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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-29
FOREIGN LABOR
BEING USED HERE

Based on check recently COM
pleted by the local employment
service, construction work and war
industries in Wilmington are de-
pending to a great extent on labor
from other localities, announced
Felix Scroggs, manager of the
United States Employment Serv-
ice office in Wilmington, Friday.
The check shows that between
60 and IS percent of all workers
going through the employment
service in this city come from 9TH
er localities, and that the percent
age is higher for those going into
war industries. This indicates that
Wilmingtonians are more or less
remaining on their jobs or chang
ing jobs by taking their release
to their new local employer, which
is permissible and encouraged by
the Wilmington office.
The latest check on persons COM
ing into this area shows that twice
as many are coming in at the
present than are going out. The
immigration is exceeding the out
by approximately 100
persons per week. This trend is
expected to continue upward for
the next 80 to 100 days, states
Mr.. Scroggs.
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DANGEROUS PRICE
INCREASES seen

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-lR-
Voicing new demands for food sub
sides, spokesman for white col.
lar' workers told Congressional
investigators today that Creeping
price increases" are endangering
the "health, stamina and morale
of millions.
An immediate threat "of runa'
way inflation' is the most challen'
ging domestic issue of the day,
Lewis G. Hines and Boris Shiskin,
ALL representatives said. They
recommended:
l. Prompt enactment of subsidies
to prevent further rises in food
prices.
2. A complete denomination
and revision of the salary stabl-
lization policy by the War Labor
Board.
8. Revision of the Fair Labor
Standards Act to eliminate pres
ent exemptions and make sure
that a floor is placed under sala-
ries as we'll as wages"
4. An immediate government stu
dy of conditions of fixed income
and salary groups to assure full
employment after the war.
Nicholas Carnes, chairman OF
the department store employees i'm
ion (CIO) in New York, told the
Senate labor subcommittee that
department store employees, aside
from the 10 per cent who are
straight commission workers, set
an average wage Of $23 a week.
Of some 10000 workers in his
organization, Carnes testified, zap
proximately 20 per cent are re-
ceiving a, gross wage of SIT a
week." and 40 per cent $40 or less,
while in unorganized stores Eva
ges are considerably lower"
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FRANCE POUNDED
WITHOUT A Loss
London Undergoes Its
Tooth Air Alert Of
The War

LONDON, Jan. 28.-tR-Ameri-
can Liberators, supported by Thun-
derbolts and lighter Raj forces,
raided mystery targets in the Pas
de-Calais area of France without
the loss of single American plane
today following last nights heavy
British bombing attack on Berlin.
London experienced a brief air
raid alert tonight-its Tooth of the
war and seventh this year. The all
clear so unded within a short time
and no gunfire was heard in the
center of the city.
One German plane, however,
penetrated to the greater London
area but was driven off by two
short bursts of gunfire. A number
of persons were injured when a
bomb damaged several houses in
the Thames Estuary area.
Berlin still simmered among
hundreds OF fires from he Raj
attack which drove home a 1.5O0
long ton blow, one of a series of
hard punches which apparently is
necessary to finish off the Nazi
capital.
The Raj heavy bombers also
rocked Helgoland, the German
Gibraltar in the North Sea, with
diversionary assault last night.
Other regions in northern France
were attacked as well as the Pas
Continued on Page Two: Col. 81
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y. S. Kows Punishment For laps,
People, Congress Deeply Stirred;
England Is Told Of Nip Sauqgery
COMMONS HEARS EDEN
Secretary Says No Salts
factory Answer Has
Been Received

LONDON, Jan. o. Up Thou
sands of Britons have died in pris-
o ncamps in Asia, the victims of
unspeakable savagery'' inflicted
by their Japanese captors, and re-
peated British representations have
brought only evasive, cynical or
otherwise unsatisfactory replies
from Tokyo, Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden gravely told the House
of Commons today.
Eden, citing only a few of many
authenticated cases of torture,
drew a grim picture of the bar
barous nature OF our Japanese enc
mics A shocked House heard that
Allied soldiers with their hands tied
were Systematically 'bayoneted
from behind" and how a British
officer captured in Burma was
dubbed across the face with
sword and then tied to stake
with strangling rope moose
around his neck.
The Japanese have violated not
only the principles of information
al law but all canons Of decent
civilized conduct" Eden said. The
British government repeatedly
have made the strongest possible
representations to the japanese
government through the Swiss
government.
Such replies as have been re-
ceived have been evasive, cynical
OF otherwise unsatisfactory .
Let the japanese government
reflect in the time to come that
the record of their military au-
thorities in this war will not be
forgotten.
Eden answered in the affi-ma-
tive when asked whether it would
be possible to request the Rus
sian government, who are not en-
gagged in hostilities with Japan, to
make direct representations"
We will consider everything, -
including this suggestion, Eden re-
piled. We have tried everything
and will continue to try everything
we can think of to remedy this
state of affairs -. :"
In adding British parallels to the
cases of torture inflicted on Amer
leans in japanese camps, as dis
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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new WORLD PEACE
PLAN URGED NOW

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. -R-
Senator Burton (R-Ohio) proposed
tonight immediate United States
action to form an international
organization of all the United Ma.
tons for establishing and main.
tanning peace and security in the
new world"
The time for such step is
now" Burton said in a speech pre-
pared for delivery to the Inter
American Bar Association. He de.
clared the government should
bring the representatives of each
nation to Washington now and add.
ed:
Such a meeting, under the pres
sure of war, can contribute much
to the firmer unity of the partici-
pants in the conduct of the war as
well as to their greater faith in
the program of the peace"
Burton expressed the view that
holding together the United Ma
IlolAS championship team is OF
paramount importance to estab-
fishing and maintaining future
world security.
Such unity exists now in time
of war; he said. "The primary
obligation of every peace-loving
nation is to see to it that it con-
tinues in time of peace"
Burton noted that representa-
t;ves of only the four principal al
lies among the United Nations have
arrived at any agreement.
Each of the other 80 United Ma
tons must be consulted, he added,
IF our ideals are to be translated
into practice ana if there is to be
just, a lasting and living peace
in the world"
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REDS ENDANCER
VITAL RAIL Line
Nazis Cleared From All
But One Spot On Mos
COW Leningrad Line

LONDO, Jan. 28.-REThe Red
army cleared the Germans from
all but one be1eaguered center OF
resistance along the great double
tracked Leningrad-Moscow trunk
line today and rolled steadily west
war from Lake linen to cut the
Germans important Leningrad-
Vitebsk supply line, leaving them
but one major rail route out OF
the north.
The virtual clearing of the Len
ingrad-Moscow ine-the Russians
already were fighting in the streets
of the last German-held town OF
Chudovo-was announced by Pre-
mier Marshal Joseph Stain in
special order of the day.
Stain told of the capture of the
large station of Lyuban and four
others along the line, and then
declared:
"Thus the main railway line con-
Meeting Moscow with Leningrad-
the October railway line-zhas been
freed from the German invaders
along it's entire stretch, excluding
the station Of Chudovo where the
enemy is encircled and being an
initiated
The premier-r larshal ordered a
victory salute II IL salvos from
1874 Moscow guns to mark the
achievement which, when the line
is repaired, will once again per-
NIT Russa's two largest cites to
exchange supplies and men.
The line was lost to the Russians
Continued on Page Two; Col. s.
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'DEMONS,' HULL SAYS
Many Cries Against Japan
Are Heard Ringing In g
Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3d. Up -
Enraged as never before, America
tonight vowed merciless vengeance
on every one of the japanese who
tortured and murdered the unfo3s
gettable heroes of Bataan.
Even the calm, judicial Secre.
tary of State Cordel Hull was NOV.
ed to use such words as demons"
and ''fiendishness' as he gave the
official promise that the butchers
of Nippon would be brought to &C.
count.
Cries of Hang the Mikado" and
Bomb Japan out of existence"
roared out of Congress. From all
quarters expressions OF sheer rage
grew more vocal by the hour az
the full import of last nights Ar.
my-Navy disclosure sank in.
many f tn U. S. tai hoo-e. 2sheto
my-Navy disclosure sank in.
No one knows yet exactly how
many of the U. S. and Filipino
troops were brutally slain but Pal
mer Hoyt, former director Of
Owls domestic branch, declared
that most of the $4,000 who sur.
rendered met their deaths from
deadly heat, thirst, starvation and
other forms of torture. Hoyt was
cr4Jcal that the CHASTITY news was
withheld from the public for two
years.
Two reasons were given today
for making the information public
now. Stephen Early, Presidential
secretary, said there was no long.
err any point to keeping the veil
of secrecy. Instead, Early declared
that there was no hope of the Jap.
anese allowing further relief sup.
plies to reach the captives.
The Owl said publication was
decided upon in the belief that it
might bring some improvement in
the Japanese attitude toward pris-
oners.
Secretary Hull revealed that the
government is compiling all infor.
nation possible about prisoner
treatment and said the criminals
will be punished when the war
ends. Hull, who rarely authorizes
direct quotations at his press con-
ferences, deviated from his prac-
tice to castigate the Japanese. Said
Hull:
According to the reports OF
cruelty and inhumanity it would
be necessary to assemble together
all the demons available from any.
where and combine the fiendish-
ness which all of them embodied
in order to describe the conduct
of those who inflicted these I'm.
thinkable tortures on Americans
and Filipinos as reports cite"
The details of the March OF
Death" from Bataan and the 9th.
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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THORNTON URGES
BOND PURCHASES

"War bond sales should be vital.
ly stimulated by the narrowing re.
ports of Japan's persecution Of our
prisoners of war;" G. J. Thorn
ton, chairman for the Fourth War
Loan drive in New Hanover Coun.
ty, stated Friday, adding that
''every American should be angry
enough now to double and triple
his original bond pledges in this
campaign"
mo sacrifice that we can make
at home" said M. Thornton, "carl
even approximate the dreadful pri.
vations our soldiers have suffered
in Japanese prison camps"
Some progress in the Fourth War
Loan drive was reported Friday
by Mr.. Thornton, as well as by
Frederic Willetts, chairman of the
drive for the Building and Loan
League of North Carolina.
1915, 900 in bonds have been pur.
chased to date in the county, Mr..
Thorton said, adding that the Tha.
liam association sold $4,000 in
bonds Friday for admission to it's
two-act musical comedy, '"This
Amt the Army" written by Pvts.
Bob Alexander and Gilbert Cowan
of Camp Davis, and scheduled to
be performed on the ITALIAN stage
Saturday., February 5, at 8 p. m.
/T.~x:~J n r r., "a
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N. E. MILK CRISIS
STILL UNSETTLED
OPA and State Dairy In
terests Unable to Agree
On Rollback

WASHINGTON. Jan. 28.-R-A
North Carolina milk crises, occa-
stoned by a three-cent a gallon
rollback in wholesale prices, re-
manned unsettled tonight as the
Office of Price Administration
(OPA) and dairy interests from
the state failed to agree.
George Coble of Lexington, own
er of the States largest distribut-
ing plant chiefly involved by the
rollback from SO to IS cents, said
I'VE are trying to work it out and
we are still hopeful, but it doesn't
look like we are getting anywhere
SO far"
Coble ceased milk shipments
yesterday to any distributors. in
Guiding diaries which serve "a war
camps and projects in North Car
Gina, South Carolina and Georgia
in protest against the OPA order
effective ia uary Is. Eleven
camps which he serves directly
will continue to get milk, however.
Harry Caldwell of Greensboro,
State Grange Master who is act
ing as special representative of
Governor ]. M. Bcoughton, report
ed proposals and counter proposals
were made at the conference with
OPA officials, but no agreement
was reached.
He said OPA insisted on leaving
the order in effect. but offered to
make new audit, and if the
audit showed Coble wasn't making
profit the OPA would raise the
ceiling price to fair level" and
reimburse him for any losses suf-
fered during the period.
I'VE told them if they were will
ing to do that, why not defer the
effective date of the order, pend
ing an audit" Caldwell asserted.
He said Coble reported he was
losing $1,000 to 81, 500 daily under
the 35-cent rate.
THE way things are right now
! cont see how we can arrange
to get milk to those camps in the
morning." Caldw ell declared.
When shipments ceased yesterday,
Continued on Page Two: Col. II
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Germans Are Dealt Twin Defeat
In Growing Struggle For Rome
rs PLANES DESTROYED
Enemy Assault on Bridge
head Fl Miles From
Capital Smashed

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Jan. 28.-(RAAllied land and
air forces have dealt the Nazis a
crushing twin defeat in the battle
for Rome, smashing an enemy as
sault on the British American
bridgehead at a point 81 miles
from the Italian capital and de-
stroying % German planes in furi-
Gus sky fights over the landing
beaches, the Allied command an
nounced today.
The Nazi debacle in the air and
repulsing of the heaviest enc
my attack so far against the week
old bridgehead came as German
prisoners declared that Adolf Hit
Ter himself had offered the Ger
man 10th Army to "stand or die"
on the Casino front, some 80 miles
from Rome.
The site of yesterdays ground
clash, in which British troops
routed elements of the German
10Th Armored Division, was near
the little village of Carroceto, 10
miles due north from the Allied
beachheads at Anzio. In addition
to inflicting casualties, the British
took more than 100 prisoners and
drove the enemy back toward the
Appian Way.
Despite this German effort and
previously reported counterat-
tack by units of the Hermann
Goering armored division near Lit
toria. IS miles east of Anzio, the
Allied invasion holding was being
slowly but steadily enlarged, lat
est official word from the area
said.
Gen. Sir Harold Alexander's Ital-
ian headquarters said the bridge
head was at least six miles deep
at all points and that Allied spear
heads had pushed considerably
farther inland. The stretch of
beach in Allied hands was about
"a miles long, extending an equal
distance on each side of Anzio.
Probably score of villages were
Continued on Page Two; Col. y
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SOCIAL SECURITY
TAX IS AGREED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-RHA
freeze of Social Security tax rates,
strongly opposed by President
Roosevelt, was approved today by
aJoint committee adjusting Senate
and House versions of the new
revenue bill.
Employers and employees COW
cred by the act will continue to
pay l per cent pay roll taxes
throughout this year under the
freeze. The rate had been SEIZED
uled to double automatically Jan.
l, but stop-gap resolution held
Inc projected rise off go days.
AS on two previous occasions,
me move to block the increase
developed in the Senate. Senator
vandenberg R.-Mich.) led the
nght, contending the Social Securi-
" reserve fund is from five to II
umes larger than the estimated
araln upon it in any of the next
five years.
In his budget message a few
weeks ago, Mr.. Roosevelt "ear-
nestly urged'' Congress to let the
increase take effect. He said re-
serves should be built up now
'galnst future benefit demands.
Inc House conferees decided,
~eVer. to go along with the Sen
tIe on the matter. Final, formal
approval will come when Congress
'oHts the conference committee S
"oA'lnued on Page Two; Col. III
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BridgesHopes
ToForceHand
EARLY MEET WANTED
Senator Also Wants Name.
OF Candidates On
Service Ballots

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. Ill.,
Senator Bridges (R-NH) laid plans
today to force President Roose.
velt's hand on a fourth term decis.
ion through legislation requiring
that names of presidential candi.
dates be printed on the ballots
which must be mailed early to
let service men vote.
Bridges said he would suggest
Monday that the Democrats adj
vance their national convention to
date early enough to list the tick
ct on overseas ballots.
The Federal ballot form in the
administrations bill carried blank
spaces for president, vice presi-
dent, senator's and congressman.
The voter either could write in the
name of his candidate, or could
simply designate the party for
which he is voting.
Republicans argue that this pat
tern would give a break to the
Democrats should President Roese-
welt seek reelection because he
has so long been associated in the
public mind with the presidency.
Bridges will offer his amend
ment next week when the Senate
resumes consideration of the SER
vice voting bill, caught in well
ter Of political oratory after Mr..
Roosevelt demanded its passage in
a message that spurned as ''fraud''
. Senate-passed bill leaving the
absentee voting job up to the
States.
Bridges suggestion for an earl
Ter date for the Democratic con-
vention resulted from the conten-
ton by some administration Sena-
tors that names of candidates can
not be printed on the overseas
ballots because the Democratic tic
ket won't be picked in time. The
Republican convention will be held
June 26. The Democratic date has
not been finally fixed but it is
planned for mid7July or late July.
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich)
stepped away from Republican OPP
ponents of the war ballot bill to-
day, announcing he will support
tine measure to assure military
voting in the November election.
He will put in an amendment too,
however, in an effort to give State
ballots equal standing with the
Federal ballots in mailing priori-
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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ABB Boosts Value
VI Whiskey Coupons
To Pint Per Ticket

r., RALEIGH, Jan. %. -P)-
me ne State Alcoholic Board of
IOntrol announced today that
uesinhlng February l each liq-
ao' ration coupon would be
"oflh one pint of whiskey, and
wat two could be used for the
purchase of a fifth.
Inc board said that its boost
u coupon valuations was not
w DC construed as being per-
n.ahent, but that the doubling
VI value was effected only af-
a .sr the counties had built up
'neir inventories.
me four pints a month poll
~, 1t said, probably will be in
e'iect at least during Feb
'uary and March. if the whole
saiers ship the quantity which
'ney have promised.
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U. S. and SPANISH
RELATIONS TENSE
State Department Recon
siders View Toward

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. - -
The State Department announced
tonight that it is reconsidering
general relations between Spain
and the United States ''in the light
Of trends in Spanish policy"
Pending that reconsideration, the
department said, loadings of Span
lsh tankers with petroleum pro.
ducts for Spain have been suspend
ed.
The Spanish government has
shown a certain reluctance to salts.
~ requests deemed both reason.
able and important by the State
Department, and concerning which
representations have continuously
been addressed to the Spanish
government for some time past, -
the announcement said.
1t then listed these points on
which Spain has failed to satisfy
the Allies:
Certain Italian warships and
merchant vessels continue intern.
ed in Spanish ports.
2-Spain continues to permit the
export to Germany of certain vital
war materials such as wolfram
tungsten ore used in making ar
mor-piercing steel)
Axis agents are active both in
continental Spain and in Spanish
African territory as well as in
Tangier.
4ISome portion of the blue
Spanish division appears still
involved in the war against Rus
STA.
5-Reports have been received in
dicating the conclusion of fin
ancial arrangement between the
Spanish government and Germany
designed to make available to Ger
many substantial peseta credits
which Germany unquestionably ex-
poets to apply to augmenting es-
pionage and sabotage in Spanish
territory and to intensity opposi-
ton to the Allies in the Iberian
peninsula.
In effect, the American action
cuts off completely vital Spanish
imports Of oil. Spain has been re-
ceiving limited quotas from the
Caribbean area which she carried
in her own ships. These have been
so limited, however, as to prevent
Spanish stockpiling, and it is felt
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. 81
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TRIAL OF HOWARD
TO BE- HELD HERE

John B. Howard, 26 year old
white man of Sunset Park, waived
preliminary hearing before U. S.
Commissioner J. S. Downing In
Fayetteville Friday afternoon, and
was bound over to Federal court,
IF the Wilmington district, for trial
April "a, for aiding and assisting
another man in evading the draft.
Howard was returned to Whining
ton Friday after the hearing, Com
missioner Downing said, and bond
was set at $500.
Bond later was raised and How
ard was freed pending trial.
Howard was escorted by Deputy
Marshal Walter Hatch, Detective
Sergeant ]. R. Sellers of the Will
mington Police department, and
an FBI representative.
The arrest of Howard here on a
technical charge of vagrancy was
the result of Wholesale investiga-
ton into the alleged practices en-
ployed by inductees for rendering
themselves physically unfit for
Army service.
According to police observations,
a high percentage of the New
Hanover men rejected have had
high bIood-pressure. Use of adren-
aline is said to be one method OF
boosting bloOd-preSSure.
It is not yet known just how
extensive Towards activities in
this area have been.
Howard was caught in the act
of selling the drug to an inductee,
police reported. Faced with the
evidence, he confessed.
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MORSE RESIGNS
FROM THE WLB

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. - up -
Wayne Morse was reported tonight
to have resigned from the War La
Dor Board in order to seek cleo
ton as Senator from Oregon.
He is known to have been con-
sidering such a step for some time,
and friends said they understand
mis- resignation already has gone
to the White House.
Morse, 43, is serving on the WLB
during a leave of absence as dean
of the University of Oregon law
school. He is a Republican and, in
seeking a Senate seat, would op-
pose Senator Rufus Holman in the
Republican primary.