High Point Enterprise, The (Newspaper) - May 11, 1942, High Point, North Carolina THE WEATHER Weather Point Point and Little in temperature THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE 131 ASSOCIATED SERVICE HIGH MONDAY MAY 1942 WIDE WORLD FEATURE SERVICE PRICE FIVE CEI THE WAR TODAY By Wide World War Analyst Nipponese Lured Into Chinese Trap Japanese Troops Attempting to Reinforce Trapped j Column in Western Yunnan By SPENCER MOOSA May AP Japanese reinforce ments rushing to the aid of a trapped column of their com rades in western Yunnan Province were intercepted to day at 25 miles in side China on the Burma precipitating heavy a communique The original Japanese invasion which the Chinese pre reported they had killed said to be still sur rounded by the Chinese The communique confirmed Jap anese reports of the fall of alternate terminal of the Burma Road 170 miles northeast of Man and 250 miles north of Mandalay STRONG RESISTANCE The Japanese were said lo be attacking east of 125 miles southeast of striking at I British Premier Churchills broadcast last night strikes me as containing more really sunlit message of good as he called it than any of his previous which have borne heavily on the subject of blood and his summary of the military position the Premier really step ped rather heavily on the pedal and let the organ peal out a note of triumphant certainty that the Allies are marching to Churchill is conserva studiously avoiding exaggeration probably is one of the few things this pug statesmen is afraid is good to her him declare that we arc moving through many re verses and defeats to complete and final and then pro ceed to prove NOT ALL PLEASANT But Churchills talk wasnt all pleasant to the for he inject ed a horror into it by announcing lhat the Russians believe the Germans in the desperation of their assault may make use of poison gas against the armies and people of With that the Premier grimly warned Hitler that if the latter resorts to such the will use their great and growing air su in the west to carry gas warfare on the largest possible scale far and wide against mili tary objectives in Churchill said the British are re solved not to use this odious weapon unless it is first em ployed by the Knowing our he have not neglected to make preparations on a formi dable The danger lhat the Axis pow ers would resort to the use of poison gas if they became desper ate has always been in Allied j The great of j has been that they would start dumping it on in great British and Russian sus of of justified because it was the Ger mans who in the last World Wai violated international law and first employed gas against the Al The first effective use of gas in modern war was April Germans let it loose against unprotected French thereby eliminating all resistance on 3 Study Plans To orce Investment In War Effort May 11 Plans to compel every American wage earner to invest n part of his weekly pay check in the war were put forth in both branches of Congress Chairman George of the Senate Finance advo a withholding tax of from 5 to 10 per cent of all sal aries and white Gore came forth with a deduct a percentage of beginning with 6 per in the unmarried and ranging SETS UP SCALE The Gore which provides that money deducted be used to purchase War Bonds for the em would set up I he following scale in the lower brackets Weekly to per cent married to plus 7 per cent of amount over mar over to S per cent of amount over marj of the forces in plus S per cent of amount the Mindanao surrendered over j unconditionally last to plus 9 i the dispatch four per cent of amount over 550 days after the fall of all the forces in the Philippines have TOTAL OF 21 JAP SHIPS SUN INTERCEPT JAP REINFORCEMENT Indian Armies Preparing For Jap Encounter Three Armies Poised to Smash at Invaders British Bombers Raid Magwe By The Associated Press NEW May Sir Archibald Wavell poised three Indian armies to smash at Japanese invaders today as the Nipponese pushed north westward toward the frontier Japanese Radio Announcer Changes Tune When Bombers Fly Over Tokyo in Burma gather an Rangoon and continued to invasion fleet at for a descent on The following up blows of United States air which has sought to smash Japanese bases around struck again at just south of the yaung oil fields in Burma where the Japanese have occupied an air The Blenheim bombers scored hits on the communique his Wavell a DUTCH AND JAVANESE FLIERS TO TRAIN IN The communique said American pilot background shows the working dei command the Chinese were resisting tails of the latest type American training plane to Dutch and I from s had ben This indicated that another i Javanese flom Java who came to Maxwell Ala ministration to fighting pocket of the Chinese troops in under the general com mand of Joseph W still was fighting strongly in the area through which the Japanese swept swiftly last month in their thrust to capture and Lashio and invade Yunnan Earlier reports had indicated the Japanese in Yunnan province had been lured into a Chinese and that the defenders had slaughtered of the invading shock The Japanese had been reported reeling back from the invasion of closely pur sued and in peril of The Chinese announced last night that they had deliberately allowed the enemy to rush head long up the Burma Road into Chinas Yunnan then suddenly had smashed the to continue their training further away from Japanese Note the three different types of uniforms worn by the who are members of the first detachment to ar rive in this Winter Returns To Soviet War Front Soaked Roads Hampering Red Armys Offen sive Operations Fresh Clash Reported Be tween Rumanian and Hungarian Troops By HENRY CASSIDY May is having a final a at Soviet Russias northern and central fronts after wings and pounced on the main I playing the dominant part in the war for body of the invading force with an j the last five mv Sri H 3000 enc dispatches reported in fSt a snow in some sectors while cold rains were JAPS FACE ANNIHILATION they the routed Japa nese are facing certain annihila sandwiched between pursuers on the north and another Chinese to the south in east on Pne 4 Tokyo Says All Fighting Ended In Philippines TOKYO From Japanese Broad May Domei de clared in a broadcast tonight that the con quest of all the islands of the Phi by the Japanese forces now has been completely achiev Quoting a dispatch from Minda the Japanese agency said that Major General William described as commander in chief on V 2 3 Willkie Advises Seniors To Pick Leaders Carefully May make sure this war is not just another season of blood Wendell Willkie im Union College graduates today to defend your country not only with your guns but by your Speaking to a class of 166 sen the 1940 Republican candidate declared in a prepared address Leaders with out convictions who were think ing in terms of group vote catch ing betrayed the nation after the last As you may be on to give your very lives to pre serve your he For Gods elect to im portant office men who will not unkc a mockery of that Willkie called the lack of any continuity in our foreign policy the most obvious weakness in the Neither ma jor political party has followed a stable or consistent program of international cooperation in the past 45 he I Broughton Protests Rationing Of Gas In North Carolina falling as far south as the Kalinin more than 100 miles west of Soaked these advices were impassable at some limiting the Red Armys offensive i Local assaults the on both the northwestern i and central DRIVE NAZIS FROM Tn the Kalinin dispatches the Russians drove the Ger mans from a strategically impor tant hill with aerial bombing fol lowed by infantry forcing the enemy to abandon one of his main defense The Germans to take back the initiative three days ago in that military reports launching a frontal attack against Russian positions with a strong infantry force supported by 20 i Repeated Nazi assaults were re ported repulsed with heavy Ger man losses and the Red Army then The Soviet information bureau said the Nazis had been to winning the war and ters prepared to move wherever the enemy What formerly were the north northeastern and southern commands have been changed to the eastern and southern The bulk of the armies probably will be gathered into the last since those areas are the This marks an abrupt change from a or which assigned the strongest forces to the northwest to guard against raids by tribes men from north of Khyber The raid on Magwe was the second in two Returning from one oi the raiders was intercepted by a flight of Japanese fighter and was reported to have dam aged one of them in the ensuing The war bulletin said all the planes returned from the raid and other reconnaissance op over terri Eighteen Ships Sunk By During Past Week NEW May new Gulf of was added last week lo the four May sectors of Atlantic waters where in a telegram to 1 Axis submarines since Pearl Har May minute the radio announcer in Tokyo was detailing the pleas ures of life in Japan and the free dom from fear of And the next There between three and four thousand The Japanese people were asked to pray for rain to extinguish the fires and lo recrease the chance for further air That was what United States Army bombers reported hearing in their earphones as they ap and left Japan on the Saturday afternoon of April Fortyeight hours later the Tokyo broadcaster reported that the fires started during the raid then under fn its first communique giving Japan as the scene of the War Department yesterday broke a silence on the raids that brought a welter of panicky and contradictory reports from CLEAR WEATHER The question that has been haunting the Japanese ever since did they come from left pointedly The reporting that Army bombers had made the first attack in years on what the Japanese regard as the sacred soil of their said The was made in clear weather in the middle of the the planes flying at low altitudes so low that it was necessary to avoid barrage The se targets were unmistakable and were accurately attacked with demolition and incendiary naval and industrial plants were the objectives in the vicinity of and other Large fires were started which continued tO burn in some in stances for ai least two An interesting sidelight on the raid was the fact that as the planes approached a ganda broadcast in English was being transmitted by a Tokyo ra dio The announcer was detailing the pleasures of life in Japan and the freedom Crom fear of WARNING this program was cut and a warning was on 1 Calls On Hull To Talk About Martinique Price Administrator Leon Hender today protested the rationing of gasoline in North The governor declared that be cause of the pipelines which term in the state North Carolina should receive the same conces sions given to certain Atlantic seaboard states to the north of the middle and western portions of which states it is reported will not be subject to the rationing out that the capacity ics was 50 million gal lons per While stating that North Car would make every sacrifice I I 1 I L rt h I c ed in an attempt lo get behind Red on the Kalinin on 2 to is the essential governor Washington By KAV TUCKER BAD The American people face a Summer as a result of unpublicized military pians for rationing gasoline and requisitioning tires and A similar curtailment of passenger travel on busses and even trolleys will con tribute to a change in aspect of the social and economic landscape of the United cannot quite conceal the fact that newly revealed needs for a larger urged that the gasoline problem be treated as national and not sec He declared that the burden of limited use should be equally dis among all the j Broughton also reiterated a pro posal made previously by the inland waterway be used to transport oil and gasoline by hor have sunk an officially an total of 175 United Na tions In reporting IS new sinkings during the week of May the Navy said seven of these occurred off the east bringing the war for that region to 92 off Canada the total remained 24 in the Caribbean eight more made that war figure 46 off South America one sinking boosted that total to And in the Gulf of Mexico two ships fell prey to enemy sibles penetrating that body of water for the first Of the weeks 7 were two two Pan two one one one one Dominican and one Hon Malta Chief Is Sworn In Lord Gort Takes Oath of Office While Bombs Plaster island Stronghold May the thunder of bursting bombs and the chatter of machine Lord Gort was sworn in as governor and of Malta yesterday while RAF fighters battled Axi air raiders over this battered island strong The former chief of the imper Patience is called for at the mo I am trying to avoid compli French Ambassador Says This is No Time to Pour Oil On the Fire Bv The Associated Press May Gaston French ambassador to called at the State Depart ment today to present the Vichy governments views on United States proposals Jo safeguard French Caribbean possessions and commented that this is no time to pour oil on the The less I say today the he told newspapermen before meeting Secretary of State Allies Sink Two Off Australia Announcement of Losses Thought To Be Big Battle May Be R By The Associated Press J ALLIED May 1 a sequel to the great the Coral bombers dealt another to Japanese naval power by sinking or mg tuo enemy submarines northeastern eral tens announced The number of Japanese ve officially reported knocked bi action or badly crippled in theaTer in the pas seven thus was raised to a grand of Competent observers said were good grounds to believe the Allied announcements of anese losses so far had been and there has tie mention of Correspondents were infor that the enc force included transports and t when the full list of sinkings announced it might include transport Thus communiques have listed transports or supply and two Todays communique made first mention of Japanese subr CONSTANT PATROL Although the Allied naval fo United State were air forces on constant patrol for enemy al units that might have bee scattered and eluded the Whether the submarines wei part of the enemy fleet repu by Allied forces last week in Coral Sea was not butl was that the Allied 1 force was continuously those waters in search of scat on ft ia general staff took the oath of office in a building before a chief justice whose hand was bleeding from cuts suffered as the result of a bomb blast only n few minutes Once during the ceremony the high officials present flattened themselves on the floor as a bomb whistled down and exploded with a deafening road The intensity of the attack was indicated fay an official announce ment last night that 41 enemy air craft had been destroyed or dam aged during the day and the pre ceding Thirtythree of the total were bombers and the rest Twelve of the bombers and one fighter were definitely listed as shot and many others were believed so badly damaged they did not regain their Official were as a resuit of almost daily 75 per cent of the prop erty in Valletta was by refraining from com which might interfere with the adjustment of a NOT TO PROTEST The ambassador indicated that he had come to rather than to the American negotia tions which were opened directly Admiral Georges French high Senators Oppose Proposal To Seize Private Vehicles last He declined lo discuss the na ture of the American proposals or to disclose the attitude of the Vichy State Depart ment officials likewise have de to discuss details of the ne There was no definite word from Martinique as to Admiral Roberts reaction to the American offer to guarantee French sovereignty over the Caribbean possessions of France in return for peaceful co on Patre I Churchill Warns Germany Not To Use Poison Gas Against Reds May quota of tanks and planes have revised upward the require A copy of the wire was sent toi Minister Churchills brightest war merits for elastics and en gine parts obtainable in sufficient volume only from family It is almost impossible to con the prospective revolution in our normal living All out sports county community must be member of the North Carolina congressional War Under Secretary There will be no trips who heads the supply to shore or mountains or oven to a refuses to admit distant country Roadside cally that he has his on amusement parks md rural vato He simply warns us restaurants which have sprouted to give up our foolish driving i under a motorized economy must habits in order to conserve the COMMUNICATIONS SUDDENLY CUT OFF May Telephone communication between Germany and Sweden was cut off without explanation for nine hours Saturday Swedes recalled that the Gcr on many occasions in the in order to conserve the fold throwing millions of million ot rubber now rolling Even a crosstown spin in advance and at the around the countryside beneath join friends for an evening of time nrw war pleasure When he is bridge will impose too prent a Before they launched their in ed that the shortage of fuel alone will produce that he evades detailed questioning on the even more drastic But he strain on the gas Pressure vasion of Russia last for s summ on the rails and other forms of they interrupted com Continued on 3 i inn ions at least once a week for a period of a report so far was overshadowed to day by the terrible prospect of gas warfare which he raised yesterday with his warning to Germany that Britain and strike back formidably if the Nazis dared to start The British attitude was one of abhorrence for the use of gas but of confidence that Germany would invite disaster for her cities and people by starting had bet ter think twice as the Russians already have she is test ing it on the Crimean and that the Nazis knowl bombing edge of that so far has dissuaded sivc against of the Germany from courting even more wart defense a growing strength disastrous reprisal than that which has answered her introduction of bombing towns and merchant Speaking two years after the Germans had stormed across France to 20 miles from Englands when he could promise nothing but and tears amid the dark ness of western Europes Churchill yesterday gave Britain and her Allies what he called a well earned message of good RENEW WARNINGS h recalling sary as prime that Churchill accurately had foro He declared the awful seen events at hand in the ances took for granted that he spoke of we have only to endure and per an imminent They re severe to to civilians to Contrasted even with his last It was his second mighty allies j i bul one finally had turned and now of our Russian of the pation of of British and American in the Pa which he said would grip and hold the Among the most significant pas sages ULTIMATE VICTORY As in the last war we are mov ing through many reverses de feats to a complete and final vic We have only to endure and persevere to conquer Now we are not We have There can be ry cas and their military dwelt on Britains capacity lo wage such The Daily Mail said no power when he informed the British empire that Singapore had Churchill yesterday gave it heartening news from all contin was better equipped than Britain an impending mighty T wish to make it plain lhat we shall treat the unprovoked use of poison gas against our Russian ally exact ly as if it were used against ourselves and if we arc satisfied that this new outrage has been Page 2 1 May opposition appear to be developing in the Senate day against legislative prop which would permit the gove to seize privately owned One introduced by Downey would estal lish a fund stockpile of and by or Another by Senat Reynolds would fix a ru limit and authorize the goven ment to commandeer all found traveling at greater spee The owners would be paid their OPPOSE DRASTIC MOVES Senator Connally ind he opposed any such drast moves and declared the public r action would be terrible if son cars were requisitioned and were One of the principal motives the bills is to conserve the nation rolling stockpile of rubber tire on Page 1 V Ship Is Sunk Within Sight Of Atlantic Coast LAKE May British medium sized chantman attacked recent in broad within a mjj and onehalf of an Atlantic Beac by a daring Axis submarine the vessel was to at an east coast the Nav announced The explosion startled resident along the and hundreds c the curious congregated on shor to see the her stern deep i the before she was owe to Two men in the engine roor killed by a torpedo Thirty others escaped in life boa thai were towed quickly to shor by small fishing craft that put ou from Fourteen seamen rj mained on board with George
