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m NORDIC SHIPS RUN NAZI ARMADA Six Others In Flotilla Ac zounted For As Either Sunk Or Turned Back STOCKHOLM, April 2.—UP)—Six f the 11 Norwegian merchant .ivps which dared the German I’pckade in a mass dash f r om Sweden were accounted for to light as either lost or turned iack, leaving five with at least chance to reach haven in Bri ain. The 11 vessels had been tied up n Goteborg, Sweden, since the Herman invasion of Norway April i 1940. Under charter to Britain 'orm the Norwegian government n-exile, they all left G o t e b o g luesday night during a heavy snowstorm. (A Swedish court had upheld the -barters on March 17, overruling Herman attempts to get control of be ships through owners still in Morway.) Aecordiing to information based mainly on observations of fisher men, the ships were attacked Wed nesday by a German destroyer and [our trawlers almost as soon as ;hey got outside Swedish territorial waters, the 6,222-ton Buccaneer mid the 12,358-ton whaleship Skyt :eren being sunk by gunfire off Maaseskaer at the mouth of the narrow Skagerrak. The fishermen said another ship was seen burning fiercely, anoth er ran aground, and two, the 5, io3-ton Lionel and the 5,263-t o n Dicto. fled back to Goteborg. Empty lifeboats were seen adrift ,n the Skagerrak, and some re oorts said loss of life was prob ably heavy. Others said the Ger man forces captured some of the mews. At least two large ships were mghted racing westward for the ipen sea and Britain, 500 miles away. What happened to the re maining three was r.ot reported. (A dispatch by the Vichy news agency under a Stockholm date Officer Who Refused To Serve On Any Ship Would Lose His License WASHINGTON April 2 -W Ciahrman Bland (D.-Va.) 0f the House Merchant Marine commit tee introduced today a bill to au thorize revocation of the license of refu Marine officer who vel ° SerTVTe on aRy merchant yaa"el.°fyhe United States in the capacity for which he is licensed. Bland said he had received com plaints of some such cases from sources other th ~n ship operators, and while he was not convinced of the merits of toe complaints or the need of the legislation, the bill was offeied to give the committee an opporunity io look into the reports. 2 -V Music Vital Element Of Fighting Army MILWAUKEE. April 2.—fJK_ Music is one of the vital elements of a lighting army, Major Harold W. Kent, of Wasnington, declared today, and it is up to music edu cators to do then part in the ad vancemcn of it in the war effor. Speaking a the last general as sembly of the Notional Conference of Music Educators, Major Kent declared that tiiere was an ever growing utilization of music as a means of entertainment and rec reation for <fie armed forces as well as its official application through the medium of army bands. 2 said six ships escaped, protected, in the narrow seas by British planes and farther out by British warships. This report was not con firmed by other sources but the American-Swedish news exchange reported the merchantmen had British officers and crews aboard.) Stockholm sources said definite information on what happened to all the flotilla could not be ex pected for several days. Besides the ships named, the others were: Charente, 1.282 tons, Lind, 461; Cudvang, 1,469; Storsten, 5,2 4 3; Rigmor, 6.305; B. P. Newton, 10, 324; ar.d Realf II, 5,069. TWO CITY POLICE OFFICERS INJURED Hurt When Automobile And Motorcycle Collide Here Thursday Night Two young city policemen were injured, one seriously, in a motor cycle-car collision which occurred at the intersection of Third and Walnut streets Thursday night about 6:40 o’clock. Prayther R. Oxley, 810 Princess street, received a compound frac ture of both bones in his right leg, just above the ankle, and W. R. Bradshaw, 108 North Ninth street, was treated at Walker Memorial hospital for a laceration of the right eye, bruises, and a sprained ankle. Both men had completed their tour of duty as city patrolmen at 6:30 o’clock Thursday night, and were riding on a motorcycle owned by Oxley, police said. As they were travelling north on Third street, a car driven by Har vey Woodcock of Winter Park, entered the intersection at Third and Walnut streets, striking the motorcycle and knocking the men from it. Woodcock was arrested on a charge of reckless operation with injury and placed under a bond of $300. -V Lawrence David Watson Injured In Auto Wreck Lawrence David Watson, 18, of the Lingo City section, is reported to be in a critical condition at Walker Memorial hospital following an automobile accident near Lake Village Tuesday morning. Watson, driving a large truck, was working in the Lake Village area when his truck turned over, crushing him under a portion of it. His right leg was fractured above the knee, and he is also suffering from internal injuries, hospital at taches reported. Save At Sears When Yon PAINT UP and FIX UP i 1SEBO-COTIEJ is HOUSE'?' i “ImPaINT^I Keep Your Home Goodlooking! Save al Sears — On Top Quality Paints! SERO-COTE HOUSE PAINT Have the “best dressed” house in your neighborhood at Sears worth y while savings! You can't buy better . house paint. Stays stubbornly beau tiful for years. 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KITCHEN LIGHT $£89 Efficient lighting anil dist inctive 1 modern styl ing make this au ex cep t i o n al buy. Chrome holder, louv re<l white glass shade. 307 ]\orth Front St. Great Part Of Philippines Still Under American Flag People Unwavering In Lovalty To U. S., Declares Clark Lee By CLARK LEE UNITED STATES ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA April 2. (iP)—-By far the greatest part of the Philippines, both in ter ritory and in population, still are free of the Japanese invader and still are under the American flag-. The people are unwavering in their loyalty to the United States, although considerably puzzled over the Allies’ continued withdrawals and their failure to take the initiative against Japan. En route to Australia, where I arrived three days ago, I traveled hundreds of miles over Philippine waters and by car over the islands without seeing a single Japanese plane, warship or soldier. u is wen to recall that there) are 7,000 islands and reefs in the archipelago, and that so far the enemy has landed on only five. The Japanese control the prin cipal cities and highways in cen tral and northern Luzon and a few ports in southeastern Luzon. How ever, the main prize, Manila bay, still is beyond their reach. Recently the Japanese occupied five points on northern Mindoro. They maintain a small force on the island of Masbate; occupy Davao and Zamboanga, at thq estern and western extremities of Mindanao, and also hold the is land of Jolo . The Japanese do not control the inner Philippine islands or the inland waters. Occasionally an en emy warship raids shipping and ports in the so-called “I n 1 a nd Sea”. But the Japanese apparent ly are afraid to keep a destroyer or a light cruiser on patrol there. Fom what I have seen of the American torpedo-boats in action, I believe a few squadrons of these hard- hitting, speedy vessels in which Gen. Douglas MacArthur be gan his trip to Australia could keep the islands’ inner shipping lanes entirely clear of the enemy. There are dozens of airfields and scores of ports in the'inner Philip pines from which American planes and ships could operate. There are American and Filipino fighting forces on almost every island. War Goes On The war goes on not only on Bataan but on Mindanao, where the Moros, under U. S. officers, frequently attack the Japanese. The Japanese are reported to have put in uniform several thous sand young Japanese nationals who lived at Davao before the war. Yet despite their overwhelm ing numerical superiority, the in vaders are said to fear the Moros so much that every night hundreds of the Japanese return to their ships to sleep. The Moros turned back one Jap anese drive south of Davao in January. On other islands we found Amer ican and Filipino forces which were ready to fight despite their shortage of equipment, if the Jap anese should come. Our greatest difficulty in travelling through the Philippines was in answering ques tions about help from the United States. Everybody, everywhere asked the same questions. To inquiries as to when Tokyo would be bombed, our customary reply was, “the" bombing will start soon, probably the middle of this month (March).” Then someone would proffer the polite objection that “we believe it would be difficult for us to bomb Tokyo before April, Sir, as the air fields in Alaska still are covered with snow and objectives in Japan probably would be hid den by clouds.” Some bright youngster usually would add: “We believe arrangements can be made for the United States to use the Russian air fields at Vlad ivostok and on the Kamchtka pen insula, inasmuch as the Russians and Americans are fighting the same war, although on different fronts, and the Russians need American supplies while Ameri cans need Siberian bases.” The people frequently expressed their respect for President Roose velt as a forceful leader. Their feeling for General MacArthur can be described only as reverential. Praise MacArthur They’d sky: “We believe, Sir, that the Mac Arthur line is impregnable. We are convinced that the man has not yet been born who can defeat General MacArthur.” They pronounced it Mac-Ar-tour, with the accent on the last syl lable. A Filipino who is doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the islands at present told me: “When the war is over, win or lose, I am going to build a monu ment to General MacArthur in my garden with my own hands. If I die my son will do it. “There will be similar monu ments all over the Philippines. General MacArthur will stand side by side with our martyred national hero Jose Rizal.” Rizal, Filipino patriot and writer organized the “Liga Filipina” to secure the political liberty of his countrymen from Spain. Arrested by Spanish authorities at Barce lona when he was on his way to Cuba for volunteer relief work among the yellow-fever victims, he was brought back to Manila, where he was tried and shot in Decem ber, 1896. The day of his execu tion ever since has been a national holiday. When our ship neared one Phil ippine port, the townspeople took to the hills fearing a Japanese in vasion, but they came back when they saw the Filipino and Amer ican flags. Once ashore, officers of the Philippine constabulary soon came up to shake hands. Then a few men gathered around, squatting on their haunches. They were follow ed by small boys, then girls for med a larger circle around us, while the womenfolk remained a few hundred yards away. We passed out cigarettes, and they sent boys up into the coco nut trees to fetch down young coconuts. These represented an of fer of hospitality. From then on, conversation followed easily. The pattern of life in these native villages did not change much between the days of Magel lan and the Spanish-American war but they were modified greatly during the American occupation. We have given them our lan guage, our style of apparel (mi nus the shoes). The advantage of our medical knowledge, a belief in our system of government, and an economy linked to , ours through the production of copra, sugar, hemp, etc. their signs are in Eng lish and each Barrio has a school where English is taught. RAF IS BACK OVER PARIS FACTORIES (Continued from Page One) tuning out vehicles for the Ger mans in the east and the German railroads are strained to the ut most in transporting supplies for spring offensive action against the .Red armies. It was the RAF’s biggest loss in a single night since the Nov. 7 raid on Berlin in which 37 British planes were destroyed, and it was above the average of 10 to 12 which the RAF feels it can afford to lose in one night at the present scale of operations. Bright moonlight aided the at tackers and the German night fighters alike. Canadian airmen, led by Johnny Fauquier, Ottawa bus flier, told of blasting debris high into the sky at Poissy, eight miles west of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, of setting bright fires and of feeling the blast of bombs which made direct hits on the Matford factory from extremely low alti tudes. One of the Canadian-flown Well ington bombers came out of the target area at 500 feet, and the pilot said the bomb blast "nearly lifted us cut of the sky.” Vichy reports said that the Mat ford factory was "damaged slight ly” and that one person was known to have been killed and several wounded Paris anti-air craft defenses were active during the alert—from 4 to 5:30 a.m., and bombs were said to have been dropped in several of the western and northwestern Paris outskirts. (Ford headquarters in Detoit said the Ford Motor Co., had had no contact with the Matford plant since the fall of France. The con cern was formed about ten years ago, Ford interests combining with the Mathis Co., a French alsation firm, for the manufacture of light cars.) Now reported turning out 201 trucks a day for the Nazis, the Matford plant was bombed in day light March 8, five days after the big RAF raid on the Renault Works, first in the Paris area. The newest raid was not on the same scale as the Renault attack, but a British spokesman called it “a good little show.” In addition to the raids on Ger man rail centers, the Le Havre docks and other occupied centers in France and Belgium were raid ed overnight and leaflets, intended for the Nazi army of occupation, were dropped over Brussels. One of the bomber pilots who attacked northwest Germany said the attack was pressed home de spite snow and sleet which stretched the return trip to four hours. He reported hits on a freight train near the Rhine and that “the rear gunner counted 20 separate fires among freight cars.” One pilot flew so low he could see a man firing a rifle at his plane. On the return trip, ice from the propellors tore holes in the fuselage as the plane fought a 65 mile-an-hour wind. 2 WARPLANE OUTPUT BELOW TOP SPEED (Continued from Page One) miserably to anlicipate and pre pare for the greatly increased de mand for these metals.” The committee found that con struction in West coast ship yards was progressing satisfactorily on the whole and added that labor relations in the plants visited were “excellent.” BUNIONS] Get this quick relief. Lifts A shoe pressure, soothes, cushionp the sensitive ^ spot. Costa but a trifle. ] rL_T_I' Clinton Will Push Peanut Production CLINTON. April 2.—Business men of Clinton at a meeting in Mayor Jackson’s office Wednesday morn ing unanimously agreed to carry the message regarding the importance of Sampson county planting the minimum of 14.000 acres to peanuts direct to the farmers themselves. Toward that end, plans were dis cussed and approved whereby busi ness men of the city will get behind the campaign by attending and speakings at each of the 47 meet ings to be held throughout the coun ty next week. In addition, education al advertisements will be placed in the newspapers of next week, call ing upon farmers of the county to plant a maximum of peanut acreage this spring. J. A. Gregory, representing the Clinton Merchants association, pre sided over the meeting and after^ outlining the purpose of the gather ing and explaining briefly iust what a 14,000 acre peanut crop will mean to Clinton merchants from a dolin' and cents standpoint, he called upon E. J. Morgan, agricultural agent for Sampson county. Mr. Morgan, outlined the proposition fully and explained that aside from the fact that peanuts will make the farmers of the county a good cash crop, the oil from peanuts planted in the county will go tiward aiding the national war effort. Thrown open for general discus sion, the debate which followed brought out many interesting facts including the possible shortage of farm labor for harvesting purposes the expected cash return of $1,000, 000 from 14,000 acres of peanuts and the department of agricclture's pro gram for the harvesting of the 1942 crop with pickers provided on a ren tal basis. Ebell’s Citizenship Is Ordered Revoked EL PASO, TEX., Apr. 2-*-(Ay)— The United States citizenship of Dr. Wolfgang Ebell was revoked today by Federal Judge Charles Boynton after a trial on charges that the 50-year-old German-born physician retained allegiance to the Nazi government. Ebell was held in jail under $20, 000 bond as an enemy alien for action of the enemy alien board on charges cf illegally correspond ing with the German government. Asthma Agony D°n;‘ r(,ly on smokes, sprays »nd inlee tlons if you suffer from terrible recurring choking, gasping, wheezing spells of Asthma. of. sufferers have found that the «rn dose of Mendaco usually palliates Asthma spasms and loosens thick strangling mucus, thus promoting freer breathing and more restfu! sleep. Get Mendaco In tasteless tablets from druggists. Only 60c. Money back guaranteed unless fully satisfied. FOR CORRECT TINE DIAL 3 5 7 5 ! —Courtesy— THIS EASTER YOU'LL WEAR Excitingly [Pretty DRESSES $795 _ $1995 Look your loveliest this Easter . . . frankly feminine and pretty, in gay contrast to his uni form! Frame your face with frills . . . flatter your figure with smooth curved jackets, flultery skirts. 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