SUBMARINE PERIL SPREADS TO All AMERICAN WATERS U-Boats Sighted Off Texas Coast; Survivors of Big Canadian Ship Landed in Puerto Rico; Schooner Attacked off West Coast; PanMaine May Be Safe Washington, Jan. 28. — The submarine menace sprang up tonight in virtually all waters touching continental United States and its territories and possessions. The vast geographical magnitude of the threat was indicated in officially-approved reports from Hawaii to Puerto Rico and from Texas to Alaska. Undersea* warfare already had burst upon both of the nation's coasts. But tonight there came ominous hints that the menace has spread to new areas—the Gulf coast and approaches to Puerto Rico—and that there has been renewed submarine activity in the Pacific Northwest and in the waters near Hawaii. Scope of Threat. They came in authorized dispatches from: 1. Corpus Christi, Texas, where the commander of the naval air station announced the probable presence of two Axis submarines operating off the South Texas coast. 2. San Juan, P. R, where the arrival of the S. S. Coamo revealed that the Canadian luxury liner Lady Hawkins had been torpedoed in the Atlantic with a possible loss of 260 lives. Hie Coamo put 71 survivors ashore. 3. Seattle, Wash., where headquarers of the 13th Naval District revealed that a small ocean-going schooner twice encountered enemy submarine fire en route from the Pacific coast to the Prfbilof Islands in Alaskan waters. The ship—the Black Douglas—arrived safely at Seattle, according to the 13th Naval District. 4. Honolulu, where depth charges were heard exploding off shore, Navy officials there admitted an alert signal had summoned all personnel on shore leave to their stations, but they refused to say whether enemy submarines had been detected. These report* would teetrio indicate that Germany and Japan are trying to confose United States defenses against submarines and attempting to force a wide dispersion of American naval forces. The reported presence of two German U-boats off the Sooth Texas coast prompted the National Geographic Society to observe that the Atlantic coast battlefront now has been pushed to a north-south line that is farther west than Topeka, Kans., Lincoln, Neb., and Sioux Falls, & D. "Corpus Christ!—gas, oil and. shipping center—in some 800 mile* we*t of the moiiian oat which Chicago is located," the geographic news bulletion aaid, adding that enemy craft operating in the Gulf of Mexico would "open up a new war sens deep in the heart of the Americas." It pointed oat that the United States gulf coast is dotted with oil refineries. Enemy submarines have be*n concentrating on oil tanker* in their depredations off the eeatern Latest victim was the American taaker Francis E. Powell, sunk Mon Annual Meeting Opens Today Seed Exposition TaBe Held In Keel's Warehouse, Greenville Greenville, Jan. 28. — Everything was in readiness today for tfee annual Seed Exposition and meeting of the North Carolina Crop Improvement Association which will open at Keel's warehouse at 9 l m., Friday morning. The Board of Directors of the N. C. Crop Improvement Association will meet at 10:80 Friday morning at the warehouse. At 2 p. m., the annual business session of the association will be held, after which educational lectures will be made on various phases of farming. The highlight Of the convention will be the annual dinner which will be held at 1 p. m., Saturday in the Woman's club building , with Governor Broughtan as the principal speaker. Awards in the crap judging contest to be participated in by 4-H and Future Farmers at America clubs will be awarded at the luncheon meeting. A large number of commercial exhibits, such as farm equipment, will be on display in the warehouse. NEW BUG TO FIGHT BOLL WEEVIL. Austin, Tex.—Cotton growers will be delighted to hear that scientists are breeding a new kind of bug which they expect to exterminate the boll weevil and pink boll worm which destroy millions of dollars' worth of cotton each year. Hie bug worm is " michobracon," a parasite which destroys the weevil and worm by boring into their lairs. Dr. G. W. Goldsmith, botany professor and director of the University Of Texas cotton research laboratory, said he hopes to breed and, with the aid of Federal and State agencies, to unleash microbracon in huge" numbers on cotton fields throughout the South not later than the Spring of! 1948. | As 1M1 comes to an end, we might as Veil admit that we are in better shape titan we expected to he when it began. Public Invited Tonight, I Jan. 30th, From 8:00 to 10:30; Refreshments and a Gift to Each Person in Attendance According to an advertisement f.p-, peering elsewhere in this iof The Enterprise, to which we call your attention, the firm of Quina & Miller Co., furniture dealers of Ayden, announce the ftwraal opening of their New Store Friday evening of this week, Jan. 80th, from 8:00 to 10:80 o'clock, and hereby extend a cordial invitation to their many friends and customers throughout this sec** to come and inspect their new and modem store sad enjoy American Fliers S| ? 'p (few Triumph Bag* Seven Planes In Rooting Japanese Sqnadron In Rangoon Battle Rangoon, Burma, Jan. 28.—American volunteer fHers, outnumbered by at least time to one, pot to root a force of 37 enemy planes today, shooting down at leant eeren at them in a new encounter four miles above the green Burma Jangle east of Sangoon. The Americans lost only one craft themselves, and the pilot of that one landed safely. One off the Americans. "Ssndy" from San An tonio, Texas, shot down two planes himself and may have downed a third. , A communique . announcing the appearance of the Japanese over the Rangoon area gave full credit to the AVG (American Volunteer Group) In stating that "according to latest reports" seven Japanese planes were destroyed. Five more at the enemy probably were destroyed and nine others were known to have been damaged as-thsy streaked for home, their fragile Japanese army "97" planes beaten completely by the faster and heavier Tomahawks whose cockpits are sheathed with armor plate. The sir battle oararred shortly after 1Z:90 p. m. The Americans took to the air jauntily and soon returned jauntier than ever. These Americans, guarding Burma and the Chinese supply route running through it, have yet to be beaten by the Japanese, although they newer have yet fought on tetms of numerical equality. TEST BLACKOUT FOR MONDAY NIGHT Mayor George W. Davis, local Civilian Defense chairman, stated today that a blackout for Fariavifle had been ordered for next Monday night, Feb. 2, between , 7:00 and 10:00 O'clock. Preparations for mch a test havd been in the making for some time and local citizens are urged to make tests of their homes prior to the actual Mackout to see that no light can be sees from the outside when the time comes for the real test. AH business houses are urged to leave no lights on within their places of business and to be sure and cut off all electric signs. Auxiliary policemen and fire test next Monday night We want a complete blackout, so when our fire whistle blows 22 torn off all lights. The all dear signal will or 4 Mows, at which time you may turn your lights back on. A 100 per cent cooperation la asked and expected. Don't fail. and the peanut goal to! a acres, with 3,400,000 MA for oil production and fin? 1,600,000 ktm for t tiie same aa last ymt. lame time, Government prices were Mt for sojr.60 per bushel, tam basis, ited varieties of U. S. No. and peanut prices were «a per ton for U. S. No. 1 risk type for ail, md 170 By HUGO a. smg (Washington Oiminsiist) HOUSE AND SENATK COMMITTEES' REPORTS CONDEMN MANY PHASES OF WAR PROGRAM Two congressional committees here recently reported the results of their investigation into the effort of the nation to prepare itself for defense and war. Roth reports include serious charges reflecting upon labor, industry, the armed set vices and certain governmental agencies. While it is not the purpose of this column to . give undue publicity to questionable charges against responsible individuals and agencies, we fed that the reports of the Boose Naval Committee and of the Senate special investigating committee deserve consideration. The House committee, after a tenmonths' study t asserts: (1) that firms doing business with the Government have begun to reap a harvest of excessive ahd unconscionable profits, and (2) the majority bluntly lists strikes as the greatest single cause of delay in the defense program and declares that the tremendous financial gains made by unions "present an astounding picture of concentration of wealth" which is usually associated only with industry and finance. Eight representatives signed a minority report whith was sharply critical of strike delays and high industrial profits but pointed out that no gigaartic program can be carried out at high speed "without mistakes" and expressed the view that correction can be sertWd by proper legislation. Concerning the pnftte of Industry, the committee found "many" cases of fifty per cant soil one ("as high as 247 per cent.") However, more than 1228 contractors, covering 19,086 contracts, reported a profit of 1287,857,448, an average of 7.99 per later, the committee reported that 117 iwifaw, aaMnrint qneetionnain* had increased aet aasets-fmn *71, 916,646 to *82,594,959 between October 1st, 1989 and March Slat, 1M1. The A. F.