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Served By Leased Wire Of The * _ -- ——■ - associated press *1 . . * 4 gtfft ♦ ry 4 - REMEMBER .*"■1 umtwjfcm Mnnung 5>tar •SSr 'TS0- 2— -- TWELVE PAGES WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942 FINAL EDITION ~ ESTABLISHED 18671 Nazis Expected To Risk Tirpi j Against Convoy* Mighty Battle Is Predicted If German Fleet Puts To Sea By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, May 13.—(/P)—Hitler’s 35,000-ton battleship Tirpitz may lead the German battle squadron out of Trond heim at any time and the ensuing battle with British and Allied heavy warships will be the “largest naval engage ment of the war in Europe,” an informed quarter said today. The almost continuous battle of the Arctic, where the Germans are ,« close the northern supply route to Russia, has been intensi ve! Intelv as lengthening days ,;ive German aircraft more time for reconnaissance, and the south ard drift of polar ice narrows the passage to the Soviet poits. The Germans claimed today that bombers sank an 8.000-ton freight er and a small coastei and dam aged four large transpoi ts in the latest engagement along Norway’s Arctic coast and in the harbor at Murmansk. The British say Hitler is failing ;;es:roy the British convoys with his light* forces, submarines and a .rplanes. however, and that Ad miral Erich Racder will be forced to use his only battleship that is kiiov.n to be whole, the Tirpitz, plus the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer and the cruiser Hipper, both also at Trondheim, against *-_ some future convoy. “When he does the Allied squad rons will be waiting. The Germans will be extremely lucky if they get a single large ship back to port,” an informed source declared. The British already claim to have sunk two German destroyers and damaged four others which at tacked northern convoys, while los ing a cruiser and a small per centage of merchant tonnage. The danger point of the Arctic route is off North Cape, Norway, where the Germans attack both by air and by sea. Informed quarters said the Ger mans are more concerned now than any other. They have order ed their crack U-boat commanders from the North Atlantic to attack this road and the number of de with the northern *oute to Russia stroyers, submarines and bombers in the area is steadily increasing. Third Ship Is Sunk In Gulf Of Mexico Two Members Of Crew Killed; Another Vessel Sunk Off Coast ! NEW ORLEANS, May 13.-r-(/P)—The Navy disclosed today that the German submarines which made their first appearance in the Gulf of Mexico last week sank another small freighter, the third one lost, early last Friday morn ing with death of two Norwegian brothers. The Norwegian vessel, inbound from Central America, was hit by a single torpedo and sank three minutes later. William Aamnon ten, 26. and his brother Ainer Aamnonsen. 27. both firemen, were killed in the explosion. As the 24 other crewmen, includ ing one American and 21 Norwe gians. got clear in a motor boat and a life raft the submarine sur faced 80 feet away and the Ger man captain called out in English asking the name of the ship, its tonnage and destination. This in formation was not given. The crew reported the subma rine was freshly painted a light grey, bore no marks of identifica tion or camouflage. It stayed on | '-re surface from about 7:40 a. m. central War Time until about 8:30 • m. then proceeded westward. Naval planes from Pensacola, Fla., searching for the submarine ui response to a warning, picked op the survivors at noon, taking them io Pensacola. Three were slightly hurt. „ Navy officers here declined to comment when asked if one or ’ .n,l,!'e submarines were operating m the gulf, where two ships were sunk last Wednesday also in day ligiit. and also without any moles tation of the survivors who escap erLln lifeboats and rafts. file Norwegian steamer was hurrying to port in response to "anungs to clear the gulf when it intercepted by the fast mov W? submarine. 22 LIVES SAVED WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., May ‘ f—The foresight of the first ■’ "'bo put makeshift rafts on sa .Upp^‘, deck, was credited with i. f 22 1:ves wben an American ■; .f.enlman plunged quickly to . e Bottom after being torpedoed ,. IOad daylight four miles off Atlantic coast, within easy 1?rnl °f shore. lw>* Nav.v announced the sinking bei?(fanc* revealed that 15 mem U11'e crew were missing and sit-tt-'q**1 '° be ^0sb Two them, Lewis Ruiz and engineer l1.„‘,lu'n Virdon, were known to e died. floated' f,he Shlp sank' the rafts the ,. ‘rep aild 22 members of pi.,.e'v clung to them. They were cm V Up and brought to safety t....(i's IPre by three fishing boats— ''1° "l'!ch put out from shore hu i eye-witnesses on the beach telephone. l eported the attack by r-:C;.t’ar!'\ R. Clark of (222 Sya r.it ' ;Vbl* Valley, Calif., the \*.,c 'ai the lifeboats were sunk «... he sbip. Clark had obtained F '«i°n earlier from Capt. Con..!k Roberts of Baltimore, to W 1 llcl rafts from oil drums and ../’-oem free on deck, jj], nv 'R know that I had a pre in', " l0n- ’ be explained after be certig iCUed’” but the loss of life j dinly would have been greater •Cjlnlijiued uu pafe Two; Col. 6) SECONDS 5SUNK IN ST-1 MCE Fourteen Members Of Crew Of Torpedo Victim Re* ported Missing A ST. LAWRENCE RIVER PORT, Canada, May 13.— (fP) — Fourteen crew members from one of the two ships sunk by torpedoes from enemy submarines in the St. Lawrence river were reported dead or missing tonight. The first definite report ol casualties in the Monday night at tacks came from a rescued officer of one of the torpedoed freighters. Briefly, here is the story he told: One freighter was struck by two torpedoes and the entire crew of 46 reached shore in lifeboats. The second freighter was struck about the same time by a single torpedo, and 29 crewmen were picked up by another ship and taken to a nearby port. One man died from exposure after being taken from the water by the res cue ship and 13 others are missing. The recapitulation placed the number of survivors at ?4 from the two ships. In previous reports it was figured there were 87 or 88 rescued, including a mother and child, and that only two were miss ing. Navy Minister Angus MacDon ald, in announcing at Ottawa today that the submarine toll was two ships instead o'? only one as orig inally announced, did not amplify his previous statement that a totai of 41 had been landed safely. A rescued officer who gave the first eye-witness account of the sinking said that it took 20 min utes for the first freighter to go (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Committee Sets Single Ex emptions* At $500 And Married At $1,200 ACTION IS SURPRISE Proposal Recommended In Attempt To Raise Bil lions For War Effort By DONALD A. YOUNG WASHINGTON, May 13— (/P)—Unexpectedly, the House Ways and Means committee decided today to slash indi vidual income tax exemptions to $500 for single and $1,200 for married persons in an ef fort to raise billions of dollars to finance the w$r effort. By a vote of about 2 to 1, the members abandoned the present levels of $750 and $1,500. The ac tion woUld bring millions of new taxpayers to the collection win downs—starting with the single man who earns about $10 a week. The committee coupled with the reduced exemptions retention of the earned income credit, which the Treasury department had pro posed to abolish. The lowered ex emptions apply to both normal and surtaxes. Higher Surtax Rates Chairman Doughton (D-NC) said the committee would proceed to morrow to consider higher normal and surtax rates. Until the rates are determined there can be no estimate of what revenue the low ered personal credits wouljj pro duce. The Treasury has aslftd for $3,400,000,000 more taxes from in dividuals. Today’s action brought closer to a decision the question of whether a sales tax would be taken to the House for a vote. Two proponents of that levy said that the dipping into the low in come brackets probably would make strong arguments against a sales tax, which admittedly would fall hardest on the same workers. “But. if we are going to raise $8,700,000,000, as the Treasury has suggested, we still will have to have a ‘ sales tax,” one of them said. Rejected, 21 to 4 By a vote reported to have been 21 to 4, the committee also reject ed the Treasury’s proposal for elimination of the present oil de pletion allowance in an attempt to raise $80,000,000. That provision permits oil well and mine owners to charge off as a natural resource depletion allowance certain fixed percentages of their income. Coupl ed with that provision is an option to permit such companies to “ex pense” or capitalize intangible dril ling or development costs. After the committee members climaxed ten days of work on the personal exemption question, the opinion prevailed that a f i n a .' agreement on perhaps $2,500,000,-• 000 or $3,000,000,00 in new indivi dual taxes might be reached. One member suggested that committee and Treasury statisti cians would now be asked to sub mit estimates of how much three or four sets of normal and surtax rates would produce. Another said those experts would be asked to determine rates necessary to pro duce another $3,00,000,000. -V Mistrial Is Ordered In Manslaughter Case LUMBERTON, May 13.—(JP)—A mistrial was ordered by Superior Court Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn to day in the ease of Alexander P. McAllister, 23 year old Lumberton youth charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Edward Ivey in an automobile ac cident last June. McAllister, who appeared in court in the uniform of a Canadian sol d.ier, stayed under $5,000 bond. The jury was unable to agree. McAllister, the state charged, was driver of the car in which Ivey was riding. Chinese Brace Positions Against Reinforced Japs — LONDON, May 13.—(Jl- rans of the China wars under tue per sonal direction of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek braced their lines tonight against a reinforced Jap anese penetration of their soil while isolated, exhausted Chinese and British forces held stubbornly to the last few bits of Burma. After suffering a temporary but bloody setback, the Japanese ad vance guard on the Burma road was reported in a Chinese com munique from Chungking to have penetrated at least 50 miles inside China’s backyard at Lunling and to have pushed on towards Pao f shan, 50 miles deeper inside Yun nan province. The major objective of this drive supposedly is Kun ming, capital of the province, and China terminus of the true Burma road. While chiang’s seasoned troops fought this new incursion, other, by-passed units of American Gen eral Joseph W. Stillwell’s Chinese expeditionary force, were slashing at the enemy’s thinly guarded communication lines in northern Burma. The Chinese high command said (Continued on Pore^ffwo; Col. 1) RUSSIANS FALL BACK TO NEW POSITIONS ON KERCH PENINSULA BUT DENY NAZI CLAIMS THA T BA TTLE HAS BEEN ENDED President Of Peru Addresses Representatives Members of the House of Representati ves listen attentively as Manuel Prado, pres ident of Peru, makes a short address in th eir chamber. Prado (standing top center) is in Washington on official business, the f irst Latin-American president to visit the United States while still in office. Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, is seen at the right.—(Central Press.) Southeast Has Shortage Of B Cards For Gasoline i ii —— 4 „ These^Entitle Drivers To Buy From 33 To 57 Gallons Of Fuel ATLANTA, May 13. — (A3) — A shortage of B cards which would allow motorists to purchase from 33 to 57 gal lons of gasoline under the emergency rationing plan was reported today at many southeastern registration places. Oscar Strauss, Jr., regional OPA administrator, said the cards and application forms for the B allotments were running low because thq demand for this type of allowance was exceeding all expectations. B cards are allowed motorists, who drive to and from work or who use their cars to carry on their business. They are issued to those whose average daily mileage is at least six miles. Those who do not drive this far are given cards, and Strauss said this type would be issued to motorists applying for B allotments when the supply of the latter cards was exhausted' at any registration place. Later, he explained, the motorist who is entitled to a B card may apply to his local rationing board. The boards, which originally were set up to handle tire and automobile rationing, also will rule on applications for supplemental rations. Strauss said many boards al ready were swamped with supple mental applications and pointed out that many motorists, especial ly traveling salesmen, believed they must have them before mak ing a trip. He declared, however, that ac tually a motorist could apply for a supplement at the board in any town where he might happen to be when the supply allowed on his original card ran low. An appli cant for a supplement is required to state why other means of trans portation than his automobile can not meet his needs. Regional officials said the ma chinery to handle the registration, which will end tomorrow, function (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) -V WEATHER FORECAST: NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA — Little change in tem perature with scattered showers and thunderstorms Thursday. (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. 72; 7:30 a. m. 67; 1:30 p. n\ 70; 7:30 p. m. 70; maximum 74; minimum 66; mean 70; normal 70. Humidity: 1:30 a. m 66; 7:30 a. m. 95; 1:30 p. m. 69; 7:30 p. m. 78. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.05 inches; total since the first of the month, 0.85 Jhches. • Tides For Today: (From Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington _ 9:17a. 4:04a 9:40p. 4:12p. Masonboro Inlet_ 7:05a. 1:01a. 7:23p. l:06p. Sunrise 5:11a; sunset 7:05p; moonrise 5:05a; moonset 6:39p. Cape Fear river stage at Fayette ville on Wednesday at 8 a. m., 9.35 feet. (Continued on Pare Two; Col. 2) [POPE " JS PLEADS FOR WORLD PEACE But Pontiff Admits There Is No Immediate Hope Of Achieving It VATICA'N CITY (From Vatican Broadcasts), May 13.— Iff' —Pope Pius XII appealed to the world’s leaders today to conclude a peace “on principles of justice and mod eration even if it does not seem to correspond to aspirations,” but he acknowledged that “there is no immediate hope of peace.” He addressed his peace appeal “with impartiality to all belliger ents and with equal affection for all sections of all peoples.” But in an earlier section of his address the Pope attacked the anti-Chris tian methods of the leaders of “some countries” who are “bent on replacing right by force.” The Pontiff, speaking on the 25th anniversary of his consecration as a bishop and on the eve of the Feast of the Ascension, was ad dressing the world by radio. He spoke, he said, while “people are living in painful anxiety, awaiting imminent military operations” and anticipating “the mance of great er destructive weapons.” But, he said, “we well know how in the state of things today there would be little probability of suc cess in formulating detailed pro posals for a just and honorable peace.” ■“While one side bases its hopes on results achieved,” he observed, “the other side bases its hopes on the outcome of future events.” In his remarks attacking the foes of Christianity the Pope said: “Today in some countries those in authority bent on replacing right by force trump up against Chris tians the same infringements of law which the Caesars of the first century pretended to have found in Peter and Paul and a countless line of innocent victims who are now effulgent with a halo of vir tues. “Tjie crime trumped up against Christians is always the same— their unfaltering loyalty to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.” The Pontiff opened his remarks on peace by recalling that he al ways had worked for peace. 3 D C HOWARD GETS SEVEN-YEAR TERM Manager Of Cape Fear Taxi Company Convicted For Theft Of Auto A sentence of seven years in state prison, three years on one count and four on another to be gin at the epiration of the first, on two charges of larceny of an automobile was imposed on D. C. Howard, manager of the Cape Fear Taxi company’s service station, at the opening of the Wednesday ses sion of Superior court. Howard also was sentenced to serve two terms of two years each on the roads, the sentences to run concurrently with the first sen tence. on two charges of receiving stolen tires. Hearing of testimony in the case in which William Bell, young Wil mington negro, is on trial for his life on a charge of assaulting a white woman here March 19. con sumed the major part of the Wed nesday session of court which end ed with the first summation to the jury by Elbert Brown, one of the attorneys for the defense. Brown’s argument to the jury lasted an hour and twenty-five minutes, end ing at 5:45 o’clock. Addison Hewlett, Jr., will close the argument to the jury for the defense when court opens this morning. Following Mr. Hewlett’s address to the jury, Solicitor David Sin clair will give the only argument for the state in the case. The state waived the opening argument as John Schiller, assisting Solici tor Sinclair in the prosecution, was called from the court room. When Solicitor Sinclair rested the case the state shortly before noon Wednesday after the prosecuting witness had declared that she was positive that Bell was the negro who threw her to the floor of her kitchen, choked her. and assaulted her. Attorneys Hewlett and Brown, appointed by the court to repre (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) Reds Say Fierce Fighting Still Going On In The Crimea As They Combat Numeri cally Superior Nazi Forces SOVIETS ADVANCE BEFORE KHARKOV; Possibility Of Opening Of Third Offensive By Invaders South Of Leningrad Seen In Moscow Circles MOSCOW, Thursday, May 14.—(/P)—The Russians ac knowledged early today that they had fallen back to new positions on the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea in the face of attack by superior numbers of Nazis, but they denied German claims that the battle had been concluded. In the vicinity of Kharkov, approximately 300 miles north of the Crimean battlefront, the Russians under Mar shal Semeon Timoshenko were engaged in a mounting of fensive against the Germans, and there the Red army forces were “successfully advancing,” according to the midnight Soviet communique. --* Germans Say Soviet Line Is Shattered 40,000 Prisoners Taken And Enemy Pursued, Nazis Claim BERLIN (From German Broad casts), May 13—UP—German and Rumanian troops have broken a 12-mile fortified Soviet line across the neck of the Kerch peninsula in the Crimea, capturing 4 0,0 0 0 prisoners and annihilating encircl ed groups of Red soldiers, th a Germans announced tonight. “Pursuit of the remmants of the beaten enemy is being continued incessantly,” the communique said in describing the break-through. Four small Russian transport ships in the Kerch straits behind the Reds’ peninsular positions were sunk by German airmen, and broadcast news dispatches said nine others aggregating 11,000 tons had been damaged. Thus the Russian supply service operating across the strait trom the Caucasus mainland “has been considerably handicapped,” a Ger man radio commentator said. German broadcast reports said that “never before in history have so many planes of all types b-^en concentrated and engaged in bat tle over a comparatively small area as there are now over the Kerch peninsula.” The Germans said the Russians had erected “an etremely strong and largely echeloned defense sys tem” across the peninsula’s reck, strongly manned by “numerically superior enemy troops.” But a German-Rumanian attack which began May 8 was said to have overrun this defense—in-depth with Axis troops threading a vast mine-field to continue toward the city of Kerch 40 miles eastward. The Germans also officially claimed the destruction or capture of 197 Russian tanks, 598 guns, and 260 aircraft in action thus far. Waves of German dive-bombers and incessant heavy artillery shelling were said in news dis patches to have “blotted out”, the advance Russian bunkers and ma chine-gun nests before Axis shock troops were hurled forward. t r MAY IMMOBILIZE SHIPS LONDON, Thursday, May 14.—W Informed sources said today that the Vichy Chief of Government Pi erre Laval in a note to the United States regarding the status of Mar tinique had agreed to immobilize three French warships there, the aircraft carrier Beam, and the cruisers Emile Bertin and Jeanne d’Arc. House Votes Service Men $50 Month, But Cut Seen WASHINGTON, May 13.— (ffl — The House stuck to its $50 monthly scale for men in the lowest ranks in the Army-Navy pay raise bill today but indications were that the final figure would be $42. With House approval, given with one dissenting vote, the measure now goes to conference to bring it into conformity with the rates approved by the Senate. The Sen ate bill calls for $42 and leaders said the plan was to adhere to that figure. The House yesterday increased fike amount to $50, adopting an i • _ amendment by Rep. Rankin (D. Miss.), who said such action might avoid a bonus fight after the war. A roll call vote of 331 to 28 today ratified yesterday’s action. The measure then was passed with only Rep. Disney (D.-Okla.) voting against it. A private now receives $21 monthly for the first four months. $30 for the next eight and $40 monthly after a year\s service, while an apprentice seaman gets $30. The bill, under present con ference plans, would increase all A v (Continued on Puce Two; fjol. 4) A possibility that a thii'd im portant sector of the front may be opened by the Germans soon, per. haps as part of a general offen sive. was seen in a brief Moscow radio report that the huge total of 239 German transport planes and 37 fighters were destroyed in the past few days in the region about Staraya Russa, south of Leningrac and northwest of Moscow, long a bitterly-contested area. The presence of so many Ger man transport planes indicated a further Nazi attempt to bolster the reportedly trapped 16th German army south of Lake Ilmen. (The Nazis recently claimed they had cut a ground corridor through to that army.) The Crimean front, meanwhile, continued to rock with battle. “Fierce fighting still is g oing on,” said today’s communique. The text read: “During May 13 our troops, op posing numerically superior forces of Germans, retired to new posi tions. “The German communique claim that the battle of Kerch re sulted in a German success and that they captured many tanks and guns and took a large number of prisoners is nothing but a lie. “Our troops are retiring in good order and inflicting heavy losses on me auacKers. “In the Kharkov direction of the front (in the Donets basin) our troops took the offensive and are successfully advancing. “On othpr sectors of the front nothing of significance took place. “On May 12, 43 German planes were destroyed. Our losses were 17. Soviet ships in the Barents sea sank an enemy transport of 12,000 tons.’’ (The German high command yesterday claimed that 40,000 Red troops had'been captured, and the battle was decided at the ap proaches to Kerch which with the narrow isthmus of the name bars the way to a jump into the Cau casian oil fields. The Nazis also claimed the “annihilation of ene my forces which have been over run and encircled there ’) --V Congressmen Granted Another Appointment To Military Academy WASHINGTON, May 13.— — The House voted today to give each senator and representative another appointment to the mili tary academy at West Point, but turned down another provision of the bill authorizing the Secretary of War to fill vacancies remaining for any reason at the beginning of the academic year. The bill, which goes to the Sen ate. would increase the present authorized strength of 1,960 by 536, -V Interned Japanese Riot At Vancouver VANCOUVER, B. C., May 13.—CP) •Japanese under detention at the immigration building here staged a riotous demonstration today, smash ing windows on the upper floor on which they are held and turning a firehose on people in the street be low. Chunks of plaster torn from fhe walls of their quarters and an iron grating were thrown into the street, the Japanese meanwhile shouting so loud that they could be heard several hundred yards aw’ay. Japa nese women stood nearby and waved to them. All w'as quiet early tonight. Im migration authorities declined com ! ment. The affair was in the hand* of military authorities. -V LAND IN ENGLAND A BRITISH PORT, Thursday, May 14.—(JP)—Thousands of rein forcements for Canada’s land and air forces overseas have arrived safely in Britain to join the Allied military machine being assembled for an offensive against the Axib
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