High Point Enterprise, The (Newspaper) - June 3, 1942, High Point, North Carolina WEATHER Weather Point and Men either late this after Boon or THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE KEEP FLYING 154 ASSOCIATED SERVICE HIGH WEDNESDAY JUNE 1942 WORLD FEATURE SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS BRITISH SLASH AT AXIS IN LIBYA AS BIG BOMBERS AGAIN ROAR OVER ESSEN THE WAR TODAY By DeWITT World War Analyst X Chinese Recapture Cologne Essen And after hati Some twentyone years ago he late General Gulio Dou one time head of Italys advanced a which has come to ear his name that a na iori could be forced to sur in fortyeight hours hrough systematic ion of its cities by waves of nemy he gave a hypothetical picture of and Belgium being under in two days by a nighty German air idea was that as city after city the morale of the would go to and he government would lose all con Said he It will not be long before the driven solely by an in of will de mand cessation of hostilities at any CIVILIANS SUFFER The general admitted that in order to effect such destruction t would be necessary lo ignore the safety of civilian he maintained that such deaths couldnt be avoided in mod ern during the frightful months of August and September iwo years after the collapse of it looked as though Hitler was going to demonstrate in large degree the Horrible and devastation from the clouds seemed that tortured nerves ot people of Britain could stand no But they turned their brave faces to the skies and defied the It seemed thai Hiller had shown us the limit of bombing But two years have brought great and we now see far more powerful air fleets carrying to German cities the catastrophe of which Douhet A huge portion of the ancient Rhenish city of Cologne lies and the are said to run to big Rhineland Heavy Rains Hinder Japs On East Coast House Votes War Against Three Balkan Countries Chinese Cut Triangular Chunk From Flank Of Japa nese Lines In Chekiang V By The Associated Press Chinese dispatches reported today that Generalissimo Chiang armies had cut a triangular chunk from the flank of the Japanese lines in Chekiang province with the recapture of 45 miles northwest of Kinhwa and said heavy rains were bogging the Japanese invasion of Chinas east Serious difficulties still con fronted the Chinese in lower Che as Japanese col battled the defenders only 12 miles northeast of the impor tant city of 45 miles of the Jap provincial j While armies struggled to stem the British For eign Secretary Anthony Eden told i parliament in London that Britain and the United States were send ing China all war rials which it is possible lo supi ply amid other urgent ments and difficulties of trans The United States yesterday signed an agreement bringing j China into the bloc oft allies on virtually the same basis as Other developments Madagascar Frances Vichy government announced that Brit ish troops had moving on the French island of off the coast of Southeast and had oc the town of No fighting was mentioned in the but air activity was said to have increased on both RAID JAP BASES Douglas Mac June ff The House of Representatives voted without a voice be ing raised in lo add Hungary and Rumania to the list of countries with which the United States is at The resolutions declaring war will be acted on tomorrow by the which was in recess to There was no debate or dis cussion as the resolutions were disposed of in as routine a manner as if they had been minor GAY ATMOSPHERE In sharp contrast to the som ber atmosphere that prevailed when three previous declara tions were Germany and House was as it went about the work of officially labeling the three Axis satellites as Uncle Sams Members talked and milled around and there was so much confusion in that respect that the clerk had difficulty at times hearing roll call Speaker Rayburn announced the vote on the Bulgarian reso lution as 357 to Miss Jean nette Rankin who cast the only vote against the against Japan last De and who later voted present on declaration against Germany and was not on the floor when the first roll was cabled Evidencing the same representatives promptly started voting for war against All three of the na tions have declared war against the United and dent Roosevelt yesterday recom mended that this nation recognize the existence of a state of Rayburn announced the vote on the Hungarian declaration as 359 to with none voting The Rumanian resolution came The in recess arranged to vote on the resolu tions Discontinuance Of CCC Voted House Committee Edwin Gill Has f I Free Hand In Revenue Badoglio Protests Subordination Of Italian Officers Program For Production Of Steel Cut Material Shortages Will Pare Steel sion Program Menaces Axis Supply Lines London Admits Has Mopped Up British Forces in Sector Nazi Planes Wreak Vengeance on Canterbury Fight ing Rages Near Leningrad By Associated Press War Editor Britains desert armies lashed out on the offensive with a thrust against the Axis in North Africa today while June RAF perhaps 400 battered the great German previously foundries city of Essen for the second time in 24 ned steel ex London military quarters acknowledged that Axis troops program will be cut 30 to 35 per two top war production officials ed because of material American industry in general must prepare to patch and pray i to keep its existing equipment at said William in a press conference at which he gave a frank and re view of the looming j shortages of copper and other war Ball is chairman of the WPB requirements He was at the conference by newly named director of WPB materials had mopped up British forces in a sector of the British defense line in but declared the Axis supply line was seriously endangered by a thrust to Rotunda June state paroles commissioner since today Tiad a free hand to reorganize the State Department of Governor an nouncing the appointment of Gill as revenue commissioner succeed ing Allen said that the new money division chief would be given an reported v frcc hand to make personnel residents reportedly are seeking j that bombers had inflicted safely in panicky The i heavy new blows on Japanese city of with racks and other targets on enemy bases north of neighboring city its vast Krupp armament held invasion a similar and Hitlers main source of A communique said United munitions has been given a terrific blasting ONLY THE BEGINNING And this is only the beginning of a systematic destruction of Ger man one by British Premier Churchill has promised and has added grimly that the assault will be intensified when American air joins the Royal Air Force in this un precedented To what ends will such power carry Right here I think we should regard with reserve predictions that the Anglo American air forces can reduce the Germans to impotence the of opening a second land front in Western That is assuming more than pre lient facts although theres no harm in hoping it may come German civilians tor the first time are being made to feel the weight of allout war such as their fuehrer thrust upon the They escaped manhandling in the and had hoped lo avoid it on a large scale in this Will German morale stand Ibis new Time alone will Who can say that human nerves can endure what hc allies arc now handing and undoubtedly will intensity What we do know is thai fierce and perhaps irreparable in the destruction of We lack details about hut the Ios of any considerable portion of this mainstay of German arms would be a major disaster for the ions airmen set huge fires at deep in the Solomon is ands off northeast and also who earlier had had a bitter exchange of words with office of Stale Auditor George Pou over the responsibility for the of recent short of former Revenue Depart s merit will head a new after becomes effective Ti assistant pa Ber volunteers were officially as with destroying 28 to 32 j paroles commissioner b the planes and making 12 The paroles commission s major attacks with a loss of only j chief lor William will succeed Maxwells had been widely predicted since a recent in of mishandling of pub lic funds in his department and the indictment and conviction of several former employes on em charges but Governor Broughton reiterated that there was nothing to reflect on Max wells six planes during CHINA RECEIVING ALL AID ALLIES CAN SUPPLY June eign Secretary Anthony Eden as sured the House of Commons today that Britain and the States were sending China all war materials which it is possi ble to supply in view of other urgent requirements and the of Appropriations Group Ap proves Huge Sum For Labor AP The House committee approved today a for the labor the so cial security board and related agencies after eliminating a fund for the Civil ian Conservation Chairman Cannon DMo of the committee said the members voted 15 to 12 to end the CCC program on a motion by Engel Hare chairman of the subcommittee which prepared the said the committee mem bers apparently believed that the CCC was no longer The which had been in the for the CCC itself was a of from the 1942 There were at of present fiscal the reduced appropriation was to have trimmed this to CCC insisted in testimony that the corps was necessary for work at army cantonments and for forest fire and argued that a on rage 3 June Tass dispatch from Geneva reported to day that a tetter complaining against the undignified nation of the Italian general staff to German command has been written to King Vittorio by Marshal b being cir among high Italian Would Double Size Of Navy June I can see times ahead when a TAl measure au shipway may Huge fires were said to have been left raging in Essens In a spokesman said the objectives of the terrific assaults on Cologne and the Ruhr had al ready been substantially achieved and declared that a total of RAF planes bombing Germany j each month was not a fantastic j We will repeat rhe dose and the will get the spokes man i In the House of Representatives voted war against Hitlers Balkan satel av io i construction of j die for lack 500 Hungary and Ru i ammunition mav nw ouu of steel and ammunition mav slow down for lack of copper and Batt Thus far the military has been able to dip into civilian he but this pool is nearly SHIPS IN CONVOY June States ships were included in the China recently has issued urgent large convoy which fought its way appeals for greater to Murmansk last though especially to help five days and of heav at bat powerful Japanese offensives I tacks by German dne bombers and torpedo on her east and The United States yesterday sighed an agreement with China bringing her into the cial circles reported Russian and British ships also were In the which bore in ii i it i 1111 w iv iv bloc of allies on virtually the same tanks and aircraft lo basis as Part Of Votes In Randolph Thrown Out June To these High Point boys who have died in the service ot their this city pays tribute and gives its JAMES GASH AW EDGAR JAMES GREENE SAMUEL WILLIAM WASHINGTON By RAV TUCKER DAMAGE Army concede in discus sions that a few sour ones have crept into the officers corps since the United States contracted to build most powerful mili tary But they maintain that commissioning of unqualified children of political and wealthy families has been checked by Sec In a sharp memo to the High Command many months the cabinet member declared thai he intended to adopt lofty ideals and standards established by his man instead of accepting an indi vidual simply because he wanted honor and glory for himself and The conscientious New Yorker for a while insisted that every applicant bo brought before him for personal But when rapid expansion of his unit made this task too he created an Officer Personnel Board consisting of some of our most exacting retired Their identity is kept secret so that the politicos and influential cannot reach and harass The few who slipped past the gacs did so before the issue of this Stimson In ho intervened because of their cail The Randolph County Board of Elections today ordered all votes cast in New Hope Town ship out because held that they had been improperly im pounded with the result that Lassiter led the sheriffs race in the county with votes just nine more than the second high man the developments in the political situation in Ran dolph was the resignation of as chairman of the countys board of elections and the ap pointment of a former chairman in his who was appointed by state elections board met with the two other board Burns and here this morning and decided not to count the New Hope Township vote they the in that town for which John Johnson is were improperly im New Hope Township is located just above the Montgomery County line on north of the old Russell i Marshal Badoglio was chief ofi the Italian general slaff for 15 years before his was announced during the Little has been heard of the warrior since his resignation but a report in to the New York Times last April said Badoglio was known in Rome as the official opponent of Pre mier Tass report quoted letter as expressing regret present of Italian general PUPPET was said to have point ed out that as a result of what he called the cooperation between the Axis armed Italian staff officer virtually were denied the possibility of planning inde their operations on the Mediterranean The news report said Badoglio declared that the Italian army has its own traditions and its own strategic principles under the present situation the Italian armed forces could not fol low these and princi It was said according to many Italian high cers share his lhat such a state of affairs may lead to the degeneration of the Italian Sometimes called the Italian Marshal Badoglio had supreme command of all three branches of the nations fighting forces before his communique announcing his re gave no saying only that il was on his own re Marshal Badoglio still was in the good graces of King Emanuele was indicated in a New York Times dispatch from Switzerland lasl April JS on Pace S Is Sunk Off Burma Merchant Vessel Ripped Open by Two Torpedoes From Axis Submarine June A British merchant shin was sunk several hundred miles of Ber muda May 20 by a submarine ripped hrr with two and to ire four as the crew lowered killing six of their num Details of daylight attack were told here by 15 survivors who seven days on the ocean in a lifeboat before they were picked up by another cargo The navy announced the sinking of the vessel n which would ionie close to doubling the of the United States fleet was drafted today liy Chairman Yin son DCa of he House naval CaG ANTIC PROG the for the pro a dissenting voice and without The Senate will act on the resolution lomor On he north African dis patches reported there was no sign letup in the terrific pace of Rotunda Axis miles of the ad pram ever authorized at one Axis aid that the CARRIED GUN CREW Crewman Sidney of lold newsmen the ship was armed and carried a gun crew of sailors and and said that the navy probably would he finished in the next 24 j The would call for 000 tons of aircraft tons of cruisers of both the light and 000 tons of destroyers and de stroyer escort and 800 small vessels for patrol and The new ships would be in ad dition to those already ed for In its lust official disclosure of strength in October of last navy reported 310 ships service and 847 The House appropriations committee sent to the floor to dav a supplemental marine corps and coast supply hill for in direct appropriations and in contract authori of which was earmarked for submarine Just how many this would provide for has never been disclosed but WITHDRAW TANKS Frontline dispatches said the Germans had now established a new alignment after withdrawing westward from a violent tank bat tle at 25 miles southwest of While the RAF blasted German night raiders again at tacked the ancient English cathe dral city of a Nazi communique The German high command ad that the British had caus ed considerable damage in an at tack on Ruhr Valley neighbor of and that the death toll at Cologne had risen to i Fires and smoke still shrouded on The ship listed so that gun crew was unable to train its deck gun on the undersea he i semiofficial estimates were that it would add upwards of 100 undersea raiders to the i House Group Urges Legislation Paying Fighters Families Three lifeboats were lai hut became separated the second day and the occupants of Bous fields boat did not sight the others There were 21 men in fields boat it was but five were killed and another fatally wounded by splinters from the submersibles which struck the sinking ship near the lowered The five bodies were buried at sea and that of the sixth who died shortly before he rescue vessel arrived was brought to Nor The ship went down 40 minutes on Page 3 FREE June Philadelphia was released from the Northeastern Federal Penitentiary on parole today because of his health after sening 23 months of a threeyear in the Individual income lax case on He left here just before 9 Associate Warden Alex ander disclosed after the Juslice at Washington an the publisher was being released immediately of on June 11 as originally Devastating Air Assaults May Make Second Front RV JOHN power alone was entirely fca forces need move in against June j Asserting that the time has now j come when many men with do i pendents must of necessity assume the responsibility of defending their the House Mili tary Committee pressed for pass age today of legislation making financial allowances for families of fighting EXPECT APPROVAL Chairman May said he hoped to win House approval by nightfall of a under which senice men with dependents would allot part of their pay to depen dents and the government would make supplementary In urging passage of the meas the committee emphasized did not intend to give local draft boards the that estab families should be indis uprooted and torn from their mooring solely because of the fact that their financial needs have been taken care some committee mem bers said that War De did not contemplate the drafting of family heads unless June I these were own First World War served Even the brass thp late Newton Besides i thai there are not fixing rigid and detailed moro than a score of these in a lo required that the government need and seek the Continued on Page Three Other results in the as result of throwing out of the New Hope Brad and Fred No announcement had born made today as to whether i run eft would be called for by the sheriffs Enthusiastic American hailing Britains massive bombing attacks on Germany as a demon stration of the true meaning of aerial predicted today that the growing might of British American air forces could reduce the Nazis to virtual military impo tence without the opening of a sec ond front on the The flaming devastation drop pqd on Cologne and these experts were only the prelim inary to a campaign of strategical bombing which the Some relief of pressure on the Russian by diverting Luft waffe strength to the protection of industrial Destruction of industrial cen such as the great gun works at Essen and the metal plants at so as to increas ingly difficult for the Nazis to re place their front line war ma OPINIONS DIFFER Beyond these the as to how lo conquer Ger many are split between those who IS c German war machine without the claim that American and British air power can do the whole aid of land Military men holding more tra concepts of warfare did not go nearly so far in thair ap of although they that attainment of immediate objectives by the use of and the more traditional strateg ists who it as an undertaking for cooperating air and ground The airmen more than nominal This they can be achieved by strategical bombing which they describe as an entirely new method of attack that the Germans only approached in their assault on England in the Fall and Winter of As authoritatively method works like this Suppose it is decided to inter rupt enemy production of heavy Plants in which bomber arc made and assembled are and the most vulnerable in the construction process is Perhaps it is found that that only four plants make under arc selected for at and either damaged or VITAL that if bombers cannot fly with job is left lo them the ground Continued on 1 absolutely future devel may make such action In lhat they pointed the legislation under would lessen finan cial The measure provides for lion of 520 from monthly pay if a service man in the to and including ser geants in the army and men of corresponding navy rank who have what the calls Class A These consist of a children or a former To the thus to his the government would add for a and 10 addi tional for each anJ in the case of minor dependents SIS for the Tirst child and for each additional A divorced wife entitled to alimony would re from the government 1 and from her former
