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TWKXTV-NINTH YEAR 1fnK‘A^^rtn>HvHK%ov HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 2:;. I!»i2 ‘,l'BI‘,s'ii.!xR™srsr;'ATTKRSOON FIVE CENTS COPY "*** ~ *" _ <« NAZIS THROW NEW RESERVES INTO BATTLE ■At ★ ★ ★ Mexican Congress Called To Declare War On Axis Guard Rescues Survivors ••'rT" ^.y Wm1 - A .1 ] sight for searching eyes was this Coast Guard surfboat as it • I close to a lifeboat containing survivors from a torpedoed ship i" Atlantic. While the men were being po ked up, a patrol vessel, ’ : ii had spotted the survivors first, went on an immediate hunt for the enemy sub. (CcutiaL 1‘icns) ama noons * Hundreds Homeless as Hash Floods Inun date Towns and Para !v Traffic Over V de Areas; Property Da ma^e Is Heavy. i ■ sdale. !*:«.. May (AI*> , pel sons were reported in and believed drowned i ni - in one of a sere's of Hash II.".'1- that swept through east u i'. imsylvania, making bun d r* 1- iiomeless and parul.v/sng lii -portalion over wide areas. ..iWi'M’n rivi r. led I\v re ii I'.t through the Seelev iln'ee miles above tlm :i Pennsyl van in einnniim ■ ! a six-tool wall u! water igh the streets just ke rn- company officials re ei a! houses were toppled i ■ iloud and it wa ■ foi li \ missmg u ere trapped 1 n ep (‘omnninieatioiis -■ m ■ wa- difficult, k ports from the anthracite n-i.wics, particularly hard Hit. or! .licit the property damage w -iiId run into hundreds oi d"e.-.iods of dollars. i.-ntifii d woman died o| .. 11-i. at Mountoursvilk-, ii , elimaetie cloud imr 1 >11 1 i,' e was surrounded by water . iteii Ir an Albany. N V . smo .-eI sti . am.r fed Iiy rain ■mI In southern Now \ • -■ g away three horn s and t• iielnstrial plants, block ng and destroying bride." lire reported no loss of lue, i , Air Warfare Intensified In Africa ' 1 May 23.—(AP) Britsin 1 ; 1 i attacks on axis landing fields ,l! i11 rna and Martuba. on the Libyan !l '"k and air battles between British "7' axis fighter planes were report Hi today by the RAF headquarters. communique said the landing 7 !’d' at Martuba were effectively bed Thursday night while enemy ■' "francs at Martuba and Derna 'aided in daylight yesterday. *f" RAF said its planes shot up 7" enemy transport vehicles in the aiartuha vieinit'y Thursday nigiit. Briti-h t igi.trrs shot down three r-ehmitts, the RAF said. ■f Junkers rii\e hc.mher wli 1'h at ■ - uiuiaed on 1 » Withholding Tax Proposal Vote Monday Washington. May 23.— i.\'M . -1 iva i > and ingrcs-ional l:. x , ; . min t.,day in pave l!u wav Ini' 1 In • H"< - e ". ays a : a i n Vims mini iltee In vote quickly ? i ,.ntla ■ on a i i.ay-a -voit-ip > m - i, n. tax enllevlion piugi'am o’, excludin'.: ea Ual and doine.-l.e ■Hi, •j'|-,-as :ry 1 .a~ rccummen : - id tli.it 10 per eeu. nl a |V m,h' taxanlo nc'ine and "f <i ch-ndr and intcre t be yvihilu id at the ■ ni tree.- in I'aeililalt in dividual income tax ciillcct ■ n and i" help curb inflation. Tin memne ni a .-male man . e $11 a week would be :ub ,n ; to the 10 per cent withhold - .in; tax. A ii an ied man with one ni ,i nflallt W' 'll Id he inject to the sai1 n rate on income aboye $ I Hi month. All deduct ion - w< l.i lie used a an olfsel to the non!mI tax bill due e. eh March 15. Rates Fixed Senate-House Confer ence Committee Sets Pay Increase to $42 Monthly Minimum. Washington. May 2.5.—(AIM — V s matc-House conference com mittee agreed today on a gen eral pay ini n ase measure for men in the lower ranks of the ;>rm< ! services to a minimum of S42 monthly. This tentatively rejected House attempts to raise the min imum pay ol buck privates and I sailors to S50 monthly. from present minimum of S'.’I and Slid. Senator Johnson, Democrat, C oln lodo, one of the Senate cnnleree. said the pay raise as agreed to conference would cost the govern - .pent about S285.0im.0ii0 additiona. each year based upon the number oi men ‘in the Army, Navy. Marine and other armed forces on Januaiy I ' Johnson -aid elimination ol the ! 1 ., ... tten pt I . boost the min ■ j :■ :.;:iiea on f'^gc i.*. o; ic fataet easorss Thurs day Set as Ten tauve L aie tor Ses sion, But I ablic May Demand l: arlier Meet ing; IWv'c'T 3 Fu’doUS Over Sinkings. .M \ to ( 'i' \. .'.lay 2.'!. I A 1 ’) IV i:! >!•;• a : Avila < 'u n ici.o oi';'i" announced In \v< ild mi kv i id die late t< uliiy a call fur i u e-ini session of con rr« ss t< ckt-la e war mi the axis am! ■ • , ■a-""'.-, neees -'iry in ,o'l id; e 'in:. r\ on a ‘'full v. ar f>•;dig.' ('one s.- ic111;11 a11■ 'i'u\'al was ludiiA ’d to 1 •. a u 1 tainty. with llie juddie furious nv • ■ i ia- news that axis -ui r.’arini . had'sunk a second Mexican ship within eight days. \ » ., i _ i 113 <» n.iii 'I'liicnl -ourcc sail! i'ie wartime inus •;ires to !•:• n . vm .'<e-.i !>\ the prcsidi ut wont-.! in mile seizure ol all (.emuin. Hal;..:: u.ui Jap anese i.oidings in aiie\ieo. shirt slit m iiliiuri1 n\f'i \ is t iliunai'. rcntvt;! i»'» ((UUPi’inK atia'ns. lie liiivation o! nslrivtcd militjr.v I zones, ;.r,ti suspension cert «yi eonstitiition.il g.'ai antees. there were reliable reports that troops uli—ail.v were mm - inn to strategic points to guard against sabotage. E\ ell while av a:' • ng I i'e idi i Camacho > loin oi | .11' o e I. i i 11; 11 ; m d war, the first in Mexii'i h lory, t.-t republic put pn cautionary tire ng. in-t .. .t ..lie:: qlliel! . utu torce and look t first milim... '' eps. A special ses tt ol liberation that C'ligri s v "ul-l • edit'd ill a spi ei.,! r-sion i n. II I, 1! , pie ideal P- da el:e : ■ eM -leiiee ol o tale ol war." Congress must he cum cued w:tn. (Continued on l’age Four) Export Goods Under Control Washington, May -ti.• (AIM—1 he i.l'Pce of defense Iran.-poi nation to day prohibited movement of all I'll.ted state- Olid l Median export good- port .'icas ill this countr.' after June 1 without approval of a special traiisportat m control com lliittee. i >UT sa.d the p rp > e ol the order, which i» I ready .:> partial effect, to prevent rerun cnee of port conges'am and delays which handi capped overseas shipping during the . rst World War. The instructions provide that carrie's may not bring Shipments of export goods into a port until shipping space actually is available. Ship nents by go\ ernemnt agencies as well as Canarhun commercial shipments will be licensed bv the DOT. U. S. Troops in Ireland Training for Invasion C. I*. l*honvphoto C, mu pod around a °»7 mm. nn l blank gun are a ^ n " ■ ,n ■« I dim -■ l>n >1 in northern Ireland. The I iid ed h .i;_r with its s!m , • : \.a ■ :: . .. : s that aiv believ. d to bo a prelude to a hi e stale inva-i‘*n 01' tie- > i.: i.. \ . ,.t .-tatenirr.t made by Sir Stafford Cripps, English statesman, this inva .. ... j . i r chan is expected. Nipponese Advancing Survivors of 1 orce Landed in Fukien Pro vince Reported to Have Fled to Ships; City of K i n h w a Threatened. (i >y Tlii' Assi ic sated Press I ('hinese headquarter-; report ed today' that Generalissimo ( hiantr Kai-Shek's armies hail slaughtered mm'" than half of the -ea-home ■lupancse inva “■ inn force at ' me point m t'hina's east coast and repulsed j 2 o, () (i 0 other enemy troops at-i tempting' to land under the pus of t m warships near Foo- ( chow, capital ol Fukien prov ince1. Survivors of the first Japan e<e force, \i tin sained a foothold Wrdno.dai on ( liuansliili island at tlir mouth of t!ii- Min river in Fukien pro\ inee. were said to have fled to llieir sliips. aban doning huge iiuautities of eiiu’p meul. i Wliite the threat to Foochim appeared to have been cliiiiiii-.fi - ed other Japanese columns driv (Conlinued on Page Four' BRITISH CADETS DIE IN CRASHES Montgomery. ,\l. May i \P> - Gunter F eld ani, ntneed that :.t ! least .is Brit!'!: e: lets wit. k ""d when their plane era■ lied d ir . a .term Wednesday night, and that a seventh plane . a t its pilot a. • •“ missing. Only Two Contests Fought In Democratic Convention Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By BOB THOMPSON Raleigh, May 2:1 There v 're only two hard fought contests dur ing'the state Democratic convention here Friday and neither occurred in public. The lirst was in .1 dirty basement room ot the convention halt wheic 80-year-old Josephus Daniels out maneuvered some ot the smartest I politicians in the party and forced through the platform plank which makes the "sacred pledge" that the party will support a statewide. State supported nine-months school term The second fight finally ended in a hotel room where Governor Brough ton- though he was not present -at list slice “ded in nn-hing F F. "I t ot the house o' rep1 'eseniatives. lew ing t he field open to I lie gubei notor ial choice, John K< r ol \V arren. "Sacred fledge" It was while M ' r L. P. diel.cn don was keynote away 1P"T;; that Daniels led . croup ot educe tionall.v minded in '■■ augmented A' some who were g \ ng then ! ! thoughts to politic-, to victory o\ "t the conservative members ot the platform committet His chiet op ponent was another publisher, Don Elias lit Asheville The former ;milu -ador go) on tile rei elutions or plate i in committee as result ot a clever maneuver in the district caucus hut that's another story. Stiff ice to -ay he got there and wo- made chairman. And he ame lo tin bases..ait meeting armed twuiiuuaed on Page Two) Congressmen Split On Junket Abroad Broadcaster Radios Threat To Cubans Havana. May 'EM.- — A I’ > — \ my streious broadcaster. w ho identified hiniscil as the com mander of a (icrman submarine lying only a mile and one-hall off the Uavun i waterfront, promised the < tihan people last night they were in for “a sur prise.’' Havana newspapers re ported today. “This is the second time we have visited Havana and very soon will Live you a surprise." the broadcaster w i pooled us saying in perfect Spanish after giving his identity and the loca tion of his vessel. “h i> n’l fair." he a rib I, “that, while the (icrman people are suffering the t nr.MHiueni c^ of the ’hiiksh hloekad: with tin* sup port of the I bled S‘ ales, \meri ea 5i gills .iiould lie enjoying themselves iri the beaches. “Our submarines wall take care of that." The broadcaster w.s said to have gone off the a if alter mak ing this threat. Equal Number to be Executed if Attacker ef German Soldier is Not Found. Vi<h\. M i> — ( Al’'—Till' (iertnans announced today that tenhostages had been executed in occupied France in reprisal ten hostages had been executed sold id- M a.\ :liul that toil oi!’. is would hr shut it t!n> .it l.ii ki i s wrrr not t'ounil within . iuht <! :> s. Tilt" '■11"' i'"'• 'mud by !l .i....s nuif’f t'i t greater p .. ,:nd d.itr ! 1"in\. -aid: • \M ■■ -milod M "• :) • i i ■:r nV.nT ■ i i., (i• 11-..> 11 ’> 'i' li' y,nnift n; .ii ••(■s.., m - tb! I' I": ;It ".icU fsriipo.i \- 1 "1" is.lb ton I'll I " null'll! ■! ! and 'i■ i ' - v . : ■ i-1' ' ! w itb onminal droll's. won ii'.mnd .si'"' -in rase thr nithoi ot Vie uMar ; j a.aided .11 : * -it) Britain Invites Dele gation of Ten Senators and Representatives to Visit England fcr Tanks on War and Peace. Washington, May *i3.— (API —Congressional leaders were re ported divided today on whether to send ten senators and repre sentatives ol both parties to Eng land fur talks with parliament on war problems and peace aims. A ’dilative invitation for the visit and House leader.- hv British .--poke.s .u.'i Ho e leader i y a British spokes man at a secret ei nlerenee at the ('a;>ilol y sterday. Democrats were said to have given the idea general approval. However. Senate Republic Lead er McN'ary and House Republi can Leader Martin were reported somewhat skeptical about the wisdom of sending such a large delegation to Great Britain at this time. A ,vj>. rn d - mm • ’ ■ -n at the con i'renet that < ki ol both hon.-e- be included among the five Bepui'i mim- and * w i- Hi- uocral- who. .. : . ' ; obab 1 y in .Tidy, brought questi ns as to the el ec! Di :h" ai» nee on the progress * a im;>- 'Gant legislate »n. particular ly * in- lax all pending before the i Continued on Page Five) RAF Renews Bombing Raids I.. .mi. M, May TA. I AT'—Violent xplosion.- "ii the French otr'l ruck ed towns im the Hri'ish Mdc o 1 the '.■hiqlish channel today ... vast sqi a i .11 'M> ui lie HAF swept to the otlen . i v e :ice ns-re :1111*r a m.yht attaev (: na/i -' ihmar. lie in ', at St. \'a sure. People \atchme. shells bursting -oiui ii -tanee olf the Freneh shore ine expre.sed liehel the Oi>rmim> ,\\en testing coastal detente artillery isnn a d.,-t iiuv inland. The coast bo !w eeii Houlngm and Calais \va 1 early ' -ai lie yet the \\ ateliers could ‘iu»t see yon flashes before the slic’d explosions. J The eaunonade. lasting several hear., rattled wind i\vs on the water 1 . n- in Folkestone. (>ne imidenitt ied plane was shot .i m. n .,i ter an air battle o\ or • he channel weahier I OR NORTH CAROLINA l ittle change in temperature except sM°httv "itoler in ex ■ no j !i..a t m*.. n. Reds Admit ine German Losses in 3 Days at Kharkov Set at 15,000 Men; DNB Reports Powerful French Fleet In Medi terranean. (By 1 he Associated Press) German Field Marshal Feeler von Bock was reported throw ing masses of air-borne troops into the bloody twelve-day bat tle of Kharkov today, and for the first time the Russians ask nowledyed reverses on the southern flank despite a toll of 15.bob Germans killed there in tlm e days. A bulletin from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters made the familiar claim that the Rus sian mass attack on Kharkov, the Soviet " Pittsburgh." had collapsed 'mpietely. .Meanwhile UNI*, official Ger man news agency, reported that a powerful French naval forma tion was rttvint! the western Med iterranean. ONIi said a British destroyer which left Gibraitai yesterday afternoon sighted the forma tion—a battleship, two cruisers and sis destroyers—and put iiaek into port. Such a force might have come from the French Mediterranean port of llouion. Conflicting chums marked the bat tle of Kharkov , v. :1a the Ru.-sians in sisting they -till held the initiative. rhe na,:i eomn.and said the Rus sian I'Uen-ive stalled May 12 with 20 mlantry diva.- ns I perhaps 300, 001) iroiips. til: ee■ cavalry divisions ; ml l.i am wed brigade-. Berlin military quarters said the battle n.>v. "vva.- assuming gigantic, jii f jpwtiens" and declared that von Bock's armies had shifted from the defensiv e. "Mew extensive German operations ;n\ in progre-s." the.-e quarters -aid. Without confirmation else where. a Vichy broadcast said a powerful German counter attack had thrown Russian troops hack to their original positions on (Continued on Page Four) JEWS IN FRANCE MUST WEAR STARS Berko ( Fr<. • German Broadcasts) May 22, \P)—T r I.ava! govern at Vichy v.a- rep "ted today to have ordered :,l! .lew • at France t > wear the identiiy • g yellow star of ! »;.v H mi a i av. . : race and not re The dew-, it wa- .-aid, would be req red to g.v e up one ticket on th ir clothing ration cards to obtain me itar Non-Essential Construction Is Halted Washington. May 23.—(AP)—Con struction ol i n isemeut parks, race traces, then'ns, baseball parks and .-malar project costing more than .-.a.000 must be stopped before .June li. regardless ol lew much of the 'work lias been completed, the war production beard ordered today. F!:. only exce|d on.- permitted un der tlie drastic order, which mark an extension ut the already strict ! gov ernment control over construc tion. covers children'.- playgrounds. La-t month's order barring vir ' iually all new construction exempt ed work substantially underway. Today's ban covers all projects p .warily tor the amusement of the ’ iblic." underway or re'!, without piliwtc _fVP15 authori/al on. Sim ultaneously. WI’B warned that otliei kind- of non-e.-sential enn -traetion. not covered by today’s or der. may be halted by subsequent id i s . to free adit.ional material . .i . *. pup...cm lot wai p .Uti ' n.
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