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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-23
GASOLINE FOR SCHOOL
BUSES

School buses in districts where
school authorities have delayed in
filing necessary applications or
have failed to reorganize routes
in accordance with the school bus
conservation policy may get tenn
porary gasoline allotments. The
Office of Defense Transportation
authorized this action SO that
school children would not lack
school transportation.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-23
BRITISH SAVE FUEL

Britons have been asked by the
Ministry of Fuel to be even more
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-23

Other countries will draw upon the Domnions
huge surplus which is close 800 000O 900 bushels
result Of the heaviest crop in Canadian history
in 1o42-5o2, 10000 bushes-and another large crop
in 1e41; but much wheat is needed in wartime and
will be required urgently in the postwar
period.
The gross value of Canadian agricultural produc-
ton, estimated at than $2,0O0O00000 in 1912,
has reached its highest point since 1919 The
has been the means of showing what Canadian and
American farmers do in the way of record
shattering production when given the full speed
ahead" signal
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-23

sumption on a chart prepared by
the Ministry of Fuel.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-09-23
APPROVAL FOR USE OF
CUTTERS

Approval for use of cutters,
spouting, conductor pipes, and
fittings in dwellings of two stories
or less must be obtained from the
War Production Board under
recent amendment to order Mig.
Formerly this approval could be
obtained through the National
Housing Agency.
PRICES SET FOR DRY BEANS
Sales of dry edible beans, 1913
crop, to the Food Distribution Adj
ministration, to other country
shippers, and to other government
tai agencies designated in Food
Distribution Order No. As can be
made at either of two sets of
prices-maximum prices estab-
lished for the commodity or sup
port prices set for specified class
es last April by the War Food Adj
ministration. OPA emphasized
that all other sales must be made
at or below maximum prices es-
tablished in Maximum Price Reg
ulation No. 270.
Evening star., 1943-05-13

the power to correct inequalities"
which 1t had prior to April g. Under
the original executive order on wage
stabilization issued last October 3
these two categories were thrown
together and no clear distinction
between them ever was made.
One board member explained last
night that two establishments might
oe paying different rates for the
same kind of work. This might be
considered an inequality, but if the
inequality or differential is a his
torlc one. 1t is not to be deemed a
gross 1nequity arising out of wage
stabilization. and therefore cannot
be adjusted upward by the board.
A gross inequity would be deemed
to exist, for instance, where a ira
dltlonal relationship in rates has
been destroyed. Mr. Byrnes said ad-
Justments of rates found to be below
the representative bracket are not
to be made to increase existing wage
schedules, but only to bring obvious
and sporadic stragglers into line"
May Grant Adjustments.
The board also may grant adjust
ments to preserve necessary differ
entails IN a plant. For instance, a
raise granted to correct substand-
ard wages might increase the lowest
paid occupation from 40 cents an
hour to so cents, without giving a
raise to those already receiving SO
cents, who may be more highly
skilled employees. If the board finds
1t necessary to preserve differen-
tial OF some kind between the two
groups of employees, it may adjust
the 5O-cent rate upward. This may
cause a conflict in rates all along
the line in plant.
However, said Mr.. Byrnes, "ad-
Justments of this character are to
be SO staggered as to avoid the need
for adjustment in higher wage or
salary brackets"
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represented in the armada which
participated in last nights raid.
Nine of the missing bombers were
said to be Canadian.
Selection of Duisburg as the tar
get was regarded as significant,
inasmuch as it is Germanys greatest
inland port and one of the main
keystones in the transportation sys-
tenn on which Adolf Hitler must
depend for supplying his defense
forces in the west.
Much of the munitions and troops
which would be required to meet an
Allied invasion thrust across the
English Channel would have to
move through Duisburg.
BomberS of the British Coastal
Command also were busy last night
while the main raiding force was
over Germany, formation of
torpedo-carrying Hampdens attack
ing Axis shipping off Norway and
leaving one vessel sinking, the Air
Ministry said.
Nazi Air Force Strikes Back.
The German air force, meanwhile.
struck back with night attack on
a British east coast town which the
Berlin radio identified as the fish
ing village of Lowestoft. One bomb
destroyed an inn, and IL bodies
were found in the wreckage.
The Raj raid on Duisburg was the
high point of an Allied spring aerial
offensive which has placed heavy
emphasis on paralyzing Hitlers
transportation facilities.
A Ministry of Economic Warfare
spokesman said last night that sue
cessive raids had crippled the rail-
ways in Western Europe to such an
extent that long queues of locomo-
tives were lined up in repair shops
Germany's second largest loco
motive shop in Berlin has been put
out of operation for three or four
months, the spokesman said.
Including last nights raid, the
RAF has hit Germany or German
territory with $4,000 tons of bombs
since the 9th Army broke into Tu-
nisia, authoritative sources said-an
effective answer to Nazi propaganda
assertions that the Tunisian cam
palgn has occupied much of the
Allies air power.
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Catholic Protest Warns Nozjs'
Policies Intensity Europe's Hate
owl Reveals Text of Bishops Denuncioton
Of Prosecutions in Occupied Lands

In one of the strongest denuncia-
tions of Nazi religious policy ever
issued by the German Catholic
hierarchy, the government of the
Reich has been warned that "a ram
part of bitterness and enmity is be-
ing erected around Germany in all
the occupied territories because OF
ruthless interference with religious
life.
The warning was contained in a
memorial sent from the Fulda Con-
ference of Bishops December 18,
1912, to the Nazi ministers of churcn
affairs and of the interior and to
the chief Of chancellory, the full text
of which has just reached the United
States and was made public by the
Office of War Information today.
The bishops recalled that they had
sent another memorial within the
year asking for relief from church
persecution in Germany. THE gov
ernment of the Reich did not give us
any answer" the bishops said. THE
evils complained Of continue; some,
in fact. have grown worse"
Signed for All Bishops.
This plea of ours extends-and
that is the ground of the new
petition-with the same urgency to
the vital interests of the Catholic
Church and the free practice of the
religion of Catholic Christians in
the territories that recently have
come to Germany
The memorial, which was signed
by Adolf Cardinal Bertram,
Archbishop of Breslau, for all the
Catholic bishops of Germany, then
trace d notorious occurrences"
against Catholics in Alsace-Lorraine.
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Luxemberg, Poland and Yugoslavia
In Alsace-Lorraine, it said, the
German government has enforced
in much more rigorous form the
anti-church laws which in 1919 the
French government did not venture
to carry over from France itself"
1t cited the ''incisive, ruthleSsly
executed meaures" such as the ex-
pulsion of half the priests from the
diocese of Metz, the dissolution of
church organizations and endow-
ments and the widespread conhsca-
ton of property.
MOnaSterieS Closed.
The population of Luxembourg
also received the German troops in
friendly way" the memorial con-
tinued, land this good frame of
mind would have been maintained
If the German civil administration
had tactfully spared the native re-
llglous and cultural life. But the
liking Of the Luxemburgers for us
has been alienated by the ruth
lessly executed closing of the mon
asteries."
But violations OF religion in the
east were far worse, the bishops
added Many Polish churches to-
day are warehouses of some kind.
One church in PoSen has been de-
graded to riding school. The tab
ernacles have been broken open in
many cases, and the most holy sac
rament desecrated in the vilest way.
Not even the churches of the Ger
man race have been spared"
The memorial ended by crediting
the guerrilla warfare which is giving
the Germans SO much trouble in
Yugoslavia to the affronts given to
the religious spirit of the Slovenes.
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Army Saves
Most Of Wounded
Big Percentage Return
To Front, Doctors Hear

A high percentage of the Russian
soldiers wounded along the 1000
mile front return to the ranks to
fight again, Prof Vladimir Lebe-
denke, head of the Russian Red
Cross in America. told the District
Medical Society last night.
The society had a United Nations
program. Prof. Lebedenke gave his
talk in Russian and it was trans
lated by one of the members, DR..
1sldore Lattman.
Mortality from chest wounds
among the Russian soldiers had
been reduced go per cent. Prof Leb-
edenke said. This had been accom-
plished by organization, quick sort
ing of the wounded, immediate at
tention, the use of sulpha drugs and
blood plasmas he said
Maj. Gen. A. G. Biggam, consult
ing physician of the British Army
talked about the problems of that
army in the desert and in Burma
The American Army. he said, had
far better equipment, both medical
and kitchen, and should get along
better in the desert and the jungles
than the first British units did.
Brig. Gen. Larry B. McAfee, act
ing surgeon general of the United
States Army, said medicine in this
war was actually going to enlarge
the world. Frontiers will be pushed
back and man will be able to live in
safety and comfort in many regions
where he has never been able to do
so before.
DR.. j. Heng Liu, former Chinese
Minister of Public Health, spoke on
the sanitation problems of China
with its 45O,0OO,OO0 inhabitants, its
epidemics, bad water and ignorance
of anIiseptics He hoped that China
will continue to receive medical sup
plies, which are not bulky and which
can be shipped by plane.
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Coal
Continued From First Page

'SollGlllueu rIOIn TlTSL PdRe.)
in that area. Mr.. Ickes said similar
reports had come from other areas.
In regard to Mr.. Ickes' demands
that the cost of living be reduced
in the mine areas, the Secretary
said he had lunched recently with
certain eminent Government off,
cials,'' including Price Administrator
Prentiss M. Brown, and that our
positions seem to be the same"
He said he had asked for recon-
sideration' and that if he doesn't
get it, Il will have to go to Mr..
Byrnes economic stabilization di-
rector, l guess
In announcing the meeting with
the operators, Mr.. Ickes said:
The prices charged miners for
food. clothing and other necessary
goods by company stores operated or
connected with the mines taken over
py the Government will be thor
oughly explored and appropriate
steps will be taken to see that the
mine workers are charged fair
prices
Mr.. Ickes, who took over the
mines by direetion of President
Roosevelt after the weekend strike
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Operators Will Return
Fines Levied in Strike

PITTSBURGH, May II lP.-
Western Pennsylvania soft coal
operators today agreed to return ST.
a-day fines deducted from pay en-
velopes of United Mine Workers
who went on strike prior to the
expiration of their contract at mid
night, April 30.
The agreement was reached after
series of conferences between rep
resentatives of the Western Penn
sylvania Coal Producers Associa-
ton and UNIV leaders from Dis
tricts 3, 4 and 5.
Imposition of the fines caused sew
eral brief strikes of Pennsylvania
and Ohio miners last Friday.
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Five D. T.. Area Men
Win Decorations in
South Pacific Zone
1t. Col. Hampton Gets
Silver Star, Others
Awarded Air Medal

1t. Col. Edgar w. Hampton, 213o
Lee Highway, Arlington, Va. has
been awarded the Silver Star, it was
announced today from an Army
base somewhere in Australia Col.
Hampton was member of trans
port plane crew which landed their
plane, containing supplies, at for
ward area in Australia a day after
the field had been subjected to
heavy raid by the japanese.
The same crew also inspected a
new landing strip near enemy held
territory and, without fighter es-
cOrt, searched at low altitude for
transport plane which had failed
TO return.
The Air Medal has been awarded
to four Washington men for gall
lantry in action in the South Pa
clflc, it was announced.
Master Sergt. Gordon R. Manuel.
1915 Rhode Island avenue NV, as
member of the bomber crew which
sank japanese warship off New
Britain January 25, was decorated
with the Air Medal.
1t. Grant Decorated.
Three other men to be similarly
decorated for participation in more
than 25 operational missions during
which enemy contact was probable
and expected are: First 1t Charles
S. Grant, son of Mr.. and Mrs Harry
S. Grant, 22l0 R street NV, Second
1t. John T. Smith, husband of Mrs.
Mortie Smith, formerly of 1911 @
street Sc, and Staff Sergt John c.
Caputo, 323 1 street NV.
A native of Houlton, Me, Seret.
Manuel, 26, former amateur and
professional boxer, enlisted in the
Air Forces in May, 1910, and was
sent overseas in February, l941.
His ssiter, Miss Evelyn Manuel,
employe of the War Production
Board, resides at the Rhode Island
avenue address. Two brothers,
Ralph Manuel of the Federal
Works Agency, and Glenn Manuel
of the British Air Commission. re-
side at 2301 Fifteenth street NV.
Bombed Manila.
1t. Grant, 26, who has been serv-
ing in the Pacific area for over a
year, was member of the bombing
expedition to Manila in April, 1912
He is navigator on the BPS Martin
bomber 80 Sorry" This plane. in
press release in January, was
credited with 100000 flying miles
and 46 combat missions.
1t. Grant is a graduate of st.
Adams School and Dartmouth Col
lege
1t. Smith, who has been In the
Army for about eight years, has
been serving overseas for 16
months. Prior to going overseas,
1t. Smith served with the Air
Forces at Boiling Field and Lang
ley Field.
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Germans Who Fought Hitler
Held by French in Africa
Once 1000 Strong in Spanish Civil War;
Imprisoned Lost Legion Now Totals 200

1000 Germans were left, with few
Austrians, Bulgarians, Rumanians
and HungarianS who had no place
to turn. Col. Kahle himself was
allowed to enter France, where he
had already lived for some time,
ana afterWard came to England.
This was an exceptional case, he
says. Both the Scandinavian coun-
tries and Belgium were quite hos
pltable and accepted any of the in
ternees who could make out even
the fllmslest case for their protec-
ton
A few were able to get to England.
others to Mexico Russia agreed to
accept the disabled. Probably alto
gether, Col Kahle says. 200 of the
1000 or more German legionnaires
who finally crossed the French
border were able to get to some
land which, at least temporarily,
they could call home BY that time
the Czech legionnaires were in the
same fix. Their land had been taken
over by Hitler.
During the first months of the
present war France accepted a few
OF the Germans as members of pio-
neer companies. Nobody knows what
has become of them. Then came
the fall of France. Gestapo agents
invaded the camp and removed
lot Of marked men to Germany.
Treatment in camp was bad Death
cut big sWatheS in their ranks. In
the spring of 1941 the French re-
moved the remainder, now about
200, to the dreaded Vernet camp in
North Africa. Every now and then
one escapes and makes his way to
England.
Col. Kahle in England is devoting
the major part of his time to saw
ing his lost command. He has
pressed their case with all the Allied
governments. He has taken it up
with American military authorities
in North Africa. At last, he says,
some light is coming from behind
the clouds. His pleas are received
with more sympathy. Mexico has
agreed to accept the badly disabled
men of the Lost Legion to join the
growing colony of German intel
lectuals in Mexico City, leading
lights of which are Anna Seghars,
author of the recent best seller,
The Seventh Cross" and her hus-
band. British officials are showing
renewed interest in the men with
out country. Within few
months, Col. Kahle believes, those
left alive will be free again.
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Three Allied Vessels
Sunk in Pacific April 7
Identified by Navy
Destroyer Aaron Ward
One Of Ships Lost;
Kisku Raids Renewed
BY the Associated Press.

I9s tAic hoSOSlotSA 1 1000.
The Navy today identified the
three Allied ships sunk by Japa-
nese planes off Guadalcanal Is
land in the Solomons April 7 as
the American destroyer Aaron
Ward, the American tanker
KanaWha and the New Zealand
corvette Moa.
The identlflcations were made in a
communique which also reported a
resumption of air attacks against
enemy positions on Kiska Island in
the Aleutians, three new raids
against japanese bases in the Solo
mon Islands, and a bombardment
by American light warships of the
enemy positions at Villa and Munda
in the Soiomons.
Resumption of air action in the
Aleutians ended tour-day period
of inactivity described here as re-
sulting from bad weather. The
latest attack was made May II and
the last raids previously reported
against Kiska took place May s.
Results of the surface lombard
ment of Villa and Munda were not
given, but of the air raids an attack
on Kahili Wednesday was reported
to have started a number of fires
which appeared to be burning
enemy aircraft"
The Navy previously had reported
on the April 7 japanese raid, saying
that of 98 bombers and fighters
which executed the attack 80 planes
in all were shot down, while Amer
lcan losses were given as one de-
stroyer, one tanker and one corvette
sunk, one small fuel oil boat dam
aged and total of seven aircraft
lost.
The 1,700-ton Aaron Ward put
into service in March, 1912, was
commanded by 1t, Comdr. Frederick
Julian Becton, IS, of Hot Springs,
Ark, and the l4,500-ton Kanawha
was commanded by 1t. Comdr
Bralnerd Norton Book. 40, of
Landau, N. H. Both officers sur
vived.
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tlons have every reason to be proud
of these divisions" he said.
Gen. Eddy of the 9th Division
assumed its command last June. He
was commissioned a second lieu
tenant in 1916 and wears the Purple
Heart decoration for heroism and
wounds in the World War.
Gen. Ryder of the 34th Division
was graduated from West Point in
1915. He commanded landing units
at Algiers on the November in
vasion of North Africa
During the World War. where he
saw his first action. he participated
with the 10th Infantry in three or
four major operations and also saw
service in Germany
An experienced general staff of
flcer as we'll as field commander.
Gen. Ryder was appointed COM
mandant of cadets at West Point in
1887, and in l941 was made chief of
staff of the 9Th Army Corps, Provi-
dence. R. I.
Gen. Ryder wears the Distin-
guished Service Cross for heroism
with the lst Division in France dur
ing the World War.
Evening star., 1943-05-13

them. who cannot be identified
made this comment in response to
question, The board is no longer
prohibited by any rigid rule from
doing justice"
CIO and AFL Meetings.
Labor members would not COM
ment Immediately for reasons of
organization policy. but there was
unquotable evidence that this par
tial restoration of the boards dis
cretionary power went a long way
toward turning off the heat that was
sure to be engendered at CIO and
AFL meetings beginning today.
The CIO vice presidents meet to-
day in Cleveland and the Executive
Board meets there tomorrow. The
AFL executive council will convene
next Monday here Their protests
are expected to be concentrated on
prices. Labor leaders had de-
nounced the hold-the- line order as
"straitjacket" for the War Labor
Board while providing little effective
control over prices. The WLB it
self called the April 8 order "un-
workable" without some clarifica-
ton.
The directive authorized the
board "to establish as rapidly as
possible, by occupational groups and
labor market areas, the wage rate
brackets embracing all those vari-
GUS rates found to be sound and
tested going rates"
Possible Case Cited.
For instance. board survey may
find in Chicago that sound, go
ing" rates for machinists are within
bracket of 80 cents to s1.1O an
hour. "All the rates within these
brackets" said the directive, ARE
to be regarded as stabilized rates,
not subject to change save as
permitted by the Little Steel
formula"
After such bracket is de-
termined, a machinist getting less
than 80 cents may be raised to
the 90-cent level but not above that
except in rare and unusual cases
in which the critical needs of war
production require the setting of a
wage at some point above the mini
mum Of the going wage bracket" !"
(The Little Steel formula is a
group cost-of- living adjustment
permitting Is per cent increase
over the average hourly rates paid
on or about January l, 1941. Under
the hold-the- order that was
the ceiling, except in the case of
substandard wages which the board
desired to correct. The new direc-
tive relaxes that rigidity).
Power Modified.
While restoring authority to elm
mate gross inequities." the Byrnes
directive did not n store to the board
Evening star., 1943-05-13
Nazis Boosted Own
Army Rank TO Get
More Prison Pay
Gave Selves Promotions
Freely Before Capture
In African War
BY WILLIAM III. STONEMAN.
Wo- of r

! TUNIS, May u Delayed With
! the explanation that I'VE are fight
! ing tanks with rifles the cream
of the Afrika Korps chose to give
up rather than die At Dunkerque
the British infantry gladly fought
tanks with rifles.
Such has been the confusion of
the once proud German Reichs-
Wehr that, for instance, single
armored car captured 500 German
! prisoners only to tell them to go
to hell and to go somewhere to the
west and get themselves properly
( captured
Husky warriors from the Hermann
, Goering Division and Panzer Gren-
adiers were dime dozen You
could cruise along the roads leading
eastward into Cap Bon, where COM
pany after company and battalion
after battalion of Germans and
Italians were fully armed and set
for war in all ways except spirit
ually.
Nazis Eye Prison Pay.
You simply gazed a them and told
/ them you couldn't take time off to
capture them and went your way.
In fairness to the Germans, who
have fought very skillfully and
bravely durlrg the campaign, it must
be recorded that they were abso-
lutely trapped and have had no such
source Of hope as the British who at
the time of Dunkerque were being
rescued by continual stream of
small boats and desuoyers coming
from just across the Channel.
One discovery was that the Ger
mans had been extremely busy in
the last few days promoting them
selves IN order to gam better pay
after they were captured. Under the
rules of war. captured officers are
paid according to their rank by their
captors.
A very unpleasant discovery we
made today was that the Italians
were using. or at least were equipped
with, dumdum bullets. l personally
discovered Is 81. nm. bullets for
an Italian carbine which had opened
lead noses and slots in the sides of
their copper Jackets.
Possessors Could Be Shot.
Under the rules of war, ANYBODY
possessing such bullets is liable to
be shot instantly. Those l8 bullets
were the only dumdums l found
among hundreds of Italian cart
ridges I examined, so it is obvious
that their use was not general
Tunis today continues to celebrate
the antithesis of the collapse of
France. Every soldier who went into
town was received by groups of ad-
mlrers. who offered everything from
VINE and food on down
1t was notable that the most silent
OF the people we met were those
stout souls who were working for us
during those six long months we
fought for Tunis. They were too
worn out by their work and too
stunned by their sudden delivery to
have any energy left for celebra
son. That, too, is the situation of
neWspapermen who have been In
Tunisia since the middle of No.
vember
(copyrlsht, 1943, Chicago Daily News. Inc J