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BRITISH PURCHASE
BOMBS FOR HITLER
Thousands Of Londoners
And Americans Too,
Buy Savings Stamps
LONDON, March 7.—Thou
sands of Londoners, and Ameri
can soldiers too, from a crowd of
about a million pushing through
Trafalgar Square, bought savings
stamps today and plastered them
on two 500-pound bombs in the
square “for delivery to Hitler.”
The biggest London crowds
since the coronation packed the
square in a great rally to buy
savings stamps and certificates in
the second day of the capital's
“Wings For Victory” week. The
government hopes to raise $600,
000.000 in the week.
At one time an estimated 100.- j
000 jammed into the square in
which a big Lancaster bomber, j
veteran of many raids on Ger
many. had been set up. The lions
at the foot of Nelson's column dis
appeared under the swarm of hu
manity.
Speakers urged the crowds to
buy more certificates and stamps,
and to spend less upon themselves.
Londoners lined up to buy stamps,
and thep stood in line again to!
stick them on the bombs set be
neath the Lancaster.
Soon the bombs were covered
with stamps, six thick in places.
They ranged in value from six
pence (10 cents j to five shillings
$1) and the purchasers cancelled
them with such messages as “with
love to Hitler ” Buyers who put
stamps on the bombs lost their
vaiue, but the government promis
ed that the stamps would be deliv
ered along with the bombs to Ger
many.
The government's "take” in Tra
falgar Square and other London
centers during the day was be
lieved to nave been a record, but
the official figure will not be avail- :
aoie until Monday night. Press As
sociation said.
Yesterday S12Q.000.000 worth of
stamps and certificates were sold.
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English Educated Indian
Will Head Moslem League
NEW DELHI, March 7,—_F—
Mohammed Ah Jirmah. English-ed
ucated Bombay lawyer was reelec-t
ed president of the Moslem league
by acclamation today'by the league
council.
No candidate opposed the man
who has led the league from a
poor second political party to a
position of close competition to
Mohandas K. Gandhi's all-India
Congress in influence and power.
The slim, 66-year-old Indian,
who once toured as a Shakespear
ean actor in England, accepted
another term without even making
a speech. He brushed aside several
resolutions on party operations
which were not to his taste.
He allowed only one to pass call
ing on Moslem provincial majori
ties to follow the lead of Sind pro
vince in western India and vote
for indorsement of his slogan for
Parkistan, or an independent Mos
lem land free of Hindu influence.
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RAF Bombers Attack
Targets At Mandalay
NEW DELHI, March 7.—0P>—
RAF bcmbers made a "highly suc
cessful attack on the railway sta
tion and freight yards at Mandalay
Friday night, demolishing buildings
and railroad cars and starting a
number of fires, a British communi
que said today.
Yesterday RAF bombers and
fighters bombed Kalachaung on the
Mayu peninsula of Burma and other
fighters shot up river craft on the
Pichaung river in the Arakan hills
region, it was announced.
Fifteen Japanese planes, flying
over Rathedaung yesterday, were
engaged by Allied fighters and forc
ed to Jettison their bombs in Paddy
fields, the communique reported. All
Allied planes, it was said, returned
safely.
Further reports of aerial activity
in the Arakan area Friday told that
Allied fighters in combats with the
Japanese destroyed five and prob
ably destroyed or damaged several
other enemy planes, the communi
que said.
FARMERgV WARNED
Howard R. Garriss, plant path
ologist of the N. C. State college
Extension Service, warns tobac
co farmers to be on the alert for
blue mold attacks, as the disease
has hit heavily in Georgia al
ready.
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PEANUT PRODUCTION
A new publication on producing
peanuts for oil may be obtained
free upon written application to
the Agricultural Editor, State Col
lege, Raleigh.
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the wing tips, was found recently
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Africa.
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’I MacArthur’s Bombers Attack Jap Convoy
“A victory of such completeness as to assume the proportions of a
major disaster to the enemy.” So General MacArthur announced yes
terday's victory near Lae. New Guinea, which resulted in the loss to
the enemy of 33 vessels and 15,000 troops. Above, a Japanese ship
burns near Lae, New Guinea, after suffering a bombing attack in action
previous to yesterday's smashing success. Note the life raft, at tile left,
pulling away from the burning transport.— (N'EA Telephuto from Army
.Air Force)
FRENCH TO USE
U. S. CLOTHING
Units In Africa To Don
American Uniforms
For Duration
RABAT. French Morocco. March
7.—.?—Gen. Auguste Nosues. gov
ernor general of French Morocco,
said today that American and
French military authorities had
conferred on a proposal to clothe
French troops in Morocco in U.
S. uniforms.
The French, however, would
wear their own military insignia.
Gen. Mogues said that the cut
of French and American uniforms
were about the same and that the
French were willing to wear uni
iorms oi anomer country Decause
of their great need for clothing.
Reporters at the Tunisian front
have frequently seen French
troops who appeared inadequately
garbed against the severe moun
tain cold.
“There are thousands of French
and native troops in Morocco eag
er to fight if they had but the
clothing and equipment,” Gen.
Nogues said.
He added that some military
equipment such as rifles had been
received, but that the need was
great for other material. Food,
sugar, coffee and preserves also
are needed, he said.
After the fall of France, the
French were able to conceal some
tanks, planes, munitions and
equipment from the Germans, but
much of this has become abso
lete. The equipment which was
useable was sent with troops to
the Tunisian front.
Gen. Nogues said American uni
forms were desired for French
troops and French officers com
manding native troops. It was
considered unlikely that the Spahis
and Tirailleurs would give up their
colorful cotton regalia.
MAGAZINEBARRED
FROM JL^ MAILS
‘The Militant’ Held Out
Because Of Seditious
Statements
WASHINGTON, March 7. — IJB —
Postmaster General Walker an
nounced today that “The Militant,”
a weekly publication, has been
barred from the second-class mail
on the ground that it has publish
ed seditious statements since Pearl
Harbor.
Walker said that matter in the
publication “showed clearly a pur
posed attempt to embarrass and
defeat the government in its ef
fort to prosecute the war to a
successful termination.”
The Post Office Department said
the weekly was edited by George
Breitman and published by the
Militant Publishing company at
(116 University Place), New York.
The action against “The Mili
tant” was the first of its kind in
several months. Previously the
postmaster general had revoked
the mailing privileges of several
small publications accused of at
tempting to thwart the war effort.
Attorney General Biddle declar
ed during hearings that the publi
cation “has openly discouraged
participation in the war by the
masses of the people.”
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RETAIL SALES
WASHINGTON, March 7. — W) —
Retail sales of $4,491(000,000 dur
ing January were reported by the
commerce department today with
announcement that it marked a
new high level considering adjust
ments for seasonal factors,
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Ruler Of Lichtenstein
Marries Royal Countess
(By The Associated Press)
Prince Francis Joseph II, 36
vear-old ruler of Lichtenstein, mar
ried Countess Georgiana of Wilc
zek yesterday (Sunday) in Vaduz,
the capital of the little princi
pality, the DNB news agency an
nounced in a dispatch from Ber
lin.
Lichtenstein has been ruled
since August 25, 1938, by the
prince, who succeeded his great
uncle. The bride was described by
the Berlin broadcast, recorded by
the Associated Press, as “one of
the most popular members of the
younger set of the aristocracy of
Vienna.”
sociaTsecurity
EXPANSION URGED
Secretary Perkins Says
Program Can Be Of
Great Value
WASHINGTON, March 7. — UP) —
Secretary of Labor Perkins said
today that expansion of the so
cial security program at this time
“can be of inestimable value” both
now and after the war. She ex
pressed her views in an address for
delivery at a conference of the
American Church Union.
“The demolization of those now
employed in the wartime indus
tries and their reassignment to
peacetime production would be
cushioned against the doubt and
dread, fear and uncertainty with
which today so many persons view
that period,” she said.
“There can be no question of
our ability to pay for an adequate
system of social security at this
time. Indeed, we can hardly en
visage an equally propitious time
to introduce postponed spending.
The funds paid into social security
contributions flow back to those
who pay and to the whole social
improvement of society. This is a
period when for reasons of pre
venting inflation it is desirable to
withdraw purchasing power from
the market. The postwar period
will be at a time when we want to
release purchasing power to pre
vent too severe deflation.”
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Gandhi’s Son Declares
Father Soon Be Well
BOMBAY, March 7.—tff)—Deva
das Gandhi, youngest son of Mo
handas K. Gandhi, the Indian Na
tionalist leader who last week
completed a 21-day hunger strike,
said today “I think my father is
now well on the way to recovery.”
“He is expected to take another
fortnight before being able to get
out of bed,” Devadas said.
The elder Gandhi undertook the
fast in an unsuccessful effort to
gain his unconditional release from
the palace of the Aga Khan in
Poona, where he has been detain
ed since last August, when the all
Indian Congress party began a civ
il disobedience campaign against
British rule.
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New German Air Raids
On London Predicted
LONDON, March 7.—UP)— Gen.
Sir Frederick Pile, chief of the
anti-aircraft command, predicted
today that the Germans would
again throw heavy bomber forces
against London.
He told home guardsmen they
would be responsible for manning
the guns against them. Speaking
to 5.000 guardsmen in Albert Hall,
he declared.
“We have been lucky so far. We
have had a long time to prepare
to deal with a mass attack. The
home guard will, I think, before
the war ends be manning every
type of anti-aircraft weapon.”
CHUNGKING GETS
RATIONING PLAN
Strict Dole Of Meat, Sugar
And Cooking Oil
To Begin
CHUNGKING, March 7.—(di
strict rationing of meat, sugar and
cflRking-oil will be instituted in
Chungking March 15 in the gov
ernment war against ever-mount
ing prices.
Elaborate restaurant meals will
be eliminated ana simple fixed
priced meals will be substituted.
Pork will be on sale only one
day out of five and ration cards
will be issued for the purchase
of sugar, cooking-oil and other
household necessities. The sale of
all articles classed as luxuries will
be strictly forbidden.
At the same time measures de
signed to secure the improvement
in China’s social morale so strong
ly enjoined in eneralissimo Chiang
Kai-shek’s newly written book
“China’s Destiny” will be enforced
under pain of drastic penalties.
It will become a penal offense
to play cards—now almost the sole
amusement of many foreigners liv
ing in the capital.
Hairdressers have received a
fresh injunction against giving
their customers permanent waves.
Chinese army officers have been
forbidden to ride in rickshas of
sedan chairs.
A power conservation plan will
also be inaugurated under which
lights must be shut off for 5 1-2
hours one night out of five.
High School Music Groups Work
To Produce WellKnoivn Operetta
"We want New Hanover High
school to be known as ‘a singing
school’." . ... . ..
School pride alone did not dic
tate this ambition to Miss Inez
French, director of choral activ
ity at New Hanover High . . .
“This is a time when the young,
particularly in this very war-con
scious community, need encour
agement and emotional boost.
They need to sing. And their par
ents and friends need to listen
and to sing with them. Music is
a safety valve.”
That is why Miss French and
her students are working fever
ishly, in moments that are ill
spared, to produce for Wilming
ton on March 19 a rollicking Gil
bert and Sullivan comic opera,
“Iolanthe,” or “The Peer and the
Peri.”
Who would be willing to wager
that some Wilmington soldier, six
months hence, will not be whist
ling “When You’re Lying Awake”
or “When All Night Long A Chap
Remains Sentry-Go,” as he crosses
a foreign battlefield?
“Iolanthe” opened at the Savoy
in London November 25, 1882 as
“an entirely new and original fairy
opera.” (When Sullivan stepped
into the orchestra pit that night
it was with the knowledge that
he had lost the last penny of life
savings the morning before when
the brokerage firm has patronized
closed its doors in bankruptcy.) A
success, the opera ran for a year
and two months.
Just a few months ago Deems
Taylor wrote of “Iolanthe” that
It is the “most spontaneous and
ingratiating Sullivan ever wrote
that it is “harmoniously colorful.’’
Miss French picked “Iolanthe”
because there is fun and satire
in the music, acting, and Ogdep
Nash-like lines. Added to ridicul
ousness is enough fairy-sequence
and old-fashioned romance to
make the most hardened war
worker or war-follower forget the
intensity of present-day life.
The comic-opera is the story of
creatures, half-fairy, half-human,
and Parliamentary peers with
their supercilious manners. There
is tangle after tangle, as the fairy,
human beings terrify the lords
with their intellects and romantic
competitions.
Upshot of the entire scramble in
music and wit and taut Parlia
mentary nerves is that the great
English law-making body, through
the Lord Chancellor, orders all
fairies to marry mortals. Streph
on wins his Phyllis . . .
Putting an opera before a city
today is something of a prodigious
task, Miss French and her young
singers and all the corps of help
ers from several departments are
willing to admit.
In the first place, all the char
acters' are so busy with school
work, Victory Corps effort, and
after-studies jobs in the town that
it is difficult to get them togeth
er for practice.
In the second place, priority has
snatched away so many materials
and floods of work have subtract
ed the school’s usual seamstresses.
So the scenery will ask the audi
ence for imagination (which al
ways means that the best sort of
stage-set, Miss French believes.
If the sentry-boxes are painted at
nightmare angles, that will be part
of the plan.)
Mothers are making clothes for
their singing sons, the home eco
nomics department is contribut
ing the Grecian style pastels that
the fairies will wear. A costume
house in Philadelphia will have to
dress the House of Lords In color
ful dignity.
Meanwhile students are singing
and cavorting through their lines
with complete abandon as Miss
French holds the book. They have
n’t yet been able to control their
laugh at the old Sullivan methods
that are good for grins in any cen
tury. But by the 19th they will be
ready, she says.
The cast will include: Lord Chan
cellor, Jim Elliott; Earl of Mount
ararat, George Fields; Strephon
Bill Sutherland; Queen of the
Fairies, Ruth Creasy,; Iolanthe,
Peggy Mclvor; Earl Tolloler, Davi
Blanchard; Private Willis, Ben
Clayton; Fairies — Celia, Kelsie
Suyes; Leila, Jane Hobbs; Fleta,
Ray Bennett; and Phyllis, Ida L.
Child.
Other faculty members busy with
opera plans are Miss Louise Tapp,
dramatics; Miss Reva Myers, busi
ness manager; Miss Mary Eliza
beth Groverman, costumes; Miss
Emma Lawson, scenery; George
West, scenery; Albert O’Brient,
stage ana lights; and Mrs n
Smith. The student pianist „.r/s
Carslyle Seymour. ' ‘,1*' 3»
Choir work at New Hanov„
High is not designed for the '
and talented, Miss French exni ”
There are five choirs '
classes, and any student ma/' >
The emphasis now is on voic, ^
duction and theory Next v ?r>
choral director hopes to intro/
more varied courses- shP u Cs
that the number of students //
al classes, 220, will be multi/'
several times. u“-‘Prt4
Hius the opera that is for,t
ing is an invitation to Wii/flCOai
to approve this program that/1
round out school life at
over High; that will afford 1 55,
ing safety valve to heln
youthful bitternesses- that
give the busy town someth*/
talk about and sing about. S 15
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Citizens Of Rio Open
Four Day Gala Event
RIO DE JANEIRO. March 7
UP) Citizens of Brazil's Car-n
opened their four-day annual, ’
nival last midnight under « '
time restrictions which bar r
traditional parades and
dancing. The principal celeb
tions were private parties at
nos. cas-'
Because of the newsprint short,
age, Rio de Janeiro netvspaZ
announced that they would not™?
lish any editions until the rt
val ends Wednesday arr"'
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ANNOUNCES CANDIDAfv
RALEIGH, March 1-uJL
resentative Ale. Reynolds of Bui
combe county, announced Its car'
didacy today for seaker of
1945 State House of Reprewi
tives.
Most people don’t know it, but the smallest of
America’s War Bonds will buy enough fuel oil to
enable one of our destroyers to cruise 37 miles in
search of the Nazi submarines. Those 37 miles may
be the ones that count. They may save an American
merchant ship and its crew.
m—-.. . || j ill HJHIimiMmiLII ___
Or 518.75 will just about buy an 81 millimeter trench mortar shell to I
send to our troops in Northern Ireland, or to help General Mac Arthur I
blast the Japs out of some fortified position in the Far East I
Or maybe you’d rather have three sharp new bayonets for your
$18.75, bayonets that will some day determine whether our
enemies can take it in a hand-to-hand scrap.
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Or WOUld yOU prefer ten rounds of anti-aircraft fire to
topple enemy raiders from the clouds? Ten rounds, if
properly placed, will bring down the biggest Jap bomber
that flies. Isn’t it good to know that our army and navy ca» I.
buy ten more of these anti-aircraft shells every hintv0 I 1
buy an $18.75 War Bond? j
All this, and security too—for your family after the war
BU I these weapons to pnt dread m our en
emies are only a part of what the smallest
War Bond will buy.
For America doesn’t ask you to give your
money—even to such a cause as the survival
of civilization.
It asks you instead to lend it—at a generous
interest rate, an interest rate greater than any
bank in the country can get on the Government
bonds it buys.
Ten years from today the Government will
return for your $18.75 War Bond $25 in cash.
Or you can get your money back at any time
after 60 days from the purchase date.
And what will that $25 mean 10 years from
now—that $25 and the proceeds from other
bonds that you and many others have bought?
For all of us collectively it will mean security
from dreaded inflation. If Americans pull
together now, we can, after the war, definitely
avoid that fearful spectre.
And for you and your family? Well, here
is just a suggestion. You may wonder what
this picture of a little girl is doing in an adver
tisement filled with guns and bayonets. This
little girl is nine. Ten years from today your
$25 could look as big as a million dollars to her.
For all this, yeur country asks that you lend
10 percent of your salary—that everyone, every
pay day, put this amount into War Bonds. Can
you be counted on to do your part?i
BUY WAR BONDS
at least !•% every pay day
% This space is a contribution to America’s all-out war effort by the Star-News