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' -M , u TWENTY-NJNTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AURIC 11. 11)12 ,,UI,,‘,s,l^.'-KrT s^.;Vv,KKN,"’N FIVE OEM S UOl'V Jap Invaders Swarm Into Cebu ★ ★★★★★★★★ ★★★★★★★★ Dominant Indian Parties Reject British Proposal Sir Stafford Says Offer Withdrawn All India Congress and Moslem League Refuse iiriiisn Terms and India Reverts to Former Status in Brit ish Empire. New Delhi, April 11. -(Ai’> — Dominant Hindu an I Modem parties i.oda\ rejected licit a in offer of dominion status after tin war, and Sir Stal l' md "Cripps, special emissary of me Hritish war cabinet, annmmcoi, that the proposal he brought to India had been withdrawn. Cripps. in a farewell radio I broadcast to the people of India said today: “I am sad that this groat op- | portunity for rallying India for her defense and tier freedom has been missed." The historic mission of Sir Stafford failed wlien the AH India Congress party, potent «f the Hindu majority, and the Moslem League, strongest spokesman for the 77,000.01)0 minority Moselems. declared London's terms unaeeeptablo. With tlie Japanese threat to India ! increasing dady, the British utter •envisioned post-war dominion status | and greater autonomy tor India in return for full and immediate sup port of the British tv:r effort. At a pres.- conference, the British emissary -aid that although Britain and China had failed in their nc gotintions there was a "large and very important area >i agre ment i as to the future freedom of Indi o" In . nnouncing that the plan whie. he had brought t■• India was with : drawn, Cripps said that th" status of India revertecT to wha 1 w - he fore he came lure. "Info: red quarters in 1. melon said (Continued on Page Three) CHINESE SEAMAN KILLED IN RIOT ON BRITISH SHIP New York, April 11. (AIM-- A Chinese seaman was shot 1n death today a. he and eleven Chinese ship- ' mates rioted aboard a British me: - chantman in New York harbor in an | attempt to obtain -horn leave. Brooklyn police said the mutiny 1 was ipidled by ship: otfieers aim white t .a■ ten who succeeded in sub- ■ doing the eleven ( hinese and lock- ( ing them in the hole. Lieliti nan! Detective Maui ice Gaughran said the dead man vv.-s , killed by the captain of the ve.-d ■ after the captain had warned the ex cited Chinese lie would he shot it he , crossed a mark. 54 Seamen Reach Port __ I Men Are Survivors of Two Merchant Skips Sunk by Submarine in Atlantic. Brunswick, Ga.. April 11.— (Alb —Fifty-four men who saved them selves with calm bravery reached this port after the submarine sinking oi two medium-sized merchant ships in the Atlantic. Twenty other crewmen were miss ing and feared lost, and one died n a lifeboat en route to .-hole alter tin two ships had been torpedoed and shelled within a few minutes and a few minutes of each otlie. All sur vivors we ’e picked up with n a lew hours. The mastei f one of the ship -aid he believed thai ” of his ships om pany of 37 were .upped in i leir (Continued on Fa? Ttw) ( Philipp’ Sea-Bor n': I n v a d ers Estimaicd at 12,000, Supposed ly Tanks and 1} i v - Bom L» ers; Corregiclor A u t i ■■ r s Heavy Bombardrnerit. 11;.\ Tin - ■■ . it. ; -1 apain ■ ’ . t: -u ir:• Hi" !In• i-!.■:: ' in a new 1 ihasc ■■■i ' ' ! 1':-1 .; ,m "an; baign ! ii:.\ v.:i i. ■ ’ r v. ar ’ogidor in an a* <■ 1111> 1 in kr »v. mt the 1; n Luzon ; \Iarda Ha..' ■. line harbor n tin western Pacific. In the eenira i' iiiipilies. a vVar departmenl n ri ■il, small Ann i .ean-Filioino Trees di lending' ( eon i.Mand in dicted liea\ y casiiall ie.- on .!ap tnese sea "■■rue ill , adin's. c.-li tinted to i. inner lJ.onn, wl.n anded front a fleet of lour war ships and ten transports. I lie enemy was supported by tanks and dive bombers. Tlie comimuiiiiui' the (If lenders continued i<» resist stub bornly. holding the Japanese to an advance <>i only a lew miles. The War department reported that Japanese planes and artil lery subjected! ( orregidor iort ress and nearby Fort Hughes 11> intensive new bombardments, but inflicted lew casualties and minor damage. \ V; I h the Still's ..ad Stripes still led by 3.50i» U. S. Marine.- ad bi a Navy Reports Sub marine Perch Overdue for a IVIorUh, Last in Action in Java Sea. W.i O' ill. ton \ {»! H II .— ( \ P » l hr \ >. submarine Peivh has hrrn o\ ri do • I • a month a il prcsiimablx is |r,sl in the wcst erii Pacific, the \av\ amiouiK rd toda >. (hr Pcrrli. commissioned M\ >ears ago. last was reported op erating in the Ja\ a sea. Shi d of Lieu tenant C 1 ;uid« . D "id Albert II rt. Mb m P» uncM Mill. Va. She w.. the !t1 .: rl suomi.rine . purled lust iir in .-mg i\v the \:u . depei tment -:ikv tne war began. The others wen the Shir k, reported over due .11 the w e.-le, ii Ikes lie. the S-2l», whiel: went down inter .i eolli.-lon v>Li Pas aniii. and 11ia L. >n. dornohsh ed <11 Cavite in lae Pu i.ppines. bu.s.s «■ i the Perch brought to Mi the number ut naval vessels announc ed as lost sine. December 7. The announcement s.,M the next oi kin f j bei f tin ew havi been notified, h it gave no ''stimuli . i ihe total pc.r.-onnel ONE-MAN ARMY wR ... * ITrT. 1 Vi ii've heard a lut about Coot Arthur V.ehiu.uth. the one-man army of Bataan, who is credited I w ith i r.-onally taking care of hen- i dl'tds ol Japs. Here he is with his war paint on, pistols a. hi Isters and a sub-inachine guu under his arm. U. S. Airmen To Aid Reds Reliable Sources in London Declare Mar shall Convinced of Im mediate Need. L a: ;• a, April 1 !.- (AIM Kcliahlo ol i : - .-.mi today tnat .in'i'.o (’iimeral George G. Marshall and Hail',. 1! i. .ills, e :r. miv.1 two 1 ■' a - - -la w .i.- t:: decisive batthliold. w. re I;mui -mg v. ith the Britr-h tin nm-t 'inrlnc way to aid the lied armi' again-! tire axis. Thi. aid, tiie .-miree: added, ;s ll uo-t certain to include Id. S. air torce reinlorremruts of the itAi' tombing of Germany. Tl, Hr111 h and Id. S. fleet - a r ■ -n In..-y convoying supplies for K;i •la - own land battles and the hip ping -1 tuat a in is so acute that it probbul.y will he some time I) me then1 w ill be trail ports for rontinen la! im a -am a iact which the Id. j s. chief of stai i and Ifopkins kn >w as well a> tiie British. Hut the growing establishment w hie! i Marshal I is in.-p eting and the increasing pools of C. S. plane in Britain a re taken a- an indicate n that American a- well a.- British airj I nice will he bond ii ng Germany in in. 1111i to retard and divert the German war machine. None Killed !n Air Crash \\ w Vo! !: April 11. i.\P> A 21 jia-.- nger I’nited Airlim tsan-o ct plane nver.-hnt a runway in landing at LaGuardia airport in pre-dawn murk today and plunged into Flush ing Bay The three crewmembers were injured: six passengers were unhurt. Quick actam by two crash boat from the nearby Pan-A.ii rican Am ways clipp r termini ! averted tint': er casualties by reselling all nine '>• cupants even while the plane 'vis sinking under them. The accident occurred at ">:27 a. m. is the plane, flight 12 originating in Oakland, Cab. completed the la-' leg of its trip, from Chicago. As the bay's incoming morning 'idc swept in toward the shore on whien the airport front.-, it over turned me plane, and the craft began ill silk IJ .' 1 ll'sl mu Waves oi iv/\± 1'iane.. Bomb ‘Invasion Coast' As London Newspaper Hints at Atiisd tnva sion ol Continent To Come Soon. (By I'iir \vu>;ialcd l’rrxx) Waves of I! AI planes blasted tlie German-occupied "invasion roast" ol France todav , capping lieav v night assaults in which British raiders dropped hund reds of tons of high, explosives and incendiaries on Germany's Ruhr valley war foundaiie, in one of the fiercest attacks .>>' the war. The big Kroon arnuiirat works was (lie chief target of the night foray, the London rir ministry -aid, \cknowlodging the loss of 13 I! \F bnmlirs. O rman-oee spied Ho Havre also was bombed. The German- aid twelve British bomber.- were -hut down n:l ae knovvledged that "h >uses were dam aged and iheiv -were casualties among the ei\ ilkm population.'' RAF daylight r iders apparently struck In the villa Ginn of Boulogne. Coincidentally'. the London daily Sketch hinted at an allied invasion of the continent, de claring that conferences of Gen eral George C. Marshall. I . S. Army chief of staff, and Harry Hopkins with Britain's war lead ers indicated that “our plans have gone beyond the produc tion stage." "The contemplated stroke may lie of an unexpected character and an unexpected place." the newspaper said. “There is plenty of room for striking at nazl occupied Europe.” On the Russian front. Soviet d:s patches reported that more than 3.000 Germans had b. on killed in the last few d y- a round Bryansk. 220 miles smithwe * of Moscow, a: cl declared the nazls were suffering lerril'ic casualties in counter attacks aimed at reliev cing encircled Ger man garrisons. Hitler's field headquarters claimed equally heav.' ' — es by lied Army troops "in succe.-sful German thrust” on the central (Moscow) front. On the north African front the re was still no indie tion that German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was developing his expected major of tensive aimed at conquest of Egypt and a drive through the Middle East to Russia'.- south', rn I lank. Litvinoff Says Russian Front To Decide War I‘hilarii Ip'n ia. April 11.—(AP * - The Unit d Nations, says Maxim M. Litvinoff, ran erusli Hitler and v. n tlie war only oil the liattlel ield, oi Russia—not by blockade or bom bardment ol German towns. The Soviet ambassador, in an ad dress before the American Academy of Political Science last night, de clared the allies should use their united effort-- t" dcicat Hitler in Russia, “on tin- onlv trout where this is now possible.” "The Red army lias shown Inal these (G< riran di v i.-i ms) can be beaten. driven back and destroyed," ht add. •Victory may be long in cmrdng il one state has to exhaust its major forces m today's military operations, while another harbors them for pos sible operations at some indefinite time in the future." MISS BAILEY WEDS IN RALEIGH TODAY Raleigh, April 1. — (AP)—Ivlis< Annie Elizabeth Bail v. daughter of Senator and Mrs. .losiah W. Bailey, is to be married to William Joseph P'imm, Jr., of Montgomery, Ala. here this afternoon. The wedding H scheduled to he in Id ill ('ll rip I i III n ell . 11 mio 11 • Kick. WHAT JAP PLANES LEFT CF A BATAAN VILLAGE Murray Asks MenToWork Wage Dispute Said to be Involved in Stoppage of Work at Naval Ordnance Plant. ( harleston, \Y. Y;t„ April 11.— (AT)— \ walkout of members of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (CXO baited all op erations at the SMMMMhOOO South ( harleston na\al ordnance plant todii \. ( M) President Philip Murrax (liiiekh asked all the men t<» re turn to work, and Govenor Wat t hew M. \eei> visited union headquarters to make a personal a npeal. Pro- ai«-tit J.1.1 V; » x • »f the Cm * ;• x * — 1 ihi. S1 * . . C rpni-iil: m. ■ me!: . >j •« t' - ! m i ■ ir pin! • Iieto!'> Ll’aie; k » ! <•• •' lhe Xki\ V. a a 1 .it ! ' ’ ‘ ’ ic -1 : i kr l ■ "UlT K a \' . ; ; I , _ ; t y !. 11 i, , i (\ I \ t •<’\, i] • Ji,p « It ■ ,i.\ .. ' ;• •riiii.;. ROXBORO BICYCLIST KILLED IN ACCIDENT K, x. . .. Am . ; : ■ API I >se ' I.. lie. .1 . 14. ■ a:: . u: i Mr- • > VV 1. mg. as fa'alis in-d t.>da\ 11 di 1 cycle nm were 111 eolll’si. I: He 1 a' 1 .11 C Miiimtv hospital a he w.i a ics . Sales Tax Held Likeiv w' Wa.-irngton. \:■; I i ’ - i \ 1 ’ Haas w ays and • eons eon Uw niemht i's said today that \ > ad annistration reipiost lor an mere..so in ts ST,000.(100.0110 tax pmur.,,' d maki somte form of a sales tax certain. S: ri'ssing reports t at ! ’. i I rut Hoost’\ elt might res iso sharpls n ward his tax request as a in its help control inflation, the nmi' i' teen en said that in that eas • kind if consume: tax already m ‘ontinaprt .-n P;,?p Siv ' Air Lines To War Use Representative Nichols Predicts Civi lian P assenger Air Traffic to be Stopped. Washington, April It—(AIM —Representative .Nichols, ll.'-n t> crat, Oklahoma, pri :ii-t-it t;;:! ix that at! commercial air lines in the United State- would op erating exclusively for war pt>r posc :, “very soon." Nichols clianili:m oi ;i s| a 11 i I i , c avia i. 'ii .ti lilt *t ii. c loith c. forecast lim I .Mi i'.i cagel travel by air. not n.1 :m 1 • ;! " i ! . war cllort. would diminate.i to mak wav l ■ a ait- Iran-JWM 1 oi \ . v greater quantities oi war liaagnl across the county and to d .au ba-es. One of the first -.lens in llii new program, he said would be diversion in the next few weeks of a "eoiisiderahlc mam her" of eominereial plane- to niilitarv use. to h- operat'-il under military diree'ian by exist ing air line personnel. Ik port n pri. a u a ': n a that this diy er-r a: • .aid or more planes w . "v r nr, ol.- said, eiinfilling e-t mat-, to a “consideral !e u i ruber " For mil ilary rea i h.e v. . i ■ a say wil.it speeilie u ' Would hi a. ■ of these plane- ny ill Ai or what routes they riId e ■■ i Kednct ion of the mini tier m a mercial planes he pa nia i would, ol Coin e. er>'. -e e- -tin priority control .. -at . N ei’ -Is said. Nichols ha tv.. I . 'in■ : I mg v. i'h interested goyeia .nl ami ;a ".ate i officials on the - njeet of diver sion for several weeks. The United States now has d commercial aii I i n es. 64 German Aliens Nabbed New York, April 11. i.\i • Percy Fn.wvi.rth. : cad i i the Kin j lure. said today n it federal agent struck at the Kyi laeuser lurid u Brooklyn and Mai attan and seized H4 German liens in the largest gr up arrest ol enemy al cm- in the nieti > politan area since the United States entered the war The arrests. Koxworth said, were made yesterday. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA siiglitl.\ < tonight TONS OF BOMBS RAIN ON WESTERN GERMANY I.nndon, April 11.— (API — ‘'Some thousand Ions ol bombs" \\ ■■!(• '(ropprd op the Ruhr V.d i \v. tiie Rhinvl.nul and other parts of western Germany in four nights of RAP' attack this week, the air ministry news ser vice said tonight. Anti-Nazi Violence Flares Anew J ai\i > .In ui ■; <iurc(\ i)i I. ,nri. .n if ‘ t■ . ’ (i 1' v . >i l \\ tni t jt'i l • in i V. ••!!<■ ".I! i • it ill:: c 11! * ’! 11 !-cl I - nit: C; hi ■ ’ \ I1.' ." II >(' ; e|'< Tied ;i ■ *!»■ ;:rf■ hi h« ]. ii Viln; . I 'mi;, • . . i. d i •« hiv ivl !■> :i ir: ■ , t-T i; . m ai !hy : t:il the: ti ' . . d- Hu se\ fi t !y .cid a hi J t T a a.- '■ * . eri that ith sente ■ i»M l'lack mat ket deelmu- m m eari The m ntenee v. .1 p.i ed :n al • eh' a beeeiise the black h ai ketors were -till at large. Nazis Claim More Sinkings lie: ,:n iFmin German Broadcasts1 Apt ! 1 1 Al’ 1 A -p. cia 1 an noiiiici ::.. lit d 1 oday that, iikv . n port 1 ■ 1 Apr i li. t Jerinan I'-boots had sank twelve merchant ships, in cluding lour large tankers, oil the e.i-t ot America. The high command said the ships totaled 94,00(1 tons. (An average toll of four ships a day was implied. Adoli Hitler’s headquart'. r> announced April 8 'hat German submarines had sunk 1 i ■•csscls totaling 04,000 tons in cm tmued attacks on 'n tpH States ,m : Ho In olpl'Olg
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