I _ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ij^TNTWNTNTH YEAR thb ASfJ1^matki>uj'KKS3?r HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AF I ERNOON, APRIL 2!*, 1!*I2 |,LIII',MKxi'Kn''.-li,..-i»aVkk FIVE ( ENTS COPY Most Retail Prices Are Frozen Hr * " " " • w w ~w *• H- * * ★ Hr 'Hr * Hr Hr H- H More U. S. Troops To Australia ! Score Again S'i-j. rth of New AEF Co ' ■ in 'uent Not Re-1 Vea’o !, Other Than it is ‘.Strong and Well! Supplied;’ Japs Ad vance in Burma. (|; Associated Press) • 1 Roosevelt's discio sur- : . \mcrica now lias “se\ - : ii of thousand.' of fjgl.: . ; i at liases and hat tie fp.>r.t 'ands of milt's from j a - quickly followed to d;t\ : . fficial announcement that -i ■■ new reinforcements n!' I ; l oops and equipment ha\< . •din Australia. 11 • 'oil news for the al lit- > ■ red on the valient re f.'., •• Lieutenant General Wainwrijrht‘s defend er' ' ’ Philippines. \\ ,i ih i .u tmenl hulletin said \i. a gunners on Corregi dur .o tl oilier island forts in Manila Ha> sank an armed Jap uit- liip. broke up enemj troop concentrations and silenc ed several Japanese batteries on the opposite shore. I lie communique said tliat .lapamse guns heavily shelled the ion. but that enemy air at t,uks on (orregidor were de creasing. if the new American ex p is f' nungent which landed \ was not given, but ol :.u i : was "strong and well k'i .1 i ia ■> ti11 iiaiiK« i «»* av link was emphasized anew as the pirn T.illlr ill Burma ap|iarentl> spi-il inward ils eliniatie phase, with i iiliiumhered British and ( linn se armies in desperate sti ails. htary quarters made m> «■!: -real the gravity • >i the the Japanese invasion "mated at lJtl.liOU troops a: : ■ ai mured vehicles, pushed the last two big allien .1 mdalay and Dashio. out lrmatinn elsewhere, ci.ntrnlled Pans radio i n . Tokyo report that Japa had already swarmed Shan mountain.- into no north Burma gateway 'o mile • 1 mm Mandalay. 1 o. di patehe .-aid a Jap n thmsting northward i ■ -d within all miles ol I ■ "aeiting with tanks and P1'1 ' 58 DEAD IN RAID ON EGYPTIAN CITY ' April 29. -(AP)—Fifty fit- ’ :"" ns were kilcd and many h'.imi 'i an axis air raid on the ■'!’ c ? , area last night, the mterior ministry announc 'd ' id v on the basis of reports re II ■ d ,|. to noon. SOUTH CALIFORNIA HAS YELLOW SIGNAL I Angeles, April 29.—(AP)— cic silenced and a yellow (Pte inary) alert was signalled in I-- Angele.-. Ventura and Orange from 3:4R until 4:20 a. m. 1 today. The air raid warning E tod the area was placed on ''E !c|-t because of unidentifi*'d later identified as friend’s ClutT. Hirohito Is 41 Today C‘d;.v"- (From Japanese Broad r April 29. — (AP) — Japan E’°innly celebrated Emperor Hiro f(li"s -H't birthday today, starting at II when everyone in the coun k' To '.etl toward the imperial place dlK 1'it.yed lor the emperor’s long evity. t d here were parades and celebra ’"tts throughout the empire. At noon the emperor received con s' nutations from the princely house. d l’ high olfieia' of the imnei . I “et''i«iuarters. A Decadent Democracy’ Finishes a Tough Job aratXrv°VThnhrnMtiu-.,TranS'ISf mlanfH!^h,Way’ Panama Ca,lal Zo"«- in a test run is a unit of U. S. field time prnVinJo,™.^;,1;1'?01!.?111 °f th,,ck *“"«>« la"d- is 1S 1<.»* and was completed in record how to do thin.-' It St 1 a iKcsmi'ii lor the War di'|jai i non’, and selective aiv in -y-ler lee ■.i. mended todav that the go. ernmen makes tinaneial provision for depend ents of mi a m ' he ai mi d ..m ee tliereby a akmg p- sihie tile mdlic tion of -ome " • n v ho ote.ei r. ise would be fits e. ; ed I a ' 'a u." e de pendent . The wifnes-es were Major WiHia.:; S. Iliehard; . War department genera! stal I represent 1 a. .a and Ala a 1- , ai cis \k Ret ling. * i the selective -err - ice system, who testitied at Sena’e militarv ■■ a 1 m a a a it 11 a hearing- on legislation lo up a v tern o, go. - ernmenl allow . and mandator;, pay allowi on:,. n ■ dt pi ndenl o' service men Major Ke hug ho- .. ih’gru that prove- mu hi ade ..me ! ;ir select or. el . a o autiiorPy •" distingui 1 hetw eei lypt depen dency. , o that hu' pi 1 -po- oi " - n tmu would not 1 ivi- tl . ' licet . dim mat .tig the pre-ent dependency ( la-.-. Ill altogether Kit sling aid that ipproMi iati-1;. 65 per nnl of all registrant wen now in Cl.i -s ill by n- - on m de pendency The pending oil! nrop-. cri an - - lotllielit ol ''I!'' tor a -' Hni AA.O for a wile and on. el: i Id. v till si h month ly f,,r i-.i.-h addi t ioiial eln 1.!. - I - I' - ll child ii no v. in-, w.'.h Sin -'.a n ad ditional cl ild: .'i!" monthly m a hn - (Continued on 1'age fright) Stock Prices i Turn Higher New Y<.I";- April 39. (AIM 1 bo stock nan a t today ‘l «'d on: • of its n coni bin i-i lo o plierc in a broad recovc: y w ! '• :■ ■ ■ " led P‘ K'C of many leader :i action, to a pom. or more In a lew instances the gam ran to two to three points. It was the first upward thrust m more than a week and came as the culmination of ye-terday < -hde m the lowest average levels since Apn. 27, 1933. Cotton Market Trend Higher j New York, April 29 lAi’i ,oo ... opened 10 to 7U eents a bale higher. I At the end of the second hoio tin j market was unchanged to a coins .. bale higher. May 18 9b. • uty 19 ... i Ch t, .her 1 9 t ' rVoPml ,p Steel Strike Halts W orkOnW arOrders Wind Levels Texas Town Vernon. Tc\., \|iril Ml.— (AD —A tornado followed by a de vastating fire destroyed or damaged every building in the west Texas county seal town of Crowell last night, killing at least seven persons and injuring bun deeds. Rescue workers and equip ment were rushed front Vernon and other nearby towns. Hospi tals were filled with injured. All communications in the vicinity were down. (ieorge Self. Red Cross chair man at Crowell, saitl 1.000 per sons needed emergency aid and housing. Younts Gets $1,500 Fine Former Charlotte Postmaster and I hree Co-Defendants Plead Nolo Contendere. Stats vi:ji \|n'il 4b (AIM me: mu! 1 uls id i all I ii. Y ■mil . Inl ine. L liarinne pustmaale! , was lined SI.aim Id 1' ■ del a 1 Judge i'.. Yales vvtoij today w nen lie and din . cu-delendants Mitered pleas ol nmo eolilcnuei e to marge, m \ iolali. ns hi Un\ n i*i .ug to political activity. Sid Cl mi w.i, iiiic.i soda and Cut Aimed and ml,. I albert, a i .. •'•.in cat'll, i'lie tno i ere iormciiy i ployed at the L Imi lotte po.mmici . Mic nelcin.aMis i merca tin- pica ■ as a result ol an agreement oeivvem uetensi and government gounsel aim the nearing ul the ca.-e required slightly more than an hour. i ne delendanis contested only that part oi tm indictment relating to sdUoruination m perjury and Judge M ebb i idea ’.cun die acidise, quasii nig tnuse pan- oi ine mdicimeik. AMERICAN VESSEL IS SUiNK. Or F COAST | Washington. April 4b. (AIM ’1 n | X'avy said today a medium si/.ed | United States merchant vessel had been torpedoed oil the Atlantic coast and that survivors had been landed ,it an east coast port. A short time later they ware taken to another oort on the Atlantic coast, the Navy said Coke Oven Workers at Bethlehem Cambria Plant Strike for High er Wages, Throwing Others in Mill Out of Employment. .fchnstiiwn, I’a.. \pril 29.— (AI’i—A t\\o-c'.av strike of < IC> i oke oven workers in the Bethle hem Steel C ompany's ( amnria work-, here lorced curtailment of work today on war orders, with company and union spokesmen estimatin'.; varum-iy that 1.200 to (>.000 of the plants lti,000 em ploy e,". itad been thrown out of w ork. So.ii \ I>. K\ an nnncigrn cnl re (ire.a illative, said 1.: Ii were id It' be cause anile lullin': milU had beei I i.: down i ly lack < I 1 y -|>niduet ga. Inm the oven md predieled lut tiler "piogressive .-.ms stoppage .1 a; m 11 Co id . til i-regn mill dl . , cl' o' 'I tin CV) S'! "I Win m, t ); , C o n i i t e e, 11 n t I! i (■ I u ■ m b e ,,l hi. at tibn ;' 'h i eluding 2,Ton in the t• .r .-hop . I '-, an.- ;;ici appr eyiniatcly 21)0 ot 12h c• .i* o\ el, Will ki'i w d • oil -ti ll. |c a :.i ■ 11 a rci >.■.' . .■ ! (halt .-am 1 ilia <• va re more !1 .mi ,'<0 '.vet ai the eol'.e depiirt i • u' mi'1 H at al! , m. ■ : t ”,ii.. ait 2a" nad ,i' aned the Ii ike. ( min aid t!w v I r : m I wo battel'll' ll coke .' I had quit w ■ a k moill.se they . "ci ; "Hot . : mill:,, ' for ml. a lien (it mind me a 12 1-2 . not i to t'c a- pay. vine' upo. .'•rd 11 " i ■ a i ' cent - an la air. Nazis Distort FDR’s Words New York, April -!).— ( AD — A personal attack on President Roosevelt, broadcast today by the Berlin radio, constituted the official German reaction to the President s radio broadcast last night. Distorting a phrase from the address to make it appear the President had said the l nited States "spiritually had been at war already prior to Pear! Har bor." the German radio, as re corded 10 New York, also declar ed this was an admission of war guilt. What Air. Roosevelt aetuall' said was that Pearl Harbor "found the American pcopl ■ spiritually prepared for war on a worldwide scale.” WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Continued warm tonight RAF Raids C the r ?: a n c s B o m b German B a l 11 e s h?p Lair at Trc idSeim for Second Liighi in a Row; Rods Claim Im portant Advance. (Iiy Tin' As ;<• ! ’ ■ I>:•:: i.-!i w:11 • 111:in• nappi i_»■ > ,i . ;tI bast' ol Kid 1.1'for.- tla.un P 'lay ; n• i Iwmlii'd lb;- na'/.i baillcship lair at Trondheim. \b a \\ ay. for tie1 second night in a row. i Jrs pitals. Tile na/.i Idyll eon i . ml ..ekltov. i edge.l an unspeei 1 ieh civilian easiialties and said the real isist the U" toll elev ei: b.. . making a -lii-hoU: lotal oi :a> RAi bombers -hot down. Tile high eom niand said 2a were -he: tiwn Mon day night alone. On the Soviet front Russia claimed an important 15-mile ac.vanec in lour days in which the Red armies stormed across a big river and sent the Ger mans reeling bark to the soutii w cst. The river w; • not identified, but tile Russians hare ir an hammering nazi defense.' along the \ >ikho\ river tie I* iv. Lenm. d. the upper Volya ill the R.'.iie' ■ ect'C net m Moscow, tie i u . . 200 mill's ; south of Mnscm . and the !)• nets i river m the Kkhnru \ area "I the j Ulsrain c. described in So-. i di:-p..U'ia'' ler .vet'ks. ' - - e i dost raid indicated that the 1 ’>i ;t; -1i v, eie .mashing hard in -,n i"-m knock out German na a I ba. e.s ami ig the channel urn a m r- -' Siniultuni’ou ly. I. quarto disclosed 1 h.it the 13 tim-tut earner i llusti u ms ai I 1 1 fill unit.- 1 '■ I lie I '■ i had 1 a "U • I ''"led : " the n 'i t 11 Atl.'iri' -mu 'lb' 'i - nidabie Ge in balth quadt 1 t l'lmill!a ," mi. All id . , lav:, u mat a • ii'.r I hatl le e i . mp: nd, Mg ill , showdown !'"■ "I the vital Il"l thel n ' a I,. . i’n ' Is-ii : i circle • ex pm- ed lair. "|i1in u - ■' z till- ., i 11 i it \ "I U e ' al na - a - with the Ge! l an Ed Mey Wins New Trial lialigi . \ Norl h the MiW ' H contacted in Week ■ nty last [ )mr her . ■ e. . :. . 'ey U il"tving a child between the ages e 12 and 16 years. The case caused i ruder. tci est beeau e the j { 1 ecut t was allow ed iIt Si, VI •••; t HI! ' Judge f rank M At ii"i;g hi ex hibit iicr baht t" ha- part The suiH'emc court uien; oiu-d o r did not rule on ii • pri juthe.ai p-. - sibilities of the infant - appear,hum in court The nett Inal was grantei the opmiiHi -aid. bee;. - e Ja.d.gi Armstrong erred in his chargi urt. SHIPPING IS WORST WAR SHORTAGE NOV' Washing! n. April 29. -i \P) - Chiefs o1 the Am y'- services supply said today th it ocean shipj ni was this country's worst war sl’.ort age. but that so far "there has note been a carload" of Am y shipment held up at ports for want ot e g space ‘AY* hope now to be able to tend that 'o other shipments al-o. Lieutenant General Brehon B. -.at -it press -of. r„n P Has Unique Air Job Handsome Lieut. C. F. StAilin, 20, holds tin* di."t.netiuii of in-imr the only Amor:-an m r\ ue; with the Fr ■•]:'• . H r. Colonel St • , ber of tl amed Lafa ] _ .an unit b'dore I'ranee loll. He i.. pLuiiod, carrying un, .< e in HmHand. (Central Press) Showdown on Meas ure Postponed Until Tomorrow; Vinson Has New Proposal. j sho'udox n ill tin £!• ai.-r n.. . < •»J j: - ! : mi It eo "M lavish;! ;mii •> liiv.it war l> ■ the duratio ed 1 inly a’day !»y a tee* 11: aa lily, .mi 1. a ’!’“n:har a.m ead t.. \ ■ da on the rnea> ure tomorrow. Aiiiid a ch'iru d ana> oi' ‘ la: •It low." Itapi a-rntati\ e Bala-, j Rapid M.i ■ v , , U,. r;.i ad o 1 | pti.nl i'1 i'l'dar O: : the i ■»:».11 itlaa i ' i '•ain-n- d u eet at -men 1 .ma> Lima-. • obtanunp -paailic pa. mi-non t<» | j -jr) .,M Ai i'iuta ■ <•;it tin’ aor: m:ltee . a Troops Guard Blacks Moving Into Homes Det: it. Apr.: US). -(AP' -l'n ier i g d ■ e t! ■. '. ' 1 1 ta t e 11 .aid i is and m : police. \r, > families began moving their tur ning the So; i)l i 1\\v> !T1i ’ll I'm ;il;. i lA’IWv't'il : Negroc- ’and n u ni. c the sur rounding pivdonunat ly w: to n- ■g;; borhood. The Ire a s. in Hue-g: a\ unite: . - with hay - -1.. - * > : v a o*i ' .,r : >. took up their Malleus bolero ri.-rn X it " 111 il li ■IlOW < \ C1*. Cl Hi till ,1 f the ioving tru< lowed by an automobile canvuir pi.i : ck 1 hcs pe,| -ei ell. '1" little eu\ nlcade entered I section w ithout being disturbed State troops guarded the me d - iate \ ieinity of the 200—unit h ■ ,:miv; ■ pro.ieel. challenging all who tried to - enter On1-dde their lines were citv > and state police, patroling stre fs : prevent any formation of large gr mp of p otest ng residents Mounted " policemen were held in reserve, and - the city police on duty included both -h'1.' ' M X'o.r . .t'-olo on Rents Fixed In War Boom Territories Sweeping GPA Order, Lltective May 18, Sets Prices ior Virtually Every Article on Shop ping Lists at March Levels. Was] ng tpril 29 -(AP) ■ g -\i iiinii iii ]-.ulior-k I urged ii March wiii ie jiiaeed May 18 "H the prus i»i' virtually every ar1 ic 1 e that apm ar >!.ng. wage •t.d'dizaUon and nc n ■ e m:t;. t: ■ ; he , crall ceil - mg exemp;.- only a limited number >1 food commodities. 1 lie government's stop-rise order will be aimed at such "cost ot living'' items at tobacco, meat, canned goods, clothing, and packaged household drugs, and Henderson estimated that house wives would find 60 to 75 per cent of all foods back al March costs when the universal ceil ing takes effect in retail stores .May IS. Rettiiti v . i io !'■ i i: red aiter oiling f "c st of living” 11 (* i >! S. Wl. -e- a!, imi ■ ad! .returns' i>." iv w : i'i vted May 11. Be g's a. a .li.!y !. rales charged for " ' • -a . v - ■■1 nah ..s .garage.-, ■ . a ir - • ry c!e;iners, and k" a ;sc it t.-y .■■r< .' the Ma ch base. t.oiul protests against pegging both w holi sale and retail prices In tin same month were voiced In store owners who said they had not kept pwee with in- l creasing w holesale prices dur ing March. < r ■ V :' >. , a :e \ w York, dr I '-art t 1 ' • \i r e. rlescr bing • pletely 'I' . " ' • ■ . • , .-aid tha< -. pt I’li-ir prices hi • e a v a cl■ • a ■ w aile .selling r' 1 ' '1 - -'a i 1 ..' earl,er lnvv • h being pen li ved \i' agi rang that he ex ’* '’a -a a - ', ■ i'. s iperalc geii • • •••>' ' '. • -• v. • old be pk.e ■ or’ meat ad., mist ration '*'■ i 'sai a kr'in. Herdei a m call " ■ dlies permitthig a 1 a • iv .v , a ills' ration 1o pt:‘ . ala a a's i. ' a! hasi r ess. 'id 1 1 - aid a :: it'snlers selling - a • iy :he veiling au ■ ' v. ;> a,. ' .. psod by the no v arni a ''' i■ a ■ . v', n, a \ ha\ c ■ -a iv :ded. In cy a ice con '■> 'do- ' :".v 'f not ' ‘ a ’' 1-5,111 si ^ year's im ■ ' lb 'h: e ' M suits for ♦"•'bio da agi-. .aid linecse revoca cgetnbles v t pro 1 ex i aai - ; raid I' a cream I. "■a ..no. la "i'o. a\ e animals, and -ea a > d. game nd . ad i ’aas ibiles .ill an ang the few h sjioc ' k-dly exempted from ’he nrieo ceiling. "Sc ii.'i" not • footed ticlude - ah; rgr-d 1"' b .rbors and beauty -b"t>-. professional fees, wages, in - a r'.T and undew riting premiums, '■’bla- i’dity rate' and advertising foes. Xi> ee ’ing wa- ! x> d an raw rgri •ultural commodities, but OPA em ( P.nnti'v,'10,0 O- or T**y \