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YEAR TIIK ASS*»('I ATKI > J'KKS3°r HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY r», 1!M2 pl-bush^.FIVE CENTS COPY Madagascar'Invasion'Resisied ii 4 i ii " ^ " * * n n n n W W n n w Japs Invade China From Burma TIME OUT FOR SOME SODA POP \ ' ' 1- • :: Bragg. N. C.. nn a tour cl inspect! n. General George f. M • i (fight). United States Army chief of staff, introduced Sir J' ’ • l (lelt). British chi f of staff, to the delicacies of an American soda fountain. Hamlet Chief Of Police Shot To Death By Negro Posse Hunts Will Daw kins, Who Killed Chief J. B. Fallow and Four Netyroes and Wounded Two Others at Ham let. H mi! l. May ,>.— (AIM—Police < In ! ! It. Fallow and four \i- .a s yy cry* shot to death here hula*, and a,, armed posse id' ne.tiF l.tt) persons hrga.t .,unl i'i- i Negro said to have done 111 e shooting, !!i'- posse, led by sheriff's of I i< i . am) Stale highway patrol He n \y is hunting H ill Dawkins, yyiio iiolire said y\ as armed yy illi a shotgun. ■ Aiilim.'. o member m the ng board who \\ as act il:k do -a oi i jeer at pi diet' hcari .'Iii In all available office p u' ■1 • , 1 into (he - '•.•■roll, said ii ' '!• 1 v. I : e IJ-r.Vhins' w tit-. In:' ' ■■ '■ -year "1:1 child "I the and an unidem 11 ied hi. .-uiitiii.s sold aiinthei 1 ’■■ child and a , it her Negr > ■ in the hu pit;; 1, the latte ' '• ' ' ■ ' Oil hi Ijvc. J 1 • ' ■ ■ ible was attributed h < d" ■ ■ 'a : icllllics. 1 1 i allow and ('. A. Kaclu>. a i I . cut, v. enl In the ne v ' ! ' ..ling va. repel ted and II 1 " "d the Negni in the neir.ii - • l"' •• d. pi'lice i cporl. aid. As !• ,u ' ' i-.aehn tried to (Miner tii" •''M 1 ai rest him, he fired a ahor- | k,;" a' ■ i. t rat ige into Ka line. ■ lare. *'■ ; ' •' ' ;• instantly, and then e • c.ijM-n. a," report added. Nelson Urges Uniformity In State Laws " a mngt'in. May 5.—-tAIM — Dm "l(l 'h Nelson, chairman ol the wa; Deduct,on buard, demanded of uaic Sl,vcrtiinei!t representatives today tr'tur, ai , non-essential laws and u-gulatiuns which hamper transpor dl*‘m or conservation of war ma terials. Sptaking to a oonl'erence of ?.to state representatives called by “resident Roosevelt, the WPB head Sdlc* Ave aie repeatedly finding that "l" struggle to save these matt rials Jviiig tripped up by some non-es t’Mi.ud local or state law, not only in j importation or building construe Ud’ but all across the board " Nelson said one of the principal PM'blems was the confusion of state an“ local laws which limit the sRe, ca! go, and other features of com m6K-al trucking. Johnston Succumbs A h ville. May fi.--(AP) .1 id.ge A. 1 lull .In!-.n ■ 1 "i I. special .superior court judge, died at an A.-ia". ille hospital early today loll I'.'.ms a hear! attack sul len it vest I'day afternoon. 1 le wa.- (id ycai's old. Considered one of the most able trial lawyer.- m this part ot the stale. Judge Johnson was last appointed to the superior ci. rl b nch in 1937 by Gover nor Huey and in 1941 by Gover nor Broughton. Judge .Johnson collapsed as lie u a.- entering the office ol his physician here yesterday atter noi n. horl ly alter lie said good bye to hi- youngest son, William, who was to leave Ihur.-day to enter the l ’ S. A i my. Candidates to be Pick ed Today in Alabama, Florida, Indiana and South Dakota. i|5\ The .Associated Press) Voters of Alabama. Florida. Indiana and South Dakota ex pressed their choice for candi dates toda.a in primary elections marked b> ail absence of inter national issues and little dis agreement over domestic ques tions. The polling is expected to -how a decline in interest m politics due to the preoccupation with the war. Tne decline wa.- shown last month ir the Illinois -.lection, tne country's first wartime primary. In the four staU's. candidates will he chosen lor 28 House seats and two in the Senate. Senator Bankhead of Alabama has no opposition. Senator Billow of South Dakota is seeking Democratic renomination with a pledge of support for Presi dent Roosevelt on the wai program but a reservation to oppose any dom estic policies he believes unsound. Thomas Berry, state party chair men and an about Roosevelt sup porter, and Edward Prchal, attorney and former slate legislator, are run ning against Bulow. who has remain (Conttnued on Page Five) Tokyo Says Yungdbaiig in Less i han Two Months, Japanese in vaders Have Driven F rom Rangoon to China’s Back Door, 90 Miles FJast Lashio. nninjrkiiur, May 5.— (AIM — ■ F.'ipanusr troops in\ a(1 m 1 ('hMai's | 1 ur.nan }>r<.\ inc<- today after I dri\ ing- up thi Burma RimM and | crossing the shaiiow Wanting | river, 670 miles mini tins eapi i tal. a military spokesman said. Bitter fighting' is in progress | mi t he area around the b e'd< r town of Wanting, still in Ckin ese hands, the spokesman re ported. He declar'd that destruction of the Chines" section of ttie Burma Road, which winds thro ugh sheer mountains and sailing gorges, had not yet been neces sary but that the < hincse w>uld carry out tin ir seorehed earth policy if necessary. (The Japanese claimed their air force already had carried the war far into Yunnan province with a heavy raid on Yungchang. about 100 mile. inside the province where the Bur ma Road crusse: the upper reaches of the great Mekong river. A dis patch to die Tokyo new paper O-ni indicating that an air ba.se had been established there, said the taiders de I stroved nine planes, seven of which w'ere grounded. The dispatch added : 1 H;it the town had been left in j dames.) Thus in little less than two months, tile Japanese invader of Burma had driven 500 miles from Rangoon to China's back door. The great Burma port, which the Japanese have since utilized as their main supply base, fell .March 8. The advance to Wanting represent ed a 90-mile drive along the Burin . supply mad from Lashio, the rail head which was wrested from the outnumbered and outgunned Chinese army commanded by United State.-. Lieutenant (tenoral Jo.-eph W. .StiI - weil. The ; rmv spokesman described the Japane-e force as ••.-mall.” The van guard. however, appeared to pm-r a di.-tanl threat to the Chine e capital -a Chungking, mine 070 mile- away | acres- high mountain.- and dcu,> 1 gorges. I__ japan Talks Of Long War But Stewart Says Gloomy Forebodings are Sensed as Basis for Suggestion. Bj < H\I!I I S I*. STI'AVAHT Ccntr I Press Columnist Washington, May (>. -Gloomy fore bodings as to the future, rather than grim determination, are sensed by international diagnostician.- as responsible for Japan’s suggestion of the possibility of warfare's con tinuation throughout another cen ! tin y or more. Nippon goes into a contlict with i 1 ts of pep but its staying qualities ren’t very good, probobly because I its scanty resources play out pretty I fast and it realizes that it's got to win in jig time or presently be lick ed Hatter than a pancake. The military crowd's completely reckless. Starting a light's an al most overpowering urge with 'em. and, once in it. they positively in sist on dying, in preference at de feat. The average Jap. though, likes to go on living ; s long as he can. And there are millions more average Jap- than there are Jap militarists. The civil govern ment (what we call the adminis tration here) represents mainly the I (Continued on Page Four) Typical War Mother Mrs. Elizabeth Cowell This is Mrs. Elizabeth Bowell, of Camden, N. J., who has two sons in the armed forces and another soon to be inducted. She was awarded the title of “Typical American Moth er” by tlie Girl Scouts of Camden, N. J. Mrs. Bowell is shown at her spring fabrication machine at the UCA Manufacturing Co., where she is employed. (Ctuitrnl Prrnti) 88 Survive Sinkings 1 wenty - Three Per sons Lose Lives in T wo Torpedoings off At lantic Coast. Cocoa. Fla.. Max 5—(AIM — liglilx-eight .minors from lixo torpedoed freighters—one Hrii ish and one of the I nited Na tion*—have reached safely wuii spectacular stories of a heroic naval rescue al sea and of a ami crew that risked death to keep firing upon ail a sis Mili um rine. The Xa \ y re\ ,, a ■ i ’ aia y i ha ■ : ae \ two \ o- -el- fell \ et i-o to tin pedo - I off the eastern United Shite- coast early Stind: y n ornine Tw. ntv-thece men i i-t tin ir lives in the sinkings. . S V aid n III till II anal n . an I torpedo struck the; 1 febent a - it 1 was briny lowered ox er the post side of the medium-sized United Na tion freighter. Anoii or oi the ship’ crexv was killed, ai d ttt surx'ix ors ix'or tiro:ight ti• an i ast coast n a al air statiim. Fixe were killed m the engine room "I the mod an--!/,ed Ur ' i li 1 i ( ighter, ! rum whr h 12 siirxaxairs were 'ell 'light to the Me. a ! -t II’ Ills Two nax al men. Ensign John F. ; Clrtiy "I ( humpnign. Ill . and Radi >- j man James Wesley Whit- of Jael:- . sonx ille. Fla., were Iht'cs in r-i cuing TI a.- Jo:n 2V-yi-i r aid able bodied -can .a o! Mirkenhead, j England. U. S. Bombers Raid Jap Base New Delhi, May (AP) Huge Unit.d States 1 o ■ ■. > ■ drove through a heavy thunder st an early tod y and attacked a ., r Japanese ah' base just north - ; Rangoon where • 70 enemy aim’a't lad been sighted The great molli- ■ otored eralts . I Major General Lew's H. Bn reton's command dodged a concentration al searchlights and gi■■■md lire to 'imp 250 and ollO-piumrl bombs which caused many fire- and large ■ n>.a. sions at Mingaladen airdrom. a com munique said. Eight Japune.-i ighter nl mi s l xvere observed, hut tiny stayed ■! *ar of the gun-bristling raiders. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA i Slightly cooler tonight. Y/i despread Air Raids Reach io Former Czechoslovakia, Southwest Germany and Vichy; Reds May be Launching Major Drive. i By T!ie Associated 1‘rcss.) Hi itish warplanes heavil> hi mbe 1 Fie r, e.u siaala ai ma in id works at Fil e:i in nazi occiipied loimer Czechoslovakia before dawn today. dropped Hares ai d lev.fit t* <\er * why, « .. . t.i i;’5o. . .«> t. d FVance, ami ati.iciitd u?e IF, war foun dries city c.i S'a:., at in SOUth West \irCi iMUllS . S lali.1..: I (population aOO.OOO) is the reported headquarters of the Bosch electrical works the Daimler and Benz airplane en gine factories, and other vital military, targets. A* Cicrniau broadcast said that the KAF ‘attacked*’ Yieh> with incendiaiw bombs and that French anti-aircralt flatteries went into action, but Yieh\ riis pati hes said the plane* merely dropped pamphlets and iilininat ing ilares. Tlu* raiders also flew over ( U i inont-l errard, iiO miles from Vichy. (Hhir MAK planes, carrying out a widc-prtv.d .-eries ;>1 night attack-, pounded the doex* at Nantes, F:ance. and bombed shipping >*11 the eoasi ..1 Holland and Norway. (rcru .m lvght raider.-- .-truck back with a .JO-pk ne attack oil the Eng lish xaith c' ■ a - t, dropping incendiar ies and high explosive bombs on L’o\ve> and iw. t bourne. On tin* uussian war iront. at tacks b.\ the Keel army were re ported in the Kurak. Kharkov and Taganrog sectors *»1 the : outliei n trout in circumstances which suggested a major Soviet offensive might have started be fore the unmans were able to launch one of their own. 'I he* attack.', directed by .\iat\siud Scj • • I l i 1 . •. . (■ - ; ■ rtcd inr;: Sloekhulm (.juai tcr •. 1 .ii < i. iu-nk*. • iire •. i* i;- !y ha.- been .;,. • i it wi i it eel 1 • • ' a’em a i u.iv saai i:t- ( n! tki- 'p**ci<d :*ies <u:gc i" rehdents «*i the (ieruiaii-ue eupicv i L Kra 'mc: H it v tn i ) Meiinwhile, Adi’11 Iiith r‘> Peid heiidquai lei a, t rP d that tin* na.a I UiCt Ut .'1 CM * ' ■ i alt a'• V "'!:a!lh enemy h>rec'> and declared ti at e . ei a I ■ >.P ii. n »• < ;> ; almn. ny Clei man l n»•} i ■ >: I! :e a: .pn t mei i, of their nv. n pi a’ r •!’.-• we*re eaiiied ■ \V 1: sign 1 Hitler’ 111,in new Aiaj e,.. U > ■!. a g r; ■ ■ me ..11(1 eximi led Cirri.sm m . : a tn speed up priuliiei mi : • .i gig; line stl ugglc. FAYETTEVILLE WOMEN LAUNCH VICE CRUSADE Fayette', ille. M.i.. •’ A! ’) Fay c?tte\ die ia ' • ’*:’• ret r.ient • *11:ee. • were warned today ti.ai vice eon ditions were not cleaned ip by May 15 the Won ail's Co:: nilUv on lieai and Mdueatme Pa' I >rlen -e u "ul ask the tederal auihoritics to in tervene. At a n.i .a.. •1; ng attended 'ey ,r lX. man loo die municipality A leader.-, the icxi >1 an ultimatum im ..i a e MU' :neetmg. v, a aim- 011u-i h Little Change In Stock Mart i NVc 5, Ma\ '< iAl'1 lluy ‘ er ■ -i.ed fairly coniident in ' day - stock .i • but leade - generally i travelled a nai rowly irregular path Oei.lings were ligiit from the start, ] with interest in the utilities and ran. i waning. Small gams were plentiful | near the fourth horn although mini ! erous ; sues were oil a trifle or an i dumped. Heads AEF in Africa Maj. (icn. Russell L. Maxwell, chief of the American mission in North Africa, disclosed that American ser vice troops in increasing numbers are supporting the man ^British , desert army and air forces against § units * of German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. One oiiieer of the* American mi.-.-i-m is Major hlliotfi Roosevelt, second s m of President * Roosevc li. (Central Prcsa) Japanese Island Base Heavily Raided; At tack on Port Moresby Beaten Off. Mlicd MtYUloU artcrs. Aus tralia. Hid .">.— \ I* i —Yliiod airforces again have smashed torcetutly at Japanese island liases above Australia and beaten off another enem.\ raid on Port Moresby, a lonmumii uc an nounced today. It listed I'iye Japanese planes as hit by allied lighters deieiuimg tin United Nations' New Guinea our of nine near \ !mii:l'em e e.>rted by hil raider- were b->:111 ^t*j■ s, the mm n:!111i(]i!y• snd. and tiic raidi-iv aimed at an airdimae were "w :th- 1 Airdromes al o were the objeetKe \ ra idt L New (Guinea, and Ruhaul. New Britain. At Bae. liic eonin unique said, an ndi. eio-ed number of grounded enemy et.- •<■ nvd diivc! bit.- on throe piai.e , -pi - .(i bomb- o\ er an . . . \ 2( ere di-p< In the I'h iippnie i dm undet'w ei t I. bemein ; it lacks and the lapa)?. s«- on a ted new landing al Mindanao. \\’ j opi.a. , ( \ustr* ! 11(-eI;! iu a 11 la'- at ( '.. ’ i i • e - r a • i» x .<!•'.} a ii ted Mij ij > i \ t 1 arnei i. . ; . v H' nil. i in J. Al. !\ navy and aami’i 1 )edi a . n. a . t . r pre-eid al;\ e -a ernaa n:. nd the allied -■ 11pp!y | ii"! vet : ■eon eh > Beasley w ill er tile A:nei a a r« t chmrnum. LORD BEAVLRBROOK REACHES ENGLAND London. May V - -1 ..A Bett verbi !1 ti ilisl - been n Wa ngton ! mission, arrived at a s nitb\\esi Bi • , ish port th > norning while ir on - her- e! ;Ih house - i commons \\ re 1 asking vvher-. he was. Major Clement R \tt *e, seen of state for domin t h . t 1 questioners he d.ri not know i .. w hi reabimts ot !5ea\ erbi - Cotton Prices i Again Higher j New York. May 5. t AIM Cot ! ton futures opened 5 cents a bate lower to 10 cents higher i At noon the market was JO to 2b ' cents a KiY Yghw. May 19 14. July j 19.'1 < . i-Y y C hi b C l 1J. u o. Bitter Fight For island Is Raging Petain and Darlan Re ported to Have Urged Troops to ‘Resist At tack;’ British Report Little Resistance to Landing. (By Hie Associated Press) Jjit11■ r lighting was reported raging today on the north end of l.hOi) mik-iong French Mada gascar. the world's fourth larg est island, as British sea-borne "invasion forces attacked to ward tlie Diego Suarez naval base after a surprise landing. Prance's 86-year old Chief o! 81ate Petain and Admiral Dacian, anti-British chief of French armed forces, were re ported to have sent a message to tile commander in chief at Madagascar urging the troops to "resist attack and defend the honor of the French flag." i.omion military quarters said the British, striking to forestall a threatened axis attempt to seize tin strategic territory, had captured a French battery. \ German broadcast said there had been French casualties and that lighting continued more than !><> hours alter Britisli troops landed early yesterday at ( ourier Stay , ten miles across tlie isthmus from Diego Suarez. I he broadcast said it was not Known yet yyhether the Brit ish landing operation had suc ceeded. D.N1K the German news agency, eported that a French submarine l.omlon. Ala> 5.— (.\I*)—Brit ish commandos, marines ami in fantry landed on the northern tip ol Madagascar today, and a Vichy neyy s agency broadcast that they yvere attacking the strong Trench naval base of Diego 'snare/ from the rear yihilc warships and squadrons of air planes assaulted the harbor Iron tally . Hid .1 t ide mui been sunk at Mada g. c: ■■ ■> - -'big the Briti h ianding. I'rei.c: i'f.-er' ists were said to lia <■ on colled up. with orders to and. Hill) mill's oil the east m : S.-ati Africa, commands <il ( ■ < ■ A. , - to the Middle East, In di., and China A B c w ;* • >1 tier communique . id ihr . iiidaig lorce consisted of ■' - a: '. .... olid -mall contingent •••pei a -i mm ;> .i,.ps" —irienti - : i d c o.. m cm •.-■ ami met little opposition. me \V ngt in -taiement la-l : .' 'h cioi i : 1 iiav, n landing was . c ic a . ’ ’i i . pproy a I and iia ' ‘m g. ivei niiicnt of the l'. '■ : S' ', ..let I : .1 I'd it act jet A: | a ml.' . y . .d against l'CSlst m 1 lit'. Nazi Threat To Hitler Group of German Generals Reported to Have Warned Fuehrer He Must Win Soon. 1 'em t\ i ! AP i - A group An i Hr:v generals headed hv ■ d Ma. -mil Walther von Brau - ■ ’-I . v as ■ mm. rted today to have d •; e lueinei bluntly that if his '1 i- • m i ..gn in Russia fails, they in' >■ institute lor Germany ,-.n ."'ci'iati' plai .i: their own calling I. lin'litinn m the nazi system. \ p> ■ 11siI lie -• • in e with unu — i" i a viable inlonnalion about eon o . ns inside Germany said Hitler m d .u'lvpted this challenge calmly -aid had appointed von Brauchitsch a a emhei ni the supreme command. Hitler relieved yam Brauchitsch as i commander in duet last December 11 and announced that he himself | relying on his "intuition", had as I ■ limed direct command uL hi. army.
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