Hitenlterson HaiUj Utspafrh
_ONI A' DAILY NEWSPAPER IT'BUSHED IN Till.- SE( I loN OF NORTH CAROLINA AND \TRDLNIA
TWENTY-NINTH YEAR 1tV'k ass^-VIVko^ssjK HENDERSON, N. THURSDAY AFrERNoc.N. .JANUARY «s, 1102 1 1:ll>,7. FIVE CENTS COPY
Saw japs Bomb Hawaii British Middle East Headquarters Announce
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Kiln Smr Ik. 5 (1. ft), and her si«tcr. Blanche. 3. celehraic their <=.,fc
Er",v‘l a; 1 a'" >• I l.v «taIT.n^ thciTi>-"lves witil i ... Thev were
lather any w n.cn and children evacuated fr-m 1! mnlulu! ' N utn
11 ... Li.u .tec a.; I lt d p..ft ef art.'.al was considcrtd riatricted
mifitar.v ir.fonnatior.
Britons Express
Fear Islands May
Be U. 8. Outpost
United States Prepar
edness for War in
Pacific Also Up for
Criticism in House of
Commons Debate.
I.i .hIom. Jail. X—i \l‘>—tear
that tin- Hntisli Isles might be
come all American niltiiost was
openly exnn sseil today hy two
members of the house ol rinii
•**' mons in commenting on results
of the Was ; i n.. ton < onferem es.
La in ■ r. t Ra ua ad it ,SI|,
said. "! h..l Inti:,-.. ■ -I, 1 ! II ;>
cent- i .’ ■ •■! ’
klgti is i . lit- misty fcelii
I hay i : . ; my . iail11 Indet a
I Hugh: v : ■ I y I .: that ..e
find .>• i o, II,.. -d -.'.'.at i
tci ! • position 111 Amer
ica'.- ! i ... l oil -,u 1
rope
Kdga: ],. .11, ( i. ..!.
said:
Will'! 1 . ..11.1 " .i
eni . ; !. i
the <■. i- \ . c.i
COIltl oi led i . 1 i' . Ml.
Tliv United State - prepa; i. i ; i
' war in tin 1 ’aei 1 ie ,i I o c.iiiu- .;i :'i ■;
ci it H I
Alter : O' a: King t ■ • Ann a.,
vessel v.eie urp oil hy the Ja|
am- e at S:: l . ■ ■ . g Ji : 1. ■
said:
“\V 11! i t g, n d t : ■ ■ ..! t :ia‘
the a ant. v‘. ■ i .ei-!
Should ; ■ 111, i,,r : - i* llei 1
in tin !■ K.i :. . i , ■ i .i ,:ii ! 1,■ i■ •
ha.- not begun tin • ..: well and
An u'l m,il | ri ■mu J i . ■■1 e " i .
dice i i in 'in v\ tir, whatever. ft
took i:■ ■ I... a; .my 11gi.t.tig in tin
lil t a
"1 d. ml)t wild la • It. ’ i-:i -ea el |
Will Ilia ei y mg Under a foreign !
con aid
FIVE ALARM EIRE
BURNS RIVER PIER
Ncv. Yo, k. Jan ik t AIM A fix a '
alarm tire early torlay de troyed tin i
Hud on i r ei piei n ed hy the Nev.
York f .lit: ..I Kail: nail and the Am
crica-Si'o'li Afi'icti Steam.-liit) Lines
K\ cry : i • company m Manhattan i
and ti ire lire boats responded to the
alarm-, and brought the bla/.e undei
ci intro) v ill; in tin hour.
Gas Rations
Not Likely
Ickes Says Rubber
Shortage Will Con
serve Gas; Recom
mends Speed Limit.
VVa Jimgkin, Jan ft (AP1 lu
tei'ioi Secretary I ekes, thy- petruleui
coordinator hulav assured the napoo
tin. '.I- ' > n.mediate pn'.-Jicct'
in i-..l:nv rationing a- a war meas
ure.
11, -g. i'll at In- press coni, i -
cnee, how or. that great savings e.
rubber. g,. olme and autoniotiv.
equip:, cut e.. Id he aceomplislied
through .- all mg ■ int'oiinl speed
limit at I" 1 i‘ m h..u and lie ;m
i.K t. ..uued Ft.me -
Lindbergh
In Capital
Washington. Jan. 8.— i.\l*> —
Charles A. Lindbergh, who re
cently offered his services to the
Army after resigning his com
missi. »n as a colonel in the re
serve- last year, arrived In r * to
das hut would not reveal his
plans.
Inquiries at the War depart
ment met with tiie response Hhe
famed flier had no engagements
th re. His offer to serve the
country was made in a letter to
Lieutenant (ieneral II. II.
\rnold. Army depute chic! <>T
staff for air.
Bangkok
i
Huge Fire Reported
Left Blazing in Raid
Made in Retaliation
For Jap Bombs.
Hungt i>1: Jan 8. (AP)- i’he RAL
left huge fire.' blazing amid mili
tary • »icti\e: al Baugh k. capital :
J Japanese-occupied Th > land, in
11 ic l: a IL i ti.si i e* Mint cm t •. mv of a |
mg fury of air war over th -.tuned
io;,d to Mandalay.
Fla him w ire \ isibh ! - mile- <. >
i im Ijri 11 . i a rmcn ret i::ted I rum
(heir attack, which .i Hr Ush an
ti * mcement said wa- mad" la-t mgiit
and indicated was in rcta'iatinn lor j
repeated Japanese attack.- on Ran- ,
go capital <>t British Burma. Ail '
f>ri11h pianos w ere said t have l c
turned safely.
(However, a Bang,. d.-paten j
broadcast by the Berlin . adiu place - I
the attack at L1 a a. m local time, '
Thursday 11a p. m Wednesday 1
KST and said tw o 1»ri11 h plan ■ •
crashed in residential district'
(The axis listed the Thailand hos • !
pi till, the French church and the
Bank ul Indo-China as damaged bv
Is.mbs. and said several civilians .
were killed. Three tire u^nltcil 1
lr Mi me ndiary bombs in the raid,
th-' Bangkok dispatch said.)
Mi thru in. oat of Rangoon, w ns j
reported homhed Wednesday aiter
iu en aim Itang. on itself inderwent
aimther an alarm although no raid- ;
ei appeared.
CHATHAM CANCELS
BLANKET SHOWING
\v , Y"i'k. .1.111 H (AIM—Tnc:
(’t ;111.,im Maniil'.'ictiirmR O. > . larRe-J
;e! ol all-v (inj blank' 1 has run
coded il- ■ olvdiili'd upetlinR of .1
fall 1 n>' planned for January la and
notified salesmut it would offer oniv
„ limited line of part-wool numbers
at mi1 time.
I i am ,1 de ndica led that (it I ei -
in”., ol wooi blanket- to retailers tor
Iii-S't tall . > Olio i'r'11 ;d|ir '
Nazis Routed In Libya
nine
Forces Held
- r ,4
tt II H i ”, | >
S * ■. 7!'
iJtaiia
. it' C2.I i esl of British
iaxngth in Defense of
nsapore Made in At
-'ck; Kuala L.ampus
''ported Captured.
(H> Tin* Associated Press)
Lritish jungle fighters de
i' n.din ’ tie* road to Singapore
were loreed to execute a new ;
v ith.lrav.al ledav south of Ihe ,
Slim river in northwest Malaya,
as Japanese invasion hordes
stnv.-K down the p*nit>u!a with
peak fury In a drive aimed at
Kuala Lumpur.
1 * S: m r. < a tr; 1 - u;a: v "1 th j
• i .main r.\ t r a; ..linn Perak :r:d Se- |
iangor provnc-''. is -vi realm .■ *:*t I
Kuala 1 • rpur, Malaya's • eond I
< I" O a S< )l ! 1 I '.' Ml.
Tokyo flisp; lekie: i *ade >1 . v P ,
■ t iem of Ki -ai s 1 ji!i npur" and tha
lapant se taro. and aid i 11 cm v hat
• 1 -•■<! -I V ' a -1 o! tile t<!\\ n. eul
* ;ng - 'I t the i •• <>| Paa! i-h d’ : *i
'1'he fh . I! Ml r (i ■. 11 ’ l • 1 ’*“.•• “1
Mili’Uhe mm Tokyo." -Midi
- d ra. v ■ al men *d : i ll-mt
a , o- \ e ; m i a! S »map..re Hi I
Mai: ' ; a 11;: i ■ < • i • me defense sti »me |
i ,.hi m t" Far K:*>t.
A H: :! > k •d. • man ad: PP-e j
Mai; va.
in the i outpoint* war me n? '.
Oenera! Douglas Mac Arthur's
battle-worn troops wane report
ed “till fig! ting doggedb against
(Con )
Attlee Admits
Britain’s Lack
Of Resources
London. Jan. a ( .ML- May*:
i" 1 ('i■ i■ 111 H Attl'-o. lord privy seal, i
.“.peaking a Pr u \lmMer Oum h
ill- deputy, told tin Inmi -*• of c »m
m 'iis frankly today that Britain
did not have - ut ficicnt res* >uree > *’"«
complete pr par.it ion a fainst the
,1 pan* o w I ■ *. 11 * * d* elareck at }.*!«• -
ent have file no 1 p.» werf! 11 f le. f n I
the Pacific.
11 • ne • • cheered 1 • .• •
when he : a*Mined up accounts ;. ter
tile f!r t month <>f w ar in the Pae: i ,e.
even though the\.. given lift
new inhumation about the war of 1
fort.
New s of further . tep to com do
nate manpower and munitions o;
flu :.i ■ t< d not ions aw ailed the r* •
t urn of the prime n inn ter fr« * :
America.
Alt lee deekir* -d that e\ en ! Bri
tain had incre1 sed her own pr >
duet ion to the utmost she could .no*
produce enough anus at present t >i
live Par Pa J to equal the >t:.,ng
military force of Japan.
Apparently in reply 1 * e. t 'e “
(Continued *»n Page Tn.ce>
'O i •
iS:ivy Ivocku?
(.. }3. /'hotu’photo
Chief Boatswain’s Mate Bob Feller,
former star pitcher with the Cleve
land Indians, reports for duty at the
Norfolk. Va., Naval Training Sta
tion. The $ to.()()'.) a year ha ••ball
sensat«e.ii will draw a month
rim ing his nav al r.nreer, but \ I
the In t'e t 1 -it “I ’!! I e .:! !e t • \ brow
H fe\% ■ t lakes t\>»* 1 ’ I.< li* Sam.”
f
I r| >p\
£b»
er :
Rtinforcem: „ ts Seek
ing to Relic re Chang
sha Attackers Rngag
. by Chinese.
< hunukinu, .1 n. i W
Vn arm> spokesman deelit'd
i da.\ that Chinese forces had in
tent plod several thousand Jap
anese troops imbed ; h front
their has- at Yo»*ho\v in an ef
fort to relieve some .‘>h CM) emo
i ad<*s still hemmed in after bein'.;
(I»•«\ < n from < han.o ha.
T. a • • ri : • !'••;> •!'t eel
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Tl, i • ' • a >• ' • * h t--l:e\ i
ait • : v ; ; ; ' • a Cm j
tint' a* . - r s v 1
A C- m. - -j" • ’ cm;,’ •(
. h <I * • . mu -he j
\V i t I 4 ho !'. u h 1 !' > 1 • tl. ’h(M*r
. :m * i . <i. he I
PIPELINE OPERATION
TO BEGIN IN A WEEK
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( c • « i • .r,» r\-.Ha1, (I : > bruin I
i or \ni;i!i i \koi.in \
1 .tii*. slii;!ul\ * ol(h‘? ; i*ni|)* ra ,
t»i: at.- .ji i:* m*>*• :i<ain>> .1 ml
a‘ i»ut . '> on « isi 1 miijjht.
Babson Discusses Household
Buying Under War Conditions
By It (Hi FI: U BAIISON
Copyright llhlLh I’ubli - hers Financial
Burro : I nr
Bahson I’at !■;. Fla . .Ian II There
is no use kidding ourselves any
long: r Kithe I t ! .a i • : Iweiitv
livr years \vr .re at war In tart,
wo now arc' tho loading nation in
tho gre tost war tho world has over
witnessed To tho i who are com
plaining hrea ise they cannot now
hu.y in w autoniohi lo t:: e- li't me
•ay, \V, ain t -eon nothin.:' vet'"
on •• - !. .: ’ cfi .nto tIn A . n\
;«: 1 v! • • . '1 uigt :<■; !.>«• called to d ive
truck-. l it all i us will be told
v !:at ur can d i and can ! uv. More
over. th.se 1912 regulations will
be fa: more -tringent than any
tiling even diseus>ed dmang World
War 1.
Among the nr j - »ods to < \ apor
. e _
tier Feat to Senate
''poses Demands
S ' c retary of
riad'nre Be Given
■ ’ V*»j-0 Power on
Fixing.
1 i..* 1; ' . 1. S. - . \|M —
• ' nt "''(isr. ■ P ‘•Icrncd into
r tf d'-mPo <o(i.i\ i*\ send
’ * ■ * 1 1 • ’• s. ?<■■■*
opposing cP pvuids of the
' ’ b‘c that the secretary of
culture IvjV" \ c*to ”*• \v !*i’ ovci
fising of farm prices.
ft? ■ 1( . ;
• .. s;. ■ Brnv/n I
•' * Mich-'*-.:'., f! • ■ ■ n.anng' j
rp '• • *n ,;o d.-p.an i !
• 1 • 1 - id >■ s• ■ ikii■ i |
’ ’ r • i1 any I 11 . 1 ng
fived by the price admine traf••».
' ‘ “ ; • created i y the hill ;
Senators »n both ^»f1 of the*
dispute’ s drl th »t tb•' ’dministra- ,
ti >s wmik’V'I prf.
1 t:r.‘ in support of single au
?hnrif\ over the price controls.
' ■ • • i-i ,
hy. 1 , Son, I';.rt
ng.
■Ill | hill ,..j] ■■■; fn< j
r tl> . -»trv m , niv j
v.irs.
- i 1
Industries ^
Hurt In State
l d . Jan. I’ Aid To die ;
' : >■ said today that the 1 a- ;
•... ’ an!' a; .bile ; ire- and liv I
an . *■ ' >e ..! burlap. jute and
• e ' t< d .. ta iv ad
■ * (.'ae ■! : d 1 • je ■ < 1 < t ire e< ad |
i aor:e S • • •. ot ties’ .re "wnui j
The be;: d.e i>udap. jute j
md isa’ ; ia i i.'d "i! 1 • •
! rv i i). ■ e " : >! prod .e : . . b - i 1 -
iUte i. a , /; - e . e .m, a,, n ..
AIRDROME DEFENSE
FORCE IS PLANNED
BY BRITISH ARMY
i dr-. •?!■ deb n • 11 ■ • :aider tile
d" h * de: end . . uV* •. 'ie> ..pa .ust .
.
WAV • .nd. • ‘ . d r» d, in .md
. i . die ., p. •'; ’ : i e .. i y" i
" a nder' a !;■• ’. .< i :': ’ • 1 »e .1 dee’
Eden Denies
Any ‘Neglect’
1. d.<n. -Ian 8 i Aid) Fev p; 1
S- : ' • \ e de a :y Kden den led t<>
d ,y ad iu*( n any -"neglect” by
.■ •• ;1 "ent m pi «-paring; the de- j
:« n e ■ S up . .. ; nisi .Japanese (
’ v\ 1( 1 1 ■ iot'i md not
on" ‘wived on iv gleet ” (
He >.ii*l that the pr<-ol-' i>: Mal
ayan defense was weighed each tm e
tile ' a; cabinet ren ide ed endlllp >
re-nh re< ment, to the Mid. V Ka,t > '
H - H< ei led thi e
e.aninon that tfu sin gape re det n>'- <
been tivn * • n m- *
_ -.y. 1 ..
Permit to Travel
Arturo Toscanini
Famed conductor Arturo Toscanini
receives a permit to travel from
Philadelphia to Washington, D. C.
An enemy al’en, he must get a per
mit whenever he travels. Intern
ment is penalty for not complying
with the regulation.
Budget Gets
Precedence
Official Washington
Says Speedy Approval
to be Given to War
Fund Measure.
\\ .'shin ;hm. fan. 8.— < \i’>—\
willing ( on:,? css gave the right
ol m.p ind.r. to war appropria
tions. with the numher one item
being IiiihF for the production
ol the (it*.(MM) planes which Pres
ident Koostwclt tailed for this
\ ear.
( Miic oi V had nut to
! ’ ■ ; ‘ the Sriui’e and
F u r 111 i. i ■ ... almost uiKitn
n ;y > V all oi tin
• <• It. ' ai and lea.-i -
Hut to mi.n d i gainst \\ a.ste
s, ii.ttoi I'nmi.iii Democrat Mis
sotin. proposed tii.u tin Senate
defense m\cstir.itmg nimmittee
he assigned tie task of wateh
men ovei t! igantie armament
program With a SUM).()()() bud
get to ! inaio • the .jot).
British Leaf
Firm Pro fits
>!i- , \■ ; . . . .. Lid.,
ill;.-. , . .... .1 ' l.ii.L' ill tl\C
,,i .. . .u,i ... a d auU.iv that
id mg S '[)
. nd tSlfi,
iid provi
eid with
si >!’•.
a year.
Urn!.'! - Ann riean the parent
one. rn .d Grown ;n,l Williamson
['obaeei Ci»rj of 1. • • a be. Ky .
i n11y pledged to tl . KIT for a Sfo.
inn (inn |.,;m. .»i v i ;eii s.’a.iHin.On.•
>.i tai' en .i\tt by the Gritish go\
'rivn n! t" pay be w ar - -pplie?, and
hr h:i! m- e w- ; r .d dr hi .
Germans
Refuse Fight
At Ageda’bia
Good News Also
Comes From Russian
Fronl, With Soviet
T roops Advancing
Within 40 Miles of
Vyazma - Bryansk
Line.
(Bv The \sso<bated Press.'
\doll Hitler's tattered north
\frican armies have started a
new retreat on the westbound
road to Tripoli, the British an
nounced todav. and British
spearheads are now. operating
tJOO mil - from th* starting point
of the drive into Libya.
A bulletin lrom British ?d:dd; -
Ka-t headqua: ters -aid the
. \. •'.labia. 5r1 t• ik -out! • ■: 1 leng.. .
\\e.. fulling back under cover of «i
blinding sandstorm.
The communique -aid Brit1
u • ‘bile e >Iumm- we: e m pursin',
V’orr good news came from the
* viet 1 attl-front. with llussia's
nines effitiallv reported to
liave advanced within 40 miles
of the Vyazma *Br> ansk line on
v\ bieh the Germans had been ex
pected to attempt to dig in for
the vv inter,
soviet dispatehe
l ull wav through nazi defense- on
ho central front, ranging as deep a.-,
t.'in and ' ne-half mile.-, including
i vstei . of camouflaged dugo
loateu i\ -loves and covered \viiu
Iii this connection. London
newspaper reports said machine
gun posts were being set lip at
strategic points in Berlin, man
ned by Hitler’s own S. S. (elite
guard • troops, as a precaution
against a coup d’etat, but a
British foreign office spokes
man warned that reports of a
possible internal upheaval in
(ierman\ should be treated witii
reserve.
( )11 the S- set !! i ( ^ ( b i • .,'
tinning H < -inn attaeks m the cen
tra! (M i ad northern (Len
ingrad' sectors, and said German
i* .n bei salt .eked d <• •> and - h.ppn a
:,! Fa- d ya. v 1 :c! the FvUssia: i -
dee reeapturi d . nd v. ere apparent
ly ;. m;; .is am ease :n toe
TRIAL OF BALDWIN
BEGINS IN DURHAM
1. .
Mine Planter
Sinks; Eight
Men Drowned
l’..i m \ H .Urn ;; i ,\I• >
A: V . > 11' 14 .... K.t T m- 'iluii :i
Atlantic 2 '
S • y today 98
mine plantei Arnold -ank while be
ing P >w ed 1" p-' i *
Tin- name oi the v m •, - e o not
aval inl.de in.mediatvlv but they w e>. ?
believed to be ei\ ibans
ie Arnold had been dispatelv d,
ye'terda> to the asm tanco vi an
. li or mine planter, the L-8K. Wild
the aid oi an Army plane which Hew
o\ Ci the area, the Arnold located the
1.-88 and started to tow her to
shore.
lntci n me .-weeper met the tw >
smallei eral’t and began towing both
of them.
Suddenly, the Arnold prang a le a
while t ho throe 'hip.’ m-m 1 •• h
l u.nd-d tw be t- .f a..