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TWENn-NINTH YEAR 'tu rKas,s" 1Ttr IWlks.,"8, HENDERSON, N. C., Tl’ESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 12, 11M2 fubushki^kvkka htkkn..on FIVE CENTS COPY Reds Crush Big German Drive ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★ + + + + ^ ^ * - - — ■ '' ^ n n A n n I British Navy Loses Three Destroyers All Vessels Were Newly In Service Approximately 500 of About 600 Officers and Men Aboard Three Ships Saved; Nazi Bombers Attack in Heavy Force. I I niiiliiii. Ma\ 12.— (AT*)— The British admiralty announced tn (l.i\ dial three British destroyers had Iii'cii stink by German bombs in the Mediterranean. The destroyers were the l.ivc l.\. lai kel and Kipling. Mure than 500 officers and nirii from the three ships were sated. C ■ clients nf the three ships v., . .t , eti to total about Hud of fice; .;.11 men. All three were new, the Lively, 1 ,‘tOO tuns, having been complet ed In I D IO. and the other tw o. • each cl l.tiDa tons, a year earlier, j Normal complements of the smaller ships were 182 men, the Lively's probably somewhat lar ger. ■ b e afternoon a force cou ... , :•>!,!' of our destroyers was h . backed by German aircraft in Du i i tern Mediterranean," said the c ■■ unique. Ti” I .civ was first hit and sunk, and -ii '.lie remaining three de 1 use subjected to further he the Kipling was sunk. l'la .l.-ckal, also badly hit. \vn t; ia 1 ' v.. but had to be sunk ny the it ' this morning, the ad li.issd \ -id. ' - -1 the three ships brought !• ' ' - anber ot British destn>.v - I in . n 22 months of the wai. Gas Masks For Workers Members of Congress Urge Speedy Action Toward Guarding Against Gas Attacks. Washington, May 12.— (AP) — \ possibility of imminent poison (pis warfare in Europe promoted members ol Congress today to mce speedy action toward sup Pf'ing American war workers mid other civilians with masks I" protcf t them against any sneak gas raids that might be •dh mpted on this country. !' !• Minister Winston Churchill .. ' plain in a speech Sunday Ib.ii • ri;il gas warfare was consiri C|,,|l 'itirely practicable when he wnnii i 1 hat the British were pre l,;nc(l : launch gas bombing raids i'Cmiisi Germany if thi' nazis employ cc* ' mou.s chemicals against the Hu- sians. Congress appropriated 829, R9:!,H94 last February for the mu ( base of gas masks for civil ians and Senator llill of Ala bama, the Democratic whip, said be thought industrial workers ""Slit (o be equipped with them us nickly as possible. ' 1 p won't anticipate any gas raids [n tin country,” Hill told reporters, 1 ”i' we can’t afford to leave any s,l,nc unturned to protect our vital "nr industries, particularly in the e,,;tsiai areas.” 1 beic has been spccul ition in Con (Continued on Page Two) U. S. Bomber Fires Ship London, May 12.— (AP)— A Unit Rtates-built Hudson bomber or u'c RAF left a 10,000-ton merchant s|1!l> stopped and on fire after an at ,‘IL'k on a German convoy within yards of the Norwegian coast any today, the British announced. 1 * Re German high command Mentioned an attack by three Hud "t!m bombers on a German convoy oil .?e ^utch coast yesterday and .said w'ic shot d.'wn bv the varship 1 ' • . c «. ,uU .... u v a int. • Leave Smashed Machinery for Japs in Burma C. P. Cablvphoto This photo flown from Burma to Cairo, Egypt, radioed to London, and cabled to New York, shows a British soldier smashing vital electrical equipment in a plant at Yenangyaung, Burma. The plant furnished 85 per cent of the power needed in Burmese oil fields. Smoke from burning oil rises in the background. Soldier Fay Bill Argued No Known Opposition Exists Against Meas ure; Amendment Faces Hard Fight. Washington, .'lay l'J.— (AD —The financial plight of l ncle Sam's fighting nun and their dependents received the undi vided attention of the House to day . While the military committee called upon federal Security Administrator Paul V, McNutt for Itis views on legislation to make financial provision for de pendents of soldires, the House itself set aside two hours for Ornate on a senate-approved measure boosting the pay of fight men. There \v;i. in > km m - >{>(>■ e 1 >n to the pay .ncrease pi po.-al il -ei I. but consider hi ooieciioii h.e been voiced Iti o rider mivernmg the is stiancc of Ai ry eoinn :.-s ions 1" specially qualified civ.h.ans ftir tech nictil and prole--io:'al '.v >rk. A a -h fied vt’i'sion o! a more ora.-tic an en i ment which would ha\ c isn't - tl . m- t commi.-si' iis entirely, except ;n the eases of doctors, deWi-a-, voter narians and ehupl on.-, the ride, would require tin- Wa: d- partnienI to file with Ctingres- every till d y the name., qualif 'eation.- aad age of tho.-." i eceivang con a is . - Culiimittee memo rs unlit aled tie War department wauled neither pi posa 1 and an attempt "t st ri ke from the bill was expected to in made on the floor. The pay pro\ i-ion.- ol the bill ,iI fed service ihii-cs, soldiers sailors, marines and members ol the coast gu, rd. the coa.-l and geodetic stir vcy and tin public lu’alth .service. Y outhCharged With Sabotage Cleveland, May 12. (AP) Ym U. S. district attorney's office an nounced today that Hoiiald Kinthc,. 20, would he cloo-god with .-nbnt.igi -—the shooting ol a locomotive en gineer in an etlort to hall a liailt load of war materittl-. The maximum penalty on convic tion under this charge is 30 years im prisonment plus a $10,000 line. Jerome N. Curtis, assistant l $*. district attoreny, said Kintner would be accused of hitting Xew York Cen tral engineer F. J. Becker with a 22 calibre bullet last Friday lie. Elyria, Ohio. His fireman took o\or the train's controls and brought it t. the next st.ilmn. Becker sni!er* d a ! head wound but is n-cm ering. "Kintner w as interi upting tuv !!-,w of war materials to help the German cause, ; nd he coiicc < -I i 4 , , 1 a. rain. -M. East’s Motorists Register For Gas Nazis Execute 24 Dutchmen London. Alar 1'2.— (AIM—The (iei'mai^«ieeu.na(i(>n lorces in the Netherlands executed todar '2! more alleged leaders of a secret mti-na/i organi/.aiion, bring ing to !)(> the nuniher of 11 •>I - landers sliot for alleged eoni piicitr in a plot to pave the war for an allied invasion, the Neth erlands radio announced. The '21 were charged with es pionage and possessioti of arms. UCC Chairman Called to Active Duty in Washington; Albright Joins Army. Raleigh. May It -< \l’i—llnv emoi Broughton aimouueed to day that .Major \ I Fletcher, eliairnian ol' the North Carolina l nemploymcnt Compensation Commission, had heen called by the War department to active duty with selective service head quarters in Washington. Major Fletcher lias been gi anted a leave of absent . the governor ,-a .l. and Dr. William Randolph Curtis. 84, who has been director of ‘he com mission's uncmpl iymill compensa tion division, will ser\ c as chairman during Major Fletcher's absence. Governor Broughton also an nounced today that It. Mayne Al bright, 33-vear old Raleigh native who is director of the 1T- S Kmploy edit Serv.ee in North Carolina, had been commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army and ord red to report to the manpower mobilization, divi ■ ion on May 18. No successor for Al bright was announced. SABOTEURS BLAST MUNICH FACTORY Moscow, May 12. (AIM- The So viet information bureau declared to day that a lug munitions works in the German city of Munich recent ly had been blown up and attribut ed the reported blast to rising "n d1 tint'’ i ’ a bo G c viian pen ole . .Me y, ilium i li.ii U GUf.lv. Listing of 8,500,000 Automobile Owners of 17 Coastal States and District of Columbia Begins Today. Washington. May 12.— (AIM — riii' "go home" sign was hung out lii tourists along the eastern -erheard today as resident motorists from Maine to Florida stared lining up for Ihe gas oline latum cards they will need alter Friday. Registration of the K..VI0.000 automobile owners in the IT coastal slates and the District of < olumhia started ilphaiietieallv ami yyiil continue through Thursday. T ‘ e <‘l lit i • el pr:ee , i rim ini A rat i, ■ n C • lel . d h ii; I line-third Ilf these ■ i 1" air; 1 ■ : e;i rcl y> ■ ill Id lie el s > • i '‘non-essential’’ and limiled !e 11 gallon.- (luring the 47 day-. ■ || i i i -i ■ i May la t., duly I, yyh n - -1; I; 11 y lein nl rationing Ih.-e, ' lor the -.var' duration will T , :" 'ii- <■ eniial" p -1- i may iin-ir nl lev. iinei oil -il rinei o 1 i!"nii» \deali'ni, --i- pread ,I i I -'ll Ihe hose of I > re - gal Ions ,i A i as: i )i iy i-i In neeii then- antonm le In g ■ t lo v.' ml.. "I- V, In. u.-e lie Ml 111 the I'n: i i - e . ': ill I-ih - s, will i ■ , I i lowed e\ ; ra 1 * I lolls, lto e'l oil : heir u- no I n ilea g- ■ i equirenien! Uol-igli. May I". (AIM North ( o i'n| mu'- lihd.Oti.T operator -1 n inbm y- iiiele: began registering today lor go.-'idme rat inning. Dutch Vessel Torpedoed; 14 Men Lost .Viian May 1-. i AP)—Fourteen lanrn including a min crew wen trapped ill the!' quarter.' when .1 medium sized Dmi merchantman wa> torpedoed >il tl.e \tlantie coast, md thi’v apparently . ant down with their slap. The Dutch gunne had no oppor tunity to reach then guns on deck. Those trapped below decks hail no chance to escape a the ship, cov - ered with tlame-. sank rapidly. It went down so quickly the lifeboats Acre caught in the davits and could not be launched. The Navy rev : aled that 2t) sur vivors of the Dutch ship, including ihc captain, got aboard life rafts and Acre saved by other craft. Survivin’.' Iron the Dutch vessel said there wa.- 110 warning before he torpedo struck m dead of night. "Ingmes were t rippled and unnie 1 ia'e’v I lame.' hoped as high as the 1 Must. ' Nazis Order . Sweeping Decree Is sued I y ‘German Mili tary Command in France Takes Power1 to Increase Work Week; P e t a in to Vichy. ViC.v M.,v !•:.— < \ 1 *) — Till fV'rmi-'n n- i J j * i «■ v command in I uiii'i' 1 nod todaa a sweeping di.ro ta ;.ng- <i> itself powers, t.' working hours in I'n ticli enterprises and ordering employee-, to report immediate I.' the number and categories of workmen made available for other work as a result of longer hours. (Pt countably the order applies on ly to the occupied zone ) Simultaneously, Chiet of Slate Pe ta.n returned to Vichy today on a -poeial train from his suddenly in terrupted holiday On the Riviera and mi lin'd iat.ely began a senes of con 1 .‘fence with the chief of govern ment. Pierre Laval, and various cab mot i tempers. It wan said tile marshal's vacation was cut short "because of circum stances." the nature ol which still was not i m ealed at noon. (However, there was a possibility that the return and series of talks involved Martinique and France'* Fast Indian possessions since the United States last week-end request ed guarantee hum the local gov ernment of Martinique that that is land and other French possessions in the area would not be used by tht' axis or in any other way be come menaces to the United States. (In Bern, Switzerland, it was re ported in foreign diplomatic quarters that with French-German negotia tions reaching a stage of urgency, Hc.chmar-hal Gliding may meet to .i.oitov. with Chief of State Peiam md ('Me! of Government Laval to i tic!) 1 mal decisions. These quartois nvdicte i that the French would re u-e t i accept the Martinique nego tiation a- one of the great decision.', ,-iih a risultant break of relation.' with the United Stales i Japs Bolster Yunnan Army Chung king. M;iy 12 (AP) Th ? •hip.iiir ( h.iv (' brought up reinforce ments ;md hit in,'iking ;i new attack ! on the YunniUi front in western Phinii, <1 Chinese communique an ii'iiineed tonight. .Arrival of .tapane (' ri'iiif' cements • Pl'iarently again converted the rear; guard into an advance guard. Into Using Of Waterway Washington. May 12. (AIM- - A resident motorists ! r- 11. Maine to I-’loi i la tailed registration today for gasoline ration cards the Senate in terstate commeree committee recom mended an investigation into possi ble use of inland waterways for transportation of petroleum products. The Senate committee approved a re-elution offered by Senator May bank. Democrat. South Carolina, di recting an iuquiin at a cost of $5,000 into the question of increasing use ol inland waterways "lor the transpor tation of petroleum products and other ai tielos and commodities." Recently, along similar lines, the Senate approved a proposal to direct the maritime commission to provide not less than $21',000,000 to bo used tu build tow boats and barges for Movement of oil, gasoline, petroleum and other commodities on inland ,\ aterways Despite these indications that Con gre- believed the shortage of trans portation was necessitating the dras tic limitation in gasoline, there was considerable speculation that a pn -arv inn po c was to conserve t'res ;u i-.i in u -. Works for U.S. Navy Clark* Richard from Starsburg, Ya., works as a welder at Pearl Harbor, which has now succeeded in effacing the scars of December 7. When tito history of the war in the Pacific is written, men like him will be given honorable mention for the role they played in offsetting the cowardly blow of the “Day of In famy.'’ (Centra! Press) Burma To wn Japanese Driven From Town 140 M i l e s Northwest of Man dalay; Planes Are Active. New Delhi. .May 1 — (.VI*) — A British column withdrawing along the ( hindwin river in western Burma had turned with fui \ upon tin* Japanese to drive a column of more than .'>00 enemy troops south from Shweg yin. a small river town about 140 miles northwest of Man dalay, a communique said today. The Japanese had been pushing north apparently :n motor boat-. (Shwegyin i- air-at live he south of Kelewa ind is not to be confused with the larger town J the 1 same 11;.11 e in southern 1/ a .■ a. i RAP' plane have succe-siuliv ma •hine gunned Japanese motor Pam !)orts and trueie- containing troop.' : ei e reconnai ■.ru ovei Japanest* lines of communication m northern Burn.a, it wa- announces The Britisli force.- are in we. f Burma guarding the approaAie- t ■ India. They Iasi were reported m the Grind i tri • • the Irrawaddy. The Bi :ti h s; a ve- - was • m the vicinity • •» '.! • lei * y." (; ■*- :-%• aero - the Chincjw m A OEM Explains Necessity •* For Rationing Daily Dispatch Rnrcau. In Hit* Sir Waller ltolel. Bv non TIIOAIBSON. Raleigh. May 12.—< ’nine deni 1 >r if 1 within a feu day- it't . fie ga.-"line label hearing here. • k certain dealers declared t ■ ■> v no it ed for gasoline ration1 ig . ' this time, the nf«inmil an d.a. OHM ,n K: le'gh . dc • .<■ ‘•some s upplementury a.ai- i i the gasoline situation" wine!: g a hike hope for the prr, ate i."t >i ■' a h thinks tie cannot get along > n ti ' e gallons a week All ta' itt'd State- 1c needed t * convoy ship- to \r.-t ad . and Europe mil a "few il nr de stroyers con be used to e n y troleum from tne gull (.> the eastern seaboard." the st lenient declares, giving td" a minder W M fall gaan as its authority. Anothci military iiithority. Ad miral King, is quoted as ay lit: "all the petroleum used on the .-ou’uw'e-t of the Eluted State- or trou South. Vmeriea The tax - our I an * ■ tat ion system for purely n ilitary pu poses is a Ire dy very great Eve y ounce of gasoline which can b. saved (Continued on Page Two I FOR NORTH t AROI IN \ < ontinue w arm. scattered shovers over east portion Pa's , alt*.:: .'-u . Nazi Thrust Germans Declare Ac tion Merely ‘An At tack,’ Not ‘An Offen sive;’ Other War News Shows Allied Pros pects on Upgrade. (By The V-soriated Press., Rus-ia's armies were reported today to have erushed a big scale f "rinin attack in the ( rimea, frustrating a nazi drive toward the great ( aucasus oil fields utter four days of heavy fielding. Soviet dispatches said the Germans apparently wen trying to develop their first full fledged 10-12 offensive. .\ bulla tin fn.i.. Adi II Hi:!-. rh field leadquarters said G< an and Itu - ■Ionian tn .|». supported by -1mm; ■a/i -.1) ! • rm ; :n . t -. ■ a a-: n vi the at - • ol; -’ii ilu- Keren |x•nin.-ula last Fi . lay. i ha* Car: a,;.ns. h -vvcccr, declared that or;nin vvu- merely "an attack" - .ot an "of l cm-1 vt-A A Berlin broadcast quoted a Get - man military spokesman as saying .hr Urmiean action was "the f,r.-t fireat olfensive operation since the .'.'inter defensi, e." Military advices reaching Lon don said the German onslaught collapsed against the Red army’s stubborn offensive and that counter attacking Russian troops drove the invaders hack into their original lines with heavy casualties. German infantrymen 'til] held an advanced point in one scrho. It was aid, but ii -w are being fiercely al locked by the Russian.-:. Is>ndi -n military quarters -'fiici re ports that a German army ul two mil! on troops hud launched an ot— tensive on the Donets river front, m -tie Ukraine, were "completely un founded." A Germon communique reported that Go: : am planes .-onk two So ■ ici tran.-ports totaling a,000 tons ana .-o', oral small vessels in attacks oif the Kerch peninsula and on the -outlieast foa.-l ol th.- Sea of Azov. A nazi broadcast said the drive was marked by tile introduction of new. improved weapons. The London Star today pub lished a Vichy news agency dis palcli quoting Bucharest sources as declaring that a new type of German iand mine had deceived the Russians into believing the Germans were using poison gas. (dually the dispatch said, tin new type explosive "causes a considerable decrease in pres sure and neutralizes oxygen in the air over a radius of BOO v ai ds." t "i o',nor if m: in flic worldwide "■ •!.! :ct alia.i p. --peels appeared oil Ac upgrade. luir- - -('I.i:m-c i-A;‘ary quarter •ted tli .Jap; it t c • :- ■ driv . . :■ 1 - hill::;,! mid into ('ll 111.1 ; -per had A or. this>wn back ,u. 1 ad '.cheated to the Burma-Chmu imntit-r town ol Wanting. Other re port- -aid the .U.pmu sc had absmdon Vustralia — General Douglas iM;n Arthur's headquarters re ported in a communique that al lied llicrs tracking down the scattered remnants of the huge (Continued on Page Two) Farmer Cooperatives In Annual Meet id’01 gii. Mas 1:.' (A I’D Stock • i .no -j• a the North v' ; -i a i. t: ii (i: ov or- A - -ncia ■ ' > ii and tin- Funnels Cooperative Ksc'iaogo held ihen annua! meeting In-re today. M. C. Mann, general manager n, the coo|ieratives, estimated in a re port to ihi group that the organiza tions had saved cotton farmers ol the -tale more than S1,AOO.OOO m the past yr iv, and -aid the PCX paid sP-.'t.m div idends to patrons and stockholders. Directors ot the cotton association tin- afternoon vvili choose a presi dent to succeed ,lohn T. Thorne of r'annv ille. who declined to be a can iiriate for re-elect ion. Pour new di o. i / i-o arc to in confirmed lln afn moon. Six other directors were re-clect d. Ten elective directors of the PCX. i :11mated t > succeed themselves, be formally elected this after i - .
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