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Announce New Meat Ceilings
Reductions From One to Three (
Cents a Pound in New England
BOSTON, May 12. (AP)—Ceiling prices on meat will be generally reduced from one to three cents a pound in New England, starting Monday, the office of price admin- istration announced today.
Further and more substantial reductions in meat prices will take effect on June 1 in accordance with a general cost-of-living roll-back sought by Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown, the O. P. A. added.
The reductions effective Mon- skinned slices with the bone, at day will affect liam, beef, veal, class one and two (small volume) mutton and lamb. stores.
:ull Service ResumedHere
at 19A.M.
Agreement Between Drivers, Owners Due Late Today ,
LOWELL,—Taxi service was re- sumed here this morning at 10 o'clock, after a 36-hour stoppage^,.-^
Representatives of the six taxi companies here and Robert Mar-
geson, representing Chauffeurs union, 49, attended, a hearing, to- day before the conciliation service and Lewis R. Becker, assistant director of (he National War Labor board in Boston. This hearing lasted for several hours, It is un- derstood, and the agreement be- tween the opposing factions will lie mnde known later in the day. Ordered Bade to Cahs
The War Labor board, It is re- ported, communicated with Robert MnrgcBon, business agent of the Chauffeurs union, ordering the drivers to return to work at 7.30 o'clock, this'morning. The men were held in readiness for work.
At 0 o'clock all of the six com- panies were represented at a meet- ing In Ihe oliicc of Ally. Hubert L. McLnughltn, one of their coiln- sel, In the Sun building. This was clone with the understanding that an agreement be made that each company should start business at the same time.
There was no objection and 10 a., m. was the lime set ond lived up to by both sides.
No Agreement Mode
rmy west .of Bou 'Fichn, about eraman before being carried away to prison ca mp^—AP WIREPHOTO. : • Ive of the Diamond Taxi Co., said 1 miles southwest of Hammamet, hat no agreement had been, em
he Allied command announced CHURCHILL, F. D., HOLD NEW WAR ered Inlo with the strikers, not- oday. wlthslandlng that' statements to
Smoked ham will be reduced Three Cents a Pound
THE LOWELL -SJM
from 57 to 54 cents a pound for -egular slices with the hone in, 'ml from 61 to 5S cents for
The same cuts of ready-to-eal
»n I'HKf Vive
HITLER GIRDS FOR "BATTLE O^GERMANY"
Axis Propaganda Agencies Try to
Show "Calm Confidence" Front
and o'clock ..
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TODA Y'S INDEX
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County News Today on Pages>IO, 11and 12
LONDON, May 12, (fP)—The im-.o£ the whereabouts of the British
pending • "battle for Germany," prime minister in broadcasts as- 65th Year No. I.I I.
sharply focused by Prime Minister serting he was in Cairo, the Berlin
Churchill's conferences in Wash- radio said today that "Churchill's Allied Air Forces Call ington with President Roosevelt, arrival in Washington caused no
•found Axis propaganda agencies surprise In Berlin."
Lowell Mass. Wednesday
Cents
attempting to present an outward front of calm confidence today.
After fishing yesterday for news
Three Seriously ill After Eating Pastry
Health Director Orders Embargo on Product; Police Comb Restaurants,Lunch Carts
Halt to CapBonBombing
Troops infiltrate Over Almost . Entire Peninsula Area
1X3NDON, May 12. (UP)—An Exchange Telegraph Agency dispatch from Allied Headquarters in North Africa said today that all of the Cap Bon peninsula hi Tunisia was now in Allied hands,
1 ALLIED HEADQUAKTKHS IN NORTH AFRICA,
Sergt. Miller
War Casualty mbargo on the food product until complete investigation is made. Informed last night by police of le illness that followed the cat- g of a certain type of pie, Dr.
35/191
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN OKTH AFRICA, May 12 (fP)— ap Bon peninsula has been com- letely isolated by the British
One of the (irst to be draftci
Staff Sergt. Miller went into serv shipping, a Middle East air com-
Imlnary examinations. ica?"
Japs Won't Want to Return To California After War
Nips Will Settle in East, Says
BERN, May 12 (UP)—Uncon-
Irrncd reports from P'rancc said
today that the Gcslapo had start- I.OS AN(iKr,KH, May 12 (if)— ered In 10 relocation tenters, ed rounding up dissident elements To those Cnlifornlans worrying Ernst declared.
munique announced today. Damage also was done to docks and harbor Installations, the bui letin said. One mole, where three England last October. He entere ships were tied up, was reported
troops In November. He left in flames," the communi- tached to a medical unit. que added.
A graduate of Lowell high schot The raiders were reported to Sergl. Miller was employed by have shot down a Junkers-88 ond New Jersey hotel when he en a Macchi-200 while returning to
fi doxen flaring, gypsy skirts, he explained—doffing them as needed lo wran up chilled, newly-horn lambs.
Sestapo Starts FrenchRoundup
ice in Feb. 1941, and trained Fort Dix in New Jersey. Later spent a year at Fort Bragg, C., and was shipped overseas
demolished.
Africa with the first America "The whole dock area was
tered the armed services.
their base.
tion facing the Allies following the phy, minister to French North
liberation of Tunisia, and one today. Wet grounds made an at which may enter into the current Africa. In either case, more def tempt to play impractical.
talks between President Roosevelt nitc assignment of responsibilities
and Prime Minister Church]]], is would have to he made.
It told its listeners that Wash- Cnuflmieri nil 1'nxe Fnur
LOWELL — Serious illness of May 12. (AP^Ailicd air forces called a halt to their
,ree persons following eating of bombing of Cap Bon peninsula today because Allied land istry at a local lunchcart result-
d today in City Health Director forces had infiltrated over virtually the entire area and r. John J. McNamara placing an :here was danger of hitting friendly troops.
Associated Press—International News Service—THK COMPLETE NEWSPAPER—United Press—Associated Press Wireplioto
^irst Army, nml British and RANKING ITALIAN OFFICERS CAPTURED IN TUNISIA—Ranking officers in Mussolini's African Local Boy Wounded xNamara immediately investi- The average daily net paid 'rcnch troops are closing in from
atcd and a check-up disclosed In North Africa lat there was a death in Me- ' LOWELL—Latest war casualty men yesterday of a person who from this city is Staff Sergt. Jos- ad ft short while before eaten eph'J. Miller,'Jr., 28, who was ome of the same pastry product wounded in the North African It was learned that the food- theatre,'according lo a telegram luff was brought into the cltj received here recently by his y an-out-of-town dealer and Dr. IcNamara issued a notice pro- Ibiting any more deliveries until
sale of The Lowell Sun during April was 35,191 copies,
Lawyer Gets Library Post
Atty. Hugh F. Downey Is Elected Head Librarian
II sides on an encircled Axis Forces, captured during Allied drive to sea in Tunisia at Tunis and Biierto, face an Army cam- Benjamin Sandier, representa-
Sergt. Joseph Miller, Jr.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Miller, 38 Fruit street.
Miller, believed suffering fron •shrapnel wounds in the legs, ha already'been presented the Pur pie Heart decoration, the awar being made in a North Africa hospital where he is presently un
der treatment. He is believed have been wounded in Tunisia lale March.
Word that he was a casualt was received by his parents month ago. On April 21 a secon telegram arrived stating he wa making "normal improvement. Four days later a letter cam from Sergt. Miller in which h told of winning the Purple Hear medal and a few days ago th was followed by receipt of th medal from him by his parents.
ment announced today that Presi- were moving against ihe French and naval experts. *
uormnn radio, and doubtless won- dered where tiic blow or blows would fall.
With no While House comment
Four
urther notice.
At the same time, notices were
ent all lunchcart operator: and estaurants not to handle the iroduct because of Us potential
ncalth menace.
Meantime, state health authorl-
"Tim Cap lion peninsula has been isolated and our patrols have made a complete cir- cuit of the peninsula tiself," the headquarters communique sahl.
"The enemy forces who still hold the hills west of Bou Fichn arc now completely en- circled and British ami Krcuch troops of the First and Eighth armies n,ro closing in from all sides."
'Bou Ficha is just north'of En- lidaville (in' the British Eighth army's sector.
Hemmed in against the gulf of [iammamet by the British above
CoillImitil on FriRe Three
Report Benes in Washington
COUNCIL: ALLIES SET FOR OFFENSIVE New Blows Against Enemy in
thai effect had been made. Any agreement made, he said, will be nade In the presence of the War Labor board representative in Bos- ton, and this will be made public by both sides as soon as it is pos-
sible ,lo do so.
The strikers demand an Increase
from $21.to'?24 a week basic pdy, an Increase from 35 to 40 per cent of the "lake" and a week's vaca«
LOWELL—Atty, Hugh F. Dow ies have been notified of the ney, World war veteran and mem matter and they are co-operating her of the Lowell Bar association
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Washington, London Refuse to Comment
WASHINGTON, May 12. (AP)—A White House dis tlon with pay. with him throe important loaders.-from the India theater o
vith Dr. McNamara in making thorough check-up and analysis
of the materials used in the pie. The three persons stricken fol- owing a visit to the lunchcart
are reported out of danger.
At the direction of the health director, police officers attached to cruisers spent all morning visiting eating places picking up products of the bakery firm that supplied the questionable pie. By noon, all foodstuffs made by this firm had been taken off counters and from
all restaurants.
Heavy U.S.
Bombers Rip
Blow Up Axis Ammunrrion Ship, Fire Tanlcer
CAIRO, May 12 (/P)—American heavy bombers, escorted by R. A. F lighters, made a highly successful attack yesterday on the harbor of Catania, Sicily, blowing up an ammunition ship, setting a tanker afire and scoring hits on other
operation's provided indicationsthat the prinlc-.minister an President Roosevelt might* placo much emphasis in their conferences on strategy .against Japan.
Prisoners to WorkinlJ.S.A.
150,000 Captives to BeEmployed in Farmlands
ALLIKI) HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, May 12 (UP)— Most of Ihc 150,000 prisoners who will he in Allied hands in a few days nrc likely to find themselves working in the farmlands of the United States and Canada within two months.
Final plans for* moving them out of this theatre of war are not complete, according to well In-
Hugh F. Downey
More smiles when he pre- a report that Ihe Americana were sented the document to olfi- about to attack" the French
I.OWEI.b — Five busloads of formed sources, but some German nen from Board 85 left the Ilurd prisoners already have been sent trcct courthouse nl 7.30 o'clock to the United Suites and Canada,
dent Edouard Benes of Czecho* ilovakia had arrived in Washing-
ton from London.
islands of Martinique nnd Guade- The Next Blow
loupe, which lie on either side of As ho and Mr. Roosevelt sat Dominica. own to bring the enemy slili
At about the same time that loser Lo their "unconditional sur- the Brills)) radio announced a de-
was last night named head 1 ccrs at Gowen field for their possessions.
:fficiency
brarian by the board of. trustee of the cily library.
His election ended a deadloc
that has existed among trustee
since last October when the pos Then he learned that Form A reliable source in San Juan,
signature.
Next he presented it at the
What to DoAbout Big Italian Populationin Tunisia Allied Problem
Question Involves Three-Way
Political Headache for United Nations
No Comment
Official quarters in both Wash-
OKAN1.S, N. M., May 12 ills morning for Fort Devens The Germans appear will- M>)— Pctlicoals — literally — vhcrc they will take preliminary ing to go anil the Italians are
Continued nn Pntrc Fnur
Puerto Rico, told The United Press that the Allied report was "pure baloney."
Lowell-Chelsea
Game Called i/nVELI—-The Chelsea-Lowell
high school baseball game, sched- uled today on the South common was postponed to Tuesday, May
hiring 80 Navnjo Indian wom- en as sheep herders, and said men herders were never like this.
what to do about the large Italian
dispensary, seeking treatment
ington and London did not com- ment on the reports.
eager. An the 'Italians pace Rancher Floyd W. Lee tried Those accepted will be Inducted hack and forth behind tho
for a cold.
52 is a death certificate.
are ruling the range country. examinations.
WASHINOfTON, May 12, (/!>)— itation, or by the Norlh African 18, by mutual agreement of the Perhaps the most important ques- economic board under Robert Mur athletics directors Just before noon
Utah Relocation Center Director.
Axis Reports
U.S.MoveOJT closure' 'today that Prime Minister Churchill had broiigh
Athletics Director William ihroughout the country nnd in about the return of Japanese after "The war relocation author- Dacey of Lowell high added that Vichy alone had arrested 150 per- Ihe war, a relocation camp offi- ity's aim is to depopulate the population in that French protec- The Tunisian family quarrel in view of the pileup of bascbal sons, many of them Rllached to cial makes this reply: Thousands center of qualified people," he said. "Among them are high- ly educated men and women, »iul others of all shades of usefulness. J.ct us get them spread over the United States as rapidly, as possible in order that they may pull the weight they arc so anvious to pull."
torate. which the Allies have inherited is postponements In recent days, the the government. lon't wiinl to come back. Among those .arrested in Vichy, "The young .Japanese-Ameri-
The office of war information is- complicated hy the fact that there X)well-Medford games would be Ihe reports said, was Uenr Admiral cans Inolc at llir, situation real- • sued a reminder today that the ad- are almost as many Italians there >layed at Medford as a double- Charles Plalon, former slato sc'cre- isllcally," says Charles F. ministration of the "first major as French citizens. They num- leader next Friday. There will lary in the office of Pierre Laval, Kmst, director of the war re- bloc of enemy peoples to come un- bered about-94,000 in the 1938 cen- >c two seven-inning games played, the chief of government,
der the purview of American .mil- sus, compared with 108,000 French, itary authority" involves many ind have been used, O. W. I. said, problems aside from the elemen- as the tools'of Fascist and nation- tary ones of relief and rehabilita- alistic propaganda from Italy. tion.
said.
location authority's center at Topaz, Utah. "Most of them want to go cast and settle.
The answer, It was indicated, may fix the course nf Amer- ican policy In military gov- ernment not, only In Tunisia hut in countries occupied later, including Italy Itself. The Tunisian picture is complicated by a (cnsc, fhrec-way political quarrel involving Italians, Frenchmen and Arabs.
"An aspect of (he Tunisian-
Ifalian question which appear* -
to have come to the fore par-
ticularly since the war—partly
owing, most prohably, to the stock market dealings today. practice aid raid drill throughout Ernst explained, in an inter- young and the very old, he said. evident clanger of an Italian OK fractionally at the start were the entire state of New Jersey view, that he wa's speaking of. the Full realization of such a pro- occupation—Is Ihc anti-Ital- among others, U. S. Steel, Bethle ended at 10.591-2 a. m.,'E. W. T. 7800 California Jap.incsc-Ameri- jram, he pointed out, would ejim-v ian feeling among the Arabs," tiem. National Distillers, Standard today with t.he all clear as author cans quartered at his Utah camp. inale much of the current expense the report continued. Oil (NJ> and Westingnouse. Re ized by the Army's Second Servic Already, he said, 500 men and of camp maintenance.
AirRaidDrillin NEW YORK, May 12 (AD — HewJersey
Ernst estimated that about 19,- 000 of the Japanese now in camps could be inducted into the Army. The rest could be placed on farms
STOCK MARKET
Lower trends prevailed in early
"Getting them out of their
old ruts will mal<c American
citizens nf them. I think Amer-
ica needs them, but I think
(hoy should be sent somc- or in technical and office jobs, ex- whcro other lhan California." cepting only the disloyal, the very
"This/feeling is particularly slstance was, shown by Electri command. women have left , the camp to
violent In the south of Tunisia, Power & Light, Pennsylvania Rail duo. to the proximity of the road, and General Motors.
Libyan border and the Indigna- U. 8. TREASURY
The lest began at 9.55 arid the take positions in the middle west
first audible signal came at 10.10 many of them In Chicago anr YOU CAN'T SPELL The state went on the red at 10.3 other large cities. Another 500
O. W. I. merely sketched the sit-
uation without suggesting answers tion of the Arabs over the WASHINGTON, May'12 (INS and returned to the blue 10 min have been given seven month
CHURCHILL ARRIVES ON WINGS OF TUNIS VICTORY—Wir or even suggesting that Messrs. harsh treatment meted out by — Treasury balance May 1C utcs later. leave to work on farms and in VICTORY Roosevelt and Churchill would con the Kalians to their fellow other Jobs in the inter-mountain
ston Churchill, Britain's prime minister, arrived in Washington on cern themselves with it. However, Moslems In I.ihya. Moreover, $14,026,966,761. RECORD O, W. I, HIGH area.
the wings" of a great Allied victory in Tunis and drove fo the other governr.icnt officials w<;re the Italian Immigrant, who is WASHINGTON, May 12 (UP But, he added, with the excep'
known to be pondering whether hard-working hut poor, com- THE WEATHER White'Homo-with President Roosevelt. Though ill recently, the the economic rehabilitation of petes with and displace native Rain. Drizzle Today;
—The Office of War Information' lion of those still having properly
dally output of news release on the Pacific coast, none Is wish< WITH AN ABSENT (T) reached a record high of 53 yes ful of returning here. (See Tage 17 for Important terday, including one release urg The United States could assimi' War-Time Message) . ing conservation of paper. lute the 107,000 Japs now quar
prime minister fingered a cigar on which he puffed frequently.— North Africa should be adminis- labor, where French colonials tered by Herbert H. Lchman'3 of- create. enterprises which gave APWJREPHOTO. fice of foreign relief and rehabil- employment lo native Jahor."
No Temperature Changes; Dimout at 8.25 p. m.
Europe and Pacific About Ready
WASHINGTON, May 12, render" demands, the Tunisian suc- President Roosevelt nm] Prime cess .swept offensive strategy lo a ' Minister Churchill are holding an- point where tho United Nations olher council of war lodny with high command could start activat-
[he trumpets of the Tunisian vic-
tory still sounding and the Allies undoubtedly blocked out nt previ- poised to pound the Axis In both ous meetings between Ihc ' two
By United Press
British West Indian Iroops Europe and the Pacific. loaders and now due to. bo per-
were being sent" to Dominica to- Tlie commuting British chief- fected nnd extended.
tain arrived last night on his third Across the sou, Hlllcr suddenly LONDON, May 12, <UP)—The day as unconfirmed Axis reports wartime trip lo Washington, nc- shifted his headquarters from the Czechoslovaktan refugee govern- said United States Naval forces a staff of military cnst to the west, according to the
He Started Over
BOISE, Idaho, May 12 (IP) tachment of Barbados Iroops had toard85SendsFiveBusloadsof
—Smiles greeted Staff Sergt. embarked for Dominica "in con-
Alan B. Citron of Philadelphia neclion with the Martinique situ-
as he reciuosted and received ation," the German Transoccan DrafteestoFortDevensforExams a copy of Form 52. news agency last night broadcast
ing plans for tho next blow—plans
ind returned home for one week. borhcd wire of the prisoner 1'hey will go into active service cages, they grin at Americans, May 10. Tomorrow morning hold their lingers aloft in the nore men from Ms board will go V-for-Vlctory sign and ask: Each squaw wears at least o Fort Devens for their pre- "When do wo go^to Amer-
NEW YORK, May 12 (INS)—A