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Served By Leased Wire Of The _ ASSOCIATED PRESS REMEMBER Wiih Complete Coverage Of PEARL State and National News --- H A R B 0 B ;7:,_no. 190 _ _ >—-*-- ----— rcT a dt icurn 1 oc7 ALLIED AIRMEN BOMB ENEMY PACIFIC BASES i _ 5 Eighteen Japanese Planes Destroyed And 20 Oth ers Damaged NIPPON HITS BACK Darwin Raided For 13th Time As Seven Bomb ers Pound Port Bv YERN HAUGLAND united nations head quarters IN AUSTRA LIA. April 5.— (TP) —Ameri can and Australian airmen, smashing devastating blows into Japanese bases on Aus tralia's outer island defenses and decisively fending off enemy attacks on their own bases, were officially credited today with destroying at least 18 Japanese planes and dam aging 20 others in two days of fierce air battle. In the exchange ot blows, seven Japanese bombers, escorted by a fleet of fighters, attacked Darwin on Austra lia'.- northwest coast for the 13th time today. Seven other enemy bombers with fighter company delivered the 22nd attack on Port Moresby, New Guin ea outpost. In turn, the Americans and Aus tralians attacked Koepang in Dutch Timor, 500 miles northwest of Dar win. on Saturday, and twice struck surprise blows at Lae on the north eas’ coast of New Guinea. 400 miles from the Australian main land. One Japanese Navy zero fighter | was shot down at Port Moresby. Bi n at Darwin and Port Moresby the enemy attack was described as weak and the damage small. Four Shot Down When the smoke and flame from this series of actions had blown away, the score stood as follows, according to Australian communi ques: and reports from the fliers: Darwin (Saturday): At least four, probably five, Japanese bombers shot down; at least two, probably three Japaese fighters destroyed. A fourth fighter possi biy destroyed. Two Allied planes shot down, with the pilot of one sale. Late (Saturday): At least three Japanese bombers badly damaged I when a lone Australian airman on I reconnissance macbinegunned the airport: in a second surprise at tack the same day, Allied airmen left four bombers and a fighter burning. Unofficial reports from the fliers said 10 other planes were damaged. Soepang (Saturday): At least six Japanese planes destroyed on the ground and six big lires started in a long-range, low level assault which started from Darwin. Unof f. ial reports said at least lour ^Continued oil Page Three; Col. 7) PELLEYISJAILED AT INDIANAPOLIS Silver Shirts Leader Arrest ed In East On Charges Of Sedition INDIANAPOLIS, Apr. 5— W> — W;!liam Dudley Pelley, grey-goat f'C'd leader of the Silver Shirts and Publisher of anti-semitic magazines was placed in the Marion county L I here tonight on charges of se dition in connection with articles that appeared in his publication, The Galilean.” U- S. Marshal Julius Wichser of the southern Indiana district took custody of Pelley late today from Bernard Fitch, marshal who brought the prisoner from New Haven, Conn. Pelley was unable to make sat isfactory arrangements for bond and must remain in jail at least overnight. Waiting for him in the marshal’s elf ne before Wichser took him to Jail were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fine hout of Indiar,apolisj who s aid they were long-time friends of Pel toy. Mrs. Finehout signed the bond for Pelley, and the "”ver Shirt lpader was allowed to remain in ’ne marshal’s office while Finehout "tlempted to locate another bonds* than as required in this Federal district. Pulley’s bond is $15,000 and "here a U. S. commissioner is Present regulations here pro '■'de (here must be two bondsmen e°ch having unencumbered prop - Itvntinued on Page Three; Col. 5) i Five Men Injured In Auto Accident Near Kure’s Beach Five men were injured, two ot them being admitted to the James Walker Memorial hos pital, in an automobile accident early Sunday morning near Kure’s Beach. Condition of Lewis E. Wein berg and J. W. H. Futchs, Jr., patients at the hospital, was de scribed as satisfactory by hos pital attaches Sunday night. Mr. Futchs received fractures of both legs and the left arm while Mr. Weinberg suffered contusions of the left eye and face. Will Couch was treated for lacerations of both knees, Thurman Register for a lacera tion on the forehead and John E. D. Clark for contusions of both knees. None of the three was admitted to the hospital. NAZI WARPLANES RAID RED FLEET Germans Claim Heavy Hits On Two Battleships, Two Cruisers BERLIN (From German Broad casts). April 5.—I(P>—Hitler’s high command said today that Nazi warplanes had bombed “the rem nants of the Soviet Baltic fleet” in the Russian bases of Leningrad and Kronstadt, hitting two battle ships and two heavy cruisers with heavy calibre explosives. Army artillery was said to have supported the luftwaffe effectively by shelling Russian anti-aircraft batteries. The Germans said a “mining cruiser” also probably was damaged. The communique stressed the fighting in the northern area where Stuka dive bombers and chaser planes were credited with effec tively supporting land troops. The Germans said they inflicted ap preciable losses in men and ma terials. 3,000 Guerillas Killed On the central front between Smolensk and Moscow, the Ger mans said they annihilated 3.000 Red guerillas and repulsed isolated Russian attacks. The German communique made no mention of fighting in the Cri mea which they have stressed re cently, nor did it say anything of “offensive operations.” At the cost of one German plane, 47 Russian aircraft were said by the high command to have been destroyed. The Berlin radio said 62 planes were shot down. Continuing attacks on the supply lines leading from the United States and Britain to the i»e free Arctic port of Murmansk, the Ger mans said their planes had sunk a 1,200-ton merchant ship and dam aged five others. Nazi planes guarding western Germany and an ti-aircraft batteries were credited with shooting down 14 British raid ers, strongly protected by pursuit planes. The virtually non-stop attacks on the British fortress of Malta in the central Mediterranean contin ued, with German bombers con centrating on the Valletta port and military airdromes. A British cruiser in the docks was said to have been hit. (The Italian communique said harbors and airdromes at Laven nezia, Halfar and Luca were “in tensely attacked” in the Malta (Continued on Paffe Three: Col. 1) One Is Killed, Five Injured InAuto!vreck Tw<^ i ' ■" ^ ^ 'light tV^;.‘Cri 6 iidition Iv TANKER MEET Two Of Victims Hurled 30 Feet; Two Others Pinned In The Cab Of Vehicle One person was killed and at least five others injured when a pickup truck and oil tanker col lided about 6:45 o’clock Sunday night two and a half miles south of Jacksonville, in a low speed zone near New River Marine base, on Highway 17. Jean Covil, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ivon Covil of Winnabow, Brunswick c o u nty, was killed. Mr. Covil. 32, and another small daughter and son. Clarice Covil and Billy Mitchell Covil. all in cri tical condition were brought to James Walker hospital by an am bulance of Jones Funeral home in Jackonsville. Mrs. Covil and the driver of the oil tanker, whose name could not be ascertained here, were taken to a Kinston hospital. Condition of Billy Mitchell Covil was described as “very critical" by hospital attaches while that of Clarice Covil was said “critical" but not quite so severe as that of her brother. The small boy is suffering from a fracture of the skull, contusion of the brain, fracture of the right clavicle, crushed right chest, pos sible bleeding inside of chest and possibly other internal injuries. Hospital attaches said Clarice was suffering from a laceration of the forehead, fracture of the skull and jaw, contusion of the brain, shock and possible internal inju ries. Mr. Covil was reported to be suffering from a fracture of the skull and fractured ribs. State Highway Patrolman J. L. Flowers, who handled the inves tigation here, said he learned that the Covil family had been to Sneed’s Ferry to visit relatives of Mrs. Covil and were en route to their home at Winnabow at the time of the accident. He said two of the victims were found approximately 30 feet from the wreckage and that two others were removed from the cab only after the patrolman, who made an investigation at the scene of the collision, cut the top of the cab open. -V British Commandos Raid Narvik Harbor NEW YORK, April 5.—(iTO—A spe cial dispatch to the New York Times tonight from Stockholm said British commandos raided Narvik, northern Norwegian port, early to day and inflicted many casualties and considerable damage to ship ping in the German-held harbor. The Stockholm dispatch quoted advices reaching the Swedish news paper Aftontidningen. Details were lacking, but it said that according to one source the raid may have been carried out in conjunction with Russian air force bombers, which have been particularly active over the northern front for the past 24 hours. The Times Dispatch said Moscow reported bombers had been over Narvik Saturday night. -V GERMAN BOMBER DESTROYED LONDON, April 5.—(A?)—A Ger man bomber was destroyed over the East Coast of England tonight, it was learned authoritatively. _ Roosevelt Sends Note To Leaders In India --— By H. R. STIMSON NEW DELHI, Apr. 5— —The advent of Louis Johnson, special White House envoy to India, bear ing a letter from President Roose velt to some as yet unidentified Indian leader, has instilled a new sense of urgency in the laborious bargaining over independence for India. Persons who have met the for mer assistant secretary of w a r since his arrival Friday at New Delhi speak of the impression pro duced of a determination to in fuse a new sense of power and authority in Indian affairs. A Washington dispatch said the White House disclosed yesterday that the president’s personal min ister to India bore a letter td some Indian leader ’ ut the contents were not disclosed. There is no indication thus far that this letter has been delivered. Yesterday Johnson returned a call by Sir Stafford Cripps, British war cabinet member. Cripps is Britain’s negotiator-in-chief on the two-weeks-old tender of postwa r dominion status for India in return for full war participation now un der British direction. Johnson also met General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, British com mander for India. Negotiations now are in the re consideration stage following for mal rejection of the British plan by the dominant All-India (Hindu) Congress party and indications of rejection by the All-India Moslem league, representing India’s largest minority. (A Reuters dispatch from New Delhi said “the final outcome of the Cripps mission is expected to become known tomorrow evening or Tuesday morning.”) Cripps talked today with Madhad Shrihari Aney, a member repre senting Indians overseas in the viceroy’s council, and Sir Reginald Maxwell and Sir Jeremy Raisman, (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) tt Prayers For Victory Uttered Throughout Holy Land On Easter JERUSALEM, April 5.—^MB— Prayers for Victory rose in many tongues today as the Holy Land celebrated Easter with its customary centuries-old ceremon ies. King George II of Greece par- . tlcipated in the Greek services along with hundreds of his sol diers. Greek fighting men with strong, serious laces gathered in the tiny Catholic church in the old city of Jerusalem, sing ing the Liturgy and lighting long white candles. The priest ended the Greek service with “Zito Hellas”—long live Greece —which the soldiers repeated. Patriarchs of the Armenian, Latin and Orthodox faiths held services in front of the tomb of the Holy Sepulchre. Armen ians had a further impressive vespers in their church with a great procession in the central courtyard of the Convent. FOURSUBSELUDED BEFORE SHIP SUNK Survivors Of Medium-Sized Freighter Are Landed At New York NEW YORK, April 5.—(41—The shelling and sinking of their ship by a submarine after it, had out run four U-boats was described here by 29 survivors of a medium sized American freighter. They arrived aboard a Pan American airways clipper from Bermuda Wednesday night, and the story of their experiences was released today by the Third Naval district. One of the survivors, Erio Pear son, 18-year-old oiler, of Galves ton, Tex., said the freighter was sunk March 20 off the United States eastern coast. Thirty men in a lifeboat spent 54 hours bat tling high seas before being picked up by a neutral ship and taken to Bermuda. “Every time a sub would get near us the captain would order full speed ahead,” Pearson said. “We got away four times, but this time we didn’t make it.” Pearson declared the boat con taining the captain and three other men had not been reported, and that two others of the crew of 35 had leaped over the ship’s side and had been lost in the water. James Stickney, 32, 220-p o u n d oiler, of Maybrook, N. Y., said the side of the lifeboat holding 29 crewmen and a passenger, Heroyt Jernigan, was smashed while the boat was being lowered. “We found pieces of wood and some tools in the boat,” Stickney said. “We salvaged timber from the sea and pulled nails from drifting planks, and fixed up our boat.” William Teffner, 27, an oiler, of Lansdowe, Md., declared that “some of the fellows in the boat didn’t even have their pants. They just had life preservers and pa jamas.” One of the 30 men in the life boat remained in a hospital at Ber muda for treatment. The crewmen said they did not know Jernigan’s home address, but that he had been working his way back to the United States from Calcutta, India. -V Two Canadian Yards Closed By Strikes QUEBEC, April 5. — (Canadian Press)—Two shipbuilding compan ies halted work in their yards yester day, making approximately 3,800 workers idle, when workmen com plained against enforcement of a new wage scale. Three Dominion labor conciliators are scheduled to confer with union leaders and company officials to morrow. About 3,000 employes of the Davie Shipbuilding co., and 800 of the Morton Engineering Co., were in volved in the dispute. Workers said some pay checks were decreased as much as seven cents an hour while others were increased as much as 21 cents an hour. WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA and SOUTH CAROLINA — Continued warm Monday,. (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday): (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 60; 7:30 a. m. 58; 1:30 p. m. 84; 7:30 p. m. 67; maxixmum 84; minimum 57; mean 70; normal 59. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 75; 7:30 a. m. 93; 1:30 p. m. 26; 7:30 p. m. 50. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.. 0.00 inches; total since the first of the month, 0.00 inches. (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington _ 1:35a. 8:50a. 1:56p. 9:06p. Masonboro Inlet _11:39a. 5:40a _p. 5:50p. Sunrise 5:52a; sunset 6:36p: moon set 10:03a. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville at 8 a. m., April 5, 11 feet. (Continued on Page Two: Col. 3) Senators Map Drive Against 40-HnWeek Leaders Hope To Bring Measure To Floor Of Sen ate Within Two Weeks FIGHTING CHANCE SEEN Heavy War Appropriations Measure Will Get At tention Today WASHINGTON, Apr. 5— UP — A group of senators, rebelling against administration wishes, be gan organizing today for an effort to force senate action on the ques tion of suspending the 40-hcur week and restricting union activities in war industries. Members said the group, headed by Senators Pepper (D-Fla) and Lee (D-Okla). hoped to bring to the senate floor within twTo weeks a measure bearing the indorsement of a relatively large number of democrats and republicans. They would attempt, it was ex plained, to by-pass the senate ed ucation and labor committee, whose chairman, Senator Thomas (D-Utah), has opposed enactment at this time of any labor legis lation. Thomas has been support ed in this stand by Democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky. Fighting Chance Despite this opposition, members of the group said they felt that if they could get an appreciable number of senators to agree on the general principles of a labor measure, they would have a fight ing chance of getting it passed. An opportunity to get such a biP before the senate may be present ed April 20, when the chamber will consider a motion to take up a bill by Senator Connally (D-Tex) authorizing the government to op erate strike-bound war plants. The Connally measure' would freeze working conditions—including un ion contracts—in those plants but would permit adjustment of wages by a special board. There have been clear indica tions that the administration hopes to obtain before senate action on the Connally bill voluntary agree ments between labor and manage ment on lengthening of the work week, either to 44 or 48 hours at regular pay, with overtime to be paid thereafter. The wage-h our (Continued on Pajre Three; Col. 1) ARM YDAYP ARADE SET HERE TODAY Thousands To See Proces sion In Which 2,500 Will Participate Emphasis having been placed up on the observance by President Roosevelt, Wilmington will join the nation . today in observance of Army Day, a day set aside to honor American fighting men now battling in far corners of the world. The observance here is to be marked with a parade in which there will be approximately 2,500 participants featuring picked units with full equipment from nearby Camp Davis. The parade will be gin promptly at 10:30 o’clock and w'” move through the principal sections of the business district. The parade ’-dll form at Fourth and Market reets and will move west on Market to Third, north on Third to Red Cross, west on Red Cross to Front, south on Front to Market, east on Market to Third and north on Third to the reviewing stand in front of the City Hall. Order o' participants will be as follows: Police escort. Official Army car from Camn Davis, N~w Hanover High School R. O. T. C. band, 500 soldiers from Camp Davis with "iti-aircraft guns and searchlights, Red Cross T' n- . R. O. T. C. regiment Red Cross uniformed workers. Home Guard. High School student body and others. The parade will be reviewed by Major General Frederick H. Smith, ci—nmanding Camp Davis: officers from Camp Davis, City and County officials and p”ominer.t Wilming tonians. The participants will be drawn u- in front of he reviewing stand where they will hear an address \y H. E. Stacy. Lumberton at torney and a brother of Chief Jus tice -’ter P. Stacy, of tb" North Carolina Supreme Court before be incr ^.v-orsed. The Camp. Davis anti-aircraft guns and search lights, fully man ns-’ will be demonstrated at the City Hall from the time of the pa rade until 3 o’clock in the after noon. The south Side of Market street, from Fourth to Seventh streets, will be blocked off for Camp Davis truck" during +hc parade and the speaking at the city hall. RUSSIANS DESTROY 102 GERMAN PLANES AND KILL 40,000 MEN BARB TO PLAGUE THE AXIS The submarine Barb slips into the water in a brief launching ceremony at Groton, Conn., sponsored by Mrs. Charles A. Dunn, wife of Rear A.dmiral Dunn. Soon, the Barb will be stinging Axis shipping.—Central Press. British Bag 27 Jap Planes Over Ceylon Another 25 Aircraft Re ported Damaged In First Raid On Island COLOMBO. Ceylon, April 5 —(* —Twenty-seven Japanese planes— and probably five more—crashed to destruction today from the fiery backlash of British aerial and anti aircraft defense in Ceylon's first raid of the war. Still another 25 enemy craft were damaged in the protective screen of steel which met the raids on their early Sunday morning bomb ing flight, a communique said. Twenty-five of the Japanese pi lots were shot down by British fighter planes which roared into action at the first blast of the sirens, it was announced. The other two were dawned by anti-aircraft gunners during low flying machine gun attacks. (Military sources in London likened the Japanese surprise at tack on Colombo to the Pearl Har bor raid and said probably 100 or more Japanese bombers had been concentrated in the assault as a prelude to an attempt to knock out the British naval base in Trincomalee Bay on the Eastern shore of the island. (The ultimate objective of the Japanese appeared to be an effort to clear the Indian ocean of its last remaining barrier to westward aggression toward India and the Ceylon-C'alcut'.a Allied supply route since the occupation of the Anda man islands, 850 miles to the north east, on March 25.) Aim A. Harbor The Japanese opened their at tack at 8 a.m. (10:30 p.m. Satur day, Eastern War Time) with dive bombing and machine gun raids (Continued on Pajre Two; Col. 6) FIVE PERSONS DIE AS PLANES COLLIDE Son Of Former World’s Welterweight Champion Boxer Among Dead MIAMI. Fla.. Apr. 5 — HP — William J. Britton. Jr., son of the former world’s welterweight cham pion. Jack Britton, and four other persons plummeted to death today after two civilian airplanes collid ed while flying at 1.000 feet. The plane carrying Britton. 25. and two students crashed into a suburban house, damaging it. The other machine was smashed on the lawn of a home a short distance away. The dead, in addition to Britton: Lieut, and Mrs. Don Kenneth Jones. H. M. Carruthers. Jr.. 20. son of a Miami real estate man. A pi lot. he was taking an advanced course in instrument flying. Lauence Hartzell, 25. Milbank Road. Bryn Mawr. Pa., a flight student. Lieutenant Jones was the son of Den Kerneth Jones, Sr., of 105 E. Delaware Place. Chicago. His wife Mrs. Joan Wert Jones, was the daughter of a professor Wert at the University of Iowa, A m es, Iowa. The couple rented a plane for an Easter Sunday flight. Friends reported there that Hart zell’s widow is en route to Miami from Bryn Mawr. uninformed of her husband’s death. Britton was a civilian pilot in (Continued on Page Two: Col. ") Bombs Found Planted In Belfast Theatre By The Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland. April 5.—The harmless explosion of three time bombs and discovery of others hidden like Easter eggs in a movie theater used by United States and British troops, and a subsequent running gun batle be ween police and an armed band shattered Belfast’s Easter qu'et. There was no ostensible connec ion between the two incidents save that 26 Easters ago Irish Re publicans started their so-called Easter rebellion against the Brit ish. The time bombs started explod ing shortly after midnight and aft er the theater had been emptied of its Saturday night audience of soldiers; the gun battle came in broad daylight when gunmen, hid den in an air raid shelter, blazed away at a police patrol car con taining four men. The gunmen fled to a nearby house with the policemen in hot pursuit. One policeman was killed £' ¥■-— and a member of the armed band was seriously wounded. Five other men and two women were arrest ed. (The British Press Association said the gunmen were members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army.) The area of this Northern Ire land capital where the battle was fought is known as a center of Irish nationalist sympathizers. Northern Ireland is part of he United Kingdom and the Irish Re publican Army is violently in favor of its union with neighboring Eire. The police car was one of sev eral which had been patrolling the district to prevent the I.R.A. from staging a parade in commemora tion of the 1916 Easter rising at ■Dublin. The Dublin fighting lasted one week and cost the lives of 106 British soldiers. Sixteen leaders of he rising were executed. The movie theater had been re (Continned on Page Two; Col. 6) w. Long Winter-Locked Battle ground In North Coming Into Fierce Action REDS NEAR BRYANSK Artillery Shelling Town;' Both Sides Bring Up Reinforcements MOSCOW. April 5.—(/P)—. The Russian $ir force de stroyed 102 German planes in aerial fighting over the front or on the ground yesterday, the midnight Russian com munique said tonight. Adding new evidence to the reports that the long winter-locked battleground is coming into action on a wide and deadly scale. The number of planes re ported destroyed indicated that large-scale aerial fight ing is in progress and an earl ier special communique re ported that 40,000 German of ficers and men had been kill ed on the central front be tween March 23 and April 4. The midnight communique kept to the secretive tone maintained for weeks and said there were “no essential changes” on the front. The earlier communique report ed however that in addition to killing 40,000 Germans in the week ended April 4, Russian forces had occupied 161 inhabited localities on the central front before Moscow. The announcement was made as front dispatches indicated a de termined push on the front west and southwest of Moscow. More than 160 inhabited localities were reported wrested from German hands and Red Star reported that the Russian drive carried them across a river on the Smolensk sector, behind which the Gel-mans had set up their line of resistance. Bryansk Besiegeo Other dispatches said that Bry ansk, 220 miles southwest of Mos cow and 140 miles southeast of Smolensk was now virtually be sieged by Russian guerillas. All inhabitants have been removed from the eastern outskirts of the city and in some districts houses have been razed to give the Ger man garrison wider fields of fire, the paper said. The special communique also re ported the capture of large quanti ties of German materiel on the central front during the week end ed Friday. In addition to the suc cesses reported here, an official announcement two days ago re ported that some 22,000 German officers and men had been slain on the Leningrad and Kalinin fronts from March 23 to April 3. The German ammunition and equipment reported captured on the central front in one week in cluded 28 tanks, 22 guns, 541 ma (Continued on Page Three; Col. A) JAP LAND'AND SEA ATTACKS REPULSED Heavy Casualties Inflicted On Enemy Off Bataan, But Land Gain Made WASHINGTON, Apr. 5.—f<0—A furious Japanese land and sea as sault on the defenses of the Ba taan peninsula was reported today by the War Department, w hie li said the sea attack was repulsed with “probably heavy” enemy losses. “Some small gains" were report ed, however, for the Japanese land forces in the right center of Lieut enant General Jonathan M. Wain wright’s Tnes. The fighting raged all day yes terday, a communique said, and presumably was continuing. It was the fifth major assault by the in vaders in less than two weeks and appeared to be the most intense thus far. The sea attack was made on the eastern shore of the peninsula, from Manila bay, which enemy warships may not enter because of the island fortifications at the *n trance. Barges, which officials believed to have been improvised, were used and several W'ere sunk by American-Filipir.o artillery before the rest turned back, the commun ique said. For the first time since March 24, the Corregidor fortress mean time was free from air attacks. Guns of the fort duelled, however, with Japanese sea batteries on tiie bay’s south shore i
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