The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 1

AtB0O Tomorrow 'r i i Murfreesboro-The Friendly City Weather Rather warm and windy with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight, becoming cooler in extereme west by morning. AX RUTHERFORD COUNTY'S HOME AZWPAPEU SINCE 1849 Volume 93 No. 64 Associated Press Service Wednesday Afternoon, May 13, 1942. By Carrier, Per Week, 15c Single Copy 5c IB rfii mil Hitler Fights Br. John B.

Clark Accepts Presidency Of TCW; Will Assume Positio June 1 Mrs. MacArthur Cavalcade Sells $226,000 In Bonds First Day; Here Thursday Kerch Battle Spring Drive Rehearsal Nazis Are Making Widespread Feeler Attacks Along Kest Of Russian Front Moscow. (UP) "Russia yi has thrown her aHnidable Black Sea fleet into" the vio- lent battle for the Crimea. Soviet warships are said to be playing an important role in the battle, The Nazis also are using sea-power, but re parti are" vague to details. NEYTTCWIIEAD Mav Attend Rond Rally Hcrcu C(Hnniencmeiit At Tennessee College Is Set For June 0 Huge Crowds Meet AtEach Stojv On Itinerarv Over $226,000 worth of bonds sold on, the first day of the Mrs.

MacArthur, Bond Cavalcade with the biggest sales yet to come! That was the thrilling report given by Lipe Henslee, state chairman of bond sales and collector of internal revenue, as tTie cavalcade made its first stop tms morning at That figure was expected to be swelled by purchases at Tullahoma and Winchester before noon, and -also by reports coming in from towns already visited. "Results exceed anything we had hoped for," commented Earle Rees, Rutherford County- chairman of industrial and commercial bond salesJ "We're selling, about $50,000 or $60,000 worth at every town." Before the day is out, the caval-caders are expected to make stops at Fayetteville, isburg, Pulaski and LawTence-burg, where they will-spend the night. Tomorrow's itinerary will include Columbia, Franklin and Nashville. All along their route today the Cavalcaders were greeted by throngs- of -well-wishers many pf llGiTt WCfc FcELCly Caaii lif swell the huge bond sales. Leaving Chattanooga, where they spent last night, the buses, -heralded by state highway patrol-menv paused briefly at Jasper and arid-made their first stop at Manchester; where they were greeted by Postmaster Hugh J.

Doak. An enthusiastic crowd gathered on the lawn, where a booth was set up for the 1 sale of bonds.7 John Henderson started the selling with purchase of $300 worth 5 of "victory insurance," and Weleo in ellonie-To Top Any Reception Of Entire Tour Home folks are out to top any reception which the Mrs. MacAr-thu' -Bond Cavalcade-- has" seen since its departure from here when the "ambassadors of patriotism" return tp Murfreesboro at 3:15 p.m. Thursday. James Dr Richardson, chairman of the committee, stated today that the group will be met by the reception committee on the public square, and not at the Stones River National cemetery, as originally scheduled! The is -being made on account of the auction sale scheduled to be held on the square at 2:30 p.m.

Both the T.S.C.-and the C.H.S. bands will greet, the Bond Cavalcade on its return home. The welcoming address wilt be "givenby Mr. Richardson. Lieut.

Col. J. M. Arvey, Judge Advocate 01 the 33rd division at Col. Arvey before his induc-tion into service was an alder man of the finance committee of the City of Chicago.

He is considered one of the foremost speakers in the state of Illinois. Brig. Gen. Frank C. Mahin, commanding officer of the 33rd division, will also be in Murfreesboro for the occasion if It is at all" possible, he informed Harold H.

Earthman, county 'bond sale yesterday. "The program begins at 2:30 p.m. Thursday wtt-h- the auction. It with elcomingof the Cavalcade home. A group of tars will assemble at Stones River National-cemetery and "will escort1 the Cavalcade home, Mr.

Richardson said. -The speaking will follow the return of the Cavalcade, with music (Continued on Page Six) Rites Today For Earl Leonard Earl Leonard, 36, of, Walter died yesterday at local hospital following a brief illness. -Finalrites-were- held -this-af ternoon at 2 p.m, at Jennings-Ayers Funeral home, under direction of Elder Elmer Smith, ministerf WestvueGhurch of Christ, and burial was in Evergreen Cemetery. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

J. W. Leonard; two sisters, Mrs. Lester Smith of Florence- and -Mrs. RufusWilson Walter Hill; six brbthers, Melvin of Florence; W.

E. of Kittrell; Richard of Halls Hill; Carl of Walter Hill; Cordell of Murfreesboro and Dye of LaVergne. S0 i.m Dr.John; Bunyan Clark, of rMerceFTJniversTty, Macon, (above) today accepted the position of president of Tennessee College for Women -which "was" tendered "hftn the board of trustees. He) is expected to assume his duties June 1. Will Expand TSC Engineering Drawing Glasses After a visit by a U-T Emergency department committee jecently, the classes in engineering draw-, ing, now being offered" the public at night at Tennessee State Tinder the "sponsorship of theTTJriF versity, are to be expanded to include- other subjects that will help in securing positions in war industries, vacated by men now in the armed forces, Professor O.

L. Freeman, head of the local program, announced this, morning. The entire-program is being offered through the Federal Government, who has appropriated for the training of men and women on various" jobs which are now being filled by men. who wili be inducted into the military service in the new future. The local college has arranged for courses in-drafting, engineer- (Coni'nued on Page Six) RUTHERFORD HOSPITAL -Births: Mr.

and Mrs. Claude R. Pearson, Christiana, baby boy. Mr. and Mrs.

Jess Beesley, Route 2, baby girl. Admitted: Jenkins, Murfreesboro. Thomas E. Thompson, Route 4, Murfreesboro. Discharged: Mrs.

Mamie Adams, D.onclson. Thomas tSegall, Rockvale. Charles Jones, Braxton, Miss. U. Agreements (UP) Chief of Government Pierre Laval has sent to Washington a note protest-t ing the United States''negotia-, tions on- Martinique as raising a "grave question." By the united Press Adolf Hitler is making a bitter behindrthe-scenes fight under mine negotiations at Martinique.

Unconfirmed Vichy reports say Hitler has ordered. the French to fcuttle any merhcant ships at Martinique rather than let them fall, into Allied handg. -r Allied quarters have not confirmed that Martinique's merchant ships are involved in the negotiations. But the Axis has contended that the Statea. seeks 1112,000 tons of ships at Martinique most of it in tankers.

Ijondon circles xmderstand Hitler is pushing for a showdown on German-Vichy collaboration, with a decision-imminent. While in Moscow, the. Soviet news agency quotes rumors that Laval has agreed in principal to French fleet to Hit ler. The Russian agency says the deal was worked out during talks between. Laval and Marshal Goer-ing a rumored conference which neither Vichy nor Berlin has confirmed The German pressure on France obviously is increasing.

In the occupied aTea, Nazi military authorities have put through a slave-labor decree imposing minimum hours work. The law affects all industries working- "directly-? indirectljfor the Nazis. And, since those fac tories which. work "for "the Germans, dari't get jraw. materials, it thus affects virtually allJFrench industry.

7 London diplomats say Hitler is ready to write-off Italian and (Continued on Page Six) Revolt Against 1 Axis Spreads TliroiighEiirope New York, May 13 (UP) From the Balkans to Norway, Axis rule gets uneasier day by Axis powers: are reported- spuabbling among themselves. The British radio reports big demonstrations in Rumania against Hungary. And the Vichy radio says 18 persons wer condemned to death in Bulgaria for anti-Nazi activity. In France, a textile mill has been set afire. Additional hundreds of -Gestapo agents are reported to have arrived in Norway to fight mounting resistance to the Quisling regime.

According to the British radio, Norwegian ship owners have joined teachers andjawyers in resigning from organizations rather than help Quisling. The Moscow radio says that a group of Italians have been court-martialled in southern Italy for refusing to submit to forced laboiv The Briiish radio, in a Turkey dispatch, says that a special Nazi commission" has arrived in Athens to investigate the refusal of Axis troops to leave Greece for the eastern front. Services Today; For Mrs. Robinson Mrs. Effie Boren Robinson died yesterday afternoon 'at her home on Burtonstreet and will be "buried in Evergreen Cemetery after funeral rites to be held at 5 p.m.

today at the home by the Reverends E. W. Williams and W. A. Beasley.

Woodfih and Moore will be in charge of arrangements. She Was born in Marshall County but had made her home here for the past 35 years. Survivors include her husband, J. Robinson a daughter, Mary and a son, William, of Murfreesboro; a brother, R. E.

Boren, two sisters, Mrs. Pierce Booth and Miss Mattie Boren, and her mother, Mrs. Belle Boren, all" of Nashville." Pallbearers will be Winfred Dun-naway, Mitchell Kelly, Walter Smith, Fred Givens, W. B' Horton and R. T.

Groom. WEATHER TRACTS Temperature at 1 p.m., 81. Lowest past 24 hours, 59. Highest past 24 hours, 83. Sun sets today at' 7:45.

Sun rises tomorrow at 5:39. ucccedsJUe v. 1 Morrill Moore; Trustees Plan New Program Dr: John Bunyan Clark, 45-year-old head of the history department or Mercer University, Macon, has accepted the presidency of Tennessee College for WomeBjf- the Rev. Merrill D. retiring president, announced today.

The new president will assume his duties about June.l, having returned--fotkiay to Macon after ja two-day' visit here. He. will attend the regular meeting of the board of 'trustees June 8, -when plans tor he college's future are to be outlined. Dr. Clark also m3y meeting of the executive board scheduled to take place in a few days.

The new program being consid-rcTed for tne college includes a broadening of its physical assets and educational plan, according to 'Dr. Creasman, chairman pf a committee recently named-' by the The new president, fourth' person' to hold that 'position since the establishment of the college in 1900j holds the Ph.D. degree from New, 'York University. He re ceiyed the. M.

A. degree at Vander-bilt University in' 1910 and at Harvard in 1911, later doing graduate study at Columbia Uni- versity "and "the" University of Michigan. He, has taught history and economics at- various colleges, including the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. AdeJphjandCity New York City, Hunter College and Judson He wa dean of Mercer and professor of history from 1929. Dr.

Clark is a member and officer in various educational and historical societies and is an author of note. Among these are the Academic Deans'; Conference, Southern Colleges and Universities, the Blue-Key and the American Association of University Professors. He is also a member of the Lions club. Published works of Dr. Clark in-.

(Continued on Page Six) Sound Film On Meat To Be Shown At TSC The Middle Tennessee State college will view a showing of the sound motion picture, Meat and Romance, produced for the Na-tional Livestock and Meat board, at the Tennessee State auditorium on Thursday, May 14, at 6:45 p.m. The picture is the. result of collaboration between authorities in the meat ana live stock industries and the United States; Bureau of Home Economics in Washington. The entire subject of meat, its values and costs according to cuts, the proper methods of its cooking, of its serving and carving, as well as its relative nutritional' proper- tiesishoroughTy and convincingly covered. The picture, partly in color, is entertaining and instructive.

Much misinformation about meatjscory. rected with authoritative support, Audiences receive the benefit of the best advice about the cooking of meat, the relative merits of low and high temperature cooking, the variances required for differ-(Continiied from Page One) Uptow The town seems dead, indeed, with so many of the businessmen away on the Mrs. MacArthur Bond Cavalcade Understand the response they're receiving is far be-, yond their, fondest expectations-. 7 1STUPID SEZ His idea of the meanest man' in the world is the one "who counterfeited war stamps! Dr. John L.

Hill, executive sec Baptist Sunday school -board, will deliver-the baccalaureate address ad-nates of (Tennessee1 College' for Women at li a. m. Sunday, June 7, the Rev. Merrill D. Moore, retiring president, announced today.

Dr. Hill is chairman: of the board of of the college. Dr. W. E.

Richardson, pastor of First Baptist Church, Columbia, will preach the missionary sermon at 8 p. m. Sunday, 7. Both sermons will take place at First Baptist Chinch. The commencement address will be delivered "Tuesday morning, June 9, by Dr.

W. A. Keel, pastor of FirstBaptistChurch, "CIeve-1 an Tenn: Class Day exercises are set for Monday, June 8, and on the evening of that clay the annual outdoor play -will- begiven: The list of candidates for graduation was not announced today. The recital season at the college- -fs expected to begin next week, but the schedule is as yet incomplete. Jane-Carry ing Dirimhles Sontrht C7 For Coast Patrol By7 'ALEX H.

SlNGLETON Washington, May 13. ()-As Ax4S-suomarinos-stalked their prey within sight of American shores, penetrating even into the St. Lawrence the attention of Congress was drawn today to the possibility of building huge plane-carrying dirigibles that could seek them out anu destroy them far and wide. A. first step' toward authorizing the construction of great aerial battlewagons, as largess or larger than the ill-fated German airship Hindenberg, was taken by the House naval committee yesterday it struck a "non-rigid" limitation from a bill' providing for 24 more blimps to augment the coastal patrol.

The bill, already passed by the Senate, was approved unanimously by Maas of Minnesota, the committee's ranking Republican member, declared the Navy's should be freed to construct rigid as well as the non-rigid type, for patrol work outside the range of a blifnp Captain Charles E. Rosendahl, in charge of Navy blimps, told the' that the Vrigids would fit into the picture." (Continued on Page Six) Farther south, the Japs are preparing for a comeback attempt in the Coral Sea. American' and Allied forces struck the first blow last week. But despite the heavy enemy losses, it appears that the key units of the enemy invasion fleet still are virtually intact The Tokyo radio broadcast an unconfirmed report that the British battleship -Warspite it claimed was damaged last week, 1 nas gone down. But the British have branded the Japanese claims as jokes.

MacArthur is keeping a close watch" on the" enemy for- ces aMheirmain basesri Rabamrr New Britain, and Lae, New Guinea. It is there that the enemy invasion units have gathered, apparently awaiting the arrival of powerful warship reinforcements before renewing the Coral Sea Dispatches from advanced posta indicate that when the Jap naval force has assembled, it will move into the Coral Sea area for a rendezvous the invasion ships. And that will precipitate the second battle of -the Corral. Sea, which probably will be more violent than the first. Germany has only submarines and.

small river gunboats of her Rumanian ally in the Black Sea battle area. 1 V. By The United Press German and Russian forces still are locked in battle on the. Kerch peninsula in a violent dress rehearsal for the bigger struggle to come. There is nothing, in the Moscow or London reports to bear out Berlin's claims that the Kerch bat tie has been The Nazi Tiigh "command, in "a "special com-iMlinique, asserts that the Russians have been annihilated and 40,000 prisoners taken.

But the Russian dispatches indicate the Red lines have yielded spokesman says it's a case of attack and courtter-attack. For themselves, the British report they" have downed 15 nazi planes off the North African' coast, in another action that may point the way. toward the coming Nazi offensive. of the German planes were transports which mayhayebeen taking troops to Libya lAxi.i communiques-- claim the British lost, eleven planes, but Cairo says it was only one." L-y The RAF communique from (Continued on Page Six) Massed Nazi Tanks Attack On Crimean Front Moscow, May 13 (UP) Massed German tanks are attacking the Russians along a front only two miles wide in And the rioted Soviet war correspondent Uya Ehrenbourg says the air is as congested as the land. Ehrenbcurgh, in an exclusive dispatch to the United Press, says it is premature now to speak of results in the Kerch battle.

But on the basis of the fighting in March and April, Ehrenbourg predicts that the. Red army will hurl back the Nazi assault. The Russian war correspondent says that Soviet tanks invariably win when they fight the Germans on equal terms. British, and' now American, tanks are in action on the Russian troojps are armed generously -with- a'rmor-piercing- rifles. And Red artillery has become quite, adept at blasting Nazi tanks.

The Soviet correspondent reports that the "Germans now-are using on the eastern front air force units transferred from Libya. France, and Belgium. The majority "of the Germans, according to i Ehrenbourg, still think, they will win. But he says their attitude is. summed up by one Nazi prisoner who said: "I believe in the success of the spring offensive, but I don't want any part of it." Anbi irnlowii 1 Merchant Dies William R.

Robinsonr 79, retired merchant of Auburntown, died yesterday ai his home. He had been ill for some time. He was the son of Pleasant H. and Sarah Adamson Robinson-Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Ray Robinson and Mrs.

Ho-mer Bell or Auburntown, and Mrs. Cason Shirley of Murfreesboro; four sons, Homer, O. and John, of Auburntown; and Ernest of Liberty; 22. grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren; three half-brothers, John Reynolds of Brentwood; Sim Reynolds' of Chestnut Mound and Charley of and a half-sister, Mrs. Jennie Stephens, of Auburntown.

Funeral services were to be held at 5 p.m. today-at Auburntown with burial'in Prosperity Cemetery under direction of Jennings and Ayers. Grandsons were to act as pallbearers. Brigadier General Frank C. Mahin, recently-appointed commanding officer of the 33rd Division- at who-has informed local officials in charge that he plans to be present if at possible tomorrow at-the Mrs.

MacArthur Day bond rally to be held at 2:30 p.m. on the Public Square. Sgt. Yorlc May Oppose Gore For Congress -Pall May 13 (UP Tennessee's mountaineer hero, Al-vin C. York, may run for congress.

The World War I hero says he hasn't quite made, up his mind about opposing incumbent But -York figures that Gore is young -and could fill a place in the fighting forces; -So me mountaineer says it might be a good thing if fie could take Gore's place in Congress and release. therepresenta-tive for fighting duty. York is due in Washington with--in the next two weeks oi a conference with Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson. He doesn't know the nature of the conference, hut York says he may announce his decision about his" candidacy before he leaves Tennessee. York won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the last war for capturing more than-lAO Germans and killing twenty.

NAVY OFFICER TO I ON POST London, May 13 (UP) An American naval officer has arr rived in London to be Chief of Staff and senior aide to the Commander United, States naval forces in European waters, Ad rri ir-al Stark. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk served as director of naval intelligence at Washington before taking up his present post. must pass through the Senate, which appears committed to' the $42 level. The chances are, the matter will go to a conference committee of both branches before the scale finally is straightened out. Incidentally, the Congressmen are in the same boat on their gasoline rations as the soldiers and 'sailors are on the new pay rate.

In other words, the solons had better not bank too much on keeping their cards for unlimited gasoline supplies. The Price Admin-istratiort Office says some 200 Congressmen got the cards yesterday through a misinterpretation of regulations. But whether they can keep them may depend on whether they can prove that their automobiles are used exclusively for official business. Some Congressmen 'already have exchanged their x-cards for cards, good for and 57 gallons Tor" 7 weeks. And the-Pacific Coast states of "Washington and Oregon may eventually come under the rationing system, because supplies in that area must be built up.

House Approves Measure Raising Base Army Pay Japs Mass Force For Comeback In Coral Sea toother sales were beings madiv-as- (Continued on Page Six) Board Classifies Six As T-A Six men were placedin Class 1-A those available for immediate military service by the Ruth- i erf ord County Selective Service Board "In the" daily classification list released today. The complete JisL follows; Class 1-A (Available for geheral military service when found acceptable to land or naval forces): Joe Richardson," James Henry Brown, Goldie McKnight, Bernard L. Goldfeather, Willie Summers, Willie Woods. Class 1-B (Available for limited military service when found acceptable to land or naval Swan, Hendren Coleman Class 2-A (Man necessary in his civilian activity): Broadus Whit-lock Maples, Roy Jackson Arnold. Class 2-B (Man necessary to the war production program): Robert Lewis Martin James Edward Jolly (li-8-42), Edward Karnes Vaughan (11-8-42).

Class 3-A (Man deferred by reason! of dependency): Thomas Burns Carroll, Louis Trousdale Bowles. Class 4-F Disqualification for various reasons): Emmett William Toombs. By. the United. Press Ottawa, (UP) The enemy ri submarine which invaded the St.

Lawrence river has sunk a second vessel. NavyMims- ter Angus MacDonald announced the second sinking. Washington Price Administrator Henderson ruled today that Congressmen and other federal and state employes who use pri-. yate cars "to transact business with a government agency" are entitled to unlimited supplies of gasoline. 1 Washington (UP) The House has passed and returned to the Senate a bill which raises the pay of Army pri--vates and apprentice seamen to $50.

a month. Increases also voted for oth-. er grdes i -enlisted men and for the- lowest ranking commissioned officer. The 56-dollar-a-mpnth scale for privates and, seamen is the most importantkrhange the House made in the Senate-approved bill. The upper chamber proposed to increase both of these grades to 42 dollars" a month.

Washington, May 13. (UP) America's soldiers and sailors are advised not to start spending their proposed new base pay rate of $50 a month just yet." There's not much question but what they'll get a raise probably to $42 a month anyway for buck privates and apprentice seamen. But the $50'' level that's 'been approved by a House committee has a long way to go yet. It comes up in the House today for final ac-tiQn. If it goes through, it still By the United Press The Japanese are massing-reinforcements for round two in South China and the Coral Seat.

They lost the first round in both places. r7-'ZZrr Some 5,000 Japanese troops have moved into Yunan province from Lashio, to strike back at the Chinese army that smashed an enemy column last week. The Chinese success-In1" beating off the new enemy drive may depend on how much havoc Lieutenant-General Stillwell's Second Chinese army can inflict lines in Burma. TheChinese air force, however, has carried its offensive into French-Indo China. The Jap-controlled Saigon radio says, six Chinese planes raided Hanoi, killing four persons and causing some damage.

In western Burma, Japanese are reported fighting British defenders, within! 50 miles of the Indian border. RAF bombers have blasted the "Japanese airport at Akyab. on the Bay of Bengal, destrdying at least twp enemy planes..