North Carolina Newspapers

ft Hettftersow Hatlij Ifepafrlr St MRTIETH YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 19, 1943 I'UliljlSII Kl > KVKIiY AKTKUNOUN fc'IX/P f'L'KTTCJ pnnv Sledge Hammer Blows Hii Axis ★★ ★ * * ★ ★★ * + + 1 CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE F.C.C. mi • — r<y.ng fortress Guards United Nations Convoy • " .. . , , ' .. ' — I— saHSSKBSHBH rnis American-built Flying Fortress, serving with the Coastal Command of the Rnval British Air rorce, hovers its protective wing over a United Nations convoy bound for North Africa with the sinews of war. fC.Pwtvnl Pi-rcc) Draft Check I 11 Is Demanded British Deputy Says 1943 to Bring New Successes; Russian Offensive Praised I.iitulon. .Ian. I!>.—(Al'>—• "!«• mrnt K. Alt lee. deputy prime minister, told the openiiiK ses sion of parliament today that Great Britain eoultl "look for ward to in 13 with justifiable eontidenee." and that the suc eesses scored Ity the allied na tions last year were ti> he view ed with "sober satisfaetion." In u hnet statement <>l the war situation (irndnm sin .uiticipated roiliplflc review by Prime Ministei Churchill within the next lew days. At I lee landed 'he "vvnlidei Tim nehie\ emeiits" ot the Ruwsiati army 11rI .ikI "it looks as il none «>f the Ureal l"iee (before Stalingrad" will rscape li oin the trap.' I )( -iTii>inn the allied objective in iinth Alma a- total destruction oi •nemy (mws tie told commons that ■ail weidlier in Tmn-ia had restrict •d nio\ emeiit ot lorecs md had "sei louslv affeeled the pro !• ion ot airl iclds. "We have every iniitidence in general Kisenhowcr and General \ndtrsnn and the men of the allied orces." tie siiid. Captain Oliver l.ylteltoii, produc ion minister. >aid that 1JM.I would ,e tlu* peak veai ot British wai pi o hietion and ihat I he total labor force ■mploycd in mtinilions would coii ideraidy exceed the IIM^ fif}Uie. THREE PERSONS DIE IN BLAZE IN HOME Moiehead Citv. .Ian 10. (AIM — Urs. Hemnald Willis, her 15 month. ■ Id -on. Reginald. and an infant weic tilled and two other persons seri al ly injured in the explosion « a leroscne cook slove and file thai iracticallv deslro.ved tin- home. The injured are Willis, a retired roast Guardsman, and his brother, •*loyd Willi*. Japanese Pay For Hit Somewhere in New Guinea. Jan. 17 (AP)—(I ) — LiiHiU'liiiin 3ion l.ewis ot Ogden. Utah. pilot he only B-17 bomber I" be bit bv mti-aircraft fire in a Ktrong raid on tabaul New Itrilain. declared that •we made the Japs pay for it. The lietdenaiil sai<l Ins Iwnibat diet .Untenant Charles Collier of .lack son. Ky.. "dropped a 1.(100-pound joint) riiiht on a .lap ship. (The raid apparently was in con lecti-.n with the action announced lanuarv 111 I nun allied tieiid(|liart-rs ii Australia, which said U. S ,eis >ank or badly damaRcd five Ja liinese merchant ships at Kabaul Sat irday night. All bomlicrs returned lalelv.) .. r »». Staff Sergeant Karl Sassei of M.. )livc. N. C.. said he shot downi c /.cio plane. This occur red during the ltteinpted bombing of a Jap cruisci .ft G.ismata when four /.eios in ercepted and made len passes at the Liberator bomber for which tie was i Runner. Bomb* chopped near tnc | rruiser, he aaid. JOHNSTON SUPPORTS PROHIBITION MOVE Columbia. S. C., .Ian. 19.—(Al*)— Olin IJ. Johnston, returning today to tlie governorship of South Carolina after four years a.; a private t'ili/.cn, j advocated statewide prohibition in his inaugural address. "I would he delighted," lie said, ""if the legislature would pass a law prohibiting the sale of alcoholic bev erages." In !9H4. when Johnston was gov ernor. he signed the act establishing I a liquor store system in the slate hut ' at the time he said in a statement ' I it was "a hitter pill" for linn to j I Aval low State Keeps Gas Chamber Senate Committee Rejects Proposal To Return Chair To State Prison Raleigh, Jan. I!)—(AIM—Sen- ji ate judiciary committer No. I voted seven-tn-one today against a bill by Senator Cliaffiii' of Harnett to abolish the Stale's j1 lethal gas chamber and return to j the electric chair, which was abolished in 1035. Appearing against the measure i were Penal Director Oscar Pills,' Warden Ralph Mel.ean ul Central Prison, former Warden lluuh Wilson, former Warden II. II lloneyrull. I >r. W. (!. Clieves. prison physician. K\ eculiotier A. It. Ilridgers and Chief Counsel Charles Ross of the State Highway and Public Works Coin mission. ] Mridgcrs, who has been willi the prison department since 1917 ami executed 119 persons, described con ditions of Jiodics after execution and said lhal in his opinion the gash chamliei wa> inori' humane. Dr. I Clieves said lie believed no pain was' (Continued on Page Three) Curtailment Asked Until Army Needs Are Determined; Thomas Is Leader i Washington. Jan. I!l.— (API— Declaring he Iliad hoard thai plans arc under wa.v to increase tin* armed fnrees to a total of l'!.nilll,Ollll men. Senator Thomas. Oklahoma Democrat. tailed Tor a draft curtailment today until Cnnnrovs is (old just how large an army is needed to win the war. Thonia>. chairman of an apprup liilioii: aihconiinillcr handling War lepaii incut lulls, told reporters he avored delaying any further largo ni'ieascs in the >■/<• of Ihe army 'until we can lake an accounting •I llie needs." "I think we ought t«> have every •ilot and ever meehanic we can got," ic ileclared, "but I doubt lliat wc teed to have inanv more men ill the nlanlry, for instance, than we have low." Tlioinn.; said he would raise this (in linn at a meeting ot Doinorratie iiciuImts ol the appropriations enm iiilii c which Actum ( liaiiman Mc scllcr of Tciinc ce plans l>> call soon 0 rliseuss policy questions. T h e Oklahoiuiin <|uestioned vhether tin' armed lorce- could he ■mil up to l2.iMiu,unu without raiis in; a .serious dislocation in all phases •I war production, including the i yowinis o| food. President ItoosoveH told Congress! >11 January V that Ihe armed forces ] ■ad mown from '.'.nnn.niin to 7.000, •nii hi one year, adding that despite lie withdrawal ol a.onn.nnn from the oofl and facility Iron! . Ihe great 's! (|tianlily of I nod in the country's listory had hcen produced. GEORGIA SPEEDS SCHOOL MEASURE Atlanta. Jan. 1*1.—(AP)—In ex- j ictl.v twelve minute-:. Ihe Cleorgia louse of representatives today ap iroved a lull detuned to restore Ihe tale univer.-ity sv-lem to accredited itaudiiiK in the Southern Assocla ion ol Colleges. The vole for passage or Ihe legis ation was l.4ati to n. Then l»y un inlinoii.i consent. it was hnmcdiale y Iran, nutted to the senate where 1 1 can In- given a In t reading today ind brought up lor approval lomor- 1 Confused State OPA Set-Up j May Be Further Confounded I Ilaily Dispatch Bureau In the Sir Walter Hotel. By LYNN NISBKT Raleigh, .fan. I !•. North Caro linians who hlivc thought thiit flic office «r price administration as it. is now set up in this state is con fusing may have surprises in store. Reports, apparently authentic, are that considerable revision is being planned, with the Charlotte office operating as an indepdenl district entirely separate from the state of fice :if Raleigh Both wnnlrl be rtls trict offices ol comparable rank, re portion directly to (hi* regional of fice in Atlanta. I'tider Unit arrange 11K*t11 there would no longer be ;i stale administrator or a state attor ney. tint jilt would take status as district officials. Wjtliout a better understanding anions administrators than now ex ists. and with no more uniformity of practice, the confusion can weil be milch worse than il is now. Take cases like the Willkie instance. State Administrator T. S. Johnson, who (Continued on Pag« Three.) House Group Passes Bill For Inquiry 'One of the Hottest* Investigations Ever Predicted by Fish; Other Capitol News Washington, Jan. 1!)—(AP] —With one eye cocked on thi White House for Prcsiden Roosevelt's expected interven tinn in the Pennsylvania an thracite strike, Congress mov ed today toward a full-dress in vestination of the federal com nuinieations commission ant possibly of the entire radii industry, iSlated for House action \va; a resolution, unanimously ap proved by the rules committee to inquire into the FCC, it policies, personnel and activi ties. Representative F i s h. New York Republican, ranking mi nority member or tlie rules com mittee, predicted it would be "one of I lie hottest" investigations on record. The author of the reso lution. Representative ('ox of Georgia. expressed confidence that it would be approved over whelmingly On the labor front, both the Dem orratic and Republican leaders o the Senate indicated they woult block immediate consideration of ; 18-liour standard work week vvliet Senator Reed. Kan-as Republican author of the proposal, attempts t> rail it up witlun the next two weeks A special committee meets toda; In map procedure for the hearing which start tomorrow on Prcsiden Roosevelt's nomination of Kdward .1 Flynn to be minister to Australia Senator Pepper. Democrat, Florida isked his colleagues to withholr lodgment until the evidence is it hi charges by Senator Bridges, New Hampshire Republican, that Flytit is unfit. A Democratic caucus in tin Hou-.e fared the prospect of a livelj iglit over assignment ol liepresen ative Marcantiinio. Ameilean l«abor Slew York, In a Democratic seat or lie judiciary committee, which ban lies war powet legislation. Marean onio, whose assignment is subjec o approval b.v the caucus, lifts beet "■ritici/.ed by some Democrats foi ■pposing rearmament legislatioi trior to Germany's attack on Russia Potato Price Conspiracy Is Denied Wilson, Jan. 19.—(AP)—En nip If. lammersley. president of Phillips & of Norfolk, Va., told i jury in ho potato anti-trust trial hoit that lis companv h.i'l not encacod in any conspiracy to depress the price of intatoes and cause a monopoly in the rade as far as he know. Testifying at tho trial of |.'{ oor Mirations and It! individuals, Hain nerslcy prodnrod, at tho govorn nont's request. a numbor of oon ract.s between Phillips agents and 'astern North Carolina growers. Most of tho contracts specified that ho company would supply tho grnw •r a (piantity of seed potatoes, frr ili/.or and other items and thai the armor would turn over his crop 40 ho company for sale. Under most of the contracts, the •onipany got one-fourth of the pro its and tho Blower the other thrce mirths In event ol a loss on tho crop he farmer would owe nothing. The Phillips company, the witness said, sold to tho Atlantic Commis sion Co. at t oil prices slightly low •r than othoi companies paid, but 10 addod that any other company •ouId have bought at the same prices. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Severe cold wave tonight, temperatiirr near zero in the mountains and considerably be low free/inn to the ooa«t. Strong winds. WEATHER FOR NOKTII CAROLINA Severe cold wave tonight, temperaliirr near zero in the mountains and considerably be low freezing to Ihe eoa«t. Slron* winds. U. S. Ski Trooper in Action sm'%#: ... This is a striking closeup of a U. S. ski trooper of n mountain artillery fcroup from Fort H;tle, Colo., takintr aim from n -n.«v trench atop the Colorado Rockies during winter maneuvers. He is .uMiinj; white coveralls that niake him almost invisible against tii" • hack ground. (i t iiiinl I'resn) FDR Orders Miners ; To Go Back To Work ! Enka Workers Go On Strike I Ashcville, Jsiii. 10.— fAP)—A 1 strike was under way today al p the American Enka Corpora* I lion's plant here. Company officials said that about 201) employees in the spool spinning department walked out yesterday shortly after repnrt ' inn for work at 7 a. in. and that the .'I p. in. shift did not report. Officials ot the company were i : reluctant to discus;, the walkout. Subs Sink Five Ships One Enemy Destroyer, Four Other Vessels Sent to Bottom; Two Vessels Damaged Washington, .fan. 10.— ( Tlie Navy announced today lli.it American submarines hail sunk ' an enemy destroyer and four ' other ships—two c.irco vessels, one transport, and a patrol ves sel—in the Parifie. Navy romniuni(|ue No. 225 said; "United States submarines have reported the following result:! of op erations against the encinv i" ' - waters of ti. r.uiin riestroyci sunk. Ane large I'lil!" -lii|> -mil;, "lie medium M/»'d transport onk. one medium sized cargo ship .anil;, ••n small patrol ve*..el link, one I nge tanker damag'-d. and «>m- mall cargo ship damaged." A naval i-poke.-uian declined !•> (Continued on Page Two) Government Will Take Necessary Steps if Strikers Fail to Comply With Order Washington. Jan. —(AP) — 1'ic-idcni ISmiM'vi ii. .«•. tKiiniiaii ilfr in chief itl tlir armed forces. ■ day ilirrrtcil all striking coal liiincis to go hark to work at once. lie said that if tlie.v failed to coni|:l\ willi his directive in IX hours, the government would take I he necessary steps to pro tect the security of the nation :ii:aiiisl a strike which conies at a time of a shortage of fuel in war time. Tlii' Chief Executive issued his curler in telcf*! ams I * • officials of tlir (.'titled Mine Worker.*, of Amer ica. national and local. Some 5,11011 strikuiK miners ret urn oil t<. Ilieir jobs in Pennsylvania's nunc field I day ill the l.MlIo-1 back to wort. inn emcnt since M»e wildcat walkout began tliree weeks aHo. Wilkes-llarre. I*a.. .fan. IJI.— ' \ l'l—With presidential inter vriition believed imminent, near l» :..OIIO striking miners return ed to their jolis iu I'ennsyl vania's anthracite field today iu the largest hack to work move ment since llic wildcat walkout began three weeks ago. However. :il• ii' Ci.X.tl insurgents lilt 11*i11.111ii"iI iille iiii'lndiiiK I. IU" ■iii|ilo\cc hi III. tllen Al'lell Coal i ' I• ■ >111I I \- lucli tailed to reopen !• i'il' .1 .lie hi the I'MW local then ye. tcrday to leiaime oper.'l 'I he laic .I break in the ranks of Ii. 'ril.ei !mil' when 2.700 wortc i, t..oi, 11 j • *!i if joiis a nam ,.e Creel Mih' Clo|ie and wia.-sy land collieiie '•! the lluilaiti Coal in Mi'' Si i .niiiin area. • i|.i'i at inn il • v. ci e resumed al the lla/li'lon li.itt colliery ol Hip .«-IIiI4>i Valley I Ml Co.. employing ■ Ii..ill I ion. altd the Kill on Aii 1111. n-1 > i ■ • 111 • ■ i v with about iiiii wi'il.fi. tt'.ili touted Ibe ■ II.' •< 11 ■ 1111 v vi' lord.iv and were I lie •lily olio iiile iu ib t| ict 7. Objections Now Are Raised To Teacher Bonus Proposal T> tilv Pisp.iteli Bureau. In Ihr Mr Waller llolel. B.v I.VN'N NISBKT Haleiuh. .Ian KV Voting mem bers of the l<x> lature arc not hav ing much l<» say about it. certainly nol f<»r quotation. luil there is de veloping considerable opposition along 'he idcline.- '•> the method of Iigunng :-al.ny I ion us for echoed teachei... One chain;* "i pro.-pcct. !in stated jn this eorrespondcnce last week, will he to figure the hotins on a yearly rather than a monthly basis. Some tejichei> leai lliat the monthly allocation nnal't ml ihem down to eight or nine checks instead of tn» twelve. There are more serious objections to other phases of the supplemental appropriation bill Many school folk air seeking increased base pay schedules rather than temporary Omni • I IH V t'• .» 1 lie ic-'ijt (••I Hv upf'minu luetitmim would imtli.ilily lie 111« • tine; .1 few .rliool people who h.*i\ < 1 ii<I it'll I In* . illlii iioii wen Ihink Iriiclm might i .i liHle mini iin the next l\vn yturs i • mi "I Hie l>uil;:i i commission pro p<tli.m they would j,el "II | li.iil'.hl •;il.n.v imiiM.r. They roll tend, however. tii.it the crem need III the Ic.ichiiiU proU-ssion is for nunc ii.. lit iiuc ii| Ictiitrc .Hid ill [kt III.IIK'Ilt income. In thiil coi.ncclioii they point |<» t Ik* provision 111: • I no deduction shrill In- niiidc 11 ••in the Iioiiii.. for the Suite retcement haul Tlml nieiins teach er. currently will h;i\c a few dollars nunc each iinnilh; I»i11 tlml they will j he layinu up less auamst retirement i iim Since the Slide mnlehcs the | employee's doiliir for that fund, it I is >iiid Hi.it most teiiehers would like j iCunlitilKl tin Piige two) Eighth Army In Contact WithRommel N*zi Afrika Corps In Full Retreat; Russians Lift biege Of Leningrad (f!ii Tic Asscchilnl Press) Allied sltiiyc* hammer blows slmol< tli. axis nn three fronts m world .var II tuda.v. 1. In l.iliya. tin* Kritish eighth army wa1. reported "in contact with Field .Marshal Kuramd's ballrrril .Afrika Korps near Tar liuiia. imly 10 mill's I ruin the l>iR axis h.tse at Tripoli. after a light ning allvallee inland across the desert. Oiic« it appeared, lt"ii>mel w.' in liojdiotti* retreat with Gen eral Sn B l.i. Montgomery's army in ii<>l pur-nit. 2. In Russia, the tied armies i>f the north lifted the epie 1? inonths-oltl siege of l.euingrad after recaptuiing the ancient na/.i-held lortress of Schlucssel hurg. killing I It.0(H) Germans, routine lour divisions aiul de molishing 470 enemy strong points. At the same time-. Kussiu's south ern armies Minted forward within M8 miles of Kharkov, the "Ukraine Pittsburgh," killed JJ.'itiO niore Ger mans in M hours in Ihe buttle to annihilate all.Otll) survivors of the nazi siece frmies lielore Stalingrad, and harply increased the threat to the ureal German hase at Rostov. 3. In Mew Guinea, allied field headquarters announced that Vmeriean and Australian troops had captured two vital Japanese strongholds — Sanananda Point and Sanananda village—hi the closing phases of a drive to ex terminate the remnants of a 15, 000-man Japanese army. Allied <nivnr<» «»r n.« -«-■ » of the enemy held Papuan rorridor loll the remaining enemy forces in three tightly enveloped pockets half a mile to two mites inland. On the I.ihyan front. British head quarters announced that General Montgomery'- forces were now at tacking the axis "toward Tarhuna," 40 mile.- from Tripoli, after routine the eiv.rny !.;ipi B.•'lifl '.'Vnd in llicting losses in a tank battle. Even before news of thi- spectac dar British advance became known, lispatches from allied headquarters hi north Afiica suggested that Rom nc|, with an army of possibly 110. •00 men. might abandon Tripoli and Tall hack to fortified positions i r* 1'unisin. Soviet report - aid the Red armies, tattling in terrible cold and some time m waist-deep snow, were now lainmeting the na<\ invasion armies nto retreat alone a 1.200-mile front rrom I.i-iiiiu'rad to the Caucasus. Heavy battles were reported rag HB m -even major sector.—Lenin '.iad. Velikie l.nkt. Voronezh. Stal ngrad. norlii of Rostov. east of Ros ov. ami in the Caucasus. Soviet headquarters *aid the Red ..•rn-o- tti'Cklui! below Voronezh .• 11iced within 10R miles of the great Kharkov steel renter and leelarcd that a\is prisoners on this "ront alone now total 31.0(10. Navy Lists 22 Tar Heels As Casualties Washington. .Ian. 10.—(AD— Tlic Navy department released today its casualty li.«t No. 20. which included tlie names of 22 North Carolinians—six dead, eleven wounded .and five miss in*. ^ The list cover- the period Decem ber 10-31. 1012. The Navy depart ment said the total number of rasual ies reported to next of kin for the >eriod was 1.21!). of which 4IR were lead, 403 wounded and 39U miss ng. IneHided in the dead were: William Cleston Daniel, signalman irsl class 1ISN. wife. Mrs. Elizabeth Daniel, 710 Second street, Kliza jetli Cily. Thomas Morton Croft, coxswain t'SN. sister. Miss Virgie Ellen Croft, Vot Una. Floyd T. Herndon. chief cook USMC. father. Wr.rd S. Herndon, Elm City. Alexander Parker Stanland, ap prentice seaman USNR. wife, Mrs. Evelyn Wall Stanland. 316 Raleigh street, Rocky Mount.