North Carolina Newspapers

thirtieth year IMMiiaa Mttxhtrstm Bally Hispatrlj [J 1*BA8BI> W1UB 8KKVICE OF Tlllfl ASSOCIATED l'KESH HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 20, 15)43 PUBUSHKI) KVKHY AFTERNOON EXCBIT BUNDAT. FIVE CENTS COI'Y 73 Axis Planes Downed In Battle X ^ + "Ar -A- -i japs /\re uriven Toward Sea on Attu ochUKfcAND AFTER RAF RIPPED OPEN MOHNE DAM G!ANT R A.F. IANCASTER C0M3ERS struck n crippling blow nt Gorman water p»wcr when specially trained cro-.vs hi 1 .'.?<! t'ne Mohne and Etlor Dams. The Molina Dam is shown (lefI) j'.itl brf.ne the mines and bombs fell. A 300-foot wide g.ip released dsvas'.atini torrents • I (clocmp, rit;ht) ll:nt arc swrcpin-* lliroiitli the Huhr V. Ucy \.-i .S.in-j | industrial ccnScr3 and I' r:cl,nu tr::nspinia!ii»n poiir.s. A .iviing to a rrp;irt from Swilzsrlnml. rt Itn-t pfy.rons cro «! 'I and lL'i.QJ homeless due to Hie aci.a! m".jlci;Uo'.;e. i.afiiooiV.ri^ $72 Billions Asked for Army Still More Cuts in Gas Are Hinted Icltes Says Bans May Be Extended to Middle West; Pipe Line Brok en by Flood W.i liinj'.ton, M iv 2n. .(AIM Sec rrt.i: v lcl.es said today fuither u (iurlion- in use of g.i-oline I"1 <h iv mu ill have to I>(• made "hetore iho I'm- wit crisi* U ift'i'r," do pile i *-is11 !• • -iti«■!» i>l the pic.i lire driving l».m hi in*•:.! nl the oast at noon. New restrictions may have to be im|n> nl mi driving in tin- Middle Wet. ;i> well a- tin* fast. because "wo ii iuhi tciii|Hirai ily lia\c t«> bnn« in more supplies Irom tin* 111I<I<II<" v.< t (t.i tin. ca-t). u.mi! tlx- :hoii -r Ii n l." tin- interim' .secretary t"l<l a |n< cuiilcrcncc in In capacity as petroleum ad 111 mist rator. likes declined to discuss the lurni "I II'' indicated restriction; p<>.- 1 1'lv I irtlier reduction in ration < • »ti l'"ii allowance.". ami perhaps exten sion o| Hie pleasure dm 111-; l»an •<• tin- middle west—beeau-o, lie in sisted, that is the province <>l the Oil ire of Price Administration. like, reiterated "what I've been faying I«>i- a year and a liali there ' aulii In he 110 non-csscntial driving, and then- is a lot of it." lie added •lial 11 non-essential driving had (Continued on Page Eight) Pacific War Council Is Being Held Washington, May 20—(AP>—Un (lnsnu'ing Prune IVIinMci* C'huvcn ill's pronouncements to Congress thai Hritain would fight Japan to the end and help roduir her munitions ecu - and cities to ashes. President Iti'i'sevplt called a meeting of tht Pacific war council today, and invit •''I Churchill to attend. The council, whose members repve >,-nt hIi the nations actively eng«g"< ln 'lie Pacific war operations, meet; rcBtilarly at the White House. . l<atcr in the Hay. the prime mitt '"ler was set to meet all the repre sentatives in Washington of the Uri "■ill dominions ns well as his owr chief: of staff. Prime Minister W. 1, MaeKvn/.i< K|,,X <>f Canada was among tho?e in vited to Ihe war council meeting. Lewis Believed Angling For 1944 Political Spot In Coming Back To AFL John I,. l,MVis'' return lo llir (■ration iff l.uhnr stunm-il a.ll hul I ;i few insiders in lalini* 'circles toil.iv and left llirm' i;rn|iifig for 1 an i'\]>laiialion. I ll' unpredictable president. "I die ' Unili'il Miiic VVnl'kcr-j. \vlio defied | 'lie A I' I. in l!K!5, iiiul was upend- I eil I'M' cru.iiii/-,ilit* Hie iiv.il <'K.». for- ! in.illy petitioned ill Itehall ol the ! iiinier.s lor readini.-.'ion. An AKl, | si element ye. lerday nil Hie .1; >; >11> 1- I ti«.n w.i- "welcomed" and v.a l« I 1111: conidered "111 an *•!drily and 1 yiiip.jtlielic way." Lewi.' withheld enminenl a' ins New York hotel today, hul his ill lends siirl his :ielion w.c. e\ idenre I oi In. desire for a unilied l.ihor j movement. Critic- d"tihtei| it (hat I old the whole .t>»i.v Many helieve lie made the .Inn p heeali. c in lia'l j no other place to H". while .-till , seekmu the lop .-poi in the Anicr ! lean laluti mm enienl When Lewis lost control til the ('Hi ;in<i !etl it la.-! year, lie vir tually bnrnetl hi.- bridKes behind liiifi. lie tried a third movement un der the banner of district tilly. a catch-all unij-.of the UMW. The re sults were IK« iliau spcclaciila.r. As the.leader ol a inide linen the United Mine Work-, lis. mill - ciicc in |Hilities has ii. hmilaiion . Hy rejoining a ledcration ot union., whose in< mbersiiip soon may ajjurc State 7,tM>li.il(in. he could tie .eelam: a potent alliance in political c->:m cils, iicriiap.-. lailin;; with the III II prc.-ident cil campaign. What clti'ct the miners' re-all illa tion with the AKI, would have up on the Cl<) is speculative. The re spective membership claim- make the I'll i numerically inferior now. The miners who have hei n inde pendent nice last October, woi.ld add aUll.nun to the G.:!2a.«»in mcmhci who now pay pcnapitil tax to the AKL. Fear Floods Will Crack Big Mississippi Levees IISv Tin- Associated I'ress.l i IIi Iii f lli:iI .ill levees along Hie .Mississippi rlvrr between SI. I.ncii'. .iikI < .1 in- (iirarilcau. Mo., ill In- Hi|iiil mil" uas ex lirtvcd l».v a Federal engineer loil.iy as rmcrscnrv relief rrctvs and inililarr troops worked to eheek llir flood waters from tur lililenl rivers and streams wldrli eovered a \\ ide area of the mid - Mfsl. Verne Alexander. reci'itml hydro luflie engineer ill Kansas City's I weather bureau. sifter completing a | I<>ui </\ Hie Missouri and Oklahoma | Hood areas. aid: "I lielieve all levee.- along the Mi:; ' i ij>1 ■■ run between SI. I.nnis and , Cape ((ir.irile.ill will be wiped out." The levees protect thousands of acres i>l rich farm lands. \iexandiT predicted that the le vees al St. l.o||is and at Kast St. Louis. III., will hold, although he said he believed the crest at SI. Louis will reach :I7 1-2 fret, just *ix inches under the IIWI3 lev el, by Satmday or Sunday. The St. Ijotiis weather bu reau - lid the stage yesterday was H2.ll feel, a rise of 2.7 feet in the last 24 hours, and predicted a rise of two , fi-et in the next ~1 hour#. The ail time peak at St. I/mis was 41.2 feet in I«ll. Alexander said. There wa- only slight measuie of i relief in the flooded nrea in a six s'.ate mid-eontincnt section where surging waters have driven thous ands I nun their home . covered 'Mil iums of acres "I l.-irtu I.iikI-; caused iind halted worl; mi many war plants and halted wor in many wai plants and factories. The number of dead in the flood ed area was ten. .six in Indiana, (Continued on Page Three) ITennessee Negro Held for Slaying Wife of Army Man ' Tullahomfi. Tenn.. May 20—(AP) —A Negro identified by poliee as George (Slim) Johnson, cafe opera tor. sought in the rape slaying of a pretty Ifl-year-old army officer's j wife, shot and wounded himself in Nashville when police there sought to arrest hint. | The Negro was sought in eonnec 1 tion with the slaying of Mrs. Norma | Fay Scngcin, of I>vs Moines, Iowa, whose body, with two bullet wounds in the breast, and her head beaten. ! was found under a bru.4i heap near I here yesterday. Patrolman of Nashville took the Negro into custody after he fired a bullet into his head on their ap proach at a bus slation there. Increase Is Sought For More Planes $29 Billion Navy Bill Waiting Final Ap proval; Army Budget ' (Jpped Six Billions Wjishi !ivrt«»n. May 20—{AI *) ! --President Roosevelt asked ( nnj'i t today to make avail aide nearly S7J000,000,000 for Die Army in tlie fiscal year i | .siai ling July 1. boosting his J ' .'aniiary budget figures by more than six billion dollars. White ll<> . • Secretary Stephen ; ' Karly e.\p! ' i Unit the incrrase i.s .'ireiiiinti'l l>y ;i projected ex- , I mi.' i<>n "i i :m era ft program. Tin- ,\rm> experts to rM. he I said. I.I IT.iMin.OOO pounds of pliinrs in tin* next year, exclu sive ol' the \\rii;ht of engines and nritors, compared with 911.000. 0(i(l pounds in the current fiscal period. The tol.it. larly said, will ex ceed Hie combined production of all other nations. A $2!U""i."< "U>00 naval bill is awaitinu It" • passage today. The I'ii . ii<"it in :i letter to Speak er liaylni ii. li ii'.smitted a request lor War I >■ : :1ment appropriations totaling "S.»!i I:'.•.580,500. He asked | aNo that M".-172.013.200 of unobli | Hated halaii' i- '1 current apprnpria ! lions tor tiie .\: .iiy he made available again in the cniinR fiscal year. Tlic total ol the two items is $71.898.499. I <««• ( Soft Coal Miners Renewing Strikes In Three States t'ittslnirch. I'a.. May 20—(AP) —Strike* of soft coal miners f»r« trstilis their lack of a working contract, spread in Pennsylvania and broke out in Ohio and Ken tuck v today, leaving more than fi.non men idle and 14 mines closed. Kleven pits were rinsed in t'nited Mine Worker® district two (ernlr.-t Pennsylvania), which comprises 45,000- miners. | WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Continued warm, scattered showers this alternoon and to i night. Foe Admits 66 Percent Not Single Jap Escapes Some Wound; Heavy American Losses Claimed by (/>'// The Associated Press) Supported by big United States naval guns, American troops were reported driving trapped Japanese forces back against the sea in the ten day old battle of Attn island today, and a Tokyo broadcast admitted losses running up to Gfi per cent as the Japanese were swept off beaches and ridges. A Japanese reporter's dis patch said there was "not a sin gle man free of some wound" when Japanese troops retreated from exposed positions along the beach in one sector. "The next day (May 15), shortly after 11 a. ni., ramc word that the .Japanese headquarter.1' of our posi tions in the ridge cast of Holt/, bay was destroyed by tin- combined bom bardment of aircraft and warships," the dispatch said. While admitting virtual sui cide losses among the Japanese garrison, the enemy account as serted that the defenders took a heavy toll on seaborne I'niterl States forecs. blew ten American landing craft out of the water and saw a "tremendous explo sion shake a warship"—describ ed as a battleship or a cruiser —after the vessel either hit an automatic mine or was attacked by a Japanese submarine. None of these Japanese claims has been confirmed, and Secretary of the Navy Knox lias officially an nounced that American losses were "much lighter than expected." Th«- Japanese account said the Americans landed at llolt/. bay and Massacre bay on the east end (Continued on Page Kight) His Japs in Attu Completely Circled Now Washinciiin. May !0.— (At*>— American troops have complet ed encirclement of the remnant of Japanese forces on Atfu Is land in (lie western Aleutians after capturing (lie partially complete enemy air field there. The Japanese, the Xavv announced today, \vere eaimlit in the C'hieacof harIk>r area a' '!< n n thoastcrn ex tremity nt Attn Hte: t'nited Stales forces eaptine'l S.r-ana I'ass, flank ing the enemy - |»«•-iti«u»i» from the southeast. The Japanese were fight tin: with their lucks to the sea ami sea was commanded hv Ameri can warships, which, it was of ficially disclosed, have already (Continued oil I'agc Three) Devastation Worst In Mediterranean Since Tunis Fall $29 Billion Naval Bill Is Approved Washington, May 20— (AP)—A $2!Mfi3,(i87,198 naval appropria tions measure—largest one-year allotment in history for Uncle Hani's sea fighting forces—was passed unanimously today by the House. By roll call vote of 3G0 to 0. the measure was sent to the Senate, where approval was deemed cer tain. Berlin Again Feels Bombs Of the RAF All Planes Return from Devastating Raid; Germans Drive from English Coast London, May 20—(AP) — Far-ranjjinjj and speedy Mos quito bombers of. the Royal Air Force carried the continuing Al lied offensive to Berlin itself ajrain last nijrht, the British an nounced today. The llAF raid on Berlin con stituted the third attack on the capital of the Reich within a week, and came only a few hours after American flyinjr Fortresses had smashed into Germany to blast submarine and shi|)-buildin>r yards at Kiel and Flensburjj. Results of the Ftritish overnight raid were not iinnounced immediate ly. an iiir ministry communique say ing merely that targets in Berlin (Continued on Page Three) Auto Workers Go Out on Strike at Chrysler Plants Detroit. Mich.. May 20—(AP) —Within a few hours after he said collective bargaining be tween unions and management bad completely broken down at Ihc Jefferson plants of Chrysler corporation here. Kd Carey:, president of the I'nited Auto mobile Workers (CIO) I,ocal 7, announced shortly after 10 a. m. today that day shifts in both plants had walked out. Carey said about 4,000 em ployees were involved. A corporation spokesman con firmed the walkout and said un ion pickets had hern placed at gates of the plant. "The strike undoubtedly is au thorized by the union and was carefully organized." he said. "Pour thousand men don't walk out of their own accord." Reds in Kuban Smash Fierce Nazi Assault Moscow. May »0.— (AIM— Now Gorman counter attacks In the Kulian valley, led by fresh reserves of men ami tanks, have been smashed hy Ked army ar tillery ami pianos, the Russians announced today, with heavy losses Inflicted on the Na/.i* a tho.v made their second unsuc cessful effort in two days 10 cross a river in the Kulian delta. There was constant nil* find land actum all along the lltissiiin-Ocrniiin front from the Karelian isthmu.. north "f Ijoningrnrl. where the Finns were reported In have manned their forward lines with more heavy jjims, to the are northeast (if NovorimsisK, where the Germans still held theii positions in that Ulack Sea port. The fiercest fighting, the Russians said authoritativelv, was In the Kuban sector, on the Donets river, ] 70 miles southeast "I Kharkov. Kmhters and bombers, with the : l*cd .-in I Mice holding superior i»j\ continued imi.iiir M'lilc battles in the -ky. The Gorman nil licet made ir peated el I oris tii raid l.euinmnd. At j lea.-1 eight German rraft were limnuM down 111 air duels and by I anli-aireraft fire, the noon communi I f|iir ;.aid. Tli'* Germans attempted to land on the Soviet-held bunk of the Kuban valley's lower reaches and were ambushed. The hidden Soviet troops allowed the boats lo ap proach, in some cases to make a iatnlinu. Then rapid fire rifles were I turned "ti the enemy, killing about • 2(i(i. The others look lo the boat* in ' a futile clfort to retreat, fourteen of the erafl were sunk and (heir oc cupants were drowned, the midnight ! communique said. Four American Planes Lost in Dogfights Over Sicily and Sar dinia; Assault Goes on Allied Headquarters 111 North Africa, May 20—(AT)—Allied fighting planes and bombers, in mighty smashes at Axis centers, destroyed 7:5 planes yesterday in the greatest blow they have inflicted since the collapse of the German ground forces in North Africa, it was announced today. Twenty-nine planes were shot down in fierce dogfights off Si cily and Sardinia, in an area where the German and Italian air forces have concentrated hundreds of aircraft in an at tempt to stem the great and con tinuing Allied onslaught, and at least 44 others were destroyed on the ground. For the first tim«- since the fall of Tunisia, enem.v aircraft rose in large numbers to challenge Allied domination of the skies over Sardinia and Sicily and their squadrons were ripped to pieccs in what official sources de scribed as "several long and grueling dogfights." Fifty Axis fighters jumped United States Flying Fortresses, which bomb ed the airfield near Trapabiam. Si cily, and more than 311 lighter* at tacked United States Marauders and War Hawks when the Americans bombed Monserrato, Elmas air field and the harbor of Cagliari in south ern Sardinia. Four American planes were lost in these operations. Thirty-seven of the Axis planes destroyed on the ground were on the Milo field. At .Milas air field in central Sardinia, Mitchells scored direct hits on at least six grounded planes and at Villacidro. where approxi mately fifty planes were parked, hits were seen all over the di spersal area and several explo sions were observed in fuel dumps. (The dispatch did not briny out where the forty-fourth grounded plane, but presumably it was one of those at Villacibro, 2f> miles north west of Cagliari.) The biggest fight of the flay oc curred between the Sicilian c.i.t and the Rgadi islands, when filt.v encmv fighters attacked Fortresses which had just bombed Milo field. The fortress gunners shot down ten and P-38 Lightnings, which were escorting, damaged three more in a spectacular running hatlle which continued twenty minutes, with the opposing forces flying at heights ranging from sea level to 2 l.oim feet. May Try To Bomb Axis Out of War Washington. May 20—(AIM—The possibility thai Allird military IimcI rrs arc trying to shiittcr Am- Eu rope so completely by aerial bom bardment alone that the long-threat ened invasion may amount to little more than an occupation of proslr.it cd vnemy countries. \v;i- rend into I'rime Minister Churchill's .-.peech to day by some competent observers here. A Hurry of speculation was stir red hv two remarks made by Church ill who omitted any direct refcrcncu to the long-discussed invasion. 11-: .-aid: 1. It was worth trying to brin:! about a collapse in Germany u:"J Italy by air power alone, and 2. The Allies must do everytiii'-.:! "sensible and practicable" to diver' Axis strength Ironi thv Kussian li"ir ("Opinion i*- divided." Churchill said, "as to whether (lie use of air power could, by itself bring about a collapse i" Germany or Italy. To.: experiment is welt worth trying. . ■ long as other nivans are not exclud ed." While informed persons agreed that this seemed to bode an eveii greater scale of bombings than aoy thing yvt seen, they were skeptical of any deduction that invasion by ground troop.s would be withheld o; even delayed. More likely, they suggested, tii • Allied high command knows 'hat the problems of invasion will bv enormously simplified by ealeul tie I destruction beforehand, and ma .y hope that ground forces when t !»#•>• do invade the continent, will line! a demoralized foe.