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REMEMBER ■ ■ ■mm ■ ■ m ■ a^ a a agp ■ A||A Served by Leased Wire of the „arabsr. THE SUNMlfelJiflR'NEWS rssss? _ = — 1_^TCflg li&gT ®»'gv©FPiia;®®Eige8 amis igiCeAgyiaii^ staU «m NatiM..i n... ^---—°~ — , —■■-TWENTY PAGES ^ CM INGTON’. N. C.. SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1942 FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS Allies Stage Fresh Attack Hear Tobruk ffard Fighting Remains Be fore Decision Can Be Expected, However USING MANY TANKS British Columns Roam Des ert Smashing Fuel Trains And Water Trucks By EDWARD KENNEDY CAIRO. Egypt, May 30.—UP)— Lie‘,t gen. Neil M. Ritchie’s Brit ish and American-made tanks, en aa-ed until now in parrying the fiahtnins jabs of the Germans to ward Tobruk, have been thrown i„I;, a terrific counterattack in which much hard fighting remains before a decision can be expected. This armored clash is being fought out west of Acroma, 15 jniies southwest fo Tobruk, and Fr.i?htsbridge. a desert track crossing 25 miles southwest of Tob r.k named after a famous road junction in England. Decision In Few Days A decision in the whirling desert tank battle probably will come wriiln two or three days. The Germans, who brought a limited supply of water with them v they struck at the British )•-? at Ain Ei Gazala early V.'fdnesdav, have a difficult prob lem of ge'ting supplies to the bat ik ground. At some junctures, raiding par ties have reached 50 to 60 miles beyond the outer British land po sitions but these have been re pulsed. The British said today that a great number of Field Marshal Er win Rommel's German tanks al reacb had been destroyed by that conditions over the sprawling bat tlefield were so chaotic it was im possible to make a sensible as sessment of the situation as yet. The battle area is about 20 miles behind the British positions around which the Germans swept Tuesday night, but considerably west of their fartherest advance. Columns Roam Desert While this derisive action was being fought under the most dif ficult conditions, British mobile columns roamed the desert smash ing the fuel trains, water trucks and heavy motorized machine shops upon which Rommel de pends to keep his mechanized units in action in the desert. Claiming an air superiority (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) _V_ MF RAIDS PLANTS H PARIS SECTION P'anes Also Carry Out At tack On Convoy Destined For Northern Port London. May 30— ffl— Squad rGn' °f RAF bombers taking ad vantage of a full moon struck at ®e German war machine last B'?ht with a strong attack on fac . es in a Paris suburb, a smash assault on a convoy apparent , destined for the far northern Ml and raids on occupied ports. r n the most spirited raiding in veeks. the Germans sent approxiL , a e'y 50 bombers against Kng ^nd but authoritative reports said ^5ht damage was done and seven were shot down. j,V^r ®rilish acknowledged losing Topp.ng the attacks was a heavy , on an impoigant group of fac ,• les at Gennevilliers, 10 miles nn the midst of1 Paris, where, p, a,r ministry said, the Gnome iP^n^aero'engine works, the for Otho Goodrich Rubber works and ftp "I p ants are being used by teria]snemy to Produce war ma b,!‘^on,d saying a strong force of W b°mbers raided Gennevil tai’k , air ministry gave no de (11 the attack also b®s in Vichy and Berlin tary ni,ere siLent on whether mill* ■-ourrpc Clives were hit but Vichy 'juburh leP°rted fhe “northwest for hi i°^ Paris” were bombed ‘ w° hours. ViChyIS disPatches, by way of and :>rmaid 80 Persons were killed house U lnjured- and about 2 00 m ri„s ln one suburb alone knock rr;anri "n: The German high com shnt ,iSaid Slx British planes were “ d°wn, but later Paris dis Pa‘ches said only five.) air ministry reported RAF' pri • caught the convoy off the the n, islands, which lie along newt Utch-German border, and its mar s®Fvice reported eight Ger f0 saiPs were hit by bombs. Set a{.°t those apparently were jjh® shiPs were said to be steam iest award with supplies doubt Vav lnt®nded tor the north of Nor * and Petsamo (Finnish) front. The Subject: Wartime Officials of the Lincoln Co., Cleveland, 0., electrical concern, are shown above in Washington waiting to testify before the House Naval Affairs committee investigating wartime profits. Left to rght: Gen eral Superintendent Harold Kneen, President J. F. Lincoln and Vice ei9e1?rfont- c- J*. Taylor, who told the committee he earned a total of $128,402 in salary, bonus and dividends in 1941. Nazis Shoot More Czechs In Heydrich Attack Case BOOST TOTAL TO 62 Working On Theory That Foreign Parachutists Had Hand In Attack By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, May 30.—UP)—1The Germans were reported tonight working on the theory that para chutists dropped from foreign planes had a hand in the attempt ed assassination of Reinhard Hey drich, Hitler’s '“protector” of Bo hemia and Moravia, as the Gesta po speeded its vengeance execu tions of Czechs to a total of 62, putting to death 44 during th e day. Czech circles in London, who maintain close underground con nections with their dismembered homeland, said the question had been raised in Gestapo circles that parachutists might have been the actual attackers and that Czech citizens participated only by shel tering the conspirators. Denies Landing: The German-controlled radio in Prague stated flatly that foreign saboteurs had landed by parachute in Bohemia and Moravia. It said some of those executed “had been convicted of having sheltered agents who had landed in the protectorate from airplanes by parachute in order to perpe trate acts of, sabotage.” (RAF planes were over old Czecho-Slovakia on the nights of April 25' and May 5, when, the air ministry announced in London, the target of the raiders was the huge Skoda munitions works at Pilsen.) Ten Women Executed Ten women were among the 44 executed today by the Germans in ruthless reprisal for the attack upon Heydrich, tho Gestapo’s sec ond in command, who was criti cally wounded. The Prague radio announced the latest victims died before firing squads immediately after they were sentenced by a quick-action Nazi court martial. Up to today 18 Czechs had been shot following the attack Wednesday upon Hey drich, Hitler’s “protector” for Bo hemia and Moravia, the German ruled remnants of dismembered Czecho-Slovakia. All of those executed were ac cused of either failing to register with the police or harboring or aiding unregistered persons ac cused of anti-German activities. The Prague , announcement fol lowed a broadcast by Dr. Emil Hacha, puppet president of th e protectorate, who blamed former President Eduard Benes, who now is in exile in London, for the shoot (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) Nation Does Not Pause To Note Memorial Day (By The Associated Press) America observed Memorial Day yesterday with its war industries running at virtually full tilt and its people reaffirming their de termination to win one more war in order that the institutions for which its heroes of the past fought and died may be preserved intact. In most war production centers the story was the same—steel mills, aircraft factories and other plants busy producing tools and equipment for the nation’s fight ing men. Heartening Telegram For the workers in one factory, the Hamilton Standard Propeller division of United Aircraft Corpor ation at East Hartford, Conn., there was this heartening tele gram: “Now it can be told. You made the propellers that were used on the planes in which we bombed Tokyo and a half dozen other Jap anese cities.” It was signed by Brigadier Gen eral James H. Doolittle, the lead er of that famous air raid. Washington was treated to its first big war time parade, a mam moth procession made up of many of the military and naval units (Continued on P»ge Three; Col. 1) 40 Persons Injured In Train Collision PHILADELPHIA, May 30.— (/P>—Forty persons were injured today when two high-speed in terurban trolley cars crashed head-on in suburban Westgate Hills. Eight were seriously hurt. The trolleys, carrying war workers, collided on a curve stretch of single track. Witnesses summoned ambu lances, firemen, police and civilian defense units from within a four-mile radius. At one time 25 injured per sons were laid out on lawns receiving treatment. MEXICAN SENATE AUTHORIZES WAR Lawmakers Clear The Deck For Action Against Axis Countries MEXICO CITY, May 30.—13— The Mexican senate cleared the deck for war on the Axis today when it unanimously authorized President Avila Camacho to de clare a state of war against Ger many, Italy and Japan and then approved a bill to suspend con stitutional guarantees and grant him extraordinary powers to mo bilize the entire nation. The senate action, following the unanimous war vote of the cham ber of deputies last night, left Avila Camacho free to formally proclaim hostilities whenever he chooses. The vote on both meas ures was 53 to 0. The senate immediately ad journed at 5:24 p.m., after a ses sion of nearly six hours during which the principal figures of -the upper chamber denounced the sub marine torpedoing of two Mexi can tankers 16 days ago as a “cowardly crime” and praised President Roosevelt as the “cham pion of the ideals of liberty and democracy in the world.” The senate clerk reported both approved measures would be re turned to the chamber of depu ties, the house of origin, to be transmitted as quickly as possible to the president. President Avila Camacho was informed immediately of the sen ate vote and he was expected to complete his proclamation declar ing war for the first time in Mexi co’s history either tonight or to morrow. General Salvador Sanchez, chief of the general staff, announced (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) fteds Thwart German Drive Upon Rostov Russians Claim 90,000 Nazis Killed Or Captured In Kharkov Battle LOSE MANY TANKS Moscow Brands Germany’s Claims Of New Victo ries As ‘Fantastic’ By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Sunday, May 31.—W) —Marshal Timoshenko’s Soviet armies in the Ukraine have scored a brilliant success in thwarting a Nazi-planned drive upon Rostov, gateway to the Caucasus, the Rus sians announced in a special com munique today declaring that the Battle of Kharkov is drawing to a close after 19 days of violent fight ing in which the Germans have lost more than 90,000 killed or cap tured. Indicating the enormity of the clash of men and machines, the official announcement listed Rus sia’s own casualties about Khar kov at 75,000, including 5,000 kill ed and 70,000 missing. German Losses German losses in fighting equip, ment were listed at 540 tanks, not less than 1,511 guns and upward of 200 planes, against Soviet losses of 300 tanks, 832 guns and 12 4 planes. Branding German victory claims as “fantastic,” the Russians de clared sarcastically that “a few more of these German ‘victories’ and the German fascist army will be completely bled white.” (The Germans, claiming a great victory for themselves on the Kharkov front, announced Satur day that Russian dead there were “enormous” and claimed capture of 240,000 prisoners, capture or de struction of 1,249 tanks, 2,026 guns, 538 planes and vast quantities of other Soviet arms and equipment.) The Russians emphasized th a t Timoshenko’s attack in the Khar kov sector on May 12 was not to capture the great industrial city itself but to forestall an imminent German offensive against Rostov, which tljfi Nazis captured last fall but couldn’t hold. Learned About Plans “Sometime ago the Soviet high command learned about German plans for operations of German fascist troops in the sector of the Rostov front,” the special an nouncement said. “On this sector of the front the German command recently con centrated not less than 30 infan try divisions, six tank divisions (more than a half million men) and a large quantity of artillery and planes. “In order to forestall the blow of the German fascists, troops of the Soviet command started offen sive operations in the Kharkov di rection without including Kharkov in their plans. “In the course of two weeks on this sector of the front fierce fight ing has been going on. Now that the battles are nearing their end, it can be said the main task put forward by the Soviet command —to forestall the blow of the Ger man fascist troops—has been com pleted. , . Repulse Attacks The regular midnight communi que reported Soviet forces were continuing to repulse German tank and infantry attacks in the Bar venkova sector, southeast of Khar kov. A Soviet ship in the Barents sea was credited with sinking a Ger man submarine. Four enemy transports and two launches were destroyed by t h e Soviet air force on Friday, the communique said. It did not give (Continued on Pafe Five; Col. 2) ■XT WEATHER FORECAST: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia—Continued warm Sunday. (Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. esterda): (By U. S. Weather Bureau) (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) Temperature: 1:30 a. m. 71; 7:30 a. m. 69; 1:30 p. m. 81; 7:30 p. m. 76; maximum 82; minimum 65; mean 74; normal 74. Humidity: 1:30 a. m. 91; 7:30 a. m. 94; 1:30 p. m. 52; 7:30 p. m. 67. Precipitation: Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., 0.00 inches; total since the first of the month. 6.03 inches. Tides For Today: (Front* Tide Tables published by U.'S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low Wilmington_10:40a. 5:35a. ll:16p. 5:43p. Masonboro Inlet _ 8:25a. 2:30a. 9:03p. 2:34p. Sunrise 5:02a; sunset 7:17p; moonrise 8:57p; moonset 6:34a. Caje Fear river stage at Fayette, ville on May 30, at 8 a. m., 10.26 feet. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) BAILEY HOLDS URGE LEAD; JONES, SMITH, KERMON AND HENDERSON WIN IN COUNTY 136 POLLS REPORT Present Senator Receives 18,183 Votes Against 6,194 For Opponent LITTLE INTEREST Inc umbent Congressmen Faring Well In Hands Of State’s Voters RALEIGH, May 30.—UP)—Senator Josiah W. Bailey, seeking a third term, piled up a commanding lead over his only opponent, Richard T. Fountain, as returns were tabulated from today’s democratic primary. Reports from 136 widely-scattered precincts of the state’ 1,919 gave the 69-year-old Bailey, who made no formal campaign, 18,183 votes against 6,194 for Fountain, a form er lieutenant governor. Fountain’s home precinct in Edgecombe county gave him 200 votes and it gave Bailey 159. Public Indifferent Reports from throughout the state indicate that the public in difference displayed during the campaign continued on voting day. Politicians estimated that the total vote would not be much above 40 per cent of the total cast in the last previous primary. Fountain had criticised Bailey in advertisements and in radio broad casts, charging that the senator had not supported Prsident Roose velt’s domestic and international policies. In the last few days, Bailey supporters published adver tisements asserting that the senator had been of great assistance to the President in both fields. First returns showed an almost negligible vote in the only state wide republican primary. Stoner W. Kluttz of Salisbury had 66 votes against 57 for Sam J. Morris of Raleigh, in the contest for the senatorial nomination. Scattering reports indicated in cumbent congressmen with opposi tion in the democratic primary were faring well at the hands of the voters. In the new Tenth district, created since the last election, Cameron Morrison of Charlotte, former governor and former U. S. senator, stepped out in front of his fellow-townsman, John A. Mc Rae, with a comfortable lead. With returns in from 58 of 175 precincts the vote was Morrison 4,891, Mc Rae 2,213. Rep. Herbert Bonner took a sub stantial lead over two opponents in the First district. Reports from (Continued on Pare Three; Col. 8) CHINESE ABANDON KINHWATO JAPS Important City Turned Into Ruins After Repeated Aerial Assaults CHUNGKING, China, May 30.— UP—The Chinese officially an nounced tonight that bomb-ruined Kinhwa had been abandoned to the Japanese after bitter fighting which saw more than 1,000 enemy soldiers wiped out with hand gra ■nades thrown by tired remnants of the city’s defenders in a final close-quarter engagement. The Chinese high command de clared the main body of its troops had been withdrawn from Kinhwa. provisional capital of Chekiang province in eastern China, Thurs day morning at 7 a.m. But some soldiers remained in Kinhwa in an effort by the Chinese to launch an attack from both sides as the Jap. anese entered. ine city was turned into ruins after repeated Japanese aerial bombardments, the Chinese said, and an enemy unit of more than 1,000 broke into the northern gate. It was this force which the Chi nese high command claimed was "entirely wiped out. . .with hand grenades in a close quarter en gagement.” “The streets were filled with enemy corpses." Thursday afternoon, the h i gh command reported, enemy units launched a concerted attack on Kinhwa under cover of planes. The weary remnants left in the city retired to the west and joined the main force in the suburbs after exacting more casualties from the invaders. The Japanese already have re ported that Kinhwa was captured at 7 a.m. Thursday—the hour of the withdrawal of the main Chi nese force. Street fighting is proceeding in the city of Lanchi, 10 miles north west of Kinhwa, the Chinese,re ported. _ 4 i Moore Leading Race For Eighth District Solicitor With 35 out of 78 precincst in four counties reporting a tabulation of the days voting, Clifton L. Moore, Burgaw at torney, was leading the field with a total of 2,465 votes in the race for solicitor of the Eighth judicial district. David Sinclair, incumbent, was running second with a vote of 1,682 while the third candi date, Alton A. Lennon, of Wil mington, had polled a total of 1,131 votes. Moore carried his home coun ty of Pender with a landslide vote of 1,277 against Sinclair’s 125 and Lennon’s 33. With only eight precincts out of 18 reporting in New Hanover county, Sinclair was leading with 876 votes, Lennon running second with 563 and Moore pulling only 297. Brunswick county’s first five precincts to report showed Moore leading the other candi dates by a slight majority, 299 against Lennon’s 230 and Sin clair’s 220. In Columbus county, with only eight precincts out of 23 reporting, Moore was also lead ing there with 592 ballots. Sin clair was running a close sec ond with 461 and Lennon show ed a tabulation of 305. The outlying precincts in New Hanover, Brunswick and Columbus counties had not re ported in this tabulation and election officials hesitated to make any predictions as to the outcome in the three counting places. Congressional Vote RALEIGH, May 30.—-(/P)—The vote in the various con gressional races early tonight was as follows: Senate: 935 of 1,919 precincts, Bailey 102,492, Fountain 45,513. Congress First district: 89 of 147, Blount 4,991, Bonner 15,479, Edwards 1,855. Fifth: 49 of 143, Folger 7,734, Speas 767, Wulbern 667. Eighth: 59 of 204, Burgwin 5,049, Newton 2,049. Tenth: 128 of 175, McRae 5,283, Morrison 10,753. Eleventh: 92 of 151, Bulwinkle 10,945, Woltz 2,739. Senate, Republican, 471 precincts: Kluttz 482, Mor ris 820. ---— MOORE CARRIES RACE IN PENDER Receives 1,277 Votes; Sin clair Second With 125 And Lennon Gets 33 BURGAW, May 30.—Clifton L. Moore, prominent Burgaw at torney, carried his home county with a sweeping majority over the other two candidates for eighth district solicitor in today’s voting. At the final tabulation, Moore showed a total of 1,277 votes, Sin clair was second with 125 and Alton A. Lennon polled 33. With three precincts of the 14 in Pender county unable to be contacted tonight, the remaining 11 showed a large majority fo r Senator Josiah W. Bailey. He de feated Richard T. Fountain in the Pender voting, 837 to 337. In the race for county commis sioners, K. D. Pigford with 702 votes, A. H. Page with 819, and J. F. Bradshaw with 735, were leading and, to all appearances, would continue to hold their own, officials said. These were the only contests in Pender. 4 _v Baruch Named Adviser On Ordnance Program WASHINGTON, May 30.— VP) — Bernard Baruch, chairman of the War Industrial board ot the last war, took his first official job in this one today as adviser on the Army’s $30,000,000,000 ordnance program. The War department announced that Baiuch and three industrial leaders would serve as a volun tary advisory staff to Major Gen eral Levin H. Campbell, Jr., who tomorrow becomes chief of ord nance. The others are K. T. Keller, president of the Chrysler corpora tion, President Benjamin F. Fair less of the United States Steel cor poration and Louis H. Brown, head of the Johns Manville corporation. -V Production Of Musical Instruments To Halt WASHINGTON, May 30. — UP) — The War Production Board today or dered production of virtually all musical instruments stopped after -une 30 and, effective immediately, froze stocks of 27 types of band in struments now in the hands of manufacturers and wholesalers. All the frozen stocks will be made available to Army, Navy and Marine bands. Beginning Monday, WPB ordered, no critical materials such as metals, cork, plastics, and rubber, may be processed for musical instruments other than pianos and organs. Until June 30, however, the instruments may be made from fabricated parts now in stock. After that date pro duction must be halted entirely. Southeastern N. C. Voting ROBESON Twenty-five precents of 34: Bax ley 3,596; Fountain 1,227; Klutz 3, Morris 16. ONSLOW Thirteen of 15: Bailey 759; Fountain 646. COLUMBUS Three precincts of 23: Bailey 264; Fountain 174. PENDER Eleven precincts of 14: Bailey 837; Fountain 337. BRUNSWICK Three precincts of 16: Bailey 557; Fountain 154. BLADEN Fifteen precincts complete: Bai ley 1,770; Fountain 829; Klutz 9, Morris 13. CUMBERLAND Seventeen precincts of 24: Bai ley 1,745; Fountain 706. HARNETT Twenty-one of 21 (complete): Bailey 1,853; Fountain 1,323; Mor ris 22; Klutz 8. DUPLIN Fifteen precincts complete: Bai ley 1,578; Fountain 955; Klutz 3; Morris 5. -V MOORE LEADING COLUMBUS VOTE Eight Out Of 23 Precincts Give Pender County Man Vote Of 592 WHITEVILLE, May 30—With only eight out of 23 precincts re porting, the election count was showing an edge toward Clifton L. Moore in the race for district so licitor with David Sinclair running a close second. Moore showed a total of 592 votes in the eight precincts against Sinclair’s count of 461 and Alton A. Lennon was running third with 305. With only three precincts re porting on the race for U. S. Sena tor, Josiah W. Bailey had a de cided majority over Richard T. Fountain, 264 to 174. -V Extensive Readjustment Of Allied Plans Seen LONDON, May 30.—UP)—Produc tion Minister Oliver Lyttleton’s forth-coming visit to the United States was regarded by reliable sources tonight as a move in an extensive readjustment of Allied plans in favor of a future decisive offensive in western Europe. . Lyttleton, it was disclosed, is ex pected to arrive in Washington soon to confer with President Roosevelt and other officials on production and supply problems. An astounding expansion of Unit ed States war production was be lieved by some quarters to have been responsible for a new strategy which looks upon 1942 rather than 1943 as the time for decisive action. ONE RUNOFF SEEN Wade Holds Slight Lead Over LeGrand And Hobbs For Senate Seat VOTING IS LIGHT Gardner And Trask Hold Big Lead In Contest For County Board Only one runoff was apparent late last night—for state senator—out of five county races, which before the election had been considered close contests, with returns in from 11 of New Hanover’s 18 wards and pre cincts. Heavy votes, which well might change the face of the primary re* turns, were expected from the re maining seven wards and precincts. J. E. L. Wade, Wilmington realtor and former city commissioner, held a slight lead over Jack Q. LeGrand and J, C. Hobbs for the Democratic nomination for state senator. Wade held a total of 1,008 votes to 871 for LeGrand and 595 for Hobbs. Bailey Gets Good Vote New Hanover county citizens gave Senator Josiah Bailey a total of 4,282 to 1,003 for Richard L. Fountain of Rocky Mount, his opponent for the Democratic nomination for senator with returns from all 18 precincts in the senatorial race. The total vote cast in the county ir. the primary was 5,49*4, 43 per cent of the 12,374 Democrats registered. Sheriff C. David Jones piled up 1,817 votes against only 577 fqr Harry E. Fales, superintendent of the city-county oureau of identifica tion, and 97 for Ernest R. Mayhan in returns from the 11 precincts. In the five-man race for county recorder, Winfield Emith, present county solicitor, had a total of 1,534 votes against 569 for W. K. Rhodes, Jr., 177 for W. Jack F. Canady, 128 for W. L. Farmer, and 161 fofr E. Fred Banclc. District Solicitor David Sincllair of Wilmington was leading his two op ponents by 1,282 ballots to 817 for Alton A. Lennon of Wilmington, and 484 for Clifton L. Moore of Burgaw. . R. M. Kermon had 1,364 votes as against 1,100 for nis opponent for the nomination for representative from the county, Clayton C. Holmes. Clerk of Superior Court T. A. Henderson was ahead of his oppon ent, Norwood S. Westbrook, by 1,50# votes to 937. Veteran County Commissioners Harry P.. Gardner and George W. Trask had 1,650 votes and 1,441 votes respectively, while their opponents, Claud O’Shields had 582, Carl Reh der 519, and C. B. Gore, 646. Other returns from the 11 pre cincts were: County solicitor, J. A. McNorton 1,319, Glenn J. McClellan, 1,112. Meter adjuster, Walter L. Wood 1,119; W. H. Wendt, 1,191. Constable of Wilmington town shipship, William H. Ezzell, 875; Robert N. Johnson, 357, and J. Ed mond Mintz, 133. Returns from Federal Point town ship were still lacking late Satur day night with a power failure at Carolina Beach delaying the tabula tion of votes. GUILFORD COUNTY VOTING IS LIGHT Sheriff Joe S. Phipps Lead ing Four Way Race But Faces Real Threat GREENSBORO, May 30. — ca’* — Guilford voters showed compara tively interest in today’s primaries, only an estimated 40 per cent of the registered voters going to the polls. Apparently most of the in terest centered in the race for county commission. Early returns from little over half of the county precincts indi cate the or ination of J. A. Dog gett and Charles J. Hunt, of Greensboro and J. E. Millis, of High Point, over two of the In cumbents who we re up for re-elec tion. »J. W. Burke, of Gibsonyille, and R. Flake Shaw, of Greensboro, the incumbents, having less than half the vote for the three leaders. Sheriff Joe S. Phipps was leading a fourway race for sheriff, buf with John Story and John Walters, close behind. For the senate Guilford was run ning up a two to one lead for Sena tor J. W. Bailey over R. T. Foun tain, with 38 o' the 69 precincts counted the vote standing Bailey 3,936; Fountain 1,626
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