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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1942
Page
2
North Carolina will stay cold with lower tonight temperatures after snow showers in the mountains earlier. South Carolina continues very cold with slightly cooler temps tonight. Georgia remains rather cold with scattered frost in the trucking region tonight.
Chicago based former Northwestern halfback from 1936 to 1938, Bernie Jefferson, now a physical education teacher, passed the Army Air Corps physical and mental examinations with an exceptionally high score.
The Atlantic and Mediterranean battles widen as victory in all seas is seen as key to World War II success. German U boats push raids, threatening Allied shipping and coastal routes. Japan may extend raids to Indian Ocean lanes as Java falls. London warns of a grand assault on Ireland to cripple transportation.
The article chronicles February 1942 losses of WWII destroyer Jacob Jones and earlier related ships. It notes the Truxtun and Pallex disaster off Newfoundland with 18 percent crew losses, the Jacob Jones sunk by a submarine off Cape May with 11 survivors, and details the ships' World War I namesakes, commander Lieutenant Commander Black, and the naval context of German U-boat threat.
Mrs Ida Elizabeth Greene of 312 Greer Street has received word from the War Department that her son Edgar James Green 1st Class Seaman on the Destroyer Jacob Jones is missing. Green was a student at the Mills Home in Thomasville until a few years ago.
General MacArthur reported that ten thousand Moro tribesmen in Lanao province vow to resist the Japanese with no mercy. Captain Datu Gumbay Piang led twenty thousand Moros in Cotabato to enlist as base men of the U S Army. The piece also notes Parris Island as the site of France’s early stronghold in the United States built by Jean Ribaut in 1562.
Captain Taylor Branson once led the U S Marine Corps Band and played at White House receptions for 32 years. Corporal Harvey L Miller, a Marine, has served as boxer referee coach manager promoter and sports editor and is vice president of the National Boxing Association.
The sinking hit the forward bridge and crew asleep in the forward compartments. A second torpedo struck the stern as depth charges exploded, leaving only survivors in the amidship section except one from the after engine room. Lieutenant Commander H. D. Black led the ship. next of kin have been notified.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau outlines a broad wartime tax plan raising income rates with a 1 percent starting tax and a 90 percent top rate over five million dollars. It preserves standard exemptions but removes the earned income credit, advocates joint returns for married couples, and caps estate and gift taxes while revamping corporate taxes and adding new excises.
Tokyo reports Allied ships sunk in naval fight in the Java Sea between February 27 and March 1. They list six cruisers eight destroyers seven submarines one gunboat and one minesweeper sunk, with one Japanese minesweeper and one destroyer damaged. The U S heavy cruiser Houston is cited among ships sent to the battle. Dutch losses reported as 27 ships sunk or heavily damaged.
The Dutch acknowledged the loss of two cruisers and two destroyers as United Nations losses, while Japan listed additional sunks including Exeter and Perth. The Japanese claim the heavy U S cruiser Augusta survived the prior action off Java, and that the Dutch cruiser De Ruyter was not sunk but Tromp fell to the Japanese.
Burma separation from the Netherlands East Indies leaves land sea and air command with the Dutch. Wavell hints at possible dominion status for India as a result of nationalist momentum. Allied leaders King and Marshall announce plans for an intensified offensive and expanded sea air routes. Donald M. Neilson urges wartime production boosts of 25 percent in 1942.
Java battle reports say Dutch American and British forces repulse three Japanese beachheads. Navy fighters were shot down as they attempted takeoff while defenders maintain air superiority and strong lines around Batavia and Bandoeng. Reinforcements, especially air support, urged to prevent Java loss.
Stephens College home economics students in Columbia Missouri publish ten vitamin saving rules to protect defenses during wartime. They urge not to overcook vegetables and to heat canned goods quickly, avoid soda with greens, refrigerate and use outer leaves, and eat peels where vitamin content is high. Recipes include onion pepper tuna bake with cheese swirls, claiming vitamins A B C D and G.
G. S. Marine Corps aviators fought malaria in 1929 Haiti by dropping Paris Green insecticide over mosquito-prone areas. The operation targeted disease reduction and relied on aerial dispersal to cover hard to reach zones.
The late Smedley D. Butler was the youngest officer aged 48 to be commissioned major general in the U.S. Marine Corps. The text notes the new U.S. Marine Corps Base area at New River North Carolina includes a town named Marines and mentions a CG.
A bridge near Tientsin China is called Butler Bridge in honor of the late Maj. Gen. Smedley D Butter of the U S Marines who supervised its construction.
U S Marines in Nicaragua 1929 face finger dipping with mercury chrome to stop multiple votes. A sergeant Henry H. Fricke notes a family link to Nazi forces in Germany. The report places activity near Blora on the coastal railroad about 85 miles west of Surabaya and mentions a Bantam district location near Batavia.
SAN FRANCISCO March 3 A wider border inland from 95 to 250 miles along the Arizona Mexico line was designated military area No 1. Enemy aliens and American Japanese may be excluded or movements restricted. General De Witt announced evacuation plans for Japanese and other aliens. Immediate mass evacuation is impracticable but future orders will require all Japanese to vacate the area. Public proclamation numbers and further measures followed, with no immediate evacuation.
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