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Ifil Hwtltemm iBrnltj Htspafrir [—T^J__ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA_ TWENTY-NINTH YEAR ^hkTs^V'a^^'hkss08' HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 2M, 1912 pvuus,k%:evTilrsoAfTEHSO,,s FIVE CENTS COPY France’s New Role Sharply Emphasized By New Occurrences Union cf South Africa Breaks Diplomatic Re lations With Vichy; U. S. Diplomats Go to Key African Posts; Other Developments Reported. i ! It The A ... ' i ■ i ;i5 ori I ’re s.) new role in the war, par ti, „ . ! y lie: Cnilahnnith 'll W 11M tin . " : Miaiply ( inph.; :;/.e:l today i \ , ru.~ of de\ elopment.-.: i he Union oi South Africa, a | ■ I,e Ijriii n empire whit i ! ; "■ . athy be pit i n the ta.-d; ! i o:'.: I a' y with. Madaiy.sear, broke | , • >. .11- with v ichy. , rat ui)!i mill s frinn Dur nth Africa, to Madaga.stui. j I• I. ndi n, a Brin -h ,-p.ikesmai. I n w reported that ait.OOi; !, I . ndi : c.ipiiine have i,o« n ! , ■■ ' 1 ’.v ■!'; : i ' i .111.in;: l 11itei 1 State- thp w a ■ <i,-elo eci have been j i . v ir.m-fo i'i .1 to Hi n/yaville, in i y ■ i I- .. ii' ii V i : t Al ci -a. and to i y .mi i.in. 11 i in an o', idem j . ' . m upthen tin U. S. dip - | ; ■! ie I lit 111 At ior... ■ ■ ■ : i .. K1 t: i e c .'aliens a; :1 i, ... .it a • i^ned t" n •wcomeis. ; In Vichy. Premier Ln\ al him - sell received the Japanese ana..as- ! sador-designato, Takonobu Mitani. Tbt- \ i,• iy government went I i the length nt issuing an ufiicial dc- j Mini ol .vi- scow radio repo.ts tin,; | German sailor were arrn n a at t.v-■ j French Mediterranean base ol TnU 1-11 and t at French war.-hip., w < . t being turned over to Germany. The statement also denied repoit "of a fight hi tween French and Ger man sailor.-..'’ Ar(\ u-i - reaching London ;od mu s arrests of General Charles ri-u Gaulle Free French followei on Mating,i.-cai . Including member- ol th(' i land arimmi-tration, were rui ned out on i uxier. in un I .aval. Agrm . of the Vichy regime were said to be rounding up ail -ym path./.ei oi j,. ■ ! ree French move n i id on this island. in V.di ; aigton. inforn.cd source again .-ngge led the po sibihty ol a (••.ni.'lete diplomatic rupture be t wet 11 tiia Tinted States and France. j Larger Gas Ration Indicated By Ickes ‘No Justification’ for Anticipating Limit of I wo and One-Half to I l ive Gallons Weekly, 1 Coordinator Declares. 'i\., i'ingtc.n, April 23.— (AIM I — I1.. Coordinator likes - de. l.i:< d today thcie "as "no ; .iii-,lii! .lion" for anticipating that M i l motorists would he in-Hi I i i .is little as two and one hall in e gallons of gasoline a w eek. iirrs had been mentioned ■ .tier the card rationing | I uneed yesterday by Price Is .V a >r Leon I leude on, to be i..- AI. i > 15. but lekes told his ■ I - ■ ieri e, "i I we are a bit' to I 'a n - there w ill lie n ' sueii i I !■ added: \\ i ret use to be lieve that people will be put on such short rations. Our objectives is to sup I: I • as much gasoline as pos sible.” lekes said he 1;,.. " of no sueii ligurt bar ing lieen il us seu anti mill'd th.u, lleliiiei so*.‘s aii iiouiii ement of the card rationing plan did not contain the two and one-half to live gallons figure. , , .1 ficial estimates oi the pro . .■■ ration allowance m the > a. ! ( i.uiged liinil tin- I i’.ure to 2., ' , i a in mth. Some < >1 "A sources, Irug officially, till clung tu 1 i'.. in the two and one-hall to ii\c ,n c- Innate at id . . o I i mi.gh i , ; In- I ... . lekes. low. -vei. declined !. mi ■c.i.-t what toe oMicml ligure ■ ,li| he, remarking that "we t an 1 ,o • ■ ei y i ar ahead. ' JAPS TAKE TOWN » himgking. April 23.— (AIM — lapanese troops driving up Ihe salween river valley in east ern Burma captured the key town of Loikaw from Chinese defenders on Tuesday evening, a Chinese army communique announced tonight. Weeds Fires Stiii Rage Forest Officials Be lieve Blazes in South eastern Forests M.ay be Controlled Today. Brevard, April 23.— (AIM — With more than 1.000 men bat tling woods fires which already had swept through more than 30.000 at res of land, state and federal forest officials in the southeast Imped to bring the blazes under control today. Southwestern Virginia lias lost. 12, (Hg) acres of forest land. North Car olina approximately the same amount in a lire which has been go ing since Sunday, and nearly ti.OlM acres in another which was extin guished just before the new one broke i lit. Ill southwestern Ken 'ckv. some 500 men were battling 4k Ores la.-i night, with nine other fires o mrted and no manpower to send again, ’he (Continued on Pnge Thrpp. SUGAR SALLS HALT Ch APRIL 27, STOCKS FROZEN UNTIL MAY 5 Washington. April 23. — (AI'i—Ol’A officials said today that retail sugar sales would he halted, as originally planned, April 27 and that all retail stocks would remain frozen until con sumer rationing begins May 5. The action is designed to pre vent a last minute pre-rationing rush and enable retailers to ad just their stocks for rationing sales. __ Nazis Cali Reserves Youths of 17 and IS Years, Men From Sub jugated Countries and Workers Called. Kuibyshev. April 23.—-(AD — An < trivial Russian spokesm m declared today that Germany re cently called lip a total of 1,With out) reserves. The spokesman. S. V l.o/.oy .sky, vice commissar of foreign affairs, told a press conference that this total included 900,000 in two neyy military classes, youths of 17 and IS years. The ri I’l.iindei" of the 1,1)00,001) re serve-- was said to be made up ol a half-million men from the subjected countries and 300,000 drawn from \itai German industries. Lozovsky said that the German rear was disintegrating while the Russian home iron-, remained strong The Gorman hack of the lines are 'exhausted." Lozovsky asserted. lit' praised the KAFs recent rant., on Lucbcek on the Baltic and Augs burg in the heart of southwestern Germany, saying "the more the Hi t ter because this is the only language the Germans understand." 40-Hour Week Suspension Is Opposed Washington, .April 23. - (AD — Suspension of the 40-hour week for America’s industrial workers was opposed flatly today by Representa tive Engel. Republican. Michigan, with the argument that it would lay the groundwork for destruction of property rights and thus "mark tne end of democracy and the beginning of totalitarianism.’’ "The fundamental issue, in the fi nal analysis, is the worker's pro perty right in his union contract with his employer which guarantees him definite pay for hours worked," En gel declared in an address prepared I for presentation on the House flom . j The Michigan Republican argued ! that suspension of the 40-hour law vPnntinopH nn Prp T‘hrp«' Reign Of Terror On French Island As World Asks: Madagascar To Axis? ★ ★★ ★★ ★ ★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★ German Rhineland Raided By RAF Nazi Fears Of invasion Increased Heavy Aerial Thrust A g a i a 3 t German Foundries and ‘Inva sion Coast’ Cap Spec-' tacular Commando Raid Near Boulogne. (J!y i'll.' Associated Press) British RAF warplanes cele brated the feast day of St. George, the patron saint of Eng land. with a heavy assault on the German Rhineland and the docks at Le Havre belore dawn today, while Stockholm dispatches reported increasing German nervousness over the prospect of an allied invasion. During the night, big guns i n the English channel coast also boomed across Dover strait and continued firing for about :U) minutes. The aerial thrust against Adult Hitler's Rhineland war I'oun daries and l.e Havre capped yes terday's spectacular raid hv Bri tish commandos who landed on the nazi-oceupied French "in vasion coast" near Boulogne, rut German communications and probed enemy fortifications for two hours. The nazi high command acknowl edged "sonic casualties" and mate rial damage in western Germany bu: declared that German night raiders struck back with an attack on an Engli h south coast munitions fac tory which caused "violent explo sions." 1'ho German.- said live RAF bom ber-- wore shot down over the reich: the British said lour planes were missing. Stockholm advices said Ger man expectancy of an allied in vasion of western Europe had in creased considerably, with t-.e nazis taking feverish precautions (Continued on Page Three) New Zealand Placed Under Naval Area Wellington, New Zealand, April 23. (AIM Prime Minister Peter Fraser declared today that New Zea land and the neighboring islands, in cluding Fiji, had hern included in the si in ill I’acil ie ' iperatinns are i now under United Slates naval com mand. • ]t was our desire that All tralia and New Zealand should reman, closely linked in one area under General MacArthur," Fraser said. “We made representations accord ingly, but .strategical considerations as determined in Washington must prevail and we have accordingly con curred in the above organization. [•Vase. said there would be "toe clo est cooperation” between the areas, “while the whole area ol the Pacific wail be coordinated by the combined chiefs of stall and tnc Pacific war council m Washington. Army Builds Detectors Washington, April 23.—(AP) Secrctary of War Stimson reported today the Army was “working very hard" to build and place all along the coast radio detector device, which he said could signal the pre sence of hostile ships and planes more than 11)0 miles away. "We already have a lot of them, " the secretary told his press confer ence. Telling of an inspection trip lie rcontin 11pp on Pace vS''■ ir) De Gauliists Arrested Speculation Heighten ed That Laval May Plan to 1 urn Key Is land Over to Japan; New s Horn O t her Pacific War Fronts. I i\ Tilt- A -Press ) A \ irt !:.■(! ivy i) of 11 rrur on 1 in- 1%t i- io • t.-■ • Al'ida .-'a car, v . i< ai’ of hun dred- i,1 ■!, (; s, was rt - ported today a.mid uuiekeniny spoili!aiito'i that France's new pro Cierman premier. Pi re Lavai. may lie planmjyi;' to turn the island over to -iapaii. The world's fourth hirifest island, .Madagascar lies off the east toa.-t of Africa athwart vital allied lines of communi cation with India. Madagascar is not being de fended against Japanese infiltra tion. and it cannot be detended against Japanese invasion." said dispatches reaching London. In the Philippines, a Tokyo broadcast icported that between .">()(> and fi(d) \inerica.n-Filipino troops \\ <-r, siill holding mil in the jungles of Ml. Balov the highest peak on I’anay island, while other last ditch allied de fenders continued to fight on Timm island in the Dutch least Indies. General Dt ugla MacArthiir's .r :• I j' . •. « : u . » i * . . : i .> >.i:u ■j'alian .an! Dutch lorce were still ia!tling the da;•..*.t- e n the inters a ! the hall-D iiioi — ha: i-Pt irtuguc-e stand of T:.a 4im a ill's north we.-: : .\11 -;i. \x tin details wen ;iyen. A T • • . .■i.-.i-t . - • • led that 1 ,i|'.ine.-1■ to a a id cm: :tlieted i>(' •upat .1 the t’en ' a I I ‘ i, X: j i; aw . i .i .- n allied cnni tuutiijue deelai ed: ■:i 1 in enntael witli I eaea ;■ ' • .11 Paiaiy ;*i ()n the !’ in>i.t u at front, a in \\ i i isi-. tli s i li(|i‘ (l on tiie ( hi - nese-helri east flank of the afliecf defense line as I.ient -nant Gen eral loseph \\ . Stillwell’s Chi nese troops slow Is fell hack un til r the assault of numerically superior Japanese invasion forces. T • (' aa ■ aial ■ i.-iigeri the ■ a i -1 Py ii i : a . i hi an ni i C a- : a d n; ' ’a_i’ 4 nree) Three freed At Rcxboro Judge Parker Directs Verdict of Not Guilty for Three Defendants. a j Ai \P Judge aut'Pa aly a.da\ a 1: a e aiep on 'i ' i' a' i-ai i p si ,ei; ati in in Il:i» l 1 1 eg "I ’; i Pc .>• >n cnmtv . ... 1 la a A ig ■ v.: .'1, van: g Negro Xt ng it eld there an a rap. | charge. I Tin tl -cv fret'll lodtiv. w ih She ■ . w .-"l S 4a •nr \V;I! ■ H. M >r j doeiv. were \V. G. Biadsiier. Leh H \. " ar.d I'".nd 1. James M n'dock • xp-i.' d the . pini-m Mat ’be evi dence against them v: a insufficient mri that apparently they were spec tator' instead of participant# in 1 lie mob action. Another defendant, Thomas G Slaughter, was treed by a non suit y sterility Still another. W J. Green. Jr . is in the Army and was not placed on trial. The case against the other defend ant.'. P. 1. Holt, Johnnie Holt, Coy Harris, A. P. Spriggs and Willie Aiken w s nearing the iorv tnH.av. Aussies Learn Commando Tactics ■» Austral . k'i-rs undergo numerous difficult maneuvers in their training camp at Vi-', tin I'uis sipiad, wearing . - I helmets and carrying bayonets in their teeth, are neck deep in watei as tit t in stream. (Central /'reus) Profits Tax Hike Urged Ways and Means Com mittee Studies Pro posal to Raise Level to SO Per Cent. Washington. April 22.— (AIM — A proposal that corporate ex cess profits taxes lie lifted to the unpreci dented l.-vcl of -.it) per cent w as studied by M ■■ 3'e me ways and mean, cw.iii'ii;t *r to day as it awaited (i -1 iix of .-'res ident Roosevelt's anti-inflation program expected to oe an nounced next week. The iucroa i- 1 I'm tin pro.- ::l a per cent - laxm iai adv ■ ir.divl i... stall .In-Kill ci | O' i.vc-1 a tin- i |ni..I lo ass: .t mi : ■ ci ■ P \\ .' I *i t - :i(\. 1 'X mea-lircs and caiae dur ny tin- ci 1 i nvittee’.* ! i t day cii eussum of Um admini t rat a m' • V 1 b)t>.M:i ') t c Seeretary MmgoiyiiaiT lux T were reported t > hav- t yd the C" mittee there would he no ooje-tum lo gi iing ab()\ e ‘lie I U p i cent e- . : (hey I ecc111.::.' tided, 'out Mu- -!-■ I . hull Id be . pied ■ :' .‘1 a : u . of normal i i>a . . Memliers aid ' uni'- ' a,r,t 1 would hav e to be I - ■ 'll I ' I m ■ven a tentative w c >n on tin e:> - ces-. pri'fits rate cm: id i i i - These were: 1. Report • that I ’ e id- 'll I ■ Kelt might ii-Hml- i - ■.'■ orice-pn .t P ■ e -; . lion . next v (-(•!. ; • ■;III - e<ml iseatm \ i-u p" : billed with . -k e a < . i. wages. 2. Wile' In rap. ia I - . ru ment retention ' a- top !..> r 1 corporation p: : ’• a a ;i.i-i-vvair ••nest t gy" reco i-u lull'd l*y ti - Treasury and ->• I w.ir.-.-i*- in ore the emuin ;tt- -«■ e.>;tid ■ e ay. ci > 1 a pon. LAND URGES ACTION TO END AGITATION Washing: m. X: i 22. -( XT’ - Rear Admiral Km . y K Kami de clared today 11 - a' the y-' r. et ouglit to - tab: i ' K'h r-u.aitene ment relalioi the sh pbu ii . industry to end ': - "infernal agit tinn" he ■ aid v : u.g on a1' ml the dosed sin ip and ot! cr < pue-1 a tv Land, chad • . ' the m.i ri t • n commission. pr--d - t'-d in tc-tmmiv before the Sot mb dcieits,- invc.-i - gating committee t; at production in tile nation’s shipyards could he in creased 12 12 per cent 111i- veto’ and 2a per cent next year w :th an improvement n morale. He said that di-turbod labor rela tions were hound to be damaging fa morale. f A FOR NORTH CAROLINA. * fAttic chu.nre 'n temperature. O’HARE NOMINATED FOR NAVY PROMOTION Washington. April 23.— (AIM —The nomination of Lieutenant lalward II. O'Hare, the Navy fly ing ace who shot down five Japanese bombers and damaged j a sixth in engagements over the Paeifie. to be a lieutenant commander was sent to the Sen ate today Ivy President Roosevelt. A Is - Iron t ittcd t ■ the Senate was the non ination ol Janies P. Pope to j lie direct'a 1 ! the Temi" -or \ alley ; Autla; ity lor another :• rni. I'ccncniist A cl v i s c s Laying Up Money tor Rainy Days Which are Round to Come. ISy IKK;Lit W. PAiSSON. Col IV right - 1 II i.I i ’ i >i a a !•' . i..i a d r, . . I Pallia . A p . -1 ■oiinded oy f ill- .. I I". ■ O go id-. Tii is tar the- . are 40 pci eon' i' a . in period l vr last y. in ! ■ -rely reader- to keen la. " a - *V 1 OXC. pt.on "I in.".. . 1 aihe lev. ■ \ht*r n •• -ci~. - v \ •! K*rt d!••{.• unsuld .t!Y -t 1! i* ’ a d L>>* \\ hun thi> tv ./y :• ■> :m ;k*v: 0\T'.'. V * 'It ! : ■ . >n' ”! . :'t (C* n;inued on IRwe Two) DEFENDANT TURNS STATE’S WITNESS ( J menrd, \pi it ’ : i A P ■ I a Brice, mu ol Ion • pi r —o - n t.S.d here for the alleged theft and sal* i f eight a’ltnivnhile hire-, turned -late's v tne-s at the opening of the ease today atul te.-t tied against his co-defendants. All and Mrs. George I. Staiisbiiry of Greensboro, and George J. King. Brier, a Negro, -aid he took the tires from a Concord warehouse a* the instigation of King and received s 125 lrom the latter II and Ki ig. he testified, took the tires to Green - boro amt turned them over to Sians bury, county manager and chairman ; of the *i.i vo hoard ol . oimiii ocner;. Howard Convicted In Revenue Trial Former Revenue De partment Ca shier Found Guilty of Em bezzlement and Aid ing and Abetting; Ward Trial Opens This Morning. Kalcigh. \pii) id. — (AID — Harry Howard, former cashier of the North ( arolina Department of Revenue, was convicted this afternoon of charges of embez zling Sl.fioO in State funds and of aiding and abetting in other embezzlements. The verdict was returned al I most it hours after the juiw first took iht* ca-.c under advise ment. .About it: In»u. bt :• m r the \ *. rdr•; Judge }•’. I Jon Phillip . prcuilim* o\ e; ' Up* MHII't 1 u i*y ! o i' " , ui ;; or not ruction" on iiv • luut’oi ■ •; . • i ug ;i! id ;u set ting. A t ] • od t v !i \ o V i»\ ! s . !• io throughout Hi ward's conviction was the tils! in the current charges made against former employes of the rev i :i i d< rtmcul. Th.ice oili er*. have pleaded Kuilt> and a i a. ill nolo contendere. .still two others must fate trial at this 11 rni ol court. of The jury and lengthy argument - by lawvei.- on the validity .»1 the various bills «u mda-ta ent under whn h Ward i.- < g . . a ' i-'-ng Dm o* 11 a t!, -t w gne ... W !'. S • RAILWAY OFFICIALS ACQUITTED IN TRIAL Peoria. II!.. Aprsl 2:1 i AP > Pre-niem George P. McNcar. .1 and two other officials of the Toieiu . Peoria and Western Railroad were acquitted by a federal court .iurv to day of charges of violating the na tional railway labor act by coercing an n employees. The verdict of not guilty was re turned after the juvy of five met: and seven women had deliberated eight hours.
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