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JiL.sL Henlttvzvm Hatlij Htspafrij _ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA TWENTY-NINTH YEAR pAb1sop HENDERSON, N. Cm THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 2, 1942 PUBLIS,^c^T1m-NI;VYrKKNO,JN FIVE CENTS COPY German Warships Sink Two Or More Norwegian Ships British-Chartered Vessels Risking Dash From Goteborg, Sweden, Attacked by Nazi Warcraft Lying in Wait in Skagerrak. Stockholm, April 2.— (AP>— German warships blockading the Kkagerrak were declared today to have battered or sunk two or possibly four of eleven British chartered Norwegian merchant ship:, which risked a daring dash to England fiom Gotcborg, Sweden, and though several others were reported turned back the possibility was held out that sonic might yet be at large and racing toward safety. The m pehanlmen which . lipped out ol Goteborg in a blinding snow storm Tee day night ran into a blockade of ns/.i warcraft which had lain m v .i:t lor them s.nce the Ger man loiiii i.scniselves unable to seize c till'd i.i ti e ship: through ac tion m the h'.ve 11.sil e iurt , From the dories of li hoi men and residents of the little coastal towns which shook with cannonading Tues day and Wednesday, Swedish news papers compiled this record of the fate of the ships: Two of the merchantmen were sunk by German gun fire almo ;t as soon a.- they passed the three-mile territorial limits. One ship went aground; one was seen burning at sea and perhaps sank: t v\ o, cut off from hope of es cape. tinned back into a Swedish port y slerday afternoon; at least two more were aid to be returning, perhaps damaged. At iea.-t two large cargo vessel were given at least a fighting chance of breaking through. Fishermen said they were last soon yesterday, un damaged and racing for the open sea. Sub Sinks Tanker Off Atlantic Coast Eight of Crew of 37 Miss ng and Believed Dead; U-Boat Shells Ship to Sink Her After Torpedoes Set Craft Afire. Gloucester, X. April 2.— (AI’>—Battered and set afire by torpedoes from an enemy sub marine. a medium sized Xorwr Rian motor tanker sank under a hail of shells off the Atlantic coast early on the morning of March 27. the fourth naval dis trict an nou noed today. Eight of the crew of 37. including most of the ship’s officers, are miss ing and beloved dead. The 29 sur vivors were picked up by a Portu guese freighter after spending about seven and one-half hours in two lifeboats and were brought here March 31. The cluef engineer of the tanker said the attack came without warn ing about 2:30 a. m. The ship was struck by two and perhaps thre, l >r pedoes, he said, and was bombard ed by about 30 shells before she finally went down. The first torpedo struck just for ward of the bridge on the port side, setting the bridge afire. It was bil lowed almost immediately by a sec ond which struck just behind the amidships section, the chief engineer said. The crew abandoned ship within a few minutes after the attack. The submarine then rose to the surface and shelled the burning hulk until it sank five hours later. Standard Oil Official Says Firm Loyal Washington, April 2.— (AP) — Senator O’Mahoncy, Democrat, Wyoming, contended today that cartel agreements it had with the German die trust has caused the Standard Oii Company (New Jersey) to be ‘‘bound by two loy alties," but a company official disputed the contention. | These relations, protest.d Vice President F. A. Howard of the com pany, did not produce any "conllict of loyalty with the United States.’ Howard was on the witness stand oi' the Senate delense investigating committee when the discussion arose. O’Mahoney read a letter written h'y the manager of the Standard Oi) Development Company, on January 20. 19-11. saying that under t93f agreements with I. G, Farben it would lie necessary to refer Japanese and South American synthetic rub (Continued on Page Seven) Cotton Prices Turn Higher N New York. April 2.— (AP)—Cottar futures opened L to 30 cents a b. It higher. Around mid-morning the mark'' was 30 to 15 cents a ban higher. Bomb Found At Sawmill Near Epsom I.ouisburg. April 2.— (API — Sheriff J. P. iVIoore of Franklin county said today that a small home made bomb was discovered 1 this morning buried in saw | dust at a mill one mile from Lpsom. The bomb was discovered by j the mill owner, I*. H. Ward, who noticed wires leading from a spark plug. The bomb was made from an automobile coil and a wooden plug, the sheriff said, and was connected to the sparkplug of a gasoline engine. Taft Plans Bill Ohio Republican Sen ator Would Create Board to Fix Ceilings on War Profits. Washington, April 2.—(AP)—Sen ator Taft, Republican, Ohio, proposed today creation of a board to fix ceil ings on war profits, while adminis stration leaders moved to compro mise a (5 per cent profits limitation in serted by the House in a pending military appropriations bill. Taft told reporters he had little doubt that the Senate appropriations committee would strike the House amendment out of the $18,301,0O(),* ODD military measure. However. Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the war production board and Army and Navy officials were working on a substitute which they planned to present to the committee. Nelson was reported to have told (Continued on Page Seven) Strike Closes Textile Mills Fall River, Mass., April 2.—(AP) —Key workers in seventeen of Fall River’s j8 top textile mills joined the second walkout in two weeks today, pointing to the eventual shut ting down of all plants unless media tion is successful in the very near future. , While loom fixers, slash tenders, and knot tiers walked out. represen tatives of rival unions prepared to meet in the state house at Boston with Charles H. Cole, chairman of the state board of conciliation and arbitration, and Theodore W. Kheel, principal mediation officer of the war labor board. 1! was difficult to estimate the number of workers now idle because of a jurisdictional dispute, but the number increased hourly as the sat uration point in the preliminary tex : tile processes was reached Successful Attack Made Last Night Main Blows Aimed at Truck Factory in Paris Suburb; Germans Re port Sinking British and U. S. Shipping in Atlantic. (I!y The A si chited I’n s-t British bombers smashed anew at German war foundries in the environs of Paris last ni^ht, the London air ministry announced today, while Adolf Hitler’s hij^h command reported “very successful” at tar k s against I'nited States and Brit ish shipping; in the grim battle of the Atlantic. As if oou: I "hi; a I'. S. X.ivv anniMini cm, .it that '2S axis sub marines had been sunk or p"e~ sumrd sunk by I'nited States forces so far, the nazi high com mand asserted that the German navy and air force destroyed 105 allied merchant ships total ing 646,900 tons during the month of March. I -boats alone sank 91 ships totaling 584.POO toils, the tier man communique said, adding that 39 other merchant vessels were heavily damaged by tor pedo or bomb hits. Informed quarters in Washington said America's anti-submarine cam paign was being stepped up rapidly to meet an expected summer drive by 300 to 400 U-boats, and declared that the Germans had failed in their major objective —to divert U. S. naval strength from mure vital war i fronts. Vichy news agency dispatches j said RAF bombers striking into occupied France during the night attacked a number of points on the outskirts of Paris. The British air ministry said the heaviest blows were rained on the Matford works at Poissy. eight miles west of Paris, which (Continued oil Page Four) Stock Market Trend Upward New York, April 2.- — (AP)—Lead- | ing stocks took on a little more re covery confidence in today's market. , After a mild hesitancy at the open- ! ing. enough bidding arrived to turn trends moderately upward. Dealings ; were a bit faster on the extension m j Wednesday’s last minute revival and, near the fourth hour, gains of frao j tions to a point or so were well dis~ j tributed. Babson Urge On Part Of ( Economist Says Patie Field, People at Home rifices; After-War Job By ROGER W BABSON Copyright—1912 1 Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Taftville, Conn.. April 2.—The al lies are going to win World War 11 by patience. We at home can help by also being patient and cheerfully accepting substitutes when mer chants tells us they are out of jusi what we want to buy. This patients . moreover, will be rewarded by per haps a better product than we had before. Necessity is still the "mother of invention." It was recently illus trated to me in this Connecticut town where they are making felt halts out of skimmed milk. Before the war. the best felt was made from wild rabbit fur which came from Aus I tralia. None is now obtainable; while I the government is shutting down on the only wool libers which ran he j used. Australia Can Be Held Vice Admiral Hart Tells Senate Group Reinforcements Have Reached Island. Washington. April 1—( AIM — Chairman Connaliv, Democrat, Texas, said today that on the basis of information given the Senate foreign relations commit tee today by A’iee Admiral Thom as C. Hart he was encouraged to believe that the Cnited Nations forces were sufficiently strong to hold Australia as a base for future offensive actions. I tart, appearing biTnr the c >m mittee in closed session, was ;aid. to have been questioned in detail about the disposition of allied forces in the southwestern Pacific, where h' turned over the command of dm United Nations naval units to a Hutch admiral before the fall o! Java to the Japanese "Apparently," Connaliv told re porters. "the military and naval ~U uatinn in the southwest Pacific i much more hopeful than some of u have thought. From such informa'ion as is available, in my opin'on United Nations have horn able to got considerable . u; oiies and craft to Australia.” Hi* •'8 * nee Will Win War in Must Also Accept Sac Situation Discussed. Did our felt mam ueturers give up like the rubhertuv experts? Not much: tin. alt men went to work to find a subst Uite. T ley tried e\ ery - thing but skimmed milk. Finally, som one said, "better try skimmed milk.” Tiny did and with it lee National Dairy Products Corporation is now making hero the finest It it and wool you evir saw! Take it from me. we will solve the tire problem in some such way. Forget the politicians in Washington and look to tiv. inventors in laboratories, War Regulations Now just to show you what your ■ local merchants arc temporarily up i against, I cut the following items I'rom a recent Wall Street Journal. I These show only a portion ol the rules and regulations for only >e (Continued or. Page Seven) Sharp Skirmishes Mark Bataan War FIRST NIGHT ATTACK IS MADE ON DARWIN London. April 2..- (AP) —The Japanese made their first night .1 i aid on Darwin. Australia's north coast port, last night, the all Indl 1 n.dl.o reported today. No details wer. given. War Plans Senate Committee Re commends Drafting of Aviation Expert to Speed Production. Washington, April — (AIM — Criticising the nations armed forces for a ' poor job of overall planning," the Senate defense in vestigating committee recom mended lod.iv that the wai p.o daetiou board draft a teamed aircraft executive to direct a drive to break live bottlenecks which are "holding tip peak production" in the warplane pro gram. Sumo a: i/.mg itUv visit to tl'.l wi-t or;-', toe com 0 ,i! - tee repotted thi.! o.-mivow lint's in big -rv "Ot rumi tvg lii copat .ty ot't, v ■ l r-.v! 11 shortages >t ' ' hi , produced by ti et ■A p hh' job t >vei 1! pUmnin fron . !( n ngot to finish i aircraft, i-> the meii er\ (et and the old 1 '! M ' ’ blamed for l •• j pres I'Mi - ’ ’.!«.* o>mmliter > . • 1 in its report. T"o tcial red lop and delays in : . ... 11 tg contracts a: (Contimieu mi Page Four) MURDERER GIVEN MOST SEVERE TERM i Pom M.eh., April 2.—(AP)— Dominick Piccone, 20-year old ex eonvid who killed three Michigan farmers in a wild 24-hour murderous rampage, was sentenc d to life in - prisomnent it hard labor and soli tary eonfdement in circuit coin; here today. Michigan law provides no more severe punishment. Piccone. who was captured by state police o. a country road near Otisville. Mich, .it 3:30 a. m today, ■v as brought into in m nurt short ly '-lot. Il l- II . 0:_. . . » iSI Japanese Continue Around-the-Ciock Air; Attack on Corregidor, With Little Damage: | Big Guns Active on Both Sides. Washington, \pril '2.— i\1*i— i The War department reported sharp skirmishes on the Philip pine Bataan peninsula today in the wake of the latest large scale Japanese attacks on the Ameri can-Filipino defenders. Knei’iv artillery and <1 a i, 'll lied and bonded the drtrndr • |i" .' oils, but li'' u noral act imi I"!- I Iowa d yesterday'- battle, the e - m nifi io reported. Me.iiiu bile, intermittent ah- ittacks rent'll led around the clock on the \l.,nila Bay harbor defenses but t ie W;u department -aid the 3 a panes'’ , b'nrhers were forced to fly at -urn alt t'ides their bombing was ineftee th e. At the .-ame lime the big gun | K.a’i M:'l "O ( im gidor island enraged In a <! :'I w th .lapunes • rie- on to" "ath shore ot the bay. The e.. m n li me -aid licit iiei :i.immng im belling ml!ietod da• I • • .idea.-,' ■ n T 'in ted pet 1 leadrp-ia t t today ng tl ’ titi ' raft n; ' - Im a- all nmheid. bnrrai ks and "'lie’- ■ ;!:l ry e tab!isl o end:- ■ t. '. ll ' 1 ; teen i; nd repte" by row ntod .1. oancse naval i I', eon M ■ 21 an i Italian Patrol Vessel Sunk :: e F t b tea t \ April 2 A i ’ : ■ n h gb eominand I ep :’rd ’day dial a light rtalia pat esse eon lost n topped et y trine. "A grew part of the row were aved." tin. high coner and an nounced. idem tying the cent! d Mediterranean as the scene of the i attack. German tighter- .-hot d w\ n tw> British plant's in the continued day and night attacks upon Malta, the high command communique deelar d Gibraltar was raided by Italian aircraft, it said. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Slowly rising temperature this afternoon amt tonight British Rear Imperiled ByNewMove Sea-Borne Japanese Troop Thrust Nearer India, Landing at Chief Burma Port, Only 100 Miles From Frontier. (By The Associated Press) Japanese >ea-honu* troops thrusting closer to India were reported today to have landed at the chief west Burma port of Akyah. only 100 miles from the Burma-lmlia frontier, as pros pects for mobilizing India’s 000.0(10 ,,n the side of the l mted Nations took a sudden brightening turn. A Chinese spokesman in t’hungking said the Japanese landed at Akyah under the pro tective covering of a force of cruisers and destroyers. Ykyab is only 350 miles across the upper Bay of Bengal from Calcutta. Besides heightening the threat of a Japanese invasion of India, the landing directly imperils the rear of British imperial lines now guarding the central Burma oil fields. Meamvh le, dispatches from Aus 'ralia indicated that Japan's invasion iirees in the 'i.uthwest Pacific, hail 'd m their attempted overland drive el Xew G aia a. were preparing to launch a sen-bome attack on the key allied base at Port Moresby, only 300 miles across the Torres strae. from Au-tralia itself. uii me crnuai uurma ironi, British headquarters reported no substantial change in the situa tion. indicating that the Japanese had been at least te m poraril \ cheeked in their two pointed drive from the south toward Mandalay and the Burma oil fields. In India. Bi Pains 'special envoy S.r Stafford Cnpp-. revived hope, n a settlement ol tire all impor • itit question o! Indian sell rule, an . einem.g that iu would prolong :icgoi.airsi mto next week. “Point dill'ieulty are coming i o' a i■ mmiy !i,i!Ti>w limits and, u is. 11 gi ii id w ill. w«- may lie . u ; u Hie diftieuHio.s,” the Bi i . .v said ill New Delhi. Mod : ica; un oi Bi itain's all <ir laitlung itti ■ ot post-war dominion statu wa indicated in the efforts w draw i■ re deeply upon the vast ic m ... oi 111<i...ii manpower and product a m i : the battle against the Japane c. HIGH POINT BLAZE TAKES SECOND LIFE 1! g ; l'o • • \pril 2.—(AP)—Fire v lor . yc slcru \ dcst: >yed two *.in'— . ' ire v■..iv n i cups ig the same : > and u' -c iy building and !.,tally i a i a u • i.ployi e. O W. \Y<■ u • ■... b a e.-ond life th.s r ■ .. ■ ! i' m'-.t F. C’ann:i(la>, : me I. M r.. ( '■: I dress. Inc., died fiaim. burns. Dies-Wallace Controversy Aired By Axis ngt i. April 2.—(API— '! r White 11 t to • m.to today th- i .'.un ■ or \ between Vice P • det t Wallace and Representa 1 ■ c D.os. Democrat. Texas, by cit ing a federal communications report that two axis radio stations and one n Vichy had picked up Dies’ charge that 35 employees of the board ot economic warfare were affiliated with communist front organizations. William D. Hassett, an assistant presidential secretary, read excerpts from the report from the FCC mon itoring service. The report said an official German broadcast to North America on Tuesday, another from Vichy on the same day and a third yesterday from station “debunk.” which purports to be in this eoun ! try. had repeated Dies' charge. Japs Land At Akyab ★ ★★★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Nazi Factories In Paris Bombed An Axis 'Reception Committee’ Holds a Workout ** -■ - .. Ready to greet any enemy vessel with death-dealing torpedoes is a fleet of U. S. mosquito boats -omewhere (.ff tlie Panama Canal. This photo, one of the first to be taken during maneuvers in that area, shows a i.in - line of the swift motor boats speeding along in the single file that enables them to break rapidlv into anv mie of many attack formations. In the background is a low-tlying plane that win ks in conjunction with tno fleet (Central I’l iisiJ
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