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Served By Leased Wire Of The associated PRESS J HLPILFIdLH With Complete Coverage Of r I PEARL Slale and National News 4 HARBOR! pnL 75—NO. 68- WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1942_ FINAL EDITION ~ ESTABLISHED 1867. FROM THE HEART OF UNBOWED, FIGHTING CHINA These are the faces of the new China . . . faces of girls, 16 to 25, who work at the handicraft centef of the Wom en’s Advisory Council outside Chungking. Their products are sold to buy more materials, train more girls. 3 HURT WHEN TRAINJDERAILS lew York-Miami Special Wrecked Five Miles From St Augustine ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Jan. 11.— H_The All-Pullman New Y^rk-to Florida Special was derail d a few miles north of here to ay, injuring 23 persons. The Florida East Coast railroad’s nain office here said no one re vived serious injuries and all but hree were discharged after receiv ng medical treatment. A broken ail was blamed for the accident, leneral Superintendent C. L". Beals laid there was no indication that he track had been tampered with. Eleven of the 15 cars left the ails, two of them overturning. The hree Diesel locomotive units re Inamed on the rails. The tracks Liere torn up for a considerable listance. f Passengers were placed on a spe lial train which continued to Miami ■ia an alternate route. Officials aid the tracks would be repaired nd regular traffic resumed ihortly. The three who were kept in a lospital for observation were list id as Mrs. Joseph Perlman and ler 10-month-old daughter, Ros ina, Broadmoor hotel, New York tty; and Patrick Trimboli, 12, lleveland street, Harrison, N. J. 'he nature of their injuries was lot disclosed. Other passengers who received reatment and were discharged fere listed as Nathan Rosenbaum, Mrs. Hedwig Zeckendorf, Mrs. Bet f Gordham, Miss Marcia Cohen, Mrs. Susie Alioto, Miss Gladys Til ord, all of New York city; An ■hony Jerone of Flushing, N. Y. Mrs. Mary Coppola and Mrs. Mae Loppola, Long Island, New York (Continued on Page Two; Cot. 5) Bolivian Government Orders State Of Seige ULAPAZ’ Bolivia- Jan. sieL yernment decreed a state of ing to day’ explaininS it was act mL'° Uppress vi°lence in the 0^0 areaS °f Potosi> Sucre and trictsfou^i011 in the three dis made thft‘V^ a demand was bute fir i & • government distri taxes on fr°vultPaI Public works terests n,a tjansfer of mining in Bolivian th?ed by Simon patino, ‘an tin magnate. ‘a* colSrnnTn4l had assignad tag Program ° ^ ,federal build % Of6o ; .fading construe “* ■«4|S_MS£,y' WEATHER NOfc'Pu ForrCAST: CARottv4 CAROLINA, SOUTH f P. 8. Weather Bureau) fc fa. m.23 ??onrature: t\ 7;30 P. JJ- L30 »• m. 18; 1:30 p. m. “”um 17; mean M- aximum «i min «*ean 29; normal 46. t**i. m.62 nid,ty: 7:30 P. m. V37° a’m- 77: 1:30 P- m. 7»tal for f'oc'Pltati on: *{!;. «.00 Inches • endinS 7:30 * ae month i « t*®4?1 Slnce the flr8t TiA t mches. Jfcom Tide Tom0r Today ** aa4 Gametic*Survey) by D‘ S' ^mington pish tow k„ 3:32a. 12:lla, ;°nb0r0 IaIat -- 3:20a. TZ ■fesashw*®-^ t'.'E.EV,":;'« e«mte. •tt. il, at 8 a. m.. 10.15 C<"“'«uea on page Three; Co, 4) la London Learns Hitler Conducts Army Purge (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 11.—Widespread rumors that Adolf Hitler had car ried out a purge among his army generals appeard strengthened by a Stockholm report today quoting a German spokesman as saying that changes in the German army would be announced “at a suitable time.” This comment, according to a Reuters dispatch quoting Berlin reports to the Swedish newspaper social Demokraten, was made spe cifically in reply to rumors that such a purge had been carried out. The Stockholm newspaper quot ed the spokesman, described as official, as adding that the time of the forthcoming announcement of changes “will not be determin ed by-foreign propaganda.” The rumors that all was not well within Germany, and particular ly between Hitler and the army, began to circulate freely with the first German setback on the Rus sian front six weeks ago, and they received impetus three weeks ago ’when Hitler suddenly dismissed his commander-in-chief, Gen. Wal ther Von Brauchitsch, veteran leader and army aristocrat. Gen. Fedor Von Bock, command er of the central front in Russia, and Col. Gen. Johannes Blas kowitz, a leader in the Polish cam paign, also have figured promi nently in these rumors. The list of generals rumored to have been dismissed or to have asked to re sign includes: Gen. Oscar Von Niedermayer, a close aide of Von Brauchitsch; Field Marshall Wilhelm Von Leeb, commander of the Leningrad front; Field Marshall General Karl Ru dolf Von Rundstedt, commander of the Southern Russian front; and Gen. Heinz Guderian, expert tank commander on the central Russian front. Today there came a new twist. The British radio broadcast a re port that “rumors are rife in Berlin” that Gen. Ernst Udet, quartermaster-general of the Ger man air force, “did not die as (Continued on Page Three; Col. 2) BLACKOUT SET FOR GOLDSBORO First Inlanr. District Test; State-Wide One May Come Later RALEIGH, Jan. 11.— Wl —The state’s first inland district black out—one of the series which may lead to a state-wide blackout test— will be held in the Goldsboro dis trict tomorrow some time between 8 and 10 p. m. Eventually, all 17 of the state’s districts will hold blackouts. The first district to be blacked out was Wilmington, and Fayette ville and Winston-Salem have held city-wide tests. The second of the inland district tests will be held in the Lumberton district Wednesday between 8 and 10 p. m. Such tests are held only on Army orders. A. B. Sansbury of Goldsboro is air raid warden in the Goldsboro district, which is composed of the towns of Bailey and Middlesex in Nash county, and the counties of Wayr.e, Wilson, Duplin, Sampson and Johnston with the exception of Benson. The aiy raid warden in the Lum berton district is E. J. Glover of Lumberton. Officials here have said t.h a t while they had no definite word on (Continned on Pace Two; Col,' 5) Army Buys In Week i4s Much Lumber As In All Of Last Year WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—UP) —The Army, getting ready for increased defense construction activities, purchased 700,000,000 board feet of lumber last week —almost half as much as. it bought in all of 1941. In announcing the transaction today, the War department said it was believed to be the largest purchase of its kind on record for any single buying agency, public or private. Aggregate 1941 purchases were two bilHon board feet. The 700,000,000 feet would make up a freight train ZBU miles long, comprising 28,003 carloads, or be sufficient to build a fence six feet high and 1,500 miles long, the department noted. The Army also bought some | nails—240,000 kegs. BARRACKS BURN; AT LEAST 16 DIE Wooden Building At Ca nadian Construction Camp In Flames SHIPSHAW, Que., Jan. 11.—(51— Fire which swiftly ate through a big wooden barracks in a construc tion camp here took the lives of at least 16 men, perhaps as many as 25, early today. Within an hour, all that was left of the big sleeping hut which housed more than 90 men, were charred, smoking timbers. Some of the men had died in their beds, others were found where they had fallen in door ways and on the floors of their in dividual cubicles into which the lodging was divided. Many of those who escaped leaped in their night-clothes from the blaz ing wings of the structure. Others, trying to escape, were pinned down by flaming, falling roofs and walls. Sixteen bodies were found and nine men still were unaccounted for. Another 26 were burned, some of them critically and five were report ed to be dying. The injured were taken to hos (Continued on Page Three; Col. S) Retread-Tire Price Fixed; Plea For Nurses Issued; “Victory Gardens ” To Be Sponsored - * Families Urged To Raise Own Vegetables As In Last World War WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.— W — The government clamped price ceilings today on charges that may be made for retreading tires and served notice, that prices _ of used tires Would be fixed within a few days to halt “serious profiteering.” A,t the same time two other ma jor moves were taken bearing on the war effort on the home front. The nation’s top-ranking medical officers—surgeons general James C. Magee of the Army ,Ross T. Mclntire of the Navy, and Thomas Parran of the Public Health Serv ice—appealed for enrollments in the nursing profession. Unless thousands of young wom en promptly enter schools of nurs ing, they said in a statement, a ' • /. ---¥ present shortage of nurses will “grow more critical.” The office of civilian defense an nounced it was preparing a victory garden program such as was car ried out in World War I when householders were urged to grow their own food. “The purpose of the program,” the OCD said, “is to sponsor in every community victory gardens. The produce from a community garden, divided into plots and worked by individual families, would go to the families doing the gardening. Produce from gardens managed and worked as commun ity undertakings, as well as sur pluses from home gardens, could be used for school lunch projects and emergency food needs.” The retread price schedule be comes effective Jan. 19 and was ordered into effect, price adminis trator Leon Henderson said, be cause profiteering in used and re treaded tires had reached a point! \ ENEMY ATTACKS SAMOAN STATION Small Japanese Ship Fires 14 Light-Caliber Shells But Does Little Harm WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.— m — An enemy attack on the naval sta tion at Tutuila, Samoan Island in the South Pacific, was reported to day by the Navy department. A communique said a small enemy vessel shortly after midnight Sun day (Samoan time) fired 14 shells of light caliber Into the naval sta tion area. The only casualties were three slight injuries to personnql. The naval station itself suffered no material damage. Tutuila is the chie£. island of. American Samoa and is?T276 miles' southwest of Honolulu. Pago Pago harbor in Samoa is rated as the safest and best harbor in the South seas, the Navy said, and the naval station is on this sheltered waterway. Samoa is an outpost on the long South Pacific route to Australia and Singapore, and had escaped attacks hitherto made by Japanese surface and submarine forces on other is land stations. -V When These Brothers Want Something They Get It, As This Proves PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 11.— —The three Otto brothers ot The Dalles, decided to join the Navy—and they wouldn’t take no for an answer. The trio, Howard, 20, Norman, 21, and George 26. sold their trucking business and came' here to enlist. Navy doctors told them they needed dental treat ment. They went to dentists. Then they needed birth certifi cation papers. George, the elder, verified the births of his broth ers and relatives in Detroit, Mich., scanned the family Bible for proof of George’s birth. Legal consent was needed to enlist Howard, a minor. George got himself appointed his brother’s legal guardian and gave his consent. Finally the two younger boys were accepted, but George, the doctors found, needed an opera tion. This done, he was accepted and left yesterday for San Diego to join his brothers at the Naval Training station. JAPS INVADE DUTCH INDIES A TFOUR POINTS, U. S. BOMBERS FIRE BA TTLESHIP OF ENEMY Mac Arthur’s Forces Repel Fresh Attacks By Japs In Philippines MANILA BOMBED AGAIN American Fliers Prey On Naval Craft And Troop Transports In South WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.— QP)—Heavy American Army bombers set afire a Japanese battleship today and pounded at other enemy vessels sup porting the current attempt of the Nipponese to seize the Dutch East Indies. The War department, in an nouncing the bomber attacks on Japanese naval craft and troop transports in the Gulf of Davao and the Celebes sea, between the East Indies and Mindanao, also disclosed that General Douglas MacArthur’s little army in Luzon had turned back a new attack by “heavily reinforced Japanese troops.” This engagement on Batan pen insula, said the communique, re sulted in "heavy enemy losses,” with the casualties in MacArth ur’s forces "relatively small.” Japanese bombers again pecked at Manila bay fortifications, after several days of quiet, but did little damage. The enemy also made an inef fectual stab at the United States naval station at Tutuila, Samoan islands. The islands, below the equator in the distant Pacific, are along a line over which American supplies to the Indies and Aus tralia could move. The Navy de partment announced that shortly after midnight Sunday (Samoan time) a small enemy vessel fired 14 small caliber shells into the station area, causing slight injur ies to three persons but no ma terial damage to installations. The formation of big Army bombers found the Japanese bat tleship in Malalag bay, more than (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) NAZI WINTER LINE PIERCED BY REDS Soviet Armies Surge Ahead From Leningrad To Do nets Basin, In Crimea MOSCOW, Jan. 11.—W—The Rus sians announced tonight that Red armies, surging forward from Len ingrad to the Donets basin, had smashed the German Vyazma-Bry ansk line and reoccupied the steel producing center of Lyudinovo. Lyudinovo, just over 100 miles southeast of Smolensk, is on the north-south rail line running be tween Vyazma and Bryansk. Tik honovo-Rustyn, important rail town northwest of Kaluga and east of the main German line also was reported re<--.ptured. (Soviet ^occupation of Lyu dinovo apparently meant that the Nazi’s so-called new winter line had been breached. It is in this area that Adolf Hitler is reported to have ordered his backtracking forces to hold their line at all cost. (Stilee another smashing Soviet victory reported by the Vichy radio, was the occupation of Bal aklava in the Crimea 10 miles south of the Russian Black sea (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) U. S. And Britain Sending Heavy Reinforcements SYDNEY, Australia, Jan. 11.— —Reinforce ments from the United States and Britain are on their way to the Far East, Australian Navy Minister J. M. Makin announced today in a speech in which he. foresaw security for the dominion' against “any menace.” Makin did not specifiy whether United States troops would be landed in Australia itself or used in other Pacific ocean war theaters as a screen for Aus tralia. (An Australian radio broadcast, heard in New York by CBS, however, indicated that American forces may operate anywhere in the Far Eastern zone. (The broadcast quoted a spokesman of the com monwealth department of information as warning that Australia might be cut off from the Dutch East Indies if Japan seized New Guinea and that “would make it difficult for us to' carry out concerted action with our Dutch allies, with the British in Malaya and Burma and with the American forces which may be expected to operate in the whole region.) BRITON DEMANDS DRIVE ON TUNISIA Admiralty Reports Axis Transport Carrying Troops Is Sunk LONDON, Jan. 11.—W)—A British drive straight through Libya - into French Tunisia was demanded to day hy a welLpqsted military ob server-writer as the admiralty an nounced that its submarines had sunk a large Axis transport 'laden with troops” and probably .destroy ed a supply vessel in the Ionian sea. The ships may have been headed for Libya from that arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and Greece, although the position of the attacks was not otherwise speci fied. The admiralty said that although the supply ship, of medium size, was not seen to sink it was dam aged so severely that its destruc tion “is considered probable.” As German general Erwin Rom mel continued to withdraw his bat tered army toward El Agheila, Maj. Gen. J. F. C. Fuller wrote in the Sunday pictorial that a “mere defeat” of Rommel was not enough. "At the very least, Tunisia and its great naval base at Bizerte must be occupied by us, and pow erful airfields must be established there to command the waist of the (Contlnned on Face Three; Col. 1) -v Roosevelt Biography Is Banned In Denmark STOCKHOLM, Jan. 11. —(M —A recently published biography of President Franklin D. Roosevelt by the Swedish journalist, Alfred Oeste, was banned today in Ger man-occupied Denmark. Oeste has been a correspondent for the Baltimore sunpapers and in 1931 received a journalistic award rom the Swedish-Ameriean doundation. Denmark also barred all works of Karl Marx, the 19th century German socialist and philosopher. 26 JAP PLANES ARE DESTROYED Allied Bombers Strike From Burma Bases At Foe Airports RANGOON, Burma, Jan. It.—<iF> —Raids on Japanese airdromes by the Allied forces based in Bu ma resulted in the destruction of at l$ast 26 Japanese planes, including 10 bombers, a communique an nounced today. The Allied air force lost only one machine, and probably more than the 26 Japanese machines were de stroyed, the communique said. No details were given as to loca tion of the raided Japanese airports, but presumably they were in Thai land. British and American pilots based in Burma have been striking with growing power at these points of Japanese air strength in recent days in efforts to help check Japan’s Malay offensive. Japanese raiders struck at Moul mein, 90 miles east of Rangoon, across the Gulf of Martaban, and at Tavoy, an island 250 miles south of Rangoon off the south Burma coast of the Malay peninsula In reprisal thrusts. Although the Japanese swooped down to 4,000 feet over the Moul mein airport and dropped 25 to 30 bombs, the official report said they did no particular damage and only killed one civilian and injured two. One of the raiders was unofficially reported to have been brought down. No damage or casualties were re portde at Tavoy. The raid at Moulmeln was at 3:16 a. m. Sunday. Rangoon had an air raid alarm at about the same time, but the all clear was sounded 45 minutes later. -V Car-Track Collision Leaves 1 Dead, 2 Hurt JACKSONVILLE, Jan. ll.-tft George Cassidy, about 25, was fat ally injured and two women ser iously hurt about. 2 a. m., today in an automobile - truck collision 10 miles northeast of here. Helen Robinson of New Bern and Nancy Heat of Greenville were carried to a Wilmington hospital. Bob Morg of Fuquay Springs was less seriously injured. 3 -V Committee Of House To Start Inquiry Into Chaotic Auto Business WASHINGTON. Jan. 11.—M —Chairman Patman (U.-Tex.), announced today that the House Small Business committee will open an investigation tomorrow into the “chaotic retail auto mobile situation” caused by gov ernment restriction of the sale of new cars. Officials of the National Auto mobile Dealers association will be the first to testify. Patman said government officials would be asked to appear later. “Reports reaching us indicate that dealers already are going out of business by the score and others surely will follow.” Pat man asserted. “Our committee feels that the government has a distinct responsibility to the public to see that this necessary dealer service is maintained.” There are approximately 44, 000 dealers in the nation. yo —_ where it "cannot and will not be allowed to continue.” "Your government cannot permit price to determine who can afford new rubber to the tread surface only. "Camelback” is the material used. Dealers selling retreaded tires may charge the meximum retread and who cannot affort to buy sec ond-hand tires in this time of war,” He asserted. "The public must be protected from exploitation.” For a 6.00 X 16 tire—the size used on most lower-priced passeng ers cars—the maximum permis sable charge for retreading or top capping when the best grade cam elback is used is $7.50. If done with second grade camelback, the maximum is $6.45. As defined in the order, “retread ing” is the process of removing old rubber down to the fabric and application of new rubber to the tread surface and side walls, "top •fcPping” means the application of I I - Government Determined To Prevent Profiteer ing In Crisis ing price in each category of pas senger car tires plus $1.50 for fur nishing. the tire carcass. Each treaded or recapped tire sold after 8 a. m. Jan. 19 must be accompanied b ya statement to the purchaser as to whether the tire had been retreaded or top-capped, the market price cf the camelback used, and the depth of the tread at the center of the tire after com pletion of recapping or retreading. All dealers in such tires must post in their shops a copy of the government’s maximum price list. On passenger car tires, the maxi mum prices are the eame for both retreading and top capping, but on truck tires there are differing sche dules for the two operations. 3 Attack Apparently Based On Davao; Pay Heavily To Gain Landings FIND SCORCHED EARTH Foe In Search Of Oil And Convenient Bases For Further Attacks BATAVIA, N. E. L, Jan. 11. — (&) — Japan’s invading armies have struck by sea and air in long-anticipated inva sion of The Netherlands East Indies, carrying the war in the Pacific to new battlefields, but the Dutch islands' defenders are put ting up stem and costly resistance, the Indies command announced to day. Pour footholds on the northern most fringe of the Dutch Archi pelago, one of the most coveted goals of Japanese Imperialism, have been established by the Invaders, it was disclosed in a series of special war bulletins. One landing was on Tarakan. a small island oil center off the north east coast of Dutch Borneo where, the Dutch said, the enemy pushed ashore by day and night from a strong, cruiser-escorted fleet of transports. This invasion was met by the is land garrison and Indies army bomb ers which were reported to have scored two direct hits on large Japa nese transports and to have shot down three enemy planes. Near misses also were scored on a cruiser, a communique said. The other three invasions, partly sea-borne and partly by parachutists, occurred during the night In sec tions of Mlnahassa, the long, nar row northern arm of the Island of Celebes. Beyond this, there were no details either of the size of the Japanese (Continued on Paso Three) Col. 4) BRITISHBATTLE FOR SINGAPORE Defenders Regroup Forces After Falling Back From Jap Tanks SINGAPORE. Jan. II.—Of)—Brit ish imperials fought for Singapore today along an irregular and fluid line varying from 160 to 200 miles north of this island stronghold. Fighting to regroup their forces after falling back before a tank powered Japanese offensive sus tained by bushwhacking Japanese infantrymen, the British gave no official account of the progress of the battle. Today’s communique, devoted entirely to air activities, said de fending planes were engaging in continuous patrol and reconnais sance, and that the Japanese air men were busy blasting at railway centers and bases. The last official word on the Brit ish positions was given in the com munique Saturday which said the imperials were falling back after some of the bloodiest fighting of the war along the Slim river 40 miles above Kuala Lumpur and 220 miles north of Singapore. It was known, however, that the Japanese had occupied or penetrat ed two-thirds of the Malay penin sula and had rolled forward ap proximately 50 miles in the fifth week of the war. -V Japanese Bank Records Are Damaged By Flames SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 11.—UR— Fire of undetermined origin dam aged records in the closed Yoko hama Specie bank today. The bank has been closed since the government froze Japaneze as sets before the war and treasury guards have been on 24-hour duty there. Fire Marshal Frank Kelly said the building has not been occupied and the basement where the fire started was believed inaccessible to outsiders. An investigation will be made to determine if the fire was started intentionally to destroy records, written in Japanese, which the government is examining. -V TRACY IS CH08EN HOLLYWOOD, Jail. 11.— GB — Film Actor Spencer Tracy was selected today as chairman of the motion picture committee, named to help conduct the President Roosevelt birthday campaign to raise funds to aid Infantile paralysis auffereia.'
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