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. <rf L. had a percentage
gain at 1474 per cent and the G. L
O., 89.63. The United Mine Workers,
.tehn L. Lewis' anion, was the wealthiest
of the C. I. 0. unions, with a
ration retail commodities, only a
abort time before the Senate comday
on a much-amended price control
bill and sent it on to President
IRooMvait. fe
Democratic leader* laid they expected
the Chief Executive to sign
the measure, although aoms at Us
be distasteful to him. He had asked
for the legislation more than
six months ago, as • check against,
inflation- Living costs have risen
more than it par cent sine# Sap*
tember, 1M»; government econemlsts
say i «im) parallel price rises
have added serwal bfllion dollar*
to tii« cost of the nation's armament
programThe
capital generally conceded
that Henderson would be retained
fn the priw irfrliiiititfiHi post ha
now hold* by virtue of an sxacutive
order. The added rationing
authority, given him with Mr.
Roosevelt's approval, virtually guar■nfjuxi
thst Mine of Henderson
in the next few weeks would become
a, by-word in the MtfAsna, comer
stores and offices of America.
Further rationing, the WPB observed,
"seems inevitable."
Signature of the price firing measure
will not necessarily mean an I
immediate flood of price-fixing or*
ders, said one of Henderson's Hentenants
who declared that situation*
will he met as they arise.
Relying almost entirely up to now
on voluntary arrangements and o«ir
ders without the specific support of
law, the OPA haa fixed price ceilings
an 72 commodities ranging from
washed cattle-tail hair to steel.
In addition, it has reached voluntary
price agreement* with about
100 individual producers, frox«n Mime
prices, and listed others at what it
considered "fair."
In all, about 85 pear cent of the
total value of wholesale goods is already
under price control, as is almost
half the field of metal* and
Clinic Pabtmteed
By Total Of SOS
Transport and
Cruiser as Titanic I
And Air Battle
Pacific Gontinu
to another all-out drive.
The communique mid the eneny
landed "relatively small ■"
111 the Subic Bay area. But the Japanese
already hare aa entire army
and other units—perhaps aa many
as 800,000 men—poised to strike
again and again at MacArthir's man,
who are outnumbered by southing
Hke 10 to 1.
The gallant battle being waged by
MacArthnr's small force, oacpied
with War Department disclosure that
American troop* have been landed
in North Ireland, prompted several
Senators to express hope that help
is en route to Bataan.
Senatorial Viewa. .
Senator Gerald P. Nye, R-, N. D..
said "it is hard to stretch the imagination
enough to believe that adding
our men to Great Britain in any
.way aids those brave Philippine defenders."
Though emphasizing that
he felt unqualified +" comment on
troop movements ordered 'by milt1
. * ' * » — u I IIM ■ T n ill n n n t?
tary scraceguns, 8enaior james n*.
Murray, D., Mont, said it seeatei tO
sunk sad 14 more aa dan
grand total of 7*.
In the battle of Macassa
American warships and pUu
accounted for 14 enemy vet
cording to Washington com.
But General Sir Archibald
Allied commander la the S
Pacific, has put the Americ
-The govWfiSPNP
, Italy and Japan, a decision
which will be announced formally
tomorrow at the clodnc session of
th« Pan-Araericsu Conference of Foreiga
MhdtlMti. •
; J&ttleraent of the 100-yearold
to thai
"We have the Pent-Bsuikr dispute
definitely and finally settled,"
BrasiHlan Foreign Minister Oswaldo
Aranha informed United States Under-Secretary
of State Sumner
We) lee.
Ecuador's foreign minister, JnBo
Tobar Donoso, had received the authorisation
.of his government to an*
break with the Asia powt
was awaiting definite aet
of the dispute with IW
The Brazilian cabinet, meeting with
GetuMo Vargas at the
ummer capital, voted an
break with the Axia.
Brasfl thus will be the 18th American
nation either at war with the
Asia or having severed diplomatic
relations.
Pitt Grand Jury
Report Submitted
The report of the Pitt County
Grand Jury, submitted to Judge
John J. Burney in Superior court
yesterday by the foreman, K. W.
Cobb, stated that a committee from
the body, had inspected all school
buses and found a majority of them
in satisfactory condition, but that
minor repairs and adjustments needed
on others had been ordered looked]
after immediately.
The report stated that the group
had visited the coupfty home, county
jail, state prison camp mad found
condition* at all to be satisfactory
and the inmates well cared for.
It further stated that county offices
were visited asd appeared to
be in good condition and well manThe
report added that the
found an attitude of loyalty
the part of officials sad
If the supply of speedsters continues
to increase, the supply of powffl
become exceedingly
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