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The Dite On the Label' fc Is the Date Yout Paper Will Be STATESVILLE i as Bsft The English language ontaina ap proximately 700000 wordi well 300000 mre ternrt ecsSKdt ttauVk ib ix 'O' 1 1 Suecial Services To Begin Tonight At The Little Brick Church ig 7 The special revival service at the Little Brick church begins tonight with Evangelist Esther Cofield in charge assisted by Musician Evelyn Klefsaas There will be songs and in strumental music on piano and accor dion Service will be held each evening AMERICAN RAIDERS USED A RASE HIDDEN ON ISLAND 1 if EARS RANfl I Rin Guns BE JEIJVERED hlopliiccoiiiiiiiig i canaiaaces oiow In Coming Out or The County Offices Only a few candidates for county offices have filed so far with the Board of Elections all candidates having until Saturday April 18 at 6 to file notice of their candidacy Those who have filed are Walter Morrison for sheriff Lester Ervin for Register of Deeds Robert A Collier for House of Representatives Bunch for Clerk of Superior court Kennedy for member Board of Commissioners Thomp son member of Board of Educa tion ty Detroit April 15 The ord Motor Company it was learned today has developed an automo bile tire using only a fraction of the amount of rubber needed for conventional tires as a start to ward solving the tire shortage Miss Jean Rickert Named Marshal College Miss Jean Rickert member of the rising junior class at Col lege of the University of North Caro lina has been named one of three marshals from the Adelphian society Miss Rickert as marshal will servo through the exercises that mark the 50th anniversary celebration at the commencement this spring and will also be marshal through be TWO HIT AT CEBU S' Army headquarters in Aus tralia American army bombers smashed Japanese shipping planes Monday and Tuesday in a 4000 mile round trio raidfrom the longest range destructive air attack in the entire course of the Pacific war These blows by13 United States planes were announced tonight in communication giving remarkable evidence mat vr preme oomman cific was not arrival ort Aus came The com wbruse rnw The (By The Associated Trees) Army Headquarters in Aus tralia April 16 Brigadier General Ralph Boyce head of the volunteer legion of the squadron hich delivered the United first long distance lash in the Philippines disclosed to day the raiders used a base hidden on island protected by fighter planes and provisioned for future use Ten medium and fortress1 bombers were used as a forward base on their 4000 mile attack The fortress craft missing on the flight was grounded fyare when Jap bomb hit end xet ROOSEVELT DECIDES ORCED SAVING IS NOT NECESSARY BIRTH SON Bom at the Davis hospital this morning to Mr and Mrs Bry son a son Mrs Bryson before her marriage was Miss rxnce Scyce cf PSWESTCOMPANY AT WORK ON CAMP Progress On Camp But ner Draws avor able Comment Boy Sue Parent or Non Support Los Angeles April 13 A 18 year old high school boy charging he was forced to depend on the charity of friends and relatives for food' end 1 shelter has sued his parents seeking aavmmaI KUimm 4 mnw S7K dk month for his support and education 5 He is William Jay Lindburg of nearby Huntington Park who also asks that he be declared independent of the control of his parents Mr and Mrs Oliver Lindburg who are tranged The youth said he has lost confm ence in hh parents who have been cited in the suit to show cause why they should not support aim Charlotte Mon Just Watched Colonel Blow Jap Ships To Hell 111 4M Needed A Camera v1 'isp 1 Al ftft 1 ftft A AbRULbLAKtU 7 'TT TT 7 ONLYAOREIAST a a a MME 1 VL 7 111 Taft And Ball Pushing or Action! To Out law Strikes lr 7 (By The Associated Tress) Washington April 16 saving as a measure of raising new revenue and helping combat inflation was being dismissed by the adminis tration in the belief that voluntary purchase of war bonds will be ade quate for the great pro gram' V1 Well informed sources said Presi dent Roosevelt had decided with Sec retary of the Treasury Morgenthau rather than with Leon Henderson and other officials who advocated forced saving and set a pending seven bil lion dollar Li program to discourage 7 ovung ut'victdiy uj MvaLv 'Oumucr Welles today and Washington observ jfcrs f'xnresspH that Via wnnlrl Ha Paper and Let Xour Subscription Expire! 7 48 HOUR WEE? IS ALSO BEING URGED Washington April 16 A Republi can: drive to break the congressional log jam on labor legislation started today with a move obtain senate labor committee approval of a modi fied version of the Smith anti strike bill passed several months ago by the house 1 Pressed by Senator Taft of Ohio and Ball of Minnesota: Republicans the campaign coincided with prospec tive action by the house naval affairs committee on a measure by Repre sentative Vinson Democrat of Geor gia to establish a 48 hour week with higher pay in war freeze the status of open and closed shop limit unions and curb strikes Dr Egbert Smith Will Speak At Local Churches Rev' Dr' Egbert W' Smith who has been oreign Mission Secretary of the Presbyterian church in the United States for 29 years will be the speak er at a series of services to be held next week in Iredell and Rowan coun ties according toannouncement by Rev Mann pastor of the Third Creek Group of Presbyterian church es The schedule of these services is as follows At Bethesda Presbyterian church Sunday morning April 19 at 11:30 at ifth Creek Presby terian church Sunday afternoon at 4 at Elmwood Presbyterian church Sunday vening at Cool Spring high si bool Monday morning April ZO atlC at Sfth Creek PresbytenanTthurch Mon night at 8:30 Cleveland high school Tuesday morning April 21 at 8:30 at Cleveland Presbyter ian church Tuesday night at 8:30 at Amity school Wednesday afternoon April 22 at 1:15 at Third Creek Presbyterian church Wednesday night at 8:30 Dr Smith has spent years in the great mission fields discussing daily with the missionaries and the native Christians their work their prob lems their opportunities and every other phasd of the mission enter prise His addresses on the various countries he has visited are non sectarian and interesting to church people of all denominations Rev Dr Powell well known pastor of the irst Baptist church of Nashville Tenn describes Dr Smith as the most appealing missionary speaker on the American The West Construction Com pany that has the contract for part 8 of the construction of Camp Butner was given a highly favorable com ment in the Durham Sun last week The paper in a story of the work at the camp said: of the week goes to West Construction Company smallest of the contracting firms for its fine showing of the last seven days Section 8 now begins to take on the appearance of an army town in the The West Construction Company had 140 days allowance for the job at Camp Butner They are now in lheir third week of work and evidently are well up with things to date Camp Butner near Durham is a 60 square mile reservation and when completed will have some I'OOO build ings Some time between May 1 and 15 the construction work at the camp is expected to reach its peak August 1 is announced as date for completion but some observers think it may be done before that time The Durham paper states that con tractors report no shortage of labor at the camp most workmen still pre ferring six day to seven day week there is some difficulty in obtaining materials on account of transporta tion and also on account of limited supply SAN RANCISCO HAS IRST DAYLIGHT ALERT WAR San rancisco April San ran cisco and bay area had their first daylight alert of the war today a litening posts flashed warnings of approach of unidentified aircraft The alert sounded at 9:57 a lasted only until 10:12 a when the planes were identified as friendly Radio broadcasting stations were ordered off the air The alert with precedes any warning of an air raid alarm caused no slip page of work and went mostly un byxthc civilian population lir raid sirens did not sound ORGANIZE TAXI SERVICE Messrs Lippard and John Lee have organized a taxi service in Statesville operating under the name of the Blue Cab Company Service was started today The office of the Blue Cab Company is on South Center street A TheSuez Canal opened in 1869 was thirteen years in construction ord Developing An Auto Tire That Uses Very Little Rubber Severe Reduction In Gas Consumption Is Effective Today Washington April 16 A huge severe reduction in gasoline con sumption became effective today in the east and Pacific northwest and petroleum industries said billions of motorists would have to do on 40 or 50 percent less than the normal use The overall curtailment was one third an increase over the 20 percent reduction of a month ago Essential vehicles necessary to health safety commerce schools and government will continue to get usual supplies and non es sential gas consumption will thus be curtailed more than one third SDAY APRIL 16 1942 i Iredell Schools May Get Share Of The Library und Miss Marjorie Beal director of the North Carolina Library Commission Raleigh and Mrs Dorcas Reid of the State Library Commission were in Statesville today at the office of county superintendent Ward Guy trying to work out plans whereby Iredell county may share in the 3100 000 provided by the last General As sembly for the benefit of libraries in the schools of the state There are 75 counties participating in this library fund and an effort is being made to include Iredell among the list to re ceive state aid for extension of library facilities into every section of this county Action on: the part of the County Commissioners will be neces sary to secure the additional library facilities Capt Walter Newbern Now at Camp Sutton Captain Walter Newbern who 'has been stationed at ort Ben ning Georgia has been transferred to Camp Sutton at Charlotte Cap tain Newbern is to be conneeted the sub hase hospital at Camp Sutton which is located in the building form erly occupied by Charlotte Sanator ium Captain Newbern arid i Mrs New bern moved to Charlotte Monday Mrs Newbern is the former Miss Shirley Stimpson daughter of Mr ami Mrs Clarence Stimpson of this city NEGRO GIVEN HEARING Joseph Carlton colored had a hear ing today before Justice of the Peace Tomlin on a charge of) dispos ing of mortgaged property a radio He was bound to court April 27 and went to jail in default of bond and Bant The co ping docks an daircraft were destroy ed and damaged in American air at tack in Philippines on April 13 and 14 The flight consisted of three 17s and ten 25s undec ponom com mand of Brig General Ralph Royce The bombers had hardly come'1 to standstil Ion the runway on returning to their base somewhere in Australia when Brig General Rush Lincoln representing the united nations air command LL General Geo Brett rushed up and handed eneral Royce the distinguished flvinir cross as di reeted by President Roosevelt It was also awarded to Lt CoL John Davies of Piedmont Calif and Captain rank Bostrom 4 At Batangas a Japaneses cargo ship presumably carrying military supplies 1 was sunk 2" With Army in Australia April lo Douglas head quarters announced the United States air force had made smashing attacks on Manila Cebu and Davao in the Philippine islands At Nichols field at Manila hangars were destroyed and runways dam aged the announcement said At Davao in southern part of Min dano island one bomber was destroyed and several damaged two transports hit and one probably sunk one plane shot down two others damaged Troop concentrations were attacked and docks and houses damaged At Cebu in the central group of islands where the Japanese have made themost recent attempt at occupation ree tra sports wer Mnk two nit Bases from which the United States air forces have delivered wide spread and telling blows in such surprise fashion were not established at once There are some 7000 islands in the Philippines and only a fw have been occupied by the Japanese To attack from known Australian bases the planes would have had to fly 2000 miles to Manila and 1400 miles to reach Davao REEDOM THE PRESSONTRIAL Censor Says Editors Must Be Careful What They Print New York April 16 Asserting that freedom of the press was on trial through war time voluntary censor ship director of censorship Byron Price told the editors it would be an day for all of us if It were found the confidence in them had been personally do not believe such a day will come Whether it does is up to the former editor on leave for a war time post said at the 20th annual meeting of the American Soci ety of News Editors at the Waldorf Astoria hotel Briefly tracing the history of the American press and pointing out its survival of recurrent crises such as war and depression he asserted that in spite of all they have endured and all they are the newspapers of the United Staes may well find the year 1942 aperiod of supreme trial 'and Ed Hanes Suffers Broken Right Leg And Broken Ankle Mrs Hanes and Mrs George Brown and other relatives have returned from New Bern where thev were called on account of an injury to Mr Ed Hanes a member of the coast guard at New Bern Mr Hanes had been on the roof of a building: to make some repairs and in coming down the ladder broke and Mr Hanes fell to the ground suffering a compound fracture of the right leg and a broken ankle He is in the government hospital at New Bern and it is expected that he will be there for at least six weeks Mr wife and two children live in Winston Salem Mrs Hanes ihs mother lives in States ville on New Bern avenue British agriculture is being me chanized twice as many tractors are now being used as three years ago Demand Heard or American Seizure Of rench Territory Washington April 14 United States seizure of rench sions was demanded in the house today as a reply to plans of Vichy rance for a new government embracing axis admirer Pierre Laval a traitor received his 30 pieces of commented Representative Page Democrat Texas who described Laval as enemy of all free He urged closer cooperation be tween United States and ree rench including occupation of strategically located rench pos sessions Rep Gosset Democrat Texas predicted eomnlrtc the renqh republic if the rench' tnmed oyer to Germany Religious Worker Is Tii filoin Tn Washington Washington April 16 The body of a young woman religious worker brutally beaten and slashed was found late last night by police in an St apartment to which they were di rected by a 17 year old youth Lt Jeremiah laherty chief of the homicide squad said this morning that the youth was Richard Wil hite and that he had confessed that he killed the woman Lt Irving Baugh and Precinct Detective uss found the young wo man identified by them later as Miss Madeline Matthes 25 of 1321 Street NW who was active in the distributing tracts of the Jehovahs Witnesses after the youth told them there was at the apart ment The officers said the body was found on the bedroom floor with the head and shoulders partly in a closet A bloody hammer and a butcher knife were in the room they said '1 Police said the confession was a three page statement but declined to reveal any details PURCHASES TEAGUE ARM Mr John Barkley has purchased the Teague farm a tract of 86 acres six miles southeast of Statesville off the Salisbury road Mr Barkley pur chased the farm from Colonel Dorsey cLTlCl wllt Mussolini Now Declared Insane London April 14 A special cor respondent of the Daily Mail on the Italian frontier cabled yesterday that Premier Mussolini was found in a state of prostration" when ex amined by a specialist The dispatch said: the interview 11 Duce sob bed bitterly then burst into hysteri cal laughter The specialist said Mus solini had lost all contro lof himself and no longer was able to manage his fiQ dwtatamf Ytftlv whifh nnw are reported in a chaotic facing this country Nazis Then Could Get Hands On rench 4 leet 1 Utzxttt rmr rimTnv HUULU DVJLrOimv AXIS SEA POWER The Washington Vichy crisis mount sharply today amid general expec tations that rance would proclaim her solidarity with Germany and that Adolf Hitler might soon get his hands on the rench fleet United States Consular officials urged all Americans to leave unoccu pied rance as son as possible ambassador Gaston Henri Haye had an appointment to meet Secretary of State Sumner i it 7" VIS Ut'lilil LIiaL nc wouiu ue liver official notification of an open ly pro nazi collaborationist policy by Pierre new regime In Washington senators gloomily forecast that the rench fleet once second largest would soon bolster axis sea 'power' On the Russian war front soviet dis patches reported that Red army shock troops ho smashed through the first line of German defense around Bry ansk 200 miles south of Moscow had surged forward and occupied a dozen settlements abandoned by the nazis London military quarters said the Germans probably would not attempt unieasa a tun scale blitz assault on the central front until about May 15 when the weather and terrain condi tions would be more favorable for mechanized attacks London sources pointed to' what they termed indications that Hitler was doing his utmost to streng then northern rance defenses against a possible British United States in vasion a bombers heavily attacked German war foundries in the Ruhr again last night and points in the nazi occupied low German night raiders struck back with an attack a Rritisharmament industrial center identified as Sunder land where at least 12 persons were killed and many wounded April 27 The New Registration Day Monday 27th 1942 is desig nated by the President as registration day This is the fourth registration day and in accordance with the Presi proclamation of the dav Gover nor Broughton of North Carolina has called on the local selective service boards in the State to conduct this registration in their respective areas All male citizens of the United States residing in North Carolina and all male aliens residing in the State who were born on or after April 28 1877 and on or before ebruary 16 1897 and have not heretofore regis tered under the selective training and aeiwice act of '1940 are required to register on this date April 27 1942 between the hours of 7 a and 9 This makes the age limits for this fourth registration approximately 45 to 65 Registration will be at regular voting places through the county rnRTTTM nvriTAi AT CENTRAL SCHOOL Mrs Earl Davis will present her piano pupils in a costume recital at Central school on riday night at 8:30 Thepublic is invited to W' atend Germany Turning Pressure On Vichy Bern Switzerland April The Germans turned on new pressure to day to seek to promote greater collab oration between rance and the axis before a threatened British American invasion of occupied Europe mate rializes German occupation authorities were reported to have ordered sus pension of travel over the detmarka tion line separating occupied from un occupied rance a procedure usually reserved for periods of tense uegoti Pivot man on the pro axiq team wss again colIaboration mindjoKPierre LS 7 val former vice premier of' the Vichy government who was reported to have conferred three times since Saturday with Marshal Petain German dispatches said Laval was renewing his attempts to get back in to the rench caibinct possibly as foreign minister after he had en countered stubborn refusal from the aged marshal in his first try early in April The Germans on the basis of Ber lin dispatches recruited rench edi tors in Paris to promote the campaign for renewed collaboration with Ger man Ambassador Otto Abctz was said to have held a long conference recent ly with Laval in Paris and was re ported on a visit to Berlin today i TheDutch worked copper mines in JJvsy Jersey 1GCQ Watch Label On Your 1 IT LMJii i A McAfee Describes The Surprise Raids In Philippines CLAPP JUST" WENT ALONG OR RIDE By CLARK LEE United States Army Headquarters in Australia April 16 Lieutenant James McAfee of 310 Hermitage road Charlotte said just sat there and watched the Colonel shooting Japs and blowing ships to hell next time I am going to take a camera McAfee had co pilot position by Lt Col John Hubert Davies in one of the 25 medium bombers which? Tnade up the bulk of the attack against the Japs in the Philippines earlier in the week Davies was leader of the group (Philippine raid) was the first one I had out of the the Lieutenant said McAfee said the fortress craft companions of the 25 on the raid lit fires at Nichols field near Ma nila which could be seen for 75 miles time Jap soldiers anywhere in the Philippines hear any airplane for the next month they'll be diving for fox holes We owe it to our forces still fighting to continue smacking' the Japs as hard and often as pos Lieutenant Clapp of Long Beach Cal navy navigator was even more reticent than McAfee in telling of his part in the attack just went along for the ride BOIWESSE tf SLAYING WOMAN cz: Heavy Casualbes JapAmmuniHon Dumps Are Hit And Blown Up BOMBING RAIDS ON ORT INEECTIVE Washington April 16 The war department reported today that Cor guns scored hits on troop concentrations and truck columns in the Philippine Bataan peninsula and that enemy ammunitions dumps were hit and blown up Japanese casualties were believed to have been numerous a communique said ierce fighting continued on the island of Cebu more than 300 miles to the south where the Japanese last week landed an invasion force esti mated at 12000 which was Supported by dive bombers and tanks Corregidor was raided five times yesterday the communique said but the defenders anti aircraft artillery forced the Japanese planes as on most other occasions to fly so high that bombing ineffective Lt General Wainwright the Philip pine commander reported that in the week since April 9 the fortress island had been raided 65 times but the war department said that the almost constant bombing the damage to miliary installations has been relatively slight and the morale of the troops is unimpaired 7 11 CIVILIAN DEENSE rt OICE REVAMPED Given Board To Assist Him Washington April 16 President Roosevelt reorganized the office of civilian defense today retaining James Landis as director but creating a civilian defense board to advise with and assist him The war and navy departments were given representation on this board and a presidential executive order said the directors shall carry out functions of his office with advice and assistance of the board Rationing Boards To Meet To Consider Sugar Rationing Mr MaeKesson chairman of the Iredell County Rationing Board received a telegram this morning from Theodore Johnson of Ral eigh head of the Rationing Board of North Carolina advising that a dis trict meeting will be held in States ville next Tuesday April 21 for the consideration of sugar rationing The meeting here will be at the county court house nokt Tuesday morning at 11 Local Boards from ten counties are expected to attend the district meeting GERMANS BUILDING DEENSES IN RANCE Dover Eng April The Ger mans have put thousands of laborers to the task of building new gun em placements and strengthening already formidable defenses along the rench coast as an added precaution against allied invasion The laborers were seen plainly to day through field glasses some 20 miles across the channel Military informants said that nazi guns massed along the channel coast have a total firepower equal to that of a fleet of battleships nad form a con centrated mass of artillery more pow erful than in any sectoi: of the Ger man front facing the Russians The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is limited to 800 fellows and 130 foreign honorary members yi iiniii uuuiiiiiiu Heavier Blows In Store Armies 12 BOMBERS BREAK DISTANCE RECORD General Douglas head a Quarters disclosed trutav fhn lift tnno df LatyiLr wptp rlnmnizH An Tann0ca soldiers ships planes and other mili 1 11 a Largevs ine SDecvacuiar days assault by United States army bombers against enemy bses in the Moreover high allied officials con fidentlv declared that the attack was only a foretaste of more and heavier blows in store for Japan's invasion armies While invasion threatened Australia celebrated the safe return of twelve of the 13 big United States bombers its vnii 4AOUCU VUV AJ4CW CH UUV Japanese base of Koepang on Dutch Timm iclonrl Kazifa rlnvm Prime Minister John Curtin an nounced that high explosives and in cendiaries were rained on an airdrome It i 7 ro 3 1 i vr vt 1 K1 7r' WK i X' A 1 A I I VI A tl 7 a "Al owppeai yy i 4' 'A 7 ''T 1' a 1 I'" A A WV wn 4' 7A k'y MH ANN i DH1VE0R 1 jr peak snealdnr idly on his tralisn when hesaid through and I will American offensive wa sMc pnsnw witn joss or only one plane was saved Iiing attacks were made on ses Manila Cebu Davao gas in Philinnine Islands 4 yyAy tW1 I.