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SfDE WEATHER Moderate to heavy rain this ai-temoon and tonight mixed with snow In mountains; slightly colder south and central portions tonight. The leading Newspaper of Western South Carolina VOL. XXIII. NO. 19 ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRB GREENWOOD, S.

MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 2, 1942 FEATURES BT NBA PRICE FIVE CENTS FBI SEIZES ESPIONAGE MATERIAL NEAR FORT BENNING OF MB con MM mm i THE I JOURNAL I FINAL raiWER mm J9 jam hires- sm BRITISH 'CHUTISTS ATTACK GERMANS IN FRANCE Details Strange Lacking OriMove y.HW'WM!"1 "v.1 mv i y- vi t) 1 i "-V! :1 wtf 'i t-t jr--t- if- wiJ it, a Here is some of the espionage of "enemy aliens at Columbus. Ga. material seized were photographs Infantry school, ttftcpnoio material seized by agents of the FBI in a swift and secret roundup The agents did not disclose the iiumber of arrests. Included in the of military Installations at neaiby Fort Bennlng. World's Urged British parachute troops, like the ones slmwn above, dropped into German-occupied France, destroyed the radio location appal Uis at Bruneval and attacked Nazi beach defenses irom the rear as the Royal Navy and an infantry landing party attacked from the channel.

Through the cleared sector the parachutists and their prisoners made their way to light naval forces offshore. Hitler High Command Admits That Armies Are Fighting Defensively FDR Reorganizes Army Into Three Basic Units New U. S. Destroyer Meets An 'Enemy Sub InMMm Details Of Encounter At Sea Related By Officer On New Vessel Planes Noted Unusual Marking Seen On Planes Bombing" MacArth-ur's Forces Washington, March 2 (A) The War Department reported today that General Douglas Mac Arthur's Philippine force were bombed by enemy planes with unusual markings whlcn "may have been Oerman-ot'ilt." The rakrt, made behind the defenders' lines on Uie Bataan penUi-sula. were local and failed to inflict damage, a communique said.

Three two-engine planes were said to have had unusual markings, being painted black wjth white crosses on the wings. Japan, the communique said. Is believed to have had German-built planes in reserve. Action Dwindles Oround operation on the peninsula meanwhile dwindled to a virtual standstill in the past 34 hours, the War Department advised. The text of the communique, number 130, based on reports received up to :30 a EWT.

The Philippine Theater: There were practically ground operations in Bataan during the part twenty-four hours." "Enemy air activities confined to some local bombing raids behind our lines. Ho damage was inflicted. Among the enemy aircraft participating in the bombing were three 2 -engine planes with unusual markings. They were painted black, with white crosses on the wings. They may liave been German-built planes, some of which Japan Is believed to have hed in reserve.

"3. There is nothing to report from other areas." Plane Crashes Into Sea, Killinsr Pilot, Near Myrtle Beach Myrtle Beach, March 3 (V-A pursuit plane went into a dive from a high altitude yesterday and killed Lieut. Werner C. Von Bertke-felt ow Alameda, Calif. The plane crashed about 300 yards from shore.

Boats went to the scene, found only debris and an oil slick. Farm Prices Rise 4 Points In Month Columbia. Marrh Frank p. Black, federal-state ag rlrultural statistician, said today the price South Carolina farmers received for their commodities rose four points during the month ended February 15. Black accredited the rise principally to the advance of nearly a cent a pound to the price of lint cotton.

The price of meat animals, chicken, hay and grain also gained during tho month. The rise compared favorably, lie said, to the decline of four points in farm prices for the nation a a whole. his work as grneral counsel for the Santee-Cooptr authority before making a decision. Bteti Next Chairman Tom B. Pearce of the Santce-Cooper board and Jefferies conferred during the day Should Jefferies decline the office, the code provides that the speaker of the House '(Sot Blatt of Barnwell) would succeed to being governor.

The constitution, however, takes the office no further than the Senate president, The constitution provides that en the president pro tempore succeeding, he "shall then forthwith by pro-cUmtaion convene the Senate in or. der that a president pro tempore may be chosen Situation On Some Parts Of Inland 'Obviously Critical' Advices Say LONDON ESTIMATES Informed circle In estimated today that the Japanese had landed five and a half dMOoni am ttJH mea on Java, Increasing e44maics by lSjOOt. These source predicted that less of material, rather than Uvea, wouM be the eontroOtaig factor in any defeat for the Japanese. "They are willing to garnets at feast dlvtstofM, or IMJta mem, en the tebjaygatloa of Ja- va," was sale. By Witt Haacock Bandoeng.

Java, (By to New York) 10:30 P. M. (13 Noon EST) March t-H) An Allied counter stroke delivered against Japanese Invasion forces wedging Into Java was declared officially tonight to have "developed satisfactorily" but all details of the hard-fighting defenss were kept secret, The fflcl war report ac knowledged flatly that "Tho situ ation lit some. patUjoL. Java Is ob- vlo sly critical" but added that the Invaders 'Were "receiving blows, hammer sad tonga" "Up to now," It continued.

"There is no information received about fifth, column activities. Meeting Foe "Everywhere oar troops are go ing to meet the Japanese "Although there Is no question of a direct threat to BaUvia, vital objectives are being made useless to rinka." The Dutch and Allied counter moves against the Invaders' three bsrd-won beachheads were described In the communique with these words: "From well-informed circles it is beard that action against the Japanese troops developed satisfactorily. Although In connection with the character of the opera- tlons no details can be published. It can be said that the enemy re ceived fair hits." Aneta reported that up to a short time before midnight there had been no word of any new Japanese landings on the Java coast or of the approach of any new Invasion armada, Tasfesb Amy Supported by a smashing aerial assault which has wrought havoc among Japanese on the beaches. Page Column 6 Third Of Name Vanderbilt Is Dead At 68 Miami.

March Un Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose rugged Individualism lost his family's great wealth to him for a tune but led to personal honors in military, en-rineerlng and financial fields. Is dead at W. Hlo colorful life ended at p. lan night aboard a yacht. The Ambassadress, which he chartered for the season after turning his own palatial yacht.

Winchester, and houseboat. SabU over to the navy for 81 each, kr' He was stricken Saturday with cerebral homorrhage aboard Ambassadress, moored to a pier in Miami's yacht basin. His last hours were spent under an oxygen tent. The body will be sent to New York Tuesday for services and burial. Cornelius, great-grandson of Commodore Vanderbilt and third to bear the name of the founder of the family fortune, chose to forego control of tha family's vast railroad snd other interest, his rtghtui inheritance, and carve out a career of Us own.

He gained fame as an inventor, engineer, soldier, business man nd financier. New York. March 2. A brand new United States destroyer recently met and almost certainly dealt successfully with, an enemy submarine within 48 hours of the tlrie her trim prcw first sliced through the cold North Atlantic, the Third Naval district disclosed today. Details of the encounter, based upon the official record of the new vessel and the observations of a public relations officer temporarily assigned to her, were made public by authorisation of Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commandant of the Third Naval District and commander of the eastern tea frontier.

The destroyer, with new crew. steamed out of a northern port al most before her last coat of gray war paint was dry. Launched only last -September, she had never had any, test and even her guns had never been tried. Many of her crew were in experienced at sea But all had been drilled thoroughly ashore in the duUes of their respective stations. Used Every Trick Heavy going was encountered as the new.

destroyed struck open sea. Sailors, veterans and newcomers alike were seasick. Shortly before 10 o'clock on the Page Column Governorless State Imperative To Halt Nazi Drive Now By DeWtti MacKewatn Vl Me World War Anl)t Each passing day gives fresh support to the Russian call for an all-out Allied offensive In the spring against military Frankenstein perhaps even Including a grand invasion of western across the English Channel. Paradoxically enough, it's the stesdity mounting Japanese success which makes it Imperative that the Nazi chief be stopped quickly. He, and not the Mikado, is the atlas who is lugging the Axis about on his back, and the only way the Axis can be smash ed is through Hitler, He mustn't be allowed time to profit by the Jap conquests.

The hard-hitting Muscovites bold that the Germans, can be knocked out in the new bloodbath which will begin with the good weather. Whether that appraisal is well-founded, this much seems sure: Mutt KtopMd If The backbone of tho Nazi military might can't be broken this coining spring and summer, then the Allies 'wilt have a Jong and terrible conflict on their hands, with world-rhao as one certain outcome. But if we can definitely cripple the Ilitlorian striking-power, then our dangerous path will open Into a broad highway whose end we can see. The Importance of the Immediate futuro was stressed at the week-end by President Roosevelt In his letter to Douald Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board. Emphasizing the urgency of speeding up production, Mr.

Roosevelt said: "The months just ahead are tho Page Column 5 Once before a president of the Senate has become governor. In 1880, Thomas B. Jeter of Union succeeded to the executive office when Oov. Wade Hampton resigned to go to the V. 8.

Senate and W. D. Simpson of Laurens resigned shortly after to become chief justice of the. state supreme court. While no one has ever declined the governorship.

Senator Alan Johnstone of Newberry, president pro tempore of the Senate, declined to accept the office of lieutenant governor when Wilson a. Harvey became governor succeeding Got. Robert Cooper, who resigned to accept a federal post in 1923. Statement Is One Of Broadest Admissions Of Red Striking Power By The Associated Press The Hitler high command gave the German people today an Ink- ling of the scope of the Russian' counter-offensive, with the added admission that the Reich's armies were fighting only derenslvely. The first sentence of the.

daily war communique, confessing this loss of Initiative, saw: "In the Crimea, on the Donets front and southeast aroin Leningrad) to Lake Ilmeri, defensive lighting still continues." It was one of the broadest admissions thus far of the Red army's striking power. Libyan AcUvlty The communique added vaguely that "additional (Russian tanks" had been destroyed on the Kerch peninsula, a part of the Crimean front that a transport had been sunk by German torpedo planes off Kerch Strait and that a Russian engine factory and airdrome had been bombed. The communiques from Berlin. Rome and Cairo unanimously reported patrol activity in eastern Libya, the British declaring that a small Axis column was repulsed by artillery fire east of El MechlU. Rome outdid Berlin In reporting that the Germans had destroyed 12 British planes.

Berlin claimed only 10. Convey Dispersed Both Rome and Berlin reported the customary air attacks on Malta. In the western air and sea warfare, the Oermans said two convoys were "dispersed" Jy gunfire from the French shore of the English Channel The Hitler command reported a February toll of 79 merchant ships totaling 625,400 tons in which submarines were credited with 66 stnk'ngs of 448,400 tons. A British motor torpedoboat attack on a Oertnan ship in the English Channel was admitted in the communique which said, however. that one of the UUle attackers was sunk.

Seven Are Injured As Derails Floral City, March Six passengers and a trainmen vrere Injured Saturday night in the derailment of eight cars of the northbound Florida to Chicago Southland, two miles south of here. Atlantic Coast Line railroad officials blamed the wreck on a metal defect in a rail. Three Pullman cars. three couches, a diner and an express car left the rails but did not overturn. Army Ground And Air Forces And Services Of Supply In New System Washington, March 3.

Vr- Presldent Roosevelt ordered today streamlined reorganization of the army, giving new recognition to the importance of the air force. Abolishing numerous time- hon ored bureaus, Mr. Roosevelt's ex ecutive order grouped military functions into tnree basic units: The army ground forces, army air forces- and service of supply. Each will be under a commanding gen eral and all will be under the chief of staff, General George C. Mar shall.

The effect was to group al the old arms such as infantry, artillery, and cavalry Into one unit, and the air forces into another, separating the function of supply in a third. The air force swere given a semi- autonomous status under their own chief. Lieutenant General Henry H. Arnold last year a time when congressional champions were de-Page 4 Column 1 Cadet Has Excellent Reason For Wishing To Be Transferred Sumter, March S. W) Ont aviation cadet at Shaw Field neat hero Is seriously conHlderlnjg ap plying for transfer to some other training center.

The reason: On a routine Inspection tour the other morning an officer noticed the picture of a girl on tbc uewly-anived Cadet's desk. MV' Iub clotwr to look at the reproduction of loveliness, the officer found the picture was that of bis own (h hud thought) girl. Ic the lower corner Of the photograph Iih read an inscription, "wit a love, from Instructions On Blackout Received J. A. Greaham, chairman of the Greenwood County Council of Civilian Defense, received the Tollowlng telegram this afternoon from G.

Heyward MaHon, lireetor ef the South Carotin Council for Defense: "It is requested office of Civilian Defense that we uf row to take steps to obtain uediate blackoet antU fnrtJber soUce of all lighting which Is sot capable of being pet out at a notneat's notice. Please reave cooperation In extingeishment ef iQ advertising signs, store wta-Imr displays or other ancoatroll-id lightbig which cannot be tUsntnated at once in the event an alert." House Group Hits Agencies Of Farm Aid Washington. March 3. (P The House' appropriations committee recommended today that Congress prohibit the Commodity Credit. Corporation selling its farm stocks at less than parity, a provision President Roosevelt opposed unsuc cessfully In tho Senate last week.

Sending a' supply bill for the Agriculture Department to the House, the committee inserted a provision which said that no part of the Commodity Credit Corpora tton's approriatlona could used for administrative exenses in con nectlon with the sale of govern ment-owned stocks "at less than parity." The Senate last week directly forbade sales at Jess than parity a lew nours aiwr uie iciut ron the President was read whlcn criti cized those who were seeking a (ew dollars' more for the farmer. In a rtDort accompanying the bill, which was 45,787361 less than the deDartment's funds for this year the committee accused the Farm Security Administration or "carrying on experiments In coilec tlve farmlna- under a plan which appears to resemble the practice of collective farmis- in Communist Russia." The bill snntianed a prohibition against any new projects of such Nature and a ban on loans of more than $3,500 to any farmer under the rural rehabilitation program. Jock Whitney Weds Former Mate Of President's Son New York, March 3 Wf his chauffeur, valet and secreUr among the guests, Hay (Jock1 Whitney, 3T. one t'. the natlon'i wealthiest men, was married yesterday to Mrs.

Betsy Gushing Room; velt, 33, former wife of Samct Roosevelt, eldest son of the Pit si dent. Secret Service agents, on because of the presence of the Prev ident's granddaughters, Kate au Sara Delano Roosevelt, aged 6 a.c 9, also attended the simply cere mony In the home of the bride 'i mother, Mrs. Harvey Cushlng. Immediately after a reception ai the apartment of the bride's sister, Mrs. Vincent Astor, the couple leu for a short honeymoon at Greenwood Plantation, a Whitney estate at ThomasvUle.

Oa. Mrs. Whitney's marriage tu James Roosevelt ended in divorce March 10, 1941. Disaster By Wholesale Is Seen At Sea An East Coast Canadian Port. March 2.

(P) A. tale of wholesale disaster striking suddenly In the night far at sea has boen brought here by survivors of a convoy which lost at least four of it merchants ships when it was caught by a pack of 'U-boats In mid-Atlantic. Resetted seamen, lil men from the four vessels, were brought to port yesterday. Their accounts. Indicating that the westward plodding convoy may have leii trailed by submarines for days, put as high-as nine the number of mer-rhantment torpedoed.

'8otne Uie survivors, the crews of three tankers and one freighter, were picked up by a United States warship. How many of the other torpedoed ships went down and how many men were lost was not disclosed. Survivors rrotu one Bhip, of whose crew 38 men are missing, said the vessel was struck at 3 a. m. and sank before a boat could be lowered.

The 39-man crew of another ship arrived intact, rescued after several hours In three lifeboats on the dark, tossing Atlantic. One seaman said eeven vessels were torpedoed on the night of the attack more than a week ago and that two more were hit the next morning: another said the attack went on for three days; a third reported that sbunding do-vice detected tlvo U-boats in the raid. "There were plenty of torpedoes that missed their mark," said one seaman. "They let loose almost enough to sink the British navy." High praise came for several men for the rescue work of a fast British coastal ship in the convoy. One man described her work as "one of the most heroic acts of the merchant marine in this war." Introducing.

Newcomer the feature writer brought to reader of The tndex-Jixirnal is Ernie Pyle who today presents hi first article a series. The Fyle series entitled "The Raving Reporter" will be seen to the place of Wert brook Fegier's Fair Enough" while Mr. regler is' on vacation." S. CLqIs Without Leader For Third Day As Jefferies Ponders Move Columbia, March 3 VP) President Pro Tempore R. M.

Jefferies of the South Carolina Senate, constitutional successor to the office of governor, said this morning he would make some statement late today on whether he would accept or decline the highest tate honor. The governorship was in its third day of vacancy, following the death of J. E. Harley, who had succeeded to the post from being lieutenant governor when Governor Burnet R. Ma j-bank was named to the 0.

8. Senate in a special election last fall. Jefferies has stated that he was considering his position in, the Senate, where he is also chairman of the powerful finance commute, and -4.