldiers and number
of crew members. were rescued
Forty-four were brought into this
port. 81 at another. Two soldiers
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Vessel Hit by Two Torpedoes
Goes Down in Three Minutes
Toll Heaviest in CoostoI Waters;
81 Survivors Taken to Ports

were listed as the known dead and
ID other soldiers were among the
missing
The sinking was revealed less than
a day after the Navy announced ii
had been conveying merchant ship
ping along thes East Coast for about
80 days.
(The Navy announced today
that medium sized United
States merchant vessel had been
torpedoed approximately rs miles
off the New England coast and
that survivors had landed at an
East Coast port. Four other re-
cent sinkings were announced
yesterday. They included the
Argentine freighter Rio Tereero,
which was lost in the Atlantic
See SINKINGS, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Showers Relieve Heat;
SLIGHTLY Cooler TONIGHT

Washington awoke today to cooler
weather after showers last night
broke a humid spell. The Weather
Bureau predicted mot quite so
warm" during the day and slightly
cooler" tonight.
One drowning and heat prostra-
ton case were reported yesterday.
A l5-year-old colored boy, Clar-
ence Young of 1241 Union street
SW., drowned while swimming in
Boundary Channel, west Of Me-
mortal Bridge. His body was re-
covered by a workman.
Miss Mary Henderson. %, was
felled by the heat at restaurant in
the 1400 block of G street NV.
where she worked. She was taken
to Emergency Hospital for treatment
for heat exhaustion and lacerated
scalp.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Foreign

Foreign
Japs stopped along vital routes.
Chinese say. Page Al
Nazis checked at Sevastopol. Rus
slams declare. Page Al
Raj planes attack naval base at
Emden third time. Page Az
President Ortiz reported planning to
resign soon. Page A-3
Notionol
Roosevelt and Churchill center talks
on shipping problems. Page Al
Army supply bill totaling 4a billion
reported to House. Page Al
Ellender says U. S. should keep war
supplies here. Page Al
George urges cheap Government IN.
surance for civilians. Page rio
Evening star., 1942-06-23
| WAACs to Get
| S184.91 Each
| For CIothinQ
TIE Associated Press.


Here's what it will cost Uncle
Sam to dress his WAACS-the
ladies soon to join the Army's
auxiliary corps.
They'll get an initial clothing
allowance of sl84.91, plus a mainte-
nance allowance of S70.77 This is
more than the Army's regular men
get-sl53.9l for clothing and s44.8l
for maintenance.
One item in the womens bill. $40
pair for gloves. was described by
Representative Mahon. Democrat,
of Texas. as outrageous"
Unless" he added, they are
serving in Alaska or some place like
that"
Maj. Gen. E. B. Gregory of the
Quartermaster Corps assured the
committee that only limited
number" of that type would be
provided. 4