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Ummqtoii Delaware's Morning Paper First with the Latest Newt United Press International News Service Associated Press Wide World Tlie Weather Cooler (Weather Conditions, Tides, on Page 23.) VOL- 121 NO. 107 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1942 TWENTY-SIX PACES PRICE THREE CENTS OCCUPY I OF MADAfiASCAR brITIs SLANB Taken Under United Nations' Wing Dies at His Post Battling Japanese In Sneak Attack WPB BIS 400 ARTICLES USING EASTMAN MADE RUBBER-TIRED Roosevelt Delegates Unprecedented Powers For Conserving Transportation Facilities 0TD Director Predicts Some Scheme of Rationing; Ickes Reveals Plan for Nationwide Curbs on Auto Fuel U. S. BACKS A CT TO HOLD OCEAN LANES London Announces Arrival of Military And Naval Force at Big French Possession To Prevent its Seizure by Japs; Washington Says America Will Help to Defend It By The Associated Press LONDON, Tuesday, May 5 A British sea and land force took the large and strategically important Island of Madagascar under the protection of the United Nations today to guard the vital sea lanes to the Middle East, India and China and to thwart Japanese designs on the island.

A joint Admiralty and War Office communique announced that British forces had arrived at dawn off the long island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of 'Africa. Whether the Vichy French were resisting the British surprise move was not announced nor were any details of a landing. That there had been contact between the British forces and the French authorities in Madagascar was made clear in the British communique, which said the French officials had been informed the territory "will remain French and will continue to be part of the French Empire." V. S. Approves Move Authoritative British quarters early today would make no comment on the statement issued by the State Department in Wash (-" Paul Custavus Cosnell WILiNGTiMAN aW.

X. jdU Eii- ra View of market place in Tannanarive, capital of French island of Madagascar, off southeast coast of Africa. The island teas coveted by Japs as base to cut United Nations' supply lines to Far East. 83,651 Register for Sugar; Lsity Schools are zwampedjn nrjm, Many Turned A. way at Closing Time When Evening Rush Replaces Afternoon Lag; 'Come Early Plea of Officials ington that the occupation had been effected and that it had the approval and support" of the United States Government.

The statement issued by the United States served formal notice that, if necessary, American forces will help defend the island against all comers. The importance of the island to the United Nation's cause has been emphasized for weeks and it was assumed the action had been well prepared and that a large force was in occupation, prepared to protect the island against any future aggression. Jap Designs Rumored Rumors that the Japanese had designs on the island as a base from which to prey on the important United Nations shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean have been abroad and a Japanese mission was reported resident on the island, although this had been denied by the Vichy government. Only yesterday the Japanese coordinators of Axis effort in Rome and Berlin visited in Vichy and were received by Pierre Laval and Admiral Darlan. A Vichy communique was issued after this meeting had raised misgivings in Allied capitals, saying that no political or diplomatic problems were raised during these meetings.

Three days ago, two French cruisers, the Montcalm and the Marseillaise, and a submarine tender, the Jules -Verne, arrived at the Madagascar naval station of Diego Suarez. DUTCHMEN PUT lUUtAiflDI IWId FOR AIDING ALLIES Executions in France -Reach. 777; Quisling Is Given Bodyguard Rumanian Guerrilla Army Rises; Spirit of Mutiny Is Sweeping Austrian Troops Reports from Esjrope last night indicated Adolf Hitler is having increased difficulty in keeping German-occupied coun tries in line. In Holland, 72 Dutchmen were put to death for attempting to contact Germany opponents. The toil of executions in France reached 777 with the shooting of 55 at Lille.

Norway's Quisling was given a strong bodyguard, following "certain incidents." In the Balkans, an army of Rrmanian guerrillas has risen, wrecking a German troop train, firing an oil train and raiding a German barracks. And to top it off. underground channels report the Nazis beset by a rising tide of mutiny among Austrian troops and open antagonism among the Austrian people. LONDON, May 4 Rising anti-Nazi violence, spurred by the massive R. A.

F. offensive against occupied Eurone. has broueht the usual irrim German answer death before the firing squad to 72 Netherlanders. reports from the continent said tonight. The German-controlled Hilversum radio In Holland announced some of the Dutchmen, including officers, were executed "for attempting to gain contact with Germany's opponents." Defiantly.

Radio Orange, the Dutch station in London, answered back tonight: "They will never keep our people down. For every hero who falls, 10 are ready to take his place. We a.sk our people to protect the dependents of those who Continued on Page 23 Column 4 STEEL Bathtubs, Beer Mugs, Pie Plates, Compacts, And Parking Meters Among Those Halted Civilians Must Do Without When Present Stocks Are Gone; Only Gold and Silver Are Possible Substitutes (Complete lift of banned articles Is printed on page 23.) By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 4-A sweeping order of the War Production Board tonight forbade the use of Iron and steel in virtually all articles of civilian use not covered by previous decrees more than 400 kinds of articles in all. Prom asparagus tongs to amusement park devices the list ranged from beer mugs to bird cages, from compact to culverts, from door knockers to dishwashing machines, from egg slicers to escalators, and so on through the alphabet. Included In the sweeping ban were bathtubs, mail boxes, fountain pens, pie plates, cash registers, cigarette lighters, house numbers, automobile accessories, theatre marquees, fly traps, tool boxes, pleasure boats, mop wringers, and street light standards.

Out for Duration Not only must the makers of these things stop using iron and steel they must not use any other metal as a substitute (except gold or silver, if feasible). The order means, undoubtedly, that manufacture of these articles will stop for the duration. Thus when the present stocks in the stores are exhausted, plus the few articles permitted to continue in manufacture for a short time longer, civilians will be forced to do without. The stop-production order is effective in 90 days. Limited production will be permitted until then.

Going beyond the scope of pre- vlous curtailment orders of this na-! ture, the new decree makes the general public responsible for obeying it, along with the manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and retailers. Consumers are forbidden to receive articles known to have been made in violation of the order. Penalty for Violations The order, under the section covering violations, said: "Any person who wilfully violates any provision of this order or who wilfully conceals a material fact or furnishes false information to any department or agency of the United States is guilty of a crime, and upon conviction may be punished by fine or imprisonment. In addition, any such person may be prohibited from making or obtaining further deliveries or from processing or using material under priority control and may be deprived of priorities assistance." Climaxes Series of Orders The long awaited edict most drastic conservation order so far issued gave what amounted to a finishing blow to the country's durable consumers' goods industry, which WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson has ordered choked off in order to convert materials, machines and manpower to war work.

Effective after midnight tonight, the decree climaxed a series of stop-orders covering automobiles, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, typewriters and other articles whose output was ordered suspended in the interest of a "sound but lean" civilian economy for the war's duration. Even some items customarily used by the armed forces must go out of production after the 90-day deadline. 1 The o.dcr affects not only manufacturing plants, but wholesalers, distributors, retailers, and the con suming public, who are forbidden to receive articles known to have been made or delivered in violation o' the order. Administration of the order will be in New Yort-- City instead of Washington, in line with WPBs policy of decentralization. Administrative offices already have been established there.

A new system of appeals was set up, providing that they should be Continued on Page 23 Column 3 TOM COLLINS CAN LAST FOR 3 MORE MONTHS Supply Available in Stores Despite V. S. Prohibition WASHINGTON, May 4 U. If you like your Tom Collins in the summer, don't get too excited about the government's tagging of the gin industry as an alcoholic casualty of war. For it became evident today that, Ithcigh the government will have to divert alcohol to the manufacture of explosives, there is plenty of gin on hand to last out three months, anyway.

Also, there Is enough bourbon and rve whiskey in the wood to last for least three and one-half years. 1 ID to on The joint communique of the Admiralty and War Office, announcing the action, said: Communique "The United Nations, having decided to forestall a Japanese move against the French naval base of Diego Suarez in Madagascar, a combined British naval and military force arrived off the island at dawn this morning. "It has been made clear to the 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." By The United Press WASHINGTON, May 4 President Roosevelt delegated to Defense Transportation Director Joseph B. Eastman today unprecedented power to control and limit the use of every type ol transportation on rubber tires including your own automobile. The far-reaching move, revealed in an executive order, was dictated by the need for conserving and making the most use of existing civilian transportation services which depend upon precious tires.

Eastman said he believed actual enforcement of rubber-borne transportation control would be "through some scheme of rationing say, of tires and gasoline." Nation-wide Rationing Meanwhile, Petroleum Coordinator Harold L. Ickes revealed before a congressional committee that the administration is considering nation-wide gasoline rationing as a rubber conservation measure. Ickes also disclosed that his office would make recommendations tomorrow on East Coast rationing, which starts May 15 because of inadequate gasoline supplies caused by a shortage of transportation facilities. He said his office had no intention of rationing gasoline where no shortage exists, but that countrywide rationing might be employed as a means of saving rubber. The Office of Price Administration announced that commercial and government gasoline users whose vehicles are plainly marked as being used for such purposes will be exempt from the card rationing plan which goes into effect May 15 in 17 eastern states and the District of Columbia.

Such users need not be registered. Scope of Authority Mr. Roosevelt's executive order placed within the scope of East- man authority all rubber-borne transportation facilities, including passenger cars, buses, taxicabs and trucks." It directs Eastman to "de- velop programs to facilitate the con- tinuous adjustment of the nation and its transport requirements to the available supply of transportation services relying upon rubber. The most drastic portion of the directive sets forth that Eastman's office shall: "Formulate measures to conserve Continued on Page 9 Column 2 13-YEAR OLD BOY EXCUSED FROM NAVY Milk Teeth Undoing of Ohio Youngster Ready for Sea CHICAGO, May 4 (JPy Herbert Howard Hale of Detroit, who com pleted his naval recruit training and was readv to to sea, will have to wait till he grows up about four years from now. Herbert was excused from further service today when a Navy disciplinary officer chided him about his milk teeth, and the boy admitted he was only 13.

Young Hale, a freshman in high school, said he obtained the consent of his mother, Mrs. Thelma Davis, Akron, and signed up at Cleveland in February, giving his age as 17. He was sent to the training jstntinn Ynrt The youth, who is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 116 pounds, said: The Navy sure is swell, and I'll be back as soon as they'll let me in." after the Japanese had landed on the island early in March. As it neared the Australian coast, the plane was attacked and shot down by Japanese aircraft. The pilot made a crash landing near the beach, but the plane was wrecked and partly submerged.

Four members of the crew were killed. Forced to wait for many days be- fore wandering natives rescued them, the survivors searched among tne pianes wreckage, out couian iiiiu wie preL-mus cargu. uakt mi onicial party returned to the scene, but iw search, too. was fruitless. The beachcomber whose reward has not yet been determined, said he found th nurw! nartiallv buried I in a mud bank.

Madagascar lies athwart all the School at 7:50 o'clock. Hundreds of persons waited for an hour and scores for two hours before their turns came. Generally, however, officials were well pleased with results of the first day's registration. The figure for the city represents considerably more than one-third of the population and the remaining two-thirds should be taken care of in the remaining three days of registrations it was said. The 1.082 who told registrars that they already had more than six pounds per person will receive their cards when their excess stocks are depleted.

Those who obtained cards will be able to obtain sugar beginning today. Housewives were urged by J. Francis Blaine, county rationing administrator, last night to register early today, tomorrow, and Thursday when the schools will be open for this work from 1 p. m. until 9 p.

m. "Today's experience has shown." he said, "that persons who report during the afternoon up until 5 o'clock can receive their booklets with a minimum of waiting. "The teachers are only human. They are working 12 hours a day Continued on Page 10 Column 2 Jap Bombers Attack Island Fortress 13 Times in Day; U. S.

Gunboat is Destroyed WASHINGTON, May 4 (Pi Thirteen separate air raids with both light and heavy bombers and a continuous artillery shelling for five ear-splitting hours was the punishment rained upon flag-flying Cor-regidor today by the still-baffled Japanese. Air raids, which have been launched at the 13-a-day rate for the last three days, sank the United States gunboat Mindanao near the island citadel but there was no hint in the communiques of any weakening of the American and Filipino defense forces of Jonathan M. Wainwright. The Navy, reporting the loss of the 560-ton river gunboat formerly used in China, said there were no casualties among the crew, which normally numbered 80, leading to the assumption that they had somehow reached Corregidor. Japs Use Huge Guns The Japanese artillery plastered CORREGIDOR TAKES 5-HOUR POUND NG Weary teachers, after a hectic day, reported last night 83,651 registrations for sugar rationing booklets throughout' the state.

Of this number 81,931 received their booklets, while the remainder told registrars they already had more than six pounds per person. In the city where 38,651 persons applied and 37,369 received booklets an unexpected last minute rush re sulted in thousands of applicants being turned away. The figures according to counties as released by James L. Luke, Jr state rationing-administrator, were: New Castle, 57,473 applications, 56,117 rationing booklets issued; Kent, 8.464 applications. 8.327 rationing booklets issued, and Sussex, 17,648 applications and 17,488 rationing bookelts issued.

The rush in the -city developed early last night after a mid-afternoon lull that had left many of the teachers with little to do. But once the dinner hour was past a steady stream of applicants appeared and it soon became a deluge. Some schools with as many as 200 waiting were forced to close their doors early in the case of the Gray RAT. BATTERS NAZI SUB BASES Great Fires Left Raging At Hamburg, St. Nazaire And Kristiansand; Le Havre Hit LONDON, Tuesday; May 5 JT Big R.

A. F. bombers again showered explosives on Germany last night after Sunday night's assaults on Nazi submarine ports, it was authoritatively stated today. British agency dispatches also quoted the Swiss radio as saying that French anti-aircraft guns in Vichy and Claremont Ferrand in unoccupied France fired at planes which flew over those cities early today. (British bombers frequently fly over France and Switzerland en route to northern Italy.

I Swinging out over a 900-mile front in pre-dawn attacks, the R. A. F. blasted Sunday night at Hamburg, great German port; St. Na-Eaire, in occupied France from which big German "pig boats" are sent out harry the United States Eastern Coast, and at Kristiansand, from the northern supply route to Russia.

The R. A. F. fighters shot down umpted to intercepr the British i bombers, and another Nazi fighter five German fighters which at KILLED IN ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR P. G.

Gosnell's Name Among 2,991 in Initial Navy Casualty List Gunner's Mate Member Of Crew Aboard U.S.S. Shaw; Millsboro Sailor Also Victim The death at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 of First Class Gunner's Mate Paul Gustavus Gosnell. 27, of 2515 Washington Street was revealed last night. His name was released in the Navy Department's Casualty List No.

1, which included 2.991 officers and men of the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard who gave their lives or their country in the first four months or war. i Gosnell is survived by his wife, I Mls- Geraldine Theda Gosnell, and a s011- Charles Edward Gosnell, who was two years old on Dec. 28, 1941. He was killed while manning an anti-aircraft gun on the U. S.

K. Destroyer Shaw during the Japanese attack. Family Previously Advised Mrs. Paul Daniels, mother of Mrs. Gosnell, said yesterday that the family had received news of his death shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, but had been requested in a Navy Department letter not to discuss the matter outside the immediate family.

Mrs. Gosnell suffered a nervous breakdown after receiving the news and was confined to The Memorial Hospital for more than five weeks. The little son has been in health and has been taken care of by his grandmother. Gunner's Mat Gosnell. a native of Baltimore, served one enlistment with the U.

S. Marines being stationed in China and then joined the U. S. Navy. He was stationed for a time at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and it was during this time that he met and married the former Miss Geraldine Theda Jackson of this city.

his marriage five years ago he was assigned to the Shaw when it was commissioned at the I Philadelphia Navy Yard. When his "ilJ wrfs iransierrea to San Diego, Mrs. Cjosnell joined him there. Diego. Their son was born in San Early in 1940, Gosnell was again transferred to the Philadelphia Navy Yard and his family returned Continued on Page 6 Column 1 SOCIAL JUSTICE BANNED AS PUBLICATION CEASES Coughlin-Founded Magazine Suspended in Face of Hearing WASHINGTON, May 4 (JP) Social Justice, weekly magazine started by the Rev.

Charles E. Coughlin, has ceased publication, its editor announced today, but the postmaster general proceeded to ban it from the mails anyway. Francis Biddle had charged it published "clearly seditious" material. Editor E. Perrin Schwartz wrote Postmaster General Frank Walker that the magazine would "not here- after be published" and that it was abandoning its second-class mailing privileges.

Father Coughlin tele graphed his approval of the action. The publishers of Social Justice had been notified to appear today to show cause why it should not be excluded from the mails. Instead, Thev sent th nnriep that rmhlira- tion was being suspended- i i i Indian Ocean shipping lanes, and in enemy hands would be a powerful sea and air base to cut off allied supplies to Russia, via the Persian Gulf, as well as to throttle Britain's own supply lines to the fighting; fronts. The island is nearly a thousand miles long and could be a threat to the Union of South Africa, which already has broken off relations with Vichy, to the British colonies farther north on the African mainland, above Mozambique, and to Mauritius. Britain's mid-ocean base lying to the east of Madagascar.

The French naval station Diego euarez is at tne northern end of the island and there is another naval base at Majunga on the northwest coast. Pointing out that the island could be used as a springboard for an air and seaborne invasion of the African continent, Reuters' naval corres- pondent wrote that "for months JaDan has sf.tlv this French possession." to serving as a base to cut off Allied supply lines to Russia, China and the Middle East. Madagascar could also have served as a port of call for Japanese ships carrying vital war supplies from Japan's newly conquered territories tin the east to Germany, the Reutera correspondent pointed out Lord Selbourne, minister of co- Continued on Page 9 Column 4 Index of the News THREE JAP FORCES ADVANCE IN BURMA Invader Within 150 Miles Of India, 25 Miles of China; Allies Resist Stubbornly! CHUNGKING, May 4 (p Three powerful Japanese columns had pushed the Allied armies back within 150 miles of India and 25 miles of China tonight in swift offensives that threatened to develop into in vasions of both those vast countries and to overrun the still unconquered portion of Burma, The enemy had advanced 60 miles up the Burma Road from Lashio to TV i Kutkai, but the scanUy-equlpped forces commanded by Joseph W. Stilwell fought them fiercely through the night, a com- munique said. Kutkai is within 25 miles of an appendage of Yunnan Province which Juts into Burma, but is about 40 miles from China via the Burma Road.

A Japanese column which attempted to flank the Chinese positions was reported repulsed in the bitter engagement. Driving Toward Bhams A second Japanese column wag pushing other Chinese slowly north along the Irrawaddy River beyond ruined Mandalay, probably driving toward Bhamo, 110 miles away. Bhamo Is an alternate terminus of the Burma Road and the northern- most navigation point on the river. The polyglot British army of Gen. I Harold Alexander was falling back I slowly on the right flank "to pre- pared positions," the communique added.

Some fighting was in progress in the Monya area of the Chindwin I River Valley, some 60 miles of Continued on Page 6 Column 2 i I i $1,000,000 IN DIAMONDS FOUND BY BE A CHCOMBER Gems Lost Off Coast of Australia When Plane From Java is Shot Down By Japs; Official Search Failed atJhe ket of diamonds, lost Manila Bay, with a particularly when plane frQm Jaya was was downed by a British bomber The shot down by the Japanese off the attark nn luunhun i Department communique saio. ine. Despt'e bad over batteries included many guns Australian coast, was found by an manv. Hamburg was hammered of 240 millimeter (about 9V-inch) unidentified beachcomber after offi-heavilv. pilot said they saw large I caliber.

cial searchers failed, it was an- in rinrk- nrf shinvards as thev i The invaders meanwhile sought to nounced today. MELBOURNE, May 4 (U.P- -A The diamonds were turned over to i authorities at a northwestern town, i The beachcomber, who walked into tne town to enlist in tne Australian -imperial rJte, saia lie louna ine i Parcel while searching the beach tor sea f3od- i Destined lor the Commonwealth; Bank of Australia, the parcel had been handed to the nilot of one of the last planes to take off from Java i Pages Amusements 21 Births" 24 Business Review IS Charles B. Driscoll Classified 24-25 Comics Z0 Deaths Editorials Financial 22-23 Frederic Haskin a Obituaries 24 Radio IS Raymond Clapper Serial Story 17 Society News 12 Sports M-l Stat Paze IS Woman's Page 17 left- tCunlwr rrews Darticioatine in the Kristiansand attack said fires were visible for 50 miles. The island of Oderoen also was attacked. In swift, daylight follow-up of these powerful attacks.

Boston (Douelasi bombers made a raid Le Havre occupied France, i I in Continued on Page 9 Column i i extend their occupation of the Island of Mindanao some 500 miles to the south, where telling blows have been struck bv isolated defense forces which include some Americans as well as Filipinos and Moros. i New landings were made from fnnr trntnnrt nn the nnrrh central coast of the island, near Tagoloan in i Continued on Page 9 Column 3.