REMEMBER
PEARL
_HARBOR
ESTABLISHED 1867.
MIT SUBMARINE SHELLS CALIFORNIA COAST
(jfcr’s fire
fs<s Mark,
Officials Say
foCasuSs Or Fires
Caused And Damage is
Reported Slight
25 SHOtTaRE FIRED
first Attack On Continen
tial United States Since
World War I
SANTA BARBARA. Calif.,
teb 23.—(.<?)—A submarine
appeared tonight near Goleta
J m miles north of
tere. aid fired between a
tesajitwo dozen shells at
asliffinery near the shore,
authoritative source
0 there were no casualties
nil no damage, and that no
ires were caused by the shell
G?.
Police were informed the
ferine appeared at about
o'clock and that the shelling
ontinued for several minutes.
Asked by police about damage, the
wager of the refinery, who report
(j the Incident, replied:
“I don't know. I’m too busy dodg
ing shells."
UrfGE of the refinery was given
as between Goleta and h-lv ood.
At Los Angelos President L. L.
Alien o! the Bankline Oil com
jjjj; irhich owns the refinery in
itt Sill, said there was practically
no damage and only one piece of
tppaeni was hit. He declined to
s; list the equipment was.
Shells Burst in Field
(witnesses said most of the
liells exploded in a field and one
rat over Highway 101, bursting
1 'It foothills.
Be Barnsdall and Rio Grande
Dcompanies own wells in the area.
The witnesses pointed out that the
helling started about the time the
'resident began to give his fireside
bat.
It was the first time that enemy
his have fallen on soil of the
atinental United States in World
ft l• In the First World War
*r* was only one attack on this
wry proper, and that was of an
*tct nature. A German U-boat
hacked a tugboat towing barges
I Cape Cod and some of the shells
sre reported to have fallen on the
ft Jt a point now marked by a
bt recalling the incident.
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SIXTEEN MISSING AS TUG RAMS BRIDGE • I
Thirteen men and three women, many of whom were trapped in their bunks
when the Ohio river tugboat G. W. McBride struck a bridge pier, at Newport, Ky.,
were listed as missing and feared lost. The tug, shown here as she rested against the
bridge pier of the Louisville-Nashville railroad bridge, was pushing four heavily
laden coal barges toward Cincinnati when she swung sideways and struck the bridge.
Only five crew members were known to have escaped.
Reds Move Within 50 Miles
Of Smolensk In New Drive
T
Full-Scale Central Front
Attack Menaces Nazi
Winter Headquarters
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, Tuesday, Feb. 24.—UP)
—Soviet forces have driven to with
in 50 miles of the German winter
headquarters at Smolensk in a full
scale central front attack which
started yesterday morning, the
Russians announced today.
The Soviet information bureau
said the spearhead of this drive
had reached Dorogobush, northeast
of Smolensk on the Sozh river.
This town lies about 15 miles south
of the main Smolensk-Moscow rail
road and is the terminus of a con
necting branch line.
Dorogobuzh also is beyond Vyaz
ma, one of the key Nazi winter
defense pivots.
The midnight communique which
told of stubborn battles in this area
said that in addition to Dorogo
buzh, a number of other populated
centers were liberated.
Heavy Aerial Fighting
Heavy aerial fighting accompa
nied the Russian advance and the
official announcement said that
yesterday 28 German planes were
destroyed, eight of them on the
ground. Twelve Soviet planes were
acknowledged lost.
Elaborating on the information
bureau’s communique, a radio an
nouncement said the full-scale as
sault toward Smolensk included
tank squadrons and masses of in
fantry.
Throughout Sunday, it added, So
viet troops were massed for the
attack while heavy artillery laid
down a massive barrage against
the Germans in preparation for
the zero hour at dawn yesterday.
The springing of the central at
tack followed reports that large
reserves have been moving up
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 8)
Draft Dodger Changes
His Mind, Registers
CHICAGO, Feb. 23. — f/P) —
Davit! Nyvall, Jr., changed his
mind today and registered for
selective service.
The 20-year-obl art student
was arrested last Monday on a
charge of violating the draft
law. Pleading guilty, he said he
had refused to register because
he had no grudges against the
Japanese and “didn’t want to
kill anybody.” His father de
clined to post bond and chose
to let him sit in jail and think
things over.
Today, the youth filled out his
registration card in the office of
the_United States marshal and
then returned to jail. He is to
appear in court March 9, when
probation investigators will
hand a report on his case to
Federal Judge William J.
Campbell.
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SHIP TORPEDOED
OFF CUBAN COAST
Vessel Reported Enroute
To U. S. With Cargo
Of Sugar
HAVANA, Feb. 23.—<A>>—1The
Cuban naval chief announced to
night that the freighter Cofresi of
5.000 to 6,000 tons was torpedoed
off the south coast of Cuba while
enroute to the United States with
50.000 bags of Cuban sugar.
Commodore Julio Diez Arguelles,
who made the announcement after
conferring in the presidential pal
ace with President Fulgencio Ba
tista, said the nationality of the
vessel was unknown to him. It is
not listed in Lloyds’ register of
shipping.
Army May Draft Fewer
From Farm Labor Ranks
_- *
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—UP)—
About 70 per cent of all Selective
Service registrants classified so
far have been deferred, Brig. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey reported today,
but that percentage is expected to
drop sharply as a result of the
Army’s recent relaxation of stand
ards for teeth and eyesight.
The Selective Service director,
however, made plain that the sup
ply of essential civilian workers,
such as farm laborers, should not
be depleted by the draft. Ques
tioned by the House Agriculture
committee in a study of a threat
ened farm labor shortage, he said
that many farm boys were reluc
tant to seek deferment lest they
be thought unpatriotic.
“One of the hardest men you
have to convince that he is a spe
cialist is the farmer,” Hershey de
clared. “Farmers are patriotic.
They don’t try to get exemptions.”
He added that the problem was
one for local draft boards to handle
and suggested that their agricul
ture members be more active in
opposing 1-A classifications for es
sential farm workers.
Rep. Flannaghan (D.-Va.) told
Hershey that the country “is get
ting fed up on suggestions” and
“would appreciate it if you would
assert your authority and tell some
of the draft boards where to head
in.”
Rep. Gilchrist (R.-Iowa) report
ed that he had received proposals
that uniforms be supplied to boys
defered as farm workers “so the
people will know they are working
for the country.”
Rep. C'real (D.-Ky.) warned that
the food production program would
bog down next year unless some
(Contlnued on Page Three; Col. 7)
SHUTDOWNS SLOW
DEFENSE EFFORTS
Numerous Plants Closed By
Wage Disputes Or Oth
er Difficulties
(By The Associated Press)
Approximately 17,000 workmen
remained away from their ma
chines on the West Coast yester
day.
The shutdown occurred only in
small plants around San Francisco
bay, at Seattle, 'Wash., and Port
land, Ore. The big plants engaged
in manufacturing warplanes and
ships kept operating because labor
contracts—crux of the situation in
smaller factories—covered holiday
work.
Employers of labor in the small
plants said they could not pay the
double time called for in AFL con
tracts while union leaders said they
could not ask their men to work
for less.
In Berkeley, Calif., the 550 em
ployes of the Hall Scott Motor com
pany worked and turned over their
day’s wages of time and one-half
to the Navy Relief society. Gener
al manager Robert P. Palmgren
said the employes suggested it.
The company makes Marine en
gins for Britain.
The holiday was marked by
another labor dispute in San Pedro,
Calif., where nearly 3,500 CIO
workers walked out of the Bethle
hem shipbuilding Corp. yards in
protest, their spokesman said,
against a 10-hour day initiated Feb.
12.
The action was taken at the end
cf eight hours “to bring the com
pany to terms,” the spokesman
said, adding that the night shift,
which Started at 5:30 p. m., would
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 3)
WEATHER
FORECAST
North Carolina: Rain, mixed with
snow in the mountains, not much
change in temperature except coider
extreme west portion Tuesday.
South Carolina: Rain, not much
change in temperature Tuesday*
(Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.)
By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Temperature
1:30 a. m. 40; maximum 52. 7:30 a.
m. 34; minimum 32. 1:30 p. m. 52;
mean 42. 7:30 p. m. 46; normal 49.
Humidity
1:30 a. m. 57. 7:30 a. m. 69. 1:30 p. m.
32. 7:30 p. m. 54.
Precipitation
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. m. 0.00 inches.
Total since the first of the month
2.14 inches.
Tides
(From Tide Tables Published By U.
S. Coast and eGodetic Survey)
High Low
Wilmington - 4:28a 11:54a
4:53p -
Masonboro Inlet_ 2:07a 8:36a
2:35p 8:51p
Sunrise: 6:47a. Sunset: 6:03p.
Moonrise: 12:35p. Moonset: 1:55a.
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 4)
ROOSEVELT DECLARES ALLIES
WILL SOON TAKE OFFENSIVE
AND DRIVE ON TO VICTORY
• v
U. S. Bombers
Destroy Nine
Jap Warships
Twenty-Four Others Re
ported Damaged In Fight
ing Since January 1
48 PLANES WRECKED
MacArthur Victor In Phil
ippine Campaign; Lull
Gives Troops Respite
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.— UP) —
The score of American warplanes
fighting in The Netherlands Indies
was placed by the War department
today at nine or more Japanese
ships sunk, 24 damaged, and 48
enemy planes destroyed since Jan
uary 1.
To this toll, six medium Jap
bombers were believed added to
day as a result of a raid on a Jap
anese-held airdrome at Denpasar
on the island of Bali. A formtion
cf Flying Fortress bombers exe
cuted this raid scoring several di
rect hits and returning to their
home bases unscathed.
The summary of losses inflicted
on the foe was given in a com
munique which said it represented
incomplete estimates. Officials
said it excluded full returns from
the air and sea battle of Bali and
all blows dealt by the Navy and by
forces of other United Nations.
U. S. Losses Not Listed
American losses were not listed,
but the War Department had re
ported in previous communiques
the destruction of four heavy, long
range American bombers. Two of
these were downed in an air battle
over Menado, Celebes, cn January
19 in which nine Japanese fighter
planes were sent crashing. Two
others were marked off in the sub
<Continue(l on Page Three; Col. 2)
AUSTRAUATAKES
WAR TO JAPANESE
Planes Bomb Jap Installa
tions On Islands 800
Miles Away
CANBERRA, Australia. Feb. 23.
—(ffl—The strategic and threatened
northern Australia .area clustered
around Port Darwin, twice bombed
Naval oiling station, went under
military control tonight as the con
tinent braced itself against the
Japanese now less than 400 miles
away.
The restricted area extended
some 300 miles south to Birdum
at the end of a railway from Dar
win on the vital rail-highway-rail
link through the center of Aus
tralia.
Australian planes struck heavily
at dawn at Japanese airdromes
and shipping at and near Rabaul,
enemy-occupied port in New Brit
ain some 800 miles off the north
east tip of Australia. The raid was
carried out in extremely bad
weather, but some hits were ob
served.
Some Japanese fighters rose to
attack high above the clouds but
the Australian bombers maintained
formation and drove away the ene
my, damaging at least one. Other
attacks were made on Rabaul Sun
day night. I
Some enemy air activity was re
ported in the New Guinea area
over the weekend. Japanese flying
boats dropped bombs near Allied
shipping in the Timor sea without
results, an RAF communique said.
The flood of volunteers for the
swelling Australian imperial force
was so heavy that the deputy di
rector general of recruiting an
nounced in Melbourne that an in
tensive recruiting drive would not
be necessary.
Nearly a third of Australia’s doc
tors are now serving in the armed
forces 2
Daring Divers Recover
$10,000,000 In Gold
From Sunken Liner
AUCKLAND, New Zealand,
Feb. 23.—(iP)—A daring, year
long hunt for sunken treasure,
rivalling anything ever told in
story books, has been complet
ed with recovery of $10,000,000
worth of gold bullion from the
hulk of the sunken British lin
et Niagara in mine and shark
infested waters off Auckland. *
With the bars of precious
medal stowed away safely in a
bank vault, the full story of
the recovery became known to
day.
The treasure hunt was or
ganized shortly after the Nia
gara, bound from New Zealand
t(. Canada, struck a mine and
went down 00 miles off Auckland
June 19,1940. But it was not
until Feb. 2, 1941, that the wreck
was located.
A Melbourne salvage company
took over the operations under
contract to the Commonwealth
bank.
Veteran divers were enlisted
and guaranteed a percentage of
all the gold they retrieved. Be
sides risking their lives, they
staked their assets on the suc
cess of their task. Some mort
gaged their homes. But today
they’re in the money.
In diving to the ocean floor
the/ counted 150 miles. Chief
Diver John Johnstone of Mel
boujjjie established a world rec
ord with a 528-foot descent in an
observation bell.
They found the Niagara ly
ing on her side and it was nec
essary to blast a hole through
her plates and cut away the
decks to reach her strong room.
A special explosive made of
gelignite with a core of gun cot
ton was used. Charges were
lowered in a container slit on
one side, which was placed
against the part to be cut away.
This work was directed by
telephone from a diver in an ob
servation bell. In the slow and
painstaking preliminaries it was
necessary for the diver to return
to the surface before each charge
was set off.
Altogether 4,000 pounds of ex
plosives were used before the
way was cleared to the strong
room and its vast trove.
The first of the yellow bars
was brought to the surface last
Oct. 13, the last on Dec. 7.
I
British Admit Burma
‘Gravely’ Threatened
^ ______:
Japanese, Reinforced From
Singapore, Smashing
Swaying English Line
By WILLIAM J. HUMPHRIES
LONDON, Feb. 23. — (iP) — All
Burma was threatened gravely to
night as Japanese assault units,
probably reinforced by troops from
Singapore, were reported still smash
ing- against the swaying British lines
between the Bilin and Sittang
rivers.
British authorities admitted that
hopes for holding Rangoon were
dwindling and that its fall probably
would open the way to Japanese In
vasion of the whole colony, the bar
rier to India and gateway to China.
The scant news of the Burma
fighting came from Calcutta and
Chungking, suggesting that the
cable t.J Rangoon, at the mouth of
the muddy Irrawaddy river, had
been -cut.
Meager official accounts available
here said the greatly outnumbered
British were fighting desperately in
a triangle at the top of the Gulf of
Martaban but slowly were being
foi'ced back upon the Sittanic, only
20 miles from the important Ran
goon-Mandalay-Lashio railway which
until last week fed supplies to the
Burma road.
That vital supply line to embat
tled China already was virtually
sealed, because the entry port of
Rangoon was mined nearly a week
ago and it appeared probable that
Japanese bombers had cut the rail
way. Storied Mandalay, near its
northern terminus, had been bombed
severely and there were reports of
explosives falling on Toungoo and
Pegu, cities on the steel line.
CHURCHILL MAY
YIELD TO INDIA
Expected To Make Conces
sions In Return For in
creased Military Aid
LONDON, Feb. 23.—DP'—The Jap
anese drive into Burma, eastern
gateway to India, has sharpened the
urgency for British political con
cessions to India’s millions in ex
change for a greater war effort on
their part and Prime Minister
Churchill is expected to make a
statement soon clarifying the situa
tion.
Just what line of action Churchill
would pi^pose remained unclear but
Whitehall informants cautioned that
it would be a mistake to regard
either the British government or
Indian party representatives as pre
pared for a quick solution.
These informants pointed out that,
while there has been a swing of
Indian national leaders from bene
volent neutrality to' partial coopera
tion with Britain, there still remains
a big problem in placating Moham
med Ali Jinnah’s potent all-India
Moslem league.
“There is no indication that Jin
nah’s followers have abandoned their
aim of creating Moslem states.”
said one source “there still are 100,
000,000 Moslems in India who be
lieve themselves a superior element
to the 200.000,00 Hindus.
“The Hindus hold fast to an ail
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 6)
Earth-Bound Generation
Of Men Is Disappearing
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23.—(A>>—
This is the last generation of earth
bound men. The next one will have
wings. Technology will be its ser
vant and it will think differently
than the ordinary grownups of to
day.
Even young children might be
taught the elements of parachute
operation. High school students will
go on to the science of aeronautics
This country will have specialists
by the million.
All this is plainly foreshadowed,
by the awakening of America to its
needs in the face of danger.
“This change,” said Dr. Alexan
der J. Stoddard, Philadelphia sup
erintendent of schools,” began sev
eral years ago in many parts of
the world, but we, along with some
of our neighbors, resisted it and
refused to recognize its coming.
‘<Even though our country now is
t ■
building airplanes in swarms and
is rapidly becoming the greatest
air power in the world, we who
teach have not fully realized the
significance of the new day for
the schools.
"Are we, the last generation of
the earth-bound, able to teach this
new generation, the first genera
tion with wings?”
To do so, Dr. Stoddard said, the
educational system must be flex
ible and efficient enough to switch
even to the extreme of teaching
parachute operation to young chil
dren; to substitute airplanes for
apples in arithmetic problems; to
carry air - mindedness into art and
dramatics, ar.d to learn and teach
the hundreds of new words coin
ed by new technologies.
In addition the schools must step
up immeasurably their efforts to
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“We, Not They, Will Win
The Final Battles,”
President Pledges
LONG STRUGGLE SEEN
But Increasing War Pro
duction Will Give Us Su
periority, He Promises
By RICHARD L. TURNER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—
(IP)—President Roosevelt said
tonight that America had
been “compelled to yield
ground” to its enemies, but
he added that with constantly
increasing war production,
the Allies would take the of
fensive soon and drive on to
victory.
“We and the other United
Nations are committed to the
destruction of the militarism
of Japan and German^,” he
said. “We are cfaily increasing
our strength. Soon, we and
not our enemies, will have the
offensive; we, not they, will
win the final battles; and we,
not they, will make the final
peace.”
Despite cruelly long distances
involved, the President disclosed,
“a large number of planes”
manned by American pilots, ‘‘are
now in daily contact with the ene
(Text On Page 5)
The full text of President
Roosevelt’s address will be found
on Page 5.
my in the southwest Pacific.” And,
he said, “thousands of American
troops” are also in the area.”
The chief executive also said re
cent surveys had disclosed that the
prodigiously high production goals
established twc months ago would
be attained, and this, he repeated
ly emphasized, was the key to vic
tory.
Mr. Roosevelt spoke by radio
from the White House in the third
major address he has made since
the country entered the war.
Among his millions of listeners
were Washington birthday diners
at about 60 democratic party gath
erings throughout the country.
These are *the gatherings which
are usually held on Jackson day
early in January but were post
poned this year. Contributors to
the party’s campaign fund are in
vited to them and democratic lead
ers predicted the dinners would
more than wipe out the $600,000
deficit remaining from the 1940
campaign. The principal dinner—
(Continued on Pago Three; Col. 5)
SCHOOLS ASK BIDS
ON NEW PROJECTS
Proposals Call For One
New Building And Addi
tions To Two Others
Call for sealed proposals on gen
eral and heating and plumbing con
tracts on a new school building on
Chestnut street, a second story to
the Bradley’s Creek building and
an addition to the Peabody build
ing was issued Monday by Dr.
John T. Hoggard chairman of the
Board cf Education of New Han
over county.
Bids will be received by the
board until 12 o’clock Thursday,
March 12, Dr. Hoggard said.
In announcing the call for pro
posals on the three projects. Doc
tor Hoggard said this was the last
section cf the nine-project expan
sion program being constructed at
a total cost of 867,000 with $814,.
000 being furnished by the federal
government and $25,000 by the
county.
While these are the last of the
cor.struction Contract awards to be
made, Dr. Hoggard said the board
expected to call for bids on equip
ment for the new buildings and
additions possibly within two
weeks. He said the classrooms
were expected to be refldy for oc
cupancy by September 1.
The Chestnut street building,
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