High Point Enterprise, The (Newspaper) - April 2, 1942, High Point, North Carolina WEATHER WARMER THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE HIGH POINT Southern Furniture Bug artel Hosier tinta pun 92 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS HIGH THURSDAY APRIL 1912 COMPLETE NKA SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS BURMA 100 MILES FROM INVADED BY JAPANESE LANDING PARTY Skirmishes Are Reported Philippines Jap Bombers Kept at High Altitudes by AntiAircraft Raid Jap Supplies By The Associated Press April The War Department report I ed sharp skirmishes on Philippines Bataan Peninsula today in the wake of the latest large scale Japanese attack on ithe defend j ers Enemy artillery and dive bomb Urs shelled and bombed the de positions but no general yesterday s pa communique BIG GUNS IN ACTION v Meanwhile intermittent air ai continued around the does oh Bay harbor de but War Department the Japanese bombers to fly at such altitudes their tombing was ineffective At the same time the big guns of foil illson Corregidor Island ied in a duel with Japanese bat I on the south shore of the aThe said neither nor shelling inflicted on the Japanese broadcasts m quoted imperial headquarters to dav as claiming that antiaircraft an barracks and other military establishments on had been damaged be vorid repair by repeated Japanese I naval air attacks between March and The text of the departments based on reports received here up to Eastern War Time Philippine theater Aggressive patrol activity on both sides characterized the fight ing in during the past twentyfour There were a number of sharp but no general Enemy artillery and five bombers shelled and our There were several enemy air raids on our rear beach defenses Clark Lee Tells Of Trip To Australia Associated Press Corres pondent Runs Gantlet of Jap Ships Around Bataan CUrk Associated Press war correspondent who covered the fall of Manila and for more than two months reported the defense of Bataan in dispatches described by men as the best the war produced on any arrived in three ago from the Lee landed in Australia just two works after But censorship has forced him to withhold details of hU In the following dispatch he sheds frish light on the conditions under which liis wife and young and many of staff made their Journey through waters supposedly controlled by the By CLARK LEE GENERAL Large Jap Force Is On Java Island SeaBorne Attack on Port Moresby Expected By Allies Prospects for Enlisting Indias Co Operation in War Effort Grow Brighter By ROGER GREENE Associated Press War Editor Japanese seaborne troops thrusting closer to India were reported today to have landed at the chief West Burma port of only 100 miles from the as prospects for mobilizing Indias on the side of the United Nations took a sudden brightening A Chinese spokesman in Chungt king said the Japanese landed at Akyab under the protective cover ing of a force of cruisers and de Akyab is only 350 miles across the upper Bay of Bengal from Cal PACIFIC WAR COUNCIL HOLDS FIRST MEETING IN President Roosevelt the United Nations representatives on the new Pacific War Coun cil gathered around the big table in the cabinet room of the White House in Washington for their first Around the starting at left China Walter New Zealand Herbert Australia A pnl AP Hume tor military reasons the story count Great Britain President Roosevelt Hume Canada Alexander The Netherlands Harry special assistant to President THE WAR TODAY By DeWITT Wide World War Analyst Some hope that India might still be persuaded accept the offer of dominion status was injected into the crisis to British Bombers Hit At Factories In Paris story of our trip from Bataan Pen insula to Australia has been delayed and even now the lhal m tails cannot be but vasion forces in the southwest IMPERILS REAR LINKS Besides heightening the threat of a Japanese invasion of the landing directly imperilled tine rear of British imperial lines now guarding the central Burma oil dispatches from Avis Drive Rushed To Meet Germans Says 105 Allied Merchant Ships Destroyed During March Nazis Claim Offen sive in Leningrad Sector of Long ront By The Associated Press British bombers smashed anew at German war foundries in the environs of Paris last the London air ministry By ROY BLANCK as a matter of fact the jour ney was rather uneventful and the highlight was General MacArthur today and hearing the story of his trip from members of his J We when some ago we heard by radio of his arrival J in Australia that he must have left Bataan with great reluctance and only because he believed that halted in their attempted overland drive in New were preparing to launch a sea borne attack on the key Allied base at Port only 300 miles across the Torres Strait from Australia The Sydney Sun declared such April l he could better serve Americas antisubmarine cami is being stepped up rapidly to meet an expected allout sum Philippines and the whole Al When it was finally decided that Bottlenecks Holding Up Production Senate Defense Committee Recommends Drafting of Trained Aircraft Executive April Criticizing the nations armed forces for a poor job of defense in committee recommend ed today that the War Production an assault was suggested by re Board draft a trained aircraft ex cent movements of enemy i to direct a drive and troops in forward Intermittent air attacks on our harbor defenses continued throughout the day and bombers were forced by day by British Y Envoy Sir announced while Adolf Hitlers high command Stafford C r i p p who very successful attacks against United States and British said in New Delhi that j shipping in the grim battle of the mer drive by 300 German j he would have to MacAr reliable sources said ihur called bold The Navy announced late John motor torpedoboat and ask that 28 axis submarines presumed sunk s thus Naval that the Irate of destruction was still too with good will we may bej able to solve the Thus the world has an hour reprieve from a possible j fur fireto fy would be as much j I treme altitudes and consequently as in view r I H C L the bombing was inaccurate and the danger of failure to reach SU ineffective Hostile batteries on agreement many readers are ll J ed if the lieutenant could take him ON THE NOSE Bulkeley looked squarely at with his cold green eyes and replied On the nose the south shore of Manila Bay shelled No damage was inflicted by cither the bomb ing or the Our forts re turned the fire of the enemy bat ing what is likely to happen if that unhappy position is the answer to that is rather a tall order to especially when we are talking about a country in flammable as but there are There is nothing to report some things which stand out from other American Filipino commando troops have raided two Japanese bases on the Southern Philippine Island of and military observers predicted today that the invaders would be attacked fre by the thousands of na tive fighters hidden in teak and ebony forests of the DESTROY SUPPLIES One raid was on the hamlet of 23 miles south of the main Japanese base A small force of troops burned ware houses of gasoline and am Atlantic Coast April 9 As if countering a navy low to check the German announcement that 28 Axis gave this picture of the marines had been sunk or situation ed sunk by United States forces Germany had at the least so the Nazi high command as 120 oceangoing submarines discovered that the assign the German navy 7 and ISO more build air force destroyed 105 Allied ing for service by which are being constantly attack ed at Lae and Salamaua by the Allied air Lae and Salamaua the northeast coast of Now less than 200 miles above Port The Suns correspondent at United Nations headquarters said eight Japanese di visions between and 000 massed in Java and at Singapore awaiting the sig nal for The forces were said to Bulkeley so the general ment was to run through i he Jap anese lines all the wav to Aus chant ships totalling New evidence indicates that this in his tiny but tough marines the Germans have For instance Since the Indian nationalists have made cooperation with Brit ain in the war effort dependent on solution of their claim for in they presumably would return to passive This would create a grave weakness in one of the most important Allied Noncooperation would cut down the number of native troops avail able to Britain to stand oft in it might affect the war India is and set afire from an enemy French news agency a Norwegian motor j dispatches said RAF bombers during the month of figure is and alone sank 91 ships salvaged parts of destroyed sub tailing the German communique adding that 39 other were heav ily damaged by torpedo or bomb The general made clear that their destination was an island in the Philippines and asked Bulkeley Japans next major of the bottlenecks which are holding up inthe war plane Summarizing a subcommittee visit to the west the com reported that plane assem bly lines in big plants were not running to capacity because of re curring shortages of some vital parts being produced by subcon POOR JOB A poor job of overall from aluminum ingots to finished by the armed services and the old OPM Office of Pro include large number of parachute must be blamed for the present the committee said in its i The newspapers also reported that i he Japanese were receiving considerable aerial reinforce threatening to challenge partly The The usual red tape and delays in making contracts also on THRO 4 V tanker sank under a hail of shells off the Atlantic coast early on the striking into occupied France dur ing the attacked a number destroyed military equip onp of great strategically and escaped to the forest of situated arsenals of the United losing a The supplies were believed to be nait of the stores the Japanese i CAI are accumulating for the drive All this naturally would New Guinea and j age the Japanese to try invasion and such raids may upset the and they need mighty Units engaged I little Should they were identified in the armys combe successful it would create tlie yesterday as merely our possibility of a junction between with no indication of them and Hitler in he middle east whether were American nasty situation for the Allies Some 250 west of on 3 Shaws Sentence Is Commuted To life In Prison April ff A death sentence imposed in Curri tuck County on Charlie Ne was commuted to life im prisonment by Governor Brough ton convicted of first degree burglary and was slated to die tomorrow in the gas cham ber at Central The governor said In it would represent a setback of unpredictable tions to the and a corre victory for the Several readers of this column on Page 3 shells before she ABANDON SHIP The first torpedo finally went struck just morning of March the fourth j Of points on the outskirts of naval district announced j particularly at and Eight of the crew of includ ing most of the ships are missing and believed The 29 survivors were picked up by a Por freighter after spending about seven and onehalf hours in two lifeboats and were brought here March The chief engineer of the tanker said the attack came without warning about The ship was struck by two and perhaps three he and was bombarded by about 50 The British air ministry said the heaviest blows were rained on the Mat ford Works at eight miles west of which had been rolling out 20 trucks daily for the German war 15 BOMBERS developed very rapid methods of i if he could make it through ters in which the Japanese were TAILED IN PURPOSE attacking Although Germany has suffer Can Bulkeley answered ed heavy Uboat casualties thus it is history that he ai the rate of sinking has not slowed the present Uboat cam and would be of dubious effectiveness against a more in tense Even the Germans have fail ed to divert naval strength from more vital to form convoys in American waters second line in the ocean bat The number craft sunk off the Atlantic and Carib bean coasts is approaching the 80 though the journey was MacArthur is delighted with the cooperation he has received in Australia and is as confident as ever that the can be stopped and Just before he left the Philip pines he staged several attacks which pushed the back on Pape 4 V Soldiers Begin Sending Mail Minus Postage April thousands of soldiers RAF fighter planes also particularly in the and is dei are stationed at nearby Fort Jack ed in Belgium and new methods of locating only about 50 took advantage land destroying Placing yesterday of the new privilege of The air ministry acknowledged but this rale might prove 15 RAF bombers were missing far from crippling in view of the j from raids that tremendous shipbuilding program ed into west and northwest Gerj and development of land trans many as well as into the Paris rei facilities to bear some A German communique said j of the 11 British bombers were down over the Reich shot The United States is making large increases in patrol northern L On the Russian army planes on the patrol under sending their mail Hitlers field headquarters command of the Navy has The privilege was announced rd that German troops had taken j stimulated the submarine Tuesday night by the post office the offensive in the Leningrad Further large increases in the tor and that German artillery patrol await only the delivery of The envelopes must bear the heavily bombarded military instal antisubmarine craft and the 1 word free in the upper right Tations in the suburbs of Lenin training of j hand corner and in the lefthand forward of the bridge on the port setting the bridge It was followed almost immediately by a second which struck just be hind the amidships the chief engineer The crew abandoned ship with in a few minutes after the j ini m The submarine then rose to the on the long front i Naval emphasized surface and shelled the high command acknowledged coni Continued on 3 FIGHT JUST BEGINNING Soviet The Leningrad front drew ma attention from the Soviet formation Red Army troops were said to have effected a number of successful operations there in the last two days and annihilated about on Pape 2 j corner the rank and branch of ser vice of the The order does not apply to air mail or parcel post Three Prisoners Who Escaped Last Sunday Captured April on officials announced today the recapture of three more of the 12 prisoners who escaped Sunday by sawing through bars at the state penal camp in Catawba The three were listed by Penal Director Oscar Pitts as Jake of sentenced in Cabarrus in to seven to 10 years for rob Captured last night in Stanly County by county and prison of William Gut of Wil sentenced in Guil ford in to seven to 10 years for armed robbery and also wanted in caught yesterday by local police in And Robert of Con sentenced last February in Cabarrus to one year for break entering and Captur ed in Concord yesterday by On two other members of the original group of 12 were nabbed in commit lee recommended I that the WPB a section charged with overall planning for aircraft headed by a trained production executive drafted from the The subcommittee had been the report that the WPB still does not have a single top notch aircraft produc tion man in its The report recommended also that instead of wasting its ener gies on a generalized all out which has confus ed labor and the the WPB concentrate its efforts on breaking those bottle necks which in the aircraft in dustry to the subcommittees cer tain knowledge and probably in Washington By RAY TUCKER KNOCKOUT President Roose velt deserves the chief credit for tho offensive spirit and action which the United Nations sea and land forces have recently from Thailand to Pending the formation had been recommended by Trial of a second elaborate front against Judge Paul Frizzelle and by j Germany or in staff con Solicitor Chester with the British and his In his commutation I own aides he has insisted on dam the governor said the prosecuting aging raids and witness is now confined to an the Allies can estab Sanc and in view of an effective battie line in mental I think it would I he or Scandinavia be dangerous to exact the death upon I penalty on her and night they are scanning re ports on the training of new sol the production of COMMANDS FREE FRENCH April Rear Admiral has been Eleven Norwegian Ships Attempt To Dash Through Nazi especially planes and the j commander of Free French have sunk at least launching of ships required to j naval jn succession to Adi carry an invasion Army to Emile the Free ships which risked French prcs enemy Mean has called for tac tics designed to demoralize the military and civilians of the Axis nations more to destroy their spearheads for a summer The in China the British Commandos on Treasury experts expressed the the European coast line and His unofficial opinion today that fac fleet units in the Medi tories and other businesses could have executed this deduct blackout or bomb shelter DEDUCTION April of maneuver in recent Gen eral Mac Arthurs outfits are pre April German warships blocking the Skagerrak were declared today to have sunk at two of 11 Brit merchant a daring dash announced io England from and although several others were reported turned back the ity was held out that some might yet be at large and racing toward BLINDING SNOWSTORM The merchantmen which slipped out of Goteborg in a blinding snowstorm Tuesday night ran into a blockade of Nazi warcraft which had laid in wait for them since the Germans found them the ships through action in the Swedish From the storie of fishermen in computing their in come householders could two more were said to be perhaps At least two large cargo vessels and residents of the little coastal j were given at least a fighting towns which shook chance of breaking Fish Tuesday night and said they were last seen Swedish newspapers compiled and racing record of the fate of the ships for the open Two of the the Norwegian official circles said whale oil ship skytteren and Buccaneer and the Buc been sunk by a German des were sunk by German and four armed fire almost as soon as they passed two ships which turned back the territorial limit outi and regained tho safety of Gote borg harbor were identified as the One ship went aground one was Lionel and the burning at sea and perhaps sank cut off from hope of turned back into a I even the experts can Day Continued Page selves unable to seize control of I ish port yesterday At A Vichy reaching Lon on Page 2 other really holding up peak Reviewing the production of the committee said evidence gathered by its sub committee indicated is still something seriously wrong in the light metals section of the War Production successor to the old OPM which failed so miserably to anticipate and pre pare for the greatly Increased de mand for these LABOR RELATIONS GOOD The committee said that its in of ship building work had disclosed truly amazing progress in erecting com that labor relations in the plants it visited were excel The committee found that em ployes in most West plants were working 48 hours a that comments of several executives indicated that the over time pay for the 8 hours over 40 was figured as part of weekly earnings and that if it were it might be necessary to in rate to provide ap proximately the same weekly Visiting Guayule rubber plant ings at the commit tee said it found that there was not now sufficient seed to make possible production in quantities sufficient to alleviate the rubber shortage within three or four TO RETIRE April President the White House disclosed has agreed to the retirement of Alexander ambassador to now in this coun try on asked permission to retire effective upon expiration oe the
