Kingsport Times from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

WEATHER FORECAST Somewhat cooler tonight Monday high 80 low last nifeht 48 Today noon 7L HIOME EDITION -v Vol XXVII No 107 Kingsport Tennessee Tuesday May 5 1942 Five Cents 10 Pages UvU(ol 'i 1 '5 1 I Civilian Iron Steel Use Ordered Halted Washington The iron and steel that go into the product of peaceful and pleasant living today were ordered poured into the crucibles of war General conservation torder M-126 the most sweeping yet issued by the war production board directs thousands of manufacturing plants1 to stop within 90 days all use of the metals needed for guns and planes and tanks and bullets Manufacturers of more than 400 rs TQO 4 SV 5 Japs 670 Miles From Chungking Chungking JP Japanese troopt invaded Yunnan Pr ovine today after driving up the Burma Road and crossing the shallow Wanting river-670 miles from this capital a military spokesman said Bitter fighting is in progress in the area around the border town of Wanting sliH in Chinese hands the spokesman reported He declared that destruction of the-Chinese section of the Burma Road which winds through sheer mountains and gaping gorges had not yet been necessary but that the Chinese would carry out their scorched earth policy if necessary (The-Japanese claimed their air force already had carried the war far into Yunnan Province with a heavy raid on Yungchang about 100 miles inside the province where the Burma Road crosses the upper reaches of the Great Mekong river) Drive 500 Miles Thus in little less than two months the Japanese invaders of Biftma had driven 500 miles from Rangoon to back door The great Burma port which the Japanese have since utilized as its supply base fell March 8 The Japanese appeared intent upon severing communications between the Chinese of the left flank and the British of the at the wild mountain approaches to India the spokesman said The enemy was expected to concentrate his main effort toward capturing the strategic North Burma town of Bhamo some 170 miles north of devastated Mandalay to seal off an alternate terminus of the Burma Road the spokesman qdded A column already is moving north from Mandalay along the Irrawaddy river Bombers Raid Japanese Air Base New Delhi JP Huge United States bombers drove through a heavy thunderstorm early today and attacked a major Japanese air base just of Rangoon where 70 enemy aircraf had been sighted The great multi-motored crafts of Maj Gen Lewis command dodged a concentration of searchlights and ground fira to drop 250 and 500-pound bombs which caused many fires and large explosions at 'Mingaladon airdrome communique said Previous aerial reconnaissance had established the presence of the 70 Japanese planes Eight Japanese fighter planes were observed but they stayed clear of the gun-bristling raiders All the American craft returned undamped to their bases Chinese Guerrillas Raid Occupied Cities Chungking China JP The Chinese Central New Agency report-led today that Chinese guerrillas have made big-scale raids since April 20 an 15 Japanese-occupied cities including Shanghai Nanking Hangchow Nanchang Ningpo Wuhu and Amoy It said loyal Chinese inside the cities co-operated by throwing bombs starting fires and creating tiirmoiL President of Peru To Arrive In Today Miami Fla JP President Manuel Prado chief executive of Peru is scheduled to arrive late today as a guest of the government on a good neighbor visit during which he will observe the rising tide of war materials flowing from United States factories The first South American chief executive to visit the United States while in office President Prado was invited by President Roosevelt Council Supports Madagascar Move JP Members of th Pacific War Council met at the White House today discussed the occupation of Madagascar and applauded it afterward as an essential and highly important strategic step The council on the seven United Nations fighting in the Pacific wrar theater are represented meets weekly to canvass thegw'hole field of war strategy and supply Walter Nash New Zealand minister described the taking over ol Madagascar as good job" which would contribute to the defense ol the Indian Ocean He added that this action was good for Francs' and for the French people -A 1 2 3 4 Destroyers! a four-base hit against the Axis to make Schicklegruber gnaw another rug Four new destroyers slide down the ways- at Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co's Kearny yards in first quadruple naval launching Left to right top to bottom are the Fletcher Radford Mervine and Quick cJ -J Commandos Invade Vichy Island (By The iitorlitd Press) Bitter fighting reported ragging today on the north end of 1000-mile-long French Madagascar the world's fourth largest Island as British sea-bourne forces attacked toward the Diego Suarez naval base after a surprise landing 86-year-old Chief of State Petain and Marshal Darlan anti-British chief of French armed forces were reported to have sent a message to the commander in chief at Madagascar urging the troops to attack and defend the honor of the French flag" (Map of Madagascar on page 10) London military quarters said the British striking to forestall a threatened axis attempt to ieize the strategic territory had captured a French battery "French Casualties" A German broadcast said there had been French casualties and that fighting continued more than 23 hours after British troops landed early Monday at Courier Bay 13 miles across the' isthmus from -Diego Suarez The broadcast said it was not known yet w'hether the British landing operations had succeeded DNB the German news agency reported that a French submarine and a tender had been sunk at Madagascar resisting the British landing The island 800 miles off the east coast of South Africa commands allied sea lanes to the Middle East Jndia and China i A British war office communique said the landing force consisted of regular troops and a small contingent of service identified as commandos met little opposition forces have landed at Courier Bay covered by naval aircraft with the intention of proceeding across the isthmus to the naval base at Diego the British communique said Approved By is hopled that the "'French authorities will accept the offer of the United Nations to help in defense of the island against axis A Washington statement last night "declared the dawn landing was made with full approval and support of the government of the United States" and hinted at active American military aid against resistance A Tokyo broadcast commented angrily: Madagascar- occupation la a direct aggression against Vichy And is bound to result in a further cooling of relations with the United Nations and bring closer cooperation between Berlin and Italy" Both Washington and London announcements made it clear that the occupation would not intentionally intef fere 'with the French status of Madagascar and that the Wand would be in trust far fTance" against threatened axis Regression 17 Selectees Rejected By Army Seventeen selectees of tte con-wigent which left here Friday been tentatively rejected at army Induction center draft board Juicers said they had been informed today the men are still being lnuction station await- final action on their cases it said ra these men draft board erks said may have remediable PnjWcal defects In which case they be given an opportunity to take frective treatment at Army ex-f ns: When treatment has been they will again be sublet to Army call Rale Alexander Seeks nomination CreeneviUe Tenn Dale former major league tar today went tb bat in county poetical contest the democratic nomination sheriff klfc fellow who once played fv basa tor Detroit and Boston i American League and this Piloting Greeneville in the a fan jCa8ue maintain- arin home in Greene county or many years Primary will be held Satur- common products In every day use were affected along with thousands of wholesalers distributors jobbers retailers and aU their employes The consuming public was warned against receiving articles known to have been produced In violation of the order and violation was made a crime punishable by fine or imprisonment Knockout Blow The order was regarded as a knockout blow to the durable goods industry Any plant that can not shift to the manufacture of war materials must shut down for the duration There were some exceptions such as the making of certain articles needed for' repair or maintenance work hospital equipment etc but the over-all effect was to ban the manufacture of Registrations 1 Confoosin 1 To Some Persons Double double toil and trouble Now that the government seems to be conducting an average of one registration a week sugar and the draft appear to have become unhappily confused in the minds of a number of persons At Washington School Monday night where sugar rationing registrars held forth a man asked where he was supposed to go to sign up for the draft During the Selective Service registration April 27 another gentleman patiently answered the questions put to him then asked hopefully now' must I do to get Three Men Held In Driver Death Harlan Ky JP Sheriff Clinton Ball today reported that three men were being questioned at Fredericksburg Va in connection with the death of Joe Christian 48-year-old Louellen Ky taxicab driver whose body was found on Black Mountain near Lynch yesterday Th'e sheriff1 said the men whom he identified as Howard Hensley 30 of Yancey Sherman Clouse 28 of Harlan and Manzo Shepherd 30 or Harlan were arrested in Fredericksburg on a charge of stealing an automobile here He said they previously had been questioned here about Christian's disappearance but had been released before the taxi body was found throat' was cut He had been missing since April 25 His taxi was found burned the day after his disappearance The body was found yesterday more than 40 miles away Red Arfoies Smash At Nazi Bases (Bjr The AMOctated Free) Marshal Semeon Red armies were reported hammering at three key German bases in the Ukraine today attacking in the vicinities of Kursk Kharkov and Taganrog while in the north the defenders of Leningrad strove desperately to break the Nazi siege ring huge-scale assaults on a 300-mile front ranging from the Sea of Azov half way to Moscow coincided with a special message he sent yesterday to residents of the German-occupied Ukraine: Red army is on its way to liberate Other European war developments: British warplanes heavily bombed the great Skoda armament works at Pilsen in Nazi-occupied former Czecho-Slovakia before dawn today dropped flares and leaflets aver Vichy capital of unoccupied France and attacked the big war foundries city of Stuttgart in southwest Germany Vital War Center Stuttgart is the reported headquarters of the Bosch electrical works the Daimler and Benz airplane engine factories and other vital military targets A German broadcast said that the RAF Vichy with incendiary bombs and that French anti-aircraft batteries went into action but Vichy dispatches said the planes merely dropped propaganda and observation flares The raiders also flew over Clermont-Ferrand 30 miles from Vichy Other RAF planes carrying out a widespread series of night attacks pounded the docks at Nantes France and bombed shipping off the coasts of Holland and Norway German night raiders struck back with a 30-plane attack on the English south coast dropping incendiaries and high-explosive bombs on Cowes and Eastbourne Beat Off Attacks Adolf field headquarters asserted that the Nazis had beaten off attacks by enemy and declared that offensive" operations by German troops for the improvement at their own positions were carried With signs of long-awaited grand offensive still missing German newspapers took a grimmer tone and exhorted German war workers to speed up production for last gigantic struggle" A bulletin from Red army headquarters said Russian troops offensive battles on several sectors of the front and improved their and dispatches implied that the Soviet armies had seized the initiative to break the muddy spring stalemate Defenders of long-besieged Leningrad were pictured as striking savagely at the Germans a communique reporting that assaults left hundred enemy dead on the field of Dozen RAF Men 44 Days In Boat Escaping Japs Melbourne Australia iP 12 air-fpree men have reached Australia affer sailing for 44 days across 1500 miles' of open sea from Java in a lifeboat a feat which naval authorities acclaimed as one of the great open boat voyages of history RAF Wing Commander Jeudwine was permitted today to tell the story of the navigation feat- in which he and his companions eight Australians and three other Britons made good their daring escape from the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies They were becalmed and storm-damaged They were menaced by a whale They were seen but ignored by a Japanese submarine and unseen by an Australian flying boat which they hopefully sighted When the escape was planned Jeudwine related only two lifeboats and one motorboat could be found When they set out March 6 he said there were 30 men in each lifeboat and five in the motorboat along with a limited food supply a sextant two compasses and one map Unfortunately the motorboat and one lifeboat were wrecked in a narrow passage and all but the chosen dozen picked just as an air crew would be for a had to stay behind BULLETINS No Rupture Vichy France IP Chief of Government Laval announced tonight that he had told the Charge drAfTaires this morning that under no circumstances would France make the' first move toward a rupture between France and the United States Attack Navy Base London Bctish commandos marines and infantry landed on the northern tip of Madagascar today and a Vichy news agency broadcast that they were attacking the strong French naval base of Diego Suarez from the rear while warships and squadrons of airplanes assaulted the harbor frontally 'Will Defend Island' Vichy Unoccupied France JP Brevie secretary of state for colonies in the Laval government declared tonight that- the Vichy forces on Madagascar were resolved to defend the island against the British occupation expedition and saluted the troops guarding the honor of the there Patterson Says Army to Build Up To 6 Million Men Washington JP The army is i building up to a strength of 6000- 000 men Undersecretary of War Patterson disclosed today in testi-tJ fying for the continuance of war department powers to commission civilians as army officers PatterSon pleaded with the house military committee not to tage the whole effort by putting) us in a through strict restrictions on commission-1 ing Defending the present policy of issuing commissions for adminis-' trative and technical personnel he said claim the system is but with an army of six million men not all of the officers would the very best Previously it has been announced that the goal for this year was an army of 3600000 men When the 6000000 figure could be attained was not disclosed Army the army leaders in this Patterson urged saying they should not be and by rules on whom they may or may not use Under the proposed ban on commissioning civilians written into the pending army bill Patterson said Sergeant Alvin York World War hero be because ho held no commission in the last war The" war department he added in mind a commission for Sergeant Representative Faddis (D-Pa) sponsor of the amendment told Patterson he was willing to modify the proposal any way that will make it workable" As originally approved the amendment would permit the issuance of army commissions only to graduates of recognized military training schools enlisted men who have completed a course in an school or men who have held commissions in the national guard the reserve officers training corps or in the Wofld War greater powers to the Gestapo with which the army frequently has clashed' There was no hint in the information reaching London whether the Von Brauchitsch clique threatened Hitler with displacement or promised him some kind of chancellorship in the new order they would institute if his plans failed the source said The informant added that he-believed the dissident generals might want to turn the campaign elsewhere rather to Russia and to halt offensive warfare and seek to hold Germany's gains by defensive fighting The clique might even strive by the removal of Hitlerism to gain a negotiated peace favorable to Germany the source said The informant said there had been hints of some kind of German political friction involving Reichsmarshal Herman Wilhelm Goering Allied Air Force Blasts At Japanese Pacific Bases such common products as bath tubs cash registers cigarette lighters mail boxes fountain pens pie plates waste baskets tea pots swivel chairs slide fasteners voting machines and all novelties and souvenirs and Christmas tree ornaments When present stocks are exhausted the handyman ground the house will have to fashion his own fixtures saws hammers and screw drivers were excepted from the list The decree was the avalanche that followed preliminary orders against the manufacture of automobiles refrigerators vacuum cleaners typewriters and other selected articles Limited production be permitted for 90 'days tut after that no metal way be used gold or Heavy Bombings And Shelling Rake Corregidor States defenders of Corregidor were holding out today against relentless Japanese bombing and shelling and a new Japanese landing on the southern Island of Mindanao was being resisted stubbornly The air raids on Corregidor sank the 560-ton United States gunboat Mindanao but there were no casualties among the crew which normally numbered about 80 The War Department communique late yesterday said that during the Jay General forces defending the island forts still in American hands at the entrance to Manila Bay were bombarded for five hours by Japanese artillery There were 13 separate air attacks on Corregidor for the third consecutive day Landings on Mindanao were made from four transports and were believed to be aimed at seizure of remaining airfields such as those used by American bombers from Australia last month in raids on the Manila area 44 Rescued By Planes i Miami Fla JP Far-ranging United States naval planes -escued more than half of the 44 men including one passenger who took to lifeboats in the Atlantic after an enemy submarine sank a spic-and-span new British freighter on her maiden voyage Twenty-four men were picked up by planes which alighted on the sea Eight were flown to Bermuda and the rest to a Florida naval air station The remaining 20 men their lifeboats separated in a tropical wind and rain storm were rescued by passing ships river while 96 skilled hard-rock drillers remained idle petition on behalf of the drillers was filed with the NLRB last week protesting an agreement between the Morrison-Knudson Co and the American Federation of Labor union providing for a closed shop Eugene Worrell and Leonard Hal! attorneys representing the protestants said the workmen were discharged because they declined to join the union John Turner of Chattanooga representative of the International Hod Building and Common Laborers Union of America said the closed shop contract with the company was signed on April 16- TV A has no part in the dispute since the tunnel work contract was let to the Morrison-Knudson Co and the Utah Construction Co Allied Headquarters Allied air forces again have smashed forcefully at Japanese island bases above Australia and beaten off another enemy raid on on tiong of a body to known as the Pott Moresby a communique an- Supply unclL nounced today Members of the council will be: It listed" five Japanese planes A Beasley minister of sup-as hit by Allied fighters defend- ply Hormon Makin minising the United Nations New Guinea er 0f naVy and munitions outpost against a raiding air squad- Keane minister of trade and cus- i 3 3 ron of nine heavy bombers escorted by ten zero naval fighters four of the hit raiders were bombers the communique said and the raid aimed at an airdrome was "without Airdromes also were the objectives of Allied raiders over both Lae New Guinea and Rabul New Britain At Lae the communique said an -undisclosed number of grounded enemy aircraft were damaged by attacking fighter forces and at Rabul bombers scored direct hits on thrpe planes spread bombs over an area where 20 others were dispersed and started fires in supply dumps The Australian war cabinet in a meeting oday in Canberra decided the personnel purpose and func- toms Dedman minister of war organization and industrial research a representative of the United States government and the chairman of the Allied Supply Committee who has not yet been chosen Beasley will serve as chairman and the American representative deputy chairman The council primarily will be a co-ordinating planning and advisory body with power to make recommendations to Prime Minister John Curtin as a link with General Douglas MacArthur regarding executive action vhich should be taken S- his former commander in chief and Von friends and hoped his appointment would win oyer critics or (2) That he was beginning to recognize bis weakness and was seeking compromises Von Brauchitsch was one of the strongest opponents of plan for holding the forward positions in Russia through the winter and counselled falling back front- Moscow long before Hitler agreed Von Brauchitsch was said have the confidence and backing of sifeh important military leaders as Field Marshal Fedor von Bock Col Gen Franz Holder and Field Marshal Gen Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt recently appointed commander of the German and occupied coasts of Europe All three were reported distrustful of generalship and his extension of Hitler Reported To Have Received Ultimatum From Generals On Drive NLRB Representative Probes Work Stoppage London JP A group of Adplf generals headed by Field Marshal Walter Von Brauchitsch was reported today to have told the Fuehrer bluntly that if his 1942 campaign in Russia fails they will try to institute for Germany an alternate plan of their own calling for of the Nazi A responsible source with unusually reliable information about conditions inside Germany said Hitler had accepted this challenge calmly and appointed Von Brauchitsch a member of the supreme command Hitlertrelieved Von Brauchitsch as commander in chief last Dec 2 i and announced that he himself relying on his had assumed direct command of his armies The source said the incident might be interpreted in two ways: (1) That Hitler was confident of victory but needed the help of Bristol Tenn iP John A Penelo field examiner from the Baltimore office of the National Labor Relations Board arrived in Bristol this morning to investigate a complaint filed with the board by 96 tunnel construction workers who contend their refusal to join a closed shop union resulted in their being discharged by their employers a private company building under contract a river diversion tunnel at Big Creek for the South Hol-ston dam of the Tennessee Valley Authority Penelo conferred this morning with Eugene Worrell who as attorney for the protesting workers requested an NLRB investigation and appealed for a decision in their favor including reinstatement on the jobs with back pay About 60 ordinary laborers were reported to be at work at the dam site on the Holston.