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TWENTY -NINTH YEAR ^hk^^o/^f.iVVkk^08, HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 1M Jo 1 publibiiki.^viok^^ehnoon nVE CENTS COPY I Convoy Uuty on the Atlantic X* vBP AV... . - s'- '**'**„■ ~ TIP "V - „." ■ ... »—>.-’T~v' -,_-*>»» ~v Awaiting a call to action, these U. S. naval pilots, fully equipped, stand 01 :-.-■ runway of a plane catapult (top), as their warship help.- herd a o-i \ across the Atlantic. The freighters (bottom) limned by the rays of ' .1 that is slowly setting behind the cumulus cloud- jus't over me h"iiZon makes this one of those rare pictures of nature's beauty. ICl Htral /’( ( ,<») Motorists Trade Gas Ration Cards Lasl Day of Registra tion Marked by Rush for Smaller Allotment Cards; Conversion of Oii Heating Units Urged. i1 Asstic'iitUni Press ) ll.itimiiiig of gasoline on tile easti-rn seaboard became effec tin' it 1 i:01 a. m. K.WT todav amid a u i Iter of predictions and suggestions regarding its far Hung !.unifications. O'irt feature of the third and lin.tl day of ration card registra tion i. slcrday was a wild rush l>y motorists to exchange pre vioush obtained unlimited or liirli .illotment tickets for those raliin; for smaller allowances. I>' • m] ni honest mistakes by P ' a eis who had ovcr-esti needs was advanced by .'ids as the main reason . .v surrendering of many 1: e a-, but a possible factor olion by sum. that a stilt ence or a $10,000 fine -t '• tl;e penalty for misrepre •'vtn ■ • i a- gasoline requirements. ( (inversion of home heating Plant- from oil lo coal wherever possible and federal subsidiz ing "i gasoline transportation on raihoads were urged at New 'urk as ways to ease the short ase in I' states from Maine to I'lut ida. Jh ■ :i"i to company employe ’A'. S Parish of the Slaud ar,l 1 i t o (N. .1.) asked them to a example of unselfish coin l’1 x 1 ■ v. till the regulations" anti addeci A 1 1 er possible tie (the em Pj'v1' ’ -hotild convt rt his heating; '■: 'ni ml to coal, remembering (Continued on Page Six) Senators I Reject Pledge On Gas Ration Washington, May 15. - (AP)— ! itli. ,i ii debate, the Senate rejected ll’d today a proposal to put meni ” l s 1 i'rul'd as pledging them- | . 'l's tu waive any special privileges • ln "i't., uing rationed gasoline. , Senator Downey, Democrat, t'ali wrnia, author of the resolution which, j ‘'min'd bitter criticism yesterday, | 'l',fi Senator Pepper, Democrat, Flor lr'a- cast the only votes for the pro posal. democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky, who for>g»f the vote to had attacked the resolution as lniPUgning the honor of the Senate. “resident Roosevelt expressed tin opinam today that gasoline ratinn *nR cards should be a matter of pud “c record. * tv not ' he nskt n ] inrva con temn,\ TEXAS WOMAN HEADS NEW ARMY AUXILIARY Washington, May 13.—-(AP)— Secretary ol War Stimson today announced the appointment of M, - William IIlobby ol 1 Ions ton. T \.. as direelor ot the women'- Army auxiliary eorp.-.. The corps, created by legisla tion approved this week by Con gress. will be ci ip sed ol wom en volunteers for service with the Army, to replace enlisted men now assigned to such non combattant duties as typists, telephone operators, clerks and laborati >ry technieians. The legislation authorize.- a corps with up to 1311.000 mem 'JUTS. No Tires In Prospect Babsort Says He is Get ting Frightened Over Situation; Slow Driv ing Advised. !5> KOGKIt \\. KABSON ('op.V; gill 1912 I’oilil'IllTl Financial Blip' i Inc Akron, Ohio, Mac la. 1 am out here agair cneming op tm tire , situation. My interest is far deeper than what it means to yo i and your pleasure car. Next to banking, tires are the most nec.-es.-ary part of al most all industry. The tinnnei 1. commercial. farming, professional and manufacturing busuies- ol the nation runs on pneumatic tires. To! have these tires eliminated by a long war would b a great blow to the ; nation. Hence, the boys in Wash ington should count ten before say- . ing or doing anvthmg hasty. What About Kubbcr? Since I first wrote on tile tire situation, the Japanese have seized nearly 90 per cent of the world’s commercial bearing rubber trees. We have enough raw rubber in stock piles to -apply our war needs until our new synthetic plants get going j After that, the war r quirements will take all the synthetic rubber. Get ting rubber now fimi’i goldenrod. milkweeds, ,-ugat cane. etc., is prac tically an idle dream. Gu yule which is now being planl.d will not pro duce rubber for five years. The Bra zilians are too lazy to go into their wild forests to get it out. Hence, as far as getting new rubber tires for 30.000,000 pleasur; ears, we can for get it.—no t Hilingl The only hope I can give is that we really need rubber pneumatic tire.- onlv for the two rear wheels, j Furthermore, cars are now being (Continued on Pune Two) American-Made Tanks Lead Advance As Reds Near Kharkov Last Of British Troops Leave Burma Vichy Radio - — Weary Remnants of British. A r rn i e s in Burma Retreat Into Manipur State in India; S t i 1 w e 1 1 ’ s Troops Continue Fight. (By Th. Associated Press) Climaxing a bloody ,'iw-j nu.nths buttle acainst iiopole.-. rnIds. the last weary remnants of the Britis.h army in Burma have crossed into Manipur state in eastern India, it was reported today,, while the Vichy radio de clared Japanese troops had ad vanced S1) miles into India along the Bay of Bengal. The Vichy broadcast quoted vague and unconfirmed reports that the invaders had reached a point within IG miles of Chit tagong, only 210 miles from the great Indian metropolis of Cal L'utta. The withdrawal of the last British force, estimated at 5.000 men. followed a dogged retreat from the bomb-ruined city of Mandalay and a Japanese thrust which separated the British from their Chinese allies commanded h.v the American. Lieutenant General Joseph \V. Stilwell. At Iasi reports. General Stil wel'.'s forces were stubbornly resisting a Japanese advance up the Burma Hoad some 11.) miles inio China proper, in ('astern China, a Tokyo hi'ond ea.-t credited Japan so lorce- with ; i ■ flic-1 ins a heavy defeat on the main body of the 22nd Chino- • div: in a battle in central Hopeh pro vince'. (tther far Pacific deveio))ments in •Utdori: Haiti oi Australia —- General! Douglas MaeArlhur's lieadqunrtei s reported that long range allied bom’o again heavily pounded Japan' -" ships in the harbor of Rabaul. New Britain, and scored a smashing \ a tory over enemy lighters tried to intercept thorn. A contmuniqui said gunners in the i big bombers—presumably including i giant American flying fm-tresses - Dint down seven o! 15 ,Ia.p.anes< , planes attacking them. All allied planes returned safely. Other United Nations bomber.. , raided the Japanese -eaplane ba-e in the Louis iade archipelago, oil the southeast coast of New Guinea, sink ing an rnemv -eaplane and leaving shore targets in flames. The Japanose eoimtered v-ath he heavy raids on Port More:-lav, key allied base in southern New Guitwa. first attacking the airdrome with 1M light r planes and then -Inking at \ ships in the harbor with 26 heavy [ bombers. Youth Saved From Tunnel Portland, Ore., May 15.—(AP)— Alive but injured critically, Ui-ycai old James Harper w as removed today from a rock tunnel in which h had been penned I'm I It hours. Strapped to a stretcher, lie was passed down a lor.g line of men and taken to a hospital. The boy had lain under a shaky arch ot rocks, with a 1,500-pound boulder on his lap pinning his knees. For hours after the slide lie had joked with rescuers. He was releas ed at fi a. m. Pacific war time. Since 5 p. m. PWT yesterday the Hill Military Academy student from Yakima, Wash., lay in a tunnel-like aperature form d by rocks which had fallen from a sheer cliff on which the academy is located. He was trapped there when the rocks closed the hole—forbidden to academy students—75 feet from its entrance. Two companions ernvlen ‘3 iiitcy. c* n i / as. Hendersons Get A’s Leon Henderson, head of the Office of Price Administration, will have to get along with “A" ration cards for his two cars. Although he drives to work his round trip falls under the six miles necessary to put him in the “B” class. Mrs. Henderson is shown holding the two “A" cards which entitle the Henderson family to six gallons of gasoline per week. (Central Press) House Committee Re jects Proposal to Tax Interest on Current and Future Issues. Washington. .Ma.\ 15.— — The House «;ns and moms conimittce rejected today Treas >i; > proposals to lav the interest on outstanding or future state and local securities. Chairman Doug!i'>no rat. North Carolina, told newspapei men at the end ol a morning .-os mi ol Hie cornu ittci : 'Vv l.,n e voted not to tax i he m lere-1 i in -tate and munii ipai cia'iUe. ocher outstanding m ! u ture." Secretary MoiRentiiaii of the Treasury had Iee'iinmendi d re inoval of the present tax ex emption feature on such se rarities to raise x KHUiliOodM/ ..s (Continued on Page S.x) RED 18 YEAR OLDS REGISTER FOR ARMY Moscow . May 15 (AP) The Ri d army ordered lH-ymir old y mths today to register V y 17 n r their regular period (d 1 tary .-ox :e . This annual regisl: aion is orepara torv to the autun n call to the colors. Besides the regul. class of 1924. members of the cl. "S ol 1927 and 1 922 19 and 20 ye; del.— ‘vi • have not previously reg • H'rcd were or dered to do so. Pelley Asks Court Stay Raleigh, May ) > (AP) ('..un-i i for William Dudley Pelley asked (ho North Carolina supreme court loan,,' for a lay ol all proceedings again." the Silver Shirts leader pending set tlement of what they claimed wa.~ a "eonlliet of jurisdiction" between North Carolina and federal court • on charges again" Pelley. Pelley is appealing to the State supreme court a tw o-to-three yeai prison term meted to him in Bun combe county for violating Mnrti ."arolina's blue sky laws and lie was fC'^aunuea u Page Six) * Kcp'..::i oi Action is First im-section That American Fleet Units A re O p e r a ting So f cep y Along Supply Route, Derlm ( I-'i'i in <h-mian 15 road casts) May la. (AIM—The -itM ra.iii h i y h command an iiM.ii at d I M,ay that its air force. '■ Kir iii.o Iiaitle ei the Arctic supply lines to Russia, had de Mivy d a United Stales cruiser and di si rover as well as ;t :’>.()()() ton ice breaker and 2,000-ton merchant vessel. The special comii'.ui'.iiiue said also that a 10.000-ton freighter was scl afire from slcrm to stern in a connected anion, while at a southern I'nglisli port bombers destroyed four British mcrchanl ships tola ling 7.500 tons. - The o a : 111 111 i 11L. t ■ li till.' cr d-cr vas i the 9.100-t >i P-i tcoia cla* (W hit'll i. a a Hilly c.,1 v fifil! n ) irtid idea'll led the naval formation as an Ameiie n juadi perat n be twer ii t:ie north cape of Norway and the .Arctic ..-land of Spitsbergen. (The locale of the action—• apart from the tlcrman claims which mi .'lit have been drawn to gain information on disposition of I niicd States naval power—was the li;M indication that \mcri can licet units were operating so deeply on the supply routes to Murmansk and \rchangel.) Th ... gave no details ■)N!t. '1 .iicncy. hiiwever sa;d t!.;:t ti;c : r ^ w . "imbed on night 1.,,-t iin.'iit One of several ac ,-uni'. tl: a-cy report, d. OXB : I • ' tai I-.? breaker and tiio h"■- ’ n :i c: cii■.nt vc.-sc! were i e :.ed " :j o.ii .a Spitsbergen, win i"si.- tin- 1; ,:ii cv;oi and gave tu> ] i ca'e. ■ime 11 o- pivoting r. the large and Kin ilc.s off di. n. I »r t'-ii .and Norwegian shock tn i - r .idl'd ia-l Seplro iior in an . r: and a dc-1 me! i"it aga mst valn a!'I'■ v . ih ami oiiioval o: sev eral :;iir.dr.'i! anti-na/1 miners and QUIET LAUNCHING FOR NEW CRUISER *■' w port News, Ya.. May 15.— r\i»> I hi* Nav\’s newest crui>! th<‘ Mobile, got her first l; « ! ill water toda\ in one of lie (-niete>t launchings ever * ' ■ at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock ( <>. 1‘lant. Sub Saves Island Wealth Washington. Ma\ !•> . AP1 - A -no,mai Mu v.i-.irh o.mnod ammuni ti. h to tin- «•>’!.i.aUU-d lortrcss ol Co-o ogid. i; rev oi l ioiaily today a the ve--ei >. wh brought a v;M . mount ol m id. silver and s(v mil a-- i:the Philippine island last i-Vm may Tin m*> .. i -id today by the X;,■ \. 1ml , <• .due oi the weall. tie., saved l. n tin- Japanese invad er' was noi n -a o-. ii m the official reier-e. il.o Xa > ..yip merely that "d i epi e- anted .. large part ol Hie iu-.’"iMble wo.nth ot the island.' This propertv nelonged to both tin Philippine Co monvvealth and th hank', mines and residents oi the is and. The eari ied out • > sipm;a" no .-nanded hy Lieute nant Con n.'iuei Flank \Y. Fenno. Jr.. Mi), of Wi i linster. Mass. Miss USO of Tampa J*--— Zoe Lorch, secretary to the mayor of Tampa, Fla., was named “.Miss L’SO of Tampa” by 1.000 service men stationed in and around that city. Miss Lorch is the first girl in the nation to be chosen in the spon taneous ‘‘Miss USO” elections held in more than 050 clubs and units operated by the organization. (Central Prest) Sea Power German News Agency Savs Two 45,000-Ton, Four 35,000-Ton War ships Launched. Berlin (From German Broadcasts'! May 15.— (AP) — A report that the 'Japanese navy launched two 45. oOO-ton battleships and four of 35, DOO tons last year and will launch throe more battleships of unspeci fied si/s this rear wa- published today by DNB. ' In a dispatch from Milan, Italy, the German agency quoted the Tokyo correspondent oi the new paper Del Popolo as saving on the t hese figure- f: .at { • United States navy no longer has a f:\y-tn-thrce advantage ever the Japanc.-e na y“ and “m t even new construction of the next few year will influence the changing propor tion.” (The figures q >tod for Japanese const i" let ion arc far in excess of those "credited hv Uni’rd Nat,oils authori ties. (The late.-t editions of Jane's Fight ing Ship... considered most atithorita ■ ivp ■ naval annuals, - five Jap anese battleships of 'over 40.00(1 tons" either newly no pleted or nearing crmpletion.l The dispatch went on to ode fig ures concerning the .-Viiurcian pr am > tending to .-how it was be hind that ot Japan in time “despite t excellent dock yards.” ORDNANCE FACTORY GOES TO CHARLOTTE Washington. May 15.— (AIM — l’lit* \avy department announc ed today that a large ordnance plant for the loading of anti aircraft shells, costing millions of dollars, would be established at i harlotte, V t . The plant is expected to em ploy about (>.000 workers, ap proximately half of them wo men. It will occupy a tract of around ’2,000 acres. French Ships Are Being Demobilized Washington. May 15.- (AIM The work of demobilizing French wai - ij : going forward at Martinique, ] secret ai> "i State Hull said today, ' md igreemeitt thus has been reaeli j .( on th< vital phase of military I most Mils under discussion at the j ... island. The stains and future usefulness Fi enoh merchant shipping rev die n the island harbor- tla F rench possession, he indicated, is i \Ccni.aueU u: Parc Sc- :n) Nazis Claim Army Storms Kerch Gates Timoshenko’s Armies Smash More Than 150 German Tanks in Two Days; Russians Only 20 Miles From Heart of Kharkov. (By I he Associated Press) With American-made tanks blazing the way. Russia's armies were reported to have crashed through the inner defenses of Kharkov in at least two places today after sweeping seven miles beyond the Donets river and smashing more than 150 German tanks in two days. London diplomatic quarters said they heard Adolf Hitler was so stunned hv the unexpected power of the Soviet offensive that he had instructed his am bassador to Tokyo to .increase pressure on Japan for an at tack against Russia. A British broadcast said Hit ler's crack field marshal, ffedor von Bock, who “almost” took Moscow in the nazi offensive last year, has been put in com mand of Kharkov's defense. In the Crimea. Hitler's field headquarters asserted that Rus sian defenders of the heights before Kerch, short cut to the giaat Caucasus oil fields, had been driven back and that Ger man-Rumanian columns were at the gates of the town. The nazi communique men tioned tersely that fighting was continuing in the battle for Kharkov. Soviet front line dispatches said the Heel armies steadily were pressing forward, crushing na/i counter attacks, capturing a number of nearby communities, and advancing over roads littered with hundreds of German bodies, smashed tanks and cannon. Rod Star the Ris-ann army news papor. ri the battle was “another !u a y defend" for the Germans, who a ■ i held Kharkov since last Oc The new.-paper said both sides threw in powerful tank forces and th: ‘ S i a t tanks forced a water ■ o r or, -.'lit tin' German troop con centt dion- and drove a wedge into the' enemy de'tenses. ■'nan mlantry moved into the brooch aid cm. .Related the occupied (Cern tinued on Page Seven) FDR Says U. S, Troops in More Action Woshingior.. May 15.—(API—De al.nang th.,t >"c io transport planes arc needed. Fre-idcnt Roosevelt told a "ross confciemv today that we are jetting nto act ll lighting more and , e otm places $1! the time. T! i doc! [Xcc .live spoke of in ■! otist'd Aiiii'i :t-:m fighting in various ports oi the world during a discus 'it'll : it.- order permitting the War deperti oil ' ■ too over control of oil the planes ol eorom rcial air lines. Wt need all the planes we can get, hi' said, livery kind is being taken over, he added, including what he termed puddle jumpers and one-or two-man ships. He asserted that al most anything that can fly is useful to the govt'rnmienl. The President dal not elaborate on what new front.-. American men nvght lie fighting soon. Nor did he cart to answer a question as to whether American troops had taken part in the British occupation of the French island of Madagascar near strategic United Nations supply lines ; ■ r ho Iud i.i • ci n. VEA1II1K FOIl NORTH CAROLINA Showers and continued warm iili . . irue n and I 'nigiii.
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