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Evening star., 1944-03-25
Bank Institute Urges
Relaxation Of Credit
For House Repairs
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Declaring that returning war vet
Grams may find their homes "dilapi-
dated shells because of fetish for
credit CONTROL the Consumer Bank
ing Institute called yesterday for a
relaxation of the Federal Reserve
Boards consumer credit controls to
permit longer terms for housing re-
pairs and maintenance.
Present restrictions under the
boards regulation "W' place a
maximum of II months on such
credit, but the institute in its March
bulletin said:
1T takes no experts in consumer
credit to realize that a $500 furnace
replacement or a new roof cannot be
paid for in a single year by Mr..
Average American with his salary
wage of sl,660 and his family num-
bering 3.l5 even if he puts his
children and his wife to work and
attains the per capita average of
$852."
| The board, meanwhile. in a series
of amendments to regulation "W,'
to become effective April 3, removed
heating equipment repairs from
credit controls and provided, too,
that requirements may be made
without restriction if the equipment
is worn out, damaged beyond repair
or destroyed. The board previously
had exempted furnace conversions
to other fuels and home insulation
work from control.
Other amendments lifted from Sc
to $40 the maximum installment
purchase permitted without a down
payment and increased from 81 to
$40 the amount of charge accounts
subject to default if not paid
within prescribed time limits.
Evening star., 1944-03-25
Suicide Verdict Issued
In Gas Death Of Woman

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
today issued certificate of suicide
In the death of Mrs. Lola M. Mich
olson, 81, of 1749 Hobart street NV,
who died yesterday in Emergency
Hospital of burns suffered when a
gas stove in her kitchen exploded.
Police said the explosion occurred
when Mrs. Nicholson went into the
kitchen about am. March Is and
turned on all the stove burners.
The blast shattered several win
dows in the house, burned the din
ing room rug and set fire to the fur
niture. Mrs. Nicholson's husband
Thomas j. Nicholson, said she had
been in Ill health for about six
years.
Cause of the explosion has not
been determined.
Evening star., 1944-03-25
THE EVENING STAR. washington. D G.
SATURDAY MARCH rs, 1914
113 District Draftees
To Report 10 Boards
Monday for Induction

Reporting to their draft boards
Monday for induction will be 1I3
District men who qualified on their
preinduction examination.
In addition, seven volunteers were
sworn in at Fort Myer yesterday.
Charles B. Hise and William B. Allen
will go into the Army. The follow
ing Joined the Navy: Gilbert E.
Beard, Robert E. Taylor, Russell
Trupo, Robert r. Orth and Anthony
r. di Giuseppe.
OF the selectees to be inducted
Monday, 68 will 60 to the Army and
45 to the Naval Forces. The list
follows: "a
Evening star., 1944-03-25
Poles Plan Moss

The Polish Club OF Washington
will sponsor a mass to be celebrated
ct II am. tomorrow at the Sacred
Heart Convent, 1719 Massachusetts,
avenue NV. Members of various
Polish organizations here will at
tend and Father Lunieski will
preach the sermon in the native
tongue.
Evening star., 1944-03-25
Morgan Art Auction
Brinqs $43.l00 More

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar 25.-The auc-
ton sale of paintings and other ef-
fects of the late J. P. Morgan
brought $43,10o yesterday, third day
Of sale which so far has totaled
$114,66
A painting, Cote de la Loire" by
Louis Nicolas van Blarenberghe,
brought $2,600, and another paint
Evening star., 1944-03-25
Russians Find Province
Swept Bare by Germans

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Mar. 25.-Sergei Dvor-
nikov, chairman of the Kiev Prov
ince Soviet, announced today that
preliminary Investigations revealed
the Germans literally swept from
the face Of the earth" 81 villages and
5000 collective farms.
They also took 10000 tons OF grain
and 200, 900 head of cattle.
Evening star., 1944-03-25
Stronger Synthetic Type
lOf Rubber Developed
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio, Mar. 25.-Develop-
ment of new-type synthetic rub
ber, designed to reduce processing
and handling time and to provide
greater resistance to road wear when
made into tires, was announced yes
terday by John L. Collyer, president
OF the B. F. Goodrich Co.
Mr.. Collyer said Col. Bradley
Dewey, rubber administrator, hao
aided in obtaining permission from
Government agencies to start imme.
diate manufacture of the new syn
thetic, which is of the butadient
type.
Evening star., 1944-03-25

Brett yesterday as her military trans
port plane passed over the Equator
off the Ecuadorean coast.
The order" is limited to persons
who have crossed the Equator in a
military aircraft.
Evening star., 1944-03-25
MRS. Roosevelt 'Hozed'
In Flight Over Equator

BY the Associated Press.
HEADQUAR RTERS, Caribbean
Command, Mar. 25.--Mrs Franklin
ID. Roosevelt was initiated into the
'Superroyal Order of Hyperterrestial
HopperS" by 1t. Gen. George H.
Evening star., 1944-03-25

ing, Madonna and Child" by a
member of the school of Raphael
1anzio, 10th century Italian, was
sold for S2,500
Evening star., 1944-03-25

Wanted-Waste kitchen fats to
make explosives for our guns! Save
yours. Take them to your meat
dealer.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15
II Killed, $50 Hurt
In Harbor Explosion

WASHINGTON, June IA Up -
The Navy announced tonight that
q men were killed 100 ar emiss.
ing and $50 we're wounded in an
explosion that destroyed several
small landing craft in Pearl Har'
Dor May 81.
At the same time it reported that
magazine at the ammunition de-
pot at Oahu island exploded, kill
ing three men. Seven others are
missing as a result of this acct
dent.
The explosion among landing
craft in Pearl Harbor was report
ed previously by Admiral Chester
w. Nimitz Pacific fleet command
ing chief, no said that it oc
Cured while ammunition was be.
ing unloaded from one of the small
craft.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15
u. S. Nauy Shells
JaDanese Islands

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, June
14.-P)-Big guns of American nav.
al task forces simultaneously she'll
ed the southern Marianas islands
and the central Kuriles Monday in
the deepest penetration Of Japa-
nese defenses ever made by United
States warships, Pacific Fleet
headquarters announced today.
The northern force continued its
Smelling Of Matsuwa, within 500
miles of the Japanese homeland,
into Tuesday.
The courier task force raid in
the southern Marianas was extend
ed into it's fourth day and reached
out to hit a fifth island.
Batt1eships, cruisers, and destroy
ers shelled both Saipan and Tinian
in the Marianas. If the shoreguns
replied their fire was ineffective,
for Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said
none Of the attacking ships was
damaged.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15
GREAT ARMADA
BLASTS EUR.

SUPREME HEADQUA1
A L L I E D EXPEDITIQ
FORCE, June 14.-P)--I
more than 1900 U. S. For
and Liberators-the mightid
gle air armada ever launc|
the Allied airforces hit Hitle|
rope with more than 10000
sorties by daylight today il
ably the greatest all-day opd
since the Normandy invasio|
6.
The widespread operation
Britain encountered a mimi
aerial opposition although
aircraft fire was heavy al
points.
Reports up to midnight lii
U. S. heavy bombers, thre|
iums and Is fighters and |
bombers as missing. Five
fighters were destroyed.
1t also was disclosed all
quarters that a number OF q
airfields in France have bed
tured, but are not being 4
present because of extensiv|
age caused by Allied bomb
Greatest weight Of plan
bombs came from Britain,l
planes took off on an est
10, 900 sorties that rained exp
and bullets on the enemy in 1
Belgium, the Netherlands al
many in both tactical and ST
support of the invasion grou|
ces.
simultaneously another q
ed 1000 sorties were dow
Italy and Mediterranean
against a half dozen oil rel
in Hungary and Yugoslavia.|
In all about 1850 tons of
were cast on enemy territol|
ing the day.
The Italian-based heavy bI
encountered considerable aei
position, but the British-bas|
ces reported little trouble fir
Luftwaffe.
Besides the great British
mission of more than 1900
bombers escorted by son
fighters, the skies reverb
from dawn until dusk w
constant coming and going 4
iun, light and fighter bd
closely supporting the cross
mel ground assault. On
about $4,000 sorties were
but at least 1000 of these VI
night.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15
POLICE NAB MAN
IN HOTEL THEFT

Warrant for armed robbery was
served Yesterday on Ross Kenne'
dy, Jr., %, Of Hallsboro, accused
of robbing three men at the Bruins
wick hotel on May 25th. He is In
Jail under $4,000 and will appear
in Recorder court for preliminary
hearing this morning.
Kennedy was picked up near the
hotel on a vagrancy charge by Po'
lice Officer C. w. Wilson. Police
said he was identified by the cash
Ter, S. E. Sellers, and the Negro
bellboy, Steve Washington, who
were robbed. The third victim, O.
F. Smith, a guest in the hotel
has not as yet been contacted by
the police.
Entering the hotel at 1870 a. m.
on May Is, Kennedy allegedly led
the cashier and bellboy to- the
room of Smith and tied up all three
men. He then robbed Smith OF
SAT. Sellers of $577 and stole the
wrist watch, billfold and cigarette
case of Washington valued at $50,
according to police.
Officers investigating the case
for the past three weeks are c.
w. Wilson, Norwood Leitch, E. B.
Murray and Harry E. Fales, SUI
perintendent of the New Hanover
Bureau of Identification.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15
AIR CORPS ACE
VISITS In CIT Y

Major Richard Ira Bong, South
west Pacific ace and first man tc
break Captain Eddie Rickenback.
er's record of twenty-six planes
shot down in combat, visited Blue.
thenthal Field yesterday. The
blonde fighter pilot toured the
nearby base and talked to an en-
thusiastic crowd of soldiers at the
base theater, it was revealed by
Colonel John N. Jones, base COM
mander.
Major Bong, ace of the Army Air
Corps, declared that he had not
deliberately set out to better Cap
tain Rickenbacker's record. "When
we met Jap planes, I would hap.
pen to knock some of them down, -
he said. "Only when I was close
to Captain Rickenbacker's total
did someone suggest to me that
might equal it,
Credited with twenty-seven jap
planes, including four shot down
on one flight, Major Bong de-
scribed Number Is as his tough
est victory. 81 just peppered that
Zero with Lead" he said, "but it
looked as though he never would
go down. So I just kept going in
and giving it more bursts of fire,
till finally it did go down."
Having left his combat plane in
the Pacific area when he return
ed to. this country in May, the
fighter ace was flying a new and
shining, P-38. This was his first
trip to North Carolina.
Last night, he was in Whining
ton, unrecognized by the crowds
who passed him on the street.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15
Oklahoma Governor
May Be Key

CHICAGO, June IA R
Robert S. Kerr of Oklahol
right held the role of favor
selection as keynoter as MI
of the Democratic arrang
committe gathered to choc
men who will nave the tor
at the party's national COW
A strong trend of support
tall Oklahoman was eviden
discussions with men and
already on hand for the n
tomorrow, but there was n
cation of a general agreem
the question of who would
the gavel as permanent CHI;
at the nominating conclave
ing here July 10.
Kerr, At. an advocate of
term for President Rooseve
an oil producer and an at
before he moved into the c
ma governors chair, has !
mentioned for weeks for Il
signment.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15
Pearl Hmbor Report
Hits Liquor Parties,
Construction DELAYS

WASHINGTON, June 14-tR
The colonel in charge and the
German-born contractor on de-
lenses at Pearl Harbor were
criticized today by the House
military committee for de-
lays which. a report by the
committee said, left the install
latiens incomplete and the
way open for the japanese.
While the work fell behind.
the committee said, Col. Theo-
dore Wyman, Jr.. of the Army
engineers accepted lavish en-
tertainment from the contrac-
tor, Hans Wilhelm Rohl, in par
ties that involved liquor "by
the case' and "cheap, COM
mercial party girls"
It said the colonel was at
RohPs home in Hawaii when
the Japanese struck Pear
Harbor, and that he rushed to
his office Gin civilian clothes
and in a drunken condition"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15

At the present time all work.
ers coming into the Wilmington
area from other areas are clas-
sified as "immigrants" in &C
cordance with the WINGS en-
ployment sterilization plan. AS
such it is required that if they
come into this area without
proper release from the USES
of the area of last employment,
it is necessary that clearance
be made for them through the
Wilmington USES office before
they can be referred for en-
plOyment locally. Shepherd
pointed out that any employer
hiring any worker without a
USES referal is in violation of
the employment sterilization
plan.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15
Roosevelt Approves
Pearl Harbor

WASHINGTON. June A.
Legislation directing an INN
Investigation of the Pearl
disaster was signed today by
dent Roosevelt but he said
curry would be limited to
could be done without intel
with the war effort.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he was
dent Congress did not inter
would not want any proce
which would hamper prosecu
the war. Therefore, he gait
statement, he was signing t
although the secretaries of
and the Navy had suggest
dsapprove it.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15

; ance before referral of wives
Of men in the armed services.
This change does not affect
any immigrant status other
than that of the service wife,
and these women only will be
eligible for immediate hire if
referred by the local USES Of
flee.
All employers are urgently
requested to place their orders
for workers. especially for
wives of servicemen, with the
local USES office, and any en-
ployer contacted by the wife of
a man in service who has re-
Gently come to Wilmington,
should be told by them to con-
tact the local office for refer
raj, Shepherd stated.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15
COUNCIL LIMITS
PRODUCE SALES

An ordinance to prohibit the sell
inc of fruits, meats. vegetables
nroduce and farm products a
wholesale on the city str Gets with
in the business and fire districts
ot Wilmington was passed by city
council at it's meeting yesterday.
The ordinance was passed by
vote of 81, with the dissenting vote
east BY Mayor Bruce B. Cameron
councilman Robert R. Romeo die
not vote.
In addition council members
unanimously approved ordinance
regulating the sale of jewelry at
auction by other than a merchant
who had been located here for
one year. Violation of the law car
res a penalty of $50. This action
by he council was petitioned by
Wilmington jewelers..
Attorney John Stevens, repre-
snting the jewelry dealers, said
Engoff knows of cases where
rat.less watches have been plac-
ed in new cases and sold at auc.
ton at very high prices"
Unanimous approval was also
given to the paving of a number
of city sidewalks, which already
have been graded, drained, gut
tered and curbed.
The motion for approval of the
ordinance regulating the sale OF
produce was made by Garland S.
Currin, Robert S. LeGwin seconded
the motion, whereupon Mayor
Bruce B. Cameron asserted Il
think it has dynamite"
City Manager A. c. Nichols then
pointed out that the ordinance
was submitted to the council be-
cause of the opening Monday OF
the wholesale produce market at
Fourth and Ashe streets. 1.-THE
purpose of building the marka
was to get rid of the wholesale
business on Dock street." he add
ed
Whereupon, Mayor Cameron
answered that ''people will make
use of the new market without
the restriction"
The mayor then proposed that
I'VE study ordinances two weeks
before taking action. These laws
affect lot of people. I bet you
before the month is over we will
make changes in the ordinances
we passed this morning. We pass
ed them on the spur of the mo-
,nent."
Approval by the council was the
following ordinance regulating the
sale Of jewelry at auction:
Section l. It shall hereafter be
unlawful for any person, firm or
Continued on Page Ten; Col. 81
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Bncker Lieutenants
Claim ia COP Votes
By The Associated Press


Two of Gov. John W. Bricksr's
campaign lieutenants formally re-
ported their "first ballot analysis"
Of Republican national convention
delegate choices yesterday as 174
Tor Bricker, 2S5 for Gov. Thomas
L. Dewey, rs pledged to favorlte
sons, 3O6 probably first ballot for
"ners," and ZIG doubtful.
The Bricker for President
ned directors making this state
me, meht IN Washington were Hugh
huntington and Don H. Ebright.
.Aey said this was a "conserva-
1--WE report" instead of an estimate
e ana that they confidently expect
oiieker will receive between 250
anu 800 votes on the first ballot
.ol tne COP presidential nominal
@VL
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ne urged tnem TO SUCK TO the
present pace of buying bonds to
help maintain the American way Of
life which many servicemen and
foreigners he encountered consid-
cred c''tops'. ~s-s 49,
Merchant Seaman Grady Fair
cloth said, 1.-THE men of the fight.
ing forces are facing death-giving
their all-plus certain percentage
of the salary purchasing war
bonds. If they can do it, working
citizens can afford to give moth
ing less than their BEST
Free theater tickets to the Will
mington premier at the Bailey
theatre of "And the Angels Sing''
will be presented with the purchase
OF war bonds at all building and
loan associations, banks, post Of
fees, the Wilmington Furniture
company and through merchants,
it was announced yesterday at the
meeting of the theater committee
Of the Fifth War Loan drive.
A. S. Grist, chairman of the thea
ire committee, urged citizens who
wished to see the motion picture to
buy their war bonds early, for the
seating capacity of the theatre is
1,004, and no Standing room tick
ets' will be sold to the War Bond
Benefit Show, which will be held
June 20 at $3.50 pm.
A meeting of the Women's divi-
sion Of the Fifth War Loan drive
will be held Friday at 1920 am.
in the assembly room of the
Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. l.. w.
Preston, director, request leaders
of all women organizations to at
tend.
War bond material. such as post
ers, sales manuals, payroll deduc-
ton blanks, lapel pins and other
material will be available at the
Chamber of Commerce, beginning
today.
The feature Of the Fifth War
Loan drive tonight will be the ra-
dio program, "Pass in Review,
which will be presented in ITALIAN
Hall at z o'clock by Camp Davis
pers onnel. Half an hour of enter
tainment will be given before the
broadcast at 7:30.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15
MCRuling Aids Service Wives

Wives of men in the armed
services who have recently
come into the wilmington area
without proper releases may
now be referred Immediately
to prospective employers by
the u. S. Employment Service
office without the usual delay
caused by the clearance period.
according to a ruling from the
state director of the War Man
power Commission received
yesterday by Area Director H.
E. Shepherd.
The ruling, 1t was emphasize
ed. does not in any way change
other regulations provided for
in the employment stabiliza-
ton program but merely elm
mates the necessity Of clear
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dispatches disclosed tonight.
Sid FEEDER, Associated Press cor
respondent with the Fifth army,
said in story filed from Orbetel-
10 that the whole mountainous
peninsula with tremendous hidden
stores of food had come under AL
lied control. His dispatch followed
an announcement by Allied head.
quarters that the junction of High
ways l and IA, short distance
north of Orbetello along the coast
of the mainland, had also been
captured.
The Americans were pressing
forward and engaging strong
force of Nazis in the hills north
of the road junction, FEEDER said.
The food discovered in b,lnkers
on various parts of the mountain
Gus peninsula, which is joined to
the mainland by three causeways,
contained nearly 300 tons of flour,
hundreds of cases of ham, rations
and biscuits, said Maj. John Paul
Powhida, 46, of Philadelphia, rep
|resenting the Allied military gov
eminent.
"It obviously is one of the enc
my's main food Stores" the ma.
jor said.
Along with the huge supplies of
food, the Allies seized garrison
of rs enemy soldiers.
Bagno Regio, six miles south Of
Orvieto, was captured by the
Fifth army and Narni, an impor-
tant road junction southwest OF
Terni, was taken by the Eighth
army, headquarters announced to.
night.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15
|HousrPasses
Bill
Fixing Prices
ADMINISTRATION WINS
Many Republicans Join
With Democrats
In Voting

WASHINGTON, June IA
E - The House passed the
price control extension bill
today after striking out the
controversial B a n k h e a d :
Brown cotton amendment
and writing in a provision
aimed at guaranteeing pari-
ty prices for all farm prod
ucts by penalizing professors
who fail to pay them.
The Bankhead-Brown proposal,
which is in the version of the bill
passed last week by the Senate.
would require adjustment Of tex
tile ceilings to reflect parity to
farmers and also to guarantee
manufacturing costs plus a "reas-
enable profit" to millers.
Virtually all the House Repub-
icans joined with administration
forces against the textile pricing
change, which was beaten 81 te
1911. The administration gave its
approval to the parity-or-penalty
amendment.
After that vote, the House re-
versed a previous stand and in a
204 to 178 roll call threw out the
administration opposed amend.
ment of Rep. Disney (D-Okla) to
increase the price of crude oil 30
cents a barrel.
The administration cotton ana
oil victories were somewhat off.
set by failure, in a 206 to 181 70.
call, to throw out an amendmen
by Rep. Dirksen (R-IlU to opel
federal district courts to tests
of OPA r'-1es.
With the House changes, Ma
jority Leader Mccormack ID.
Massl said there was an "excel
lent chance" Of perfecting in con-
ference bill which Presiden
Roosevelt would approve.
Without the legislation, pr
controls expire June 30.
McCormack's statement was
based on an expectation that Sen,
ate and House conferees, CORE
throw out the Bankhead-Browl
lating the separate measures,
plan.
The parity amendment which
the House approved overwhelm-
ingly by voice vote provides that
any professor of an agricultural
commodity who fails to pay a par
ity price may charge no more
tina 80 per cent of the OPA ceiling
price for the finished article.
Parity is the price which the
agricultural department figures
will give a farm commodity the
same purchasing power, in terms
of things farmers buy, than it had
in a past base period, usually 1909
40.
Rep. Pace D-Ga), author of the
provision, said it would affect cot
ton, wheat, rye and several other
commodities now selling below
parity and that it would meant
hundreds of millions of dollars
to the nations farmers"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-06-15
CityCounty Psychiatrist
SOUGHT ToAid Seruicemen

lead the discussion on the need
for a resident or periodically
visiting psychiatrist.
Roland also stated that there
is a "dire" need in the city
and county schools for a psy-
chiatrist to help averaged
pupils in certain grades. He
attributed delinquency on the
part of some not only to low
mentality, but likewise to psy-
cho-neurosis, which, he said, is
often caused by home environ
ment.
Other members of the COM
mittee to obtain a psychiatrlst
for the community will be ap-
pointed at later date.