North Carolina Newspapers

Henltersort Hatlp Hispafrif ____ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OK NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA TWENTY-NINTH YEAR r£n r^01" HENDERSON, N. C„ THURSDAY AFTER nOON, MARCH 2ti, 1942 ‘>1'bl,s,M%uay1.kksu<'n FIVE CENTS COPY "No Compromise" In Pacific ************ ************ **** Air_ Warfare Intensified On European War Front Trade Blows From Arctic To Germany In London, Churchill Sounds Rare Note of Optimism, Declaring Allies ‘Cannot Lose . . Except Through Our Own Fault.’ (By Thr Associated Press) Tempest mnis aerie! Mows raiiKinK from Arctic 'dermao !•. to (Irrmany’- indu-t r'• i] Ruhr valley and the white ciilTs of l>over were reported today as !’ r i m e .M inisti r V\' i 11 s t on ( hurchill sounded a rare not > of optimism with the declura- ! tion that l he allies "cannot low this war except through our own | fault.’' On Hie Russian Iront, Sovi ■( dispatches told a story ol [ mounting German slaughter along the vast hattleline. while | a bulletin from \dolf Hitler's field headquarters acknowledged a fresh wave of Red army as saults. Dming the night. RAF warp: aw- I ‘‘very leg, ||y bombed" Goi'ian va I founrir; in tlie li ihr, the 1, ■idoo air ministry announeed. and pound ed the German ('-boat ba-e t St Na/airr a. the na/i-oreupi'd Fr nrh coast. T;:i■ magnitude of tin' ofien sive was indicated by flip air n mis try'- aG;iiow■|ed-j}enu nt that eleven RAF Ir 'idler- were lost Vichy reported that It \F planes also “stormed" Paris in a 90-minute pamphlet raid, warn ing that they would return to bomb French factories work ing for Hitler's military machine. The na/.i high command said German night raiders attacked Dover on the southeast I'.nglish coast, inflicting "great damage" to military installations. Soy : t ch.-putehes reported that •><* German planes raided Mm at :m. d' v Soviet ba-e for the arrival of t'nited State war supplies, and tint :: ' re than 101) planes, raiders ,m.l | defender-, battled over the city at one time. Kleven German planes ,vcre reported shot down. In London, Prime Minister t'hurehill told a eou-erv.itive party meeting: "1 cannot offer my guarantee that we are at the end of mi isfortunos Il would be f a lisli for u ■ not to be prepared for further heavy blows. "Hut ,iu-1 a.- la-t year I warned j -- ! (Continued on Page t'lve) Axis Launches India Party London, March 2<i. (AI *) Ap parently coking to counter Sir Stat ion! Cripps' mission to India, the axis announced today that it was launching it' own Indian independ ence movement. The Berlin radio broadcast a Tokyo dispatch asserting that re presentatives of the "Indian indepen dence party” from Hongkong, Malaya, Thailand and Shanghai would convene March 28 in Tokyo for a two-day conference. Italy Reports Nazi Raids Home (From Italian Broadcasts), March 2(i. (AP) German bombers continuing tneir attacks on the Brit ish naval base at Malta, have dam aged a light cruiser and a merchant vessel in the harbor of Valetta, the Italian high command reported to day. Two British planes were shot down in dog lights during this a sault and two more were destroyed on the ground, a communique said. Of opei itions on the north African front the high command said mere ly: “Our desert oops in the corns' ol extensive patl ' activity lar inu tile south Libyan ri>. rt have ascer tained the complete •■nee of !hc tunny. ’ ‘ _ Standard Oil Pact Blamed For Shortage Was? im.ton, March — (AIM —Thu: m in Arnold, assistant at lt;M! y general, t stified today \ •.»'i the standard Oil Company of New Jersey pad developer a synfiielic rubber that was chcip -* • y'Uer and more plentiful than any the nazis had and had turned if over to German intei esfs retd re the Cnitr*d Slate.-* en tered the war. Arnold told the Senate defen e in ve.l lgating commiit c tl at i. • 111 .. con tnt decree entwed in e ye-ter da; . .'hand,,id had 'hr! i r n m tin rubber horlas in makiiig tlie patent on the synthetic product ava 1 i! ie to American rubber com pel: ie -. it1 l lying belnro t!•»• Senate r e itii-c investigating ( , v, , \r nuicl said, however, that ‘'these ar rangements were not entered into with any desire to aid or . : l Ger many.” ' i ie' oie motive.” >a: i I!:c a- o - iant Ptorne;. general, "v. a- an at tempt n the pai o] 1 j ndar< Oil t i get a pi "ie* led rh.rt i" eliminate indep(*ndent c petition. an.. . ..! v ;. r. -t* id p. •: i m ot world m .. i'.c! • in order ; > . mntain that e ntn.l.” The , pa 11 • nt • bet\ • n Stvidun, * and 1 e G in iyc 11 t • < end1-I by .. consent decree ;.nn,iunc c;l y !• . a. v in which the com pan;, agn e-.i to tree to American industry its paienis on synthetic rubber. The company, six subsidiaries and three lop off icial vv ere fine i a total ot $50,000 for violation ot the anti trust law. They pleaded nolo con i' ndere. NAZI SUB SINKS BRITISH VESSELS Berlin. (Pimi: German Br< >. idcaM > March 2(1. ( A1’) -—The (in'man hig!i command declaied today that a ha/: submarine had attaeked a B'.u.-li convoy oil the north African efe.M, east of Saturn, .mb had :-link a de stroyer and a a.OOU-ton merchant ship. Labor Exodus To War Plants Noted in State Dully Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Bn BOB THOMPSON Kalcig! March 2b. North ( a • linn i 1 ■ • ions dangei ot a ox orins i labor, said May tie Al bright. tie ted-rat employment serv ice’s direct / m this static The only hope ot keeping many of the state’- best workers in N«>rti: Carolina i for a rapid conversion i many North Carolina plants to w.*r work and a wide1 distribution of c.. r contracts among them. To the end that the Mai may not lose some of its best w >rker-. Al bright is working with the contracts distribution of the war production board on labor suppiy mid labor training problems. At the moment, however, other state- with more win work than this are c riling ■’ N >t th Carolina labor, including thon-and> of young men who art Gang <»Mci M training a- well as enmloyiwnt. The employment sciwce has the (Continued on Page P V<M U. S. Navy Avenges Wake island Defenders —Official I . S. Navy Photo. Bo . i;nj> dtiiantiy. the main Latte y of a l\ S c;t ■ • a W .v I.-land in the v coi;1 ' | m I . i tnccd hv tl'.e 'try. S'v : ■ if ;.ih , • '■ ‘ cU :• a-lied and two patrol boats sunk The tasl force ettrryint t tnf..i i t mdei I < " rat t Vice Admiral William F. F. y v» no in-aded ihe naval 1 < ■ > l;; :h’ iK-d Alarshall and Gan . ' I • n Broughton Urges Protection "gl Governor Charges ■ hocking Lack of Co Between A v i n e d Services. ?! i i * • • ■ 11. March Mi—(A I*) — (»<m. «-.• i.') fh .hiiitmi charged to ila.' lii.t there was a "shucking , v oi (■■»<: nation" hetu een vasious 1 i u.flics <»t the armed in j;. L . ling shipping off I-.!'- North ( irolina coast from s\! «i..jline . 1 tacks. •• • ..'if \)\ italic a tele- | fid to Sm f 1 nrif-• Knox and | 1 .f!. ; I t ha l ‘ delenses : .if ' >iepredation - eer- j G . '11 t * a i ‘ o 1' n a r- >a tal i f-idffo. *4? .am l re- j i 1 i :hf 1 flee, i am ltd lows. .\ ' : • it JII.1 n*i:r ! 1 'c I .! : . oka iff! of reliable ! ;i i U * . • . \ I ilGr:' ' ad -a. 1 '.i.’r S X ) Is Defended Former Patient Makes Elan k e t D eru nci at»on of Society for Alleged Conditions. t’li.ii lotlc. M ;■ : -<! i A11' -A .a ! 11 ! ' 1 1 ' Moiganton : ■ today a 1>1 m.i Collfilt ion in I. ■ o v. loco 1 o ■ bnought or ’ ■ o The wit in' . . o"l identity In n i wold, v i a > • '• woman wlv ,,; 1 ho w. at the Mo: I'.aiilw Iw o '.,1 or t i, month/, in IT'a ,ood I She said hr ' ■' la d no n n ' private . a mi to' . ■ ill ■ ing lie ims rolls|aa I ai: "oil n ooi v jh r! i the state 1! ■ ' • : 1 ' • I ■ made to I eel i o' a o , 11! loo : i • 1 o til' patient a: ' ., .oa o ow el' (""■ • si ill." The witne "ell t III' win lie vri y n re! v. that': moors weia hold . 1 id ! iaeiidlv. ih the loo,| ah' ll. " pla.ll Wa ■ and that -In u /In'! i« men a r (Continued ■ o I' ig(> Sew n > LOANS AUTHORIZED FOR SMALL r I RMS Washingtdi. M.irdi ‘2d.— (AIM — President Booseecli ailiiin; ./ed today the hnancin; <ii war (on tracts h>r small business taroa *. h gu:*ranteed loans. I lider a presidential exee’i tive order, the War and Na\ d j.artmeiits and the maiitinn commission nia> guarantee o: rven make loans iu;ee* ao lor war production to v ’ a ni .! * :«a: - tr i.t. ion h.\ smMi oiisbo ..x lime . Tic excretive § was nre pured h.\ the we: product i m hoard, the War ami Na-.y de partin' nts and trie maiitinia com mission. Babson Dee.atvs vVco Conditions bpeed Kc viva! of Business tor Merchants. so k<>(.: i; \\ p.wjsov ( opvright 15M 2 i»\ Publishers 1 'man a I Hue' an. i" IT ,n ! ... ;\ia: Mat eh Zb I . a,ri\11!\ inU'^v ’.ed in .our sn.nii ill I,* ;; | ;H t ■ V t I $ ! ‘ tl'i 'I Igll'Mlt the t .. i i i *; \ Iiiii1 I- !ii< decent an I i mtn a i t ■ : led 1 eiviuml n on!! The Pack To Th * Tarm Pu~. Mon* and 1 >r«1 ci > ;' " •!1 *■ ‘ ■ - looking h*i ;■ nil g «d m»ie iv. the subte'istride- ; «■ >1 ■1 1 1 m'" the!' ■ .lU I:' If"’*- “ !: r ' 't • - : > i \ ' 1 rU ;m I i.. I'r:!'. •. ■... to e ■ c > 111' nil . r 1 *■■■■! cillf i'll i Ul:1 ■: i - illl.'l 111(1 i’ll ' i1 ‘ nuicli in ul 11 inning ulmn ((',.r,:.ii.,i'd on Page Six! MIV1IIII 1 'OK NOFIT1I l \ROI.IV \ Mmlerato shiiiii'rs this aftor noon and tonight, slightl' uai l -I I' t Willi-' lit AFL And CIO Heads Join In Urging Against Labor Law Washington. March 2(j.— < \i’> ' —William Green, president ol the American Federation ol Labor, and Philip Murray. CIO chief, jointly advised Congress today against passing labor legis lation which might start an "un declared war among ourselves" and divide the nation into groups lighting each other. In statements pr> pared for pre sentation before the House naval committee, they as.-ailcd a hill to sus pend the closed simp and extra pay for overtime in war plant.- and said it was dictated by labors enemi'-s. "I charge that the sponsors and supporters of this bill are now wag ,ng an undeclared war against Prcsi - a.mu Koosevelt and against the work er- .i America who believe in the pH sf hi.-sdniiini o'ah n ' :.nj Green. Murray declared the n. mitlee liad !he rc.-pon aiid :\ reefing misinformat am ’!..i’ is- a- i .sponsored and I'osh-red in anti-labor groups . . and re > i. in a ntr and lor all »'•!•>,, in p'lbi a lile ,.n i in pri\ ate hi \. 1 , ■ a’tr: >' te. tn disrupt and di\ ide ■ ■ a nat a a: into groups." The Amel ia n I- ■ rii r .' ■ n <,1 I. las head said that ”\ve cannot uTlord the nation's crisi ■ to take- I nee on: to fight another and undeclared vr-m among ourselves here in America. Said Murray: “This is not the tim lor an.' patriotic Ann r a ot citizen- to a am or spread misinformation about labor or to divide tin nation into groups fighting each olltei in. trad ol our v.r.miuon a i» tris in it. Coast Guard Cutter Sunk By Axis Sub , Washington. March \J‘> , —The \av> announced toda\ i that the ( oast tiuard cutter Acacia was recently shelled and sunk in tin* ( arihhean area, pre snmahl.N I)v an encm\ submarine, and that all aboard were res cued. The cutter was described in a communique reporting the sink ing as “a small unarmed ship cl tin* tender class which was used to provide services to aids to navigation." She had been in the- ' ghh . a -o | I set ice ; - a lighth< a-e ten I* i at ior ; ; ! • 1 e ug t 'hen into th C ■ t (I g, • cl : 1939 I i; ill ill 1919 : iio rh ,»! ,.* d 1.130 i i 172 • l v'th a The e :11er ! reamc the 22nd i,;[) o ! j na \ a 1 - er\ 'ee 1" if announced as | Cl..Hi' ym Reuben Jan e- hast fall. She : !-• the 17th .-hip announced as de st1 ■ yd by enemy act > n. the* :ive ! others having been aco unted 1 . by .st( le : ;y n ■ - ion. N ' ifctin l 30 to 35 men aboard the Aeae a at | ‘ho time o! the attack. Authioritie> at Havana. Cuba, an | nounecd on M. rch 15 they heard : radio calls niying the Acacia \v; br ing abandoned arter lning Afiled , and machin: gunned near the Fr.-nck : island of Guadeloupe. _ REDS’ NEW TYPE MINIATURE SUBS SINK NAZI SHIPS New York. March :!(>.— t A I* —New type Russian miniature i submarines “which can operate easily in narrow waters” recent ly have sunk at least ten Ger man ships on the northern Nor wegian coast, the BBC reported today in a broadcast heard in New York by CBS. TEMPORARY CEILING ON NEWSPRINT PRICE Washington. March 3(1 (AP) — The office of price administration i in,iav imposed a temporary, lio-du.v , price ceiling on m wsprint at the pm- ent Ice el of $5(1 a ton. The ceiling in effect cancels out j an announced increase to $53 recent- | ly announced by Canadian produc ers. Nazis Lose 30 Bombers London. March hi.— (AIM — Thirty German dive bombers were destroyed or damaged yes terday in one of the greatest air battles ever lought over embat tled Malta, the air minisir.s le ported tonight. Ihe KAI s Spitfires and Hur ricanes worked such havoc among the attacking force, tin* ministry said, that at least halt of the raiders were not able to return home or else landed rid dled b\ machine gun bullets and the splinters of cannon shells. At Least 30 Men Are Dead In Explosion Of Dynamite ! \ : i\. ’*a.. March .i*.— (AIM k!main .is oi pounds of d.vna p:iir exploded prematurely at a 1 nieMone (|iia;rv of the l.ehigh Morlland ( ■mri’l company four iv: :!•*-. north of * aston toda> . kill in; .it least men ami shaking the e'-iintrvside lor miles around. ! ■ ,■ • el the death Mil i■ • 1 . v a- ... ked on t! • r,i i iid around | M —I of those . niid-mnrninR I.,.,i v. v o tlu blast 1 t ■ te .i~t..111■ u 11nve about 9:30 a. to FWT Sin teen othei men were at work hi •1' ■ b..:*o:i : 'lie pit and e aped injury. The hl.i: 1 v. a- ell a far away as .in r ;le- Windnv w -r. shattered in ia i , . ml budding- a in 18-mile , s' . . n i.. i 'li on ii i : -i'.idt sdi<" >1, half a mile from tin 'gene were injured • jhtl> from I>i'• > !•» e n window - . Only i v. o were dt lained m an h.iston i: ’a . how't'Vt'i Ti \gether wall: ai eia.-.-u ntes the children marched caln Iv : r »m the building under the iperv i>u>n ot two teachers, who gave first aid to the injured in the schoolyard. Leonard Sabatino. owner ot a real company just across a highway from the cement plant, -wed “bodies were strewn all ovei the place. It was a terrible sight.” Wives and relatives of th work ers—some crying; others hysterical —crowded into a plant building not far from the quarry to await iden tification of the mangled bodies. Major Earl M. Henry of the Penn sylvania slate- police said 2a tons of dynamite had been assembled in the quarry for a major blasting opera tion that was to have blown away .iiif entu’e .alt -f the quarry Allied Chief Pledges Full Resources General MacArthur Underlines Pledge of Allied Counter Of fensive With Promise of Ail U. S. Facilities and Manpower. (Thr iatcd I'rrss) C11 • j i i • r: !) aiyi. - Mae Art liur, Iran.': ! >■ ■ underlining his 'h'dgi- • an a!Iicd counter of onsi\. against Japan. told lead '»'s . ,f An.-i ralia l",iay that ‘there can be no e<impromise . . A c shall w in or we shall die” in ho I ight to (h'i v<1 Kmporor dirohito's invasion armies hack ait of the southwest Pacific. And to this end, I pledge you '•he foil resources of all the might \ power of my country, and all the blood of mi country - nn n " (ieneral M ( Arthur said, speaking at a dinner in parlia ment house in ( anherra. “I have rome as a soldier in a great crusade of personal liberty, as opposed to perpetual slavery. faith m our ultimate victory is invincible." Japan's capture of the strategic Aitri.iin.'ii; islands, sending a tongue e Ikwe leaping toward India, spur red it ns for the rn<ibiliza wi el Indi . nan,Olid mm on the side i ar a Hn ■ a - the situaiion in the eatth o| 15.,; grew even- more . rd ;eal. Burma is the eastern gateway to India. Attempting to relieve pressure on allied forces in central Bur ma. two strong Chinese columns were reported to have invaded Japanese-occupied Thailand at • wo points. Thailand adjoins northern Burma. A I'oky . broadcast emphasized the 11>■ rlante oi the Andaman group . .. nasal and air base for a'tarw- Pie r.dalle.- linking In dia with hr:'...ii. and declared the .seizure j ut .!— in "within danger otis sink g e -tance of vital British military oa . at Calcutta, Madras and Ceylon" >» mie Japan mils aimed a di rect threat at India. Sir Stafford ( ripps. special British envoy, sped a series of conferences with Indian leaders in an attempt to iron out India's long smoldering internal friction and weld the dominion's vast manpower into a united lighting force for the al lies. St. ti • . ; .,.•{> bore fruit • i ' ii \1, .• .:u Kalan Azad, esident . ■ • party, sum** " «'in-d lit v . xec:t;\ v conv* ;tee t*» ■ • :• ' B: :ti.-h gov omi: ent' • i rule in In di <>!» «•; . ■ d tin. was a sign ■ 'i delinite pi ■ •. * - . In ..«Id. ..;n'Li, (iandhi, (C •: :1 Page Six) Japs Bomb Ccrregidor Four Planes Shot Down of 54 Heavy Bombers Attacking Manila Bay Entrance. U . : : M., . ■! 2ii lAP) Ti.e W’a Mi r. ! " • • n repi a ted today 11iln a. .1 .a ■<-.•!" mbers par tieipated a .i -. \ -1.- • i*r attack on the ' land I < >rt - a* t ie entrance of Manila Bay. c- -neont rat mg a (.’orregidor, and thiit dmendmg anti-aircraft bat iera - >h"f (i- VVll I•» ir ol the planes. PI > < t ffered only i few r.ria.I’M the department said aniipu-. and da viage to the t'ortilieat mis wa.~ slight There were -harp skirmishes along the entife front n Bataan, the department ad ded. The bag of four enemy bombers m this attack brought to seven the number hot down bv anti-aircraft lire since the .Japanese launched their sudden renewal of a large scale » . al b* >!s i vji dicent lit the Philip pi lit*. 1 V. 1 I llll.r.' ClgvJ