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TWENTY-NJNTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 6, 1942 publis’exV'ept sen.,a7krn<>on FIVE CENTS COPY
Tulips Still Bloom In Carolina
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Washington. N. has cancelled its tulip festival fur the duration ,,f
the war but that doe.-n't keep the tulips at nearby T.rra Ceia from
blooming. Here little Wilhelmina and Joseph Van Dorp inspect the
tulips.
Johnson Confers
With India’s Chiefs
President Rooseveii’s
Special Minister Seeks
Solution to Indian
Problem; Congress
Party Reply to Cripps
Expected.
New Delhi. April 6.— ( A P)
—Louis Johnson, head of i
special mission named by Presi
dent Roosevelt, held exploratory
conversations with India’s na
tive leaders in what was wide!)'
believed today to he a projec
tion of United States influence
in an effort to smooth the conn
try’s difficult political problem.
Mindful of the importance of
India's political problems if this
country is to be converted into a
military bulwark against the
axis. Johnson conferred for i\it>
hours and a hall yesterday with
Pandit Nehru, past president of
the powerful C’ongrcs party
(The all India tadio .n.,„ne
ed that he also had a long talk
today with Maulana Abdul A/ad,
Congress party president.)
Johnson, o former us istunl secre
tary of Wur who heads a mi ..ion m
build ii|) India's wur mdu tiy poten
tial and who in addition ha bee,:
made a -penal man lei to India, rii 1
not give to Nehru a letter which hi
had brought from President Roose
velt for some one of India's natl\e
leaders.
Neither the contents ot the letter
nor to whom it is addre sed has been
divulged.
Johnson', meetings were the first
Of a sene he has planned in what
was described as an effort to fam
iliarize him.-ell with India, pro
ble ni.-. and ,rc what can lie eontrib- I
Uted toward a solution.
The Congres. party working com
mittee, which has eoiiciitlonaliy re
jected ihe proposals brought by Sir j
Stafford Cripps. met for two houi s :
this morning. The exact text ol the j
committee's resolution on the pm '
posals .lilt was not disclosed, but
Azad stud it might be published to- j
(Continued on Page Three)
Writer Says
Mandalay
Heavily Hit
London, April 6. — (AP) The
Daily Sic. tch war correspondent in
Burma wrote today that two-thirds
ot the center of Mandat-ay was de
stroyed by Japanese bombers Fri
day'and that 2,1)00 to 3,000 persons
were killed.
(There was no indication from c.
ficial or other sources that the dam
age was severe.)
The correspondent added that 5,000
others were injured by the 35 bomb
bers which swooped upon the city.
He wrote that jin filarm was
Bounded before the raid and that
hug. fires broke out swiftly.
“Cholera has been threatening for
many weeks,” he wrote. He said the
waterworks was destroyed, making
the threat of epideiuii more grave.
The electric system als. > was bomb
led out oi commission, he said
WAVELL AND NEHRU
WOULD HAVE POSTS
IN INDIAN REGIME
London, April C.— (AIM—Ap
pointment of General Sir Archi
bald I*. Waved as viceroy of
India with the Hindu leader
Bandit Nehru as oefchsc minis
ter was reported in informed
circles here today to be one of
the suggestions under consid
eration for settlement of the In
dian question.
Assurances of the American
goxci nnu nt's interest in India's
freedom and future are believed
already to have been given to
Indian leaders, although these
are in no way guarantees.
In Accidents
Of Week-End
* hailottr, \pril (i.— (AT) —
Week end traffic accidents cost
.it h ast lour lues in North Caro
lina and tiic accidental death
toil lor the state was swelled
by a triple drowning in Chat
ham county.
Victim- of the dr ixvning were
Ralph Weaver. Jr., 31, Ben Rose
Stroud, 3.), and the latter's five-year
old .-on, Ben Hart Stroud, all of
Chapel Hill. Two others with them
swam ashore alter their boat had
capsized in Buck Horn creek.
A itomohile . ccidents in the south- .
I..,.-ter, part of the state war blamed
fur three fatalities and injuries to at !
least eleven persons. I
,Je m Cobil. small daught r of Mr.
and Mi's. Lewis Cobil ol Winnabavv,
and her brother. Billy C’obil, were
fatally injured in an automobile-j
truck eel 1 i -'on last night two and
hall miles vauth of Jacksonville, j
The pare"!s a' ct another small ,
daughter wer ■ hurt.
Five Wilmuigton residents were in
jured ;n an automobile wreck near!
Knee's Beach during a blackout Sun
day morning.
Fdwarri Marcus. a Wilmington
slvpvard worker, wa. killed and
S vein I e .mpanion- were hurt when
their ant mi tele I ileri to take a
cove three miles east of Whitevdle
nrd turned over six times early
y -terday.
Kigl't-ve-ir old Kd'vm T. Blalock
of r>i" Bi■1 ■ ■ n'\ ’y wa> fatally in
jured by a car.
4-H SHEEP PROJECT
IN SEVEN COUNTIES
College Station. Raleigh. April 0
—A 4-H club sheep proj ct has been
set up in sevetj southeastern coun
ties of the state, "to promote the de
velopment of the livestock indi| try
and to encourage the xpunsion of
organized 4-H club work." it war
announced today by C M. Biick
house. district farm agent of (ho
State college extension service. The
counties are: Lenoir, Ore.ne. Wayne.
Cl'-’ I'll Jou-; Onsle.v and Duplin. I
Japs Press India Drive
★ ★★★★ ★★★★★★★★★★★ ★★★★
Big RAF Force Smashes At Nazis
Despite Mounting Losses,
300 Bombers
Raid German
Industries
Cologne and Paris
Suburb Bear Brunt of
Bombing; British
Troops Reported in
Raid on Nazi-Held
Norway.
(By The Associated Press)
The Germans, gathering
their strength Cor the battle ut'
Russia, were struck last night by
one of the largest task forces
ever marshalled by the RAF
—mure than GOO bombers—and
it was reported concurrently
that British troops, presumably
Commandos, has assailed their
Norwegian Rank.
Cologne, a Rhineland center of
German war industry, and an
aerial engine works near Paris
were the principal targets of the
RAF night raiders with their
1.000 tons of explosives and in
cendiaries.
It was the 105th raid on
Cologne.
During an hour and a half in
which German anti-aircraft bat
teries curtained the Paris region
with fire and steel, the RAF
smashed bombs into the Gnome
Rhone works at Gennevilliers,
about three miles from ihe Ger
man-occupied French capital,
which the British said had been
turning out engine parts and
other materials for the Germans.
The Germans declared that only
-light damage was sustained in the
Paris region and "some material
damage" and casualties in "rcsiden
ial sections" of western Germany.
Stockholm heard that British ;
roups raided the Narvik area of j
German-held Norway last Friday
light, supported by planes. Explos- i
on.-, could in- heard on the Swedish !
ode of the frontier.
Last night’s RAF force was believ- )
■d to have included scores of mam
ilotii four-motored Stirlings, each
•arrying eight tons of bombs.
Out of this armada, it was said, 1
mly five planes were lost—"a very
-,iti factory" ratio.
Masses of German and axis
allied soldiers are clashing with
Soviet Russian troops today in
the snow and mud of the long,
thawing Russian battlefield in
particularly heavy fighting ap
parently preliminary to Adolf
Hitler's expected spring of
fensive.
The Ru-sians declared that 102
German planes were shot down or I
destroyed on the ground Saturday
md announced that the invaders lost
to,000 officers and men killed on
lie central front between March 23
md April 4.
The Moscow radio said German
.dunes raided Leningrad Saturday j
light, the first big raid of Russia's
second city in months. Bombs were J
said to have killed some persons in
the city.
The German high command claim
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Dutch Sub
Reaches U. S.
From Java
A Pacific Port, April ti.—(AP)—!
A Netherlands submarine has reach- I
ed tins port after torpedoing a 1-1,000
Inn Japanese lanker in a strong con
voy in tiic Java sea and then slip
ping through a net of pursuing war
ships and aircraft despite consider
able damag. from depth charges.
A total of 67 depth charges explod
ed near t ho su/marine, according
to the story disclosed today by Aneta.
Dutch news agency, and in addition
there were numerous bomb attacks
by Japanese aircraft.
Damaged fuel tanks leaked and
the submarine left a trail of oil in
her wake—-but she managed nev
theless to slip from the Java sea
through Sunda strait into the Indian
JCCIU1
Looking pleased with his costume
of machine gun ammunition, a des
ert nomad stops his work for a
moment to pose. He is carrying the
belt over to be loaded into the guns
of a Royal Air Force fighter plane
somewhere in Libya.
(Central Prenl)
Japs Carry
War To India
’ I
Two Towns Between
Madras and Calcutta
Bombed by Carrier
Based Aircraft.
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New Dellii. April (i.—(AIM —
Japanese bombers carried the ■
war to India proper today by
raids on two coastal cities north j
of Madras, the British announc- |
ed officially. The planes were
based on an aircraft carrier, op
erating with a Japanese task
force in the Bay of Bengal.
Nizampatam, a torn situated at .
the mouth of the Ki-tna river, w.i- j
attacked twice. Cwanada also was j
raided. It is on the coast north o; ,
Nizampatam. Both he between Mad- i
ras and Calcutta.
The raids followed closely on an
attack Sunday on Colombo, Ceylon. I
in which the British defenders shot |
down 37 planes and damaged 30 1
others. The British announcement
-aid:
' In the morning ■ 1 April (i if be
ta me apparent that an enemy naval I
force including an aircraft ca: nor I
was operating in the Bay of Ben ml.
“Several attack rave I m made
igainst merchant ms both by -ur
lace craft and aircraft.
"During the mornaig and again in
the afternoon N .anpatao harbor I
was bombed by a mall number of
aircraft causing si C ; damage to the
harbor area.
"Concanada ua , m bombed al
though the casual! ■ - were .-light.”
40-CENT MINIMUM
WAGE FOR TEXTILE
WORKERS IS FIXED
Washington. Apt, (i. —
Minimum wag > m th toxt'le 'll- '
dustry were fixer! t iiav 1’.,' the I.ub c- !
department at 40 c ut an bum' m an
action the department said would
mean direct wage inerea-es for 150,
000 workers beginning April t!0. |
The order, effoctiv o on that late, i
was signed by L Metcalf W.d'w;.
wage and hour administrator, o
recommendation ol committee that
studied economic i aiditioic in t
industry. As defined n th. order. the
industry includes all textiles except
knitted ;ind woolen goods.
To'tal employment in the industry
is approximately 750,000, but 000,
000 already earn 4(1 cents or more
per hour.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Little change in temperature
tonight
Dressed to Kill
Bataan Army
Jap Attack
Hard Fighting Ameri
ca rc-Filipino Defenders
of Feninsma iieat Off
Ffeavy Assault; Land
ing Attempt Frus
trated.
Washington, April li.— (AP) —
The War department announced
today that American-Filipino
forces in Bataan had repulsed
another hca v> attack on the
right center of their line, and
frustrated a new attempt by the
Japanese to land troops on the
coast of Bataan under cover of
darkness.
An assault against the line yes
terday was made with great force,
a communique reported, with the
support of tanks, artillery and dive
bombers, but the defenders stopped
it after hard lighting. The Japanese
were unable to extend the slight
gains they had made the day before
the department said, and suffered
'heavy losses, including a dive bomb
er shot down by anti-aircraft ar
tillery.
The landing attempt on east coast
of Bataan was halted by light ar
tillery fire from the American-Fili
pino beach defenses.
Corregidor was live of hostile air
raids, but two Japanese dive bomb
ers attacked Forts Frank and Drum,
die island fortifications nearest the
Cavite shore of Manila Bay, but
without inflicting either damage or
casualti.s, the communique reported.
Industry
Would Work
For Nothing
Wn.-iimg: • Aim ; li. -(AP)—In
dustry would I) willing to forego I
wartime pp.iit- from the govern
ment in (lie great majority of cases |
orovjded it w.m> assured protection
against capital impairment. Chair
man Donald M. Nelson of the war j
production b Mird bellow s
"I think the majority of industry,
I .li tiling.-- were eriual willing to
work for nothing for the government
m thus war'od (here a fwyp nnr,
in this war period, pro-wded there
was no capital impawn out during
this time.” Nelson told the Senate
appropriations committee testimony,
made public today.
Questioned m (.onnert'on with pro- i
po.-cd profits legi -l.iimn submitted j
to the S.nate. Nelson urged that
Army. Navy and mui time' commis- i
sion lie given flexible authority to ,
re-r.cgotiate production contracts on .
which they mispccted excessive pro-!
fits had been made.
Instead, the committee approved
submission of an a nendment to a!
pending $11).212,0(111,000 military .sup
lily bill which w Mild apply a slid- ;
ing scale of limitations.
Nelson said he thought that most
contractors desired to make only a
reasonable profit, but wanted to be
protected against capital losses when
they entered a relatively new field
of manufacturing munitions and
other w: r supplies.
COMPLAINT
Philadelphia, April (i—(AP)—A
stockholder of the Curtis Publish
ing Company asked U. S. district
court today to compel Ihe Saturday
Evening Po-t to abandon what he
terms its "i-olationist” policies and
to cease publication of articles he
said tended to stir up racial I'e. ling
BRITISH CARGO SHIP
TORPEDOED BY SUB
Washington, April fi. — (AP)—The
Navy announced today that a med
ium sized Bi.tish merchant vessel
has been torpedoed off the Atlantic
coast. No other tmonuation about
ifu lorped ,iug was given ml here
Envoy to Spain
Carlton J. H. Hayes
A Columbia University professor
and historian, Carlton j. If. Hayes,
of New York, has been named U. S.
ambassador to Spain. He succeeds
Alexander \V. Weddell, who was
forced to retire from the diplomatic
service because of ill health.
(( call al i'ixsg)
Canadian
Army Set Up
—
Headquarters
of Canadian First
Army Set Up in Eng
land; Offensive Indi
cated.
Somewhere in Kngland. —
(AP)-—Formation of a Canadian
first army headquarters in the
United Kingdom was announced
today and its commander. Lieu
tenant General \. G. L. Mr
Naughton. declared that it would
provide a (an.uTian organiza
tion ’’competent to undertake
tiic planning for eventual of
fensive operations on the con
tinent.''
"It will keep tlii' cdosc.fi liaison
will: the B: Ili-I orfi n -ati ms -o’
up 'or similar p u-p. Mr\ utfih
ton said in a staten>i-n 1 l'yim the new
hradcitiartcTs who:- ‘.a opened this i
morni' fi n so-fihern Kiifiland
Ho -aid t' i ■ : r ■ -fie f l T
Canadian a r: ■ y * i ocofin:
t' ■ 11: ’ ha ! ! lie ‘ i r e - ; o;l.v ho won
b\ att cl ed t t io heart of
3i i e:any "
S m ill i"1 - I ()!'■■ i a'ovcmce- I
4 i ill* ■ We | . fio-fi .-a'- a-my
orfi-1 a < ' m.'d ■ ! \,r.v
Ills’-.-V | \c! inu 1 - ion tore Gen
et'. I II. 1> G C'ei a- had h on named
<. ■ ' fide of one of the oe ■ :rana
'va, corn . and t>... .-..nm .of the
ither corps \e old t-.e named 'ater
Stock Trend
Is Higher
New Yo Ap: i r, f.\U Th
sti ick market today t.- at ioi luv
small and tin. d step h >u ard can
celling - m e nf the M irch dee fir
Impr :\ ei i.riv n ’ ■ 1 als 111 o ... -
ized si'iwly : 'or e. rly i-e- 1 at o :
It t ol lowed a ne aet e I odd mi; or
sti"-- Is. ■ -otors . nd re turn -c the
blue eli ps. Gains ramifiifi to .. poin*
or so were well spread m cr the list
near the fourth la : Transnc' lor,'
continued at a hm level.
Cotton Prices
Much Higher
i New York, April (1.—(API—Cot
ton futures opened 45 to 80 cents a
i bale higher.
j At noon values were 40 cents to
181 05 .. bale higher
Defenders
Beat Back
Air Assault
British Destroy or
Damage 57 of About
75 Attacking Planes;
Australia Extends
Emergency Regula
tions to Islands.
(I’v I he Associated Press)
In the face of a sharply rising
price ;n planes and men, the
Japanese reported today that
they were pressing their assault
on the approaches to India, par
ticularly the Ceylon bulwark of
southernmost India, where a
continuing naval attack was in
dicated.
imperial headquarters at
Tokyo announced that naval
units had been battering at
( olombo, naval base-capital ol
the large British-owned island,
since Saturday and had inflict
ed heavy damage.
It was possible that the an
nouncement meant only an at
tack b.x carrier-based planes,
which the British already bad
turned into a stinging defeat
with 57 of about 75 attacking
planes destroyed, probably de
stroyed or damaged.
Informed sources at London said
hey had no information that Colom
bo was under warship attack.
The German radio, ostensibly
iuoting an official Tokyo announc
:mnt, said also that Japanese troops
.iad made a surprise landing at
Akyab. a port oi western Burma,
within 11)0 miles of the Indian fron
tier. more than 1,000 miles across
■ he great Bay ol Bengal, northeast
■ 1 Ceylon.
In all. Japan had lost at least (ji
planes destroyed or damaged in
.'.fen-end operations, including thu.-e
■1 the Australian theatre.
Taking n<> chances on the sup
position that the enemy had been
stopped in his invasion plans for
Australia and now was concen
trating on gaining position to
strike India, Australia extended
emergeno control regulations to
Thmsdax island and all islands
in Torres Strait within 100 miles
ol the northeastern mainland.
I’m' Almm-by. tin New Guinea
np',1.. wa- raided ,i i.-t before noun
"da.v. . u; tin Japanese mustered
inly st en 1 bei : . the fightet -
vTied m i. N'w damage or casual
ties were reported.
On l!u Burma appimach to India,
apane.-o pat ■ ■ had pm ited to
Cyaung n, . ■...-. north oi
Tr.. a. ': r \x < .4ei:. end ot the
liit. li-Chaii'M1 delen.'e line.
Cu the e. tiii v. mg oi the defense
'-■ . ' ne Jap 1 e \\ en i eported to
axe I.. r< 1 a .mail a dark ■ n the
Max' ci . T m .;■ ■ ■ higl c i\ , follow
.up ll,. (. ne e w i!:.. 1:.iw;.I from
i'muigi" Ai "lim ai C- inesc resume
(C iii m ■ d a Page Three)
Ship Sit Down
T ermedMutiny
By High Court
V. i ’ii. Ap: ! fi. —( AD—S *.
‘.a 'ii sti'iiti - .>n vessels docked in
U:i ted Slates parts were outlawed
y tla.1 s aivn.e Court today in a
. iv isto-iour dec.'ion which said that
rebtllion by seamen against then
at cers" on board a vessel anywhere
Within the admiralty and maritime
iir -diction ol the United States is
oe punished as mutiny.
Justice Byrnes delivered the opin
ion which, through the court’s ap
plication ol the federal mutiny stat
| ute, si’t aside a labor board order
i directing the Southern Steamship
j Company of Philadelphia to rein
| state seamen who went on strike'
July Ik. 193k, aboard the vessel City
, of Fort Worth, at Houston, Tex.
By rnes assented that the reinstate
ment order could not be applied be
j cause the seamen, by engaging in the
sit down strike. had violated the
I mutiny statute