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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20
PRICE MARK-UPS
FROZEN BY 0PA
Agency Moves To Reduce
Cost Of Clothing,
Furniture Items

WASHINGTON, March 19.-WD--
Paving the way for consumers to
benefit by future price reductions,
the Office Of Price Administration
tonight ordered approximately
100000 retail stores in the coun-
try to freeze" their price mark
ups at the level prevailing today.
Retail stores affected are those
selling clothing textiles, furniture
and house furnishings.
Under provisions Of the order
hailed by OPA as lone ofthe most
events in retail price
control since the general maxi
mum price regulation went into
effect in May, 1942-the additions
retailers may add to wholesale
costs are pegged and will not be
allowed to increase.
The order is the prelude to con-
sumner benefits from reductions
possible under the joint War Pro-
duction Board-OPA textile and
clothing order which will put
greater quantities Of lower priced
wearing apparel on the market, Of
ficials said It also forestalls any
evasions of the pricing program,
now in the planning stage, for in
creasing the quantities of less ex-
pensive furniture on the market.
Continued on Page Two; Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20
City Council
Election Set
Primary Slated For April
%; Final Vote For
May 8 ...... ......

A primary election of City Coun.
ell nominees was ordered for April
% by. the present City Council
and the City Board of Elections
at a special meeting yesterday.
The munisipal election, at which
time five members of the City
Council will be chosen from the
list of primary nominees, will be
held May 8, it was announced.
During the joint meeting, Err
nest Beale and Robert Strange
were named to the City Board of
Elections by the Council. Ex-officio
members of the board are August
L. Meyland, clerk of court; Adrian
B. Rhodes. register of deeds; and
H. G. Carney, chairman of the
County Board of Elections.
The registration books will be
opened at 9 am, March 81, and
closed April IA. They will be avail
able at the polling precincts in Will
mington township under the same
conditions as used by the County
Board of Elections.
All persons previously registered
on the present general election
books for Wilmington township and
who have not changed their places
of residence are eligible to vote
in the primary and regular munlc-
ipal elections without further reg
istration.
Any person having moved from
one ward or precinct to another
and having resided in another ward
or precinct for period of four
months, will be required to regis
ter in the ward or precinct to
which he removed. The person
also will be required to first secure
removal certificate from the reg
istrar of the old ward or precinct
to the registrar of the new ward
or precinct.
The deadline for those desiring to
file for candidacy was set for 6
pm. April 10.
The present City Council is COM
posed of Ronald Lane, mayor; Ed
gar L. Vow. r. S. Romeo and Gar
land Currin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20
Byrnes Admits Inability
To Enforce Cur4ew Edict

WASHINGTON, March 19-W.D-
War Mobilization Director James
F. Eyrnes acknowledged today that
he is powerless to force New York
or any other city to abide by his
midnight curfew edict but, in an
appeal to patriotism backed up by
President Roosevelt, he put the
rest of the Nation on its honor not
to follow the example of Mayor
Fiorello H. LaGuardia.
Wilmington clubs, when inform
ed of Director Byrnes' admission
last night, seemed to be mark
ing time" until a policy was es.
tablished by club owners as a
whole here.
(The owner of Stacy's Tavern, on
the Carolina Beach road, said "our
policy won't be changed since we
have always closed at midnight.
The only difference is that where
we've been cutting the music off
at 1855 and having our customers
out by /, now We'll give them ten
or IS minutes to get out. The
main measure that affects us is
the ''brownout' since our building
is set back off the road"
(The proprietor of Joe's club,
also on Carolina Beach road, said,
IF everybody else stays closed,
I'll do the same. If they don't, I'll
go back to my old hours. plan to
continue complying with the curfew
until I see what the others are 60
ing to do"
(The owner Of St. Johns Tavern,
at Second and Orange streets, said
he would follow the suit of the
others" and, in regard to the Fin
ca room, would continue complying
until he saw what others were 60
ing to do.)
In 600-word answer to La Guar
dia's defiant extension of the cur
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20

With residents quickly rallying
to- the plea of the American Red
Cross for continued and greater
support, the outlook for a success
full 1945 War Fund drive was
Upright" here last night, accord
ing to Robert Strange, campaign
chairman.
The success of the campaign,
which was opened officially yes
terday morning at 'kick-o off,
breakfast at St. PauPs Lutheran
church parish house, was attribut-
ed to the feeling people have
toward the Red Cross, realizing
they can depend on it to aid their
man in the service" Strange
said that the firms he has visited
had equaled or exceeded their
quotas, and that campaign head
quarters had received requests
for thousands of 'Memos for
joe" A list of all people who
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20

few to l am, Byrnes conceded
that he cannot enforce the edict
without the cooperation Of local
police. But he said that voluntary
compliance is expected to every
city in the Nation to show fightin g
men that 1--WE are willing to make
some small sacrifice while we call
upon them to make the supreme
sacrifice"
His statement was regarded as
a slap at the patriotism Of La
Guardia and of New York night
spot owners who were elated by
the mayors challenge of Byrnes'
authority.
Byrnes' admission of Govern
ment impotency meant that all ci-
ties could follow Laguardia's lead
but he put them on their honor not
to do so and emphasized that his
appeal has the full approval OF the
President of the United States"
From all indications, LaGuardia
for now will be a lone wolf in his
defiance. A United Press survey OF
other cities showed they would
continue to observe the curfew.
Many municipal officials denounc-
ed LaGuardia for not cooperating.
The only other major curfew
detection so far was by the Michi-
gan liquor control commission. 1t
ruled that bars would remain OPP
en- until midnight central time, de-
spite the fact most Michigan COM
munities observe Eastern time.
This means a one hour extension
for those communities if they want
to take advantage of it.
But Laguardia got strong sup
port among some members of Con-
gress. Democratic Reps. Emanuel
Celler and Sol Bloom and Repub-
Continued on Page Five; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20
Himmler Reported Actiue
In Plot To Stay Hitler

Count Claus Won Stauffenberg, a
hero of the First World War, was
the man who actually placed the
bomb under Hitler's chair.
These and other specific details
of last July EOS attempt on Hit
ler's life were given me by a man
who himself was delegated to con-
tact the Allies and try to "sell"
them the new setup in Germany
after Hitler's death, and also to
offer peace.
The first talks among the con-
spirators occurred in December,
1871, immediately after Hitler's
declaration of war on the United
States. MY informant said that
Americas entry made defeat
certainty to every. thinking Ger
man. Military officers contacted
men like DR.. Karl Goerdeler, Paul
Lejeune-Jung, H. Johannes Popitz
CONTINUED ON Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20
Third Army Threatens To Trap $4,000 Nazis;
AMERICANS lnvad% Panay, Drive On loilo
Yank Carrier Pl> lies Attack Kobe And Kure
Port Authority Bill
Passes State Senate
Shipment OF $4,000 Lend-Lease Pre-Fabri-
Gated Houses To Be Handled Through
Local Terminal By Salisbury Co.

The unopposed passage in the
Senate of the North Carolina Ports
Authority bill, providing for the
appointment by the Governor Of
q seven-man group to recommend
Improvements in the ports of Will
mington, Southport and Morehead
City and issuance of State reve-
nue. bonds to finance them, was
reported from Raleigh last night
by Rep. J. G. LeGrand.
Together with the disclosure
earlier yesterday that 10000 Lend
Lease prefabricated housing units,
manufactured by the Salisbury
plant of the Walsh Construction
Co., of New York City, and other
firms allotted contracts by Fed
eral agencies, would be exported
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20
FoodShortage
Probe Slated
|ByCongress
Republicans Attack Ad.
ministration View On
Farmers

WASHINGTON, March 19.-W.D-
Congress moved in on the increas.
ingly serious food shortage situa-
ton today.
The Senate voted unanimously to
investigate all phases of food pro-
duction and distribution. 1t All
thorized $4,000 for the inquiry by
Senate Agriculture subcommit-
tee and gave the committee broad
powers.
Three resolutions calling for a
similar inquiry were introduced in
the House. One specifically would
authorize an investigation to de-
termine if foreign nations were
stockpiling meat supplies in this
country ''at the expense of citi-
zens of the United States; if gov
eminent directives are discourag-
ing meat production, and what eff
feet lend-lease shipments are hav-
ing on civilian and military meat
supplies.
House Republicans spearheadei
general attack on Administra-
ton food policies. They accused
Government agencies of ''interfer-
ing with, harassing and hopping on
our farmers; charged that the
Government has done everything
possible to discourage the food
producer, tc drive him out of bus
mess and to create the food short
age which the American people de-
mand now be alleviated," and
chided President Roosevelt's re-
cent press conference statement
that no decent person would ques-
ton the ALLEGATION of food to liber-
ated areas.
Assistant War Food Administra-
tor Grover Hill said meantime that
there is no danger of a meat
famine" despite the 10 per cent
cut in civilian ALLEGATIONS for the
next three months. He made the
statement after tn e American
Meat Institute at Chicago report
ed, on the basis of a Nationwide
survey, that shortages are Dor
dering on famine in many parts
of the country"
The situation also had repercus-
sions abroad. London dispatches
said the recent U. S. decision to
slash Lend-Lease meat shipments
to Britain from 0,000,0 900 pounds
to 25,OO0,0OO pounds during the
next three months probably means
that meat rations for Britons will
be reduced to only one serving
per person each week. Ottawa dis
patches said Canada may attempt
to boost meat shipments to Brit
ain in an effor to offset sharply
reduced U. S. Lend-Lease ship
ments.
The Senate inquiry is based on
a resolution by Kennth S. Wher-
ry, (R-Neb.). The Senate War In
vestigating Committee already is
examining the entire food supply
problem and will issue a report
in a few eeks.
1.-THE House resolutions were in
troduced by Reps. ugust H. Andre
sen, (R-Minn), Edward H. Rees,
(R-Kans.), and Clinton P. Ander-
son. (D-N.M.). Andersen and Ress
would authorize the Agriculture
Committee to find out how cur
rent shortages developed. Ander-
Continued on Page Five; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20
Navy Silent
On Results
Of Assault.
Fleet Units Garry Raids
Into Second Consecu-
tive Day

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Guam, Tue ID y,
March 20.-R-Carrier planes of
an American task force, attack
ing Japan for the second straight
day, raided Kobe and Kure on
Honshu island and other enemy
installations around the inland sea
Monday, Adm. Chester w. Nimitz
announced today.
The carrier planes, which had
swarmed on Kyushu island, south
OF Honshu Sunday, attacking in
strength estimated by Tokyo at
1,400, dealt the second days as
sault on the same day that more
than 300 Superforts dropped $500
tons of incendiaries on Nagoya,
Japan's third largest city.
In hitting Kobe, the carrier
planes pounced on Japan's largest
shi2building city and port while
it still was smouldering from the
$500 ton incendiary attack made
Saturday by the BIOS. Kure is a
Japanese naval base.
The communique supplied no
details on results accomplished
by the carriers Hellcats, Heudiv-
ers- and Avengers either Sunday
or Monday.
The inland sea Of Japan is a
lifeblood artery through which
Nippon moves vital supplies from
Korea, Manchuria and China to
the homeland.
Kure, Japan's most important
naval base, is 200 miles west of
Osaka, another city hard hit by
the Superforts.
Today's communique reported
continuing search for enemy
snipers on conquered Two and air
raids on the Bonins. the Kuriles,
the western Carolines, the Palaus
and the Marshalls.
The one-two punches Of the car
rier planes and the Marianas-bas-
ed BIOS came at a time when
Tokyo radio broadcasts made it
clear so many Japanese are flee
ing their cities that evacuation
problems have gotten out Of hand.
A Tokyo broadcast Monday APP
pealed to authorities in Shizuoka
prefecture southwest of Tokyo to
promptly supply food to these air
raid damage victims even though
they may not possess air raid
damage certificates but as long as
they are recognized as people fall
ing in this category"
The broadcast, a domestic one,
also gave instructions for helping
chose who have alighted frNn
trains in finding lodging and
food.
A communique issued at U. S.
Pacific Fleet headquarters here
confirmed the Sunday raid on
Kyushu air fields by "a strong
force Of carrier aircraft
Vice Adm. March A. Mitscher's
carrier task force-which raided
the Tokyo Yokohama areas Feb
ruary 1917 and again February
25-26-was undoubtedly still rang
ing south Of Japan.
Some $50 of the Marianas-based
Superfortresses, the largest fleet
yet in ten-day series of massive
incendiary blows at Japan's in
dustrial heart, participated in the
new Nagoya raid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20

development enthusiasts as a
very auspicious' beginning of the
traffic year 1915.
Cyrus D. Hogue, Port Commits
sion official, expressed apprecia-
ton last night of "the effective
ness with which Rep. LeGrand
and Sen. Roy Rowe, of Fender,
introduced the measure to the leg
islative houses and worked for is
passage.
cit is the first definite recog-
milton ever accorded by the State
legislature to the Importance to
the State Of its seaports" he said.
1T keeps North Carolina in line
with other seaboard states which
fCnr<inund M Dorn Tive. Cnl ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20

From one of the conspira-
tors Louis P. Lochner has OBJ
tanned remarkable account
of the attempt Of last July 20
to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Lochner, chief of the former
Associated Press Bureau in
Berlin, is again in Germany
expecting to return to the Nazi
capital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20
BY LOUIS p. LOCHNER
1915, by the Associated

BONN, Germany, March 49,
R)-Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck, form
-er chief OF staff of the Germany
army who resigned when he realiz-
ed Hitler's reckless course, was the
spiritual as well as active leader
in the plot to assassinate the
Fuehrer, and Heinrich Himmler
was in on it.
One-armed one-legged Colonel
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20
FORECAST

partly cloudy and continued warm
today
Yesterdays temperatures:
High, 7S-Low, 81.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-20

Continued on Page Five; Col. y
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-04
FIRE

Firemen were called to the auto
mobile of Thurston Clark, on Car
nett street in front of the Vance
cafe. at 1915 a. m. today. The rear
of the automobile had caught fire.
No damage was reported.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
NEW COURSE OPENS AT " TOMORROW
Credits Obtainable for Study of Industrial Rela-
 tiOns Under U. of C.

Professor Maurice James Ross Of the Waterbury Extension Center Of the University of Connecticut, spon- sored by the YMCA, announces that Myron Clark, past president of the Society of the Advancement of Management will offer a course in Industrial Relations in Waterbury beginning Thursday, March at 7:30 D. m., in the YMCA. The opening of this course was postponed be- cause of inclement weather on Thursday February p. The course is designed for personnel workers, guidance workers, supervisors and labor officials. The course carries graduate credit, but 1t may be used to meet undergraduate requirements Persons who are not interested in credit, but who are qualified by rea- son of the work they are doing may enroll for this course. The course will consider various methods de- signed to improve relations between employers and employees. The func- tions of personnel department in maintaining morale and building good will, negotiating with employees and selecting and training workers will be examined. The use of statis- tical technique as applied to per- sonnel problems will also be con- sidered. A registration of 20 is need ed for the course to be offered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28

ing German films until allowed to reimport other pictures. This decis- sion left them without any new films, and proved their great cour- age in 1942.
 have been in England. France and the occupied countries. We all know the enormous losses of these countries in riches and other values. We don't know enough about the state of nerves in most of these countries. War has worn nerves thin in Britain, Tn the other countries, mainly France, the people are bitter, suspicious, un- believing even in their Allied frineds. It would be a miracle if it were different.
 HOPES TO HELP
 For years, perhaps a decade, this may be so. That is, the world will have to be rebuilt with high ly suspicious people being afraid of each others intentions. How different are the Swiss people. The relatively small deprivations they suffered in the war have allowed IAACA CO IcHldlu TeldLlVely nor mal." I am using the word in a medical sense..
 Only those few like myself who have come from tn war into this peaceful country can fully under stand. The people here are help ful and friendly. They are not used up by the war. They believe in better future because some how they have never understood what really happened to the world outside their frontiers, thought it happened only few miles away.
 This healthy country hopes to be of help in rebuilding Europe by its mere existence. For instance, the Swiss may help actively in re- educating Germany. They speak the same language and with their help the musical comedy situations, which necessarily must be created If and when we send Anglo-Saxon educators to Germany, could be averted. Anti-Nazis who have not actively fought the Germans won't create the same resentment we would engender.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
Fisk Drivers Moy Strike

New Bedford. Mass, Feb. 5s- (UP)-The War Manpower Com mission continued it's struggle to- day to draft textile workers for duty in two critical tire cord plants while truck drivers here further muddled the already con fused labor situation by threatening to strike.
 Even as appeal hearings contin- ued for 30 workers who refused to transfer to two tire cord plants, 60 drivers employed in the Fisk and Firestone factories sought permis- sion to take a strike vote.
 The drivers, members of the Inc ternational Brotherhood of Team sters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America (AFL) in- formed the War Labor Board that their contracts had not been re- neWed.
 Meanwhile, the WING appeal panel of two industry and two labor representatives yesterday heard "A workers, about half of them women.
 All textile workers and members of the Textile Workers Union os America (CIO), each said that shifting to the seven-day-a-week rubber plants, would result in per- sonal hardship. One relented later and agreed to transfer.
 Many of those testifying were men in their sos and eos. Some of the women were mothers of several children. They claimed they would lose vacation, seniority and insur- ance benefits, as well as receive smaller salaries for greater work.
 Testimony disclosed that the IF workers originally given transfer orders were recommended to the WING by their employers, in some instances with the cooperation of union officials. Seniority was the main basis for selections, it was said.
 Following the hearing, CIO ofi- cials filed blanket appeal for all who had testified. Asserting the labor-draft violated President Roos- evelt's pledge of protection from hardship and loss, the CIO said it would re-appeal to regional and na- tional WING authorities the cases of any workers ordered into the tire plants by the present panel
 BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28

hotels as refugees. Perhaps these persons are not war criminals, but they are they allowed to live from the fat of the land instead of being housed with other less fortunate refugees? Or why, when some time ago Mrs. Goering lived here, were newspapers strictly forbidden to mention her presence?
 A Swiss friend with whom I dis cuSsed this said that if Mrs. Goer- ing's presence were known in wide circles of the population, then in- cidentS m ght have happened. Which brings Us to a fact more important than the unhappy small characteristics of neutrality; name ly, that in spite of this neutrality. |" almost the entire Swiss nation iS opposed to Hitlerism. Except for 8 small minority of so-called colla- borationists, mainly among the in- dustrialists, the Swiss people have always despised Nazism and its teachings.
 NAZIS EXPELLED
 It must be said to the eternal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
Third War Inevitable
BY HERBERT RICHARDSON

I
 Gloucester, Mass, Feb. 28-(UP)- World War III is inevitable, but 1t will last hours instead of years, John Hays Hammond Jr., noted inventor, predicted today.
 Hammond, who has been engaged in secret work for the Army Air Corps since pre-war days, painted a horrifying picture of the next world conflict. He believes:
 That every European capital will be in constant danger of extermina- tiOn within few hours from highly developed rocket bombs.
 That such bombs will be radio controlled and will be perfected to such a high degree of accuracy as to constitute super artillery.
 That many new automatic devices unknown in the present war will be used with devastating effect.
 Hammond, perhaps the nations No. bomb control expert and hold CT of nearly 300 patents, was inter viewed in the medieval-type castle which IS his home. Overlooking Nor mans woe, scene of the wreck of the HeSperus, the castle Is reached by footbridge across a moat.
 Another war is bound to come unless human nature changes-and don't think it will" said the in- ventor. "The people have little to say about whether there will be a war It's the leaders who plunge a 1 VNof finr fyNtn ho Tf tho pootfor were put to popular vote, wars would occur very seldom-if ever"
 Hammond said 1t was generally conceded that the Germans were much better prepared technically for this war than we were"
 We must be ready next time," he said. Some sort of System-either of accredited government represen- tatives or spies-must be established to keep the United States posted on European technical progress"
 Before the present war, Ham, mond said, the U. s. Military "took no initiative" in establishing facil- ities for the perfecton of rocket bombs.
 Tn Germany it took a dictator with imagination fiendish as it may have been-to force technical improvements such as robot and rocket bombs on the brass hats of the Reich" he added.
 The propulsion effects of rockets will not all be directed toward de- struction in the postwar period, according to Hammond
 There will definitely be improved rocket propulsion which will enable the transportation of heavy loads via rockets or their cargo-carrying equivalent" he said.
 Asked if he thought it ever would be possible for man-carrying rocket to reach the moon. Ham, mond dismissed the idea as fan tastic dream"
 "The impact would be so great that the rocket would be broken to pieces" he said. There would be no atmosphere to check Its flight. If & man rode the rocket, he couldn't survive. And even if he should live, he'd have no way of getting back to earth.''