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Nazi Reserves Hall Red Drive
Young Men 18 To 20
Years Old Register
June 30 For Draft
New Registrants Will Not be Subject to Mili
tary Draft Until They Reach Age of 20; Regis
tration Js Fifth Under Existing Law.
ngton. May 22. (AP)
I' ' I’oo (’veil today sot
,t a; registration day for
on between Id and 20
vr age.
v II complete for the pre
t ■ registration of 1 he na
ti anpower for both fight
i' ai-combat.ant war duty
i be the fifth registration
.'ting law.
on 18 ,Vtit If) years of
> will register between
and ft p m. on .Tune .To
' iio .subject to the mil
it a IV diatt until they reach tils
age . >1 20.
Male- between 20 and ir> are
now subject to military .■ crvire.
Approximately 40.000,000 per
"ii, between 20 and 05 have
been registered in the lour pre
vious drafts.
The President's proclamation
called lor registration on June 30
ol all male citizens horn on or after
January !, 1922, or on and bes
l ore June 30, 1924. Rcgistrut ions
will take place in Alaska, Hawaii
and Puerto Rim a-, well as the
continental United States.
Spies Reported
Landed In Maine
Maine Director of
Civilian Defense
Warns Against
Foreign Agents; New
F. n g 1 a n d Residents
Told to be Vigilant.
\iigusla. Me.. May 22.— (AIM
— I ranris II. Farnum. state di
rn-tor of civilian defense, said
Intl.i' that •'arcurate Information
h in tin- possession of police and
Anns authorities to show that
foreign agents have recently
I'rcti landed on the coast of
Maine "
have come into the state I
Canadian border or from
'• of the United States," I
i.l in a prepared statement.
Mere for no good purpose j
in- in our midst now. They
«t. to damage, to destroy."
hnh yesterday civilians and
»>| min is of the volunteer de
t en corps were warned by
I niii'd States and state officials
in Itnsloii to exercise especial
" at. In nlness for enemy and
fifth rniunin action along tlie
k"" I ngland coast.
t es a special agent is sent
■ intry to perform some
k." Farnum added. "He is
hitter, or ttie hit and run
1 'ttce his assignment is coni
ines to make his way bacu
live land or to join other
'ins country."
warned that it was "on
■ 11> 1 e that the en my mav
' land parachutists or other ■
1 troops in Maine" and added
dtempt may even be made
r .’e bands of fifth column
27 U. S. Ships
Are Launched
‘
In 24 Hours
ngtnn. May 22. (AIM -
' A even merchant ships arc}
: "inched today as the nation
national Maritime day.
' i an d as Amenta's greatest
itching in 2!) years, the -hip.
' ' hdmg into the water shortly
dnight with the la.-t launch -
a 1‘duled some 23 hours later.
' ' a. m most eases, is determin
1 1 1 t'de conditions.
■ 1 tngs are being held in I 'J
I " till coasts and the Great
1 ' Ib'cause of_the maritime t'oni
policy, of not announemg
1 ngs m advance, no scheduli
ne public. It was announced.
\;il one yard would launch
' : ips. 'i\ yards two each, and
' •' d one each. v
*1 ' layings will immediately fol- ,
'launchings in some yards.
1 1 completed ships go into serv
1 Martime dav, the commission i
meed.
, 1 "tiginal schedule called for
"inching of 30 merchantmen, !
I'l'ee were put into the water
! >n the week to mti'/e the ways
■ iil.iiilc I,,,. nf.\\ keels.
"'"'lime day 'he commission saiu,
" !I'- the maugn itOm ol a two
‘Avuur.u-d n i-__
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TEXAS YOUTH SENT
TO REFORMATORY
Corpus Christi, Tex., May 22. — |
(AP) George Clyde Hengy, Jr., who
confessed tu killed his mother "be
cause' she compelled me to take danc
ing lessons for about 12 years," was
sentenced yesterday to remain in the
state reformatory until his 21st
birthday.
The lfi-year-old Hengy. arrested
at Roanoke Rapids, N. C., pleaded
guilty to a charge of juvenile de
linquency before county Judge Joe ,
Browning. The charge was the only
one that could be placed against him
under Texas law.
Nation May
Take Autos
Rubber Coordinator
Newhall Says Requisi
tioning Possible; Tire
Situation ‘Grim.’
Washington, May 22—( VP) —
Rubber Coordinator Arthur B.
Newhall reported today that the
government ultimately might
have to requisition automobiles
to haul workers to and from war
plants in areas where other faci
lities were lacking, if the na
tions lire resources were wast
rel.
Newhall assured a press confer- ■
cure, however, that he saw no need 1
for requisitioning tjres this year or i
in 1942. and that in nv case they
would not be taken to be ground up
for reclaimed rubber, but only as a .,
meal's of solving a transportation
problem.
Simultaneously. Newhall and three
top war agency officials issued a .
joint statement on what they call- ,
ed the "grim" rubber situation, in
die ting their belief tha> tires might '
have to be yielded up for war pur- :
poses. j i
"If the time should come when
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★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Demos Meet Under Shadow Of War
Eight-Point
Platform
Is Adopted
Major McLendon,
Convention Keynoter
Says Nation Has Un
derestimated War
Task; Orderly Gov
ernment Processes
Pledged.
Raleigh. May 2'i.— (AT) —
Meeting in the midst of “the
crucial test t f our long history,"
the stale Democratic convention
today adopted an eight-point
platform which pledged the con
tinuation "even in war" of "t.ie
open and orderly processes of
self government.”
I hr- shadow ui war lay across tin
biennial gathering of North Caro
lina's Democratic party from tin
time it convened at noon until it ad
journed its deliberations. In keepini
with this mood, the platform and tin
keynote address, delivered by Majo
1,. P. McLendon, were conccrnec
chiefly with the war.
McLendon, a veteran of the
first World War, told the dele
gates that the American people
had underestimated the nation's
war task.
"We might as well here and nov
realize... that tint liw*- of a it-,
thousand American soldiers an
sailors, the expenditure of a him
died billion dollars and the produc
tion ot thousands of tanks, airplane
and guns will not win tin.- war. .
It is going to take that and man.’
times all ot that . The casualty lis
will grow until nearly every honu
will mourn the loss of their blooi
kin."
The plat/irm praised Presi
dent Roosevelt's administration,
particularly "his wise and effec
tive handling of the foreign and
defense policies" and it lauded
Governor Broughton as one of
"the great governors of North
Carolina."
The platform gave these "assi.r
inces" to the people ol the stale:
1. Their State government wiil b:
jperated in accord with the sound
est fiscal practices. The budget wil
. . be kept balanced.
2. Present State taxes will no
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U. S. Vessel
Sunk By Sub
New Orleans, May 22.—(AP)
Vinely seconds after two torpedoes
■cashed amidships a medium sizec
united States cargo ship plungec
o the bottom of the Gulf of Mexicc
Saturday, May 16. carrying to death
it least 21 members of the crew ana
;un crew, the Navy disclosed today
The attack and sinkling came with
ilmost unprecedented speed which
•ontributed to the heavy loss of life
rhere was no time to use the radii
o summons help and the li) sur
ivors rode life rafts for about 3(
lours before being picked up. Five
vere hospitalized in Galveston, Tex.
vhen brought ashore.
'I he submarine was not sighted
Pwo torpedoes struck 30 second
ipart, many of the crew dying in the
mgineroom which was directly hit.
Henry R. Gore, of Wilmington, N
'., suffered injuries and is in the
inspital at Galveston.
Local Markets Being Sought
For Goods Produced In State
Daily Dispatch Bureau. |
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Bv BOB THOMPSON
H Ingh. Mav TJ. The Depart-!
m(.„t Of Conservation and Develop-,
ment has worked out a plan which
may keep a small North Carolina
industry open during the war and
add greatly to the state’s production :
income thereat ter.
The idea is to w >ge a selling cam- |
pa,gn among the operators of chain
Mores in the state, urging them to,
<u,ck North Carolina products in
in.. , K.., ih r •: oliou lore-, “here* rr
l ‘ 1
business to plants which can’t ge
,var contracts and, at the same time
save transportation costs and con
jestion.
Governor Broughton has been in
terested in the plan and has namec
tin advisory committee to conside
t. Jim Coad, secretary of the Hick
tiry Chamber of Commerce and pres
dent of the N. C. Association o
Commercial Secretaries, is beini
considered as the man to do ;h!
celling job—if he is iijj^ ested.
Irving Hall, contracts distribute
u:Unu?d oi Cage Fi e;
Here’s the Liquid Prize ;iper Seeks in Russia
. 1 ” —
On a hill at Baku a Rmsian worker points out pin t of i ;.--lwdded !'a Ids that oil-hungry Germany is
trying to reach in per current dri\< > n hie Kei i i • ' Trie ! ielci -liu\vn ai>o\ e. and many others
in tile Caucasus, keep th Russian war inaehmr y am :!' sired Capture o| .-neh a prize would insure
Hitler's planes and tanks an indefinite 'y . • ■•roly-need luel. (Central Press)
Italy Claims
Special Communique
From Rome Says Ves
sel of Maryland Class
Sunk off Brazil.
Kio tic Janeiro, May 22.— (AIM
—Official Brazilian anti United
States sources, commenting on
the official Italian report of the
sinking of an American battle
ship off Brazil's coast, said today
they had no knowledge of any
naval engagement in these
y\ .tiers.
Rome (From Italian Broad
casts), May 22.— (AIM—The Ital
ian high command said in a
special communique today that
its submarine Barbarigo sank
a United States battleship of the
i Maryland class with tyyo torpedo
bits off the Brazilian coast Wed
nesday.
(There was no confirmation
from any source to bear out the
Italian claim.)
| The communique said Hint e.-rrt
j ing vessels of tilt* United Slat -
| naval formation did not reply to the
I attack.
. it gave the time of the ns-cried
I attack as 2:a0 a. m. Rome lime and
I the place as 100. miles vest 1 i tie
Brazilian island el Fernando Nm-on
ha, 12a mil • off the easternmost ex
tremity of Brazil.
(The Barbarigo, with a submerged
i displacement of 1.2(io tons anti ef
face displacement a 941, ha-, 'igm
121-inch torpedo tubes Tin- d plae ■
j merit of the three Maryland cia
I battleships, the Maryland, Colorado,
and W st Virginia, r.mge from 21.Son
to 22.900 tons.)
I The Italian cmnn nique p it the
| displacement of the battleship at 22.
nOO tons and said that it mounts t i ;hl
Ifi-inch guns.
German Subs
Claim 23 Ships
I Berlin (From German Broadcasts)
I May 22.— (AP)—Orman submaK
j ines have sunk 20 enemy merchant
i ships totaling 1 1 1.000 tons in the
j Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico
and three others aggregating 14.0'in
tons in the Gulf of Si. Lawrence, the
, nazi high command announced to
day.
The sinkings in the St. Lawn nee.
. a special communique said, were
[I executed by a single submarine
• | which entered the gulf "in defiance
of the guard by numerous naval and
. | air forces.”
WEATHER
FOR NORTH C AROLINA
Scattered thundershowers this
Hi?*?*!!- blich*1' cooler east
i al’td * .'ill al toiUiht.
A llied Subs Sink
'T1! r IT 1
1 hree Jap Vessels
Mexican Ship
Sunk Off Cuba
Mcnkm City. May 22.—( AP)—The
newspaper l*i Prensn reported to
day IYiim; 1ana that the Mom:;in
Tanker Faja de On* had been tor
pedoed -! !' Guba, i) w~t ill’* : i.m •*
nd dial .. I her crew were lust.
Word ei the reported -mu mu
e, mi' only e \\ «*ek after the Mexican
tanker Poire: • del Llae.o .as sent
M (
Germany.
German Ciwiser Cred
ited With Having Run
f'ea Blockade; Ship is
Damaged.
1 i- . May 22 \P The i;
/■ : i K : I ■ I . .
a,clay
days • thai Bri M i pi nos had
-cored two d- I'miti torpedo i,i 1 s and
>nt> probable hit on the ...-ton
•ru or o! ■ -oat horn N^/w.iv the
a w t . c May 17
a. at K a 1. b.t* (!•• oaat naval
ha ia indicates that a a the second
adc to a German p G ’!' 1 h* v. s-el
(Continued m ! ' t-hvel
Cruiser and Two Mer
chant Ships Reported
Sunk in Battle of
Southwest Pacific;
Japs Advance in China
Coast Drive.
- i
By The Ass..fated Press)
Allied submarines were offi
cially credited today with sink
ing a 7.100-ton Japanese cruiser
and two merchant ships totaling
l.i.OOO ions in the battle of the
southwest Pacific, white Tinted
Nations warplanes knocked out
1) more Japanese planes in at
tacks on enemy liases in New
Guinea and Timor.
General Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters identified the
cruiser as one of the Iv.tko class,
built in 10tli- i7. with six eight
inch guns and a normal crew
of 001 men.
(hi the critical China war front.
American ami mhoi m i-sienai'i's left
Kinhwa today as Japan's furious of
fensive drew iii'ii]' the strategic city.
)>pi\ isii■ 11;i 1 capital of Chekiang pn>
■ nee and r.iil gateway to c ntra!
China.
Clieki uig lie 1 >elow Shanghai on the
Cl in; i . ' c a.st. \v thin easy bomb
ing range "l IVkyo.
The main Japanese coin run, driv
ng down the Cli'-kiang-K.ang- i rail
■ ay. .vas ' i ported only 51) miles from
Kinh' a, sn asl ng hetn ily at Chin
• • - doionsc with stiviiig aerial sup
port
l.i Washington. senators nrged
all po.-sihle speed to aid the hard
pressei 1 area's • .f General.ss mo
l ; .ng Ka She!., w itli Senator H .11 j
declaring:
"II tile .l.ipanese call knock "til
China, they will be in a po.-it i. n to j
altaek Alaska or Russia
"A \ ictory over Chin; w • luld re- |
lease thousand.- ot nun. hundred.- of i
planes and much equipment for at
tack' elsewhere. We most .1. e\e"\
tliing we can to prevent that ho.a
ippening.”
Southern Colons Block Move
To Divert Benefit Payments
Washington. '!•" It.— > A I*1 —
Southern congressmen have won
from the Agriculture department
a promise to abandon plans to
divert upward of Sft5.000.000 in
government benefit payments
from cotton and tobacco to so
called "war crops" under next
year's \\.\ farm program.
The prom ise was made, authorita
t ivc Mine - - aid t-niay. in cnntvv
ti,m a ith the Senate approval Wed
nesday ot a measure permitting the
department to sell up to 125.000.001)
bnslicK ot government-owned wheat
tor h\ e.toet. fe d at fie!<sv ran'"
p;- I hi. a*. . are • k .-.pp '. <-d
bv -o' <0 from com and
wheat states, but was supported by
many southern lawmakers.
Plans had been made to overhaul
the AAA program in such .1 way that
.. large portion of the *500,000.000
■oil eons; rvatwn benefit payment
lund world be used as "incentive'
p yments to encourage larger pro
duct ■ ■ ot soybeans, peanuts and flax
I'm vegetable oils, truck and vege
'. Mr e,-op>. dairy and poultry pro
ducts and fruits.
The department says more ot 1h se
eonie orhties are needed >n meet
t ' nai'iu.d ill i tgs Fn •":}
Nazis Claim
Initiative
At Kharkov
Hitler Throws Enough
Flesh and Blood Into
Defense of Ukraine
Steel City to Check
Russian Offensive.
(By The Associated Press)
.Masses of German reserves,
flung into action after nazi tank
assaults tailed, appeared to
have checked Russia's offen
sive in the eleven-day old battle
of Kharkov today although the
Red armies reported that in one
sector they had smashed a coun
ter attack and "on the fields of
the enemy, broke into a popu
lated place.*'
The German high command
asserted that Soviet attacks
against Kharkov had been
throw'll back and that Hitler’s
armies had seized the initia
tive.
For the first time, today's Sov
iet communique omitted men
tion of any general advance.
“During the night of May 21
22. we carried out offensive op
erations on Kharkov,” the Rus
sian command said tersely.
This indicated that Marshal
Timoshenko's troops still held
the initiative, at least, but it
seems clear that Adolf Hitler
had now brought up enough flesh
and blood reserves to hold the
Russians where steel panzers
were blasted into retreat.
Fl int line dc patches said yester
day the Gei mans were rushing heavy
reinforcements into the 120-mile
battle line, with nnzi .nfantry units
supported by only til to 15 tanks
instead m u'.iu- uioeh.ini/.cd forces.
"Battles continue on the east
ern part of Kerch peninsula." a
Soviet mid-day communique
said, again countering official
Berlin claims that German
troops had completely overrun
the eastern Crimea.
Br.lish a hit.ua quarters said
German Co into! blow.- on the Izyum
Barvenkova seel on mles below
Kharkov, had bitten a chunk out of
the southern taua; oi the Soviet
drive, but declared there were no
mi.iica;I,ins that t e bite was being
increased.
As the Soviet campaign raged
into its twelfth month, thou
sands of American troops train
ing in northern Ireland were told
t>\ General Sir Alan Brooke.
Britain's imperial general staff
chief, that their chance to fight
“no doubt w ill come soon."
'"IVi -n. .1 expect great things
Iron the A - i'i; .o- when an oppor
tunity a.von t! en ." Sir Alan said.
; a r a Tain n; , a a :.ng 1 ,'n . t> d States
soldi, is wh., nave nun t mghening up
ui man--.,vers since January.
He told correspondents he had a
“hum . pinion" of the tanks and g .ns
th.e Aine; acans nronght with them
overseas.
nt r r •
iNormandie
Probe Brings
Senate Charge
Washing^ n VI > 2b -(API—The
Senate naval cm ittei ha.' prepared
.1 tentative report holding contusion
ol command partly responsible for
Ine Xo'm.mcue liu and recornmend
n't iilnii oi an Hire ni inspector
g ni'i al i ; the Xa\y to prevent any
luture mixup.s.
Carelessness, poor supervision and
lack of precautions also contributed
to the lire and capsizing of the Nor
u aiidie. -aid the report which is now
m printed form and awaiting final
committee approval. It declan d that
while sabotage playtd no part in the
m. ident. there was a lack of ade •
uuate safeguards against subversive
activity.
The Navy disclosed last night that
pre liminary salvage work had been
started on the Normandie, which
wa- being converted into the troop
■hip Lafayette when it burned and
' nneii ov er Februa y <h I* will be at
’ • • ‘ ••• ,'r-ir b.biue the vessel is
. . . • t