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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
M'NUTT REVEALS
LABOR LAW NEED
VINO Chairman Indicates
Congress May Hear New
Measure On Workers

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.- Up -
War Manpower Chief Paul V. Nc
Mutt indicated today that an ad-
ministration proposal for national
service act, which might empower
the government to make compul-
sorry assignments of workers o
jobs where they are most needed,
would be submitted to Congress
soon.
Testifying before the House Ag-
riculture Committee inquiring into
farm labor shortages, he said per
suasion is not enough, and there's
not sufficient patriotic urge" to
deal with the manpower problem.
'T hope in the very near future
that certain recommendations will
be made,' he added. 1T is not
an easy task. We have never had
such legislation. Certain constitu-
tional questions are involved"
McNutt told the committee that
on way to keep labor on the
farm was to narrow the differen-
Continued on Page Three; Col. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
Full Blackout
Scheduled For
Air Raid Test.
Defense Commander Points
Out Definite Orders
On Defense Drill
ALL MUST CONFORM
All Lights To Be Extin-
guished, Traffic Must
Stop On Signal

Tonight's air raid drill will
definitely be a total blackout,
Commander C. David Jones
declared last night, and the
idea that only a dimout is to
be observed is wrong.
All lights must be extin-
guished upon hearing the
first blast of the air raid 81
rem and remain out until the
all-Clear sounds.
No Definite Time
No definite time has been set
for the start Of the blackout, Com
mander Jones pointed out, other
than it will take place between
the hours of pm. and midnight.
Neither has any length of time
for the blackout been announced,
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
Nation Begins All = Out
Drive In Many Areas;
Scrap Piles Growing

NEW YORK, Sept. 28- P -
Americans today began throwing
together a mountainous pile of
scrap that will mean steel death
for the Axis.
From coast to rcoast-in farms,
factories, homes-the three weeks
nationwide drive to find junked
metal and iron started under the
leadership of more than 1000 news
papers.
Typical of the gravity of the hunt
for metal scrap SO vital to keep the
steel mills from tagging was the
declaration by Connecticut Gov
ernor Robert A. Hurley that an
emergency existed in his state.
In ringing appeal to his people,
the governor said:
Until we have exhausted every
last possibility of providing our
factories with materials they need,
each man, woman and child Of
Connecticut is a member of Con-
necticut's citizens army"
AS the scrap piled up across the
nation, stories piled up, too, show.
ing that Americans were throwing
into the junk heap that will be-
come planes, tanks and ships not
only their old iron beds but even
their heirlooms handed down from
Revolutionary times.
Example:
Mrs. Clayton Squires of West
Slmsbury, Conn, contributed 81
knitting needles an ancestor usec
to fashion socks for George Wash
ington's soldiers.
Eighteen states thus far have re
ported that every one of theil
newspapers, both daily and weekly
were lined up solidly in the cam
paign requested by Donald M. Mel
son, War Production Board chief
when he saw scrap collection lag
ging month ago, and the list il
growing.
The general committee for the
newspapers united metal scral
drive announced solid eightee1
states were: Connecticut, Virginia
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky
Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Da
kota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Ok
lahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Ore
son.
But those solid states were onl.
part of the picture for all over tn
nation-in cities, towns, villages
counties-campaigns were unde
way under newspaper leadership
In some places they had been &c
ing on already.
The steel mills will need 1900,
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
ANTI-WAR UNREST
SEEN IN BALKANS
Conditions Described As
Similar. To Those In
1918; Rumania Active

LONDON, Sept. 28.-(R-Increas-
ing anti-war sentiment in the Bal
kans was reported by Allied gov
ernment sources tonight and Yu-
goslav official described conditions
as similar to those in 1918 shortly
before the collapse of Bulgaria,
Austria and Hungary.
The reasons were Ii t e d as
these:
1. The lengthening death list on
the Eastern front. Rumania alone
was said to have lost more than
10000 men in Russia and Ger
many was reported demanding 50,-
900 additional.
2. Decreasing food supplies.
3. Increasing Axis pressure for
"closer collaboration
1.-THE Rumanians are particular
ly bitter toward both Germany and
Hungary" a fighting French
source said, 'for the first time
since the war began t h e word
pace (peace) is seen scrawled on
pavements and buildings through
hundred men and women were
out the country. Recently several
tried by court martial for unpatri-
otic activities, including sabotage.
1.-The majority of the people feel
that they have received nothing
from Germany except additional
demands, and they are bitter at
Hungary because they were forced
to yield Pennsylvania to her.
In an effort to counter dissen-
sion in Hungary, Germany recent
ly gave Hungary 100000 acres of
rich Serbian agricultural lands, the
Yugoslav government announced.
The lands adjoin Bachka province
which previously had been ceded
to Hunary. The inhabitants of 62
villages were evicted.
Hungary also was reported wor-
ried by decreasing war goods pro-
duction because of the flight OF
workers to the country after an
air raid Oh Budapest, the Lenin-
grad radio said.
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
LAVAL STIFFENS
ON FRENCH LABOR
Premier Gives Nazis Choice
OF Keeping Him Or
Risking Revolt

BERN, Switzerland, Sept. 2o.-
R-Pierre Laval gave the Ger
mans the choice today of keeping
him in office or risking revolt in
France over compulsory labor con-
scription, reliable advices + r m
Paris said tonight.
Informed observers believed La
val had a good chance of winning
his point with a plea that public
reaction must be considered, but
they were uncertain of the final
outcome of the arrest Of some 300
Americans by the Germans in the
occupied zone, presumably as host
ages for future exchange.
Official American quarters still
lacked formal information on what
was going on in occupied France
The seizure of the Americans, most
of them in Paris, caused no sur
prise because those in the occu-
pied zone were liable to intern
ment as enemy aliens.
The situation served with other
factors, including U. S. endorse
ment of the British occupation OF
Madagascar, to intensity the acute
status of American-French rela-
tions. But Laval's apparent stiff
fening on the labor program, ii
was pointed out, could be an i'm
portant factor in avoiding a rup-
ture.
By his current stand against
compulsory conscription to raise
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
BATTLE IS CONTINUING
Russians Admit Numerical
Superiority Of Ger
man Attacks
FIGHTING in STREETS
Conflict Still Raging Inside
City But No De-
tails Available

MOSCOW, Tuesday, Sept.
29.-P)-Two fresh German
infantry divisions and $50
tanks thrown into the falter-
ing assault on Stalingrad
crashed through Russian lines
on the northwestern outskirts
Of the city yesterday, and the
Soviet High Command again
acknowledged the numerical
superiority of the enemy as
the siege entered it's Seth
|day.
The midnight communique
telling Of the grave turn for
the Stalingrad garrison said
of that development:
after stiff fighting a
group of enemy tanks man.
aged to penetrate a workers
settlement, where the fight
ing continues. During the
day our men annihilated
about two German infantry
regiments and disabled about
$50 enemy tanks"
1000 of nemy Killed
Northwest of Stalingrad, presum-
ably above the sector where the
Soviet lines were cracking, th
Russians said their troops h d
killed more than 1000 Germans
and destroyed eight Nazi tanks in
the past "a hours.
The Red army had been holding
generally northwest of Stalingrad
and even gaining ground in coun-
ter-attacks during the past week.
Inside the city savage street
fighting continued, but the latest
communique gave no details of
that struggle. Front dispatches
said at least $4,000 German troops
were engaged in the swaying bat
tie amid the skeleton ruins of the
Volga industrial center.
On the central front before Mos
COW the Russians reported another
Red army advance northwest of
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
FARM COMPROMISE
is TURNED DOWN
Senate Bloc Tenders Pro-
posal But Administra-
ton Rejects 1t

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.-(P>-
Apparently sensing defeat in its
drive to force higher farm parity
prices into the anti-inflation bill,
the Senate farm bloc offered COM
promise today but administration
forces flatly rejected it.
The compromise would require
President Roosevelt to fix agricul-
tural price ceilings in such a way
as to reflect "all productive costs.
including labor" 1t was offered
as a substitute for the amendment
by Senators Thomas (D-Okla' and
Hatch (D-NM), which would have
altered the parity or fair farm
price" formula by introducing farm
labor costs into it for the first
time
Administration men complained
that the latter proposal would raise
the cost of living $1,000, 100000 to
$500. 100000, a year. They said
the present parity formula. which
would be the basis of ceiling under
the pending anti-inflation bill, was
fair because it reflected the price
of things the farmer buys.
After a hastily called meeting of
the Senate Agriculture Committee
today, the farm bloc leaders laid
the compromise before Senator
Brown D-Mich., in charge of the
administration anti-inflation bill
which calls for sterilization of prices,
wages and salaries
Brown swiftly rejected the com.
promise, on the ground that ii
would alter the parity idea by in
PRODUCING "cost of production" fac
tors. President Roosevelt has ex
pressed unalterable opposition te
changes in parity.
Brown announced that the admin
istration forces would fight it out
on the basis of the Thomas-Hatcf
amendment VS.. a plan offered by
Senator Barkley D-Ky., majority
| leader. This would direct the Presi
dent to make adjustments in farm
! price ceilings where such actor
appeared necessary to increase wal
production, or where the ceiling:
fail to reflect increased labor costs
The rejection of the farm bio,
compromise led Senator Hatch tt
declare bitterly:
! 'For the life of me, 7 do not un
derstand how the administration
can expect to produce farm or othe,
commodities at less than the actua
Continued on Page Three: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
old Glory Again Waves
Over Municipal Building

Making its first appearance
over city hall in number OF
years, Old Glory is flying from
the new flag pole on the south
lawn of the municipal build
ing this week.
Moved from Greenfield Park
by City Manager A. c. Nichols,
the flag pole, which at one
time did duty in National
cemetery here, has received
fresh coat of paint and been
adorned by gilt eagle and
weatherpane atop the staff.
Although the pole was set up
last week, it was not put into
service until Sunday to allow
time for the concrete base to
harden and for the paint to
dry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
CHOLERA CONTROL
FOR HOGS NEEDED
Farm Agent Here Asks
County To Aid In Fight
For Inoculations

A plea to get State Department
of Agriculture aid in the control
of hog cholera in New Hanover
county was made to the Board OF
County Commissioners at t h r
regular meeting yesterday after
noon by R. w. Galphin, county
farm agent.
With the resignation of DR.. Cox,
state veterinarian, farmers in the
county are stranded with no means
of having their hogs innoculateo
with cholera serusm, Mr.. Galphir
explained. His plan, approved by
the commissioners, proposes the
appointment of four men in varl.
Gus sections of the county, to be
trained to give the vaccination to
hogs suffering with cholera. Ap.
proval of the State Agriculture!
department is needed, however, to
put the plan in action. 1t was de-
cided at yesterdays meeting thai
MIR. Galphin, accompanied by 9
member of the board, would pre-
sent the situation in person to au'
thorities at Raleigh.
UNLESS something is done about
the cholera situation in the county
soon, it may become uncontrolla'
BILE, Mr.. Galphin told the board,
land result in loss OF thousands
of dollars il. pork.
That the state highway depart.
ment open up the extension OF
Chestnut street, between KenWood
avenue and Williams street, was
recommended by the board. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29

he continued, but it is assumed
from information from Raleigh
that it will extend over period
Of about As minutes.
During that time, all vehicles
except those specifically exempted
by the civilian defense committe
and the military will come to a
complete stop, extinguish all lights
and the drivers must leave the
cars or other vehicles unlocked
but with the ignition key removed.
Persons on the streets have only
three minutes to arrive at their
homes or lodgings, otherwise they
must find suitable shelter in any
available building. Only persons
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
Camp Dauis To LendAnmy Trucks
ToAid In Scrap CollectionHere
Local Salvage Committee
Is Notified OF Army's
Wish To Participate

Under authority of Major Cen
eral Frederic H. Smith, command
ing officer Of Camp Davis, Lieut..
IL. M. Bosky, salvage officer at
the camp, notified the local scrap
salvage conmitte yesterday that
army trucks from Camp Davis will
be loaned to the group for salvage
collections.
Thursday will mark the begin
ming of the newspaper-sponsored
scrap campaign in Wilmington and
in North Carolina, it was pointed
out by Alex Sprunt, chairman of
the local committe.
At a meeting yesterday of the
committee, W. j. Murray, assist
ant superintendent Of scrap metal
collections for the WPA, explained
the operation of the local salvage
groups in the drive.
All monies obtained from the
scrap will be turned over to what
ever agency the donor directs, Mr..
Sprunt revealed.
THE public is requested to aid
this drive with everything h e y
have" Mr.. Sprunt declared. "All
old metal which is not needed for
safety or comfort should be do
mated"
The trucks loaned by the army
for the collection will be available
in the city and county as long
as the drive lasts. Information or
where to call for pickup service
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
ALLIES STRIKE
IN new GUINEA
Take Offensive For First
Time In Area OF Owen
Stanley Range

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD.
QUARTERS, Australia, Tuesday
Sept. 29-tREAllied ground forces
in the Owen Stanley mountains OF
New Guinea have now taken the
initiative against advance Japa-
nese troops and "are making pro-
gress," a communique said today.
The action, described as an in
filtrating and outflanking attack,
took place on 1oribaiwa Ridge,
about 80 miles north of the Allied
base at Port Moresby where the
Japanese advance through the
mountains was halted about two
weeks ago.
The Allies, after having fallen
back before successive Japanese
advances toward Moresby which
began with the enemy landing at
the Coma Mission July 81, thus
have now taken the offensive for
the first time on New Guinea.
An Allied Army spokesman en-
phasized, however, that this was
not "over the top fighting like
that of the First World War, but
peculiar type of Jungle warfare
which the japanese employed so
successfully in pushing through to
the present lines.
The fighting is taking place in
some of the worlds worst jungle
country, but the spokesman indi-
Gated the Allies had been able to
bring up artillery and 25-pounders
for the attack.
CONTINUED on Pare Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
Temperature Drops
To So Degrees Here
As Fall Makes Debut

Extra quilts and blankets
were taken from storage
places and put into use last
night as the thermometer nose
dived to a low of So degrees IN
the city.
In many homes fireplaces
and stoves were lighted for the
first time since last spring as
King Winter paid the coast an
early visit. The highest tenn
perature yesterday was only Do
degrees, while the mean tenn
perature was go, according to
government weatherman Paul
Hess.
The forecast for today is
continued cool.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29

OfSavingRe From Axis

Russian factories and some COM
parsons I had made with Ameri
can industrial organization n d
production.
His interest was alert, his un-
derstanding comprehensive.
AS a pleasantly I. said, MIR.
Stain, you know I have been in
business and at the bar all my
mature life. I am rather glad
your lot was not cast in America.
You would have made tough COM
petition -
He laughed. He was obviously
pleased. Men are frequently re-
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29

Fire accounts for more than
Is, 900 lives each year and go per
cent of the fatal fires get their
start in private homes" Fire Chief
J. L. Groom said last night, as
he urged local citizens to take an
active part in the observance of
National Fire Prevention Week.
''You have read the casualty lists
appearing in the papers S n e
Pearl Harbor," said Chief Groom.
Civilian casualties that take place
even in peacetime are rarel y
brought before your attention. Yet
fire alone takes over $4,000 lives.
III time of war this figure may
be materially increased.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
CRASH THROUGH
STALMGRAD DEFENSES
IN NORTHWEST SECTOR
American Airmen Smash
40 Japanese Airplanes

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28-(R
Smashing with terrific force
at the Japanese in both the
Solomon and the Aleutian Is
lands, Army Navy Marine
Corps airmen in the last five
days have destroyed 49 enemy
planes and damaged five
ships, one Of which probably
sank, without the loss Of a sim
gle American plane in combat.
A Navy communique an
nounced that in an attack by
the enemy on Guadalcanal Is
land yesterday Sept. % East
Longitude), Navy and Marine
Corps fighters intercepted a
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
$4,000 Die Each Year
From Fires In Nation

"One of the main reasons Of
Fire Prevention Week is to edu-
cate civilians in the fire defense
of their own homes.
Civilian defense leaders have
complete information on the most
effective means of extinguishing
incendiary bombs.
Heating equipment, including
stoves, flues and chimneys is a
frequent cause of residential fires,
and should be checked by an ex-
pert. Examine all exposed wiring
and extension cords for worn in
sulation. The family should be
taught the danger of leaving cords
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29

large Japanese formation not
only forced the enemy bOmbers
to jettison their bombs at sea,
but shot down % of the rs
bombers and one of the 18 es-
corting Zero fighters.
On Saturday a formation of
18 Japanese bombers escort
ed by 13 fighters attacked the
Marines" position on Guadal-
canal, but Navy and Marine
Corps fighters turned them
back, destroying four bombers
and give of the fighters. These
attacks on Guadalcanal fol-
lowed heavy assaults Friday
II
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29

paign yielded-of all things-one
nice set of burglars tools. complete
and in good working order.
But the safe-cracking kit cams
from the Franklin county prose
cutors office.
CANTON, GA 1,500-pound safe
owned by President Warren G.
Harding when he was publisher OF
the Marion, O., Star is going into
war implements.
The safe, bearing Harding's name,
was contributed to the scrap drive
by Brush Moore Newspaper, Inc,
which bought the Star from Hard
ing.
This is the way President Hard.
ing would have had it were he
here" said Louis Brush, president
of the newspaper syndicate, as he
helped dump the safe on the junk
pile.
ELKHART, Ind-Sam Dudley has
become a "key" figure in the scrap
drive. Dudley, repai~man and key.
maker, turned in 1000 old KEYS and
metal filings equal in weight tc
another 1000.
HARTFORD, Conn.-Mrs. Tru
man S. Lewis of Waterbury donated
two 75-year-ol flower urns. totaline
300 pounds, from the family GENE
terry plot.
WASHINGTON-The District o.
Columbia's salvage collection yes
terday in the western half of Wash
ington netted at least 0,O0(
pounds of metal, thus making 6
total of 5,242,0OO pounds collected
on successive Sundays. The east
ern half was combed a week ago
SYRACUSE, N. "a 12-ton Is!
nm. German field piece, gift O.
the Americacn Legion from in from
of it's clubhouse here, started bacl
for war today but on the Allied sid
by way of the scrap pile.
Among hundreds of tons of scral
collected early here today was al
iron chair from beside the grav'
of John r. Clancy, congressman. I
was the gift of his S1-year-olt
widow.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-Springfiel'
feels mighty proud of the almos
one million pounds of scrap it col
lected. Louis Schwartz, member o
the local War Production Board
said the drive here was the mos
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
WEATHER
FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA Continued
cool today.

FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA Continued
cool today.
eastern STANDARD TINIE)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday:
Temperature:
l 80 a. m. So: 7 80 a. m. 81; 80 p. m
81; 7:30 p m. co. maximum So; minimum
81; mean 60; normal 10.
Humidity:
1:30 a. m. 81; 1880 p. m. r.; 80 p. n
36; 7 80 p. m. 81
Precipitation:
Total for the "a hours ending 7:3C
p. M, 0.72 inches; total since the firs!
of the month, 3.89 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY:
F'rom the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey:
High Low
Wilmington ---- 12 :44a. 7:49a
1:12p. 3:27p
Masonboro Inlet ------- 1o:45a. 4:29a
Hoop. 5:02p
Sunrise 6 :05a; sunset 6 loop; moonrisc
9:31p; moonset 10:43a.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette-
vile on Monday, at a. M, $50 feet.
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29

Editors note: The follow
ing impressions of Premier Jo-
seph Stain were written by
Wendell L. Willkie, President
Roosevelt's personal represen-
tative, at the request Of Wild
World, shortly before Mr.. Will
kie concluded his visit to Rus
sia and left for China.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
No Calls Answered

The Wilmington Star-News
announces that in compliance
with the request of defense Of
ficials regarding the needless
use of telephones during the
hiackout tonight no telephone
calls will be answered by its
office during that period.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
Bv WENDELL L. WILLKIE

MOSCOW, Sept. 28.-Mr. Stain
and l had been in lively CONVEX
sation for some two hours. Among
the subjects which we discussed
was Russian industrial production.
Il was telling him of my visit to
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
notice.!

If your carrier fails TO
leave your copy of the Will
mington Morning Star,
Phone 3311 before 900 a.
m. and one will be sent to
you by special messenger.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29
The Scrap
Front
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBUS, O.-The scrap cam
paign yielded-of all things-one
nice set of burglars tools. complete
and in good working order.
But the safe-cracking kit came
from the Franklin county prose
cutor's office.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-09-29

CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. y
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Social News

Mrs. Beatrice jefferson, for
mer Seattleite, now residing in
Chicago Ill. and her sister, Mrs.
Lydia Reed, of Los Angeles Calf.
are in the city, visiting their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Clarke,
at 1902 oath. Ave. Both sisters
are looking well and inform the
Northwest reporter that they are
glad to be in Seattle again, to meet
old friends and acquaintance.
Mr.. H. d. Harley of BAT 25th
Ave. who was injured some weeks
ago by an auto, is improving at
the Marine Hospital. We hope to
see him out soon.
Mr.. R. A. Clarke is i'll at the
Harborview Hospital but is resting
well at this writing.