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it, Henlterson Hailtj iHspafrfr __ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA TWENTY-NINTH YEAR 1THKFa.ssm,'IT-rf:u^i'ks^of HENDERSON. N. C.. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 27, 1942 H;m'ISHKM'mslJNDAYTEKNOOS FIVE CENTS COPY BLOODY BATTLE RAGES IN KHARKOV AREA X ^ ^ ^ ^ X X X X - A A > _A A A, A A A A A _ ' ^ ^ ^ n n w k Fighting Fla res Up On Libyan Front Strong Nazi ArmySweeps Into Action German Attempt to Seize Initiative in Libya May Mark Opening of Pincer Move on Eastern Med iterranean Sector. i . May 27.—(AP)—The figs' 1 >r posit ion in the Libyan in. - ..n's land Inirst into a siul (Ici .i\is bid for the initiative to day, with a strong armored for -weepingf beep around Brit Mi positions t o B i r II;s , m, 10 miles south of Ain cl i ia/ala, when1 battle was joi:;sij by British tank forces. Isndon military commenta te' . -.aid Marshal Erwin Rom mel's irinforced naz.i desert army h.nl slarted "an offensive of ■ ms sort" hut added that if was too early to judge its size. The eh.nice that this was an open ing thrust of a nazi pineer move mi the eastern Mediterranean u.is bring watched closely.) ; rst indication of the axis I it. is ri>ntainecl in the usual com . , .l inn British headquarter, .u axis columns "including : ,ii some strength" advanced e,i 'i yesterday. nightfall, the communique Uu axis forces had not reach i e main British positions. 1. 'it a special communique dis i : these additional details: . ng the night a large enemy . cl lorce advanced from west ■ -noth of our positions around I’. . le'ceim. Early this morning tin .ere being engaged by our , ! forces. .Vo details of tiie I A m; are yet available." ,itaneous with tiie flareup ot \ ining the RAF announced a ' 'i increase in aerial activ ity ‘ 1-iiour a day scale. House Ponders Soldier Pay . mgton, May 27.—(AIM—Con i'- .tnive to extriato itself from mg Army, Navy and depend allotment allowance proposals i i with the House attempting n 010 whether the basic month v of men in the armed services be raised from $21 to $42, or t , $30. ' ". the House action, leaders said, <: ended the final rates of pay de d ins and government allowances : f.ghting men's dependents, and whether the government would i part of a service man's life in iiice premium. The House was called to consider ■ nt conference committee report t'x.ng the base pay at $42. The House l1 iiuisly had overridden its mili ta v committee and voted for $30 ■1'cr the Senate had adopted the $42 figure. New Pipeline Dallas, Tex., May 27.—(AP)—The iM vs said Toddie Lee Wynne, presi dent of the American Liberty Pipe line Co., has been in Washington several days submitting to interest ed agencies a proposal by his firrr t"i' construction of an oil pipeline across the neck of the Florida pe ninsula. Under the plan a 200-mile, eight inch pipeline, costing approximately S3,aOO,000, would be laid from '<■ 0"int on Apalachee Bay on the wes coast of Florida to a point neai Jacksonville on the St. Johns river "The carrier would connect the gull coastal canal system with the Atlantic inland waterways systen and provide a protected route for oi shipments needed to relieve the pe t "'“'mv. hoitage in the east." the Pape said. View of Captured German Ship at Madagascar C. P. Cnhlrphotn This aerial view of the port of Diego Suarez, Madagascar, is the first to reach the U. S. since its captur* by the British. Pictured in dryrlock is evidence of Vichy French-German collaboration — the Nazi ship Tl arenfcls which was being refitted at the time of the British invasion. The crew attempted to destroy the ship but was unsuccessful. According to English naval officers the vessel can be salvaged and put to use against its former owner*. Big Bonuses Reported House Committee Is Told Firm Holding War Contracts Paid Out Huge Sums. Washington. May 27.— (AD — The House naval committee was informed todav that the Lincoln Electric Co. of Cleveland. Ohio, had handed out bonuses in 1911 ranging as high as $50,000. and that among them was one of $25,000 to a $4,121 -a year plant foreman. Others running from $3,000 to $5,000 went to $30 and $40 a week employees, it was testified. Edmund Toland, counsel lor the committee, declared that lie was presenting the Lincoln case to dem I onstrate how there could be "evasion land avoidance' ot the excess pro I its j tax through the payment of bonus es, and said he would show the need for a "ceiling" on such payments, i Toland identified the company as the leading manufacturer of welding ! equipment in the country, and de clared that "practically all" of its business in 1940 and 1941 was for the government. In 1941. he told the committee, in opening tin hearing, the company s gross sales were $24,449,-13 as com pared with gross sales ot $13,905,059 for 1940. Mine Workers Union Charges CIO Officials Washington, May 27.- (AP)—The officers ol the t ltd were accused of "sabotage" and "treason to the pim ciples ot labor" today in a resolu tion submitted to the policy commit tee of the United Mine Workers. District 50 of the mine union, which includes dairy farmers, coke, gas and chemical and cosmetic workers in ad parts of the country, sponsored the resolution and asked the committee to hear the case w hich it said it had prepared against the C’O executives. Tlie name ol Philip Murray, as such was not mentioned in eonnee ■ turn with the treason charge, but another paragraph of the resolution declared the president of the ( lO "has completely relused to gh e any effective attention to the prevention or redress" of a campaign of "insult and injury " The policy committee already was 1 \vif!i' i.ii ai know l-’dged es I .. ngcinent ! it-- tv leader . U. S. Ship Credited With Sinking Sub Lowering Of Draft Age Considered Washington, May 27.—CAP) — The administration considered today o call to Congress to draft younger fighting blood—youths of 18 to 20—into the Army. There was no indication of how soon a decision might be made but President Roosevelt disclos ed at his press conference late yesterday that he would con fer shortly with Major Gen ral Lewis B. Hershey, selective serv ice director, on whether to ask for the necessary change in the selective service act. The present law exempts those under 20 from conscription. However, the 18-20 year cate gory is to register June 30 under the nation’s manpower invi n tory. Lease-Lend For China Proposals for Agree ment are Similar to British Plan; New Pro gram for Russia. Washington. May 27.—(AP)—The United States transmitted to China today proposals for a lend-leaso agreement similar to that with Great Britain. The proposal. Secretary of State Hull told his press conference today, was handed to T. V. Soong, Chinese foreign minister now in Washing ton. and the councillor of the Chi ! ne e embassy here. \ In reply to questions, Hull em ! phasized that the agreement propos ed to China today, as well as the draft agreement transmitted to So i viet Russia yesterday, were the same in ;*£l substantial respects as the i lend-lease agreement concluded with Britain last February. SURRENDERS Fortaleza. Brazil. May 27.— (API—The Italian submarine Pamplona was reported today to have surrendered to authorities at a i;ar*fcsj..t EraaUian port. Warship Said to Have Chased U-Boat off Brazilian Coast and is Believed to Have Sunk it; Sinking Would be Third in Area. Rio tic Janeiro, May 27.— (AT) —An unconfirmed report from Recife today said a United States warship, answering the call for help on May 18 of the Brazilian freighter Uomman dantc Lyra, chased the undersea attacker and was believed to have sunk it. This was the third enemy submar ine reported sunk in waters of! Brazil in nine days. American bomb bers sank one U-boat near Fernand > Nuronha, about 12.7 miles off Brazil's northeast coast, last Friday, the pilots declared, and another was re ported sent to the bottom yesterday ! off Recife. The C'ommandanle Lyra was at first abandon, d by its crew which ; was later put aboard and low'd to port I V a United States warship. The freighter'.- captain said United States patrol planes signalled for i help almost immediately after his ship was attacked with torpedoes and incendiary shells. When the war. l::p arrived on the scene, it dropped n any depth charges in the chase, today's report said. The Brazilian press continued to attack Germany mr the assaults on Brazilian ships .,:«l urged the gov ernment to begin in active d-lensc | with its planes and warships, bu the government perm tied no word to be published on the sinkings ol sub marines oft the ast by United states forces. ! The Diaro Car ca urged th gov ernment to send Ft: izilian air and sea forces into aetiw 'perations against ' axis submarine HEYDR1CK WOUNDED IN ATTEMPT ON LIFE Berlin (From German Broadcasts) I May 27. —(Al’i Bernhard Heydrico. I acting reiclisprotector for Bohemia 'and Moravia, has been wound, d :n an attempt on his life. DNB report , ed today from Prague, i DNB said Hevdrich’s wound was | not expected to prove fatal. The dis | patch did not specify when the at tack occurred. It -aid, however, that I “a reward of lO.flftO.OOO crowns will i be paid for capture of the culprit '' i l FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Little change in temperature, t aiti-f. .1 light : ru tonight. Tcjo Boasts Australia Undefended Japan’s Premier Be l.e»ea cn 'rAhing Lx pc_ t o>. lor iniorma v*ot?; lav.go of Aid to Axis Allies is Re newed. ( hungking, .nay :J7.— (,\D — Tiir < l.in. -e high command an nounced that renewed Japanese assaults on Kinlnva, provisional capital of < hekiang province, had been thrown hack and that t..■> ;(> Japanese soldiers had died in a s nHe day's lighting for the - 'i at(gie city. t by ’iir Associated lrtiss) Ja..:ii s Grimier General i't .in si’timletl a new threat to Australia today, asserting boast all v that "the naval forces in defense of Australia have dis appeared, with nothing- stand ing now to defend that country oefoi'e the onslaught of the im perial Japanese forces. Evidently a "fishing expedi tion" in quest of information. General Tojo's repetition of Japan's claim of victory in the; Vorat e;i battle—discredited by . allied accounts—was accompan ied by a renewed pledge of Jap-' most' support for the axis. "Japan will do her utmost to contribute her share as the part ner of Germany and Italy." he told the Japanese parliament, in th ■ presence of limperor Hiro hito. But. as if to dispel the idea that Japan would help Ger main attacking Russia. For eign Minister Tojo carefully ex plained: "Relations between Japan and the J S i it.n Uni »n have undergone no change even after the outbreak ot war in greater East Asia. "Enemy countries will, 1 presume, intensity their efforts to alienate Japan and the Soviet Union, but there is no chance lor such intrigues to bear iruit so long as the Soviet Union firmly maintains the attitude mentioned.” He said Australia v. as "now help lessly expecting .Japan's attack after hi oatth in the t tl sea wiped (Continued on Page Four) ANNENBERG TO GET PAROLE ON JUNE 11 Washington, May 27. (AP)— M. L. Anncnberg. Philadelphia pub lisher. serving a three-year sentence at Lewisbmg. Pa., federal prison after conviction in the largest indivi dual income tax evasion case on rec ord. will be paroled June 11 because • of ill health, the justice department announced today. This will cut five months off the, so-called "minimum time" since An nenberg, who is (5a, was scheduled j for release November 11. The full ! term runs until July 21. 1943. and until that time he will be under su- . prevision of the United Slates parole I board. -- Women Rush To Join Army Washington. May 27. (AP)- -W'o nen enrolled today at regular Army recruiting offices lor the tirst time n history seeking selection to be among the first candidates for officer commissions in the women's army nixiliarv corps If the line ot applicant.- at 1he Washington recruiting ottice was an ndiealmn ol the nationwide re pi-nse, thousands will apply for ilaees among the first 43U cdiididate. to report at Fort Des Moines. Iowa, ibout July 15. Applications will be accepted thro ugh June 4 but evidently many wo men here thought an early appliea •ion would help their chance-. Kigh' tood m line before the recruiting of ice opened. When it opened then ■ ere nope ot the special pink ap lication blanks on hand and neatly 4 women were in line when they .-. i-. d -r-j 111UK!...■ iatei. j To Christen Pandas All smiles on her arrival in New York City, little Nancy Lostutter (right), of Columbus, Ind., is greet ed by Marilyn Chu. representing the United China Relief. Nancy is going to christen the two baby pan das at the Bronx Zoo, which wers presented to the children of Amer ica by Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek. Nancy, who won a contest to nama the little bears, will christen them Pandee and Pandah. (Central Press) Tk Y ‘"-p new taxes Are Studied House Committee Ends Work on Estate and Gift Taxes; Ex cise Levies Up Next. Washington. Mav 27.—(AIM — The House ways and means committee, concluding revisions ol the estate and gift tax laws, decided today to tackle next the question of whether to try to raise SI..‘>40.000.000 in new rev enue In increasing excise taxes or by approving a sales tax. Members said that as soon as they voted on estate and gift tax rates they would take op the problem ot raising taxes on such things as gaso line. liquor, cigars, transportation and communications, which Secre tary Morgenthau recommended last March 6 as part ot an overall $7,610, 100,000 tax bill. The committee del i red until In lay a ■ oie on estate and gift tax rates after agreeing tentatively to the Treasury recommendations that a single $611,000 estati exemption be -ubstituted lor the present two ex emptions in $40,000 for life insur mee and $40,000 for other property. Morgenthau ha.- asked that the •ales be increased mi rially in order :o produce $320,0011.000 more revenue. As the cm mittee a j >pninched the excise tax qt.e-t ■•n. numbers said that the Trt;:.- iry‘» original estimates aoiold vc *o lie revi-eri in 1 he light if recent de\ clopments. Nitrate Quota Is Increased Washington, May 27 —(AP)—In creased imports of nitrate of soda v. ill enable southeastern cotton growers to receive 70 per cent ol the fertilizing agent they used last year. Si nator George, Democrat, Georgia, w m adt isod today. The -enatiq- said the chemical divi -iiin. war production board, had an no need Georgia had been allotted 24,!00 tons of nitrate ot soda for June. Proportionate allotment.-- would be made tor North and South Carolina. Alabama and other southeastern cotton growing states, the senate: said. THREE SHIPS SUNK BY U-BOAT ATTACK Washington. May 27.—(AP)—-The Navy announced today the torpedo ing of a medium sized British mer ■hant vessel and a small Greek mer •hantman in the Atlantic and th: inking by shellfire of a Unitec Stales trawler. The shellfire came rmn an enemy submarine. Surviv es if ah thief vtsse's have beer ..ri-.u ... east want pwrt. Conflicting Claims Made On Progress Soviet Reports of Gains Countered by German Reports; Axis Mediterranean Offen sive Believed to be Im minent. (By The Associated Press) Soviet front line dispatch* s reported today that .Marshal Timoshenko’s armies had smoth ered part of the German offen sive 80 miles below Kharkov, while the German high com mand asserted that the resist ance of Russian troops encircled m the same ritical sector "lias been broken.” The Russians declared the Red armies, smashing through the flank of a German wedge, had brought the nazi offensive in the Izyum-Barvenkova sector to a standstill in the most im portant zone. Ked Star, the Soviet army newspaper said tank-led Rus sian infantry, attacking under cover of an artillery barrage, had raptured the slope of a hill dominating the battle zone and were now fighting at the gate of a village several miles from their starting point. Ked Star said two nazi count er attacks failed to halt the ad vance. Soviet reports said the German push was stopped along a river bend where Rusisan troops (apparently j encircled) were described as now en larging a pocket. Red Star declared the Germans were suffering •'immense losses” in : tank battles flaring in many sectors ; of the 125-mile bottle zone, with the Russians smashing attacks by nazi ; squadrons of 20 to 30 tanks each. Hitler's command declared: "The annihilation of Soviet armies encircled south of Kharkov is mak ing ranid mvmn'Js " Meanwhile London diploma tic quarters noted multiplying: signs that the axis was preparing a formidable land and naval move in the Mediterranean. Speculation centered on the possi bility that Adolf Hitler was planning synchronized drive* into the Mid dle East from three directions: 1. From the Crimea through the Caucacus. 2 From north Africa into Egypt. 3. Across the Mediterranean from Crete. Greece and file Dodecanese islands. German parachute troops were re ported training in Crete, and strong Italian garrisons are stationed in Greece and the Dodecanese island to supp'd any trans-Mediterranean : thrust. Omens of a gathering new storm included: 1. British Middle East headquar ters reported that Field Marshal Er win Rommel's north. African armies i were on the move again, with strong axis troop and tank columns advanc ing toward the main British defense | lines. Simultaneously, the Italian high command reported intense air activi ; ty over the Libyan desert battle i theatre—a familiar prelude to an of ; tensive. 2. Reports of an axis squeeze on ; France to gain control ol' the im ; mobilized French fleet. 3. Premier Pierre Laval's discus (Continued on Page Four) Housing Fund Requested — ; Washington. May 27. — (AP) — | President Roosevelt proposed to Con ! gross today the appropriation of an ! additional $600,000 for war housing to meet the minimum needs of the | 1.600,000 workers migrating to war I centers" during the year beginning i July 1. | Congress previously had appro | printed $1,020,000,000 for construe ! tion of living quarters for war ■; workers. I Mr. Roosevelt said in a message I to Congress that several million per j sons would be employed in war in dustries during the next fiscal year. Workers are being obtained locally wherever possible and new sources o' labor supply are being drawn I upon, the President asserted. Yet, he ; said, it will be necessary for some 1 1,600.000 to move to centers of war i -
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