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WTSP Through rht Day SIXTEEN PAGES ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1943 COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS, FEATURES, UNITED PRESS AND INTERNATIONAL. NEWS SERVICES VOL. 59, NO. 262 rv o) a1 rp 1 fin in'(o I IV rb mi.

Liiiiiii i.ii Lai v4 nr? ML i Sfax, It Falls to lestaunants Warned ritis 1 A Prices Down -J" re civancinc! To Keep WASHINGTON--P) The rants charge for food and beverages a move coincident with a senatorial account of a man who paid $1.20 for a quart of milk served in a Washington hotel. Bombs Fall on A A1 W. W. VL M. Vf.

j. To word! Souss AFRICA: Americans sweep back through Faid pass as Allied forces drive to outskirts of Kairouan; United States planes down 61 Axis air transports in Sicilian straits; reveal Italian cruiser Trieste sank as result of Saturday's bombing. EUROPE: British, Canadian, Russian airmen in two-sided squeeze on Germany; RAF raids southwest industrial area while Soviets blast Koenigsberg; continental radio silence follows day sweeps. RUSSIA: Official publication claims Red army capable of breaking any new German offensive and launching drives of own; comparative lull indicated along entire front. AXIS: Hitler, Mussolini, disclosed in four-day meeting with military and diplomatic aides; Axis communique says leaders in complete agreement on war conduct.

CHINA: Japanese in new effort to mop up Chinese behind lines in Shantung; 10,000 enemy troops attack east of Shoukuang and both sides suffer heavy casualties. BURMA: RAF fighter patrols attack Japanese supply craft near Taungup; enemy patrols harass consolidation of British land forces on Mayu peninsula. SOLOMONS: Revised Navy list shows United States destroyer, two other vessels sun; fourth damaged In April 7 raid on Guadalcanal; Japanese lost 39 planes in attack. BRITAIN: Queen Elizabeth in tribute to empire women's war effort; says they doing as much as men. Allied forces drew their steel web tighter about Marshal Erwin Rommel's battered legions in northeastern Tunisia yesterday as the German radio disclosed that Hitler and Mussolini had concluded a four-day conference in which they voted to "annihilate" any future danger to their in- Price Administrator Prentiss Brown authorized OPA regional offices to set maximum prices for food, and beverages served by restaurants, cafeterias, hotels and other eating and drinking places and to roll back any "abnormally high" prices.

The week April 4-10 was fixed as a base period, and eating and drinking places were directed to file with local boards copies of price lists for that period. In a memorandum to proprietors, the price administrator said he. hoped they would make "every possible effort to insure that customers continue to receive the greatest possible value for their money," but cautioned them: "Any increase in prices, reduction in quantity or deterioration of quality may force the office to issue a local freeze order, fix prices for certain food items and meals, or otherwise regulate prices." Brown, saying this was the first move by the government to hold down the cost of meals and beverages sold by the drink, estimated that Americans will spend about $6,000,000,000 in restaurants this year, double 1939 total. The story of the $1.20 milk came from Senator Nye, North Dakota Republican, who suggested that a senate inquiry into the price spread between the farmer Bombs burst on Sfax south landing ground as three formations over the Tunisian port. Latest reports from North Africa say that American and British troops race up the Tunisian coast.

(Acme 1 St f1 'JV. W. V.jiJ-V Volunteers Go Today to Raise WASHINGTON. W) This Every American is asked to greatest war financing effort in Today, for the fighting men they back on 30 fronts around the world, thousands of volun teer workers on the home front will go into action from coast to coast. The immensity of their task is this: The treasury seeks to raise in war bond subscriptions in about three weeks almost as much as Americans have bought since the first campaign was launched in 1941.

The second war loan drive, be ginning today, is to borrow $13,000,000,000 from the American people. Secretary the Treasury Henry Morgenthau. will launch the drive officially in a New York address. Funds are sought to finance a war which we wage with increasing vigor against one-time aggressors who now surround themselves with fortifications. We are attacking and our war operations are costing us now about $6,000,000,000 per month.

Thus the goal of the second war loan drive will finance American operations against the Axis for less than three months. The drive will be a continuing FIVE CENTS rooos of the Axis power for the defense of European were given something more immediate to worry about when the Russians joined the Allies general air offensive with a raid on Koenigsberg, capital of East Prussia and important industrial center. "Large fires and explosions were observed," the Russians reported, and "all our planes returned safely." To reach their target the Soviet bombers must have flown approximately 425 miles from the vicinity of Velikie Luki, where their line is closest to Koenigsberg and the Baltic sea. Ground action on the Russian front was extremely limited as both sides warily watched for signs of a full-blown spring offensive. From Britain the RAF's hammering of German targets continued without abatement, and from North Africa a fleet of Allied bombers rained further destruction on the southern Italian port of Naples.

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The British Eighth Army, continuing its 20-miIe-a-day hazing oi Kommeis fleeing army up the eastern Tunisian coast, rtassed through La Hcncha. less than 50 miles from the Dort of Sousse. while a combined force of Americans, British and French swept from the west toward the Arab holy city of Kairouan after smashing Axis defenses at Fon-douk Pass. The latter force, driving hard to reach the coast and cut off Rommel's rear guard, was reported to be within 10 miles of Kairouan, big Axis air and supply base which is only 34 miles southwest of Sousse. Rommel needed all his wits to keep a jump ahead of the great trap snapping at his heels.

His motor transport continued to take a remorseless pounding from the Allied air fleet, while cargo planes attempting to supply him from Sicily were victims of almost unprecedented slaughter, 40 of them being shot into the water on Saturday and 21 more yesterday. Hitler and Mussolini, back at their respective tents after having confirmed the "common aim OPA set out yesterday to What Do You Think (Our Opinion) OPA is moving wisely, if late, in controlling: restaurant prices. We think a most searching inquiry into the present price of food in restaurants is in order so that a fair ceiling: may established for all. The prices for the week of April 4-10 are too high in some restaurants and perhaps an earlier date for the ceiling- will have to be chosen as was the case in establishing: rent ceilings. All things being' related, when the OPA keeps down the price on meats, fish and vegetables it will help keep down restaurant prices, but firm action is required and now.

and consumer be broadened to cover hotels and restaurants. Nye told reporters a friend drank a quart of milk every night before retiring. Stopping overnight at a Washington hotel, he ordered the milk sent to his room. It came in four glasses and cost $1.20. "In fairness," Nye added, "that may have included the tip.

But that's still a lot to pay for a quart of milk." the Allied political program on European countries dominated by the Axis. Orte German commentator hinted that the conference might produce a more detailed Axis program for those countries, obviously with the hope that it would prove more palatable than present Axis methods. "Complete agreement was reached on all measures to be taken in any respect," the announcement from Hitler's headquarters said. "The fuehrer and duce again expressed their and their people's hard determination to carry on the war by the total effort of all forces up to the final victory and to the complete annihilation of any future danger which might threaten the European-African area from the west or from the east." The meetings in the past generally have been a signal for martial developments which usually came from five to six weeks later. "The common aim of the Axis powers for the defense of European civilization and for the right of nations for free development and collaboration were again confirmed," the communique said.

"The victory of the nations united in the tripartite pact should secure for Europe such a otherwise," Mr. Roosevelt said, "I should veto the bill. Even so, I cannot permit this legislation to become effective without registering my protest against the attachment to this Allies 4. few A 0V of Allied light bombers pass Sfax has fallen to the Allies as radiophoto). Into Action 13 Billion we attack, help as the nation surges into the history.

one throughout the year, but its initial stages will last, about three weeks. Citizens are urged by the treasury to buy extra war bonds through nearly two million outlets across the nation in banks, theaters, schools, stores, through newsboys, special booths, mail carriers, and others. Local committees all over the country will intensify their efforts, until the national drive outstrips anything of its kind ever seen. They will be aided by nationwide "publicity in the press and on the radio. Newspapers are conducting the greatest advertising campaign in history with the help of their advertisers.

In appealing for more money to run the war, the treasury points also to the domestic need for this greatest of all money-raising efforts. It recalls that the first drive, last vear. oversubscribed a $9,000,000,000 goal by and this, the treasury reasons, is a symptom of a domestic danger. It points to the increased earnings of Americans. War See nOMTDluVETPage 5, Col.

7 of 39 planes were lost by the Japanese in the aerial battle off Guadalcanal April 7. the Navy reported yesterday in revised reports of the engagement. More complete reports on the battle also showed that seven United States planes were shot down, but five pilots were res cued, the Navy said. Revised reports of surface losses also showed that a small fuel boat previously reported as one of four Allied vessels sunK was only damaged. This ac counted for one destroyer, a tanker and a corvette sunk, the Navy said.

MacDill Bomber Crashes, Kills 5 Men on Board A medium bomber from Mac-Dill field crashed in Tampa bay-about four miles offshore Saturday, killing all five men on board, the public relations office announced. The dead were listed as First Lt. Joseph W. Shipley, Bristol, the pilot; Capt, John H. Duncan Lindale.

co-pilot: Staff Set. Ode II. Marlow, Thalia Capt. Samuel A. Barkoff, New Orleans, a medical corps passenger; and First Lt.

Robert Kouhier, Louisville, an air corps passenger. control the prices that restau Senator Smith, South Carolina Democrat, chairman of the agriculture sub-committee carrying out the investigation, heard from a Pine Bluff, locomotive engineer who reported he had just paid 15 cents apiece for three eggs in a small cafe. "That's $1.80 a dozen," the fail-road man wrote, "and I saw a farmer who said he sold eggs to the restaurant for 30 cents a dozen." Housewives have offered the committee stacks of grocery bills. Half a dozen volunteers among Washington women will be questioned early this week, Nye said. The investigation, for convenience, covers only prices in the District of Columbia, but the senators said they believed its results will reflect a nation-wide trend.

Brown told OPA's regional administrators that they may "freeze" charges at the highest levels in effect during the base period or they may establish specific maximums for meals or for individual dishes or beverages. "Through this flexible administration and with the co-operation of the restaurant industry, we are going to stop the rise in the cost of 'eating and we hope to do so with a minimum of formal restrictions," Brown said. peace as would allow the co-operation of all people on the basis of their common interests and just repartition of the economic goods in the world." In the last phrase, observers detected an oblique suggestion that a peace offensive might be brewing, despite the decision of the Roosevelt-Churchill Casablanca conference calling for "unconditional surrender" of all the Axis powers. The statement said the talks "went on in the spirit of great cordiality." Accompanying Hitler were Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering; Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop; Field Marshal Gen. Wilhclm Keitel, chief of the supreme command of the armed forces; Grand Adm.

Karl Doenitz, commander-in-chief of the navy; Gen. Kurt Zeitzler, chief of the general staff; and Hans Viktor von Mackennsen, German ambassador to Rome. Mussolini was accompanied by Gen. Vittorio Ambrosio, chief of the general staff; Foreign Minister Guiseppe Bastiani; Dino Al-fiere. Italian ambassador to Ber lin; and unspecified officials of the Italian foreign office and the Italian high command.

With a crisis near in Africa and the German armies bogged down on the Russian front, it See HITLER, Page 7. Col. 2 bill of an irrelevant and unwarranted rider. The effect cf this provision is to terminate the authority given to and exercised by me to prevent the payment during the war of salaries in excess of $67,200. (This is the gross amount of Income that becomes $25,000 net, after taxes).

"I agree with those who say that the limitation on salaries does not deal adequately with the problem of excessive incomes Practical limitation oughf by appropriate taxation to be placed on all income, earned and unearned. I urged and would have welcomed a special tax measure in place of the flat $67,200 salary limita tion. "But the congress has chosen to rescind my action limiting sal aries without even attempting to offer a substitute. The result is that congress has authorized the drafting of men into the Army SEEF.IfC Col. 4 Mussolini and his military and diplomatic aides left Italy, whose cities and ports are under increasing Allied bombardment, and traveled to Hitler's headquarters.

The sessions lasted from Wednesday through Saturday. Competent London diplomatic observers promptly labeled it "a crisis conference caused Dy Italy fear of invasion. They believed Mussolini requested the meeting. One Berlin broadcast recorded by the Associated Press said "a survey of continental reserves was drafted for the occasion, and strengthened the conviction of those taking part in the conferences that the new development of strength will not be impeded by enemy action." The meeting at "Hitler's headquarters" could have been anywhere in Germany. Reports of the conference last week located it in the Brenner Pass.

Whereas some Axis conferences have foreshadowed Axis military offensives, this one found Germany and Italy largely on the everywhere. The official announcement of the meeting also had a defensive tone, referring to the prospect of "future danger which might threaten from the west or from the east." Allied observers also detected Increased German-Italian fears of the effect of Childless Married Men Soon Will Face Induction WASHINGTON. (VP) Approximately 3,000,000 childless married men now in deferred draft classifications apparently are slated to be shifted to a 1-A status, making them subject to induction soon, under a draft reclassification shuffle expected today. School Closing Dates Are Set By the first week in June, all Pinellas county schools will have closed for the summer vacation, according to reports from superintendents and principals yesterday. Earliest of the schools to close will be the St.

Petersburg Junior college which has set May 30 as date for both baccalaureate and graduation. The baccalaureate exercises will be held that morning at 10:43 o'clock at First Methodist churdh with Dr. Allen W. Moore, pastor, preaching. Graduation exercises will follow that evening at 5' o'clock at the college with Dr.

J. Wallace Hamilton, pastor of Pasadena Community church, the speaker. All Pinellas county schools, in cluding the Senior high school, will close June 4. Graduation exercises at the high school will be held that evening with a class smaller than those of previous years due to withdrawals by boys enlisting in service. St.

Paul's grammar and high school will be dismissed for the summer June 4 with the high school graduation to be held either the previous or following Sunday morning. Florida Military academy has named May 31 as its closing date. Daniel C. Roper Dies in Capital WASHINGTON (UP.) Former Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper died at his home here last night after an illness of three months.

Friends said he died of leukemia at 9:26 p.m. Roper, 76, was President Roosevelt's first secretary of commerce and at one time served the administration as minister to Canada. A native of South Carolina, he long was prominent in Democratic circles and had spent many years in government service until his resignation from the cabinet in 1938. Roper was seriously ill of pneumonia in the fall of 1940 and at one time his physicians had de spaired of his recovery. But he got better and enjoyed reason ably good health until his last fatal illness that had confined him to his bed for the past three months.

He Joined the president's cabinet when it was organized in 1933 and resigned five years See ROPER, Page 7, Col. 6 Features J'tite It 1.1 13-15 10-11 12 Pne Legislature News 2-3-5 ry-Go-R nd 4 Meetings 11 Bualr Call Church Classified County Comli National News 1 Crossword Cont'd Story C. Chstfield K. Koosovelt Experts' Corner Editorials Ernie Kyle Heitdn Hopper Public Opinion Phttunriea Itadlo R. Clapper Society Pports Theaters 2 12 i 6 9-10 11 2 Weather WllK'hrll Your Harden Your I'mi-llHS 23 Jap Aircraft Shot Dovn In Fight Off New Guinea ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA.

Twenty-three Japanese bombers and fighting planes were shot out of action in a furious air battle over Oro bay. New Guinea. Sunday, the Allied President, in Bristling Statement, Hits Congress for Stand on Salaries WASHINGTON. () President Roosevelt, permitting the debt limitation, bilj and its salaries rider to become law without his signature "in order to avoid embarrassment to our war financing program," yesterday condemned congress' "ill-co nsidered action" in permitting salaries to continue on their 1942 basis and called upon the lawmakers anew to impose a special war supertax holding every individual's net income to $25,000. Part of these childless married men in the 18 to 38 age bracket are now in the 3-B class, which informed sources said would be wiped out.

and the remainder are in the 3-A group, which it was reported would be reserved exclusively for fathers. The 3-B group, comprising about 2.000,000 men, now covers those in essential activity regardless of whether they are individually essential Selective service headquarters withheld comment on the impending revisions, authoritative sources said it will shift all men, outside of farming, to 1-A with the exception of fathers, those individuals essential to essential activities and those whose induction would impose extreme hardship on dependents. Under the change, selective service boards apparently will draw upon the 3,000,000 child less married men and 80,000 to 100,000 youths who become 18 monthly to meet immediate needs for inducting about men monthly. A new class, 3-D, will be established, it was understood, for single or childless married men whose induction will cause extreme hardship for dependents. Fathers in the 3-B class will be shifted to 3-A.

it was reported, while those in 3-A will be left unchanged. There are approximately 6,000,000 fathers in the two classes. Some 250,000 married men, in eluding some without children, will be left in 3-C, a group cov ering men, with dependents, who are engaged in farming Besides the 9,250,000 in the 3-A, 3-B and' 3-C classes there ore about 6,000,000 other registrants in the 18 to 38 age group distributed among other classes. These include 4-F, those with physical disabilities, and 2-A and high command reporter toon Th rairiine enemv planes dropped 25 tons of bombs, the noon communiaue reported, une merchant ship was hit. A submarine sanK a small Allied ship off Australia, the communique added.

The sur vivors were rescued. "Reconnaissance reports show ing major increases in enemy air strength, anci recent noMne attacks, indicate the enemy has initiated an air offensive which may attain a considerable scale of effort." the communique said. Medium bombers made a night raid on Babo in Dutch New Guinea, 1,200 miles west of Port Moresby, bombing and strafing the airdrome and causing fires and explosions. Other medium bombers strafed four enemy float planes and an 800-ton merchant vessel in the harbor at Kaimana. The ship, returning pilots reported, was damaged and began losing way aftpr thpv had made three strafing passes.

Timika, in Dutch New Guinea, also was attacked by medium bombers in a night raid. Hits were scored nn the airdrome, causing explosions. The supply dump area also was hit. "During the day our medium units again bombed the airdrome, scoring hits and starting fires," the communique said. Guadalcanal Battle Was Costly to Japs WASH INGTON W) A total The bill, besides raising the national debt limit from 000,000,000 to $210,000,000,000 rescinds Mr.

Roosevelt's executive order forbidding salaries above $25,000 after taxes. It replaces the executive order with a law prohibiting the government from cutting any wages and salaries below the highest level they reached between Jan. 1 and Sept. 15, 1942. In a bristling statement asse.

t-lng he could not veto the bill because of the war financing program, which already has carried the national debt to a point near the old $125,000,000,000 limitation. Mr. Roosevelt declared congress has failed to recognize that "the essence of stabilization is that each should sacrifice for the benefit of all." Congress, he observed, has authorized drafting of men at $600 year "but has refused to authorize" reduced salaries for civilians, no matter how high jr Income. If the circumstances were Days To Register.