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YEAR ltnKhAssM,l-'lA^,^>H,V,VK!5.1fJlr HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, .JUNE 3, 1912 pubush^^eveb^ aktbrnoon FIVE CENTS COPY RAF Bombers Return To Essen $8,300,000,000 'Navy Building Bill Is Prepared Is Largest Chairman Vinson to Introduce Today Measure Calling for Navai Construction to Nearly Double United States Fleet. \V i '.'ion, Juno — (AIM _\ 11 ■ 000,000 mcasim aiiiIn construction of ap pily b00 fighting ships —a . •.■antic program which willed ' ■ me close to doubling the *iZ( : 1 iie t'nitod States fleet— was lire:'!ed today by Chairmatt \'insni . Democrat. Georgia, of the Hi >c naval committee. \'in-' n said he would intro liice ■ hill, calling for the urges! naval construction pro- I grant ■ 1 er authorized at one | lime. • ilay and said that “the j hvu-'in an Navy probably would! lie -lied in the next 21 moot l;s." I ll bill would call for 500.000 tuns cl aircraft carriers. 500. Ollll Inns of cruisers of both the lielit and heavy types. 900.000 Inns of destroyers and destroyer escort vessels, and 800 small vessels for patrol work, mine lay in t; and lending duty. The new ships would be in add 11 inn to those already au Ihnn/ed for eonstruction. In its Iasi official disclosure of strength in October of last year, the Navy reported .716 fighting ships in service and 347 build ing Ie ■ ■ i. *: m. the naval committee ’■ v terclay approved a $1,100. ■ i ii'iire authorizing con stiuct it 500,000 tons of auxiliary • • i 1 ring with the Navy. ()n Congress recently pa-sed eel ■ President signed a bill to I : ■ construction of "more long range submarines, ions by its absence in the -tnietion program was any >9 • to battleships. The House H i itains committee sent to the ipplemental Navy. Marino 11 it Coast Guard supply bill 1 $6(54.999.740 in direct ap • ' " and $1,047,500,900 in 1 ' ' ' authorizations, ol w lech mz, ''hiii was earmarked bn nis— '■ instruction. BRITAIN TO RATION FUEL, CONTROL MINES ! In no 3.— (API—The government has derided to a* smu< lull control of the nation's ro:il mines and to inaugurate hi« I rationing, it was annoiinc rtl IwLtv, Labor Riots Call Windsor To Bahamas "i, Bahamas, Juno J < A B ■ kin' rluke ni' Windsor today faced problems growing out nl riot 1 c" .t two lives and oxtonsi\t ' damage in Ibis island co|o.i\ "U eh he is royal gi-.verniir. A - duke was summoned iro; "" ! iigtnn after bloodshed and In '' ,!aii: if fashionable stores odlow 1 demonstration by unskilled la hnn'r' on an American projee against their four shillings (abou r,,,ds) a day wages. Returning quickly, lie found busi ni m the colony at a stand till ‘' 11 “i the rioters were killed am "lllf,i wounded bv gunfire, and somi ‘•'s11,' 11it. were reported among p1 "e and British garrison troops call pfl 'Ul to restore order. ‘a the outskirts, a police station, ambulance anti, fire engine were ‘""lied. An H p m. to fi a. m. cm few was established. Before the riot, the governmen ' ■'d mlornied protesting labor lead that the wage for unskillet ''mikcrs was fixed by agreement ol lp British and United States ant r'"dd not he changed i mined i a tel v «')• negotiations still wore in • h»n thp HemcnrUa1!'’’ t\ British Take Offensive In Africa German War Foundry City Battered for Sec ond Time in 24 Hours; Rommel’s Thrust in North Africa Called Failure. (By The Associated Press) Britain’s desert armies lash 'd out on the offensive with a 50-mile thrust ayainst the axis in north Africa today while RAF bombers, perhaps 400 -trony, battered the yreat Ger man war loundry city of Essen for the second time in 24 hours. London military quarters ack nowledged that axis troops had mopped up British forces in a nine-mile sector of the 50-mile British defense line in Libya, but declared the axis supply line was seriously endangered by a thrust to Rotunda SeynaJi. Rotunda Signal). .. majoi axis base, lies 30 miles west ol' the advanced axis positions. Front line dispatches said the Germans had now established a new alignment alter withdrawing west ward from a violent tank battle at Knightsbi i^.c. 25 miles .southwest of Tobruk. Fires and smoke still shrouded Fssen after Monday night’s 1, 036-plane assault on the nazi arsenal, home of the big Krupp armaments works, hut live Brit ish declared the results of lasts night's attack "are believed to be satisfactory." Fourteen RAF bombers were ac knowledged nu. sing, making a total of 93 lost since the British city-by city knockout campaign against the reich started last Saturday in a t, 250 plane raid oil Cologne. While the British tlm.- emphasiz ed Prime Minister Winston Church ill’s pledge hi destroy Germany's war nerve centers. American aviation ex perts predicted that the growing might ot Pa itish-American air forces could reduce the nazis to virtual military impotence without opening a second land front in Europe. On the north African front, British headquarters reported that General Sir Claude Aun chinlecK s armies, suddenly tak ing the offensive, haul driven through a swirling sandstorm to capture an axis point 30 miles west of the main British posi tions, A Ih-it :sh com-i: Clique said a con irlt ■ able part m the lighting yes terday had -u.fted we. t of Kmghts bridge, mdicalm.g that Field Mai - dial Ei-\vin Rommel’ Airman corps ,va.- -lowly huns driven back, and that It'!: II el'- cl ft mo ol a lightning drive toward Egypt and the Suez canal had been shattered. S. mr. dispatches said. Rommel's ipaign 1..!- been .. costly failure, with hall ol his armored force's al ready knocked out of action. German raiders touched off (Continued on Page Five) ANNENGERG LEAVES LEWISBURG PRISON 1.*'v s-er Pa.. June 3. —(AIM—M. !. Annenborg, Philadelphia puo lishei . v. a., released from the nortn ea-lcm lederal penitentiary on pa role today beeau.-o ol hi- health aftei ■giving 23 month- of a three-year sentence in the largest individual income t / . ease on record 91 Escape Two Sinkings Miami, June 3. (AIM—All 83 crewmen and eight passengers, in cluding three women and a four yeai old boy, escaped deatli when torpedoes sank a United States mer chant vessel and a British merchant ship m the Caribbean sea early last nonlh. Tim U S. ship, carrying the eight passenger- and a crew of 38, went dow n off a large West Indian island. May (i. The British vessel. w%h a ! i f 45, was sunk in another y-rt a -he f, ■■-ibbesn May 9. The -a y -r. - . a.'. a ,r.e t, - day. Soviet Heroine T. Ralavenskaya of the Tuchkovo guerilla detachment is decorated with the Order of the Red Star for exemplary execution of orders in fighting the flerman invaders. Site operated in the Ruza I'Rtrict, which is in the region of M .-cow. (Central Pres*) Allotments Bill Urged House Committee Says Men With Fam ilies May Be Called Into Armed Services. Washington, June 3, l AIM As sorting that "the time lias now conic when many men with dependents must of necessity assume the respon sibility ot defending their country." the House military committee press ed for passage today of legislation making financial allowances for fam ilies ol lighting men. Chairman May. Democrat. Ken tucky. -»J lie Iniped to w in i lo . - approval bv nigiiltall of a bbl under which / r\ ice men with dependents woulu’ allot part ot their pay to de pendents and the government make supplement, rv payments. Ill urging pas'age ot the measure, the committee eiiiphasi/.ed it did not intend to give local draft boards the impression that established fan He should he •'indiscriminately uproot ed and tot n f uiii their e.ooring sole ly lice.m -e 1.1 the fact til P their i ill anriaI needs have been taken care of." Privately. 01 e im m t1ce i cm hers said that while Inc War depi.it hi nt did not eoi; 1 ee plate the dialt ing ol lamdv head: unit olule 1V Here- -ary. I lit1 ■■ d‘ 1 ■ I"pwent - may make me! acti in m edalorv In dial o-. eiil. thi v pointed out. the legislation end c mi' idei.dion would lc ii i.nanei.d Into hip-. British Ship Sunk By Sub Noi Ini;,. Va.. .lunr < A!1 A British hum 'chant hip was -u n., soy ,ial hundred miles easl ol Burmuda Mav .'ill 11v a submarine winch rip ped her opei with Uvo , torpedoes aid then surfaced In lire toil! shells as the crew lowered hleboals. kill ing “six ot their number Details of the daylight attack were ;,,|d here bv la survivor.- who spent -even d.ivs an the oe< an m a lit* - mat before tlwy were, picked up by •mother cargi> ve set I he me. .•■ an nounced the unkiim ol the medium sized vessel today crewman told newsmen the ship was armed and earned a gun ci ew ,| sailors and soldiers, i lie ship h-t ,fi so hadlv. howe\ el . that the gun ■row was unable to train it- deck pm on tile undersea raider, he le afed. Charle ton. S. C , dune d i AIM Eighteen survivors ol a medium siz -d British mei vliaiitm.m rescued U'om a lifeboat twelve hour- alter an axis suomarinc torpedoed and sink tlioir vessel off the Allantic oast Mav 20 were landed hero. VFAII1II POI! NORTH CAROLINA. I inir rhancr in trmppraturr tonight, with scattrrrd thnndrr Iwven ill ni'Min* > in ■ toir *!;_ „„ , .>1 i 4nm vli* Chinese In Chekiang Yangki Recapture cl, Cutting Chunk Fr6m Flank of Japanese Lines; Other Develop ments in Far Pacific War Theatre. Chungking, June — (AIM — \ heavy battle mr posse .ion 01 ( htilisien, big rail renter and next main Japanese objective in Chekiang province, was reported underway tonight by the Chi nese high command. (By riu? Associated Press) Chinese dispatches reported today that Generalissimo ('hiaug Kai-Shek's armies had 'cut a triangular ehunk from tile flank of the .Japanese lines in Che kiang' province with the recap ture of Yanjjki. 15 miles north west of Kinhwa. and said heavy rains were Inn;'tying' the -Japan ese invasion of China's east coast. Serious difficulties still con fronted the ( hinese in lower Chekiang, however, as Japanese columns hailed the defenders on ly twelve miles northeast ol the important cit\ of t'lmsien. 15 miles southwest of Kinhwa. the Japanese - occupied provincial capital. While C'hiang's aimies .--1 niggled to -tern the offensive. P.riti.-h Foreign Secretary Anlhuin Fden told parlia ment m London tl.nl Britain and the United States were ending China all lease-lend war materials "which it is possible to supply" amid "other urgent requirements and the clitficul- ■ ties ot transport." The United Stales yesterday sign ed an agreement bringing China into the lease-lend block ol allies on vir tually the same Fa -1 as Lit ilam. ()tl:er development -: Madagascar- France'- Vichy gov ernment announced that British troops- had stalled moving south i n the 1.000-mile French island n; Madagascar, oil the coast ot south east Africa, and had. 'ceupied the town ot Andro.ornno X,, lighting was mentioned in the announcement, out air aetwitv w. - said to ltave inci ea < d on noth sides Australia Ccuera! Doti.da.- Mae \i tliur' - h( Ifiqu.'.rti r- n pos ted Into din it IioiiIkts had inlh' ted c.eavy new blows on Jap.anc e barracks am; nthoi I u get - cm my-hcld "m \ as ion" ba ■ <- - 11- 11 i oi \ u-1 ra o 1. A (sin munictue said l nited Na tion alrnicn .-et 1.ua *' 111'<1 .it L ilga , d, i p m the Si ii a on island- oil A'l-trali;:' nnrthea >• ast. and also attacked Kabattl. n i\> v Britain, and Atiiiithoeii. '1 iim s' i -hii M. |;.i, oia American Fl\ mg Tiger voluntocrs were "i; ie.a!,y ''' edited vilh destroying to -lupt.ne.-c planes and making twelve majoi attacks with a Ms ol only ix planes during May. Nazi Prisoners After Capture in Libyan Battle 9> C. I*, t nhlcphntn A Tiritish o(Ti r .inrsiions a group of (.ernian prisoners after their rapture in the furious tank battle in th» Libyan deset' Among the prisoners was (ion. Ludwig ( ruewell, chief of the Afrika Korps. second in cnm naud to Field Mai -bat Kdwin Itomniel. This photo, first to come from the new battle in Africa, was radioed from Cairo to London and then cabled from London to Mew Volk. House Committee Eli minates Fund for CCC in Approving Appro priation Bill. Washington. .June 3.— (AIM — The House appropriations com mittee approved today a $1,058, i51,060 bill for the Labor de partment. the social security hoard and related agencies after eliminating a $75,818,000 fund for the Civilian t'onservation < orps. Chairman Camp'ii. Domoiv.-t. Ali Miltri. nl the committee .-aid the members voted 15 to 12 to end the CCC program on a motion by Rcprc - msulive Engel. Republican. Michi gan. Kepre-t illative I laetf. 7 )"iii'C a l. South Carolina, cha email of the .- ai eommittee. win el: prepared 'in oil. -aid the committer members "'ip pa rent ly iu in \ d '..at. the l t ( v. ■ hi longer necessary The 875,81 o,000 which ha- been m the bill lor ;ho CCC b ell v. as a trpdnwn of $171,112,000 mo the Hi 12 allotment. There were 1.2oii .■amp.- at the b.gmiung o| tin pro. - ,nt t i - cal year and the reduc'd np propr.al.on was to hat e trim: • d this number to 350. Eliminat am ol funds lor lhe ( ( 1 . drastic curltiilment of the X.or-nii Youth Administration all"’o'i n! and other economic,- were oij.-ct in p.u by men as;- in nm-mts 1: I'd ■ '' • ■ ential to the war ■ ifort. I im id .. mg over last y. ... i ig: wed 8202,587,830. Governor And Gill On Spot As Result Of Appointment t daily OOp.mli Bureau. In ttii- Sir 'V illrr Hold. Ily IJOH THOMPSON Raleigh, June 3. Wh- n Governoi Broughton yesterday •old Edwin Gil that he would make him nimmis niimer --I revenue to suiveed A •! Maxwell, he put both Gill and him el 1 on the spot. Gill, who will move from tlu- Pa role to the RJf venue depuiltmenl within 30 days, is taking over om ot the toughest jobs in Raleigh that of cleaning up a mess which has ■ resulted from years ot petty politica appointments, inef! iciency, sccre settlem nt of shortages, and the prae tire of allowing th.e commissioner U run tor governor every eight years | retaining his office all the while. The governor, in tippointing : 1 member of his official family wh( has had no tax experience, insteac of sonic outsider not hitherto tot prominent in politics, has laid him ell open to no end of criticism. It is now up to Gill to do the jot of his life. Otherwise the Broughtoi administration will mi IK creates Pl-wij tt'ni'v f 1 i >->-> 3 i r^n t:'UC ■ - --. f ;-h -r ----- . tu to the governor and to Gill it should i he said that the ; eople who know Edwin Gill best 1 • ..eve, that lie can and will riel i \ el ' ■1 got sis and i:, a the exp. eted c ' -m . n 1 ini'• will give way to e. .nidation. Also On Hathaway C: who wa t. I .•> 'lie governor tna' e would sneee si Gill as parole <• mis.sinner, al on a spot — like any young assistant who steps into the hoes of Ins more mature boss. He ! .* the advantage >! knowing the. w thoroughly an ! he is a< personally popular as anv : young executive in the State govern ment. The fact th..■ t Gill, who is on the somber side, reeommended Cpo to sueeeed him is m indication that behind Cross' youthful lace and lour laugh is sound jtirigmcnl and ahso i lute integrity. Career Edwin Gill i- i strange sort *e person. He is >o huge that, to hi great disgust, many of his friend; call him "Blue Boy" after Will Rog ers' moving picture hog. He i baeheloi mri in my respect-, an o1c ; -‘ . p.-.ge F: Aerial Raids On Germany To Be Bigger London, .June it. (AP) - A - • HAF cun mentalor deelared In ti;.;.' ilia; an raids nn Germany ;iI net ! inner" and asserteu ’h..t i n I ..; itn.nnn planes i:u; Ge. many each :mmth ‘.vac "not ;; laliia.-tic linurc." He :... 1 1 !; c 1 j:,ci !' u> n| the t. i i :: c : i l'. .i",nne anti '. he I !; . had he n ":I >>lantially se We '''ll ; epcat the duso and ' I a da c .... i,‘i net i inner.' he ad . ehtatni det I a red aid escorted ! i-a i a; Monday between the i i.v ].]:;■ , n Colo.nnc S t- r iav II ..in nri 'lie 1 ,0JH5- ; a d a Ivm'ii M.>nda,v • itri:i ii have die I I -and n.'iltn or . . '.aiicn available, v a1.;,am I nlie nr the 11 tui'c >n i : ill'.' ha rail lint;. Badogiio Complains Of Nazi Rule d , • . .hum « A?' ' A Tass , • A t•1. : r- mi (Jcre\ a i oported lo •; . i a it tier «*.>i:> 1 a ning again-4 ■ ■undignified" -ilia »i\lination o! i e ‘alian general -tall to the oper and or writtei tu Mill 1 bv Italian !•': d| Mar hui i ad r> • Badogli 1 and : , widely cir< .Mted am. mg high Indian officers. Marshal Badogho wa.- erne! of the Italian genes d .-tali to> la years bc !t>re his resignation wa- announced Drc-'iaber 0, 1940, timing tin' Ital am-Grrek war. i 1 alt It' lias hern ho a 1 >f t lie w ar ,i i -net' hi- re-ignation but a re p. i t in Born. Switzerland. to the \. Y i k Time.- last April -aid B.'dogho w:s known in Komo as the ■ i•. 11 .mpoiumt" o' !Vernier Mu -ohm.) Id,--' report piloted Badoglio's lot — !rr as expiessing regret at the pros ed -'’nation of the Italian general -tall Badogiio wa- sa d to have pointed out that a- a result nt what he call ed Hie cooperation' between tne axis armed forces. Italian .-tali’ of ' err virtually were denied the po ibd.it \v ot planning UKlOPenden 11* ' Sc n iti.i'- • n - < ■ Mo'!' i 1 '.1 • House Votes War On Axis Satellites No Discussion as Re solutions are Passed ! Unanimously; Miss Rankin Not Present at Roll Call; Senate Ac tion Tomorrow. Washington. June i!.—(AP) — The House of Representatives voted today, without a voice be ing raised in opposition, to add Bulgaria. Hungary and Rumania to the list of countries with which the United States is at war. The resolutions dccli>«i£ war w ill he acted on tomorrow by the Senate, which was in recess to day. There was no debate or discus sion as the resolutions ivere rapidly disposed of in as routine a manner as ii they had been minor bills. In sharp contrast to the somber atmosphere that recalled when three previous declarations were voted — against Japan, Germany and Italy— the House was almost gay a> it went about the wurk of olfic.aily labeling the three axis satellites as Unck Sam's enemies. Speaker Rayburn announced the vote on the Bulgarian resolution as J.i7 to n M -s Jeannette Rnnkiin, Re pubhean. Montana, who cast the only vole against the declaration ;.gainst Japan last December and wo.- hue: '.oied ’’present" on de clarations ago n-t Germany ;!p.d Italy, w. s no’ on th.e floor when the first roll v.;.- i. oied today. U. S. SHIPS REACH RUSSIA IN CONVOY London. ■Lino 3. lAl’i- United State- ships were included in the large convoy which fought its wav to Murmansk last week through five days and nights of heavy attack by German U-boats, dive bombers and torpedo planes, ollicial circle- re ported today. Russian and British ships dsn were in the eolivoy. which hi re tanks and aiivrafl to Sovict armies. Steel Program To Be Reduced Washington. June 3 iAP) The previously planned 10.001),000-ton steel expansion program will be cut in 35 per cent, two top war produc tion oftieials announced today, be cause ot material shortages. America's industry in general must prepare to "patch and pray" to keep ts existing equipment at work, said William L. Bait, in a p: ess confer ence at which he gave a trank and unencniiragihg review of the coun try's looming shortages of steel, cop i per and other war materials. Balt is chairman of the WPB re quirements division. He was mined :1 ij'.r bv A. I. HvcflPl - 'V. nc-" '-v nar.isd v A * r . c \.. . n.
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