The Edwardsville Intelligencer from Edwardsville, Illinois • Page 1

AH Newi of County, end a i Published Speedily rifely. 79th YEAR--NO. 146 cttcer EDWABDSVILL1, ILLINOIS, THUBSDAY, MAY 7,1942. THE WEATHER Continued cool with HgM froito; rklnjr tomorrow. Low 47, TEN PAGES British Smash Vichy Resistance; Take Madagascar In 2 Days PLAN THREE-DAY FOR SALE Local Defense Council Holds Meeting Friday Night to Explain Drive to Workers to Take Pledges.

FARMERS HEAR COL. JACKSON'S ADDRESS Township Chairmen Named to Carry On Activities in Rural Communities For Several Days. One meeting Wednesday night and another scheduled for Friday night will complete local plans for the campaign to be conducted next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to carry on the Wnr Bond pledge program under which citizens will set aside a definite weekly amount to be used In the purchase of war stamps. The Wednesday night meeting was held at the court house with over 100 farmers from all sections of the county making plans for the county campaign. They also heard plans for the USO drive to secure funds for en- tertmnment of soldiers at army posts.

All members of the Edwardsvllle Civilian Defense Council hnve been asked to attend a meeting Friday night at 7:30 o'clock at the Junior High School. There are about 400 workers who are to take part In the house to house campaign next week. They endeavor to Lead British Fight for Madagascar STORY OF SHIP THAT IS 'BACK FROM HELL' Maj. Gen. R.

G. Sturges (left) commands army units, and Rear Admiral E. N. Syfret heads British naval forces in landing operations on Vichy-controlled island of Madagascar. Photo radioed from London, passed by censor) (NEA Telephoto) ARE DUE SHORTLY have residents set aside any sum between 25 cents to $8 weekly for the purchase of stamps and bonds.

A committee composed of Mayor Oscar W. Schmidt, Wm. B. Rolth- cr, defense co-ordlnator, and George Howes conferred with Col R. L.

Jarkson of Western Military Academy otter he addressed the meeting of farmers. Literature will be distributed Saturday the plans to be followed. Col. is chairman of the Madison County War Bond ram paign. He talked for half un hour emphasizing the Importance of al citizens co-operating to raise a definite amount each week.

Farm Adviser T. W. May presided at the meeting and explained methods to be followed in the county. Each township will hold meeting this week to complete plans for the campaigns. In most communities the work svill be clone on a school district basis.

At least two solicitors will work In each school district. Following Is a list of the township captains elected at the meeting Wednesday evening; Alhambra. E. H. Iscnbcrg; Chouteau, Eel Schillingcr; Colllnsvillc, Cnrl Launhnrdt; Edwardsvllle, W.

W. McKce: Foster. John Culp; Ft. Russell, Albert Ehertmrt; Godfrey, Clarence Achcnbach; I-tamcl, Gust Bekemeyer; Helvetia, Albert I.uelim; Jorvis. Chas.

J. Heck; Leef. Robt. Nha'li: Marine, Grbrxe It. Reding: Moro, M.

M. Cooper; a i Henry i a New Douglus, Hampton Tabor; Olive, Fred R. KtiKcIko; Oinphglicnt, F. II. Dubhclde: Pin Oak.

George i St. Jacob, O. C. Tluirnau; Oliver Knebcl; Wood River, Clins. Router; and Venice, J.

J. Willaredt. Farmers attending the meeting expressed the opinion that the very Inrge majority of citizens In their communities would support both the War Bond pledge and trip USO campaigns onlliuslnstic- ollv. Soldier Composed Song During Trip, Becomes Popular Melbourne, May 77--He put his thoughts to music--and launched a career In music when he thought of her back In Massachu- his long voyage to setts (luring Australia. Ho is Pvt.

Adrian Boudreau, an clodriflnn, of Medford, Mass. She Is Miss Kittt Higglns of Everett, Mass. Australian-bound on troopship Boudreau wrote a song ho entitled "This Is No Time For Tears." Crooned i ship's entertainment, it won approval of Buudreau's soldier buddies. In Australia, the manager of the commonwealth's largest theater Induced Boudreau to sing his song. A packed house applauded thunderously and now an Australian iirm is publishing the song.

Train, Bus and Plane Transportation Expected for Essentials Only. Washington, May office of Defense Transportation today is drafting a plan, for "rationing" non-essential civilian travel by train, bus or airplane. Officials expect travel-as-usual to be part of the past by the end of the year and believe that sharp curtailment oC non-essential travel will be necessary before the end of the summer. War production board officials said the transportation problem is very serious. They were concerned about the travel-as-usual attitude displayed last week-end when 300 railroad cars were used to carry people to the Kentucky Derby.

Such non-essential use of railroad equipment must stop or the wat effort will be seriously impeded, they said. Defense transportation officials emphasized that the plan for rn Honing travel was in the preliminary stage. They also pointed oul that it wouldn't be rationing in the strictest sense; that first a system permits, similar to the priority arrangements now being used by some air line would be tried. But when that fails--and an ODT spokesman intimated that it was expected to fall far short ot necessary curtailment -travel rationing would begin. Nothing as drastic as such a system was even considered during World War I when the government was forced to operate all railroads, Under tentative proposals being discussed by ODT officials this week, here is how travel rationing would work: Need to travel before tickets would l)f sold, a person would have to demonstrate that their travel was necessary for either the war effort or for vital civilian activities.

Administration i i a discussions favor using the carriers themselves as tho administrative agencies lot 1 the program rather than local rationing boards. Short trips an attempt will be made to eliminate these from tho over-all program. A neighborhood urea probably would be sut up in which there would be no restrictions. Railroad equipment pooling of virtually all passenger and freight furs and locomotives is foreseen. Freight a modified regional freight set-up Is expected to be necessary eventually.

Under it, products of one section would be distributed only in neighboring communities instead of sent across tho country. Supplies Run Low in Some Districts Where Registering is Running High. Americans Open an Attack on Large Jap Fleet Near Australia. Marblehead, Bombed by Japs, Has Made Unmatched Trip of 13,000 Miles to Reach Port at Home. Corregidor's Guns Silenced MEN BAILED WATER WHEN PUMPS FAILED Chungking, May Chinese roops frustrated repeated attacks by Japanese columns that pushed northward from Burma into Yun- nan province and have Inflicted leavy casualties on the enemy In battles that still are raging, a communique said tonight.

The most Intense fighting was around Che'fang, 24 miles inside the Chinese frontier, the com- munique said. The Japanese are attempting to drive into Yunnan In' order to knock out allied air bases there. Unconfirmed reports said one enemy advance unit had reached Mangshih, 50 miles north of Wanting. It appeared that the immediate Japanese objective was Paoshan, the base of American volunteer pilots who are attacking Japanese aerial raiders. At least Cruiser Knocked out by 54 Planes Feb.

4 Before Crew Escaped to Make Trip. Registrations for sugar wer completed in Madison County Thursday night and' something like 160,000 residents have 'been issued their stamp books to obtain future supplies with others unable to secure books until their surpluses are consumed. When the federal census was taken two years ago the county contained a few less than 150,000. residents. The increase is due principally to the great many war workers who have located in the county during the past few months.

On the first three days persons obtained stamp books. There were 40,260 on the first day, 39,528 on the second day and 40,930 on the third day. The total is a guess, tased upon estimates school heads throughout the county and registrations for the first three days. The supply of 182,000 blank stamp books, sent hero for issuance had. diminished to a surplus of 5000 at the office of Dr.

J. Huggins, county ration director. Additional blanks have been sent to some of the school districts while there will be others with surpluses to be returned here Friday. Some of the smaller districts completed their registrations on the first clay while in others the number of applications decreased on the second and third In the larger districts there were increases on the second and third days and Alton reported Wednesday night that the final day registrations will otceed those of the other days. Alton lias registered more than 30,000 persons.

In Edwai'dsvilie district there have been 8084 applications filed with issuance 7337 books. Superintendent of Schools E. L. Alexander estimated that 8517 persons would register here but the total will exceed that number. There have been Instances of persons from other districts registering here.

On the first day there were 2527 Eight Cunodlun Killed. St. John's Newfoundland, May 7 --Eight members of the Royal Canadian Air Force were killed last night in a flying accident at Torbay, 10 miles north of here. Details of the accident were not disclosed. Plnne Crash Kills 8.

St. oJhns, May 7--A Canadian military plane, taking off from hero, crashed and burned yesterday with a loss Of eight men. 17 enemy planes have been downed in three days over Paosha'n. In eastern China, the Japanese were intensifying air raids on bases that might be used In allied attacks on Japan. These attacks, centered on Kiangsi and western Chekiang.

provinces, also were viewed as reprisals for Chinese guerilla raids on at least 15 cities in occupied eastern China. Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters; Australia, May, airmen have opened a heavy attack on a powerful Japanese 'fleet massing in the northeastern invasion zone apparently for an imminent major offensive, Gen. Dauglas MacArthur revealed today. His communique disclosed that the Japanese, in a long-awaited move toward big scale offensive activity, were massing warships and transports in the general area of Rabaul, in New Britain island, whence a fleet could essay a direct attack on Port Moresby, the valuable allied advanced base in New Guinea; the American forces in New Caledonia, or even on Australia itself.

Simultaneously, the Japanese had suddenly diminished the intensity of their persistent, savage, but costly aerial attacks on Port Moresby, MacArthur noted. United States bombing planes had done terrific damage to such enemy bases as Habaul and Lae and Salamaua, on the Huon Gulf of northern New Guinea, across the island from Port Moresby. An army spokesman said here that it was believed Salamaua, used by the enemy as a base for plane attacks on Port Moresby, had been almost wiped out. Washington, May cruiser USS Marblehead, indomitable as her name, has come back from hell with a record of dauntless courage at sea unmatched in the history of naval warfare. 'Bomb shattered, flame swept, the once proud warship Was little more, than a floating hulk when It hove to in an east- coast port after an incredible 13,000 mile voyage from the Pacific.

Hut the Stars and Stripes still flew over its crazy patchwork ol makeshift repairs and battle rub ble. And as the ship leaned wearily into the dock, workmen poured lover the sides to clean away the scars of war so that the Marblehead may live to fight again. Only the willpower and main applications with 2265 books. (Continued on page two) On Fishermen Fished For Fish, Caught About 400 Tires An East Canadian Port, May 7-A fishing story, but not the least fishy: The 'crew of a schooner hooked a number of tires, which had drifted to sea when a merchant. ship was damaged in running aground off the Nova Scotia coast recently.

One fisherman was reported to hove received a reward of $475 for one lot. Altogether 400 tires, most- of the ship's cargo, were salvaged from the ship and the sea. To Be Ambassador. Washington, May 7--The state paying tribulc the gallant Dutch people today disclosed elevation to the rank of an embassy of diplomatic representation between the two countries. strength of the men aboard kept the 18-year-old 7,050 ton fighting ship afloat on its" odyssey "over half the world's ocean waves." Part of the time they had to bail with buckets to help out the overworked pumps as tons of water poured into the hold.

For thousands of miles they steered by engine'speed after the rudder had been blasted out of commission. The navy summed up the saga of the Marblehead in these words: "Hers is the story of a'ship that was bombed to hell, and was brought right out of it again by a crew that doesn't know the meaning of the word 'abandoned'." In the thick of the fight for the Pacific from the very the Marblehead was knocked out of action on Feb. 4 when at least I fifty-four Japanese bombers at-j 3 MONTHS SPENt Commandos, Parachutists, Marines Have Part In Taking One of Greatest Naval Ports. TRIUMPHAL ENTRY IS ARRANGED FOR MEN Plans Drawn in Detail Under Which an Overwhelming Force Was Used, Minimum Bloodshed. Thli mighty gun on the island-fortress guarding Manila bay relentleuly blasted enemy concentrations during 28 day tiege before overwhelming Japanese landing attack forced surrender.

(SEA Telephoto.) Officials, Others Being Sent Home in Exchange for Americans. Jersey City, N. May Swedish liner SS Drottningholm sailed for Lisbon today with 948 Axis ambassadors, ministers and other enemy nationals who are to be exchanged for American officials and nationals from Germany, Italy, Hungary, Rumania and Moscow, May Red army was reported today to have cap- a strong point which the German had held throughout the winter just west of besieged Leningrad and to have slaughtered hundreds Nazi troops marooned by spring floods in advance positions all along the front, The annihilation of more than 6,000 Germans at various points along the front was described in official dispatches to Moscow. In one small sector around Lake II- men to the south of Leningrad, it was said, the Germans were suffering casualties of at least 1,000 men a day. The Red army organ, ked Star, reported from the Bryansk front (Continued on page two) INDIANA FIRST TO REACH BOND QUOTA Washington, May 7--Indiana today became the first state to report reaching Us May quota in the treasury's war bond campaign.

Wray E. Fleming, Indiana state administrator fop the war savings staff, reported that the Hoosier state had exceeded its $12,984,300 May quota for pledges, No other state has reported achieving the quota set by the treasury. The Indiana -quota was more than $2,000,000 above that originally set by the treasury. State headquarters raised the quotas of each of its counties to Increase the state total from $10,925,000 to $12,984,300. tacked a formation of united nations warships in Macassar straits.

Two direct bomb hits and a near miss that rent its plates below water sent the Marblehead reeling. Fifteen of the crew were killed and twenty wounded. The flotilla including the ill- fated cruiser USS Houston, subsequently sunk, was ambushed by more than a half a hundred enemy warplanes. "One of these Japanese planes," said the navy, "was hit by antiaircraft fire of the Houston. As the plane fell, its pilot attempted a suicide dive on the Marblehead, German, Italian, Rumanian and Bulgarian citizens were aboard when the Drottningholm, sailing under a safe conduct guarantee of the nations- involved, pulled away from the pier.

The vessel's hull and superstructure were painted a brilliant white and the word "Diplomat" was spelled in large black letters on the hull. At night it was to be illuminated with 40 floodlights. A state department announcement said Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguary, which have broken relations with the Axis, had arrang- jed for a direct exchange from South American ports, while other but the cruiser's gunners 1 Un-American nation, had sent fire on the falling plane and completed its destruction with hits le 1 lra le ens United States to sail on the Drott- that sent it crashing into the sea ntm about thirty feet from their ship. "In this engagement the Houston was hit by one while the Marblehead received two di(Continued on page two) A Leased Wire Bulletins on Latest World News Today. Announce Settlement.

Springfield, May 7 --Settlement of a labor dispute at McLeansboro in connection with-the laying of a pipe line from nearby oil field to a three and one half million dollar Texas oil company octane plant, was' announced here today by Mark Saunders, administrative assistant to Governor Dwight H. Green. Britain Loses Cruiser. London, May 7---A series of Artie Ocean battles against German destroyers, submarines and air planes cost Great Britain the 10,000 ton cruiser, Edinburgh, and four merchant ships, but the Nazis lost one destroyer sunk and another severely damaged. Attacks In Canton.

Chungking, May 7 Chinese guerilla forces, which have opened a "second front" in Eastern were reported tonight to have carried out a series of attacks inside the city of Canton, killing 500 ningholrn. The Axis representatives included top-ranking German and Italian officials, among them Dr. Hans Thomsen, German charge d'affaires in Washington at the start of the war, and Prince Ascanio Colonna, Italian ambassador to the United States. Another passenger was Gen. Umberto Nobile, who sailed a dirigible to the North Pole in 1928.

He 574 MEN LOST IN FORT COLLAPSE Japanese Soldiers Now Available for Fighting at Other Places. Washington, May 7--The war department announced today that 11,574 soldiers, sailors, marines and civilians were on Corregidor and the other Manila Bay Island forts when they were captured by the Japanese. They are presumed to be prisoners of war. A communique emphasized a the estimate was based on reports received up to April 15, and did not take into account casualties which may have been suffered since that date. A breakdown of personnel follows: Naval, marines, American soldiers, Philip- London, May 7--British forces, capturing Diego Suarez town and Antsirane Naval Base, smashed Vichy resistance in Madagascar today and a British fleet steamed toward Diego Suarez Bay for triumphal entry this afternoon.

The end came in a dramatic night attack by British Commandos and parachutist on Antsirane, while Royal Marines made a diver- sional attack. One of the greatest naval bases in the world, dominating Indian Ocean trade thus fell after a 48-hour lightning campaign. The French naval and military commands surrendered and the terms of capitulation were being arranged. Resistance by small bo- isolated pockets of Vichy was expected to end. A joint communique of the admiralty and war office, and official statements by British spokesmen, announced the victory while Prime Minister Winston Churchill jubilantly told a cheering House of Commons that the British fleet would enter Diego Suarez Bay and harbor at about 3:30 p.

m. (8:30 a. m. CWT). Churchill said the campaign, which had taken only 48 hours tc I win, had taken three months tc prepare.

I Plans were drawn in minute de- I tails, he revealed, and an force of men and wea- of all the fighting services, army, navy, air force and com- mandos, was thrown against the Vichy garrison in order to minimize bloodshed. "We trust that the French nation will in time come to regard this episode as a recognizable step i the liberation of their country, I including Alsace and Lorraine, pine Scouts, Philippine commonwealth army, casuals, including civilians and other unclassified individuals, 1,269. The communique, issued at Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson's press conference, said that no communication had been received from the Philippines by the war department since the early i morning of Wednesday. Patterson said that fire from heavy Japanese guns forced the surrender of the Manila Bay defenders.

"It was incessant and heavy, and knocked out their he added. artillery fire probably had more effect than the bombing from the air." The defense of Corregidor, he said, was a "most gallant exploit in American his- from the German yoke," he said. Churchill paid tribute to the gal- lantry and discipline of the French forces and said he and his fellow Britons grieved that bloodshed had occurred between the troops of two countries whose peoples at heart I were united against a common foe. CITIZENS TO PUT 20 CENTS A DAY IN BONDS He said that Lieut. Gen.

Jonathan M. Wainwright, the American had been an instructor at the Holy commander, could be presumed to be a prisoner of war because he (Continued on page two) stayed on Corregidor to the very end. The communique also revealed that the Japanese government has Child 8, Operated Car, Dad Paid $100, Loses License Year St. Louis, May A. Martindill, a chauffeur, of 7036A Tholozan avenue, was fined $100 and his driver's license suspended for one year yesterday by Police Judge Joseph B.

Catanzaro, who found him guilty of careless and drunken driving. Martindill a arrested on Hampton avenue when a police officer noticed that his automobile was being steered by Martindill's 8-year-old daughter, Charlotte. Diego Suarez Surrendered. Vichy, May 7--The French forces at Diego Suarez have surrendered but the remainder of the island of Madagascar will be defended the governor general of the Island in- Japanese troops in street fighting formed the Vichy, government to- and blowing up many buildings. I day.

Chicago, May Norman Collins, state administrator, D- Ilinois War Savings Staff, today called upon the people of Illinois to invest an average of 20 cents a day a person to help support the sons of Illinois fighting with the combat forces. By putting that amount into war savings bonds and stamps, Collins i said in an address before the cago Association of Commerce, the 8.000,000 residents of the state will imeet the Illinois quota of $49.300,200 for May set by the Treasury Department. (Continued on page two) MEN STILL UNAFRAID Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters, Australia, May 7--For the first time today. Gen.

Douglas did not mention the Philippines in his regular com- munique. But in a special statement on the surrender of Corregidor, which he left two months ago to assume his United Nations Southwest Pacific command, MacArthur said: "Corregidor needs no comment from me. It has sounded its own story at the mouth of its guns. It has scrolled its own epitaph on the enemy's tablets. But through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of grim, gaunt, ghastly men still unafraid." Temperature Goes Down to Point to Endanger Crops Residents of Edwardsvillc went about the city Thursday in top coats and were using other means I of protecting themselves from the cool weather.

The temperature declined to 44 degrees during the morning and most of Wednesday it remained at 60 degrees for a i maximum. Many were suffering I with colds and sore throats. A i cold win blew from the north. This is the season of the year when late frosts occur to cause much damage to crops. May 15 is about the latest date for local I frosts.

The present weather is very similar to that of a year ago. After the cool weather the first of the week many were forced to rekindle fires in their furnaces. A decline of several degrees is necessary to kill the more tender veg- 1 elation. lEWSPAPERr NEWSPAPER!.