^ HimJtersmt Bally Bispatrij
THIRTY-FIRST YEAR '^.K-AssU'^^^VK^r HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, 1U41 puul,s,^^^TOni^7kkn°0'n FIVE CENTS COPY
U. S. WARSHIPS SHELL JAP HOME ISLAND
Reds Near Invasion Points
As Germans Suffer Defeats
MAY SOON BE HIT BY U.S. MIGHT
ENIWETOK, the principal Island of Eniwetok Atoll, most northwesterly
of the Marshall atolls nnu closcst to Tokyo, is pictured in this aerial photo
by a U. S. Navy flier. Note the excellent air strip and the seven Jap
planes grounded there. Eniwetok is some 300 miles northwest of Kv.a.
jalein A to!!, where out forces have landed and arc wresting vital islands
iroin the JaDancse usurocrs. 'International Sounuphoio)
State Rights Move
In Senate Defeated
By Administration
Unsuccessful Attempt
Is Made to Sidetrack
Federal Ballot Bill
Washington, Feb. 7—(A P)
—The administration beat off
a second Senate attempt Ui
sidetrack its Federal ballots bill
today, defeating an opposition
move to take np a "States'
rights" proposal which would
leave armed service voting i«»
tlx states.
I'i.c motion was rejected II to 42
en .1 mil call.
I'm- same move. baked by a co.
it'M n( southern Democrats and
,• Republicans. lost on a tie vote
l i.d.i.v and its sponsors said tiicn
thc> would try again.
Tilt effect of the vote was to
the Senate at work on tho
ti ■•••n-Lncas Federal ballot bill
v !i rh it lias been debating nmre i
thill two weeks.
II-kI the iiK.tion carried. I lie Scj•
would have had lo ?.liunt as de
I .• "hninisti ation hill for immedi,.'i
t-on~idcr.it 'on ol the State'.,
i ::'i! lull which the House has iippim
rd
Colifidert they have the vote !'
> ill. audininislraiion fi.rces were c'f'<•1
milled to push the Orcen-Lliras
Kcder.il ballot hill through filial
passage ill the Senate. If successI
d. their next move will he lo jit—
' M'h the erasure to the "States'
rights" bill. Hue. toss in;' I he whole
i "liti ■ 'U'tsy back lo the House.
Helsinki Is
Bombed Twice
Stockholm, Feb. 7 -(AIM t ic
tbll were binning in Helsinki at
i'"oil today I rom two llussiall bombings
Sunday which bit linn buildings
and killed III! persons, the Finiii
h legalii.n In Stockholm said.
I'he attacking bombers dropped
"lino homhs and incendiaries. it was
olfici i||y iinnoMxcd at the Finnish
eapilal. The announcement listed
persons as wounded.
(Advices reaching London said
Icli pi one communications between
■h Isinki and Stockholm had been
•at again today, suggesting the possibility
of a third raid in what is
a concentrated effort to drive Finland
out of the war.)
Thuuadi.cL ol women, children
Russians
German Plane
Bombs Vatican
Stm-kliolm. Feb. 7—(AIM—A
German plane which attempted
a fcreed landing in Vatican City
alter an air battle with Allied
planes dropped a bomb inside
the Vatican walls and another
a short distance outside, a Koine
dispatch reported today.
The plane crashed and the
crew was killed.
Recoveries
On Market
New V«irl;. l ib. 7.-< Al't-Uiiils
.•nd .dieted industrials |>.>-1»I modi■:;
iecovcne> hi todav'.s stock niarUi
t.
Ki actional improvement, fairly
veil d IiiImiIciI ,il the start. was
niaiiitaiiti (I in in"-' c.i c> near lilt"
t • 11111 - hour. Dealings were .-low.
In front tin- grcat'T p.ul of thi'
!.• e were Atlantic ("oust Line. Wes-i
i iiili«and Doiigla- A.rcratt.
I,osims included International Harvester.
General Motors and Goodjci.r.
Carri« r !«>nfl 'iil were lavorcd.
Comiliodltic w en II. : l ow.
COTTON WII.T IN tVAVNK
College Station. lialcigh. Feb. 7.—
Wilt becoming a serious problem
in col Ion production in Wayne county
iiiiri iillll bushels ol Coker lllll will
resistant cotton seed have been
brought into tiie county to help cornet
the situation, reports County
\genl (' S Mint/ to the State College
Kxtetision Service here.
I NC I'llOFKSSOIl TO SKATTI.K
Chapel Hill. Feb. 7.—Prof. Hardin
Craig. 'he Knglish Department of
Hit University of North Carolina,
has been appointe i Walker Ames
profe-soi at the University ol Washington
(Seattle) and will lie on leave
of absence Iroui the Univer.-ity lure
during the coming spring (punter.
mid elderly people began to evacuate
Helsinki.
A Moscow radio announcement
said the Kstonian capital of Heval
(Tallinn) also had been bombed,
adding to the 0rowlng uneasiness
iii Sv.eiUn. i
Five Trapped
DivisionsAre
Being Killed
Tighter Ring Being
Pulled Around Ten
Units Near Cherkasy
Moscow, I'Vh. 7—(A!')—FluRussian
army is less than 1~>
mill's at sonic points l'roni the
lines where Hitler launched his
invasion of the Soviet Union,
and all ah.nji the 1.200-mile
lonj? eastern front the German
army i> suffering one of 'the
war's worst defeats, field dispatches
said mday.
Gaining the miner hand along
till' liswer reaches of tin- l>niclier
river with advances up (it
Ml mill's thruiiRh a 100-milt*
Kill*. General l!ctlii»n V. Alalinovsky's
third I'kraillian army
ruthlessly wrnt aliuul the job of
destroying live trapped German
tlivisions (normally ~.">.00<> men)
in the Nikopol sector.
Meanwhile, 1 ."iti null's t<» the in rtli.
more Nazi corpses littered the thawing
Ukrainian earth as the armies
of Generals Nikolai Vatutin and
Ivan Konev drew even tighter a
ri."g «>f death around the remnanls
ol ten divisions near Cherkasy.
The loss of Nikopol, which reportedly
has ln-en furnishing German
industries the major amount
ol n innane.-t. used in the Keith's
production > ! war equipment, probably
would lie tile hartlest industrial
blow suffered by the Germans during
the entire Russian offensive.
A Pravda dispatch said the point
where Malinovsky cut off the live
em n v divi.-.ii lis wa» on the Dnieper
river ne«r the mouth of the Bu/uluk
river, wl.ch I lows into the
Dnieper three miles from Nikopol.
The Nazis appeared to have lost
Krivoi l!og along with Nikopol.
Jliller placed such value on the
two mining cities that, said Pravdii.
orde.s were read to every company
in e.'ch battalion to hold, and officers
gave oaths to light to the last
on their sectors.
The Germans' 1" ng-held springboard
immediately across the Dnieper
from Nikopol was an area
roughly 2a miles long and la miles
deep.
A Pravda report from the encirclement
ring 1n the Cherkasy-Kanev
a . ea said the Germans were trying
to break out north of Zvenigorodka
area on a good gravel road leading
westward. I', .f the Russian ring is
holding "finn. strong, and dense."
Pravda declared the ring '"is
blockaded from the air now." although
s**ine German planes were
getting out with oflicers while others
were dropping desperately needed
food and an munition.
Wei snow making skiing rliiiicult
hampered Hie Soviet fighters now
drawn up on three sides ot Nirva
ill Kstonia. Dispatches reported
eiicinv villages < n the east h.mk «•:
the Nitrova river, indicating all civilians
have been moved westward
by the Germans.
Gas Shortage
In Area Of
Wilmington
Raleigh. Keb. 7 (AIM—A critical
gisoltne shortage loomed lodav in
the Wilmington area, partic idarly
around Wallace. and Governor
liroughto'i asked Federal olficials
to make tank cars available to relieve
tl"' situation.
A number ot the defense workers
who commute from Wallace
were unable l<> get In their jobs because
of • lie shortage, the (Jove nor
said, fidduig that tractors cmpl< ved
in agriciiU ■ re were stalled.
The Wilmington area normally is
served chief I v by barges, but to
wail for their arrival now would
be almo-t disastrous, the Governor
said.
A critical shortage in the Wayne
county area, served by pipelines
from Greensboro, was relieved last
week after the Governor pursued
the mat'.er with government reprc•
C'bi
AS ALLIES ESTABLISHED BEACHHEAD NEAR ROME
-•+- - • . nj..w-- ....
A PONTOON CAUSEWAY made of shallow draft barges effected n quick landing for men and equipment as
the Allies established their benelihend at An?.io, south of Rome. The device was set up by men under th«
direction of ltrar Admiral Frank J. Lowry. This ij one of the first original photos to arrive in the U. S. of the
lauding. A small part of the invasion llcct is seen in the background. U. S. Navy photo. (International)
Nearly All Kw ajalein Taken,
Yanks Repulse Nazi Attacks
Americans Restore
Original Positions
At Anzio Beachhead
Allied ll''.>(li|U.iilers. Alsiers.
I i ll. i.—(Al'i—Ami rican troops
iii the Au/io beachhead have
ic]>iiIm'<I a slriuii: new (■criiian
attack which broke ihriiuuli the
Allied perimeter. three miles
west of llu- vital road unci rail
!>ub ol I istcrnu. and have restored
their original positions,
it was announced 'todaj.
Cistcrna is astride tii • Appiai
Way and .111 electrified 1 lilwav I!(
miles southeast 01 Itifitu', . nd abt>u'
ten miles i.i.-t ol Carroceto (Aprilha>,
when' prcviou- Ciei man couiilei
blows were blunted.
The Gerinntw befun the new iw*
sault Saturday evening with infantry,
tanks and artillery. Fighting
••avejl through the night ami into yes
terda.v. before 1 lie Nazis were pusli•
•d back t<> the starting point witii
losses.
(A Sunday <!i-patch Irum Daniel
De Luce, A-soi ated I'lo-s correspondent
mi tin- beachhead, -aid llu
Aineticaiis weic driven oack about
aim yard- Saturday night but iccovered
the ground.)
The Nazis, reinforced along tin
beachhead perimeter b> at least lour
divisions anil an SS brigade by the
Arrival of the 71 "itli infantry di\i>ier
from southern France, made leaser
of tucks along the line Some German
elements v re spotted forming
for another attack against the Brifish
north ol Carroceto, but llu' formation
was broken up by accuratt
artillery fir • and the British captured
"tin oi the enemy.
I tirim ho ise-to-inmse lighting co:i!
turned in Cas.-iii > on ihe main Filth
I Army trout, but the Americans bat'
tied up M"'. Ca.-sin • j 111 we t of the
town, already nc.rly encircled, and
reached a |w•.nt v ithin a lew luiliI
dred yards ol the famous Benedictine
, mona.-'c y a' tit- ci 1 -t.
I F.ightll A: 1 y troop- along Ihe
J Adriatic din\i • tin* \ iltaj'c ol
I Plzzoferrato. t . and a hull miles
I north we t >1 Sanl' AiiroIo, und
; Moiilcn "I >tr iiul< south 01
Torncell.
t'XC I \( I 1 I V t IIANGI s
Chapel II 1 ■ 7 A n.imlx
temporary nlmenls. resignations.
leaves. i other change- in
lite laculty o ■ 1 l'ni\ ersity ol North
Carolina at t apel Ilill. mod ol
winch are do. ■ ihe war emergency,
were annoui • I :od;.v by I*r« - dent
Frank I'. (ira :n and Dean oi Admiiustration
I. >< t I'.. House.
The change were made alfedivc
recently i«y :• n- l'n;\ersity trustees
on recoil ,.e> ■ . .»i ol President (>raham
and I >eau 11 >11-0.
Won Canine Battle
THE CANINE WORLD was represented
at the Tarawa battle by "Joe," a
cocker spaniel, who bit a Jap dog in i
the back and forced it to retreat, \
The action took place after "Joe"
landed on the island under heavy
fire with his master Marine Cpl.
L. R. Stan bury, Lake Charles, I n.
USMC uhoto. (l)ttcrnaiiun!il\
1 ARMY TO KEEP ITS
GROUPS INFORMED
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 7. K ty
jvi.u are t filling, know y . < .
know voir allies liavr fit ' in tat*
United States -'11111 it.- ftit 1 « -that
Ira e :: e then.i today lil.tary
1 install ticttw in the -e- en »<• itheast••ni
stall'- embracing the Fourth Str*
\ lee Command .■* om i_
eel's K I'l ivcd !•: - tit: •
iii Mediately an en" • •, pi . an:
fur tli--if respective 11
The Army re« .i/e nev. - ...
reported n re! aole ne p;,»cr- •>
I reliable newaneiu * •>. radio
I bmidwtf as n nwt 01 such value
i that 1 part o' -!ie or 1 itation pioj
cram calls for a.«ui tticc that every
Ieulisted man, every "ii cit, receives
- irh new liiey ,ed to r« d
war new- a.- . > am ii'iy ... tin-,.d.
t es pel I I •. e .. t a ln.n1
>: 11 s<»1 > attendance .-e— 11 t"i "i tnt
tat Ion. war news a* chronicled hy
! new ipe"- v ill pi >v a najor pa : in
J the discussants.
Mustering Out Pay
Plan Is Deckled Upon
Wa-.lt.nu' I'VI>. 7. (Al'l Tlii'
Ai iii> .iikI X. v have agreed 'it a
plan l'i ni;■!•;»* niti 'crnm mil payments
1 • veteran.* of this 'Vat <1 eh;..ml
hoii'Hiilily -ince December
1041
A veteran discharged or relieved
from active duty alter approval of
the liivv will receive his payment
without the necessity of filing an application.
A m.m released prior to
the anptov.l ot th'- law must .Mil*mit
a certificate of di-chnrnc or service,
submit an informal type >>1 certified
uppii.ati ttiiliu* his name and a4«
drc mtvico tun-!><■!, .r-vi.il number'
"i- file tiitml>er thai he wai* not
fliM'hm • '<i in ticcepl employment
v. 111 ■ • ovico u'.iV: I' Mm- I *fi if <-H
Nl.ilr : t!i;il tie . n .! ini\v dii .icti« e
fluty flint lie )■»;».< ii in ,il( , n\ nil),
er iipplmilii n f«M- n ii -h-i iu« mil
pfly; I he while m which ti<- lived
wl-i'ii n<ii!( 1 c<l. ,'iiid whelhei he h,i<
h;i(l f n < mn service.
The ;i| plication r«>|-iv> will n><1 he
printed by Ihr finny find niivy. bill
the \<'tci •!« n>. iv eopv il mi' ^ ii I in 11 f
iinv facsimile [ruin lis pub'ic,it inn in
He i)r pub o. elfcbwhoit'.
Three Other Islands
| Captured and Others
| Undefended Are Taken
I. S. Pacific I I i*i*l llc.itliill.i.I
ters. IVarl I!aii>or. I eh. 7.—
(Al'i — Anic'ic.in troops a ml
Marines li.ivt* tucked .ill hut .1
small pari «l' Kwajalcin atoll
i.udi'i' tlx* 1. S. Ilau alter capturing
three more islands from resisting
Japanese ami occupying ,
other islands which were not de|
fended
While 111 «_• invati is wen' driv.ng
I the Japanese ofl the remaining 1—i
' i .mi m l*.<* Nav v Se.ibees •
v. 1 i*i* .. J .11., :u .r huge l>ul!(iii/c.
over tile . niihie ••! what hall been a
huge airlielii and installations on
lilo and .Nauui: islands .t powerful
American airdrome and naval base
were taking shape mi these islands
;it tin* northeastern tip >1 the Atoll.
(>:i Kwaialiui island, the tough
lint <*i ;.« ,.«'(i Ijv tin* Sev enth army
division op. ti:-* southern end .-1 tin
atoll, engineers were putting the
:..rI leld into slia|H* lor bombers and
I ighters.
"All tlie Mar-halls anil the eastern
Carolines have been brought within >
range of our bomber.-, including ,
Truk which is 011 the liinge of 0111 j
bombers' new elfei*ti\e striking
radius." said Major General Willis ,
II.ill*, commander ot the Seventh I
army air force.
i Trnl.. \\ itli its b:u naval base. 1- 1
believed be Japan's strongest ceil
• al Pacific bastion and is !>38 airhue
miles from Kwajalcin.)
The c.i|:'.iii'e ol (iugcgwv. l'.igcj anil
I'.bler i-lar.d- gave the Americatis :
control ol two mori* channels 111 In»* 1
Huge lagoon, which already is the:
anchorage lot unit- ol the United
Sta'es fleet.
In taking the t!..ee i-laniis the 1
,\ icriciias havi gathered in -1 ofl
the 32 principal 1 lands ol the atoll,
auti 111 addition have overrun mini- .
cious other isle's which are unnam- j
cd.
Ad.niial Xinii>/. -..id in a press
reliM e tl .1 ain*> I •miliers and navy
I.. 1 ft-bin tie plane- hammered live
Mar lull atoiis F.nivvotok, Wotjc,
M..I - lap. Mill and L'jel.u.g -till 111
Japat cse htindx during raids Feb- 1
in.>r.v :i. 1. and
!t wa.- the Navy' : mention or j
an attack **n I'jciai.-:. «"•' : 1 It*.- wi*sl .
• I K\vajplein. ,ndn tmg that there
wa- ,n air! it-Id lln .* which needed
neutralizing while the Americans
will- taking Kwajalein.
SOI DIERS RECEIVE
13FIST DENTAL WORK
\*I.iiita. . Feb 7. As p. oof o!
Ai 1 v contention that A 1 i*i ran solti
• - receiv e '.in* vi ry best denta
lie fluent and -ci v u - the dental ,
profe--ion It- s to ol'.' r. - .1 report |
today by Colonel 1< IV Tobia-, duel,
di ntal section. S > icon's olfire.
Ko irlli Service Co and. showing
that (1 lung liUU .1 total ot close to
1 ■ r 11 llion dental treatments were
given soldiers at posts, i imps an I
stat on- n the seven southeastern
This 1- an average 1 more than
II.110(1 sold i* rei*eiv .ng attention
every d y in Army dental clinic- o!
this command.
Summarized these treat cut- enn
-ted of the following Fillings. 1 perinnnctit)
2.880,.138: bridge*. 1,841);
art if . il denliiros or plates, liin.lt |;
e\t- art on-. 872,23 I
HtAIHtR
I OH VORTII CAROMNA
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight.
Tuesday, cloudy with
showers Itceomluc colder in afternoon
and night.
Paramushiro
Is Attacked
By Surprise
Northernmost Isle
Of Japanese Chain
Bombarded by Navy
Aboard a I". S. Ilestroyer in
the North Pacific. Feb. 7—
<AP)—I*. S. warships bombarded
Japan at home for the
first time today and caught die
enemy by surprise.
A bombardment lasting about
211 minute battered lhe harbor
and land installations of Kurabu
Point on the southern tip
of Paramushiro island.
BOMB \ i: mi I vi CONFIRMICD
BV Till N.WV 1)1 I'AKTMIiNT
Washington. l-'rli. 7—(AIM —
The N'av> Department. verbally
continuing the bombardment
l» Ameriean Navy ships
of lapancsc installations, at Kurabn
I'oint on tin- southern tip
i.'l I'ai amushiro island, also tiiselesed
that an attaek was made
on the east eoast of the island.
Parai .-l.;i ■ 'lie northernmost
;i.i •:> ii. ni Japan. It is
about 7!» i ir..le.- > invest ol the
American base ■ n Attn island ill
tho Aleutians and is more than
I.linn mile. iimn Dutch harbor. tile
Navy's northernmost »> i vi Pacific
UHSf.
I; is cle.er t ■ Japan's main nn\;.i
than any <>t the cither
point.- in the Japanese sphere of
conquest !;.. taken by American
lorces. action at Paramushiro brings
the Pacific war close to Itnssia. a
neutral in '.lie Pucilic conflict. The
island is «eparatcil I mm KiissWs
Kamachatka peninsula only by a
naivow strait.
AIRCRAFT FOLLOW IN SHARP
ATTAC K ON JS1.AND FRIDAY
Washii gtuM, Feb. 7—(AP)—Tiie
Navy confirmed in a communique
today that American warships bombarded
.Japanese installations on
Paramushiro island, aircraft followed
uo with a sharp attack, and ail
vessel.- and planes escaped without
damage. The daring foray ol>v
>asl\ i aught the Japanese !.\v sur!>
so in their Ii" e waters. The ofi.c.al
announcement expanded on
eye-witness accounts made public in
the Pacific theatre.
The shelling attacks were made
at 9 a. in. eastern war tine. February
4. the Navy saici—corresponding
to It) o'clock that night bv
Tokyo Ii no.
On the same night. American
i rcralt ..!>■> bombarded Paramushiro
and Shimushu. the small island
lying in the strait between
Paramushiro and Russia's Kamchatka
peninsula.
Sliimushi; the northernmost tip
"I tile Kurilcs.
t OI4H ( OMT.IIS IN CHICAGO
Chapel 11:11. Feb. 7.—Collier Cot>b«
ivho wa> recently appointed by Gov[•rnoi
Itro igliion cli. irman ol tho
State Pi inn ng I'.o.ird, returned today
from a three-day trip to Chicago
win re he altended a convention of
the Associated General Contractors
>t America and conferred w th olf rials
"1 the A' e icaii I'ub'ic Works
Assoc atior. inri the A i.erican Society
i>f PI lining Officials.
Redrafted Men
Must Be Given
Former Rank
Wa ling' ii. Feb. 7 --(AIM —Men
wounded in action, discharged and
then fully recovered, are being
drafted igain. t was disclosed today.
and the War Department took
cognizance of the situation bv or«
derinj: tin veterans to be given
llieit old ranks.
Sel< 11 \i < r\ ice regulations perm
' cd rafting ol v< tcrnnv who again
quality. Some men wounded at Attn
and at Faid Pass in the Tunisian
campaign have been recalled by
their local boards, the amy said
Lowering ol physical standards
also has prompted tho War Departn
i n| to order commanning officers
to exhaust all poss bilities before
discharging I sted men Thousands
have been released, it was
said, for physical disabilities that
now would not stand in the way of
induction.
An army spokesman said that
men who had been overseas, were
discharged and reinducted. probably
would not be sent to foreign assignment*
a^iin.