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Served By Leased Wire Of The - ASSOCIATED PRESS REMEMBER WIDE world PEARL HARBOR With Complete Coverage Of «.AHL MAIMSUK State and National News AND BATAAN Na 220 - - — — - FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867. If. S., VICHY RUPTURE SEEN AS MARTIN^ I NEGOTIATIONS Laval Reported To Have Given Specific Instruc tions To Ambassador 0> s. noFconcerned Washington Awaits Report From Mission Sent Di rect To The Island WASHINGTON, May 10.— (iip)_The negotiations opened between the United States and the high commissioner of the French possessions in the Caribbean - Atlantic area threw a new strain today on the already tenuous relations between this country and the collaborationist regime of Pierre Laval of Vichy. Dispatches from Vichy said La val had issued specific instruc tions concerning the matter to his ambassador at Washington. Gaston Henry-Haye. and had conferred with S. Pinckey Tuck, American charge d'Affaires at Vichy. At the state department it was said that up to late today nothing was known of any move by Henry Haye to take up the matter with the department in formal fashion. Moreover, there was ample evi dence that any protest Vichy might ma-te regarding the negotiations probably would receive little at tention in Washington. Dealing Exclusively The State Department, in an nouncing last night the beginning of the conferences at Martinique. | pointed up reference to the fact that this government was deal ing exclusively with Admiral George Robert, the high commis sioner there, as the “ultimate gov erning authority” for the French possessions in the Caribbean and French Guiana on the northeast coast of South America. The de partment's announcement was at pains to refer to the “collabora tion policy of Monsieur Laval.” Officials indicated a report was expected tomorrow from the Am erican mission to the Martinique Admiral John H. Hoovrt**®hd Sam uel Reber of the State Department. They were delegated to request a guarantee through “mutually sat isfactory arrangements” that the french possessions “will not furn ish aid or comfort to Axis forces.” .In return, the United States would safeguard the interests of the French people in the possessions for the duration of the war. Declines Comment 'Admiral Hoover returned ‘‘tem porarily" to San Juan from Mar 1 nique Sunday afternoon, a San Juan dispatch said, and indicated 'bat his initial lengthy conference '"'th Admiral Robert had been most pleasant. After the meeting Admiral Hoover was the guest of the French at an official luncheon. 'Hoover declined comment, other i'nap to say that the substance of h!s conversations had been sent to Washington.) There nas no indication from this government of what would be done if Robert, rejected the pro posal or. asking Vichy, was or dered to reject them. H was learned, however, that a special Pan-American commission '■as created a month ago to act 3s a supreme governing power in e'ent the necessity ever arose for occupying Martinique or other hem phere possessions of non-Ameri Can nations. 'bis commission, designated the “'‘'‘“American commission for ter ■ “Oria] administration, was formal constituted by the Pan-Ameri ■‘"'i union governing board early n April a lime when United a es-Vichy relations began their lap,d deterioration. Made Provisions ’e Havana convention of 1940 com' ■ ■ f°r creation of such a ij0|. rn.lsslon in the event occupa fo„ f'l any areas became necessary , safety of the American republics. ;rA Provisional commission served aece afl Jar‘Uary, when with the ent ^ar-v ratifications, the perman organization was authorized, vrclently to assure that the com an S10n would be ready to act in the prnergency that might arise, ■ire k3n American union govern ing °arc^ on April 6, authorized cormvvfm^ers °* the provisional em ,, 1 tee 1° act on the perman “mmission until their govern Thus narn°H other members. tary s’ ,lle board—of which secre -ured’5 , lc Hull is chairman—as at u. I1'it members representing trie , t’ffeen of the sixteen coun venij "hich have ratified the con tneetij-j1 Wou^ He available for a Even Their Mother Gets ’Em Mixed * Private Frank Trammell isn’t taking any chances on getting ’em mixed as he chaperones this set of twins through the reception center of Fort Jackson, S. C. Private Robert Lyda (left) and his brother, Private George Lyda, (right), are so much alike that even their mother, Mrs. Robert Lyda of Edneyville, N. C., sometimes gets con fused. No wonder the army thought it was seeing double when the twins reported at the reception center to be fit ted with uniforms. They want to ride motorcycles for Uncle Sam. _ Chinese Kill 3,000 Japs OnBurmaRoad Enemy Hurled Back Into Burma After Rout In Counter-Offensive By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, China, May 10.—(A5)—Unleashing a ter rible artillery blast, crack Chinese troops slaughtered more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers last night in a battle on the Burma Road and sent the remainder of the main body of the Japanese invading force reeling back toward Burma in a rout, the Chinese announced tonight. The Chinese soldiers were in hotJ pursuit of the Japanese who rush ed so triumphantly up the Burma Road last week. Advancing to meet these fleeing Japanese, it was re ported, was another Chinese force in eastern Burma and the Chinese declared the invaders faced cer tain annihilation. The engagement took place near Chefang, 25 miles from the Burma frontier, after the left and right wing of the Japanese soldiers laid down a heavy assault on the ruined city of Mandalay, which the Japa nese captured May 2. A military spokesman said the Chinese have reached the outskirts of Mandalay from both the east and the west in spite of intense Japanese bombing and shelling. In addition to Mandalay itself, the Chinese in Burma have two other objectives: the recapture of Sinwun, on the railway a few miles south of Mandalay, and the recap ture of Myinmu. 30 miles west of Mandalay. The Chinese in the fighting on the Burma road followed their pre arranged plan of allowing the Jap anese to sweep into the Yunnan province and lengthen their com munication lines, it was said. Then the first-line troops struck and struck hard. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) SPITFIRES OUT-DO NAZI FOCKE WULFE British Fighters Superior To Latest German Ma chines In Recent Raids LONDON, Monday, May ll.—tJ) _RAF sweeps over occupied France have proved that the latest models of the Spitfire plane are superior to the German air force’s newest Focke Wulfe—190 fighters and are the “finest all round single seater fighter at present in opera tion,”. the Air Ministry declared today. The Ministry also reported that aerial reconnaissance had reveal ed severe damage to submarine building works at the German port of Kiel and Cologne and the com plete destruction of a 500-foot de pot ship at Kiel. “The Focke Wulfe — 190 has a very high rate of climp but our fighters can counteract this by be ing able to turn within a smaller (Continued <m Page Two; Col. 8) Japs Say Wainwright’s Surrender Is Accepted TOKYO (From Japanese Broad casts), .May 10.—(#1—Nichi Nichi s correspondent today gave the fol lowing “eyewitness account’’ of the surrender of United States Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright at C'orregidor: “The surrender of the American commander was one of the most pathetic scenes witnessed by Jap anese expeditionary forces in the Philippines. “The initial step in the surrender of the American forces came when the six foot high American com mander, haggard from lack of sleep and from worry, advanced r toward the Japanese lines, carry ing a white flag and accompanied by his aides. “Ushered into the room of the Japanese commander, General Wainwright slumped into a chair offered him by one of the Japanese officers. “The defeated American com mander presented a pitiful sight, as he sat in the faint glimmer of a candle light, his head held in both hands, his eyes staring at the ground. In the barren room the candlelight played on the three (Continued on Pag* Two; Col. G) JapaneseLose 19 Warships _. In Coral Sea Another Seaplane Tender, Tanker Damaged By U. S. Bombers BATTLE FLEET RESTS No Intimation Given On Our Losses In Victori ous Six-Day Battle By C. YATES McDANIEL ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS, Australia, May 10.— (.fP)—Huge Allied bombers re lentlessly pursued the rem nant of a defeated Japanese armada fleeing from the Coral sea, damaging another sea plane tender and tanker and raising to 19 the number of enemy ships sunk or crippled, according to an announcement today by General Mac Arthur’s headquarters. Ten more Japanese planes also were destroyed or damaged, by air attack while victorious war ships—predominantly American rested after their six-day battle and braced themselves for an ex pected return of a strongly rein forced Japanese fleet, intent upon avenging Japan’s worst naval de feat. Powerful enemy warships and air strength were known to be con centrated yet in the general area northeast of Australia. The battered Japanese broke off the engagement after severe pun ishment was inflicted by the ship plane teams of the Allies yester day, and today’s communique said tersely: No Naval Combat “No combat on the naval front.” Yesterday’s casualties were in flicted on the Japanese ships in the Louisiade Archipelago, south east of New Guinea toward the Solomon Islands. Whether the Jap anese had been intent upon sever ing Australia’s lifeline to the Un (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) YOUTHlSKILLED IN WRECK HERE Soldier Held In Case On Charge Of Hit And Run Driving Of Truck Joe Allen, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allen of Greens boro, died about 4:10 o’clock Sun day afternoon at the James Wal ker Memorial hospitals of injuries received about five hours earlier in an automobile-truck collision about three quarters of a mile from Wrightsboro. The wreck occurred, state high way patrolmen said, when the auto mobile, driven by Rowland Rich RiPisisiwusm'wssyp’ which the Allen boy was riding, travelling west collided with an Army truck, driven by Walter B. Morgan, Camp Davis soldier, as it pulled into the highway, headed in the same direction, from in front of a negro church. Patrolmen said the impact strip ped the entire left side of the auto mobile and pulled the boy, who they thought was riding on the rear seat, under th” truck. Driver of the truck did not stop, patrolmen said, but the number of the truck was taken by J. L. Les ley, who took the Allen boy and Richardson to the hospital. Patrol men said .Morgan drove on to Wrightsboro where he apparently stopped and pulled the left side of the body of the automobile from between the fender and the wheel of the truck. They said the truck then went across the railroad to ward Highways 117 and 421 north and apparently stopped again and pulled the fender of the automobile from beneath the truck. Morgan is being held at Camp Davis from where he will be brought here today and charged with hit and run Iriving, resulting in death, the patrolman explained and added that Army officers had aided in the investigation. Coroner Asa W. Allen said in quest into the death would be held at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning at the courthouse. Hospital attaches said the Allen boy was suffering from severe back injuries, a broken pelvis, a broken arm and internal injuries when brought to the hospital. Richardson was treated at the hospital for hand and face injuries and dismissed. Ruby Dale Peele, of 116 Henry stree , the third occu pant of the car, received a slight cut on the forehead. CHURCHILL WARNS GERMANS TO EXPECT GAS OFFENSIVE IF THEY USE IT ON RUSSIA Famous Football Stars In The Navy Now Lieut. Commander Edward W. Mahan (left), athletic officer at the Naval Air sta tion in Jacksonville, Fla., and three-time All-America back at Harvard, watches a bit of limbering up exercise with a practice bomb in the hands of George McAfee, former Duke university backfield ace and later right haH'back for the Chicago Bears pro team. McAfee has just been assigned to the naval station as a chief specialist. A patrol bomber stands in the background.— (Official U. S. Navy Photo). U. S. Acknowledges Army Bombers Pounded Tokyo Origin Of Planes Not Divulged; Selected Targets Badly Damaged WASHINGTON, May 10.— (/P) —United States army bombers made that sensational raid on Japan April 18, the War department disclosed tonight, confirming at long last what millions of Americans ardently hoped was true. Thundering in 'ow and fast in broad daylight, the mighty bomb ers, loaded with both demolition and incendiary bombs, blasted se lected military targets near Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya and other cities, a communique said. Big fires were started, some of which burned for two days. And that was all the department had to say as to how the raid was carried out. But it was enough for Americans who had been hoping eagerly that the news of the raid, which previously had come only from the Japanese themselves, was true. It was enough to prove that “somebody” did in fact bomb Tokyo, as President Roosevelt archly hinted in his fireside chat April 28—“The first time in his tory that Japan haS suffered such indignities.” As for whether the planes took off from a carrier at sea in a joint Army - Navy operation or from a land base somewhere, how many there were, and all the other details at which the Japanese have been desperately ' guessing ever since—they will just have to keep on guessing. The communique was the first direct official acknowledgement here that American planes had (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) -:—V WEATHER FORECASTS: NORTH CAROLINA—Little change in temperature except slightly cooler northeast and north-central portions. % SOUTH CAROLINA and GEOR GIA — 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. 59; 7:30 a. m. 59; 1:30 p. m 76; 7:30 p. m. 69; maximum 77; minimum 52; mean 64; normal 69. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 77; 7:30 a. m. 79; 1:30 p. m. 18; 7:30 p. m. 45. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.. 0.00 inches: total since the firs* of the month, 0.80 inches. Tides For Today: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): f High Low Wilmington _ 6:54a. 1:34a. 7:25p. l:52p. Masonboro Inlet_ 5:54a. 10:59a 5:18p. ll:33p. Sunrise 5:13a; sunset 7:03p; moonrise 3:23a; moonset 3:53p. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Sunday at 8 a. m., 10.00 feet. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) TROUBLE FLARES IN’ EBALKANS Bitter Engagement Between Romanians, Hungarians Reported By Russia MOSCOW. May 10.—UP)—A two hour fight between border guards of Rumania and Hungary. Balkan satellites of Adolf Hitler's "new Euroje,” was reported t'ficially by .the Russians today—a potential complication behind tfre Axis east ern front. The bitter engagement was re ported fought this month near Bretzku when a Rumanian detaeh ment slipped across the border In darkness to fall upon their "allies” in their barracks. Twenty Hungar ians were said to have been killed and the Rumanians carried the bodies back across the frontier. The 2.000-mile Russian front— the center and north of which are bogged down by melting ice and snow — appeared relatively quiet and the Russian communique re ported “no substantial changes.” In the Kalinin section northwest of Moscow. 600 Germans were listed as newly killed. A correspondent for the official newspaper Izvestia however, re (Continued on Page Two: Col- 1> SERVICES HELD FOR WAR DEAD Planes Of Another Day Roar Overhead As Me morial Day Observed By MARK OOWTIN. While a small crowd gathered at the Confederate monument in Oak dale cemetery to pay tribute to Con federate. Spanish-American and World War r dead-on Memorial Day, silence of the Sunday afternoon was broken by roaring of airplanes over head—another generation of Ameri cans on the alert to protect our heritage—and the intermittent sing ing of birds. After refreshing memories of where Americans have fought and for what they have fought, Major Roy S. Wood declared “at this time and on this hallowed spot, I again call on you to pick up the torch which they carried—the torch they carried in highlands and in valley— and 1 call on you to be true to the heritage you received from them for we are fighting a holy fight, we are fighting for a cause no less than freedom of human spirit, the dignity of the human soul.” In beginning his address, Major Wood said “on this occasion of hal lowed memories, there is little I could say which would make more green your memories of Lee and Jackson, of all the known and un known sons of the South who in uni forms of grey fought for their homes and firesides on the battlefront. *‘I remind you that we are en joined at this time to remember—to remember Pearl Harbor, and you and I are able to remember. We can remember Pearl Harbor, we can (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Enforced War Savings Proposed In Gore Bill WASHINGTON, May 10. — — Legislation for enforced wartime savings through withholding a part of the earnings of every worker making over $20 a week will be introduced in Congress tomorrow by Rep. Gore (D-Tenn). Announcing he had drafted a bil. to this effect, Gore declared in a statement tonight that “the neces sity for strong measures is clear— we must not lose the war because of internal domestic chaos.” He said he also had drafted a bill for an over-all ceiling on prices, wages and salaries, and farm products at parity. r Under Gore’s plan, the enforced savings, to go into government bonds bearing not more than 1 per cent interest, would begin at 6 per cent of the pay of a worker earning over $20 and less than $30 weekly. From, there, the percent age would range upward to re quire that persons of large in come invest all in excess of $25.- [ 000 (after payment of taxes) in the bonds. The bonds would be non-nego tiable except by special permis-[ sion of the secretary of the treas (Continued on Page Two; 'Col. 1) Premier Forecasts Mighty British-U. S. Summer Bombing Of Reich FINAL VICTORY SEEN War Lord Also Says United Nations Navies Will Grip And Hold Japanese Bv J. WES GALLAGHER LONDON. May 10.—(£>)— In a grim, fighting speech in the lull before the “hurricane bursts” of summer, Prime Minister Churchill tonight warned Hitler that Britain would carry poison gas war fare “far and wide” over Ger many if he dares use it against Russia, and forecast for sure a mighty British American bombing offensive against Germany. Grim in his predictions of “misery and slaughter" for Germany, the prime minister nevertheless was confident and optimistic and brought what he said was “a message of good cheer” for Britain and hpr A Hies. Declaring that 1he “awtul bal ances" had finally turned in the United Nations’ favor, he predict ed that “British and American ::ea power will grip and ho'G the •!ao anese" and their overwhelming air power eventually will bring her low. "There, however, is one serious matter which I must mention to you." he said. The Soviet govern ment have expressed to us the view that the Germans in the des peration of their assault may make use of poison gas against the armies and people of Russia. "We are ourselves firmly resolv ed not to use this odious weapon unless it is used first by the Ger mans. Knowing our Hun, however, we have' not neglected to make preparations on formidable scale Promises Retaliation "I wish to make it plain we shall treat unprovoked use of poi son gas against our Russian ally exactly as if it were used against ourselves, and if we are satisfied that this new outrage has been committed by Hitler we will use our great and growing air super iority in the west to carry ga“, warfare on the largest possible scale far and wide against military objectives in Germany.” The wording of Churchill’s warn ing made it appear that British retaliation was already only a mat ter of satisfactory evidence to prove charges that the Russians already have made. His statement was made a little more than 24 hours after Tass, official Soviet News agency, had distributed for the first time a dis patch reporting that the Germans had used poison gas on the Crim ean front, apparently in an experi mental way. This dispatch said: “according to a report from Krasnador on May 7, in operations on the Crim ean front. German troops used sev eral mines with poison gas. A check-up has shown that the poison gas affects respiratory organs and disables men.” Speaking on the second anniver sary of the tremendous offensive of tanks and dive-bombers which Hitler loosed through France and the low countries in 1940, Churchill made only a passing reference to Britain’s relations with Vichy upon which he had been expected to deal heavily. Disclosing that the decision to occupy the French island of Mad agascar in the Indian ocean had been made three months ago and that the expedition was two months on the way. he said that in the in terval he had felt a “shiver” every time he thought of what might hap pen tfirough the “dishonorable and feeble drifting or connivance’’ of the Vichy regime. Madagascar would be held in trust for the French, he said. Coyly. Churchill referred to de mands for a continental invasion and asserted, “naturally I shall not disclose what our intentions are, but there is one thing I will say. I welcome the militant and aggres sive spirit of the British nation so strongly shared across the Atlan tic ocean.” And for those most strongly de manding that Britain take the of fensive he offered the declaration, “we must not fail them either in daring or in wisdom.” But certainly, he said, “a British and presently an American bomb ing offensive against Germany will be one of the principal features in this year’s World War.” Now is the time, he declared to strike hard at the “foundation of (Continued on Pare Two; Col.
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