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T\VFN I 7 -N1N I H \ EAR_thk ass..i'-'iT-i ViVt.;f2H<>1> HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 27, 1012 ruiiM.sinj. i_^a^ktkkm,on F1\'E CENTS COPY
ihe General Is All Smiles
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■ . ly confident, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur beams as he walks
:n a cheering crowd in Melbourne, Australia. He is accompanied
le Gen. Patrick Hurley, secretary of war under Herbert Hoover,
and now U. S. minister to New Zealand.
(Central Press)
Corregidi
Blast Jai
Troop Concentrations
B» ok on Up and Enemy
Trucks Set Afire on
Bataan; Island Forts
Ha\e 250th Air Raid
Alarm.
\\ i hia.jton. \ pril 77.—( \ i’ )
—'ll' War department report
ed Ox! i , that artillery fire from
besii t orrogitlor fortress
broki up ,t .tapanese troop eon
mitiMiion on the nearby ISa
taan peninsula in the Philippines
and mu ilire a number of enemy
motor trtieks.
In first eomiminipue cm -
eri'i lighting in the Philippines
ivsui !ii the War department in
fi\e d" -. it yy.is annnnneed that
< <irr>- lor had experienced its
^SOt1' it i id alarm.
1 F irl llie.1i .
' > m b t ’ , ivhit
i I1 1 arbor lma*
d . four hnu fi ■
'n and 11:1 l!i
” 1 Bin-.
T I0 ‘ (|:st.i , , -1
>;| ' , ep •' ’ p,i
• ;.!••!> It BOO miles .,t
1 •.'roll'd
Ale ■11(1' M. P dell
T \ m •
lime traip
Jumps Track
five Known Dead, 262
Injured in Accident;
IV)oiorman Charged
^ ith Manslaught er.
.. « -v. X. .1.. April 77. : AI' -
■ ■' I;m >|led the li nek a
‘* : 1 ■ laden 1 lud-.nn rn er 1 ula
■ eel along 75 feet under
*■’ ' ' ■■ '' Kxflumge I Mace stall n
:l' *'■ |>- hi. I-:\VT last niglu
*"' ' 'error, elaiming 11y i
- d, ..nd iii.jm mg 1 h7.
" ' a ey, public safety cmiiI
1 11 apii'lunc'd early t el. y i .
' ■'‘d Ike in, ,11 a i nan ■ 11 a
1'1'1'"1 ‘ : 1 II nisim and 51 anhatl.a
ox-ear train, Lmti.- A
,l'1 '■•■I'. II;. ..n a manslaughu i
eh irge
Tk i
. ■ "Til eul pti\y ei- 1 nc
j’ ‘."k1 ' the tunnel into biaeniit'
j' 11111 "• I'lifst point on tin* Ini'', ill
A1'1'"|J ’■ • tram burniv. • untie 11 •
. i.>. r. Acrid fumes gusbet
1'Be -to. t;n batteries in l. <
[ ' I e,11, Vy ' ich left the true
0 h 11 Blinding i. -h and bur t "it
1 It'll! ■(• .
I IK) ot tlios. njm ed \w .
r ''d 11," ’ the me. a I centei
treatment for supe I rial in
A" North Carolina. wen
'"'B'" he dead.
Vi vniir
1* "li NOK i >• i MiOLl.x
‘•iltlc ehangi u .etnpc 11 •
luntgiu
’
yr's Guns
\
) Forces
Destroyer
• is Sunk
i
Washington. April !7.— (A!*) 1
—The \av\ announced today the |
d« stroyer Slurtevant had been
stinl*. oil the coast ol Florida “hy
ail underwui. • c\plo*<iiiu wiihio
111 past 11 hours.
I ? • ol lift \\ as small, the
Vr-'v eoiKiiiuniqin* reported, and
most oi the crew ol the edd
World War vessel reached port
sa!ei>. indicaliim tliat tin* ship
ma\ have gone down quite
slow 1> .
T r e :i s u r y Secretary
V-: Out in Opposi
l'-jn to Compulsory
Buying of War Bonds.1
r.\ c is \i;i s > s i i u ut r
p
; W A:» ! . '1 re;usury
S- , • . II1 y Y\ . rymtluiu. Jr., j
• . ' i' .i m ■.!. i; m 'i 1; 11 • A'. i r bog n.
: •. '-: ii,.* r | u‘iideney
ile.pl,' national j
: .. .Mo . to meet
he emergeney by
lie adoption of
■ oo e pretty dicta
: .!• .,1 p die -j. It
..-n't an incmsint
moa , "Iher. alii'mg ,
ifl'a-er holder- who
;et into po.-i'ions of
Vitihoi'ity an out- :
•anda g friends of
the "peep'll,," and
mdonhtedly mean
a he -o It i- rather
e,, ,, il, t U- i nd
Secretar\
M<>rtf'*nt hau
| ,,)■ ■ .1,... ; ,-i. ,.iv li.-lo. irally inclined
• j., j. |,,!k arm.nil \ery peremptor- i
11 • in .j on I' iy1 rl nrec)
__
Chinese Army
Takes Hopong
C) ■ m i April -7. (AP) —
], •, ■ I) t (P'liera I .Pi-epli \V Stil
( c nvy . mi"Uiiced today
ti ■ • 11ad rerapt'ii ■ d HoponS, in
,,,. j||o ipa ud\; ntajfe of its posi
m t 'a1 'line Mandalay irom 1 It
southeast.
IP - is little more than ten
; , rast of Taunggyi which was
won : ..ek from the .Japanese late last
! Both towns are approximately
inn | | . .. nthe ist of Mandalay.
, ,.. o , Aa k’:la I nmt. <lireelly
, , \i-.i,.i..i i.s. the Chinese
a an they w re fighting
. ■ 1 ■ '"fa'list in
RAF Rules Skies Of West Europe
In Greatest Offensive; Japan’s
Armies Strain To Beat Monsoon
Premier General To.jo
Acknowledges That
‘War Still Has to be
Fought;’ U. S. Landing
on New Caledonia
Significant.
(By I he* Associated Press)
Straining lor conquest of
Burma ahead of Ihe wot mon
soon coming- in mid-May am
jockeying with a fresh show ol
air power for southwest Pacific
positions Before the United Na
tions can strike hack full force
•Bipan lias a hig job on her hands
and little time in which to do it,
Premier General To,jo Itim
; e 1 f acknowledged today that
“the war still has to be fought’
despite Japan's victories so far.
"The war's coming stage will
be a real tesl lor the .lapanrs.
nation," lie said in an address
eovered b\ the Tokyo 'a.!"
"liven we, who are behind Un
ions must be of the same mind
as Ihe troops at the front and
be fully prepared to cope with
any alia'las on .Japan herself."
Wide-ranging allied b: mber- an
swered the sudden in tonsil icat inn el
enemy air activity m the Australian
theatre yesterday hv blasting again
at .lapane e bases at I.ae. Xcv. Gui
nea, and Bougainville, in the Solo
mon islands. A Sunday attack In
the Japanese mi Port Moresby. New
n tinea, v..;- tv ported beaten off.
At lea t wur niaiu-.- were destroy
'd by the alia • at Lae.
The recent landing oi .Ameri
can troops on the French island
of New Caledonia—-subject of a
pending protest by Vichy to
Washington—was viewed by ob
servers in Australia as a move
to thwart Japanese expansion to
the east on the Batik of the sup
ply route to Australia.
It was reported that the Japanese
have been concentrating fresh m
. a-ion forces and materials in the.
.Mar-hail islands in apparent pre
paration for some new operate 11
which may bring the United Stale
fleet into action.
Some ubserv i i fun saw the p-■
■ability of a great naval battle some
v\ here between Hawaii and New Zea
land.
In Burma. it was a qur-tion
whether the hard pressed Biatisn
imperials and then' Chinese com
rade' in arms could stay the Japa
iio-e push, until the ii’oii non ram
,-ome with their prospect ol hinder
ing .Japanese eon.mmiicalioiis.
At present the deienders wen im
periled by two new thrusts, accord
ing to L,mdon reports: one ,. drive
Iri.m I.oilem on the eastern . in,-.
>f the line, toward the Mandaiay
Lasiuo road, thre atenmg the tv. ■
cities joined by the highway, and
Ihe other an infil'.raturn to the w '■ t
limed at isolating the allies at tic
I’vavvbwe area, about ll.j miles soule.
,1 Mandalay
Radio Under
Freezing Ban
Washington, April 27. - (At1) -
I'lu' federal communications rom
np.-ion today closed tor the dura
imi of the war all domestic radio
•oiptrnclioii with two exceptions.
Chairman James L. Fly said the
irdcr applied to standard. telex r ion.
ac-miile, relay and high frequency
Nations.
The only exceptions to the free/mg
irdcr were experiinenlal high fre
pieney and non-commercial educa
ional stations.
International broadcasting was not
nx'olved.
Five Killed
In Accidents
Charlotte. April 27. (AP)
least fixe persons met violent deaths
m North Carolina oxer the week
end, four of them in accidents in
volving motor vehicles.
Jamie Yates Jones, la. ot route
Raleigh, xxas killed near there in a
three-car collision.
John Henry Cannon, ot Wilming
ton, route 1. was killed when a load
ol lumber rolled i n him. lie was su
pervising tlio unloading ot a ear.
Durant Alphin, 74, and Edwin T.
Gill, 19. of New York, were killed
in separate accidents nt'Tir Kinston.
Alphin was run over by a truck and
Gii! died in a collision.
Private Rayford S. Lyi eh '’(i, of
Goldsboro, xxas killed in ,i n.<> ,,r
cyele accident near the Cn ■ -
iand-io bt-s n •■'iiinrr Lm<
New Lef ease Board Meet? ;n O. C. D. Headquarters
-:-— • -- -- ----.—-,
—< . I*. I’honi'phnto.
rhe luvl meeting ! tlu- War Board of the Office a C 1 n.- ■ • , , j;<m y i
di>. dirrt lo)' (.1 th'.' I,V. :.nd fixunxxn "l lie nev n i - ti (I. let: ’ i yj.y (;, s j.-.
i’.iddd : SciT' t:.ry i v K ■ ;i n ; Km-a: !\;.i . I). M. \.
i.intli S'., ini' n.M. ic.: : . ■ y: it, :i re: X. .,n:: i •: I. . 1;. . ( (y, j, | , (;
Dirirtiif ol I Ji'len.'f, iI li and Welfare Services: Pa r tin . .i
loni ■ 1" ' Hat 1 i i Stassen. ol Mini ■ - . Bo-t. n. The plans . thi
>t:il in til' to r.oat o. r UU;o~.
Roosevelt Proposes Program
To Combat Rising Living Cost
W ashing Inn. \ pri 1 '!7.— (API
-—President Kooscyelt said today
licit during the war no \nieri
e.in cili/.en ought to have .1 net
ineonte. after he lias paid his
taxes, ol more than S25.000
year" in proposing to Congress
a seven-point program designed
to combat the upward spiral 111
living costs.
iu? l>r iden pi . d t.-.l • .: .,
tit 1 w ages and lames 01 .nil;' -
(bails. ■ ay .. g "I a , e .: 1 a t s’.. a
ing the ei of la. .ng wall ■:
that a. age.- ill genera! can and - ■ ,ai
bi kepi :1 ’ exi I ng ! eels" and a 1,
repeal <.f the pravi auis ol tie :a .
fixing law whieh ail we farm eoni
lliodities to rise i a 110 per rent e.
parity . ( P; ; :gv 1. lie j>r,ee (la-,g ■..■■■
Jo ga,. tlie la l a aa a retu i n, . m d
on indu.-lnal purer . es. 1 n 1 ’.vim a
a illob-H base jj real.)
"We must its i" .lings on the
prices which consumers, retailers,
wholesalers and maim •aitui ers
pay lor the things they buy." the
President said as hr outlined Ins
plans to kc-‘p the east ol living
down, and added "ceilings 011
rents lot dwellings ill all arras
affected by war industries" to
the sti |is that must he taken
Air. linoseveit ab ” .!■ elarvii ’
"miteiensibli that a1 1 a. : ’ < a ■
huge ittei a a IT n 1 tale a lid . a,.
n 1: itiis should 1 1 in mu: ■
lar ia ad. "is- -imp el at lea . I
ta'-a a."
Iiatly opposing Mispcn-ion oi
the 10-houi work week law. the
President said:
".Host workers in munition
industries are working far more
than tO hours a y\ ei k. and should
eontinue to he paid at time and 1
half for overtime. Otherwise,
their weekly pay envelopes
would be reduced."
I Mi . lb." 1 vi I! res rted 1’
strike.- a re at a mi’M
I'll - i'11 a lent .'. .' i di-aiis
progi-aai P-r tin 1: 1 'Ml in a r (la
ad i ess ton ino night. K<
Deinoe! alia i., adi '- an ley ,. a
a White 11'Ut.-e c.nb .1 nee. The . -
I wa. not announced immediately,
siiir.il in the cosi of living.
The program, outlined in a am
saga to C .ngress, was the admin:
tration’s plan for gearing the ewn
omy of tin nation and its pie >plo 1
emergency war coalitions.
The Chief f.xecutive also pro
posed heavy taxes, holding per
sonal and corporate pi nt its to
reasonable levels, stabilization ol
prices received by farmers, dis
couraging credit and instalment
j buying, rationing of all essential
scarce commodities, and stimula
tion of the pin chase of hoods
Only taxes and stabdizai. 11 -a al
prices. Mr. Ho >-u volt said, injuin
legisla'ive ction
Hut 111 oi led if rn. lilh.-ot. t*eaC
I
Evidence
By Listening
| Device OKed
' .i derisa hi u'l - 1 11 v -i i •' 1 i ili i’ll’
ta ■ ■ It i 1 lir.’ i ri ii
even 1 if n, with .hi '
i .!Ilf ;s. in. .1 I ■ i: ' I it tf niry : .I-IU'I 111.
la it |>. i > I if i| if I if::;. ad .1 ,i t if M : i -
pity, am itiif; .. ;s so it■ i •: 11 • > .a
I'Vai . liarl). : . til life depat linn,'
. t..|d tile S i’ll.. L'. Hi -1 that ,1 vv;
! , 1.1: y . 'a ; s' i't! n a ip me I’m ■ i ‘I. t
..pi | I : .ay . i. rflir.,1 >r Intel oept tile
ennmumieatinns el imported spies
in- sain item s ”
The derision applied pecit ieallv
tn the eem ada>11 ■! three \f\v YoH.
I att'irr.e.vs Martin M. Goldman. .la
fill l1 Sh:,In an and Theodore Gmd
i, , ..a .i dial pi oi foiispii'int, 1 I
eausL ’fii. i liptrv i>e1 it imt to nr
i ili'. I I. leu':' a li. I then t itii
■ ydiaov n in a MVtrt i ’ il, at t;4
V icill.. I - Ini' the::' v. i irk.
" i Ti ■ kee| ■ the cos I nl li ng fran
.spiraling upward, ve n , t stabihze
Die p: ires rcH'i'iU'd ity grower,- fn:
| s'iidurt .'1 tlieir kind,
a. Jo J;eep the cost >1 ! iv i ng 11 ■ :
,-p,ruling upward, we mist encour
age all citizen- to contribute to the
co-l ol w inning this war oy purchas
u:.g war bonds with their earning
instead m . .-mg those earniing: to
1.y arl icle vl el are m .t essent al
"Ii- Ti - keep the o >st of 1 w ing fr<>m
-piralin.g upward we n . 1 ration all
en , - . wiiiei :;le
■areit.s o that they may be
ill -1 r.i 'Uted i a i riy .. . a ig . on • ua • ■.
in accordance wild
to pas high prve
I' a' i hem.
" To beep the i■■ t of Us ing : nmi
•piralin gains ard. w e ■ dl-c mr
credit .aid . . I . 11 <■ 111 i ..s ing.
Uifl encourage tin- pay mg oft of
la amount .a, ... i. .|p,i,
till pni'Cha e ol an: I olid.-.'
P oned
Last of Revenue De
partment Embezzle
ment Cases to Begin
1 his Afternoon.
\|>r: 27 (AP Ti
:■ 1-nl I: !. : riled red I. .'
i:; ' u; \ a t ■ ' • 1 ■ , it1
J 1 . ■> ! V ' ’ '
nd ri ■ n :uto the Are y . - a c. I--nei.
- :n Wake .- upe ■ <•: c- art s mi
i v unde: stood he ss’e Id be :a
: ,a gi o: the legal 11. ..ri'll of the
■ apply dis'i ion.
All r t • ■:11g informed -a lv>vai
a rare. Presiding Judge F I'" id
granted a pe-1peneme-1’ in
ai I ..: of Fred Brown IV ,r.
liief of the sales tax dp
util 2 p m. Brake has pleaded inn—
•lit ' - charges ol embezzling SI DO
.mil , idai.g and abetting in the om
lerr.lrment ol other funds.
Robert Fee Ward. ,Tr . dapper, hun
t- ,-e.l ex-accounts chief ot the
•vs i ti department, was cons c! I
n an .'a- Sat relay for hi- pm i
in tin pp rent wholesale loot iif t he
(.Continued on Page Three)
British Aerial Drive
Threatens Destruction
of Centers of German
Power; United States
Planes Soon to Join
British.
(I >y I hi A ■ iciat t'd J ’iv . )
I In It A I- ruled the -.kit . of
western Ivu. 1 oilay in ji
yi'i ati A ni 1 ■ i\.- of 11 if w ar, a
Arateyu.i: :actor upon which
the whole course ol’ tin* conflict
may depend.
it 1 h I'eaten: d (!'■', a Aat ion of
c'enters o| (ieiTiian |,w , r. ,mo
1 »y "He, iii l! eAiii,-raii■ manner
"1 the last he r idtrlit of ciiii
secuti\'e honiieity at Rostock, a
progress winch no doubt would
he speeded up when and if Ger
many yets under wax ayain. t
Ru ia.
It was e-i imated that I .GOu,
"HU \ loiinds of i x |ill :Si\ eS had
1 men dumped >m R< st(g-k.
I n ■ -line h ttu- aerial sover
eign!' . the British had the
premise that 5 nited States
planes sunn would lie working
with them wine to wing- in a
campaign which already has
shaded German's own Itlli
blit/.
I he prospects of 1 piled States
collaboration in the work of de
struction was not new. it devel
oped I rnm the recent v i-.il to
Loudon In the t nited States
cliiet ol stall General George
( . Marshall. But American pal -
i tieipution in the offensive was
-till in secretive preparation.
La.-t KAI > , at Hi >
and ' the i Ihei R
jlroi't iis wel] a.- a groat plane ouilu
dlior daylight -weep n -.-r the lei ;h
■ 'rii : si rt 1 'I ea|>t vc Fi ..net'.
British a . pov.'ei' u.e- coining ..
close a.- it could to opening up a sec
ond Eu pent nt while the Ger
mans still dallied, with a great di
et >n of thei air i owi . un tin
Russian in nt.
i,. at- .-..a.i,-o.o- .i.
Sunday, \dolf Hiller dropped n
hint ot expectancy that the war
would go into another winter.
In tin coming winter,
wherever it finds uv Herman
railways will he better aide to
meet their task than in the last
w inter."
He spoke ot Russia as the only
front mi which the war would he
fought—w hairy ci such a state
ment is worth.
I" 'I i. i.i y. ;i|i| i .ired today to bo try -
eti-y I Ileute: . m London.
Freni m agency di
pate! tree Istanbul w' ;ch m tu ,i
111 r eed ion I’upon ;is hay mg told
.ii.y : ev. : Ie ■ ye.ir: that -it"
u ■ ' • i- i | . ..ij ]_
(Con::n :ed on Page S..-.j
Finns Lose
Many I roops
Russian Offensive in
1' rozen Lapland Lik
ened to Drive of Two
Years Ago.
London, \pril l',. —- i \ I * ■ —
Nearly '.’.(Mill Finnish troops were
reported killed last yyrrk in t
Russia:: oflensjye in fro/cn lap
land as the Red army pushed
forward in a spring ady.nne liken
eel to the one id twi years ag..
which ended in 1 inland's defeat.
ti ' veil in tilt 1
:. -' i. fo "! led ..ltd tile Soy:
1 s .p ye. rep. : ted del: oiistra I
hi .i.mg i lie bat i a. I r, y that they
held i hi' initialive ttt .uly.
T ' II - . . ! ye, y . ei g ;
■' 1 1 toy. - 11-t the lie i leartei 1
ecl Fi ;e- 11 m. eli'ort t ■ knock them
"U' . i 'he yy ar and pfdeft the Arctic
" a ' . i I'b u . " aiss ami Archangel.
1 ,et ugr ui rep. i tii-cessi; .1 do -
ten~e agi. nst raiding axis planes in
dicated the t.i.-.ails yyere using
every available lircrai't in an effort
t" cripple the Red army while the
n .. r- prepared l >r an offensive.
M xtxt Finnish and tier.nan creyvs
were 11,-ed m b e north, by plane.
which bombed Leningrad, machine
'tinned troop concentrations and btn
iced at road:, hedge- and artillery
i j a t i t n et