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Kst. Miifeh 1 THE Lock HAVEN EXPRESS Not Only A Community Asset Weather Wanner today and tonlfM with tonight. AP Features LOCK HAVEN, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1913 The Associated Press Four Ceata Ceiling Prices Will Be Placed On Foods Orders Restrictions On Prices And Wages In Anti-Inflation Measure president Likens 1 Simile Of 16 County Industries Scrap Making Level Tons In First Quarter -Legged Stool Washington, Roosevelt said today that dol- ceiling prices ibably would be placed on all food commodities which affect living costs, while i Sixteen Clinton County industries furnished 578 tons lb tons) of scrap material to other 2,775 Castanea Paper 31,577 Clinton Paper 219,463 General Refractories '75 General Armature industries needing it in the warj Corp-) 2 89,320 the largest col- effort, during the first three lection; R. K. Griffin 2,245 Pfc.

James Gorman, Marine Corps hero from Guadalcanal, will speak at a meeting at St. Paul's Episcopal parish house tonight. months of this year. This report is made by Ben M. Lewis, head of the industrial salvage campaign in the county.

Mr. Lewis states that the supply of copper is not adequate for war industries and a special effort will be launched to procure more scrap of this type. Iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, rubber and miscellaneous items were furnished as scrap by the following industries: American Aniline Products, 44.840 Bellefonte Lime and Stone Salona. 2.300 Bloomsburg Mills, Lock Haven Silk Mill, Jersey Shore Steel South I Avis, 242,170 Lock Haven Electric Repair 1,590 Newj York and Penna. North American Refractories 16,175 Piper Aircraft 112,027 Pennsylvania Woven Wire 8,197 Syl-j vania Electric Products, 409 Woolrich Woolen Woolrich, 11,150 16s.

i The total of 1,155,553 pounds of scrap reported by these industries includes 792,623 of iron and steel; 129,444 of non-ferrous metals; 1,145 of rubber and 232,341 of mis-i cellaneous items. School Debaters Discuss i James F. Byrnes, economic stabilization director, said the of Price Administration might be able to present specific ceiling price plans tomorrow, following those now laid down for meats. was sitting in on a press conference, which dealt largely with the chief executive's new order designed to help combat inflation through more rigid re- Jfc-ictions on prices and wages. The president said the entire problem resembles a four-j le ro ddst Ses are one Post-War World Federation another, rationing a third, and taxation and saving are the fourth, he said.

An effort is being made, he said, to prevent ups and id to get on a more even vel, using.all to- prevent the stool from falling' over. His executive order was a step in'that direction, he said, (tut Congress still has to provide the fourth leg, taxes and savings. Asked whether $16,000,000,000 is still the administration's goal on revenue, as mentioned in his fetidget message to Congress, Mr. Roosevelt said it is the administra- War Bond Rally Here Tonight tion's hope. Stabilization Director Byrnes i said he has received greater authority to determine questions will arise in the OPA and the ar Labor Board as to border and hardship cases.

In connection with rationing, the president suggested it should be applied with what might be called ft leeway, since prices might have OT be changed from time to time, depending on scarcity or plenty. He indicated, too, that the question of determining specific food prices might be handled regionally, locally, or by areas. He also said that dollars and cents price ceilings would be placed on foods. No Clothing Ceilinc Questioned as to whether the control would extend to clothing, remarked there was no need of j'isoiutting a ceiling on clothing. Under the plan the OPA is working on, Byrnes related, it) will be possible for the purchaser to see the ceiling price in the store the article he wants to buy and the jjjrices will appear in advertising.

The housewives, he said, will have do the police work. It is up to Food Administrator Chester C. Davis, Byrnes said, to determine whether all fresh vcge- gibles affect the cost of living and will be brought under price ceilings. It is also for the food administrator to determine whether grade labeling of canned goods will be volved, based on a decision nether this would affect prices to consumers. Byrnes said the food prices would be applied at the retail level rather than at the farm, unless some law requiring all fair makes it necessary to fix prices back of the retail level.

be done in the case of At yesterday's Kiwanis lunch- Mr. Callahan, for the negative, livestock and some foods, he indicated. Frozen In Jobs processed tfcr When a newspaperman inquired whether the sweeping presidential order meant that workers were more or less frozen in their jobs in I essential industries, Byifles re- that the War Manpower section of the presi- 1 dcntial order was designed to make clear that thc WMC chairman has power to do what he has attempted to do to some degree. Official Washington mobilized a fimall army of its rule-drafters to- ay in an effort to speed compliance with an overnight order from President Roosevelt to hold farm prices and wages at almost rigid levels of the day. i First action came from, the War eon, Mrs.

Mack C. flicker's High School debaters discussed postwar plans for a coalition of world powers to bring permanent peace. Elmer E. Wentz treated members cigars in of his birthday and Ray Callahan was awarded the weekly attendance prize of war stamps. The debaters were in charge of Joseph Rumberger, president of the Debaters Club.

Mi'. Rumberger and George Nyce took the affirmative stand on the question: Resolved that a Federal World Government Shall Be Established. Alice Patterson and Richard Callahan upheld the negative side. Mr. Nyce presented the world federation case, stating that to bring law and order and justice among the nations of the world this permanent organization should embrace three branches Excutive, legislative and judicial.

The world would be divided into eleven regional zones, each zone having its police force, with a master mobile corps with members selected from each zone. Representation in each federation could be set up on a literacy basis and no nation would surrender any of its sovereign rights except those to wage war. This plan would embrace the Atlantic Charter. its regional offices and related agencies to stop all wage increases "except those that clearly come within the 15 per cent limitation of the little steel formula." At the Office of Price Administration officials indicated that early orders could be expected freezing the market prices of livestock and other basic agricultural commodities. The War Manpower Commission is under orders to prohibit workers from shifting jobs in search of higher pay, and Utility Commissions were warned to hold or cut rates in line with the government's policy of keeping down the cost of Congress, which has been unable in recent weeks to agree on a method of putting income taxes on a pay-as-you-go basis, faces a presidential request for more taxes and more savings.

Explaining his action in a press statement, Mr. Roosevelt indicated he thought it dangerous to the nation's to keep arguing about particular concessions for farmers or laborers and declared he was moved to act by the Senate's failure this week to kill the Bankhead Farm Price Bill. The bill, which Mr. Roosevelt had vetoed as inflationary, was placed in legislative cold storage when the farm bloc was unable to muster sufficient votes to override the veto. Mr.

Roosevelt 'said, "I cannot wait to see whether the (Agriculture) committee at some future date will again report the bill to the Senate. I cannot permit a continuance of the upward spiral of prices." No Further Increases the outset he declared: "Tn hnlrl 4ha pointed out the weaknesses of such a world federation, discussing revenues and how the costs would be raised, and the differences in common -interests, customs and Inebriations His counter-suggestion was that ol a constitution based on the Charter and a 4-powcr coalition with the two great nations Great. Britain and the Unitec States taking the leadership. He used the two strong points of the Atlantic Charter to support his argument that would 'be nc aggrandizement and that the signers would respect the right of thc people to choose' their own form of government. Miss Patterson in rebuttal anc summation discussed the fallacy of membership in the federation on the literacy basis, the language differences and the unlikelihood of voluntary membership.

In summing up for the affirmative, Mr. Rumberger pointed ou that the cost of one World Wat would finance a World Federation for 20 years, while a four-power coalition would antagonize the rest of the world. By education over a period of years the work would finally educe a method 01 avoiding war, he said. Politically, the action was interpreted as an effort to spike whipsawing demands of laboi based on rising wages. It also wa.

regarded as the White House answer to John L. Lewis' demands for a $2 a day increase in mine wages. In directing Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown and Food Administrator Chester C. Davis to pu ceilings over farm prices, tht president specified that in some cases, in which prices already arc above the levels of Sept.

15, 1942 that the prices roiled back." In this connection, it was understood that OPA would like to depress hog prices from their current levels in the vicinity of $16 pet hundredweight down to abou $14.80. Some farm commodities which are still below parity levels may be spared temporarily from maximums. Basic Price Levels The president's action on farm prices was interpreted by government economists as preventative The processed products sold tc meat from livestock bread from wheat, etc. arc already controlled fairly thoroughly But by holding price of the basic commodities, the president was represented as trying to forestal any future pressures against retai prices of the final products! Except for fprm prices, officials said the civilian items presently outside of price control are negligible Fresh fish and poultry are examples. With regard to wages, thc president said the regulatory agencies "are directed to authorize no further increase in wages or salaries except such as are clearly necessary to correct substandards of living, provided that nothing here- who was among the first of the American forces to land on Guadalcanal and who has a record of killing six Japanese in one engagement, will speak this evening at 8th Army 22 Miles From Sfax; Mezzouna, 20 Miles From Sea, Abandoned By Fleeing Germans Tokyo's Claims Of Victory In Sea Battle Are Discounted (By The Associated Press) Imperial Tokio headquarters asserted today that strong Japanese naval and air forces sank or damaged 15 warships and transports and shot down 37 planes Wednesday in an attack on an Allied fleet 35 miles north of Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons.

Only six Japanese planes which "crash-dived into enemy objectives" were lost, the Tokio com- munique said. The Japanese claim sharply conflicted with a U. Si Navy com- Guadalcanal Hero To Talk To Women Of County Organizations Pfc. James Gorman, 19, USMC, munique yesterday, referring to the same action, which said American fighters shot down 37 of 98 Japanese planes when the enemy attacked shipping near Guadalcanal. 7.30 o'clock at a meeting at St.

I Seven U. S. Planes Lost Paul's Episcopal parish house. Pfc. Gorman is being featured in war bond rallies throughout Central Pennsylvania and will be a speaker tomorrow afternoon at a mass meeting at the Bloomsburg Court House.

His visit here is in the interest of promoting the April War Loan drive, and he will address representatives of various women's' organizations of the county, who have been invited to attend the meeting by Miss Pauline V. Graden, county chairman of the war bond sales promotion among women's groups. Servicemen and women and their iruests who wish to hear Pfc. Gorman are also invited to thc meeting. Gorman, a -native of Philadelphia, joined the Marines at 17.

He was wounded at Guadalcanal fay a bullet which entered his wrist and came out his elbow. laki, Tanimbar Island; Kavieng Klaiber Renovo He has an interesting story to New Ireland; Unili. New Francls A Klalbt Renovo tell of the Marines in Guadalcanal, and Finschhafen, New Guinea. On the Burma front, British The Navy listed seven U. S.

planes lost, and made no mention of damage to Allied shipping nor of Japanese warships in action. Tokyos' version declared a cruiser, a destroyer and 10 transports were sunk and three other transports damaged. Qn other Far.Pacific fronts: Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head-quarters announced that Allied fliers, striking at Japanese supply lines, blasted a flotilla of enemy barges in an hour-long attack off Dutch New Guinea and strafed other Japanes coastal vessels near the Aroe Islands. Fires were started on three barges and an escort boat, and other barges were severely dam-' aged.

Allied, airmen also raided Jap- The third Clinton County boy to anese airdromes and bases cited for gallantry in action in Imika. Dutch New Guinea: Saum-j thc curl ent ar is Master Sgt. Tommy gun slung over his shoulder, an American soldier looks at a Nazi who was shot through the head as he tried to flee in a truck from Tunisia battlelines. (Associated Press photo from Yank, the Army Weekly). Sgt.

Klaiber, Renovo, Lt. Arter Decorated With Silver Star abor Board, which telegraphed I living erate further increases in prices affecting thc cost of living or further increases in general wage or salary rates except where clearly icccssary to correct substandard ivinff cnnriifirmc such agencies from making such wage or salary readjustments as may be deemed appropriate and may not have heretofore been Sec ANTI-INFLATION (Page 2, Col. 3) as well as of his trip home on hospital ship with the wounded to: San Diego, where he underwent treatment. From California he was sent to Philadelphia for a furlough and also to undergo further treatment on his arm at the Naval Hospital. He is now attached to the Marine barracks at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

Pvt. Gorman will be 'accompanied by Mrs. Helen U. Loewen, chairman of the Gettysburg district of the war savings staff. Housewives To Get Sugar For Canning WASHINGTON, hanks partly to the persistence of the housewives' official spokesman, homo canners will get extra sugar from OPA again this year without penalties.

The spokesman, pretty Mrs. Philip Crowlie of Huron, S. won her first major victory last night when OPA discarded a proposal to require applicants for canning sugar to surrender 8 to 12 points of their canned goods ration coupons for every extra pound of sugar. From came a Somewhere in Australia" message today that Sgt. headquarters reported "no a veteran who was in the battle along tee Bay of Ben- stri tne nt gal Coast, where the Japanese are; attacking Field Marshal Sir Archi-' confllet had bccn tne recipient of bald P.

Wavell's forces not far the Silver Star. from the frontier. Tounroo Bombed Sgt. Klaiber at the risk of his life saved valuable equipment and In the skies, American supplies at a point in Java during bombers dropped 13 tons of high explosives on the Japanese headquarters at Toungoo, setting fires a Japanese bombing attack. Since then he has been evacuated to visible for 20 miles, and U.

S.j Australia and is now stationed fighter planes destroyed an enemy at General MacArthur's head- supply dump at Ningam in Central I quarters Burma. Served In Java RAF bombers also pounded the; A Rraduatc ol tne cno vo High enemy, strafing Japanese posi- Scnool in 1930 Klaiber went to lions along the Mayu Peninsula chi to tne Electrical and raiding other targets inland, ghl nd then entered attacked Japanese positions ati Kahili in the Shortland Island area of the Northwestern Solomons but that due to bad weather "observation of results was not reported." WLB Won't Take Miners' Case Now attack on Pearl Harbor. He had previously served in Hawaii. He left U. S.

for Java in November, 1941, and has seen considerable action since. Sgt. Klaiber is the husband of the former Miss Dorothy Thorsten, 154 Ninth a teacher in the Ro- novo schools. His mother isVMrs. Robert Cunningham, 1306 Erie Ave.

Sgt. Klaiber is the second Re- Two Nazi Subs Sunk LONDON, Two enemy submarines were sunk last month by thc Fighting French corvette Aco- nit in an Atlantic convoy battle in which the relatively new British destroyer Harvester was lost, the admiralty announced. OVER THE TOP! RED CROSS WAR FUND MARCH 1943 Eastern Clinton County Goal $11,600 Contributions up to today $15,786.68 Percentage of foal attained 136.1% telegram from the southern operators requesting intervention. The effect of the board's action was to leave to Miss Perkins the to be certified to the board. Artcr In Group SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, (fP) and when a book is written on the Southwest Pacific's bloody aerial war more than one chapter probably will be devoted to Pennsylvania's contribution.

Few states have sent more of its men to take part in the daily battles fought in the skies over New Guinea, New Britain and the Solomons. Few if any have sent a greater collection of stars. Names of Pennsylvanians like Benn, Wagner, Hipps, Lynch, Muckley and Hilsman have been flashed not only over the Southwest Pacific but the countries fighting under the banners of the United Nations. Even the Japanese have come to know them. Last week the Allies staged their third greatest raid against the Japanese air and naval base at Rabaul.

Pennsylvanians were along in the great bombers as they have been along on virtually every other raid. They have piloted the Fortresses and Liberators on long range sorties; the Mitchells. Marauders and Havocs on shorter raids. They have ridden the cockpits fast Lightnings, Airacobras and they have pulled the triggers of gunner's And on the ground, they have worked under a blazing tropical sun to make the big ships ready for their attacks. Died On Routine Flights You remember the exploits of Maj.

William G. Benn, Washington; Lieut. Col. Boyd D. (Buzz) Wagner, Johnstown, and the others.

Both gave their lives, not of the lightning Kittyhawks and machine guns in the turrets of the bombers. tion question of whether the dispute is Ah Force men in Australia who have won the Silver Star.for gallantry in action in the Southwest Pacific. He is Lt. Theodore Arter, 3rd, whose home was originally in A Clinton County boy by adop- the hazardous- missions for was among the U. S.

Army whl they were noted, but on routine nights when danger was AHoona. Arter's father is Col. Theodore! Mine Problem Same NEW YORK, John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, declared that Presi-, dent Roosevelt's "hold the i ine was stationed England, and his order against inflation left the; ncle A. A. Arter'of this problem of the mine industry Thc 1'eutenant worked for changed, and left "the mine work-; the Fl Aircraft Corp.

in this crs still hungry and inj cl 'y before joinir.s the Army Air having their demands for bread; Force. I made a political pawn." He was an instructor at Clark. i Field, north of Manila, when the! No Easter Finery, faction CHICAGO, Mrs. Frank-1 since lin D. Roosevelt is buying no'Others Decorated Easter finery this year, she said.j A third Clintonian, Sgt.

John 'Do you think other women: Powers, Mill Hall, with the Army not expected. Few men have caused the Japanese more grief than Benn, whose men swore by him because he went everywhere he sent them. General MacArthur gave him the "extraordinary heroism" extend- See HEROES (Page 5, Col. 4) the South Pacific, Sgt. Powers was war broke out, and has been in in- the Pacific area ever should follow someone asked.

should buy clothes it they the First Lady said. your example?" Air Force won the Silver Star for "No, I think they I gallantry in the Battle of Midway. need and later Imedal. Other local men have won air medals which are given for a certain number of exploits and Staff Sgt. Frank J.

DePolis, Renovo, won the Purple Heart medal posthumously. He was Clinton County's first casualty of thc war having been killed at Pearl Harbor. DePolis' medal, presented to his mother, is the type given to was awarded the airj wounded men or those who have Sometime afterward in made the supreme sacrifice. Patton's Men Take 1,800, 8th Army Captures 9,500 Prisoners (By The Associated Press) Hounded by the British 8th Army, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces today were reported abandoning Mahares, only 22 miles south of Sfax, and also fleeing the railtown of Mezzouna as American armored troops gouged into the Axis "escape corridor" along the Tunisian coast. Mezzouna lies 12 miles east of Maknassy, base of the American flanking thrust, and about 20 miles from the sea.

Simultaneously, another U. S. column, striking eastward from El Guetar, was declared to have captured 1,800 more prisoners. Rommel's reported flight from Mahares marked a 70-mile retreat from the Mareth line in 11 days and a 30-mile withdrawal from El Akarit since Tuesday. Other developments at a glance: Air War: RAF's giant bombers rain blockbusters on Huhr Valley war foundries, breaking three- night lull; 21 planes missing.

RuisU: Mud-bogged front generally quiet; Soviet troops kill 500 Germans in 24 hours, hold lines on Donets River below Kharkov; heavy rains drench Caucasus. Southwest Pacific: Tokyo claims Japanese warships and planet Kick cruiser, destroyer, ten transports in attack on Allied fleet in Solomons; U. S. Navy previously listed 37 of 98 enemy planes destroyed. Allied bombers found flotilla of Japanese supply barges off Dutch New Guinea, raid string of bases above Australia.

Bataan Anniversary: Gen. MacArthur prays for redemption of Philippines on first anniversary of Bataan's fall, says 16,000,000 Filipinos "gasp in slavery" of Japanese conquerors. Burma: The British report "no change" in fighting along Bay of Bengal coast; RAF bombers, fighters strafe Japanese on Mayu Peninsula. A British broadcast said U. S.

troops driving toward the sea via Mezzouna "are now reported to be little more than 20 miles from Gen. Montgomery's spearhead." This would indicate that 8th Army vanguards had already passed the coastal town of Cekhira. A bulletin from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters told of mounting Allied pressure and declared that the bag of prisoners captured since the battle of Wadi El Akarit -totalled over 9,500 in the south alone.

"On the 8th Army front, the enemy continued his retreat with our forces in close pursuit," the communique said. "In the north, the British 1st Army drove on across "very difficult country and occupied important tactical localities," taking more than 400 prisoners since Wednesday. "An enemy attack supported by powerful air formations continued violently along the whole Tunisian front, especially in the southern sector," the Italian high command said. "According to orders received, Axis troops are withdrawing to new positions." On the Tunisian front, the Italian command painted a bleak picture of the situation confronting 200,000 Axis troops now pinned against the coast under assault by American, British and French forces in every sector. "Italian and German formations, though isolated and harassed by enemy columns, strenuously fought in strongholds assigned to them," the Fascist communique said.

Expect Naval Battle Meanwhile, the German-controlled Paris radio quoted Berlin military quarters as expecting "a big naval battle in the Mediterranean." On land, dispatches said U. S. troops under Lieut. Gen. George S.

Patton, were pounding at German armored forces near Mez- zouna, only 25 miles from the coastal road, in their drive toward the sea from Maknassy. The German high command asserted that 33 Allied tanks See WAR (Page 2, Col. 5)..