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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-17
GERMANS EXPLAIN |
DELAY in DRIVE
Unable To Start Offensive
Because Of Deep Mud
In South Russia

LONDON, Apr. 16-4R-German
newspapers are telling their read
ers that the Nazi offensive on the
Russian front will not start until
June and they are appealing to
the German public to be patient
meanwhile and keep confidence in
the Nazi military command, dis
patches from Stockholm said to-
day.
Explaining the delay, these news
papers are saying that all oper-
ations in southern sector of the
Russian front have been suspended
because of deep mud, while in the
northern area there still are frosts
and operations are on l oca
scale.
While both the Soviet mid day
and night communiques reported
no important changes during the
day, a supplement said that 1000
more Nazis were slain during the
last two days on the Leningrad
front. Fifty two German planes
also were announced as destroyed
during Tuesday and Wednesday.
Soviet losses were five planes
yesterday.
Dispatches from the R ussian
front also said that the So v
forces which broke the first Ger
man lines in the Bryansk sector
200 miles southwest of Moscow had
forged still further ahead and oc-
cupied dozen settlements aban-
doned by the Germans.
The German high command said
isolated Soviet attacks were re.
PEELED with heavy losses.
The aviation authority of t h e
Soviet government newspaper L.
vestia, Major Nikolai Krainev,
stated today that the Russians had
destroyed more than 1000 Ger
man planes in March and another
500 in the first 10 days of April.
These high figures were result
of increasing Nazi spring air ac-
tivity, Major Krainev said, n d
also of Soviet air superiority.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-17
Another Group Finishes
First Aid Course Here

Another group has completed the
Standard First Aid course here, it
was announced Thursday. Their in
structor was Miss Mary Gmytruk.
Those completing it and whose
certificates are ready, were:
Mrs. Nellie Anderson, Mrs. W. L..
Anderson, Mrs. Elizabeth Blake,
Mrs. Helen Burton, Mrs. Inez Cor
bett, George Crisp, Miss Helen
Gymtruk, Miss Margaret Hatchell,
r. J. Holiday, Mrs. Sally Ives, Mrs.
G.. w. Kerr, Mrs. Mildred MCGEE,
Mrs. Lilly Mckenzie, Mrs. B. b.
Mercer, Mrs. Eva Owen, L. e. Owen,
Mrs. Hugh Oostwych, Mrs. Effie
Mae Price, Mrs. Bessie Riggs, Miss
Edna Rivenbark, Miss Mary R1ven-
bark, Mrs. Margaret SETTER, Z. l..
Snipes, Miss Louise Spencer, Miss
Emily Strickland, Mr.. II. S. Str1ck-
land, Mrs. Clara Styron, Mrs. Daniel
Swart, Mrs. Hapel Swart.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-17
FRESH JAP TROOPS
ON BURMA FRONT
(Conjnued from Page One)

ed, fought a successful delaying
action against two enemy divisions
there we're two distinct threats to
the Chinese position on the Sit
tang
One was to the Chinese r g h
flank and it was caused by the
British Withdrawals, und er ex-
IRENE pressure, in the Irrawaddy
valley to the west. The other-on
the left-was caused by the move
ment of two Japanese columns to-
ward Loikaw, capital of the Ka-
renni tribal area and o u h e r n
gate to the Shan states.
Loikaw is some 80 miles north
east of Toungoo. One column was
moving up the Salween river from
the southeast, the other had reach
ed Yado, about halfway between
Tougoo and Loikaw.
On the Irrawaddy, the British
again were fiercely engaged, but
official New Delhi reports said a
valiant covering action by u t
hearted "Koylies' the Kings own
Yorkshire light infantrymen-h d
enabled the main forces to es-
tabish positions near Yenchaung,
north of Minhla, less than 80 miles
from the oil field center of Yen
angyaung.
For days, the ''Koylies" al
ways in the thick of the Burma
battles - fought magnificently to
cover the latest retreat up the
[rrawaddy.
The British command said their
forces in the Taungdwingyi sector
of the Pegu Yoma hills, between
the Irrawaddy and the Sittang,
still were covering the Chinese
right flank, but the Chinese OBJ
viously were worried about t h e
situation there.
Everywhere japanese air action
continued intense, and there was
one delayed report of the Japa-
nese using parachutists.
A Chinese correspondent W t h
The Stilwell forces wrote that the
pattern of the Japanese assault
always was the same-h ours of
bombing and shelling, followed by
the movement of infantry.
He said the Japanese systemati-
sally were destroying village after
village and even blasting at clumps
Of trees to deprive the Chinese of
any possible cover.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-17
5000 JAPS LAND
ON PANAY ISLAND
Continued from Page One)


of the bay, Wainwright reported,
adding that the result was "a no.
ticable decrease in enemy artillery
fire during the past thirty hours" :"
Wainwright had advised earlier
that guns of the fortress had hurled
shells into truck columns on Ba-
taan peninsula and had exploded
enemy ammunition dumps.
Heavy Casualties
A communique said that t h e
japanese were believed to have
suffered numerous casualties as
the artillery of Corregidor and the
other forts replied to the intermit-
tent shelling by enemy batteries
on the north and south shores of
the bay.
The Japanese, smarting from
the attack carried out against their
Philippine position by Australian
based American bombers under
the command of Brigadier General
Ralph Royce two days ago, sent
five waves Of bombers over Core
gidor, the communique said, but a
curtain of anti-aircraft fire kept
them too high for effective bomb
ing.
Since April 9, Lieutenant Jona-
than Wainwright reported to the
department, there had been IS air
raids against Corregidor but de-
spite the constant bombing, the
great fortress has suffered only
minor damage, and the morale of
its garrison ''is unimpaired."
However, the Navy disclosed to-
day that in one of the recent at
tacks on Corregidor, Japanese
bombers sank the U. S. mine
sweeper Finch. There were no cas-
ualties among the ships crew. The
Finch, $40 tons, was the Fifth Ma
val vessel lost in the Manila Bay
area since the start Of the war,
and the 30th which the Navy has
announced lost in various local
tiles.
General Wainwright reported
that fighting is continuing in Cebu,
the central Philippine islands,
where units of the American-Fili-
pino forces, with light equipment,
are battling a force estimated at
$4,000, which the Japanese p u t
ashore last week from a fleet of
transports under the covering fire
of warships and planes. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-17

pan which would include Russia,
China, Britain, France and h e
Netherlands. That has always been
the only possible way of checking
Japan easily; our own pre-Pearl
Harbor war plans, based on the
premises of an isolationist foreign
policy, have never envisaged the
possibility of defeating Japan cas-
lily or cheaply. They have always
envisaged exactly such defeat
at the outset as we have suffered
in the Philippines. 1t has never
been possible for an isolationist
America to restrain Japan's ad-
vance in the Far East. That is
why many of us thought it unwise
to challenge Japan until it was
certain that Britain, and, if pos
sible, aIso Russia, were our allies
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-17
in full strength.

in full strength.
They could not be our allies in
full strength, or even in small
strength, while they were mortally
threatened by Hitler's Germany.
Therefore, even if Hitler did not
have designs upon the Western
Hemisphere, and his fifth columns
prove conclusively that he has, the
defeat of Hitler and the sure sur
vival of a strong Britain and a
strong Russia has been and is now
more than ever our paramount in
terest.
Those who honestly do not see
this have not thought clearly about
our vital interests. Those who seek
to hide this from us are, whatever
their motives, doing the work of
our mortal enemies. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-04-17

The air in many buildings of
the United States is drier than
that Of the Sahara desert, in Win
ter.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-02
French Police
Deny Arrests

Vichy, Oct. PAP The Vichy
foreign ministry said today that
French police had nothing 10 do
with the arrests OF Americans I'm
the German occupied zone and in
structed CASTOR Henry.Haye, am
bassador 10 Washington, 10 inform
the United States government to
that effect.
This action followed request
by S. Pinkney Tuck, American
charge d'sffalres, for information
on the roundup. The original YER
sion reaching Vichy was that
French police made the arrests on
Instructions Of the Nazis.
The interior ministry declared
that it had no detailed informa.
ton on the roundup II pointed
out that since the Germans engi-
neered the whole affair. French
officials we're without a list OF
names.
Latest word reaching here said
that among some 400 reported
arrested was Mrs Eugene T. Nc
Carthur OF the Lloyd Sloane Pub
fishing firm
Il was understood that the Amer
leans were interned at Vitell fam
ed watering place which original
ly had been set up as a concentra-
ton center FOR British women
They are lodged in hotels and
buildings In and around mineral
springs park which, IS fenced in
and serves as the camp grounds.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-02
President Chats With Ford
on Tour of Bomber Factory

TO the job OF stamping out the
giant BIAS. Told that the presses
had been converted from automo-
bile TO airplane construction with
success, the executive watched
while operators stamped out bomb
er parts.
Also shown the President were
methods of short-cutting 10 mass
production, a Ford specially. He
saw new dies, welding apparatuses
for more speed. and new style fix
lures designed to handle the bomb
bcr's giant wings.
Outside the plant on large con-
crete apron the party was shown
many other types OF airplanes. In
another building the President
saw other war machines manufac-
tured by Ford-trucks, armored
cars, aircraft engines, and trans
portation equipment.
Following the tour the Presi-
ident and Henry Ford boarded the
special train where they talked for
81 minutes. Mrs. Roosevelt stood
on the rear platform and waved TO
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-02
Now SenatorsHave
Basic Price Facts

Washington Oct 2-AP-Sena-
tors who spent the week debating
the need for new price and wage
controls, had the problem brought
home 70 them today, when the Sen
ate restaurant put out a new menu
increasing most OF the a la carte
orders.
The regular prepared lunches
were not raised in price, but, on
the contrary were enlarged by the
addition OF an appetizer soup and
a wider choice of vegetables.
Some OF the special items. how
ever. went up as follows: planked
tenderloin steak, from 81 TO $3.50;
lobster with potatoes and salad
from 81 to 81 25; chefs salad, with
shrimp and sardines. from 40 cents
to so cents. A number OF other
dishes went Up 10 or IS cents and
few had five cents added.
All sandwiches except lettuce
lettuce and tomato and chicken
Were raised FIVE or 10 cents.
D. -. Darling. new manager, ex-
planned that the cost of the food
supplies have gone up, and that
steaks that cost the restaurant AZ
cents a year ago now cost 70 cents.
While prices on the House side
did not change today. a recommen-
dalton for adjustments was expect
ed there too.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-02
Stores
Lose toDraft

Lansing. Oct. PAPA commit
tee of Michigan druggists has ap-
pealed TO the state Selective Ser
vice headquarters for relief from
draft board schedules which II as
serts might close half OF the drug
stores in this state.
i. A. -Wikel-- state director OF
drugs and drug stores, wrote Col.
E. VI. Rosecrans, state Selective
Service director, THE present drug
store picture is particularly dark. "
Wikel suggested an immediate
solution OF the problem OF drafting
druggists. eontending some sec
lions Of the state already are be-
ing depleted Of pharmacists" He
suggested that pharmacists with
dependents who are drafted be per.
mitted to appeal directly to the
state Selective Service headquar-
tiers II no local relief IS immedi.
stely forthcoming
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-02
City Collects
Big Scrap Pile

With the Impetus OF Kiwanis
Rotary. and Retailers Committee
drives for scrap metal this week,
Ypsilant's total has now reached
$50 tons. This is so tons greater
than the original quota for this
city. set in August
Since then however. the total
has been set at 100 pounds per
person so that added donations are
required. Twenty five tons has
been collected during the last
few days and there are enough
collections still TO be made TO
keep street department men and
trucks busy for a week Seven
tons were collected az the post
office Thursday. In addition chill
dren carried scrap 70 their schools
Residents are to bring whatever
they can carry 10 collection depots
In case objects are heavy enough
to require truck transportation
the street department men will
remove them. Notification OF col
LEGION needs may be made at the
Board Of Commerce office.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-02
Burns
at Whitnore

whitmore Lake, Mich, Oct. p
The Stevens Hotel, landmark
since the Civil War days when II
was built as stagecoach stop on
the Detroit Chicago. route, was
damaged Thursday afternoon by a
FIRE believed started by an oil stove
used for heating purposes.
A more recent three story add
ton at the hack OF the original
hotel was saved. The section
which was burned is valued at
about $4,000.
About Is persons lived in the
rear part under a light housekeep-
ing plan. All OF their possessions
were saved Several unused beds
located IN the front part were the
only furniture damaged by the
fire.
The Ann Arbor Fire Department
sent out It's number one purnper
with four men hut hremen were
unable TO find a suitable place from
which to draw lake water The
hotel. which began burning at 2
p. m, was not insured.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-02

A 81 minute conference with
Henry Ford, ass-production ex-
pert, and intimate chats with en-
ployes Of the mammoth Ford Bomb
er plant which Ford and his son,
Edsel, conceived for the war eff
fort. marked President Roosevelt's
visit to Ypsilanti Sept. IS.
The Fords met the Chief Exc.
cutive's party. and escorted them
to the plant where thousands of
workers are constructing planes
for the destruction of Axis enc
mics. AS the party entered the
building by agtomohiJ seths Presi-
dent was quickly fecognizeds by
employees near thef entrance. A
deafening roar swept over the long
buildings. announcing his arrival
Cheered by Workers
Many workmen and women
crowded along the automobile
route through the factory. Hun
dreds OF overalled men and slack
suited women waved 10 the Presi-
dent, who smilingly acknowledged
their cheers with waves, smiles
and the doffing of his hat.
One group OF riveters chose TO
continue their work as the Pres
ident's car drove up beside them.
The men turned and waved, but
the rivet guns never halted.
Others who did stop work
shouted, were with you, Frank"
and chow do you like II, Mr.. Pres
ident?"
Accompanying the President
were Mrs. Roosevelt, who smiling
ly acknowledged greetings; the
Fords: Donald NJ. Nelson, War
Production Board chief; Charles
F.. Sorenson, Ford vice president,
and Harry e, Bennett Ford per
sonnet director
Well Guarded
Soldiers, Ford guards, police and
White House secret service details
guarded every move after the pres
idential train rolled in.
Decorations, used to mark the
vide plant aisles through which
the presidential car travelled.
changed the routine appearance OF
the building.
The President seemed in excel
lent spirits and good health. He
wore light suit and light hat.
Mrs. Roosevelt seemed 10 enjoy
the tour, and discussed personnel
problems and women in war work
with Ford executives.
Watches Stamping
The Presidents first stop inside
the plant was between two tower
ing hydraulic presses converted
from Ford automobile production
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-02
Meat Rations
Being Started


Washington Oct. 2-INS-- The
fret step toward meat rationing
hit the consumers today. with the
OPA slashing by nearly 20 Der
cent the smoInt Of meat TO be de-
llvered to civilians during the re-
mainder OF 1912.
In eject, the OPAs order
amounts to rationing at the pack
ing plants. Consumer rationing.
expected 10 provide two and half
pounds OF meat per person per
week. "a expected to be Instituted
about the Arst Of next year.
Secretary OF Agriculture Wiekard
has asked the public 20 place "
self on voluntary meat rationing
until the OPA's program can be put
into effect.
The OPA's order restricted pack.
ers who slaughter more than 5O0,-
600 pounds IN a three months per
Tod. to the following percentages
OF their deliveries To civilians IN
the last quarter Of 1881:
Beef. so per cent: pork. rs per
cent. lamb and mutton. IS per
cent, with veal deliveries unaffect-
ed.
Smaller packers. who do only a
slight part OF the nations total
business. were limited 10 the same
deliveries they made during the
last quarter Of 1871.
Civilians will receive slightly
more meat than originally an
nounced BY the War Production
Boards food requirements commit
tee on Sept. "a.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-02
Labor Control
Gains Support

Washington, Oct. 2-AP-Mount-
ing support among several top
ranking war officials for man
power control legislation was re-
ported today amid growing indica-
tons that the issue soon may dom
mate congressional discussions.
Some House Appropriations Com
mittee members disclosed that
most of the war manpower COM
mission, in executive session. were
agreed that legislation would be-
come necessary TO mobilize fully
and allocate available manpower
to industry, agriculture and the
armed forces.
Present at the closed hearing
yesterday were Manpower Com
mission Chairman Paul McNutt
War Production Chief Donald Mel
son. Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard. Selective Service
Director Lewis Hershey, Under
Secretary OF War Robert Patter-
son and Under Secretary Of Navy
james Forrestal.
The committee members, de-
clining use OF their names. said
that none OF the group had offered
any indication of when the legis-
lation would be sought, nor Of
what form It would take. How
ever. one Democratic member ex.
pressed belief n would reach Cap
itol Hill in November.
We gained the impression that
the situation was urgent" one
member said. McNutt. in testify
ing recently before the House Ag
riculture Committee and the De
fcnse Migration Committee. de
clared that a national service act
was Inevitable" and would be
presented "in the near future.
The crystalizing issue took shape
during the rip-roaring congression-
al controversy over anti-inflation
controls. as agricultural interests
raised the cry OF a growing farm
labor shortage.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-02
Kelly comes
Out Swinging


Harry +. Kelly, Republican nom
ing as he launched his campaign In
a speech at Jackson Thursday night
assailing the wartime record OF
Governor Van Wagner, his Demo
cratic rival.
Van Wagner, IN campaign
speech at Hillsdale, told a rally
audience his record entitled him
to another term, that he had lived
up to his campaign promises of two
years ago, and that his policies
kelpeas Michigan to .7dSe ssBessRcS,
lous Job OF war production"
Kelly aimed a verbal lashing at
the governor, charging that THE
war effort has been hampered be-
cause politics has been deliberate
ly placed into this war effort g..
by the governor himself
II esaid Van Wagner was not
entitled to the war governor" des-
ignation bestowed on him by Demo
cratic campsigners, because the
country was at peace when the
governor took office. He asserted
the designation was invented ito
play upon the wartime sentiment
of the people, endeavoring to sell
the thought that the governor was
indispensable"
He said Van Wagner was no.
believe the governor is entitled to
another term because of the war
to endorse Republic state officials
for reelection.
He gibed at what he termed "the
ridiculous heaving and hauling
chickering's and squabbllng, that
have marked the states efforts
toward civilian defense IN the i'm.
portant metropolitan areas Of this
state"
Van Wagner. at Hillsdale, said
1--WE must continue the state lead
ership in promoting close teamwork
among workers, management, farm
ers, the general public and local
governments, so Michigan can turn
out more and more war materials"
He called for election OF public
officials who would support our
commander-in-chief. President Roos
evelt, not just with words, but with
deeds"
THE national emergency thrust
new problems on Michigan these
last two years" the governor said
This administration took the lead
ership in bringing war contracts to
our state. in protecting our people
from unwise dislocations which
would have delayed war production.
Today. because OF that leadership,
and the splendid cooperation OF in.
dustry and labor, Michigan is pro.
ducing one sixth Of alb the war ma
terials in America
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-02
Soldiers Feel
Yuletide Spirit

Somewhere in Australia, Oct z
-INS-The traditional spirit OF
Yuletide is being felt in Australia
today although Christmas still is
almost three months away
American soldiers are flocking
TO stores 10 huy Christmas cards
and to gift shops in order TO get
their presents TO the folks at home
well on the way TO the states be-
fore the rush period begins.
A cue can be taken from this
BY the mothers, wives and sweet
hearts Of the American Doughboys
and fliers wRging war in the South
west Pacific " they want their re-
membranes 10 reach Australia
in time for Christmas. Now Is the
time 10 act.
Families ip the states. II was
pointed out here. should remember
that a month, 10 six weeks IL the
most conservative minimum time
in which presents can reach Aus.
trslia. They should not forget
either that there are anxious
Doughboys watching every mail for
signs Of Christmas arrivals.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-02
F.D.R. Angry
at Delay, Bill
tobe Accepted
To 60 to White
House Tonight

Washington, Oct. 2-INS-While
President Roosevelt severely criti-
cized Congress for failing to meet
his Oct. | deadline on anti-infia-
ton legislation, Administration
leaders today said that Price Chief
Leon Henderson believes that the
bill now nearing final passage will
do the job" in curbing the upward
spiral of the cost of living.
With the bill expected to be sent
to the White House by tonight,
Mr.. Roosevelt. despite his blast at
Congress after returning to Wash
ington from two weeks national
inspection tour, gave the impress
sion that he would not carry out
his ultimatum and control prices
by executive order.
Democratic leaders, conceding
that prices may increase due to
war demands and swelling consum-
er buying power, said that govern.
ment experts feel that both wage
and price increases can be kept
within reasonable bounds.
One prominent congressional
chief said that while President
Rooseyelt-has hot eonsidered<eEns
OF the bill, all officials acting FOR
him during his cross-country trip
have done so.
Seeking to complete congression-
al action and place the measure be-
fore the President, Senate and
House conferees were called into
session again today before the
House members had been formally
appointed.
The House was scheduled to re-
ject Senate amendments to its anti
initiation bill and send it to the
joint conference. Both Democratic
House Leader Mccormick and Re
publican Leader Martin urged mem.
bers to speed the bill on its way.