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committeeman at this meet-
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celebrate his 84th birthday.
The News tenders its best wishes
and congratulations to a mighty
good citizen.
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day at the od Rhea homestead in
the Chalk Hill community on the
7th day of May, 1858, and if he
lives, and he contemplates he will,
until Thursday of this week he will
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CHICAGO (UP)—Grain futures
closed about steady on the board
of trade today.
Wheat was unchanged to up 1-4
cent a bushel; corn was off 1-8 to
up 1-8; oats unchanged to up 5-8:
rye uncchanged to off 1-8; soy-
beans up 11-8 to 2.
A resisting demand and short
covering operations helped check
the easy trend in the wheat pit in
quiet trading.
Corn and rye futures reflected
the easy tone in wheat pit.
CHICAGO. (UP)—Cash grain:
Wheat: 2 yellow hard 1219.
Corn: 1 yellow 849-862; 2 yellow
84-862; 3 yellow 83-85; 5 yellow 83.
Oats: 1 mixed 574-58; 2 heavy
white 594; 1 special red 577; 2 spe-
cial red 58; 1 white 58); 2 white
58-582: 3 white 58-57); 4 white 56.
Am Rad & SS 4 1-8
A T&T 112
Anaconda 24 3-4
Avn Corp 3
Bendix Avn 32 1-4
Beth Steel 55 1-4
Chrysler 54 7-8
Cons Oil 4 7-8
Curtiss Wright 6 3-4
Freeport Sul 281-8
Gen Elec 22 7-8
Gen Mot 33 1-8
Goodrich 16 1-2
Goodyear 14 3-8
Int Harv 42 1-2
Johns Many 51 3-4
Lockheed Air 16 7-8
Mont Ward 25 7-8
Am Avn 11
Ohio Oil 6 5-8
Penney, J C 58 1-4
Phillips Pet 32 3-4
Pure Oil 7 3-4
Radio Corp 2 3-4
Sears Roe 44 1-8
Shell Un Oil 11 1-4
Socony Vac 7
Stand’Oil NJ 32 7-8
Texas Corp 31 1-2
Tex G Sul 28 1-4
Un Air Corp 26 1-4
U S Steel 46 3-4
West Elec 68 1-4
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every
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Old-Timer Prepares
For 84th Birthday
C. M. Rhea, one of Rusk county’s
well known rreal "old timers” was
in town today and incidentally,
paid his respects to the Daily
News office.
Mr. Rhea first saw the light of I
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Buying interest was
—FF
German plane was destroyed off
the Southeast Coast.
-Late prices vere 4 points net
tower to 1
"I Love a Little Cottage” by
—ara was sung by a trio of
Mrs. Ramey, Mrs. Spharler and
front line passes. The road is
not far from the shore, but there
Army Air Corps. Medical Divi-
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the ice road across the lake- the
wa} to Leningrad.
The city, struggling in the grip
of the enemy blockade had built
this road and connected it with
the railway lines on both ends.
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city; the city of glory and pow-
er of the Russian people.
We passed through several cir-
cles of barricades to the Avenue
of the 25th of October.
Everywhere as we came into
the city we could see that Hitler
had paid thousands of men for
every foot of ground he gained.
The harder he pressed the more
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3 WASHINGTON (IP) — Oil,
Mlsugar, transportation and hun-
reds of common civilian products
• made of iron and steel were on
2 the firing line of the home front
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Spots closed nominal at 21.00; j
Up 6points.
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DR. CRIM TAKES
ARMY ASSIGNMENT
Dr. Truett Crim will leave his
home in Greenville, Friday, for
Ellington Field where he will be
a first lieutenant in the U. S.
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They fired until 1
minutes later went
does this transportation conveyor
stop, either at night or in the
daytime. The road of life has
played a most prominent part in
the defense of Leningrad. It fed
the date of the Selective Service
Act.
2. Men between 35 and 45 who
are unmarried and childless or
married since Dec. 20, 1941, when
the draft was extended to include
men above 35.
3. Married men under 35 with-
out children.
4. Married men over 35 with-
out children. i
5. Men under 28, married prior
to the draft, with children.
6. Men between 28 and 35 mar-
ried before the draft, with chil-
dren.
T. Men over 85 married before
fort WORTH, Tex. (UP) —
I Cash grain:
cern, manufacturers of aircraft
precision equipment, are at Stutt-
gart.
Petroleum Coordinator Harold L.
Ickes said rationing of heating
oil would be “quite logical.”
METAL ARTICLES
The order prohibiting manu-
facture of more than 400 metal
articles was announced by the
War Production Board. It was the
most sweeping move by the gov-
ernment to date to conserve iron
and steel for the war program.
Most of the articles were com-
mon ones, but not all-
Some of the items in every-day
use were cigarette lighters, com-
Gen. Semyon Timo-
Suarez recently.
Well informed quarters express-
ed belief that the United Nations
were deliberately vague regarding
the status of the island, leaving
themselves latitude to act accord-
ing to Vichy’s stand, even to the
extent of leaving "' Vichy some
nominal control if it submitted
to Allied control as it had sub-
mitted when French Indo-China
taken over by the Japanese.
Verne, arrived at Diego
"Little” opposition was encoun- ing.
tered by the landing forces, it
An important meeting of all
Dairy Day committeemen, both
for producers and the Rusk Coun-
ty Chamhber of Commerce, has
been called for Wednesday night
at 8 p.m. in the county agent’s
office.
At this meeting, arrangements
for the May 20 show will be com-
pleted. Committees will be asked
to arrange for preparation of the
show site; for transportation of
animals to the show, including a
play to pay at least part of the
costs.
It was announced today that
local men have provided enough
monex to offer defense bonds and
stamps as prizes for winning
dairy cattle in the May 20 show”.
Importance of the meeting was
stressed in the announcement.
“One purpose of the show is to
add strength to our arguments to
secure a milk and cheese plant,”
it was explained. “We need a
successful show in order to do
that. In order to have a successful
show, we need the attendance of
Eft by the lack of price-making news
L and the failure of other markets
to develop a definite trend.
NEW ORK. (UP) Cotton fu-
. tures closed steady.
facturers of
heavy trucks,
engines, and
i
2 to 3 points net higher. It open-
ed 2 points lower to 1 higher.
! Spot was quoted nominally at
FORT WORTH, Tex (UP) —
Livestock:
Cattle 1906; calves 500; 25 to 50
lawer; steers and yearlings 10.00-
12.75; fat cows 7.00-9.00; cutters
5.00-7.00; calves 7 50-13.50
term "in str force"
means that scores if not
road. Often the Germans start
shelling the road—but then the
guns of the Leningrad forts re-
ply, and silence them.
And not for a single minute
PThe first rationed sugar went
E on sale at 12:01 a.m. "
TTPetroleum officials revealed
EV that domestic heating oil may be
F next on the rationing list.
More than 460 metal articles
0 from pie plates to bathtubs, com-
K pacts to bird cages, beer mugs to
g finger bowls, subway turnstiles to
Pswivel chairs—were banned from
production 90 days hence.
F< Following is a summary of the
details of these developments:
OIL
the heroic besieged, with ammu-
nitions. arms, reinforcements and
foods.
Our car sped along over the
smooth highway. On our left we
could see the shore where the
The Laval government at Vichys
had pledged itself to resist any
attack on French colonies as the
British forces previously had been
resisted in Syria and driven off
from Dakar.
Madagascar, in addition tobeing
a vital naval base, has huge tracts
for airdromes, some of which are
developed, and the South Africans
had been agitating for weeks to
seize the island to prevent it
Mrs. Sedberry. "Forgotten” was
sung by Miss Marienne Sparkman
and the program was concluded
with the “Star Spangled Banner,”
sung by the group.
Following a short business ses-
sion, the club was adjourned.
Guests were Rev. Walter R.
Willis and Dr. W. M. Driskell of
Harlingen.
Hogs 2300; 5 lower; ;top butch-
___________________ . ers 13.95; good butchers 13.85;
IOUSTON. (UP) Middling grades 13.40-13.75; packing sows
on closed today at 9.87. 12.50-13.00.
acknowledged that only one Brit-
ish plane has shot down. The
260,000 barrels, but Sadler said
restrictions have reduced the
operation of some refineries to
"a trickle.”
Average daily oil production
during April and the first ten
days of this month is about 1,-
160,000 bar. 21s, which will be
reduced to 960,000 barrels this
month if Ickes’ wish is compiled
with. Sadler and Culberson both
have openly disagreed with the
coordinator’s recommendation.
Sadler's statement concerning
refinery requirements said in
part: _________________________
“I am reliably informed that
certain major companies, so in-
sistent upon the drastic reduc-
tions in the allowed production
in Texas, are refusing to sell oil
to small refineries on the plea
that they can’t spare the oil.
"That’s one way to get rid
of competition. I don’t propose
to allow the R.ilroad Commis-
sion to be used to squeeze out
competition under the guise of
furthering the war effort.
reached the shore of Lake Lado- .. a. aoa ai --------,
ga The sentry looked through was no time to have a good look.
my ppers. With a wave of nis 1 We had to slip through the area I
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WASHINGTON. (UP) — Sen.
Robert A. Taft, R.. O., today in-
troduced legislation providing
that men with dependents would
be inducted into the army in
classes based upon their family
status.
The measure would not affect
present selective service defer-
ments for occupational or physi-
cal reasons.
Explaining the bill to the Sen-
ate, Taft said that local selec-
tive service boards have created
confusion by establishing differ-
ent regulations for dependency
deferments. "There is hardly a
man today under 45 who is able
to make any plans for the fu-
ture," he said.
His measure would establish
the following order of dependen-
cy classes to be called:
1. Men under 35 who are un-
married and childless, or who
were married after Sept. 16, 1940,
intense the resistance. Then the
Germans in their impotent fury
destroyed the priceless art treas-
ures all around Leningrad, bomb-
ing and shelling the museums
and palaces. Even the famous
Statue of Samson in the Peter-
hop was carried' away and the
Music Program
Six members of the Henderson
Music Study Club gave a program
which featured National Music
Week and Mother’s Day for the
Kiwanis Club at its weekly lunch-
eon held in the Randolph Hotel.
Julge Paul G. Brown, program
chairman of the Kiwanis Club,
presented Mrs. Norman West, who
was narrator during the musical
program. Following a brief talk
on music appreciation and relating
music with Mother’s Day, Mrs.
West presented Mrs. J. R. Ramey,
who sang “Mother.” She was
accompanied at the piano by Mrs.
over the Ladoga ice
18 Survivors of
Freighter Land
NEW ORLEANS. (UP)—One
passenger and 17 more crew
members of a torpedoed United
Buffi.;. ------
Scommunique for the first time
said nothing about hte Corregidor
ygarrisPn answering Japanese bom-
bardment or attacks, Gen. Doug-
las MacArthur announced in Aus-
Stralia that Correxidor’s guns
continued a blazing duel with the
‘ Japanese.
(He reported that there were
g. 13 separate bombing attacks yes-
terday on Corregidor, and that on
Mindanao island, soth of Luzon,
.the Japanese effected a landing
in the Tagaloah-Bugo area of the
Lnorthwesi coast.)
Corregidor, the main island, is
; about two miles off the rugged
Bataan shore at the nearest point.
Any attemnt to Iand Japanese
forces would he met bv big coastal
L guns and mobile artillery which
renlied so effectively to the
.Javanese.
The activity reported Monday
-gave no signs that the defenses
were weakenin. But Lieut. Gen.
Jonathan M. Wainwright’s forces
’ took a five-hour pounding from
cmany guns of about nine and a
half inches in diameter, while
thirteen sprate raids were made
.by limht and heavy bombers.
a.m., and 30
into action
shenko*,‘-supported by hard riding
Cossack cavalry, today reportedly
opened an offensive against the
Germans from Taganrog to Kursk.
The Russians were taking the
initiative along the entire front
from the Arctic to the Black Sea,
reports from front line corres-
pondents said, but the principal
blows apparently were being
struck by Timoshenko’s men.
He reportedly was aiming his
hardest blows at strategic points
around Kursk, Kharkov and
Taganrog along a line 280 miles
in length. Yesterday his airmen
dropped leaflets behind the Ger-
of German fire with all possible
speed.
We climbed on the shore later
and proceeded along a high road
and soon we stopped before a
sentry at the outskirts of Len-
ingrad.
We entered the beleaguered
city for the first visit in a long
time. Our car made for the cen-
ter. There the city seemed as
beautiful as ever—still a great
sion.
Dr. Crim is the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Church Crim and
the brother of the late Lt. Wil-
liam W. Crim, who lost (his life
in teh crash of a bomber\on San
Francisco, peak Ariz. while en-
route to Texas on October 2,
1941 to visit relatives.
States freighter have arrived
here, the eighth naval district
headquarters announced today.
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Adams Rites Set
For Thursday at 4
Funeral services for Lloyd
Adams, ctiy water department em-
ploye arid World War I veteran,
who died May in in the Veterans’
Hospital in Hines, Ill, following a
major operation, will be held to-
morrow afternoon at 4 o’clock in
the Good Hope church. The Rev.
E. S. Jameson will officiate and
interment will be in the Zion Hill
cemetery with a military service
under the direction of the Ameri-
can Legion.
Survivors include his widow; a
daughter, Mildred; his mother, of
Houston; a brother, Bernice of
Houston; three sisters, Mrs. Velma
Parker of Port Arthur, Mrs. Floyd
Rousseau of Henderson, and Mrs.
Betty Roberta of Houston.
on the deck was "blown over the
funnel” by the explosion and
believed killed and that the chief
officer and chief engineer, who
had been lowering the boat, also
died instantly.
Gunner Sid Webber, of Beams-
ville, Ont., who was aboard the
torpedoed British ship, said he
did not believe the shellfire from
the boat had hit the Undersea
raider, the outline of which was
barely distinguishable in the
darkness, but said that the shells
were close.
The dramatic story of how an
injured crewman was given first-
aid by two navy fliers while toss-
ing on a rubber liferaft and
later flown ashore while one of
his rescuers remained on the
raft was related by Seaman Jones
27, Birkenhead, Eng., of the Uni-
ted Nations vessel.
Jones said he was blown from
the deck by the impact of one
of the explosives. Although his
right leg was fractured and bleed-
ing, he managed to cling to a
piece of wreckage until the small
naval scout plane spotted him.
Ensign John F. Gray, 25.' of
Champaign, II., landed the plane
near the fast-tiring Englishman
and James Wesley White, 22, of
Jacksonville, Fla., aviation radio
mechanic swam to Jones’ rescue.
Gray set the broken bone with
a splint made from a floating
board. Jones was then put
aboard the plane and flown to
land. White remained on the raft
until he was picked up by another
navy plane.
^'"‘"futures’ held narrowly around [ First reports of the raids came
previous closing levels in quiet । from the German radio, which
dealings today with final prices
usual, the Germans claimed the
British attacked "residences."
The Germans, in reprisal,
point higher after j sharply attacked the Southeast
opening 2 points lower to 1 high- I Coast of England last night, and
j a British communique reported
For Alderman
Sixty votes had been cast at 3
p.m. today in the special election
of a Henderson alderman.
Only one name, that of L. H.
Reed, was on the ballot. Election
judges said they anticipated no
great rush of voters casting bal-
lots late in the day.
The polls close at 7 p.m.
request. They said the Railroad
Commission is without authority
man lines telling the people of to refuse tenders for moving oil
the Ukraine that the Red army Linto Interstate Commerce.
was coming to liberate them. ; Sadler said that the plight of
The Russians also were forcing inland refineires has become
the fighting in the Leningrad
area, it. was reported, where they
were attacking German -reinforce-
ments moved into that sector to
aid the troops that laid winter
siege to the city.
Observers here believed the Red
army strategy was designed to
delay and break up German pre-
parations for their own offensive,
which they now believe will not
be launched until summer.
There were not details of the
fighting available, but the mid-
night communique in Moscow said
that for the first time in weeks
Soviet forces had carried out
offensive operations. -
pacts, book ends, ice cube trays,
and a dozen types of metal canstMot
and containers. SPE
Limited production of the arti-Kes
cies will be allowed for 90 days. Tg
Alter that manufacturers will be OH
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detachment of heavy Stirling
homhers bombed the Skoda Works ;
at Pilsen for the second time '
since the offensive began.
It is a 900-mile round trip to
Pilsen, and a 750-mile round trip
to Stuttgart.
The big guns along the Chan-
nel began firing at 12:20 a.m.
(7:20 p.m. CWT), shaking win-
dows and awakening inhabitants
"By requ' ing that local re-
finery demands be met, we can
soon find out how much more
oil, above the local refinery
demand, can be transported over
the available transportation in
promulgating statewide allow-
ables after May 11.
"The situation in East Texas
is reported to me to be exception-
ally critical, and from all s e-
tions of the state where refin-
eries are located the conditions
are essentially -the same. I pro-
pose that the commission refuse
tenders on shipments of oil out-
side any field until refneries de-
pending upon the production of
that field have been served.”
from becoming "another Indo-
China.”
Gen. Charles De Gaulle, leader
of the Free French, also had
recently renewed pleas that the
Allies occupy the island.
“It is to be hoped that French
authorities will accept the offer
of the United Nations to help
in the defense of the island
against Axis aggression,” the
Admiralty-War Office communi-
que said.
sugar without ration coupons,
under any circumstances.1’
Stores received their first cou-
pons today. as families whose
stock of sugar had been almost
exhausted took advantage of the
newly-granted permission to buy.
There nad been no sales of sugar
for a veek.
Addition of two new employes
to the rationing board staff was
announced today. Mrs. C. L. Hen-
derson and Mrs. Horace Chasteen
of Henderson have joined Mrs.
Sue Reynaud of Overton in hand-
ling clerical duties.
Registration by communities
yesterday included: New Salem,
326; Bethel, 138; Concord, 887;
| Leverett's Chapel, 1,285; Hender-
son, 3,951; Arlam, 342; Liberty,
340; Chapman, 208; Crim’s
Chapel, 269; Minden, 444; Lch-
don, 2,297; Rocky Mount, 727;
Sulphur Springs, 462; Carlisle,
1,714; Overton, 1,992; Oak Flat,
171, Oakland, 72; Pinehurst, 60;
Tatum, 1014; Hickey, 146; and
Mt. Enterprise, 1,564.
These figures' indicate Rocky
Mount has registered all except
a handful of the residents in that
area; Overton is more than two- Ai
thirds through with its work; V
Leverett's Chapel is two-thirds
complete; London is past the
half-way mark; Mt. Enterprise is
three-quarters complete; Tatum"
is about one-third complete; and
Henderson half-finished with the
job. Carlisle had not reached the
half-way mark at 6 o'clock yes-
terday. .
was de-
tion requested by Harold L.
E En E_____________________—------ . THE HENDERSON DAILY NEWS,
Mian Products on Kiwanis Hear
even old men and girls—worked
on in the factories to supply the
front line fighters.
• memc
| 675 miles to the Free China can-
ital Of Chungking.
The spokesman said the Chi-
. nese were "holding up” in the
A Wanting area and expressed
I doubt that the Japanese would
Lattemzt a deep penetration into
Yunnan Province. The next en-
E emy move, he said, likely would
I be a drive on Bhamo, 110 miles
north of Mandalay, in an at-
- +-ur to isolate the Chinese from
" the remaining British forces.
The Chinese already have be-
1 gun a campaign of guerrilla war-
fare on the Burma front, the
I • Spokesman disclosed.
Some observers interpi oted this
to mean th t organized resist-
: ance in certain sectors would be
. abandoned for guerrilla tactics t
which the Chinese have become
E adept during their clashes with
the Japanese on the Nanking,
.cangsha end other fronts.
The spokesman said guerrilla
K- tactics were being carried out
‛pe-, • 9 in the Taunggy area,
. 140 miles below Las a, where a
O'Chinese unit of undetermined
3 strength has been attempting to
p ‘•ever enemy supply lines.
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anSpot closed quiet at 19.87, un-
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tor. Inland refineries in Texas
have a total daily capacity of
again, while a big force of RAF
planes crossed the Channel.
Fierce anti-aircraft fire was
heard on the French coast be-
tween Boulogne and Calais from
midnight until 2 a.m. From then
until 3 a m RAF heavy bombers
roared toward France in an un-
broken stream.
The plants of such German
war 'industries as Bosch, leading
German specialists in electrical
equipment; Daimler Bentz, manu-
was asserted. ——--m
British regulars and a small
contingent of “special service”
troops effected the landing under
Maj. Gen. R. G. Sturges, Royal
Marines, from a naval force which
ahowing small net gains.
U: At teh close the market was
BY UNITED PRESS
Stocks irregular in quiet trad-
ing.
Bonds irregular; Latin-Amer-
ican bonds firm and U. S. gov-
ernments higher.
Curbs stocks irregular.
Cotton futures steady.
Grains in Chicago: ’heat clos-
ed unchanged to up 14 cents a
bushel; corn futures off 14 to
14 cents a bushel.
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No. 8
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o’clock figure did not include
several large registration centers
in the county. No total from Gas-
ton school was available at that
time, altnough more than 1,500
persons were known to have re-
gistered.
Up to 9 p. m. last night. more
than 4,500 Henderson area resi-
dents had applied for booklets.
The total given by Marwil in-
cludes cnly 3,951 of thosa per-
sons.
"The work is going along with-
out serious hitches,” Marwil said.
"There are some difficulties, but
they are being straightened out.
It appears likely that well over
two-thirds of the people in the
county will have applied for ra-
tioning books today.”
Most schools throughout the
county have been proceeding with
the idea of resuming classes Wed-
nesday. Barring unexpected diffi-
culties, al! will open their doors
to pupils tomorrow morning, it
appeared today.
Regetiazion will go on at the
schools, with smaller staffs cf
registrars on duty, Wednesday
and ‘Thrirnday.
Marwil said today that It is
important to the individual to
compile his registration by
Thursday. '
“There wili be a two-week per-
iod, from Thursday until May 21,
before late registrants will be
able to epply," he said. "Tnat
period migrt work hardships on
soma persons. They cannot buy
sgocah
Thus it became a life line—
throbbing artery which linked
Leningrad with the rest of the
country.
All winter incessant files of
heavy trucks—thousands of them
Following is the first dis-
patch from the besieged city
of Leningrad, filed to the
United Press by one of the
Soviet Union's best known
newspaper correspondents.
BY ROMAN CARMEN
Soviet War Correspondent
(Copyright, 1942, By U. P.)
LENINGRAD. (Delayed) (UP)
—Leningrad survived all that
Hitler could hurl against it be-
cause of a "road of life” built
across the ice of Lake Ladoga to
admit thousands of supply trucks
through the German siege lines.
I crossed the ice road to Len-
ingrad and found that the part
this highway has played will be
duly recorded in the annals of the
defense of Leningrad.
The people, who speak of it as
the "road of life,” now seem, lit-
erally. to be all crowding into the
streets of the city, tidying up
their town, clearing the tram
hnes and sidewalks and court-
yards.
It is been a hard time this
winter tor Lrningrad, with its
streets barricaded and its beau-
tiful buiidings sandbagged.
It was 5 a.m. when my car
I
Ec spokesman said,
Lthinly wil have to curtil heating
oil consumption wh-n household-
2ers begin to stock up for the
L winter.
United States, the British forces
—including South Africans—be-
gan occupation of the big Indian
Ocean island after the French
governor-general reportedly had
rejected an ultimatum.
Dispatches of the official Ger-
man news agency from Vichy
said fighting was “in full swing”
and that the office spokesman
described Vichy’s resistance as
“light.” The people have been
reported 95 per cent pro-Allied.
The spokesman said the occu-
pation of Madagascar was design-
ed to remove a grave threat to
the Allied supply line to the Far
East in view of the possibility
that the Vichy French government
of Pierre Laval would turn the
island over to the Japagese.
The United States, backing1 the
British move, was reported to
have delivered a note to Marshal
Henri Philippe Detain at Vichy
today, repeating its warning1 that
any warlike act by the French
against the British would be re-
garded as against all of the United
Nations.
(Axis broadcasts since last Sat-
urday have reported United States
warships, including the Washing-
cording to reports.
An American courier who ar-
rived from Madagascar recently
said he was overwhelmed with
hospitality by people who ex-
pressed their joy at the entrance
of the United States in the war.
He said that Frenchmen in
the island are sure the Allies will
win.
The South African government
had been watching Madagascar
closely fc" months, because of its
vitally, important strategic posi-
tion, 900 miles from Pretoria and
1,000 miles from Durban, chief
harbor of the Union. Two weeks
ago it severed diplomatic rela-
tions with Vichy.
News had become more and
more scarce ’ -ause of the is-
land’s isolation.
P-TA Wants National
Listing of Children
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., (UP) —
The national congress of par-
ents and teachers wan on record
favoring a nationwide program
of registration and identification
of all children as a war measure.
The congress, meeting in an-
nual session here, sent the follow-
ing telegram to President Roose-
velt :
"To prevent possible loss of
children in disaster and to facil-
itate identification, the national
congress of parents and teachers
in convention assembled earnest-
ly request that a national pro-
gram of registration and identifi-
cation of all children be immed-
iately inaugurated.”
The congress' action was taken
after receiving a telegraphed
message from Mr. Roosevelt, in
which he termed the school of
the country "the bedrock of dem-
ocracy.”
ton and North Carolina, in the
Indian Ocean, but there was no
indication they aided in the
Madagascar operations. The Free
French, forces were not mentioned
either).
An Axis broadcast, quoting a
Japanese spokesman at Tokyo,
said the Japanese regarded the
Madagascar operations as "a direct
attack ?on. Vichy but that the
military value of occupation is
dubious because the Japanese
fleet commands the Indian Ocean.”
Official details of the fighting
as the British landed on Courier
Bay, on the north end of the
island, under cover of vaval air-
craft were lacking but the plan
was to move 10 miles across the
isthmus to Diego Suarez, one of
the most valuable naval bases in
the world.
The German dispatches from
Vichy said British airplanes in
force flew over the island and
the naval base and that warships
supported the landing.
It was understood there was
less than a division (10,000) of
French white troops on Madagas-
car but these were aided by a
large number of native troops.
The British foreign office
spokesman said the British pre-
sumably sent “ample forces”
against Madagascar in view of
Allied experiences in Syria, where
the Vichy forces put up a furious
battle. Most of the British sent
against Madagascar were believed
to be South Africans.
arrived off Madagascar at dawn
under Vice Adm. E. N. Syfert.
Acting in behalf of the United
States and all the United Nations,
the British moved in after two
key Japanese admirals visited
Vichy, and were wined and dined
by collaborationist chief of gov-
ernment Pierre Laval and Marshal
Henri Philippe Petain, chief of
stateA Vichy had previously sur-
rendered Indo-China to the Jap-
anese.
It was understood that a series
of urgent trans-Atlantic telephone
conferences between London and
Washington preceded the landing.
Two joint communiques of the
Admiralty and War Office an-
nounced the arrival of the fleet
off Madagascar and the landing
of the British forces on Courier
Bay. They were:
"The United Nations having
decided to forestall a Japanese
move against the French naval
base of Diego Suarez, in Mada-
gascar, a combined British naval
and military force arrived off the
island at dawn this morning.
“It has been made clear to
French authorities in Madagascar
that the United Nations have no
intention of interfering with the
French status of the territory,
which will remain French and will
continue to be part of the French
empire.”
“Reports have been received
from the British force commander
indicating that our forces landed
in Courier Bay, Madagascar,
covered by naval aircraft, with
the intention of proceeding across
the isthmus to the naval base of
Diego Suarez.
“Little opposition was encoun-
tered.--—
“It is to be hoped that French
authorities will accept the offer
of the United Nations to help in
the defense of the islands against
Axis aggression.
“The naval forces off the
island were commanded by Vice
Admiral E. N. Syfret.
“The military force which con-
sists of regular troops and a small
contingent of special service troops
was commanded by Maj. Gen.
R. G. Sturges, Royal Marines.”
Vichy had announced frequent-
ly that it would resist any invas-
ion, Allied or Axis.
Vichy Gen. Guillemet commands
the few battalions of native,
white officered troops, totaling
perhaps 5,000 men.
The sister cruisers Montcalm
and Marseillaise, 7,600 tons, with
nine 6-inch guns each, and the
5,747 ton submarine depot ship
Petroleum oficials said that
Th “because of the "extremely critical”
M,fuel Shortage among war indus-
Ettries, oil for heating homes may
have to be rationed next fall.
""If we can’t build up industrial
fuel.supplies this summer by cut-
ting gasoline consumption,” an
Office or Price Administration
’ ’ "we almost cer-
forbidden to make any of the
banned articles out of iron or
steel, or even any metal sub-
stitute except gold and silver—
which would not be suitable for
most of them.
SUGAR
Approximately one-third of the
nation was believed to have
registered yesterday for war ration
book No. 1. Consumers must have
one in the future to buy sugar.
Enrollment will continue for three
more days during which some
130,000,000 books are expected
to be distributed.
Sugar sales, which had been
suspended for more than a week,
were resumed at 12:01 a.m. to-
dav. But from here on out it
will be necesSary to have a ration
coupon as well as money to buy
sugar.
TRANSPORTATION
Joseph B. Eostma., defense
transportation director who yes
terday was given supreme control
over all rubber-tired vehicles, to-
day addresses a conference of
state governors on the necessity
of repealing law hampering
movement of war goods.
The governors, meeting here
for three days to discuss with
federal officials the elimination
of laws "shackeling the war pro-
gram" will devote the first day
to the transportation problem.
After opening addresses by
Secretary • Commerce Jesse
Jones and War Production Board
Director Donald M. Nelson, the
conference will hear recommend-
ed policies to permit free move-
ment of motor vehicles in inter-
state commerce.
The conference was called by
President Roosevelt and directed
bv the Commerce Department.
SALES
Americans spent three per cent
more money at retail stores in
March, 1942, than they did in
the sam: month last year, but
still got 1 1 per cent fewer goods
for their monev because of trem-
eidous price rises, the Commerce
Devartment reported today.
Retail sales during March—the
month at whose levels prices are
soon to be frozen—totaled 81,
34 9,000,000. a rise of 8633,000.-
000 over February sales. This
increase, however, was about the
u.ual seasonal amount.
Occupation to
Bring Protest
WASHINGTON, (UP) — Sen-
ate Democractic Leader Alben
W. Barkley of Kentucky said af-
ter a conference with President
Roosevelt today that the British
occupation of Madagascar was
almost certain to produce a pro-
test from Vichy which might
be in “military, naval, or verbal
form."
Barkley represented Mr. Roose-
velt as satisfied with the Brit-
ish action, which had the full
sanction of this government. The
President discussed some of the
details of the operation at the
regular weekly legislative con-
ference with Barkley and other
congressional leaders.
Mo"“Yon may he 1 hroatouine youl
Lown henlth and comfort next
bv nsine too much -igolinc
E this summer."
Gasoline rtionin" —also desi"n;
ed to relievo indutrial fuel oil
Eshortoges—ts Nv 1.-. in 17
M’lerstern statr. A -ou/re close to
h
-0
Dec. 20, 1941, with children.
Taft aaid that under hie plan
each class would have to be ex-
hausted before the next could be
called. He added that the meas-
ure would have to be accompan-
ied by increases in soldiers’ pay
and by allowances for their de-
pendens. Such bills are now
pending.
The policy of permitting local
selective boards to establish their
own rules for dependency defer-
ments has caused discrimination
throughout the United States, he
said. Men are inducted by some
boards who would be deferred by
others.
"The question is further com-
plicated by the arrival of chil-
dren so that today many men are
in the army who actually have
dependents unable to support
themselves,” he said. "Further-
more, it is becoming apparent
that we will have to draft many
men with actual dependents.”
The situation' has become so
complicated that normal life is k
being unnecessarily disrupted, he •
said.
"No one can be certaiff whether
he can continue in his business
or be drafted,” he said. "This has
resulted in a flood of applica-
tions for commissions from older
men.” _____
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MIDCONTINENT OIL
TULSA (UP)—Refiners agreed 44
today that a proposal for nationai "
gasoline rationing to force con-
servation of tires would hurt their
business considerably. However,
refiners are devoting more and d
attention to the manufacture of
fue loil, strongly needed by num- 1
erous war pdlants in eastern cities.
Business wes reported good in ~|
nearly all divisions of the refinery a
market today. Prices were steady. y
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