North Carolina Newspapers

Itenltemm 3BmUj Htspafrfr __ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA_ __ T VVENTY-NJNTH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 24, DM2 ia'IU'ls,^.'E^T *'HN" " FIVE ( ENTS COPY British Bombers Raid Rostock Great Fires Left Raging At Sea Base German Warplanes Step Up Tempo of Their Attacks on Eng land; Berlin Claims 1 b t h Army Has Broken Siege Lines. If', fin A ~ ■ ,it i 11 Press) licit:-11 *• i .c|i i , systema tica! o ■ c.i-t i 11- (, i iiiany's war Mi •; m i 1 u . ■ -.-i ,-a | i res at the German Halt • of Ros tiiek ia.-t in. let . ■ i apiie.rently inflieti-d iii■ a\ y damaye, tile London air minis!1 . announced toda.\'. wh i It ■ na/.i warplane-, stepped up t he tempo of their at' aid-:- on Knyland. I >' -iT'!" d a - t la Imme of the III n M i reran v Rost • >ck is a - hi: 1 e:. hI ■ re r< nti'r and a nta.i'H ■ ■ : -i L-r (lei nian war suppdi .'i> v. ii «,» tIn Russian Finni.-ii front-. “Four ■ t . ;r ain-raft are mis ;ing.“ l !:•■ air n ■1 i -try said. \t hiimi' Briton reacted cn t!;usiaslicall> to laird Beaver brook’s speech in \i \\ Y’ork last night urging (ivati.ui ot a second front in western I mope. London comment ranged from the man - in-thc-strcet’s jubilant “> ou tell ’em. Beaver,’’ to more restrained n marks in informed tnilitaiN circles, and many ob servers interpreted the speech as symptomatic of a governmental change of heart toward the idea of a European front this year. More than a do/vii Briton." were killed in Gci i an a:d.--. with the ruizis di\ o b-v.wng an English sniith cast coast t n at ■. va ,1a-1 and pelting a winning cia-" di -t.iet with high e-xplo." ;\‘e.". (in the (iusMiin trout. a Mock holm dispatch quoted a Berlin spokesman as asserting that the German 1 (>tii arm\, trapped for main weeks in the nloodv Stara>a llussa battle sector ISO miles south, had burst through Soviet line's and reestablished contact with the main German forces. S»i \ let d . : , ‘. • • cj» •, t rd tllcll Finnixh ti * i"j . ed ut.. <d Len ingrad ! i »r me ! i: t ' . t .'.ere 1 ight (Con’.nuod on Page Four) GAS CONSUMPTION TO BE CUT FURTHER \V , haul ii. \ 1 .'1 i AP) — t in-. hlllr!.! . • II I . nod t. >cl n..’ ili;.: la-.i.i ■ .• i■! -ii n the oa>t and |H’iiiiai'!y •:i• ■ Par-lie northwest \ - •' dd be e ' : ■ .a1 nr 'i n! of nor ma : m May I t w " ng supplies with tin- ;• < int e ■ li'ien' i one t!i i rd. Stl' 1 ed reduction, wl a ... ■ ‘i li per cent less 1 ':.!<! " • r * ■ 1 .■ o weeks . i;; -! Aiy ad •. ,rd • l a ice ■ : ' ■ 1 pas -engi r >. ;:i i jinn do Chicle, .ii e.reles cm .mated. Ships hails To Ram Sub Survivors of American Merchantman R each Port After Sinking of Vessel. N 'k Ap A i i ,\Pi - The > '■ ■' a ■' i A •■'d Ai erioan i * ait snip •' rd n-aeeessfully enemy ne \\ hten h.. ' the butt old he At lanta eras', ttu main ai A pn I it!. The X'a\ v ami"Unccd the sinking today Captain Sannicl 1. Cobb of Staten island, X A' . and Ordinary Seaman Vic's i Pi-'rola. IT <>t \\ akefield. Ala - . were n rially wounded by shelllire and were bnrieil at sea. Five otl-.er ereAmen wire missing j and 27 -ui\ ivor.- were iaudud at Nor I ATintinneH .- Pace Th t-pp 1 Japan Still Puzzles Over Raid Reds Intern In Siberia American Plane Malt ing Forced Landing Held by Russia in Compliance With In ternational Law; Other News of War. ( i'.y The Associated Press) Japan, still puzzled about tiie "uiysti ry base'' from which l . S. bombers raided Tokyo six days ago, asserted today tlint Washington had not yet issued a cummin ipue on the assault be *.i!i<t■ "it lias no way of com municating with the American warplanes \\ h i c h attacked Japan." A Japanese spokesman said : , mi ant t hat none of the leaders had returned to their While d okyo thus sought to draw information from Wash ington, Russia announced that one i ' the American bombers had m ule a forced binding on tin .soviet Maidtime province, fact!, tlie Sea of Japan, and had 1 interned with its crew .1. i m . tnee with international I lau' Russia's action appeared to l>e •in already completed test of the year-old neutrality pact between Tokyo and Moscow, Inn t . S. embassy officials in Kuibyshev said Ambassador Admiral Wil liam II. Standley had been in i'ruled of tlie circumstances and had asked Washington for in f’ struetions. Russia is still technically at peace with Japan, and Tokyo newspapers stressed that fact along with the hope that friend ly relations between the two countries might he strenytiiened through "Russia's better under standing of tlie greater east Asia w ar." Tukvu's nervousness over relations th Russia stems m part from tin ■ ■ o:::e vulnerability <>l Japan I > lung and submarine attacks bas . .,t the Soviet port ot Yladivo tna, .y (>8(l mill’s aero.-.- the Sea ol • ; ,m from Tokyo. So long as Rus.-ia and Japan lc (Continued on Page Eight) Wilson Man Nazi Victim Ned L a u g hinghouse, Injured in Attack on Zamzam, Reported to Have Died. Wilson, April 24.— (AI’)—Har ry Cawthornc, one of the sur vivors of German shelling of the Kg.vptian liner Zamzam in the south Atlantic last April 17, re ceived word today that Ned Laughinghouse. another Wilson ian, had died aboard the raider which attacked the liner. Cawthornc and Laughinghousc were member.-: oi a party ol tobac conists cn route to Atrica at tire time tlic Zamzam was sunk. Laughing housc was reported wounded during tlie shelling which preceded the sink ing and was said to have been taken a boa i'd the raider. Cawthornc said lie received a let ter today front Mrs. Percy Lt*\ itt ol Montreal. Canada, which said tha Laughinghou.se died aboard the raid er two days alter being visited by Thomas 1). Miller, another Wilson man when the prison ship Dresden contacted the raider .lust before heading for port in occupied France. Mrs. Lv -utt wrote that she had re ceived a le ter from her sister. Mrs. Lentz Levitt vho she said was in a German concei rot ion camp, stating tr it a Mrs. Star, g wile ol anothei Zamzam survivor. ported Laugh mghouse's death. Welcomes New Bulkeley Heir While Lieut. John Bulkeley, leader of the hard-hitting torpedo boat squadron, was damaging a Japanese light cruiser in an attack off Cebu, his wife Hilda was preparing a welcome for a new member of the fam ily. The mother poses with the recently arrived baby, John Duncan Bulkeley 3rd, in their home at Long Island City, N. Y. Behind them is a picture of the boy’s hero-father. (Central Press) Lewis And Murray To Showdown Fight Labor Sources See Culmination of Dis pute in Displacement of Murray as UMW Vice President and as Member as Well. Washington. April It.— (AD —Some of the labor movement's best informed sources were con ceding today the inevitability of a showdown between John L. Lewis and bis estranged "right arm." Fhilip .Murray, culminat ing not only in Murray's prob able displacement as vice presi dent of the l liilcd Mine Work ers but in an attempt to expel him from membership as well. Among significant recent develop ment.- well- tlie. e: 1. Three top otl'ieial- ol the Uni' ed Aline Worker- Worker:. (CIO) toid Murray in .1 ictti r the muon prob ably would do Mime "house clean ing" at its October convention. 2. The miner: continued to with hold per capita tax payments to the CIO, which Murray heads, while asking repaymem of about SI .HtiO.OOO advanced to the CIO in it fledgling days wlien Lev 1 ■ w a - its chief. The overdue per capita tax now total anout StiO.OOO. 3 CIO officer replied with a dun for the per capita payment.- and de clared that while -all workers thro ughout the nation owe a deep debt to ffic United Mine Workers of America, thi - debt cannot be meas ured in dollars " They ex pre-sen the opinion tile i,line worker- did not and do not consider the 1: oncy ad vanced for organ i/.at ion purp<r-es as a debt to be repaid m dollars and cents. The "home cleaning' suggestion Was interpreted widely a.- a threat of expulsion from membership, inas much a- the minors do not choose their officer- at conventions. That is done bv referenda, the next ot which will be held in December. Moreover, Lewis has the cen.-'.itutional power to remove Murray trom his Slcf.OOO a year job a- vice president "lor in- 1 subordination or ju-t and sullicicni cause." BEAR HINT Raleigh, April 24. —(AP)—Prison clerks searched in vain for the fing erprints and record of Jiggs Tho buir. listed as one of lad Negro pris oners transferred from the Perqui mans county camp to Caledonia pris | on farm. They discovered today that tire ! prisoner was really Jiggs, the bear, a , pet of the Perquimans men, which 1 was transferred with them. JAPS NEAR MANDALAY. New Delhi, April 24. (AP) The Japanese are within 100 miles of the important Burma city ol Mandalay, it was disclosed today by a British 'communique which said new attacks •■•ere developing ,n the Tnnngvi area. ( NEWMAN LHAKEEU WITH VIOLATION OF PAROLE TERMS Raleigh, Apr.! 24. -(AP) H B. X'wiian. well known Hen derson merchant, will be called before V. S Judge I. M. Meek in. m federal court here next week to answer to charges of violating his probation, according to M. Butler Prescott, U. S. probation ot 1 ici r. Pre.-cott aid that the court will be requested to invoke a 60-day sentence imposed on Newman for violating the sugar act by selling to bootleggers. Alcohol tax units officers here said X wntan iiad \ minted in - parole by making more sale to bootleggers. Two Trainmen Die In Blast Hamlet, April 2 I.—(AP) —Two trainmen were killed and another critically injured today when a Sea board airline Railroad engine e.\ plodt d tour miles east of here. Fireman Travis MoKaskill was killed instantly, and J. I). Sowell, head brakeman, died cn route to a hospital. Engineer William L. Bin lock was taken lo a hospital, w hoi " his condition was described as criti cal. All were Hamlet men. Five cars ol the fast freight, bound north i rum Charleston, S. C , were derailed. Oflicials were unable to learn immediately the cause of the explosion, hoard two miles away. Woods nearby were set on lire and pieces of the engine boiler were picked up two city blocks distant. OP A Called To Explain Washington, April 24. (AP) Confronted with a claim that some lit 12 model automobiles might make their first appearance on the street as late as 11)72. the House banking committee called on the otlice ol price administration today for an ex planation its car rationing reg ulations. The decision to ask OPA to explain what some committee members said were “very complex” regulations came after an automobile dealer spo'- oxman said some dealers esti j matid ■ in' under current regula 1 lions the present supply of new cn s might I -1 i- long as :tn vearx Question Introduced Defense Attorney in Revenue 1 rial Asks W i \ ness if ‘Orders Came Down from Higher Up Not to Pro secute Bad Checks.’ Raleigh. April ?,4.— (API—Til" oursfion of whether polities af fected the policy of tic North Carolina revenue department in the handling of had checks signed by taxpayers was raised here today at the embezzl-ment trial of Robert I . Ward, .lr.. former accounting chief of the department. D. 1. Ward of New Bern, attorney lor the defendant, asked a state. witness whetl'.or it w; s line dial, during the ‘ast gubernatorial cam paign. ’'orders came down from high er up not to prosecute bad checks.” A J. Maxw.ll. revenue commission er. was one oi the candidates for gov ernor. Tile witness. Mrs. Mabel O'Neal, an employee ol the department, did not answer, because Solicitor \V liiam Y. Biekctl objected and Judge V. Don Phillips sustained the objec tion. "The revenue department is not on trial here." said the judge. Mi’s. O'Neiti testified that Ward held several had checks for the Ricks Recreation Parlor of Rocky Mount, owned by Clarence W. Sneed, a former revenue department em ployee who had pleaded guilty to embezzling approximately S/,000. She said that these checks were kept in the very back of the bad check file, and that Ward instruct ed her, when listing bad checks, to put Sneed's checks down near the bottom of the list. Stansbury Goes Free. Concord, April 2 1. iAP)- -Su perior ('our', .Judge Zob V Nellies ol Asheville sustained i motion to day to di.-mi s a charge ol receiving stolen goods again-.! George L. Stansbury. Guilford county manager and member ot the county board oi commissioners. The action, which followed com plotmn ot testimony at the trial o! Stansbury and two other . clears him ol all counts m the indictment on which he was tried. Postoffices May House Wire Service Washington. April 21 -i A!’)— Secretary ol Commerce Jones sub mitted to a Senate interstate com merce subcommittee today a pro posal from President Roosevelt nw leasing postoflice quarters wh*. re available for use by a consolidated telegraph company contemplated under pending legislation. Jones told the .-ubcommith e that both lie and the ITisident favored flic objectiv e.- ol 'me legislation vvhicu would provide h " consolidation ol all domestic telegraph, companies in a single agency. It also would permit international telegraph system - to nu rgc. Jones said the President had re quested him to ask the committee o make provis i ns n the legislation for renting space tor '.digraph office in postal fices. The .secretary -aid that it was be lieved there were hundreds if not thousands of places in the United States win re it would be an economy to the government, to the telegraph service and a convenience to the public to have the telegraph oil ice m the postoffice. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Little change in temperature tonight A Peep in Far-Off Africa .. •.mmm ' It is a far cry from America, where the army p< ep car is so familiar, to the African desert. The sun-hid meted dispatch rider has just arrived with a message for the commanding oflicer of the Bengal Sappers and Miners Regiment. 1 he peep has become an invaluable desert ear because of its ability to move over sand that stalls other cars. (Central Pr\ as) Production Goals May Be Increased President Roosevelt Declares War Produc tion Program Working Out Very Well and Hints of New Expan sions. Washington. April 21.— ( A1*) —President Roosevelt declared today that the war production program was working out ex tremely well and hinted that an other might he piled on top of the program, which was called fantastic last January. In hi- animal mo.-sage w (.3 ingress on January (i. the i’ro.-idenl set Imtu a schedule calling for production in 1042 and 1D4J "l Bln.1)00 planer. 120, 000 tali!■.: . Ja.iiOl) anti-aii'ci'aft gun.- | and 1 tl.ilOfi.OOO ton.- oi eomme.vi.i’ snipping. The intimation that these tre mendous goals might he expand ed to assure a t niled Nations victory came when he was asked at a press conference yyhelher he thought sleel plants now be ing built oi expanded would raise capacity sufIii iently to meet all reiiuircmtmls. No he ri plied, he < ouldn t s.o that liecausc there mi hi he anothei program hy tile time the expaic-ioiis and new plants arc completed. The 13 a l.m 3.0 m.. I C : S uch i 1 jut that Ialien a root) ary |- : a ■;i. He said that tin- - being i in eked • m in e.x l'o a;: . uq.. r> a to wiit-i I - i any - siiipbiuldmc. ' Mr. I!■ o'. I .-am that e. cry i . sly w as • . m, m. line f!ill icttliy "i a mg enoi.gb . ne added ! ha! y- .. eal 1 .me ’ -i end j w ithout 1 lour. He v. as mi ■' ' i '' -l the >i 1 t construction prograi wa regardi generally as 1 hi ’ I -liinuary pliin whuli wa- lagging i erioiisly behind. GERMANS REPORT MORE SHIPS SUNK Berlin t K: mu Go ' m; B: 1 .Me ’ April 24. (AP) L’he G i command reported today that n new l - boat operations off 'ho A • ican cast coast .aid in ’he <3- :■> bean i\ merchant .-I ps totaling 35.000 ions had been sunk One tiaz undi sea raider v to have .-auk a lug and three me go by gunfire "just outside an A non can port." CONVICT IS SI It 11*1 Raleigh, April 24. (Alb Kumh 1 Owens. 4fi-ycar old white pri-om serving a murdt r term in the Watauga county prison camp, com mitted suicide last night by slashing his throat with a razor. Prison Direc * N.r y Pitts 'nnnnniT'H twH; ■ v. ROOSEVELT AGREES IN MARSHALL VIEWS London, April 24.— (AID — Prime Minister Churchill has re ceived a message from President Roosevelt that lie agreed with all the conclusions reached b.\ I , s. Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall after his visit to Lngland. an informed source said today. Woods Fires SpreadAnew Governor Broughton Sends SB! A gents Into Pisgah Forest Seeking Incendiarists. Bre\ ird. \pril 2 !.— i AP — Raging forest fires t' at tub bornly resisted the united efforts of air patrols and volunteer lire fighters had spread today nvci 32,000 acres ol rich limber! tad in four southern stalls. Some ol the t.!azi v < : ed to inretni ia ns::: and Can ilina Governor .1 M U: •• ordi red State 1m rea 1 ■: :.• . ' . 4 "i agent' into the Iksgali No’ .2 K :4 est. whore 14.000 ..ere e mi laid wasti sinee la.-t S :nd..y Mean whi!e. . 1 a-v. . -. broke out in s.:.llnve l Vtrgm K 4 forest ranger- and l VC mni- 4:. • battled a f in ais Id. . e :!-,at ha - e m sumed at least 12,000 aero ■ The south's worst eollflagra 41-1 year.- spread dorm-.' the n,silt to North Go. ir.gia ..; n i so 'tin-,,-' Ken tucky and L S Regional For .-’e .losepi 1 t K:: el;.-i 1: i.nl.oi .,v . e strieted public u.-e oi national tor es ts in Nortli Carolina, Tenues ee and Georgia. Flight: ol civil air patrol pla lieu ->voi the liills ol u e -! rn Non Carolina and in rttiern Georgia to di rect tin- gro aid fighters and to cope with now me-. Citing "del inite e' idelK’e" ol n eendiai i-n- i the Ih -gah t ires. G- - - ernor I’loughtoii diveeted the mobili zation o! one or more state guard companies and -t nt additional state highway patrolmen to the region DROWNKl). Her! lord, April 2-1. (AID R, Graham White, about a9, president and general manager ol the Major and Loomis Lumber C’o. here, drown ed today in the Perquimans river hers Dr. t Davenport, coroner, said the dealt, ■ . |t*-d from aeeidentai _ .1 >• ." nine