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Ktettitetrron Satin Stspafrit ____ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA_ TWENTY -NINTH YEAR ‘thk^s^c!atedipS?,‘ HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 11, 1042 publishk^kvertdaktkrnuun FIVE CENTS COPY Toll Of Jap Ships Reaches 21 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★★ ★★★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ + I Broughton Protests Rationing Of Gas In State Pipeline Terminus Is Cited j Governor D cclares North Carolina Should Receive Same Conces sions Given ‘Certain Atlantic Seaboard States.’ Raleigh, May ll.— (AP) — | (i-.■ • r Rn.ughton. in a tele gram i" Price Administrator I!> nderson, today protest ed i rat inning of gasoline in ,\ ri: Carolina. , Ti.. governor declared that Jura of the pipeline which terminates in the state North Carolina should receive the same conn ssions given to '“certain ; Atlantic seaboard states to the nnrt1 "f us. the middle and west eni portions of which states it is i reported will not be subject to (hi rat inning program.’' 11- pointed out that the j can.- '> of the pipeline was 50, oimi ,Ilmis per month. V hilt- stating that North Caro lina would make every saeri fiee necessary to winning the war and cheerfully submit to "whatever rationing of gasoline is essential for this purpose." the smrrnor urged that the gaso line problem he treated as "na linnal and not sectional." lie declared that the burden nl limited use should be equally distributed among all the states. II ton also reiterated a pro •de previously by him, that al waterway be used to trans 1 ,.od gasoline by barges. if the wire was sent to Roosevelt and to -each m- i t!;e North Carolina con ge delegation. Army Planes Made Raid w ar Department Dis closes Officially That Army Bombers Blast ed Japan’s Cities. ■ .mgton, May 11.—(AP) — States army bomber.; made i ational raid on Japan April - ' 1 war department disclosed last p-a • confirming at long last what i. of Americans ardently hoped \va . t: I' a a if a i ng in low and fast in 1 1 a daylight, the mighty bomb' rs, <1 with both demolition and in t'rr.d aty bombs, blasted selected mili t.'by argots near Tokyo, Yokohama, ^ >g ya and other cities, a cummuni doe aid. Big fires were started, "| which burned for two da'/s And that was all the dr partment had to aay as to how the raid was b'bia'd out. But it was enough for A a means who had been hoping bagt rly that the news of the raid, " uadi previously had come only from *!" Japanese themselves, was true. It r. as enough to prove that “some body" did in fact bomb Tokyo, as I’" idi'iit Roosevelt archly hinted in hi- Preside chat April 28—"the first '' m history that Japan has suf '' yd ueh indignities.” A for whether the planes took 1.1.1 tboin a carrier at sea in a joint , ai m.v-navy operation or from a land | 1.1 somewhere, how many there "'O', and all the other details at "I'1,eh the Japanese have been des perately guessing ever since—they "'ll lust have to keep on guessing. 1 be communique was the first di- ■ "'h' official acknowledgment here ’I' d Aim riean planes had carried out b" raid which apparently threw the ' .. into panic as well as doing Steal damage. V14I HER” vOR NORTH CAROLINA. *.»*♦!? change in fempsratHr? ir - c.v• fcji warmer. Blind Boys Working for Victory This is a total war and those students of tho New York Institute for tho Education of tho Blind in the Bronx are digging in and doing their hit to help beat the Axis. Two of the sightless youngster.- tire shown work ing in tho victory garden at the inatitut ■ (Cot I ral I’rcas) Compulsory Savings Plans Are Advanced Both Branches of Congress Receive Proposals to Compel Wage Earners to Invest in War Effort on Withholding Basis. Washington. May 11.— (AIM — l’ians to compel every Ameri can wage earner to invest a part of his weekly pay cheek in tin war effort were put forth in both branches of ( ongress today . Chairman George, Democrat. Geo: - gia, ut the Senate finance commit tee, advocated a withholding tax ol rom a to 10 per rent ol all wages. salaries and di\ ;dends. while Hep re'Ciita tivc Gere. Denieerat, Tennes see. came forth with a hill to deduct a pet centage ui e\ . ry w age. begin ning with 6 per cent n me .Sdu-aT) unmarried ela ami ranging upward. The Ceae bill, wheh provides that tlu' mono' deducted be used to p chaise war bond.-, tor the eiopl'A'-e, would set up tlie billowing scale in tiie lower brackets: Wiekl.v Wage Single Married §311 s:;u . li Per Cent Anne $ 1.80 pin., 7'< 1 ■ i'I a;iioiint $30—$-10. ol amount ov-.i .7811 . <■ i $30 S3 .70 plu s 8'8 ■ "r 11 • ' §pi_§5o. ol amount over $10 <-0 amount over $10. ii plus 077 171 -’0 P1" UP §50_§i;o. o! amount over $a0 "l an uni 1 ■ er $aU SI 30 pin- 10'.; : ■’ I ! ■ §(jd_§70. ol amount over SOU "I :n" 1 ,nl "■11 In tin high* r bi nckets, aim il in on e would be In ted to S2 ’.000, after payment ol taxe ., v. illi the n maindi i going into thi p e ... c " bonds. 1 hat vV;,s p.,. limit favored by Pre ident Roosevelt m hi reeeirt lnue-thc-wat apeeih. ■ § ,,, per rent withholding tax plan . a olfered a ■ un alten in I e to dm Tre.emy' pr„i”, at to -btam 71...ooo.nim m new revalue by lowering me,,me ex.-mpti on,. Billy Conn Stages Bout With In-Law Pittsburgh. May 11.—(AP) 1 he Sun-Telegraph says Hilly ( 'inn. h'i mer light heavyweight champion and an aspirant fur the heavyw ight title, broke his left hand last night in a light witn his lather-in-law, Jimmie Smith, at Smith's home. Conn, now a private in the Army, was to meet Champion Joe Louis in a bout next month. Conn and Smith, a former major league ball player, had been at odds since Conn last summer married Smith's daughter, Mary Louise, de spite Smith's objection. The Sun-Telegraph quoted Conn as saving Smith, through a friend, invited him to the Smith home la.-t night following a christening eeir nwnv for the Conns’ baby Conn said the 'triend explained Smith “wanted to bury the hatchet.” The newspaper quoted Conn: “Maybe he did want to bury the h,trhrt before I got there but not 3116 2* _ _ — Willkie Urges Defense ‘With Your Votes’ Schenectady. X. N .. Mac 11. (-AP) . -To make -me this wai not "just another season ol blood letting, \V( ndell I. Willkie implored I'nion c. ,1 leg graduates today to ••defend your country not only w ith your guns but by yii ir vote. . Speaking to a doss of llili seniors, die in-in Kepublican presidential candidate declared in a prepared ad dress "leaders without convictions who were thinking it terms ol group vote eatelling" bi trayed the nation idler the last war. ".As citizens, you may be called on to give your very lives to preserve your country’' freedom." he said, 'consistent program." of international oi l ice men w ho will not make a mockery ot that sacrifice. Willkie called "the lack of any con tinuity in our foreign policy" the “most obvious weakness? in the country's history. Neither major poli tical parity has followed “a stable or consistent pragram” of international reere ration m the last 5o year:, he assented European War Fclight With Words Churchill’s .^ccara tion Dominates vVar farc. in Psychological Rea! m of N erves, Fears, Expectations and Threats. (I’.y j lie Assoc,at: d press) i ii' 17Liropean was lOtiay sLiil lay largely m the ps., cm,logical i i ait:) ni nerves, le.u . . expecta tion.-. and threats. it was dominated by Prime .Minister Churciiill s declara lion oi yesterday that the RAF woiiid spread poison gas "jar and wide against military ob ject ivis in Germany’' if l he Germans resorted to unprovoked use of this weapon on the Rus sian front. lie also added tiie weight of his words to the already appar ent prospect ot a combined liritish-American bombing ol feiisive against the reich, hut kept his counsel on the possibil ity of a second European front against tia' axis. The Russian front slil 1 was quiescent as compared to the liny which prevailed in the Ger man offensive last summer and lIn- Russian counter offensive of llie winter months. Winter was having its final fling on the northern and central sectors while the world awaited the lury lo break anew, either there or in some other potential battle zone of Kurope. The Russians, in advance. had given point lo Churchill's threat ol ivialiatoi v gas wnrlure on behalt ot the Soviet Uni in by reporting otl’i vi .i!y ■ n Saturday that the Germans ......iv i, ting a new gas technique on the Crimean front, using .-mall mines til (ivpel a disabling vapor. Britons knowing Churchill'.' cap acity for judging events at'hand, too. thought of their own defence against as., c mfidont. however, that the l;..\K would have the whip band in anv gas wartare waged from the skies. The Gc rman high command ack nowiedged loealized attacks ycstei (ia.v on the Russian front but declar ed that the Hod army thrusts either ..itapsed or were repulsed and claim ed p.r the air force a 27-to-l score m planes shot down on the tar north ern front, listing 22 British Hurri canes among the Russian losses. In other eastern front air action, pie Gormans claimed a merchant ■ ]ijp sinking in the Kerch strait of the Black sea and bom!) attacks in the Murmansk region of the Arctic. With heat gripping the Libyan bat tlefield, the war in the African Mediterram an theatre over the week end was fought largely in the aii. centering on the island of Malta. i Three Armies For Defense New Delhi, May II.- (AID Gen eral Sir Archibald P. Wavell poised line, reorganized Indian arni'es n smash at Japanese nvaders today a the Nipponese pushed northwest ward toward the [rentier in Burma and continued to gather an invasion fleet at Rangoon for a descent on Bengal. The RAF, following up blows ol United Statis Major General Lewis H. Brereton's air ioree, which inis sought to smash Japanese base around Rangoon, struck again at Magwe, just south of the Yenang ! yntmg oil fields in Burma where the Japanese have occupied an airdrome. The Blenheim bombers scored hits on the runways, a communique said. Reorganizing Ins armies, Wavell announced that three military com mands in India had been changed from static bare:-, ef administration t« fighting headquarters prepared to t , e uaherfc' er the enemy strikes. Navy Hero With His New Son Looking slightly uncomfortable, like most fathers holding m w offspring for the first time, Lieut. John D. Bulkeley, torpedo boat leader of forays against Jap warships, is shown after his arrival in New York City. The youngster was born a month ago. That’s Mrs. Bulkeley at left. (Central Press) Auto Seizure Bill Meets Opposition Connally Leads Move ment Against Propos als, Predicting ‘Ter rible’ Public Reaction to Requisitioning of Motor Cars. Washington. May 11.— (Al’l — Formidable opposition appear ed to be developing in the Sen ate today against legislative proposals which would permit the government to seize private ly -ow ned antoinohlies. One bill, introduced by Senator Downey, D‘. mocrab (ba! l-'rnia. would establish $5.00t).onri.imii i .ml which j would be us:d to build it: a govern ment -lock pile oi ea•. tires and .parts by donation, p ,'chase or rc qui>it Mining. Another propo d y Senator Rey nolds. Democrat. X uih (barobnn, would Ins a nation-.- ide -Ill-mile an hour speed limit and a itlinr ze the government 1 ■ ■■ mdeer all ears I'otind tra\ Him, at gn ater . pt ed The owner w-• \d oe paid 'on the r ca rs. Sen;a - i ■ V . Dei mernt, Texas, nriie iled 1 | ed any such drastic move and d< elan ■! the pub lie I'eae! :on would hi " l enable' some eai - wee ia-p- ii i lunod and others were not. One ol the pi he p ii > hives of Up hill is to conserve the "nations rob ing stock pile" ol 111 b"r tire- Sena tor Byrd, D-nn-aat. Virginia, ex pressed bv Met that this aim could be achieved by government p ireha e e. t he new aut.i u les m i w in Un hands ot muni!faeturer- and dealer'. ()thers pointed out Mint :: any -a the 1,1)1)0.1)00 automobile owner' in he ■ a't would In- forced to .-uve their tires as a n ■ 11 * ot ga- mne rationing Senator ill!. Itemoer.il. Alabama. | said he believed that auto seizure legislation should be pa sed I.. bring j home to tin- people tin sen- - nr of the r ihber situat m Gulf Area Joins Others In Sub Zones ... New York. May 11 -(At1) — A new area the (lull of Mexico—was ! added last week to the four sectors ot Atlantic water- whore axi- >'tb mttrines since Pearl Ilarhor ha\ c I sunk an officially announced total of 175 United Nations v ssels. In reporting 18 new sinkings dul ling the week of May 4-10 the Navy {said seven of these occurred off th* U S t coast bvin-nir Mic V' i! i. . (.Continued cr* Pis;* Six) LEGION TO MEET AT INDIANAPOLIS ( hicago. May 11.— (AI’)—In ianapolis, Iml.. was recommend ed by the American Legion na tional convention liaison com mittee today for the 1942 conven tion to be held September 19. 20 and 21. *jg Leo .1 Duster, of Cedar Hapids. Iowa, chairman of the commit tee, announced that because of wartime conditions the commit tee recommended that Ibis year's national convention be limited to 10 per cent of the regular num ber of delegates and those na tional officers and members of standing committees essential to the Legion’s program. Henry-Haye French Envoy to Dis cuss American Nego tiations With Martini que Commissioner. Washington. May il.— (.*!’) — Gaston llenry-llaye. I remit am hassatlor to Washington, ealleil at Hie State department today to present the Vichy government's views on l nited Stall's proposals to safeguard French Caribbean possessions and eoinmented that "this is no time to pour oil on tile lire." "The less | soy today tin oer.er.' he told newspupei -men on. ■. e meet - J mg Scerettiry ol Slate Hull, "hat- . ionoe - cal led ! or a ttie i ament. [ am trying to avoid eomt i cal 1' m i .y i retraining 1'rorn commenta; a- v. inch might interfere with tile adj a ettl (Continued on hag' Four) Ship Attacked Near Shore Lake Worth, Fla , May 1!. -(AP) —A British medium-sized re: rhant man was attacked recently in broad day light, within a mile and . In!! > an Atlantic beach, by daring axe sub marine, but the vessel was towed t > safety at an cast coast port, the Xavy announced today. The explosion starthd residents along the coast, and hundreds of the rurr'in congregated on tty. mere to i '-ntfried on ?■' irj Final Count May Total Even More Aer ial Sequels to Bat tle of Coral Sea Ac count for Bomb Hits on Two Subs, Seaplane Tender and Tanker. ( Uy The; A •icintcd Press) File }jr;UKl loial of Japanca ships sunk or crippled in the bat tle ol the (Oral sea and its aerial sequels mounted toda\ to 2J, with bomb hits nvei tile week end on two submarine.'. a sea plane tender and a tanker. < uni imunu victory over Jap anese sva p'.wer on itie north eastern Flank of Australia and the supply line to that contin ent-base of the United Nations strengthened the belief that it could be held as a concentration point for the eventual countin' offeiisi\ e ajraiust Japan al though the danger had not yet passed. Competent observers at al lied headquarters in Australia, stressing the conservatism of tiie total claims against the Japan ese, expressed belief that the Washington summary of the sea battle, when it is issued, might include Japanese transport losses. The sinking of two “transport or supply ships" and damaging of two have been listed in com muniques from Australia. In line with .fined ri 'train.’ m in terpreting tnc* rattle el the Cored st ii. Sir Ke.th Murdoch ui the Mcl H a*d, :A rail a int t pul ■ . - es, said that the engagement was with "a comparatively light Japanese na\.»l torce. not against the mam Japan ese licet." "What must he realized." he added, ":s that ; large Japanese expedition is beginning/’ On the Burma-( liina front, a bulletin from Chungking report ed that heavy fighting continued today at i hefang, ‘J5 miles inside China, on the Burma Road where tin* Japanese have receiv ed reinTo. cements to replace the two columns reported wiped out there late last week. Tokyo, s lent - n Chungking's e-fie vieiory claims, nevertr.ehcie daivd th; ! British-imperial and Chim ' * as t >t t( i ng and t:t <»n. Bunn.- •- Indian frontier tin- Ime ol aided ietieal had been out by J a pane e cnztire of Japs »ile Tokyo Broadcast Says Last of American-Fili pino Forces Have Sur rendered. Tokyo (I*'rotn Japanese blond rusts), Ma,\ 11.— ( \1M—Domei declared in a Frem Ii language broadcast tonight that iLr r m tpiest ol all the islands of the Philippines b\ Uu- Japanese lot ces now has been completely achieved." Quoting a dispatch i s > m Mindanao, ’iir Japanese agi-ncv aid that Ma, -i ’ rencaal William I . Si a: in. dcsei ibed >• > con;namdei m thiel ol’ American Fdinino force.- ‘n lilt' Mindanao ie gion. suiTondered unconditiona i M last night. Thus, the dispatch su’d, “loin- day > after the fall d Cocregidor. ail tin* Anu-r can-Filipim forces in the Philippines ’nave submitted/’ Domei said General Sharp’s ui | render was in accordance wilh “or ; Get" issued by Lieutenant (hate, a! 'onathan M. Waor . right, cummnn j dei in chief in the Philippine.-. ; The.-e order.-, it asserted, were co, i mumeated to Genera) Sharp by Gd j ‘net -ica-; T. Tray wieM “on behdii J *f f--’ . 4-ht n thv ait dTi • n pi May 9 '
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