High Point Enterprise, The (Newspaper) - September 14, 1942, High Point, North Carolina THE WEATHER Point and SLIGHTLY THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE Keep Flying Buy Bonds and Stamps 255 NBA HIGH MONDAY SEPTEMBER WIDE WORLD 8KBVICK PRICE FIVE CENTS AZIS LAUNCH ALLOUT RUSSIA EFFORT And Russian Bombers Raid Germany with fortified bor many hidden air bolts SOVIET RUSSIA X W tip Ji DINNER I MONGOL A to have mil Siberia in inner Mongolia and Yellow Sea Sea of Japan Superior could attack oil exposed Soviet Futan ii Troop Threats Threats Sea Threats fast China Sea KYUSHU of Sorfer 193141 THREEWAY JAP WAR THREAT HANGS OVER by land and ty Japan threatens a attack on Russias far eastern prov A network of railways in Manchukuo p fast potential lighting and superior Jap naval and air forces might overwhelm Soviet soldiers in Allied bombers at Vladivostok would have only 500 miles to fly to raid For Lo years prior to Pearl Japan and Russia clashed often on the but both sides avoided actual In past months the coming of conflict to has seemed unavoidable because Germany in never en security in her conquests with the Soviet a constant threat at her he War Today By DeWITT I Wide World War Analyst Disclosure that the Nazis lave developed three new for use against the including a substra bomber capable of from a height of lends substance to Berlins threat last week mat Germany is preparing to Japs Held At Bay 40 Miles North Of Port Moresby For Fourth Day By Allied Forces By The Associated Press GENERAL Austra forces held the Japanese invader at bay 40 miles north of Port Moresby for the fourth successive day 1 yesterday while medium bombers dropped 17 tons of bombs on the Japanese base and airfield at Lae and Flying Fortresses attacked three enemy merchant ships and a cruiser off Guineas a communique said General MacArthur reported Bremen Again Hit In Heavy RAF Assaults Bucharest and Ploesti Oil Regions of Rumania Attacked In Twin Blow By The Associates Press ish and Russian de livering a new twin blow to the flanks of the Axis miles smashed at the Northwest German port of Bremen last night in a RAF attack probably hundreds of planes and raided Bu charest and the Ploesti oil re gion of Rumania from bases deep in Lone flying British bombers were back over northwestern Germany again at dawn in follow up the Air Ministry re announcing a total loss of 19 British The Air Ministry said the 100th attack of the war on Bremen was delivered by a very strong a phrase which was taken here to indicate that bombers by the hundreds were RAGING FIRES Returning pilots reported visi bility through rifts in the light clouds was good and said they un loaded their tons of explosives over the Weser River port by the light of raging fires whose red glow they could see for 100 miles on their flight back to The Berlin broadcasting the German said Russian bombers were over east em Germany during the same and quoted dispatches from Bucharest that the Rumanian and the Ploesti region to the north were attacked by Soviet The dispatches described the attacks as ineffective and said Bucharest had two alarms during the night and some bombs were dropped but that no damage was site of important sub marine building yard and the launch unprecedented raids over Theres no reason to doubt that threat accurately describes ie of the Fuehrers objectives und that he is getting set for the To my doesnt tell the whole for the indications are we also may expect a terrific dog fight for supremacy of the air over OX SPOT The steadily increasing British And American strength has put Jhe Nazi chief on the a nasty one it The already super though not the and he must answer lis Allied challenge to domina two reasons His vital industrial centers ire being devastated cally by Royal Air Force and American bombing on a big his rail transport is be ing cut to Thats a iad loss of essential and lack of trans facilities for the supplies still If Hitler is to protect himself against a iand invasion of western he must control the I just as the Allies must control it lif they are to put an expeditionary larmy He certainly doesnt that patrols were active both sides in the Owen Stanley moun tain region the Japanese have been stalled in their attempt ed advance on Port but the situation remains un In the air war against one Allied bomb blew the stern off air a Japanese vessel near Is iand in the Tanimbar Island group between Australia and New Guinea and she was loft in a sink ing the communique Another ship was with fire in the same raid and farther off the Kai Is still another Japanese ship was bombed with unknown Flying Fortresses found a Japa nese and destroyer south east of New Britain on the eastern side of New Guinea nnd despite weather conditions and intense antiaircraft fire attacked the Results could not be it was All the for tresses returned Allied medium bombers attack ed Lae twice within a few minutes and the 17 tons of bombs dumped on Page 2 Revolts Cast Threat Of New Waves Terror Senate Gets To Provide FDR Powers man reports of a revolt in Bul garian Macedonia and the mation of a state of siege in j Skoplje in f o r m er Yugoslavia aroused fear in Yugoslav ment circles today that a new j Axis wave of terror against the civilian population in that area might be j The which came from i German circles in was received with extreme suspicion by these who pointed out there was nothing to indicate any serious defection among the Bul garian people It is not doubted here that sen timent for the Russians is still Strong among the Bulgarian peas ants and possibly in the It was conceded this Slavic bond of sympathy might facilitate Russian on Pace 3 WASHINGTON By RAY TUCKER Some lime ago 17 August WHIRLIGIG re it God help and This instrument no better de scriptive term can be used without airplane was last bombed September The Germans radio acknowledg ed that British raiders had caused material damage and destruction to particularly in resi quarters in an attack on a harbor not oth identify the An authoritative British state ment said Last night a very strong force of our bombers went to northwest their main was heavily Nineteen bombers are It was the first RAF attack on Germany since last Thursday when Duesseldorf was blast ed by a powerful force of air RUSSIAN BOMBERS The BerHn radio also disclosed that Russian bombers had been over eastern but said they had caused only slight dam age at isolated Both the Berlin and Vichy ra dio stations reported that Buda on Page 5 States Middle Belt Bringing Good Averages By the Associated Press Karly sales on North Carolinas middle tobacco belt averaged be tween 39 and 43 cents a pound to day for offerings that for tho most part were of medium There was little evidence that farmers were concerned with eith er the recently established price ceiling or probable ceilings al parity prices on all farm products They were generally The Commodity Credit Corpor unconcerned with ceilings and assigned the task of buying for Americas was reported buying Buyers for do companies were forcing up the Prices were high at Louisburg where an unofficial calculation put the average at cents for the first of Fuquay Varina reported the Would Authorize President To Stabilize Farm Prices Legislation specifically authorizing President Roosevelt to stabilize wages and salaries as of August 15 and farm prices at levels not below parity was introduced today in the Senate in response to the Presidents demand that Congress act by 1 to control Offered by Chairman Wagner DNY of the banking commit tee and Senator Brown pilot of previous administration price control the reso lution would give the President broad power to deal with all other factors involved in the cost of liv Brown explained that the does not require that prices for agricultural commodities go to but that commodities now below parity would be subject to natural economic The provides that the price ceiling shall not be fixed below the higher of these two alternatives The parity price or a com parable price where one has been or The highest market price be tween 1 and The President could suspend section three of the price control act which prohibits the fixing of a ceiling on agricultural prices un til they reach 110 per cent of par In the case of other prices that in the cost of living Brown said there probably would be little change made from the March lev els at which Price Administrator Leon Henderson has already fixed President knows what is in the we consulted fully with the President on it and I think it is a conformity with the Presi dents Brown Wagner announced that the banking committee would open hearings tomorrow and that they probably would last two or three In wages and Brown said the President would be authorized to take into account substandard conditions and to cor rect any gross inequities that might British Forces Drawing Near Capital In Madagascar Drive British announced today the cap ture of 150 miles by road northwest of capital of and infor mation reaching some military quarters here indicated that ad vance forces had pushed on to within 100 miles of the By this account the British al ready had covered fully half of the distance to the miles air line from the northwest Madagascar port of one of three landings which the Brit ish made last Thursday in an ef fort to use of the French island by the Weekend reports placing the British 70 miles or less from Tan were A communique said the forces pushing into Madagascar from three directions were making good and that besides cap turing advance de were moving on across the mountains to the southeast to ward about 125 miles north of the capital on another The Allied forces which landed farther south at Morondava were reported meeting little ot no op position on the advance rom on the northwest another column was report d making good progress south force prices below parity He could agricultural The general effect of this limita Brown would be to keep on Page 2 V 7 New Pipe Line Approved For Guilford Area of Commerce Jesse Jones announced today that the defense plant corporation would finance construction of a 8inch pipe line from Greens to a point near Rich The pipe which will cover 175 wili have a capacity of about barrels daily of gas oline and light prod and is expected to be in operation in about four The line will be constructed of secondhand pipe together with a privately financed cedar line now being built from the area of Texas to Baton provide a through pipe line movement to the east coast of petroleum prod originating In the coast It will be built by the plantation pipe line a Delaware but will be owned and operated by defense plant The plantation company has a line from Baton Rouge to Greensboro with a daily capacity of This will be increased barrels daily by installation of additional pumping stations along this The force advancing from encountered resistance from Vichy forces at a bridge over the river but this was over come The defending forces had drop ped the middle span of the sion bridge into the river to hold up the The most serious fighting for the British possibly was still ahead of for the plateau on which Tananarive is located is said to be the best defended area of It is approached by winding The second column was coming up from the southwest of Tanan arive after landing at on the west coast more than 350 miles airline below Sundays communique said it was proceeding satisfactorily to ward 200 miles airline each of Morondava and IOC miles below but its exact location was not A third which went into action in northern was disclosed to have occupied Ambanja on Saturday after over coming slight No cas were reported from either A delayed message said British troops toop Majunga in a three hour fight before breakfast on the first day of the campaign The total cost to both sides there was given as between 30 and 40 President Says Little More Than Half Maximum War Production Is Being Felt By The Associated Press WASHINGTON told Con gress today that the United States was producing only a little more than 50 per cent of its maximum possible war produc tion and solemnly warned until we have reached we can do this only by stripping our civilian econ omy to the our fighting men and those of our Allies be as sured of the vastly greater quan tities of weapons required to turn the Not until then can the United Nations march forward together to certain The Presidents statement was in a letter transmitting the sixth quarterly report in which he spoke of Britain as an offensive The report show ed such aid to the British com of nations and 35 other countries during the 18 months since the program began totaled with actual ex ports amounting to Fn the same time coun tries purchased worth of including muni from this help is now being provided at the rate of a with the maximum aid possible under 5 separate ap propriation acts reaching almost At the report about 35 per cent of exports were going to the United 35 per cent to and 30 per cent to the Middle Australia other Aid to it was has been limited by the difficulty of but the develop ment of other means of transpor tation will relieve this The President said in his letter deliveries of which have been will have to grow much larger We and the other United Na tions all the weapons that al on 3 Hershey Sees Early Drafting For Young Men ASBURY 14 General Lewis national director of se thinks the war is getting closer to married men with children and to youths of IS and We cant call a recess in this war until people grow Gen eral Hershey told New Jersey Le referring to forecasts that the younger men would be drafted Prospects of a very large mobilization seem in the cards for next He predicted that the manpower needs of global war would result in husbands with dependents and war produc tion workers being called to We will have o come to the realization that there are not enough single that there are not enough married men without dependents for the mobilization between ten million and thir teen million in the United On the question of drafting war he said If Hitler landed on the beach this there would be no question in industrial plants within one thousand miles of here who they could spare for the mili tary General Hershey described cism of selective service boards throughout the country as on 2 Sweeping New Labor Law by Vichy Government Is Expected To Provide Workmen For Germany I useful in the higher interests of revealing its characteristics is j three of medium qual employes were ordered to stand by today to assemble crews of for ship ment to a sweep leral commander of j developed a secret weapon I Army Air in might change tho whole our Flying are character of and shorton the the key to aerial t officers For long weeks Hitler has confirmed lhe announce by in apparent meekness land seen his resources disappear in the deluge of Allied bombs he the Morning newspapers broke the news of the new law to the peo pla under single column heads and in second position to Ions accounts Flying our finest was and which the Vichy government inti of fighting in the British t f niiT 111 T l A t ti i 1 J 1 1 IV VI J v dominate it and Major Gen that the States had more than sold cents a Tue jnR new labor law n t f fl Hi Vin CT riff Ol I i n AA TI rt r r ii Untrained persons may be com to attend vocational schools which employers are obliged to set A semiofficial statement said the measure was dictated by hard both national and in and newest Blanks or mir 1 pounds were on thr mated it had decreed to avert the advance in Madagascar and Mar and that labor would j possibility of even more stringent trip Saturday to the i bo called upon to mako many sue It will give a grand i ache to the hostile Fresh German Troops Hurled At Stalingrad Red Forces Holding Against Assaults From Tanks and Armored Units By EDDY GILMORE Fresh hordes of Nazi troops smashed today at the ap to Stalingrad in an obvious allout effort to storm the city whatever the cost in but the Russians said that after yielding precious ground the Red Army halted and pushed back a new pene tration southwest of the Both to the west and southwest the Germans were pouring tanks and armored cars and new re serves into the bloody but the midday communique in the Russians were hold CRUCIAL TEST Earlier the Russians had report ed the capture by the Germans of an unidentified populated place southwest of From all reports it was apparent that the crucial test for the beleaguered city was at The German high command an Sunday that German troops were fighting in the south ern streets of Stalingrad and that siege lines about the city had been A soviet tank detachment was credited with halting the German penetration of the Russian po sitions southwest of the lower Volga After the Germans had broken the Russian tanks moved into the knocked out five German tanks and eleven armored cars and supported the infantry in restoring the Soviet the Soviet information bureau West of tho city loo the Rus sians were held on the defensive by masses of troops and tank In one phase of this fight ing described by the communique seven German tanks wore reported disabled by artillery and antitank fire while 13 others turned and In the central the Russians said their forces in tRe Mozdok sector had halted the Ger man drive toward the Grozny oil fields but that the Nazis were bringing up strong reinforcements and that a new assault was ex The Red army was fighting handtohand over a broad area west and southwest of Pravda said in a front BOMBING PREVENTED German air units which went up to bomb the Russians were forced lo turn back without carrying out their mission when it became ob vious that bombing of the massive struggle below would destroy Germans as well as it was Pravda said the present battles were as bloody as any so far ex A bitter fight apparently has developed in the area cast of Leningrad where the Rus sians seem to be trying to ease the position of Leningrad in prepara on 1aee 6 WarLike Mood On Axis Urged By India Party NEW A committee of the Hindu Mahas largest political party in called upon the British government today to take the in without further delay to bring Indians into a warlike mood against the The committee acted after ap pealing to the British for permis sion to see Mohandas spiritual leader of the AllIndia National but it held lit tle hope that this request would be Gandhi has been in Brit ish custody since starting his pas sive resistance campaign against British Hindu leader and Bengal finance minister who called a conference of the told the group that representative In dian bodies from all over the try had responded to his proposal to bury the ratchet until after the The unofficial average at San action by the I main I but it recalled that has seen some of his proudest I Cities all but wiped Only last I Bight a strong force of British on 2 S menl made exclusively in this col The writer has this mys thing in He of reveal its de power because the un listed device will not roach volume production for some When Censor Price headed the Associated Press office in New York before Presi dent Roosevelt drafted him for his present His assistant is John an executive of the rival I Scripps Howard o r g a n i Continued on S J ford hovered around 39 to 40 cent Subject to the law are all The text of the decree appeared more measures have Ivon to the lost Byron j a pound for mostly lugs and bodied Frenchmen hot worn tho on inside pages of the j taken in other countries of very commit toe 1 I Quality was mostly medium with a large quantity of good anil better grades mixed One farmer at where pounds were in the on 6 ages of 18 and 50 and unmarried morning Thr effective with its pub this also pro vides total state control of em French women between 21 and Persons in these categories unable to prove they are engaged in work useful to the nerds may ployment and working be drafted to effect ail labors giving the government power to which the government will judge fixe salaries and working The present it put the British government here and the said in a and call upon them to part with will power and not to persist in an au us to prevent their hemp extended to This may have been a reference on Page 2 attitude to force down a scheme which has been hatched behind our backs 000 miles away without any refer ence to the people of I
