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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
Traffic Abandonment

NEW YORK, May 23.-(P)-
NBC correspondent Elmer Pet
erson said in a broadcast from
Stockholm today that Sweden
might be getting ready to
abandon transit facilities for
Germans to and from Norway
at any time.
Premier Per Albin Hanson
was quoted as telling Peterson
that Sweden had no binding
agreements as to how long this
transit traffic-authorized I'M
der certain restrictions since
July 5, 1940-should operate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
BIRTHDAY GIFT

CAPETOWN, May 23.-P)-
Marshal Jan Christian Smut5.
premier of the Union of South Al
RIGA, will receive a gift of 100000
franks ($1, 100000 tomorrow on his
73rd birthday anniversary for
transfer to the Governor Gener-
aFs National War Fund, which
helps maintain soldiers families.
The fund was raised by public sub
scription.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
Premier Of Alberta
Dies In Vancouver

VANCOUVER, May 23.-A)--
William Aberhart, 64-year-old pre-
mier of Alberta who had tried uil-
successfully since 1885 to lnslall
a system of social credit IN MS
province, died today after d
weeks illness.
The premier entered a hospital
May Is when he became seriously
i'll with liver ailment while on
vacation here.
He is survived by his widow ana
two married daughters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
Seeing Eye Dogs gs :, =,
NAV Get Meat Unit

-, rrcH, May 23.-The Office
Of ;,si. Price 4a5it,551'l iited quantities Of "a
TONED tjst ae ''ltts. Stained, for feeding spe
no, nlo;o,,,pv'+rsired w guide dogs which
claAs s az tte "eyes" for blind per
serve siyipg 81 them previous free
sOas sons Il movement and often en-
oo,il [,i,e v hem to be self-supporting
Sg,-Is >. s,ir be possible for blind per
J.. u "r rnder the action, to buy a
,.s-;s+r sa-;, Of low-point-value meats
n.s!es ssi%' make excellent dog food, W
lance lance Hofler, chief rationing OF
tirpr 5lsu for the Raleigh district OPA
aftce said today. An amendment
Y,- N tbe meats-fats rationing regula.
inns d permits local war price ano
rs -s+oping boards, at their dlscre'
r .an 10 give an applicant who Is
sona fide user of a seeing-eye
d! up to u extra points weekly
srpse in providing the dog with
basic meat ration.
Rstoned meats suitable for dog
tpding. Hofler pointed out, may
be obtained at an average ratlof
value Of about three points :
mound. These foods include trlpe
currently listed at two points
beef hearts, four points, neck
bones four and five points; KID
news. two and five points and cd
BE bones. one point, along witt
,uch unrationed items as fresf
ssh and fats from the butcher:
scrap box.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
LABOR SUMMONS

LONDON, May 23.-P)-Four
thousand Norwegian girls have
been summoned for compulsory
labor service in the last four
days, an Oslo dispatch broadcast
by the German radio said today.
Sixty.six women's labor corps
were reported set up in Norway.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
PILOT KILLED

BARLOW, Fla, May 23.-'A,--
The public relations officer at the
Barlow Army Air Base announced
today the pilot killed when two
fighter planes collided about sew
en- miles southwest of here Satur-
day was Lieut.. Robert P. Dudley
Of Denbigh, Va. His widow resides
Winter Haven.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24
Soul Was Lesson-Sermon
For Christian Scientists

ssoul and Body" was the sub
iect of the lesson-sermon in all
Christian Science churches and So
cieties on Sunday, May %.
The Golden Text was from II
Corinthians 8: 18. eve all, with
open face beholding as in glass
the glory of the Lord, are changed
into the same image from glory
to glory, even as by the Spirit of
the Lord ."..
Among the citations which COM
prised the lesson-sermon were the
following from the Bible: For
lions sake will 1 not hold my
peace, and for Jerusalem's sake
I will not rest, until the righteous
ness thereof 60 forth as bright
ness, and the salvation thereof
as lamp that burneth. Thou
shalt also be crown Of glory IN
the hand of the Lord, and royal
diadem in the hand of thy God, -
Qsaiah 62:1, 81.
The lesson-sermon also included
the following passages from the
Christian Science textbook, "Sei-
ence- and Health with Key to the
Scriptures, by Mary Baker Ed
DIV: 'The fading forms of matter,
the mortal body and material
earth, are the fleeing concepts of
the human. mind. They have. their
dav before the permanent facts
and an their perfection in Spirit ap-
near The crude creations of NOR
tai thought must finally give place
to the glorious forms which we
sometimes behold in the camera of
divine Mind, when the mental pic
ture is spiritual and eternal. Nor
tails must look beyond fading, fl
mite forms, if they would gain the
true sense of things page 263).
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-05-24

The federal order for mile-an-
hour driving limit brought average
speed throughout the country down
to about 81 miles an hr-.-
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Eastman Predicts
More Fuel for East;
None for Civilians
Military Demands Make
Easing Of Restrictions
Appear Unlikely Now
BY the Associated Press,

Transportation Director Jo-
seph B. Eastman today predicted
a steadily increasing volume of
petroleum for the Eastern States.
but cautioned that military de-
nands make it unlikely that ci-
william consumers can expect cas-
ing of restrictions.
Mr.. Eastman's report, based on
studies. by his Office, was made in a
letter to 20 New England members
OF Congress who had asked informa-
ton on plans to transport a larger
volume OF petroleum products to
New England this year.
He estimated deliveries bv pine
line, tank car, barge and lake and
gulf tanker, into the II Eastern
States comprising district l, as fol-
lows:
Second quarter, 1943, 1,271 900 bar
rels day; third quarter, 1,45S, 900
barrels a day; fourth quarter, 1,547,-
600 barrels day; first quarter, 1914,
1911 900 barrels day.
Inc eStlmateS DO not include any
movement by deep-water tanker,
Mr.. Eastman said, commenting:
mo reliance has been placed upon
a restoration of transportation by
tankers during the coming year.
That seems the only safe assump-
ton"
The estimated deliveries in the
first quarter of 1914 are nearly so
per cent greater than the move
ment by the same methods of trans
portation during the first quarter
Of this year, and about lis per cent
greater than the deliveries by those
means during the first quarter of
1912.
Greatest increase in the Eastern
movement, he added, will come from
pipe lines. He estimated daily pipe
line deliveries into district l at
212,000 barrels during the second
quarter of this year, 1865, 900 barrels
during the third quarter and 482 900
barrels in the fourth quarter, with
deliveries increasing to 621 900 bar
rels in the first quarter of next year.
Evening star., 1943-04-13

making on the fighting
fronts.
Remember: They give
their lives-we are only
asked to lend our money.
Only you know how much
you can lend. Don't wait for
some one to come around
and ask you to do your part.
Do it now. Do it gladly.
Do it to the utmost of your
capacity.
Do it knowing that how
much you do will determine
to an extent how quickly we
win this war. The District of
Columbia's quota is $70,0O0,-
600. OF this the public will
be asked to subscribe $42,-
100000, the remainder to be
purchased by the banks.
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Pleasure Boats in East
Face Cut in Gasoline

Pleasure boat owners of the East
ern Seaboard were on notice today
to expect further restrictions on
gasoline this summer following an
Office of Price Administration order
yesterday suspending for 10 days the
granting of gasoline rations for non-
occupational boats.
The suspension was designed to
delay action until specific amount of
the reduction has been determined.
Further curbs on pleasure cruising
and other non-occupational boating
are contemplated only in the Eastern
shortage area, OPA said.
Under present rations, yachtsmen
are permitted up to 125 gallons for
a three-month period, depending on
their boats motor horsepower.
The new restrictions, OPA said,
would not affect boats enrolled in
the Coast Guard Auxiliary. There
are four such flotillas here, but the
number Of all Washington boat
owners In the organization is pro-
portionately small.
Evening star., 1943-04-13
WLB Chief 10 Confer
With Telephone Union
Meet Here Tomorrow
To Weigh Strike Threat
By the Associated Press.

6s lne associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 13.-Joseph A.
Beirne, acting president of the Ma
tional Federation of Telephone
Workers, said yesterday the NFTW
would confer tomorrow with William
a. Davis, War Labor Board chair
man, on effects of the presidential
wage-freeze order on communica-
tons workers.
Mr.. Beirne's Office said Saturday
q general tieup of telephone COM
nlunications might develop if Presi-
dent Roosevelt's order barred ad-
justments of wage boost demands
by telephone workers.
Mr.. Beirne, whose independent or
SANITATION claims $4,000 members
said in yesterdays statement the
NFTW had received a letter from
Mr.. Davis office and that a meeting
aad been arranged for tomorrow in
Washington.
No further action with respect
to the many telephone cases is con-
templated until after Wednesday"
Mr.. Beirne said Meanwhile, union
leaders in various sections of the
country are conferring about the
telephone workers attitude and the
probable effects of the wage-freeze
order on telephone communications
service"
Ernest Weaver, president of the
Association Of Communication
Equipment Workers, NFTW affiliate
has said that union instalers of the
Western Electric, employed in the
telephone buildings throughout the
country, may be the first to heed
the strike CALI of the federation.
In Chicago, the Illinois Federation
OF Telephone Unions, claiming %, 900
members, asked the federation's
executive board to correct pub
ished statements regarding the in
tention or threat of a general strike
In the telephone industry"
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Montgomery Heads
Vote $500 Bonus for
County Teachers
$500 Pay Increase
Given Police; Purchase
Of School Sites Ordered

A Sl00 wartime bonus for Mont
gomery County teachers and $780,
a-year pay boost for members of the
county police force was granted to-
day by the Board of County Com
missioners. Funds for these emer-
gency pay increases will be pro-
vlded through $230,000 issue of
emergency certificates of indebted
ness.
The commissioners also voted to
provide $26,5O5.50 of funds from
the issue to purchase two out
standing options for school sites
which have been carried as inter-
est-bearing options by the Depart
ment of Education for a number of
years.
They include a s15,390 option to
purchase a site for an addition to the
Westbrook School, and a s11,1l5.5o
option for an addition to the Takoma
Park School.
Takes Place of State Aid.
In voting the $100 bonus to teach
ers for the rest of the current school
year, the commissioners pointed out
that this amount is in addition to the
average $3.50 increase given teachers
for the current year.
The $100 bonus, requested by the
Board of Education, was described
as needed to take the place of what
they hoped would be a State bonus
for the current school year" The
Brlce bill passed by the Legislature
provides a 5000 teacher bonus for
next term, but provided no aid for
the current school term.
The commissioners also voted to
provide $4,000 to the Board of
Education to meet an operating
deficit in the school budget.
Acting on the authority granted
by the last session of the General
Assembly the commissioners voted
the police pay increase and pro-
vided $4,000 from the bond issue to
pay the increase for the balance of
the fiscal year, which ends June 80.
The raise will be effective as of jan
uary /, 1913.
Payment Spread Over Four Years.
In voting to issue certificates OF
Indebtedness to cover these expendi-
lures. the commissioners pointed out
that none OF these costs was con-
templated when the preceding board
made the last county levy and fixed
the tax rate, which together deter
mined the county budget.
These items. the commissioners
said, consequently represent an ad-
ditional charge on the years oper-
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Allies Holding Own
AGAINST Submarines,
Churchill Reiterafes
Says Knox Statement
Referred to Short Period.
Not Bottle as Whole
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 13. = Prime
Minister Churchill reiterated in
the House of Commons today
that 1--WE are more than holding
our own" in the Atlantic battle
against Germany's U-boats.
The Prime Minister was asked by
Emanuel Shinwell, Laborite, If he
had any comment on the statement
of Frank Knox, United States Sec
retary of the Navy, about heavy
shipping losses in March.
He replied: MY attention has
been drawn to this statement. ]
agree with Col. Knox that results
of the U-boat warfare are serious
as they always must be. His state
ment, however, refers to a limited
period following one in which sink
ings were comparatively small.
Whole Outlook Assuring.
Viewing the battle against the
U-boat as whole, I can repeat my
previous assurance that we are more
than holding our own
(Secretary Knox said week
ago in Washington that ship
losses were higher in March than
in February, and that up to the
present the Nazi attacks had de-
veloped "as we expected" The
new submarine attacks were
chiefly in mid-Atlantic along the
supply routes to England and
Africa, Mr.. Knox said, giving
them temporary immunity
from Allied patrols)
Mr.. Shinwell asked If more In
formation could be given about the
campaign against submarines ir
view "of considerable disquiet in
shipping circles among the seamen
who are engaged in this warfare
and among ship owners"
Mr.. Churchill responded: Il dc
not want to give exact information
which would be of great advantage
to the enemy, but great deal OF
information has been given oi
general character on this subject.
No Reason for Extreme Disquiet.
Il do not believe that the disquiet
Is more serious than it naturally
would be at all times when this
form of warfare is being levied upon
us. Certainly if it were, there is
no ground for it,"
The Berlin radio, in a broadcast
recorded by the Associated Press
reported special announcement
from Adolf Hitlers headquarters
asserting that U-boats attacked a
heavily LOADED Allied convoy in the
North Atlantic on the way to Eng
land.
In this action, as we'll as in single
attacks in the Caribbean and of
the South African coast, they sank
81 ships totaling 138,50O tons and
torpedoed six more Ships" the an
nouncement said. 1t did Not specify
when the asserted actions took place
and no confirmation in specific de-
tails has been made from an Allied
source.
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Conquered Soldiers
And Nazi Conyicts
for Hitler
Arabs Also Being Used
To Augment Troops
In North Africa
By The Associated Press.

WITH UNITED STATES FORCES
IN CENTRAL TUNISIA. April 10
Delayed - Short of manpower,
Adolf Hitler has been forced to
augment his troops in North Africa
by pressing into service soldiers of
conquered nations, German convicts,
political suspects and even native
African Arabs who oringally had
been shipped to Germany as laborers,
it was disclosed today.
Soldiers of all these types have
been taken prisoner in recent weeks
in all drives on all Tunisian fronts.
Even in the last war, when it was
at its lowest ebb. the German Army
never took in jailbirds," an Army
source said.
Trained in Russia.
This source, who would not permit
the use of his name, said that this
use of dregs and opponents of the
sWastlka in the army was one of
many signs that the Nazi military.
while still powerful, was beginning
to Wane.
Moroccan, Algerian and even
Tunlsian Arabs sent as workers to
Germany by the Petain administra-
ton were put into units sprinkled
with young, ardent Nazis to keep
them from surrendering, it was
stated.
They were organized into Ger
manic Arabic instruction battalions"
and sent to Russia for training,
Ihen these French volunteer le-
glons" and Arabic freedom legions. :"
as the German propaganda machine
named them, were taken back to
Germany, outfitted with tropical
equipment, and sent to Tunisia
aboard a destroyer, arriving only g.
short time ago.
Deserted BY Commanders,
In the Ell Guetar sector United
States forces captured prisoners
from one unit of IS Germans and
l2o Arabs who had been in the
position only one day.
Captured Arabs said they had
been commanded by a German SER
geant who fed as soon as the Amer
leans opened fire.
They said they had been warned
by 'Ausland Deutschen'-a German
residing outside the Reich who also
had been put in the army against
his own wish-that German COM
manders would desert them in an
emergency and leave them to shift
for themselves.
Among the soldiers of subjected
nations pushed by the Nazis into
battle were former Polish and Czech
troops who were given no alterna-
tive to such service but starvation
and death.
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Soviet Flyers Keep Up
Pounding Of German
Supply Columns
Nozi Air Force Tries
To Ease Pressure on
Troops in Kubon Area
By the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, April 13.-Soviet
aviation kept up it's pounding of
German supply columns today,
but along the muddy, slushy
front there was no major scale
action by either side.
In the Kuban area In the Cau-
casus, the German air force was
more active and here it's units ap-
peared to be trying to smash at
Russian columns who constantly
are pushing the Nazis toward the
sea.
(The Soviet radio monitor in
London recorded a Moscow radio
broadcast reporting that Rus
sian flyers and anti-aircraft bat
teries had shot down 25 German
planes attempting to raid Kras-
nodar, a rail junction in the
Western Caucasus. Five Rus
sian planes were lost, it was
said)
German Attacks Stopped.
On the Volkhov front, southeast
of Leningrad, the series of attacks
by the Germans has been fully
stopped by Soviet troops who maui
ed these sharp thrusts with strength.
The increased activity of the Ger
man air force included a raid on
Russian-held Kursk, 12O miles north
OF Kharkov, where the Germans
lost nine planes to the Russians
two. A dispatch said the majority
of German bombers were dispersed
before reaching the city but that
some broke through and dropped
bombs causing some damage and
deaths.
Long-range artillery spoke out
along the front in some of the
heaviest dueling of the war to date.
Smelling Especially Heavy.
Especially heavy was the shelling
south of Lake linen, in the Staraya
Russa sector, south of Belly and on
the Volkhov front.
In the fighting west of Rostov
that has been in progress for about
two weeks Soviet artillery-one OF
the Russians best fighting arms
destroyed scores of Nazi gun posi-
tions, dugouts and blockhouses.
The same kind of heavy Smelling
sporadically was breaking out in va
rious sectors of the western front
about the approaches to Smolensk.
Evening star., 1943-04-13

emy action, "A
hours a day.
Those officers
and men are the
finest in the
world. 1t is my
responsibility to
see that the ma
val components
a re properly
trained, properly
equipped, prop
erly led and en-
ployed to best
a d va n t a 6 e
against the en-
enemy.
~ N,1r voor ora
Evening star., 1943-04-13
War Bonds Will Backoq
Blows 10 Smash Foe, ISL
Morgenthau Says as'oo
History's Greatest Attack
Predicted as Compuien~ u
For Is Billions Opens 40
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, April 13.ASecrea
tary of the Treasury Morgenthau.2
launching the $4,000 100000 seconddA
War loan drive, said last night thahiao
the United Nations were now "pit-9 70
ing UP the thunderclouds of tl1eon
greatest attack in history '0sic
Mr.. Morgenthau said that, ex-ast
elusive of taxes, the Government =
must borrow s70,0O0,000,0Oe thisav.
year-s2o, 900, 100000 during the first
four months and s25 900 900 900 in,
each of the second and third four-r.
month periods. :, .af
The Secretary, speaking at a rally
at Carnegie Hall, broadcast overa,
NBC, said the second front was near
at hand. - re
The second front is no, military
secret he said. I'VE all know. thas,-
just over the horizon. we of the
United Nations are piling up the
thunderclouds of the greatest at,
tack in history. -
Nazis Seen Rocked. ,roq
1--WE are massing for that attack r
now. The, planning, the patient
preparation, the bitter time when7oi
we had to take blows without re-
turning them, because we weren't
ready-all of that is past. Now
we're ready to deal a few blows ,,
ourselves; and they'll be blows, re-
can promise you, that will rock NaIse'
Germany to its rotten, bloodstained "
foundations" 10"
Asserting that 40 per cent is noi".
longer enough" he asked the Nation
to buy extra bonds during April, -
even those already participating in ~
the payroll savings plan 80
But except for the size OF the7 -
figures involved, there is no mysterys.
about financing war" he continued.~E
The Government of the United0'0
States is buying the best equipment
ever furnished to, any army. It is,At
paying not only for equipment that &C
reaches the fighting frants, but for -
some equipment that never gets
there.
For every ship that's sunk We
must build two new ships for every -
cargo that's lost We must send out -
two new cargoes. And that costs.
money" Nm
Others Are Speakers.
The Secretary said there were
several ways in which the money!
could be raised: Taxes, borrowing1'
from banks and borrowing from the,1
people. He said that the Nation -
could not rely upon taxes to do the 81
whole job because we could not
tax with fairness on so huge a. =
scale" and borrowing from banks
would be undesirable for a variety, =,
of economic and social reasons.
This is peoples war-so all ot,r,
the people ought to have a part in,co
financing it," he declared. "A
Other speakers included Gov.-e
Dewey of New York, Mayor La
Guardia, William Green, president
of the American Federation of
Labor, and Philip Murray, president
of the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations. John W.. Davis presided.
Evening star., 1943-04-13
Engineers Abandon
Hope Of Saving Omaha
Airport From Flood
Waters Pour Through Two
Broken Dikes, Convergine
On 81, 600, 900 Field
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OMAHA, April 13-Army engi-
neers today abandoned hope of saw
ing Omaha's s4,000,000 airport and
Carter Lake, Iowa, from complete
inundation by Missouri River flood
waters as the stream poured through
two broken dikes into the 10-square-
mile area on the northeastern out
skirts of Omaha.
Meanwhile, at Hamburg, Iowa, so
miles south of here, 200 families liv-
in the southern portion of the COM
munity, which is IL feet below the
normal river level, began leaving
their homes after dikes at McPaul
and Percival, above Hamburg, gave
way. Residents of McPaul also were
ordered to leave their homes.
Col. Lewis Pick, Army division en-
eineer, said there was no chance of
stopping the Omaha dixie break and
that further efforts to save the air.
port-Carter Lake area would not be
made.
The river reached its crest at
am. at 22,45 feet. remaining at that
receding slowly at the rate of about
one-tenth of foot an hour.
From 4 to feet of water was ex-
pected to cover the airport within
the next 48 hours. Two-thirds of
the field stood in several feet of
water this morning, Airport Man.
ager William R. Miner said.
From two directions through wild
ening gaps in the broken dikes, the
swollen river spilled into the airport
and Carter Lake.
1000 Families Evacuated.
Red Cross and other rescue work
ers worked late last night to evac-
uate the last of approximately 1000
families living in the stricken area.
Other scores of families had been
removed earlier from North and
East Omaha as the crest moved
downstream.
At midnight, nearly six hours after
the first break in the dikes, the river
stage was 22!4l feet, a rise of only
two-tenths in that period. That was
heartening news to communities
downstream, for it led to belief in
some quarters that the flood might |
be flattening out, thereby diminish
ing the chances of severe overflow
further down.
Workers Caught by Surprise.
The first break in the dixie caught
some 800 or 900 workers by surprise.
Howard M. Burnett, foreman of a
civilian volunteer gang, said he was
stuffing a sandbag into a sandboil
at the bottom of the dixie, when sud-
denly water gushed out of the hole. |
He warned the nearby workmen
to get out and get out fast" Within
a few minutes the torrents had |
created a 20-foot break in the dixie. |
Later the hole spread to about 100 |
feet and the onrushing water spread |
slowly over the countryside.