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! TWKNTY-XJNTH YEAR _HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 3, 1942 »'L',U-:'7U ,UV, ., ' ’ ' ' FIVE Singapore Withstands w - * • • • • ••• ••• Russia Reports Steady Advances Nazis Send New Forces To Defense Red Armies Report ed Approaching Bor ders of White Russia, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania; Axis Forces Gain in Africa. The* Associated Press.) Russia's president. Michael Kalinin, proclaimed todav that • the hour is near when all of the orctipird (Soviet) republics will return to the family-' of the l sSR and declared that the Red arniic* now were approaching the borders of White Russia. Latvia. Estonia and Lithuania. • i'. t Germans never will re-cap ture 1 r« !;5 the Red army the-initia ;;a■ ii ha.- liirii gamed.' Kalinm. , ..ddmg that Soviet tloops had thrown the invaders back 19a miles .n .-ome ectors. A Sm\ ;et broadcast reported that 11 per 5 ad thrown several big di v. . n into the coniTici. most o! oid ; nt no di patches said Russia' wader campaign, designed to crip : (mi mans and break tin.: : < >1 lemive before it can gel un de: wav. was pressing steadilv tor ward. * On t lie north African front. Cairo dispatches said it was be lieved that Gorman spearheads had advanced within 50 miles ot historic Tobruk, after a LsO m ile drive eastward from tin* gulf of Sirte. . . .':.-h hradqu :: u isaid imperial 2i."bile columns and patrols were avkvc "along the whole ol our lronl’ w it gave no details, while an RAF :. unique reported British bomb ers pounded axis 1 >rce- east ui I' mini !s (Ji) miles w est ol Tobn..-. ..ud llo miles lroiu the Egyptian I llt'l Premier Mussolini’s high com ma tul said avis troops had swept bound Derna. 95 miles west of Tobruk, and wore ••continuing to pursue t!ie enemv eastward. Thi- meant that the ..xi- rainier ■ firii' i\t* had already ml led 1 > a« k ithin 175 miles ol tin* Egypt,a;> !. >.m frontier, regaining hail tic mui l« 'st m the lli iti -h thru v. inch drove Field Marshal Idrw,*i K pel’s forces to El Aghcila c*n t.i»• b<>rder ol I'i ipohlanu C" .pled with the .ixi.- rein genre, •: Libya. Mom*ow it v. -papei warn-j !tl Turkey to “keep it.- c\a > open" j •« a . c ! lit lei ’ up to -omelhir.g in liu Balkan'. A S' h'l i. i:. i: . • n 1 • • t • i|- ■ .nu i lit lei ; I'l.ii l" : v'i/.c ti','' I'm i;i .ii-cnntnilk'd Dm dandle.' a.- a gateway t" the oil- i . ;rii Ciitica u ..n(1 the eastern Modi-1 t. : i mean SABOTEURS SEVER COMMUNICATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA C'ajicti'.vn, Union ol Soutl) Africa. Frl. .1 lAI’t Wue-cutting sahn-j tcui canned seiimis di-iuptinn ol telepii. ih and telegraph comnmni - c.iti'ii: . Ill Smith Africa last night. r.it.i't'.wn was cut oft from Johan nc.'liurg lor three and "tic-hall hours and cable traffic was delayed. The wires were cut in the area -oath ol Johannesburg and in the Kin berlv district. The death lAmaltv lias recently j been decreed for sabotage. Bus Service To Army Camp Up For Study Raleigh, Feb, 5 (API Utilities Commissioner Stanley Winborne be gan work today on an order cnvei - mg bus operations to the new Army camp near Durham. It was understood that ihe orde” would deal with requests ot the CiranvilJe Transportation company to o|)erate from Oxford It) Durham \ la the camp, and of the Camp Trailwavs company to operate trorn Durham and Creedmoor to the camp Winborne said that a hearing sche duled for today on a request ol Penny and Phelps Bus company to operate from Raleigh via Creedmoor tu the camp had been po- pouccL A Carrier’s Guns Bark Defiance i Official U. S. Navy Photo An aircraft carrier’s two forward batteries let go a salvo at a target being towed several thousand yards distant.. 1 hese nuns are manned twenty-four hours a day, and the carrier is now somewhere in the Pacific as a unit in an offensive natrol against Axis U-boats and surface shins. (Central I'resi) Navy Money Bill Is Passed Babson Sees MuchChange Rationing in Many Lines Due to Affect Business and Home Life of Nation. By ROGER l\ BABSON j ]’. . <n I': .. F 1" ' \M »l tv 1 ( I• iwuflh 1 f:>r us t< change • ■ ■ ■' : •• : ■:' • i pu ch: s(',-: b;M j lasts !!■ m <• ghhcn • <>nths long r I. t t; is week giv< yo i some p.H i*!e , 11;*r:Pi<>r . Hentv of Foo 1 corn, cotton, ugar. m - v» ■ i ’^ and fruit ’l’P:s i • appiie ’ • h( el. eheken. an i c rtain -dhe "0 its But cheese, butter, milk. 1 gg . end pork arc wanted badly ; .d Tins nwans th \v will g*» p’ u1" Dietitian- w dl probably i < a t-» continue vi■ ••• >*i?k :> . * -• b"t ('lit down on the other ’> ■ Mi a* j art needed m Knglemi ■ d by M •: armed f< •rce> Inste 1 : Muv ng j pork. .- ti>ngc, and bai-ci. u>e other j m ats and poultrv. Fish : h idi. lvd | because of scare ty 1,-h but of j boats and fdshermen If the war lads I -nr enough. | readers mud snb.-t itute So ;: A ner- j ican “mate" for tea, mo-t cut down on cocoa and give up popp > and 1 most spices. It is well to keep a' year’s supply ot soap 1 t se. Paint quality is dira t«. >uifcr due . to the use of less lead and zinc. (Continued on Page Four) CONVICT STRIKERS SENT TO SOLITARY Haleirii. Fell i API- Three pr;si tie: -. hi Id to ha\e heon instica- ■ ti,i - 11! - - r-• Monday at tin- Wayne county prison farm, have Ivon or- ’ del i d placed n - ilitary o< infinomont, j State Prison Director Oscar Pitts j said today Pitts -aid he o :1 not >e- | call their names Pitt- and Chairman Don Pi .nee i< the St.ite Highway and Puhlic Works j Commission, spent several h uirs :n Wayne county yesterday .to- e-tiyatinc | the -trike. The Neemes had com- ■ plained of food. Complaints of the prisoners arc j being checked. Pitts -aid He planned to mnfer today with the camp uper- ' visor and superintend nt and said that an.- irregularities 'ill he .straighitucu ■■u* Hospital Ship Is Attacked By Japanese Melbourne. Feb. — ( VI*)—A hospital ship carrying wounded American soldiers and nurses from the Philippines to an Aus tralian port was attacked nine times in one day by Japanese bombers and fighter planes which “tame over like swarms of flies,*' it was disclosed lodov. One of the wounded soldiers said that the laid took place be tween mid-da\ and late after noon of .lanuart K hut “all the wounded were cheerful and de clared their onl\ w ish was to gel well ami have another .rack at the .Japs.” 'The ship apparent^ was the ?.0U7-ton Macton. which the I S. Vrmy announced on lamnry la had reached Darwin. Vustral ia. after vailing from Manila shortly before New Year’s. This would seem to locate the attack as soni”' here off the Dutch Fast Indv’s island of Celebes.) Big Banks Under Fire Eccles Says ‘A Few of the Big Banks’ Op posed Direct Buying of U. S. Bonds. Washington. F< I) • \1M M .. - •mcr S. Ecclo-. i■ -rior; 1! ■■ ■- ■. .-hnirman, has charged Hi it tv if the big banks" were the pr.tu-i ml opponents ol‘ a propo~.il to alio-v federal r.serve imnks to purchase j government obligations d.reet from .he treasury. This accusation, along with statement by Attorney General Bid tie that violation of p: .ruties and ill neat ions orders were ■' widespread md serious" was .iiselns d today n •he printed record of House judiriary committee hear ng- on the Senate, jpproved second war powers bill. "The real opposition," *o permit ing the reserve banks to buy bonds tirect from the Treasury instead of >n the open market came. Eccles .aid. from "a few of the big banks hat are interested in the buying md -elling from d alcrs nd from ’v >ple m ' he 1 on y n ark- 1 Record Fund Provided Completion of Con gressional Action Fol lows Closely on Ap proval of China Loan. Washington, Fob. 3.— 'Ai*' — The Senat** complete ! legislative aetion in li\» minutes twin on a .S2(), lf)3.2h.‘>. 17 1 naval supply •'»!!. boosting Congress’ total vulitiwy . ypi cpri di n % to ap proximately S.TL'TO.000,000 in the first month ol this session. Thi;; act ■; 1 Iluvvd w iftly ... cut • 1 making s' >nn.n«.i.tfM)() in i manrail aid mg'!.:.1 . i: • lurul 1.. h hv. m i.-t* :' <1 . the Secretary of tin I * • • • » V r n The huge ; . d nil. large t lItl urc of its e r t t .\pi shed co; A mnature. C * -»n ig 11 - • pi1" >u !.'• h.i<I .1, ! i d In the Piv ident S':: .<<• 1 .unti Ai ; y air I'li”. «*1 »!•*■’ •! • A; 1!! hi; :iie Xav y I ;<!(!,()( C'.OOO Hi . ' ;1 r ,n!i art ,| i ’ Him ty to p ■ :: additional X: vv thi • War Industry •/ In State; Hat l).til\ DAoateh Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By BOB THOMPSON lialeigh. Fi . What appears h> he a b. n. a industry . includ ing numit'on pu.nt . started in Xm th ( ' ■ me. The t'amid. ' A:ias .can tw . he (I overt! >r IL At.iii that i' hau hi - eided to !., tr a plant in .the old hosier.v imi' Can I'ni'" Sheil load ing will ho work. The prospect of locating an emplane motor plant :n a ci rta in 1 ’.cvh1>nt city took a sudden rim. i ’• -n\ n - • >n ol a Dm - ham cig,irett'- 1 ach ne faetory in‘*> war w oi k i pi ■ 'sped. t 'ertain in terest' me lo.ving :n the west loi sites for food dry ing and processing sites, giving special attention to wood-working plants Several own irons in the lire are warming up. This morning the war production board inial y got around to coni.lin ing the appointment ol living Hal! a clmeytoi ■ ■ ' i -•> nil act umUT I i WnaMor Says Sc - i I.-cds War 1 - r. to rrcpare for 1 - gv;’<r Offen sive" Hn Shortage P’re—'-h V. :> J ■ ,.V|-| — ‘,l ' > ! d* id. : i> s ei nnliiar.\ n m s a w a ?r ml to d ' 1 1 - " i or I • tv . J >c mo ' • n- ? I ids. as k‘*i)iiidicans .i-'ii.t I with Democrat in seek in to c\,v. elite final congress ' i:*1 •:*:»"'iv ;l of ;t measurt c\ Gliding >.“>30.000.009 in financial aid to ( hina. V ' c.ng up,ns>\ al «.>; :. • p. ; 1 W I.id 1: t • ,‘S \ >'.1 prepared }m:,M.:le [Ml If"*- ja >jeclcd Gel - .. •; . p ip; often -ive. tm id■! ' c t >r raid he did net tin ■ estern ale ol deliver!-to Ku.-sia. cau- np iu iag which. i:as created eons.der 1 ible CM.nci i n in siimi- quaPer.- here. Pepper declared that this de ficiency ii iiii ent h< dd be t I mocked a.- -peedily p.'S-ible. Defense official* -aid there was no quest 1-mi n ignoring pre\ inns a. -liranee - .given ,\h--e<jw. On tile e<>n ■ ed. 11 ; . . ■ . 1 ‘he pi Mined .-.applies was gen 1 ’’rally *'m:i -*r ahead ol schedule. * j T! e a 1 • rli:>t fie: vey demand made -u j available .• i ipping was the big pp I ale::;, they explained, but they Imp | d t1' -aire .-.at isl actorily. Italian Subs Reported Sunk In Atlantic i AT’) — The a.1 ' iay ih.it - A'n.'l a;.,i 'p .id tin* i .. a! ic. *hi» been ’ •• (b .a .a: *.i!n;ii'ine r. ...! raitv said. : )H*do til , 1‘!!;'<.*({ S! liei-bllilt had 11ad an * ' *■' fill" hi-Pury S. e . . i . *■■■., ,,. ■ ; , ■ . r Boom Starts l Appointed ' but inn m ‘ i a :. i V t i '('i'll rrci ill,:! a ..i : y . |* . ert 1 lanes. chan a..a •tin U !'} i' \. : • j (’ar. b.na advi. ■ e* >n a In . „iu t ' >\ on I* >v Hr*»; :i»i »n. I in t. aee» ■ :,d.m t • re| orb lr* .a W'ashni.eh n. then lad been a studied attempt t*» bioi K 1 ‘re appointment At the ai e taut WIT announced t!ie appointment o! : ..ember- ol Hants' commutes, v* i'ic'a ht had nominated a month i' v - ■ • ■'. ■ . • rt<:\ 'luit at tiie -amc : lira . ;r a im\ i ice■ i die appointment *•: H; . • i \ T < of C) .1: -;te .. ■ m .her ot the ad\ . > 1: n. • . A'IT. announced that H.dl 1 *i!Id :v an a- a director of !lni 11. i i * : m i br.am: • - I tin W'ach o\ ia Tank and i i ii.-i Company and Terrell would i'cmki a> a datsi. . of the Charlotte branch •! the sn: bank. The fact that tl.au. presi dent the Wachovia a * nave \Cuillu.v.x.a .** rive, Quits Mission Post 1•' K .'•■■ ' ‘. 7t>, f >r uy years chairman of rl,t- International Mis sionary Cornu 1. he- retired from that po-t, an online to an announce ment i.-- n*d iVom the Council's New ^ < •1 rt < M ' 1. • - reeded l*y Hi.'♦Imp .lames C Halo r. of the S. at hern California \rta of the Mi tin- list • " (Ci >H > ill Pri ss) FBI Raids cf Last Year Hampered Es pionage Activities, Witness Testifies. Nc a '» 1Felj. 3 > AP i An KOI roundup ui G iman • t 1 ,• n ■ :mi i :■ Ilf i;)-(i -A . ;iid by :■ ; tie s in : rii i al i-i‘iirt t e y tn h; i •. member. "f another ;dk god e.sp: >o_ nge ring. One man lied to ,i nv am' on l..rlc 1 t olid o \\, ■ :ii. made phut loii’' o I or Japan with informal ion ton.i nid i-', es. Army can :■ . • ’ no", Ilouglas 15-19 bomlifr. tin 1 :aid •yeai Id Lucy Boehmler ended g lilt'y to charges •• f nopi /ai i t ■ \ iolate the espioiiagi iot vsti-Vd ■ t!:o ti- ,-d dm )h M e:i' 'I i- testified that aft"; j la ifi; .i.ritip which resulted ■o.i Kurt Frederick I. ah1 i . 11 :■ | iid os- the g o iTinment tiiil A* • 1 t ■ font mountain hide t. Chinese Say Japs Repulsed •Chunek;: }• •. \ f ■ > ('• i.i .-o * ■ • aid .la L)h h.ith •, 1M1 • ( :: a l: L' r • or. JAP PATROLS CROSS THE SALWEEN RIVER Rangoon, i; . F. ■ AP Pi-:.' 15; . . S .1 .' ' o . j today !! , ' •' i; > ia * ).' hoi j a 111 i!! 11 H ‘ I ‘ i ’ I i 1 > ' ! • ' '''r' CO . . ed M ■ . t S I urday. . * . . J 1111 It's ab» »\ o \i. ; iip.. M'vorai du\ a B tar\ . t said, and tlio RAF reported it laid subtootod tho ’ *v n to a ho.«\y iMinb ing alt. t'K l m ia\ At 1ho >a ■: ,t1 tnno Ik ;1i:-h p. CivC. woro ropoitod to bavo ponotr-.tob tht cnom> e t h < » .. t tho Salween river AT FOR NORTH (WKOI.I\ \ Slightlx warmer loniahi with occasional light iln//!i n< hum . lain* Artillery Duels Mark Fight There Japanese Warplanes At tack Soerabaja and f orl Moresby; War Department Reports United States Planes n Action, I lie Associated I'ross.) ’• " '' • •' ' T f , t v I »• . | t id, • ( , .) . .1 • ., ' . . •,!• . ,, , :1V ' "Vv i!L' ‘ * 1 ■*•'.’ ■ - • Japanese 1 r • the bit* [,"vl '.. - • aim,a. Jam” 1 Gume ' U l' fl. n irtmcnt bulletin s l'd * N a, ph I*- 1(1 pursuit i'a.iKs aim:, ih the defense of ■ n d StubIndies, attacked a • .il\ -tipi i in ton ,. ’ vf I nan I, ers and fighting pianos in Java. \ aap.iiios-. bomber and a pur ‘ :--i Plan, were sitot down, tin* department said. One ‘U Plane was lisieti a mi>si ng. 11 v,as 'he t i t si indication that \meriean pursuit planes, piloted l . s. Army fliers, had reach 'd liic Indies. ! me War depart!! cm ai. . reported bait it Balat during I'-y 1 -1 1 ’Ui w ith action laek 1 ' ' a' age character nl tnc : 1 ' : in Cl .. ist ci i',. the past Iw ,, ...., ,,r. ■■ SoJisii neadquurtoi'.- -a M Sing. - 1 dcimiM gut ced Ja] ' iocs and railed Jap me e Iran ports in the Johore iiahia area dii nelly across Irani the beleaguered a land. ■ mu -i-Nsim'u j.i panose 1 l.x mg boats attacked Fort Moresby be Inrr. dawn, dropping :;t» i)iii!ii)s and blazing a wax with cannon ann machine gun lire in the sec - "lid raid there in three days. *' '■ ’ Moresby e tile capital . , i’ d’llu. in southeastern New Guinea, :i"M :!-X" If''ll 1 Cape York. Austraii,,. .‘.I; Xhl e. ii a: nuniquc acknowledged : 1 es ei e M i and mate rial dan. ige 1 :,,d a- lot Japanese a mult nit '■ ning. i illov t g a 1 lie-day - initial raid in which 70 ;!i| ill-ms Fail bomber- v ilh . ■' •''' 11 - ; x.: i " I ■ C a 1 id tacked tic vital bt.se, r '■ i 1 elaaaed tiiev had lestrnyod mi the • ' : 1 « 1 1 « l ' •’!'!: . <: Mcii •. i-rv eonsidei - • ■ ’■* T1 <I* ; i.iin higu ' t h a d .. a 25,0-00 ■1'-f 1 ",| 1 ■ uunn mg dtaek.- on me 1 ‘ \ • ~ "birr ;m.i . ,••<! a third. Pamphlets Tell F ranee Yanks Coming • .i-.i j tAl*' i;.\f \ • • '• v. ••• e' • .I t mid • ^ - lit' > :-1 nd French people Stet i ’ de . -: I b '• i”I it-1 .mi (■" lay. and disi i i - ■ l.x 11 e' -n-e > ■!'. tlie Brittany } H*n i n> u m I'-m .-aim.1 port.s and town.- wore : • ' t t" -at* the doughboy.- a quar eent urv ag<». .aid that ma i i - <■ ‘•■etmii •.i France would be one • I ' e : i d liuely theatre- o! actual vhmever the t’nited Nations a"e 1 • *> ' ■ ' a ' a 1 ' ii \ ;r i1 in earn — ! i.. gn t<. eaeh the ei ml im nt. K wiv w . reported that a Million >1 1.417 50(i pamphlet.' had been dropped in the latest raid, said that he had been told that operation.-. 1o d.ita e<*n.-1dated tlie 'biggest pam phh i bo .bi..g jm , duiie.’’ In tin eii .tut s-tmggle, it wall }a• Uubiv Oc >ome time before tins 'Continued on Pa?e Two)
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