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Milford chronicle., 1942-06-05

Georgetown-Millsboro road, about
three miles from here, and he and
his wife now are occupying it.
AS soon as alterations can be
made to the Blackstone property,
on South Bedford street, the Sus-
sex County Health Center will be
moved into these new quarters. It
will be under direction of Or. M. B.
Byrne, who with her daughter,
Miss Mary, have just returned from
an extended trip.
William A. Faucet, son of Mr..
and Mrs. William Raymond Fau-
cett, has completed his examina-
tions for admission to the Annap-
oils Naval Academy. For the past
school term he. has been attending
The Bulls School in Washington.
William Wyatt, East Cedar street,
has returned home after receiving
treatment in the Beebe Hospital at
Lewes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Nailor, Cedar
street, have been entertaining
few days Mr.. Majors aunt, Mrs.
Martha w. Lank, OF Lewes.
Deputy Attorney General and
Mrs. Daniel ]. Layton, Jr.. are oc-
cupying their cottage on the Indian
River. ~
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-05
Gasoline Hazards Are
Explained To Public
tcOntinusa from First Pagel


additional supplies of gasoline in
containers specially constructed for
that purpose. Safe containers,
properly vented with flame traps,
are not available today as the de-
mand for them vanished when SER
vice stations multiplied to such an
extent that gasoline could be OBJ
tanned conveniently on all high
ways.
The everyday use of gasoline,
along with the modern day safe
refueling service, has caused the
motorists to forget its dangerous
properties. Motorists feel perfectly
secure in storing gasoline in i'm
provised containers such as tin
cans and glass jugs. They are un-
aware of community ordinances
forbidding the storage of gasoline or
the possibility of their fire insur-
anee policies becoming void for ex-
cessive storage of gasoline. Metal
containers, even though equipped
with proper caps, are hazardous.
Many times cOrrosion on the inside
which cannot be readily detected
develops into leaks spreading the
vapor, which, mixed with the prop
er amount of oxygen in the air, will
cause an explosion equal in force
TO that of the most powerful ex-
plosives. A flame or tiny spark
will ignite these Yapors under fav-
orable conditions. Glass jugs are
easily broken and when the liquid
is released, even if down a drain,
the vapor accumulates rapidly and
is difficult to control.
Emptying small containers of
gasoline into the gasoline tank of
your car is also extremely hazard
GUS. Many motorists have been
seriously burned or killed by this
practice. Static electricity is pres
ent in the human body and many
times motor cars running. on rub
ber tire insulation generate a
charge of electricity, will cause a
spark sufficient to ignite gasoline
vapor.
Remember, gasoline is ammuni-
tion-use it wisely. Don't hoard it,
conserve it. Arrange with your
neighbors to pool your motor car
transportation. Your rationed sup
ply Of gasoline will go five times as
far if you pool your transportation
with four Of your neighbors.
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-05
Will Offer Prizes
For Roadside Beauty
tcOntinusd from First Page,

Third-A prize of $25 and an
American flag for the most tasteful
and attractive roadside market.
These all to be without sign
boards of any kind. The offering
of these prizes is to promote road
side beauty and 1t is hoped this will
arouse real interest, keen compe-
tition, and a desire to have more
attractive and ornamental condi-
tions along the highways.
The main object of this compe-
tition is to eliminate the sign
boards which make our highways
unsightly and in many places un-
safe. Delaware is known for her
superb roads and in this way the
people of Delaware can cooperate
in beautifying them.
Willard Springer, of the Indus
trial Trust Company and a member
of the State Forestry Commission,
will act as judge and award the
prizes.
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-05

When transplanting vegetable
plants in dry weather, holes In
which the plants are to be set
should be. filled with water and
then refilled as the water soaks
into the soil. After the plants have
been firmly set In the soil, loose.
dry soil should be placed around
the plants to prevent the soil from
becoming hard later.
When running water is available,
Brashef points out that it is often
practical and profitable to water
the garden to keep plants growing
through dry spell. But the water
should be applied thoroughly
enough to soak the soil.
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-05
GARDENS REQUIRE CARE
TO GIVE FULL RETURNS

Gardeners must not become dis
couraged when weather conditions
become unfavorable for gardening,
says E. P. Brasher, truck crop
specialist for the Delaware Agri-
cultural Extension Service.
In small gardens If the soil is too
dry for seeds to germinate, he rec
ommends pouring a few buckets of
water along the burrows which
have been opened up for planting
the seed. If this cannot be done,
he suggests that the seed be plant
ed little deeper than usual to get
the seed in moist soil.
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-05
Two Democratic
States Are Likely
CONTINUED from riras rass,

N~~-@~----~~ ~~@~ ~-@-~ ~a~f
last Saturday that he wants it def
nitely understood he is still can
didate and has no intention of
changing his mind on the matter.
He added that "wishful thinking
was behind rumors he would with
draw from the contest.
Representative Traynor, earlier
in the week, made it clear that he
has not delegated authority to any
one to make any statement about
his denomination.
Rumors had been current that
Senator Hughes would withdraw as
a candidate and that Representa-
tive Traynor would not seek re-
nomination.
The only other candidate who
has announced himself for either
of the nominations is former City
Solicitor E. Ennalls Berl of VIII
mington. He is seeking the sena-
torial nomination and his friends
stated that he will have the sup
port of $50 of the 210 convention
delegates.
Milford chronicle., 1942-06-05

Some folks do very odd things to
break even.
Evening star., 1942-09-06
|WPBAssuIes0CD
hCan Proceed With
Equipment Program
Hose Substitute Found
Permitting Manufacture
Of Stirrup Pumps
BY MIRIAM OTTENBERG.

After months of delay, the
War Production Board yesterday
gave assurance that all mate
rials had been approved to allow
the Office of Civilian Defense to
go ahead with its $10O, 900 900
program to provide protective
equipment for vulnerable COM
munities.
At the same time, a WPB spokes-
man revealed that hose substitute
has been found, permitting manu-
facture of 2,258O0O stirrup pumps.
Still pending are the purchase of
rubber boots, halted just as OCD
found 10000 of the 108, 1000 it needed
clearance on approved blackout
driving lights, pending since July
in WPB's automotive branch, and
a WPB order now in the works to
stop manufacture of devices for
blackout or dimout of traffic and
street lights except on War De-
partment specifications.
More than 10000 900 was tied up
in the auxiliary fire-fighting pump
ing units which have travelled a
(See WPB page Az
Evening star., 1942-09-06
Jap Bases in New Guinea
Blasted by Allied Flyers
Py the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, Sunday,
Sept. 6.-Allied air forces smashed
at Japanese bases in New Guinea
Yesterday with three destructive
raids on Buna, in which numerous
landing barges, boats and other
eouipment were destroyed, and with
other attacks on japanese ground
forces at Kokoda to the west and
Milne Bay to the south, a commu-
nique said today.
Buna, the enemy base for the land
thrust to Kokoda, so miles east Of
the Allied base at Port Moresby,
suffered the heaviest attacks.
A fuel dump was blown up, an
snti-aircraft position silenced and
iuts, motor vehicles and grounded
aircraft destroyed without the loss
of single Allied plane. The Allied
planes strafed enemy positions heav-
lily after unloading their bombs.
The communique said Allied
ground forces continued mopping up
the remnants of japanese troops
still holding out in the jungles neal
Milne Bay, at the southeastern tip o.
New Guinea. One Allied plane wa'
lost while machine-gunning Japa'
nese positions near Kokoda.
Evening star., 1942-09-06
Nelson, Ickes Clash
Over Construction
OF Manganese Plant
Secretary Tokes WPB
Chief to Task for
Refusing Permit
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Sharp differences between War
Production Chief Donald M. Mel
son and Secretary of the Interior
Ickes over the justification for an
electrolytic manganese plant
which the cabinet officer and the
Bureau of Mines favored was
disclosed to The Star last night.
r. Secretary Ickes, in a tart letter
taking Mr.. Nelson to task for re-
fusing to approve the plant, charged
the War Production Board with
stopping the development of a
cheaper form of the war-vital man.
ganese from low-grade ore by the
electrolytic process.
Mr.. Nelson, replying in equally
strong terms, stood firm in his con-
tention that the plant was not
needed, it was learned.
Blames "Vicious Circle"
Declaring there were specific needs
for electrolytic manganese, which is
the purest type, for war purposes,
including planes, Mr.. Ickes charged
that the low-grade ore remained
largely undeveloped in this country
because of vicious circle" among
groups manufacturing the imple-
ments of war and a group in your
organization charged with produc-
ing raw materials.
Mr.. Ickes expressed disappoint-
ment that certain responsible pro-
ducer had not been able to obtain
a permit for such a plant, despite
the strong recommendation OF the
Bureau Of Mines, which had inves-
tigated the project thoroughly. The
Secretary urged Mr.. Nelson to dis
regard his advisers and give the
enterprise green light.
Mr.. Nelson, it was disclosed,
turned down the producers offer on
the ground that there was plenty
(See MANGANESE, Page A-8D
Evening star., 1942-09-06
RommeI Pushed Back
But By Encounter
Is yei1o Come
British InfontYmen and
Tanks Hit Sharp Blows;
Bombers Strike Hard
By the Associated Press.

CAIRO, Sept. 5.-Nazi Marshal
Erwin RommePs Axis forces fell
back slowly toward the west to-
night under the sharp blows of
British tanks and infantrymen
and the bludgeonings of Allied
bombers flying almost con-
stantly over the western desert
battlefield.
New Zealanders forced an Axis
withdrawal over a battlefield strewn
with wrecked German heavy tanks
along the central sector of the Ell
Alamein front and held firmly to
their new positions.
South of the Alamein sector, In
an area where some of the heaviest
fighting of the week-long action has
occurred, the combat moved at a
slow pace to the west.
Battlefront reports said enemy
tanks and their anti-tank guns,
while withdrawing farther to the
west, still were in the wedge they
drove in the British positions at
the southern extremity of the Ala
mein line.
Terrific Beating From Air.
Marshal Rommel's unarmored ve-
hicles, mostly supply trucks, how
ever, were almost entirely west OF
the line. Widely dispersed, they
have taken a terrific beating from
air attacks.
United States Near East head
quarters announced that United
States medium bombers sand fight
ers continued their support Of the
R. A. F., attacking concentrated
motor transport and making sev-
eral direct hits. Fires also were
started by the United States pilots
The entire first week of the new
fight in the desert appeared to con-
sist mainly Of jockeying for posi-
ton for the real battle for Egypt
and the Nile
Striking southwestward from thei
central positions into the enem.
flank, the New Zealand troop
pushed Marshal Romme's armoret
forces back three miles, the secont
time the Axis commander has givel
(See EGYPT, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1942-09-06
Four Britons Capture
| ID Italians Making
| First Commando Raid
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WITH THE BIRTHS H
EIGHTH ARMY IN THE
WESTERN DESERT, Sept. s.
Mussolini's warriors put on their
first Commando raid yesterday,
and for their trouble got
arrested by British military
police.
An officer and 13 men landed
from rubber boats on the desert
coast before dawn. They were
armed to the teeth. They crept
to railway line and placed
high explosives under the track.
A train passed over the spot,
but the explosives did not
explode.
Then the Commands hid in
the desert. Four military police
men surprised them and cap
tured them.
The Commands offered no
resistance.
Evening star., 1942-09-06
Henderson Sets Up New Division
To Fiqht Hidden Price ChiseIino

standards division-Which will pro-
vide OPA with the necessary tech
nical assistance and develop specific
standards for inclusion in all regula-
tions where quality of product is a
factor. These standards, Mr.. Hen
derson said, must be met if the
commodity or product is to COM
mand the applicable maximum
price, and will include definitions of
quality, and even may require goods
to be identified accordingly.
Mr.. Henderson appointed as di-
rector of the division Dexter M.
Keezer, who has been in charge of
(See CHISELING. Page A-8.)
Evening star., 1942-09-06
Roosevelt Labor Day
Message Warns U. 5.
OF Stormy Days Ahead
Giving Up Bodily Comforts.
EquoIity Of Sacrifice
Held Facing Americans

President Roosevelt warned
last night that Americans face
giving up bodily comforts and
increases in wages, farm prices
and profits as the war effort
moves through stormy days
ahead" E
"All this is little enough for free
men to sacrifice in world where
freedom is imperiled," the President
said in a Labor Day statement pre-
liminary to his announcement to-
morrow of drastic new steps to con-
troll the cost Of living.
The statement, indicating that
the forthcoming nti-inf1ation pro-
gram will call for equality of sac
rifice by all groups in the Nations
economic life, declared that Ga
borers, farmers, industrialists, all
of us, are pledged to the war effort"
and that "we are certain to be asked
for sacrifices"
Mr.. Roosevelt will announce de-
tails of the new program, which
has been reported as providing for
an economic GEAR" to administer
orders limiting wages, salaries and
farm prices, in special message
to Congress tomorrow and explain
it to the people in "flreside chat"
tomorrow night.
Grave Hour for All.
Declaring that there never has
been a Labor Day as significant as
this one" the President said in his
statement that this is grave
hour" for "the farmer, the indus
trialist, the teacher and preacher,
the aproned housewife, the smallest
child in the cradle" as well as for
labor.
He added the cheering word, how
ever, that happily, our good right
arm is strong and growing stronger,
with war production now "the
Evening star., 1942-09-06

Scrap metal, he SAID, pointing
to a pile Of junk in a corner of
the back porch, "is that old alarm
clock, the auto jack, the pipes and
the rusty faucets"
He thought of that old alarm
clock, the auto jack, the pipes and
the rusty faucets" in terms of the
American war effort, in terms of
Americas vital need for steel, a
need which must be met to keep
the war machine rolling, a need
which will be met when civilians
Evening star., 1942-09-06
Both Engines Out on One Side,
Flyer Fights Nozis Five Hours

fighter craft but all returned to the
bases.
Enemy bullets set the far. left en-
gine of Maj. Wade's plane on fire
and severed the oil line of the inner
port engine.
Nevertheless. he maneuvered his
plane over the target and scored
near misses on an enemy warship.
Then he dropped almost to sea
level to escape Axis fighters and
flew home.
He was in the air five hours with
only the two right-side engines
working.
Evening star., 1942-09-06
Treasury Proposes
Gard Rationing' Of
Individual Spending
Would Issue Certificates
To Each Toxpoyer for
Portion of Income
By the Associated Press.


A simple plan to curb con-
sumner purchasing by imposing
an arbitrary limitation on the
amount an individual might
spend out of his income has been
suggested by Treasury officials
to the Senate Finance Commit
tee, it was learned yesterday.
The proposal, offered tentatively
by Roy Blough, head of the Treas
ury's Tax Research Bureau, con-
templates issuance by the Govern
ment of sort of rationing certifi-
cate to each taxpayer permitting
him to spend certain proportion of
his income, but no more. Income
that could not be spent might be
expected to gravitate to Government
bonds.
A man with . 5000 annual In
come might be granted suff1cient
certificates to spend 30 per cent Of
it, or $4,000. He could spend this
amount in any manner he chose and
at any time, but could not spend
more.
Graduated Restrictions.
Low income groups existing on a
bare subsistence level might be per-
mitted to spend all their earnings,
while those in the higher income
levels probably would feel the weight
of graduated restrictions.
Senator Vandenberg Republican
of Michigan hailed the plan as
challenging" and said it easily could
be written into the pending tax bill
If the scheme was found feasible
and the committee wished to give it
a trial.
This plan is challenging in it's
simplicity and its efficiency" Sena-
tor Vandenberg told reporters "It
has the. double value of controlling
inf1ationary spending at it's source
and of providing large reservoir of
savings for bond purchases to help
finance the war"
Senator Vandenberg said that as
outlined by Mr.. BIough, the scheme
would not involve the imposition of
any tax or the withholding of any
part of an individuals income for
it's effectiveness
Difference From Early Plans.
This constituted its chief differ
ence from previous Treasury pro-
posals for fiat levy of 10 per cent
on individual spendings above GER
tain specified restrictions, the col
lections to be in the form of en-
forced savings returnable to the
taxpayer after the war. The Treas
ury also had proposal a graduated
tax ranging from 10 to rs per cent
on what might be defined as lux
ury" expenditures.
Secretary OF thes Treasury Nor
genthau renewed last night his plea
for the spending tax, designed te
raise $5,7o0,oOO 900 year to finance
the war effort.
Answering criticism that the plar
was complicated" Secretary Nor
genthou said in a statement that
ito me it is as simple as grade school,
arithmetic Complaints that it was
complicated, he said, arose simply
because OF many technical details
in the structure of the plan. ONLY
Evening star., 1942-09-06
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Price Administrator Henderson
announced last night he is prepared
to crack down on new war racket
hidden price chiseling (Which
has developed as a result of Gov
ernment control of retail and whole
sale prices.
Methods most generally used to
escape the. price ceilings, he said,
consist chiefly of the 'debasement'
of quality, use of inferior materials
and skimping on measurements and
workmanship.
Mr.. Henderson also announced he
had created special division--a
Evening star., 1942-09-06
Four Icelandic Children
Hurt in Nazi Plane Raid
Py the Associated Press

Py the Associated Press.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept. g.
Four Icelandic children were wound
ed one critically, by a boub dropped
this morning by lone Focke-Wu
bomber in the Seydisfjordur area
the United States Army command
announced today.
Seydisfjordur is a village of 9O(
population on the northeast coast
The announcement said the bomb
fell near where the children were
playing. A small boys leg will
probably have to be anputated, ii
added.
The Army said no damage was
done to military installations.
Evening star., 1942-09-06

OWONPO'
An authoritative announcement
said there were no American losses,
but the wide activities cost the
Allies six fighter planes. Two enemy
planes were destroyed.
The attacks followed a night of
intensive Allied action against Ger
many. A powerful force of hum
dreds of RAF planes started big
fires in Bremen, while the Russians
scattered bombs on Eastern Ger
many and attacked Budapest for the
first time
A German war bulletin mentioned
the Russian raids without naming
Evening star., 1942-09-06
Ey the Associated Press.

g The AASOcIateu PTtSs.
CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 5. - Maj.
Horace M. Wade of Magnolia, Ark,
United States bomber commander,
was credited tonight with pressing
home an attack and bringing in his
plane although enemy bullets early
in the action disabled both of the
port engines on his heavy bomber.
Mai. Wade, with other American
planes, attacked an enemy convoy
Wednesday night in the Mediter-
ranean south of Crete. Every Amer
ican plane was hit by bullets from
Evening star., 1942-09-06
FiIipinos Still Fight
Jups, owl Reveals

BY the Associated Press
The Office of War Information
quoted the Rome radio yesterday as
saying that Filipino soldiers ARE
still harassing the Japanese military
government"
The Owl reported that the Rome
radio quoted 1t. Gen. Tanaka, Japa-
nese commander in chief in the
Philippines, as saying, Some areas
in the Philippines are still being
pestered by small groups of Filipino
soldiers"
Evening star., 1942-09-06

the cities other than Budapest, but
the British radio quoted Scandi-
navian dispatches from Berlin as
saying Vienna in Austria, Koenigs-
burg in East Prussia and Breslau in
German silesia were among the
places hit.
The German high command said
the Russians also attacked places
in Poland
The daylight raid of the Flying
Fortresses was their eighth of the
war, and their second on Rouen.
Three squadrons, the greatest num-
(See RATDC paoe AL
Evening star., 1942-09-06
Puris Joil Break Revealed

VICHY, Sept. [P.-The escape
OF 81 political prisoners in a Paris
Jail break July was disclosed only
today when Paris newspapers re-
ported the sentencing of six recap
tured to Is months each. The par
ticipants were being held on charges
of Communism.
Evening star., 1942-09-06
No Late Editions
7 Tomorrow

The Star will observe Labor
Day as usual tomorrow by
eliminating late afternoon
editions.
Subscribers to the Night
Final Edition will receive the
regular Home Edition.