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TWENTY-NINTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. Cm TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 14, 1942 fubl1sh^;^V:sPnu'a7;kkn,,,,n FIVE CENTS COPY Torpedoed Tanker Limps to Atlantic Port Official U. S. Navy Photo This picture shows the ruined upper deck of a medium sized tanker torpedoed by a submarine. Although her two decks were almost cut in two, the tanker carrying a precious cargo of high test gas, managed to matte port safely under the watchful eye of a United States destroyer* (Central. Press) Higher 1 axes Are A bandoned As Curbs Against Inflation Morgenthau Repre sented as Believing Present Program Suf ficient and That Pur chases of Bonds May Be Increased. Washington, Vpiii II.— (.VIM I — The administration was re- 1 ported authoritatively today to have decided against asking for drastic new tax increases as a means of combating inflation. Attempts were under way to compose disagreements among high government officials over a broad program pin isioning the freezing of prices, wages, profits and bonuses. Secretary ■ I the Treasury Hemy .! rgonthuu. Jr., was repre cried by aides as believing the present ■ .11(10,tlOO,0011 tax program was stil ' ent. Ilia' v<limitary | aucha ■ e- n! r bonds could he stepped tip 1 1.000.000.000 a year, thus absi.rb exec is ] ini cha.-mg | ■ >\\ ei . and at consumer merchandi e sltouiJ ..‘.toned. » i le was under-0 n id to In epj. 1 .1 ol llte iilatls fathered i.y a ip led by !:t ice Adi: 11a t: a 1 .. ii i tende: -.m and .Mar; m. ■ S. !'e , eba i in .alt "I the fedora I I osei e d. who reported favorcii not or a much -tiller lax progi, la but a iltancous assault mi all imp' a - ' 'it ml la! imtary I ;mtm . as n cb. Tin ;ld mean freezing of nearly all i s and prices, cm .pul n y war : purchases, profits hmitations u gent ral retail ci+dil c>mi n>1. . i ’resident Kooseyelt lia cirlaiicd ruga"Piiieni to de\ ' ile ■ 11utci: ■ .1 po .- lb le to the problem, In i11' .• n "I which 11 iay be "o11 ined , l i. ude chat wilbin the next >1 i"iig emigre .-ional nppn.si I a m de\ . di .ped against new el I ml ' ■ m\e . and Chau man t ieorge, -icr.it, Cicorgia, "1 the Scu.ile n 'ire cmnmitlee. told rcpnriei :t "liighly questionable" wliethc r ' ame • would be w tiling l" g" ln ml the pro ent program ticmge - w* re unrici stood to be shared . Cb.m man lfoughton. 1 tcinoci at, ill t ‘at olln.i, ol !!a t louse v. ay. i mean cimmittoe. Fliers Raid Jap Bases Strong Blows Struck By American and Brit ish Fliers in Defense of India. New Delhi. April I 1. —< MM — American and British liters have struck strung blows in the de fense <d‘ Ditlia. threatened by a Japanese fleet of three battle ships, five aircraft carriers and other warships in tile Bay of Bengal, smashing II! big Hying boats in the Andaman islands and attacking an airuronie ill Burma, it was announced today rim teen Hying boat ■ u rd by t.!u J ipane e for long range . co bug patrol and bombing weri sunk et atilt- or damaged when the h.vi Struck ■- " ffiiirs ‘he i-"' • PRESIDENT !S KEPT FROM OPENING GAME BY ‘WAR AND WORK’ Abi-hington. \piil II.— (.AP) — —!T< sident Koosevrlt decided Ii il iv against tossing out the first nail at the New York-Washing ton game opening the .American League season here, but there were some 31.000 others in the crowded capital who found time to go. Stephen l.arlv. presidential secretary, said the reason Air. Keosevelt was passing up the game could he summed tip in these words: "War and work." Sales Tax j Advocated United States Cham ber of Commerce Pro poses Overall Revenue Program. V.\. ;. ugh m April I I . AIM Tit - (.' I.,.: i.; ■. "I t "1 . i' I ts'.c 1: 111 l - i'd States piupu.-qil today that ( ui gn ■. ine a rdail sale lax .<* a ; a11 i j ipi i 'aching 10 per cent 1 ■ ■ raise Sa.'lim, llllli, fit It t m new ie\ emc . Kl I - worth f. Ah' ad. chan man ". i he chamber'.- federal finance cm - luitee. made the I'ec.iiiiiileiulaliim In the ll"ii.-.e way.- and mean comiml tce ... part uf an ov erall war rev emit' pi'ogr; ;n winch, included inci'ease in biitli the pre.-ellt enrpoiale and in div idnal taxe , pin. a .1 per cent ad did v ,'; .In Oil i ng tax "ii c i open atior. dividend.- a ltd in .ere paid I" null- ’ \ iduals. Ah • 'i'll aid the chamber rerun nu'ii'ied that toe sales fax i>c apphr.i l |u tangible per ..mal property v ill exemption- limited t" purciia e- oy ledeial. -tae and local government . PETROLEUM PIPELINE MAY GO TO NORFOLK ('harlot tr. April 14. — (AP) — I'.x lension of the Plantation Pipeline i ('umpany'■ Baton Houge-Grrensboro I ! line to the Norfolk, ~^i . nr a "is being col' .ideie-l erionsly by tile ' 1 off re III I Vlt'i ileum < 'ool'dilla ' ■ a' : h xes. the Charlotte New said t" j dav. I I __ | | ti ii" , | a nd 1 .mid them aneb ired m the liai hor at Port Blair ill the Anda ;,, ms, potent ini - pringboard for an Indian ima-ion. the British said. Another communique -aid the Jap anese lost -even aircraft when the indomitable American \ olunteei e;i <ii11> fierc'lv attacked a Japane-i lirdi ume m the northern Shan fat ■ m Burma at long level on L-s-i day. Three more Japanese planes were .aid I" lufvc been d*' troyed ty.v the AVG on Sunday at Tuungon. At the same lime the British an nounced lot the first tune in day exteiiPV .activity of their own avia I tmu in Iiitrina They -aid a heavy att ,c!. W ., marie by thru Btem liuuii Ii.iiiiIm'i on Japuic e force o • , a i u n"i I h id Pi ■ ime i m l a.tnday ■'.i , u then I.bet were " ■> | ,nc .... i , Upp< rl f British land ior !c*cj Knox Fights Labor Law Navy Secretary Says ‘Confusion and Delay’ Would be Only Result of Change. Washington, \pril I I.— (AIM —Secretary ol the Navy Knox told Congress today that sus pension of tiie 10-hour work week law would result “only in confusion and delay." opposed a flat per rentage limitation on \ur profits and urged a cessa tion of industrial disputes over the closed shop issue. He said there was no need for labor legislation so far as the Na\\ was concerned. K nox told tin Hi ms - ii..' a! <•< un— lattce II;i» IUk.1 he thought tii.' Mattel ol changing the 4(l-lwur week .'..■i only a quc-haii nl wages and a ould (man a III per rent rut 111 the lie - .1 -jed I - • I...Ii, industry and almr , "p ■ ya'!s i|. i u al appeaI" to .stimulate p oll .■ • inn through pat ■ iot i -11 a m l ex pre ed lyel ;el that the 'lire ■ i the | a. •! 11 11 ml i ye V, a dun ni-haig and "would further diminish i llie war continues." Call' ;l to to tii v on the Smilii 'in on o II. winch '".Id pih a li pci ■ent th nl on jjir pi oj 11.- and rt |'em 1 !u to 1 a" i r jerk lay. and I re v.c t he lo I'll h. 'P Into .. lx I'm;.; . aid lie Ma "y!it the , . a it question could ne he i lea It it h through the I'll'.' 111 ,v' | -km i or I ia i-plv inrrea ,e<i Stock Prices Drift Lower New York, April Ik (AP) Again t ii tfenerallv iun ai ia!>le in tern.'it imiii I new background, the stuck ni-.fl ket today nmlvui'il its slow de. cent to the lowest average !»riees since Mi.:-, lik'd. Heaviness ol :he steel--, punciuated by . drop in l’. S. Sin I iind Ilothle iK'iii to new bottom lor a year 01 u, helped to mil Inc retreat after a fairly loads npi'iniif;. Near tii piurth hum a majority ul the inar ;cl leadci's .-ho.ved heAme- ran^inr, from fi action lo a point or more. V. In me picked up a bit on Uk licit*, although the total was not suu tantially larger than the daily run of the last few weeks. Cotton Prices Turn Lower New V'll I A pi it M (AIM I'm i.<n tqi'.nr opened Jo to Gi icnt. o ih higher. J.f'rl-da; prig ■ era a canto a bale lusher t • ccivts 1 ■ Laval And Darlan Get Posts In New French Government; Closer Axis Ties Indicated American-F ilip ino Forces Resist Japs Invading Cebu Island Defenders of Ccrregidor Un ’crgo I our M ore j Aerial Assaults; Communications With Cebv | Re-Established; Skirmishes on Mindanao. I IJy The A soeiatc :l P: :• -.) CP <-fitly out llUitiiMI eft .'.me icall ,-111(1 !•"i ij)in■ > troops we " ollieiall/ : epurtrd putting up >to- i ■■ mi rt si1 — mee to .1 apnm e inva .o ■ Iorees lo • liiy on Cebu island, in the central Philippine.-, white Lieutenant Gen e ; 1 .Jonathan Wainw r lit' defend • .j-.- ol ('orregidor und -went four , mee a aid i\v .1 a pan -e i innibei i he hma.m-e p.iec - .1 Cebu. 2,30 i hi" a < tti ol Alaniln. .. • estin idea d 12,000. A W 11 cl pat !a enl imlietin sn d ’hat e mi a meat a 'n let ,y '- n Ce - md On rep,idor had bern re-< stnb li• lied and that hem. \ lighting wa in progress, with "our tioop tuh iiornlv resisting the advance of the ta my." i ).i ('■ n"'egi'l .r, the las'. major \: i era'..n- Fi lipmo ha.- lion in tit ' battle oi Luzon, the wai dejiat : m id aid ilea' y Japa-w, > bomber.' nilifted .e troop' < ... .Kiltie.- but only -light dm i ia:y : : i i i m y jr, siallatinn The War di partnirn' . i epnrlcd ! harp .skirnii lie on \I .alanaii ; - land. I)tm oiiii-:. south Manila. Imperial Tokyo In•adopiaiiei . a." sera t today !'ii! .lap -o' invaion •o am • lad emit uir i i ™ pris • ' - eis, including 15 liio- .1 -. • .nee 1m I beginning ni the I! a . m offensive, wild: i 'i the Bur: a li nt British ! head;11 al ter- aekm . ledged a dau- ' gerous now Japane e tiiru-t toward the c ml ral Bm ml : adds. A British c in in . e said Japa nr: e ti oops dri\ ing i p the I .-raw ado;. | river bad captured ta.e village m i iVIigyaung.ve. which mly 22 miles j ■ onill ni the Minbu ■ I fields. The British also reported inereas- j mg Japane-e pre me 90 miles nurthea t . d IT.. about midway In t a a rn 'lie Brill li defendei 1 rigid flank, and the Chinese-guarded lelt flank .d 1: e main allied defense line. 1 U. S. Subs Score i Against Jap Ships Iran Severs Relations With Japan \ Teheran. Iran, April II-— (API—Iran severed diplomatic relations with Japan today, (lil ting off the fountain head of axis propaganda to Islam neigh bors of this allied-occupied Asiatic kingdom on the supply route to Uussiu and lilt' eastern Mediterranean. The Iranian (Persian) govern ment notified Japanese Minister Ichikawa that he must leave within a week with his six dip malic and military attaches. The ruptuic of relations ltd lowed the removal of six major axis agents In a remote section of southeast Iran. The I nited Stales and British legations were informed of the Iraiiian-Japanese break. I MPl.OYMI NT WFIK Washington. April It.— (API —Declaring there was a place for veterans of the last war and other workers over 10 years of age iii the war production pro gram. President lf*.‘»sf'velt today proclaimed a national emp’ov ment w “ck bcginnin'’ May If. Survivors Of Sinkings Reach Port .lacks*• n\ ilk\ Fki April 1 ■» i A I ’ ) Sixty-eight ■ ur\ ■ . <>rs lrom t\\«• torpedoed l-nited St ilr- merchant : ves els have readied .saletv here and : most ol them were ready today to | return to the sea Horn which they were saved. Twenty others an* dead or mis-my md given up h>r lo t in the sinking' I which wore announced today hv tin I Nav y. Moth were "nl f the Allan! ic 1 coa t." ()! the mi'Sing and dead, H) j were Irom one ol the ships, a med ium-.sized vc sol with a crew ol 4 Ik 1 The other cruft, a -mall commercial I \ e: el, lo..t only one man from a crew I of 10 . Tun Impedin', . ma.-lu'd into the huger hip • >n the night of April lh and the submarine .-urfacerl to fue te e (»r .-a-. . hell.' mto the . inkm:: j boat. I he other ' i. el wa*> .-.truck b a . nig It t Tp« d n t!u m.Tiling Underseas Raider Sea Wolf Credited With Outstanding Achieve ments in 40 - Day Cruise; Nimitz Given Credit for Campaign. Washington. April II.— (Al’i —I’reying on the enemy's vital supply lines regardless of the peril. I . S. submarines, such as the Sea Wolf, have accounted for approximately one-fourth of the 11 a Japanese ships sunk or dam aged by American action since the war began. Naval observers hen were <|Uick lo nolo that the new cm:imundei m eli e’I ol the Pan fie fleet, Adiilirai Phe-ter \V. Xuiot/. was an old pig :)oat man. and that Hie mere i e of a11m a me -uecr-s e Inis been m- lilt ing - inee he • iipjilanh'd Adn . a i I 1111 hand F K ’ nel. The -lap.me e rad to In.-, been elm pienl in implied i ll a ,te to X 1 mil/.' ability a an uti ler -eas raider. ( )11 .-.rial iice mn Tokyo ha yroadea.-t w arnmg- of Am i :r,it • ■ ihm.nrilie • in .lapane e water The unofficial compilation of the toll taken b\ \meriean sub marines was taken after the Navy disclosed details nl the Sea Wolf's highly successful cruise. It showed that of M."> enemy ves sels sin k probably sunk or dam aged. submarines operating Irom the Indian ocean to the verv Japanese coast have been credit ed with .!(i sinkings, twelve pro bable sinkings, and ten attacks which resulted in damage to the enemy. The Sea Well v a- credited with the large.-t number "I - ircesslul at- f •ark- known to have been made by t -ingle Ami rarei maler-ea raider. , and naval aidlmi d ie.- -aid that il. ictiiev n.ent probable w a the great- . • ■ t rec iai ol any American sub- 1 eanne. Tin Sea Wi,il ■ ci i re in the In dian mean began late in February and end.nued thr.. ighoul Man'll and into i'.irly Apr. I. In 'd^it pci mri m i I>.> ibiy -111 days or more the sub- I marine sank a Japanese light erui.-et. I a destroyer and a large transport | and damaged tv > light cruisers, a | large transpoit and an unidentified hip -e\ en • I,:ps in a*l 1, The e\p 11 ' I .ieutcniint l' nn inander Fredeiick l'.urdott W.irdei sk.ppcr ol the Sea Wolf who ha been i eeoii mended for^a Navy cro -. | and hi men were regarded by Hit ! Nn\ y as one ol the epar ol sub- , marine warfare.'' , WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Not iruih < hauM ii» <emp( ra iut'r It i iT »i l Flew 18 to Safety 0 8. Ami' \ force < ml t ( i t oto Brig. Gen. Barton K. Yount fright) is shown awarding the S ildiers Medal to Master Sergt. Harry M. Hayes of San Antonio, 'iYx.. in 1930. • decently. Hay i s performed another heroic deed. Although he had never piloted a pinto to k a battered, bullet riddled living fort ress. without oil. gas or flying in struments, fixed it up and made a 1300 mile trip from .Java to Austra lia and saved the lives of eighteen American, British and Hutch of ficers, women and children. (Cent. I ut Pi CS.s Nazis rear Invasion Reports Reaching Lon don Indicate Advance Case of Jitters Both ering Berlin. London. April 1L—APi—Re ports reaching London from neu tral capitals todax indicted the German high command was re signed to an impending invasion of Lurope by allied forces and afraid that the attack would come at a place where it was not c\pet ted. ; ; Mi . ■ ,* ered S',, ( ; t'l ; , 1 : , • , , I 1 ■ j ; r ■. I M !'{ .iiiy." Refugee Ship Sunk By Sub A . If ' re: agee ' 1 ill All- Alla:.'. • ... ■ s, ,la> tin- i! it\ !:; i I ship'. cat. The ■ ,i..v .i : .... . ' l; Me w-hell lie I e :. pell Tr.nv hirjicd' n ■ . .. • !a before - lie .sank tin u laTe.s i.iUv. Ap)Kll Cl illy 111 I .III . , ' a rine before ale " c . a i i i pi.- ' it:- -..III *' a ' \ . few minutes alter tin la 1 e.\; JAY FLYING BOATS DESTROYED IN RAID \,a T'lellll. A p, ' I It 'AIM T ill’ ter*’ Japanese fly >>:; 1mm’ Inn - , , 11 • \ ■ . 1 it cl paged t] i .hmy itlaeL <»n Jap mV H '*•' l>a.-< in thf \n| il n.jp I l.)hi| ill th* ! j -j' Vi hi -Til, :ht Brit ..h reported du, Somber Repercussions In London Follow An nouncement of Pe tairs s Decision to Form New Regime; Other European News. (liy I'in A-sociali'd i’ll ) Franc mowd -h.i)•;*1 \ toward great*-r c 'ila Imi wit!: « Or many todav a- rhief of Sfat*' Philippi1 IVtain decided n f'n'm a new government including I’iern l,ava:. chie1 exponent of st lei igei In - \’. it li tile reicn. and Admiral -I an I)arial;, an t i 11 ri t i. • \ iei 11: ' mie r. Tlie So-year old marshal' decision, stirring immediate speculation < n tin* jnc-ibiliiol France's turning her .'till pow erful i leet er ■ * Adolf 1 Idler, aroused somber repercussions in Loudon Informed British quarters said the Britisn government took "ail exceedingly grave view” ol La val’s re-entry into the Vichy go\ eminent. Diplomatic source*, said La val’s return was a “tactical de teat* tor the I’nited Nations dip lomalie campaign, waged through the State department in Wash ington. to win Vichy away from the axis. ilee!;,rird th remgm /at :->n \va !i•reed on Pet a n by the nn/.is bo b' p d :-yd :> thy the con queifd French republic. M: : ha! Pel in’s de. ’ 1 "id;- .1 n after the erni'ii r - -j ended the IF 1. ‘ h Finer-' r!.1 r Franye less for war Grp my had • mm! nod bittcr'v ‘net the tr: .7 faded to bring rut '“F'rancvN ah r gi for having taken up arms against the roich in the first place. * * ’. en Is >n th< European iron; included: I. Kussian trout — ICussia s arrni("5T pressing their lurious w in ter-into-spring offensive were reported to have launched an at tack of extreme violence on the Moscow lront. 11; !;s.h Kxcha: c Te,epg.apn qu ' e i ' ; Berlm :ni; i as ..nnoum'.in ■; i> s iet divis ns (j>eih ps tin.non • I,.;.- I me! .ding an oill r< a; Gi m ■ - it . p ints and . 1 tin Ft nan- u ; e d ck.ng :n the Donets front, w hen ' • Red a: ie.s Inn s l I oudon—-(leneral George < Marsliall. I S \rm\ eliiel ol' stall', (noterred with one of Britain''- top experts on invasion tactics, lord Louis Mounthai ten chief ol British commandos. i- ■ mi ti • (h ■ tT-is..it- ill ” i ■ I. i d ;' l: ‘ \n ; \a si d - n 4 \ .V hi i main Hr : a'f T.-bruk. Protective Steps Urged Solons Advocate Seiz ure of French Posses sions as Reply to New Government. \\ ashington \pril I 1.— ( M* i ——I mled Males yx lire of French possessions was demand ed in tile House today as a re ply lo plans of Vichy France for a new government cnihr'c iog axis admirer Pierre Laval. ‘'Today in rtci’ii Hi in, :;u I' ■ ' o' , "O'.v. i ented Rep rt.cut t: c r tile Democrat, •m (Comtn'ied on Pace Threel
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