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Served By Leased Wire Of The -- ASSOCIATED PRESS REMEMBER With Complete Coverage Of PEARL State and National News l-- HARBOR VOL. 75—NO. 134 ~ - - - --—- ESTABLISHED 1867. India Js Offered Dominion Status After The Wr ' - ^ Country Would Have Pow er To Secede Under Cripps Proposal MOSLEMS GAIN POINT Possiblity Of Two Autono mous Held Open Un der Concession MEW DELHI, India, Mar. 30,—(/pi—Sir Stafford Cripps announced today that the British war cabinet’s plan of freedom for invasion-threat ened India proposes cieation after the war of a new Indian union which would be a do minion within the British Empire but which would have the power to secede. . During the interim Britain would continue to direct and control defense of the vast sub-continent and its dJU, 00O"OOO people, now in bomb ing' range from JfPanefe planes in Burma and_the An daman islands, but Sir Staf iford declared that Biitain looked to the Indian people to fully mobilize their manpower and war resources under the impetus of their dawning m Turning^to the troublesome prob lem o India's many discordant minorities. Sir Stafford said states or provinces which did net accede to the new constitution could a»ree upon a separate constitution whicn Britain would recognize as having Che same full status as the Indian union. Concession to Moslems This was a concession to the big Moslem minority of 77.000.000 which fears domination by the 240. 000.000 Hindus, and held open the possibility of two autonomous In The British emissary said Brit ain was prepared to enter into treaty relations with the proposed new constitutional congress whicn would be organized after the war to set ur India’s new government and institutions. This treaty, he said, would ‘‘cov er all necessary matters arising cut of the complete transfer of responsibility from British to In dian hands” and would “make pro vision in' accordance with under takings given by his majesty’s gov ernment for the protection of racial and religious minorities.” Sir Stafford made public the British cabinet's draft declaration, brought by him from London, a; a press conference after Sunday discussions with Indian leaders in which his mission moved along an outwardly smooth course. Sir Stafford told a press con ference that the plan was merely a proposal and “not the publica tien of a declaration by his majes ty's government, but only of- a declaration that they would be pra (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) CURL ANDJIM PUT ON A SHOW Neat Collection Taken Un til Policeman Breaks Up Matinee ttvFn a song and dance weren’t **»»•:>ry for Curly and Jim to t;ke i!n collection—their only act '“:n? an occasional scuffle for cen "ks end a quarter one time. Origin of the show, the scene of "hich w:ls on Front street in front 'f the postoffice, is uncertain, but. 5 Policeman pulled down the curtain 5f Quick as a flash, lu ,.l,e beginning only a few civil and soldiers were lined along tho i'ostoffice steps with Curly and ijrri holding the center of the arena, "bf-n. one — a Sunday afternoon hfollr-r along Front street—halted ':’ li bis curiosity—followed bv tbie,.. f;vfi| two, six and finally the jhklience had grown until the side "•"11; was blocked. That’s when the Policeman went into p.ction. the pennies stopped rolling and "*tp cleared awav, the officer ao I'jcached Curly, a boy of about eight V'b curly hair of a reddish hue and '“okstd in a coverall knee-length ju,t (the antonym of immaculate) old securely about the waist bv a ipe-ineh safety pin. After the Police man had emitted fewer than -blf dozen words in an undertone. “P’y vanished in the audience. ut the lure of money was not jj Quickly forgotten by Jim who been less fortunate at the grab (Con*»,uwl FaJe Ihree; col. 4) PROFITS Kdrnund H. Toland, chief coun sel for the Naval Affairs Commit tee of the House of Representa tives, is shown with one of the charts he used while testifying for the committee in Washington, D. C. He told of the tremendous salary boosts received by execu tives of the naval ordnance con struction concerns in 1941. Toland said increases ranged from 22 to 1.331 percent.—Central Press. INCREASED HEP ASKED FOR REDS Beaverbrook Says Hopes Of Humanity Centers On The Russian Front MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 29. —(.¥>—Lord Beaverbrook, in the United States to speed lend-lease aid to the Allies, tonight singled out the Russian front as the one on which “the hopes of humanity” are centered, and urged that all possible supplies be sent to this “most critical battlefront in the history of civilization.” The British ler.d-lease co-ordina tor declared that Prime Minister Churchill, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister MacKenzie King of Canada were fully aware of the need. “We recognize the opportunity presented by the epic battle of the Russians,” Beaverbrook said in a broadcast to Canada. “If the Russian armies were scattered beyond the Urals, all our hopes would be scattered too. Nazi Germany would possess the sinews to fight a war that would be long indeed, and ravenous Japan would set new and distant horizons.” After suffering “all the vesations of defeat and retreat,” Beaver brook said, “the cry goes up now for offensive action. Action. This is the proper mcod for great na tions who are resolved to remain great.” “Such then is our mood today, he continued. “And it is in this mood that we recognize the debt we owe to Russia. “But the Russians have already shewn themselves unconquerable in a test of vile and unexampled savagery. They fought a six months' retreat, and compelled the enemy to pay in German blood for every inch of the land they defiled. “It was the Russians who dic tated the terms of total war.” Beaverbrook praised the “high courage and mighty devotion to homeland” displayed by the Rus sians when Moscow was threat ened, and asserted that the battle of 1942, unlike the 1941 defensive, offered a chance to smash Ger many. “The resolve of Britain, Canada and America must be to play our full part in this first, deadly, of fensive stroke against the boast ing enemy,” he continued. The British statesman arrived in the United States last Tuesday on a British flying boat. He sped to Washington for a first start at his j (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) Japanese Force Chinese Withdrawal From City CHUNGKING, Mar. 29—(®—Jap anese troops, heavily reinforced, have forced a Chinese withdrawal at Toungoo to positions along the railway running north to Manda layn it was announced tonight in a communique from the Burma front. “Chinese forces, however, re mained in control of the eastern section of the c:ty, with the Jap anese in control of the western section,” the communique added. Eailier highly placed informants here said the bulk of C h in e s e throjgh the Japanese encirclement and that severe fighting was raging in the eastern suburbs. Th e s e Bataan Army Back <£>-%tfttack .^losses Reported In flicted On Enemy In Bitter Fighting CORREGIDOR BOMBED But Island Fortress Breaks Up Concentration Of Small Boats WASHINGTON, Mar. 29— l/Pl — American- Filipino forces have hurled back a new Japanese at tack on the Bataan peninsula front with “heavy losses” to the enemy, the War Department reported to day, while artillery fire from the island fortresses smashed a con centration of small, hostile boats off Patungan beach. Heavy bombing attacks on Cor regidor and the Bataan rear posi tions accompanied what the de partment said was a “heavy” at tack on the right center of the American-Filipino line. Military ob servers here thought the apparent ly er.chronized activities of the enemy might be the forerunner of a long-expected offensive. A war communique said Amer ican-Filipino land casualties were I “relatively light” and the bombing damage slight. The small boats, presumably an invasion fleet, had been assembled by the enemy almost opposite Car abao island, site of Fort Frank, farthest outlying American fortica tion, and about 10 miles due scutn of Correigdor. A similar concentra tion of barges and small boats was hammered to pieces several weeks ago by the big guns of the fort resses. The Corregidor attack marked the fifth successive day that Jap anese airmen have bombed this rocky island fortress but anti-air craft fire from Fort Milis, the War Department said, kept the planes at “extremely high altitudes ana as a result the bombing was in accurate.” To date, eight Japanese bombers have been bagged by Fort Mills' gunners. __... . V-_ TEXTILE STRIKERS CALLED TO MEET Fal' River Will Consider Proposal At Ses sion Today FALL RIVER, Mass., March 29 —CP)—Striking members of the American Federation of Textile operators, who have tied up 18 mills working on government orders, to night were called to a mass meeting tomorrow ‘‘for consideration of a proposal.” Announcement of the meeting by William Doster. chairman of that independent union’s emergency com mittee, came as the first definite indication that federal and state mediators were making some head way in their attempt to settle the six-day labor dispute, affecting 10,000 textile workers. Doster declined to amplify his brief statement, which said only “I am calling a meeting of A. F. T. O. workers tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock for consideration of a pro posal.” A day-long series of separate con ferences of Federal Mediator Neblet (CQ) with the rival factions—the A. F. T. O. and the CIO—preceded Doster’s announcement. Gradual shutdown of the mills, where 60 percent of the work has been on government contracts, was forced *>y the walkout of 1,500 key w’orkers—members of the independ ent AFTO—in protest of a National Labor Relations board ruling reject ing their petition to, organize the mills on a craft rather than on an industrial V>asis.__ » sources said heavy engagements were proceeding at other points along the Rangocn-Mandalay rail way. The exact situation at Toungoo was confused by a conflicting com munique issued by the British at New DeJhi saying the Chinese still were holding their lines at Tou loo, although outnumbered and under repeated enemy land and air attacks. Today’s Chinese communique le ferred to fighting continuing there “the night of March 27,” indicat (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) i TO VATICAN Ken Harada, who for the past two years has been Counselor at the Japanese Embassy in France, has been appointed a Special Min ister to the Vatican, according to the official German wireless. The negotiations between the Vatican and Tokyo were protested by the United States and Great Britain. —Central Press. SEVENTH LIBERTY SHIP IS LAUNCHED Joseph Hewes Slides Down Ways At N. C. Ship yard Here Sunday For the second time within sev en days, a 10,000 ton “Liberty” freighter has been launched from the ways of the North Carolina Shipbuilding company here. The S. S. Joseph Hewes, seventh ship to be christened at the ship yards, was sponsored by Mrs. Thomas Hewes, Hartford, Conn , a direct descendant of the colonial shipping magnate for whom the ship is named. With a few hundred spectators present, the vessel was released from its holding blocks at 9:15 o'clock Sunday morning and a few moments later w a s straining against the tide of the Cape Fear river. Acting as matrons of honor with Mrs. Hewes were Mrs. Oliver Wendell Hammonds, Washington. D. C., also a descendant of Joseph Hewes, and Mrs. Richard Dixon, Edenton, the wife of Superior Court Judge Richard Dixon. Joseph Hewes, a native of the state cf New Jersey, came to Edenton at the age of 25. A poor man, Hewes began making his liv ing in the merchandise and ship ping business. In a few years he had expanded his poor holdings into a great fleet of merchant ves sels on the Atlantic ocean between the colonies and Europe. He was recognized as the leading mer chant of the entire colonies. In the year 1775, Hewes was made chairman of the Naval Af fairs committee, a body which con trolled America’s first Navy. He is credited with giving John Paul Jones his first commission in the services of America. Hewes was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence, an l he is recognized as one of the leading contributors to American freedom. 2 ir Baron De Bournat Arrives In Lisbon LONDON, Mar. 29— (JP> —Free French headquarters said tonight that Baron De Bournat, former gov ernor of St. Pierre and Miquelon islands who is en route to Vichy, had arrived with his wife at Lisbon. De' Bournat was taken into cus tody when the islands, off New foundland, were occupied by Free French forces on Christmas eve, 1941. He was brought back to London where British foreign office officials directed that, in response to his re quest, lie be repatriated to unoc cupied France. WEATHER FORECASTS: NORTH CAROLINA — Little change in temperature Monday. SOUTH CAROLINA — Slightly higher temperatures Monday. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:3() p. m. yesterday): (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 47; 7:30 a. m. 44: 1:30 p. m. 54 : 7:30 p. m. 56; maximum 60; minimum 43; mean 52; normal 57 Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 84: 7:30 a. m. 77; 1:30 p. m. 54: 7:30 p. m. 52 Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches: total since the first of the month, 5.44 inches. Tides For Today: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low W'ilmington - 8:13a. 2:54a. 8:39p. 3:22p. Masonboro Inlet- 5:53a. -a. 6:22p. 12:15p. Sunrise 6:02a; sunset 6:31p; moonrise 4:48p; moonset 4:54a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Sunday, at 8 a. m„ 11.00 feet. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) Nazi Attack Upon Moscow Is Shattered Some Casualties Result As One Or Two Planes Crash Defenses NO OBJECTIVES HIT German Kalinin Front At tacks, Disintergrates, Turns Jnto Rout Bv EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW. Mar. 29.—Iff!—German planes raided Moscow today and caused some casualties as Ger man counter-attacks on the Kalinin front northwest of the city were reported to have stalled and dis integrated into rout after a five day battle. One or two German planes reached Moscow, dropping their bombs haphazardly, hitting a num ber of houses. The rest of a formation was dis persed by the Russian defenses and 1hree German planes were re ported destroyed. The smash.ng of the German couster-attacks on the Kalinin front put an end. at least temporarily, to a furious German attempt to regain the initiative in this region of the long front. 16,075 Killed A special communique tonight said guerrillas m the Leningrad area have killed 16,075 German soldiers and 643 officers, including 11 colonels and three generals, in the past eigh; months. These behind-ihe-lines warriors were credited also with killing 67 gestr.po agents, 163 spies and “tra'tors” and derailment of 114 trains loaded with Nazis and equip ment. In this eight-month period the communique listed 116 German sol diers and 11 officers taken prison er by guerrillas of the Leningrad front. They were declared further to have destroyed sight German headouarters stations, 89 planes. 98 tanks, 2,377 motor vehicles. 64 tractors, 96 guns and 359 horses. The thwarted Gentian counter thrusts in the Kalinin area saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the winter war. The attacks probably w ere aimed at relieving the trapped German 16th Army at Slaraya Russa which the Russians have been reducing for a month. The Germans attempted to cut off a wedge of the Red Army, but the dispatches said this failed. Red Star said the Russians had divided the German concentrations into two groups and the plight of the Nazis was increasingly diifi (Continuert on Paife Two; Pol. G) WALLACE QUICK TO ANSWER DIES Effect Will Be Less Damag ing If He Was On Hitler Payroll, He Says WASHINGTON Mar. 29— UP) — Rep. Dies tD-lex) charged to night* that “at least 35 high of fdials’’ of the Board of Economic Warfare had communistic records and drew from V'ce President Wal lace the prompt retort: “The doubts and angers which this and similar statements of Mr. Diesend to arouse in the public mind might as well come from Goebbels himself so far as their practical effect is concerned. As a matter cf fact, the effect on our morale would be less damaging if Mr. Dies were on the Hitler pay roll.’ Dies made public a letter to Wal lace, who is chairman of the board, naming eight board employes with salaries ranging lrom $2,600 to $6. 500 whb he said had been affiiia*ed with communist front organizations and demanding tneir ouster. One of these, to whom Dies de voted three pages of his letter, was said by the congressman also to advocate “the widespread prac tice of nudism in this country” and to tie “his philosophy of nu dism up with his ideas of eco nomics.” “He does not otter it in the form of an experiment or an occasional diversion or a lad,” Dies wrote, “but quite seriously declares that it snould ‘be practiced whenever feasible in office, workshop and factory.’ The author professes to believe that nudism has the great est advantages for the home and for society generally. Wallace immediately issued a statement in reply to what he call ed Dies “open letter” saying that the economist in question had been “employed because ot responsible work wnrch he aid in London on blockade control for the United States War Trade Board during the last war” and defending his gov ernment service and his record as a sociologist.” ST. NAZAIRE DOCKS WRECKED BY BRITISH IN DARING INVASION -1 Blockade Destroyer Goes Down Fighting LONDON, Mar. 29.—(HP)—The doughty old American destroyer which joined the British navy and found death and glory at St. Nazaire went to her sell'-appoint ed end defiantly, her guns blaz ing. In glowing words, the epitaph of H. M. S. Campbeltown, form erly the U. S. S. Buchanan, was written today by an Exchange Telegraph correspondent who ac companied the commando raid early yesterday on the Nazi-held French naval base. A four-stacker of 1919 vintage, the Campbeltown steamed into St. Nazaire “with the utmost in evitability,'1 correspondent Gor don Holman wrote. “She defied German submarines, mines and concentrated fire from shore batteries until- she crashed through boocn defenses and charged the dock entrance,” he added. “Naval personnel showed the highest courage .and continued to fire the ex-American destroy er’s guns even after her bows were ablaze. "Only when the flames spread did they run from the decks straight onto adjacent landing stages which were swept by Nazi fire. “Still so thoroughly American in her lines, although she flew the white engisn, she found at her end a place in history along side the Vindictive and block ship of Zeebrugge fame. He related that most of the commandos who drove home the audacious attack “fought on un til they either were casualties or (Continued on Page Three; Col. -) Canadian Troops Landed In Britain Commander Expects 1942 To Be A Big Year In Settling The War A BRITISH PORT, Mar. 29—Iff) _Lieut. Gen. A G. L. McNaugh-on Canadian commander of a British army corps, returned to Britain from North America today and brought with him new thousands of Canadian fighting men and the prediction that J942 would be a big year.” The new forces included b o h armv and airforce personnel and will swell the already large do minion and norne forces already in the United Kingdom, ready for whatever the year may bring. McNaughton. fresh from confer ences in Ottawa and Washington and inspections c.i Canadian war industry, had is to say ot 1942 before he disembarked: “No appropriate opportunity to kick the other fellow (Hitler) in the back will be wasted. We are always looking for it. “On the ot.rer hand, there will be rothing foolhardy likely to in volv. needless loss of ''fe Of his trip to Canada and Wash ington Gen. McNuughton said: “It was an extremely valuable trip, one in wilier we accomplished a great deal and which should help us over here. “I am sure the decisions taken will bring useful results. I don’t know of a single thing left unset tled. “We were able to bring all the various problems of organization and administration to a focus and to find satisfactory answers to all questions at issue. “It is quite evident that the gov ernment and ‘he people of Canada are thoroughly determined that maximum support in this war agamst Hitler will be given, and that applies not only to the army but io the air !•. rce, and equally as important, to .ndustry." Further forces being trained in Canada will be brought over as rapidly as shipping is available, he said. -V Greek King Plans To Visit America JERUSALEM, Mar. 20—UP>—King George II of Greece intends to visit the United States before returning to England, Greek Premier Em manuel Tsouderos said here today. The king is on an inspection tour of Greek forces training in the Mid dle East with U. S. and Bril: % equipment. He plans to spend sev eral days in the field, personally di recting the maneuvers. ALLIES REDUCE JAP AIR POWER New Phase Of War In Aus tralian Theatre Is About To Begin By VERN HAUGLAND MELBOURNE. Australia, Mar. 29—(iPl—he American - Australian air team is definitely calling the tune after sharply reducing Jap anese hitting power and a new phase of the war in the Australian theater is about to begin, military observers said today. While Gen. Douglas MacArthur started a week of important con ferences with Australian and American military leaders at his headquarters on means of further strengthening defenses ar.d prepar ing an offensive. Australian com muniques announced that at least seven and pcssibly nir.e Japanese planes were knocked down in Sat urday’s raids on Darwin and Port Moresby. At MacArthur’s headquarters a spokesman announced that Amer ican Negro ground troops, mostly skilled technical workers, a re among the forces in Australia re inforcing the large numbers of Australian and New Zealand air men and troops which have return ed from distant wars to defend their homeland. Attacks weaner Pointing to the growing weak ness of Japanese attacks. Prime Minister John Curtin said only seven Japanese bombers made the attack on AustraTa’s little north western port of Darwin Saturday and that two of them were shot down, another probably bagged and a fourth possibly accounted for. This, the seventh attack on the port, was the “most expensive” yet for the Japanese and “afford ed him negligible results” since the bombs did nc military or na val damage and caused r.o cas ualties at all. None of the defend ing Allies planes was lost. When Japanese bombers attack ed Port Moresby, key defense center of New Guinea, for the 21st time heavily outnumbered Royal Australian air force fighters man ned by young pilots rushed to meet them and downed five of the ac companying Japanese fighters, said reports from the attacked port Surprised by the vehemence of the countei attack, the Japanese fighters left the bombers to take (Continued on Patce Two: Col. 4) Women To Get Chance In U. S. War Effort NEW YORK, Mar. 29—(^(—Be fore 1942 ends every healthy girl and woman in the United States will have her own job in the war assigned and will be on that job Margaret Culkin Banning, Duluth, Minn., novelist, said tonight. Declaring that “our kind of civil ization has not made women soft,” she said in an address prepared for an international “women in war” radio symposium (N B C> sponsored by the National Federa tion of Business and Professional Women’s clubs: “We’re going to fill powder bags, assemble machine guns and make 4 f. bombers. Millions of women will guard their homes and their cities Hundreds of thousands will care for wounded and victims of war We shall fight close to the battle fields and far behind them. The program was titled “what women oi the democracies must do in 1942 for victory,’’ with promi nent women speaking from here, Washington, Mexico City, London and Buenos Aires. “We know that peace cannot be bought at bargain counters, that we must pay a price for peace in (Continued on Paie Three: Col. 7) Attack Most Brilliant Since Famous World War Raid On Zeebrugge CHANNEL IS BLOCKED Submarine Activity May Be Retarded For Months To Come As Result By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, Mar. 29.—(/P)—. The British commandos, sail ors and airmen who raided St. Nazaire Saturday returned home to a heroes’ welcome to day amid acclaim that their dock-shattering attack was the most brilliant and daring British amphibious operation since the famous World war raid on the Zeebruge Mole in Belgium. Informed quarters acknow ledged that there was prob ably a large percentage of casualties and prisoners, but nevertheless they pronounced the raid a great success. Of ficial British communiques — there was a new one tonight —certainly treated it as such. The explosion of the former Amer ican destroyer Campbeltown, fitted out as a time-bomb with five tons of explosives, was sufficiently heavy to “wreck the docks and ki’1 anyone within 100 yards,” an informed source said. Before the ship blew up—it had been rammed into t lie main gate of the dock—commando soldiers, with their faces blackened even to the teeth to help hide than in the pre dawn darkness, swarmed ashoro from the destroyer to blow up the | pumping station and the dock oper I ating gear. Meanwhile a motor torpedo boat slipped through a curtain of fire from German coast guns and fi \l two delayed action torpedoes at t lie U-boat basin, which is believed to have been the base for submarines which in the last few months have ranged as far west as the U. S. coast to attack shipping there. May Limit L'-Hoats One well informed source said a limitation on German submarine ac tivities in the North Atlantic could be expected as a result of the raid. He expressed the belief it would take the Germans "the best part of a year” to repair the damage and raise the Campbeltown’s shattered hulk. Constant bombing of St. Nazaire by the RAF might make repairs so difficult the Germans would bo forced to concentrate their U-boats at Lorient or Bordeaux, he said. Any U-boats in the basin at the time of the raid probably were left high and dry by the destruction of the pump ing station, it was said, and U-boats now on patrol probably will be or dered to return to other bases. Blow Up Dock The British story a.s told in to night’s communique left little doubt that the main dock of this key Ger. (Continued on later Three; Cul. BRinSHHAMMER GERMAN BASES Spring Offensive Stepped Up; Luebeck Bombed Saturday LONDON, Mar, 29 -UB— RAF planes swepl across the hazy Eng lish channel today in their mount ing spring offensive, following a night in which Luebeck, the most important German port in the western Baltic sea, was subjected to heavy attack. There were no immediate reports of results achieved in the daylight thrust against German - held France. Fierce files were left burning last night at Luebeck by the strong force of bombers. The German ra dio acknowledged the raid, bland ly claiming no military damage was done and said that only “houses in the residential districts'* were hit. Other bombers attacked a i r dromes and other objecti^s in German-occupied territory during the night Twelve RAF bombers were lost. Luebeck handles most of the Ger man trade with Sweden, including the high grade iron ore and wood pulp sorely needed for the Ger man military machine. It also is used as a base for dispatching sup plies to Norway and the extreme northern Russian front
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