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'7 7 ft Uf ft ft ft ft ft: i ftl'l 7 'ft ft ft' ft 1 ft :7 Kft 1 1 3 tt 1 ft ft ft ft If 7 1' A a 1 3: Ml sa Stt 1 ft fti wa Alexander the Great filled trench es with snow to cool wine for his sol diers ft Helsinki May 7 The innish high command today announced annihila te: of the Soviet 238th infantry regi mevs and reeniorcements from three battalions in the Ixnihi sector north of Lake Oncea where tho Rus The inns said more than Soviet dead were counted including the commander and his staff It was said the Russians lost 900 yesterday in attempt to Iwak vt VOL 68 7 7 ft Washington May 5 The army is building up to a strength of six million men Under Secretary of War Patterson disclosed today in testimony for continuance of war power to com mission civilians as army officers Patterson pleaded with house military committee not to tage our effort by putting us in strait jacket through restric tions on Defending the present policy of issuing commissions for adminis trative and technical personnel he "1 claim the system is perfect but with an army of six million not all officers would be the very best 4 1 Hitler Claims Nazi Boats Have Sunk 20 American Ships 5 RETURNS ROM HOSPITAL Mr Douglas Roseman has re turn cd from Veterans hospital at ayetteville where he had an oper ation Mr Roseman is improving sat isfactorily PYTHIANS TO MUTT The Knights of Pythlw U1 hM ft their rt nt a Berlin May 7 (rom German Broadcast) May 7 Light German bombers ranging over the shipping lanes around Britian were reported today by the German high command to have sunk a 2500 ton merchant vessel and a patrol boat off the Eng lish south coast attacks were made against important military targets and a port north of Dover" a communique said nesday the Mulberry Street school was ahead registering 1620 at Davie Avenue the total was 1592 and at Avery Sherrill 1156 At Morning side the colored school there were 832 registrations AT OICER TRAINING SCHOOL Sergeant Lex Barkley son of Mrs Scott Barkley has entered officer training school at Camp Lee Va Sergeant Barkley was formerly atoriBrajj RENCH DEENDERS Alaska or both because of their of fensive threat 1 ft ft STATESVILLE Ct THURSDAY MAY 7 1942 ftftfti I 1 4 INNS CLAIM 15000 REDS KILLED ON THE NORTH RONT ft "ft "ft ft' mmsh encirclements and save her doomed comrades Reports indicated tha 238th regi ment pierced the innish lines but was immediately surrounded by the inns ft Unwin county board of commissioners meet ing yesterday in regular session ap pointed A Dinning vocational ag ricultural teacher at the China Grove High school assistant county farm agent filling a position left vacant since ebruary 1 ft Dinning will take over his new du ties as soon as he can be relieved of his teaching position He succeeds Satterwhite former assistant agent who was advanced when Coun ty Agent Ned Wood resigned to en ter active military service The new assistant farm agent has been in charge of vocational agricul ture classes at the China Grove High school for the past four years Pre viously he taught at Dover High school in Craven county A native' of Paducah Ky he is married and has a five year old son JAPS KNOCKING AT BACK DOOR ftft A Chungking May 5 Japanese" troops invaded Yunnan prov ince today after driving up th Burma road and crossing the shallow Want ing river 670 mile from this capital a military spokesman said Bitter fighting is in progress in the area around the border town of Want ft ing still in Chinese hands he said He declared destruction of the Chi nese section of the Burma road which winds through mountains and gorges had not yet been necessary but the Chinese would carry out their scotch ed earth policy if necessary The Japanese claimed their air force already had carried the war far into Yunnan province with a heavy raid on Yungchang about 100 miles in side the province v' A dispatch to a Tokyo newspaper indicating an air base had been estab lished there said raiders destroyed nine planes seven of which were grounded It said the town had been left in flames Thus in less than two months ih Japanese invaders of Burma had any en 500 miles from Rangoon to China 1 back door I UNDERGOES OPERATION ft Mrs Grady Reavis was operated at the Davis hcwpiul Tuesday Her condition is satisfactory SUGAR RATIONING IN AIR WAY SHOWING UP CENSUS TAKERS ftA More than five thousand people registered in local schools Wednes day under the sugar rationing pro gram the total of 5300 being more than a thousand above the previous registrations The to tal number who have registered here so far under the sugar rationing pro gram is 12422 Today is the last day The elemen tary senool will be open again this afternoon from 3:30 tq 5:30 and to night from 7 to 9 Ln th rej istrstion by Wed RATIONING OE GAS Non Essential Cars To Get Along On Mere Trickle Of Gas 5 Washington May In the midst of a flare up in Congress as to whether so much rationing is neces sary the office of price administra tion sent instructions to local ration ing boards in 17 eastern seaboard states and the District of Columbia limiting motorists to from 2 to 6 gallons of gas a week sifter May 15 The weekly allowance which may be changed from time to time will depend "entirely on the supply avail OPA said TO PREACH AT NEW STERLING ft ft Rev Bradley of Stony Point will preach at New Sterling Sunday May 10thatirA Huge Bombers Attack A Major Jap Base Near Rangoon New Delhi May 5 Huge Unit ed States bombers drove through a thunder storm and attacked a major Jap air base north of Rangoon where 70 enemy air craft had been sighted Motor crafts of Major General Brere command dodged coneen (ration of search light and ground fire to drop 250 and 500 pound bombs which caused fire and ex plosions at Mindalgano air drome the message said Hangars and aircraft were ob burning Previous reconnaissance estab lished presence of 70 Jap planes Light tighter planes were seen but they stayed clear of the raid ers Lt II Willard ountain 26 year old loridian and Lt Keen an led the flights AU American craft returned undamaged ountain led a previous raid on Rangoon Watch Label On Your Paper and Let Your Subscription Cornelius has been named principal of Balls Creek high school the larg est school in the county having all students in one building and one 'of the largest rural schools in the State' mr ioung wui repc this summer to replace Reed who will leave later Uus monta to and in Lee to 14 to 20 years for same offense Gaston Morris' 32 of Chadbourn sentenced in Columbia in eb 1940 to 30 years for second degree murder and Avery Butler 24 of Charlotte sentenced in Mecklenburg last Janu ary to 15 to 20 years for highway robber? 4 Short Course WiD Not Be Held ft The 4 short course in Raleigh will not be held this year on account difficulties in transportation facili ties and the lack of accommodation at State College Since the college is be ing operated for the full year on ac count of war conditions there will be no room in the dormitories for those attending the short course The Iredell county 4 club camp at Swannanoa is expetted to be held this summer as usual Miss Elisabeth rancis assistant home agent in Ire dell said today Date for the camp is July 13 18 PREACHING AT ST Un There will be preaching at St Lutheran church Sunday eve ning May 10 at 8:15 by the pastor Rev WT Dutton JAPS ADMIRALS LEAVE VICHY OR BERLIN ft ft ft London May 5 Reuters said to day that Jap Vice Admiral Nomura and Rear Admiral Abe had left Vichy for Berlin The presence of the delegates to axis coordinating committee in Rome and Berlin in capital of rance was linked with the question of Madagas car Japanese Troops Continue Advance Alon? Burma Road ft ft' Chungking May 6 Japanese troops which drove across the Chinese frontier from Burma are continuing their advance to the northeast in Yunnan prov ince along the Burma road a Chinese army communique an nounced today The situation at Wanting Chi nese frontier station was de scribed as obscure resignation seven years ine new and the father not entirely a tv ae ha jwmes Maiden Jrigh school faculty from 1930 to 1932 He became principal of Belwood school Cleveland coun ty in 1932 remaining there until 1938 That same year he became aa Assistant Rowan ft ft ft Agent Is Named ft" Salisbury May 5 WL Tr 'ft STILL POUNDING1 ft ft i mm ii imji I hi ii in mi jftt ftft ft WOULD SEIZE THE 'ft 1 ISLANDS AT ONCE ft Pepper Would Not Wait or Laval To Show His Hand Washington May 7 The British rench conflict over Madagascar pro voked new congressional discussion today of possibility of United States to seize rench possessions in Wes tern hemisphere to prevent their use by the axis Chairman Connally Democrat of Texas of senate foreign relations committee advocated such action only if Madagascar action leu to between United States and rench forces but Senator Pepper Democrat of lorida committee member urged immediate seizure think we ought to take those rench islands without dallying We got time to fool with the nice ties with people who are stabbing us in the Pepper said The lorida senator also declared the should inform Portugal and Spain that axis use of their Atlantic possessions would not be tolerated United States Needs Officers or Army Of Six Million Men i' rW MOTimiiiii HUI II i II i I II 'The Date On the Label Is the Date our ftft Stopped I 'ft 7 That Number Reported At Manila orts April 15 7' ft" ft' Washington May 7 The War De partment said today approximately 11574 soldiers sailors mariens and civilians' presumably were captured by the Japanese on Corregidor and the other Manila Bay forts The estimate was based on reports received up to April 15 a communi que said and did not take into consid eration casualties which might have been suffered in the last three weeks The total included 2275 naval per sonnel 1570 marines 3737 Ameri can soldiers l2S0 ilipino scouts 1466 soldiers of the Philippines com monwealth army and 1269 casualties including civilians and indiviudals not otherwise classified The communiques was issued at a press conference by the Under Sec retary of War Robert Patterson who said that Lt General'! Wain wright commanding the 'American ilipino forces presumably WAS among those captured J' ft American Legion Will Elect Officers May 12 The Hurst Turner Post of The American Legion will hold its regular monthly meeting May 12 at 8:00 At this meeting officers for the coming year will be elected and delegates' for the State Convention to be held in June will be named This is a very important meeting and each and ev ery Legionnaire is urged to be present Every Ex service man should feel it his duty and responsibility to give much thought to the officers for the Post for the coming year Wade Hendricks Com i Mrs Mitcham Gives Birthday DinnerTo Honor Her Husband ft Mrs Mitcham who lives near Oakland Heights had a birthday dinner for her husband this week with all the children present Mr Mitcham was 77 years old May 3 and the children who all here for the birthday dinner with their fam ilies were Mr and Mrs Kirby Mitch am and children Robert Lurue Betty Jo of Hickory route 1 Mr and Mrs Russell Mitcham and children Mil dred and children Leon Katherine Peggy Mr Herman Mitcham and children Mr and Mrs Clayton Mitch am and children Eugene Edith and Jerry Mr and Mrs Adrian Ballager and children Mrs Garnet Hand Aud rey Starr all of Statesville Miss Ixicy Poole who lives on ourth street and Mrs Ralph Stardley and children were also present Mr Mitcham has 22 grand children and four great grandchildren rank Jenkins Gets His Commission Asft Second Lieutenant Mrs Williams has returned front an extended visit in Texas She accompanied her sister Mrs Geoige A Jenkins of Gastonia En route they stopped in New Orleans and while in Texas they visited Houston San Antonio and Browns ville but spent most of the time at Victoria where Mrs son rank Jenkins was completing his training at oster ield On April 29 he received his commission as seconod lieutenant Lieutenant Jenkins accompanied his mother and aunt to North Carolina apd spent a few days in Gastonia leaving Tuesday for Philadelphia where he is to be stationed The automobile industry has de fense nlants in 67 cities and towns located in 17 states British Planes Are Taking Good Look At Unoccupied rance Vichy May 6 Advices from Paris said today an air alarm ft sounded in th German occupied rench capital during the night 3 At the same time there as mounting attention to recurring' air activity over unoccupied 7 rance which the rench general ly assumed to be British planes although information office state ment mentioned no nationality JAPS CAPTURE ff'V fu ARE OVERPQWERLD rf ft A Japanese Warships Are Again Threatening Australia ft' DIEGO SUAREZ IN HANDS BRITISH 7 British shock troops have captured the big naval base of Diego Suarez in 5 Madagascar less than 48 hours after their attack on the 1000 miles long rench island it was officially an nounced today while Japanese war ships started threatening maneuvers north of Australia chief town in the har bor of Diego Suarez was captured by night attacks last a British aumirauy war onice communique Mid' ft ft ft "The rench naval and military Commanders at Antisirana have sur the announcement said and all rench resistance at the base col lapsed Tank led British commandos and HUliimj rom 'ft mi 6 SOULA launched the main attack on the keynaval base which commands allied sea lanes to the middle east India and China While the fall of Diego Suarez con stitutes a major victory in the BriU ish campaign which started at dawn Tuesday considerable further resist ance may be expected from the re mainder of the island 5000000 rench and native population In London Prime Minister Churchill told parliament that a protocol was being drawn up between the opposing commanders and the British fleet was expected to enter Diego Suarez har bor about 3:30 i uf 7 A Japanese orces Have Driven 25 Miles Into China Up Burma Road ft ft ft ft11 1 Bitter ighting Reported Raging Weary British Troops Still alling Back Toward India RUSSIANS CAPTURE IMPORTANT POINT On the Burma war front Chinese military dispatches acknowledged that invasion armies pushing up the Burma road had driven almost 25 miles into China proper after cap turing the Chinese town of Wanting on the China Burma frontier Bitter fighting was report rag ing as the American Lieutenant Gen eral Wft outnumbered Chinese troops fought to stem the Japanese tide sweeping through back door On the right flahk General Harold weary British troops were reported still falling back toward India Russian dispatches reported that the red armies attacking across bogs in an important sector west of Len ingrad had captured a junction point which the Germans had held all win ter and thus had cut the road between the northern and southern wings of the German siege armies Hitler's field headquarters said heavy casualties had been inflicted on the Russians in violent fighting in the north and reported lull on a large sections of the else where On the north African battlefield an Italian communique said that British armored forces had made one of the deepest British thrusts to the west since their retreat last ebruary ft The War Industries Are Being Put Out of Business SEVEN RAIDERS AILTO RETURN London May 77 The Royal air force bombers continuing their smash ing attacks at the industries feeding Adolf war machines hammer ed at Stuttgart last night for the third successive night and roared into rance by daylight today Seven of the night raiders were lost the air ministry said The raiders went in considerable force to smash at the southern German manufacturing city which produces aviation engines tanks and electrical equipment and at other targets in that' region Docks at Nantes also were hit for the third successive night and raids also were made ton air fields in Ger man occupied territories As in the past two nights the ILA encountered clouds and haze over Stuttgart and other targets in south ern Germany which prevented ob servation of results informed sources said GARMENTS MADE BY I WEN ON EXHIBIT More Than 1100 Turned Out By Red Cross SewinjRoom More than 1100 garments that Statesville and Iredell county women have made for the American Red Cross in less than four months are on exhibit at the Red Cross sewing room in Community Club House today from 1 this afternoon until 9 tonight The garments sewed and knitted of them in all have been made in the period since the sewing room at Community Club House was open ed the middle of January this year The work was done by workers at the sewing room on the two days the room has been open each Tuesday and Wednesday and by many other women working in their homes A total of 3264 hours is represented in the work displayed today Everybody Invited It takes seeing to believe the fig ures look impressive but the gar ments are much more so Everybody interested in the Red Cross is in vited to stop by Community House (Continued On Page Seven) MIN PUSHKIN 7 TO DRIVE IN ONE ft 7 Salisbury May Haywood Adam Barbary 30 was given a sentence of kix to 10 years in the state prison orf a charge of statutory rape in Superior court here yesterday The prosecuting witness age 14 took the stand to tell that Barbary came to her home sometime after mid night of Tuesday March 24 where she was looking after five younger brothers and sisters while the mother worked on the night shift at Salis bury Cotton mill She testified that he forced her to submit by threatening her with a knife and also threatened that he would kill her if she told any one about the affair She told her mother the next day and later her father who caused Bar bary to be arrested Shipyards Build 36 Ships In April 7 Washington May 5 shipyards set a new ship construction record in April completing? and de livering 36 merchant vessels In making this announcement yes terday the maritime commission said the record exceeded the one a day schedule which was set up for April and brought the record for the first four months of 1942 to 106 merchant Ships placed in war service of the United Nations This the commis sion said exceeds the entire merchant vessel production by American ship yards in 1941 During April shipyards through out thq country launched 51 merchant vessels more than double the number launched in January Statesville Receives Very Little Rain But South Iredell Soaked People of Statesville and vicinity had great hopes of a heavy rain dur ing the threatened storm about 6:30 o'flock Wednesday evening There was a high wind and some electricity but very little rain in Statesville and at points north It was learned here this morning that there was a down pour of rain in South Iredell from Ostwalt on to the Mooresville vicinity' the ground was soaked 1 ft sfti Col Bretz Appointed Commanding Officer Camp Butner Hospital Colonel Ross Bradley Bretz of the United States Army medical corps has been appointed commanding of ficer of the hospital at Camp Butner the Army camp at Durham The new hospital now in process of construc tion will have 1500 beds Official an nouncement of Colonel ap pointment was made this week Colonel Bretz is the son in law of I sians have been attacking two weeks IM ic iAz rtf TT JI I aoivii) viub xuvjr juts nitu Mrs Bretz have visited in Statesville and announcement of the appointment will Ue of much 16 'their friends here Works Not Words Will StopThe 'Japs 7 7 Newspapers Carry ull Page Warning To The Public MEEK ATTITUDE INDIANS IS SCORED "ft 7 7 fft ft New Delhi May 7 The govern ment of India launched a vigorous campaign today to create a fighting spirit in this country whose major po litical the congress party decided a week ago the only way to oppose threatened Japanese invasion would be by violence and non Morning papers carried a full page advertisement warning the public that works not words would stop the Japs The same theme will be pictured in broadcasts posters and other adver tisements a government spokesman said The advertisement showed a bay onet rammed through a sheaf of pa pers beneath the heading will not stop the People were urged to grow more food to make good Burma rice to beware of rumors travel less leave trains for army lend rather than spend save electricity and paper LACKEY INJURED Master Lackey of Hiddenite fractured his right arm just albove the elbow in a fall at his home Wed nesday afternoon He is at Davis Hos pital for treatment' Young Lackey is the son of Mr and Mrs Lackey of Hiddenite Senator eels People Being Pushed Around To Satisfy Egotism Washington May 7 Endorse ment by seven government offici als of a proposal to requisition private automobiles moved Sen ft ator Johnson Democrat Colorado today to declare that the American people were being around to satisfy the egotism oft some Johnson was one of four sena tors who spoke out against'a bill that would authorize the govern ment to take and pay for private nwtor cars or parts and to seize the auto of anyone convicted of driving faster than 40 miles an hour ft I ft GERMAN BOMBERS SINK LARGE SHIP 7'ft Patrol Boat Also Sunk ft Off Coast Of England 1 ft 1 A S' i 7 1 A 1 II 1 ft L'VL1 111 'W1 1 Campaign Launched To Stir Up ighting Spirit Among People Of India ft 'ftftftZ ft" ftftftftftftgft y' Berlin (rom German Broad cast) May 27 DNB quoted a1special announcement today from Adolf headquarters that boats have sunk 20 merchant ships off the East coast of North America and in the Caribbean sea The ships were said to total '138000 tons the length of time covered by the sinkings was not specified 7 7 ESCAPED CONVICTS COMMIT CRIMES 5 Prison Official Warns Loftin And Others Dangerous Raleigh May 7 Prison officials today attributed two car thefts and a hold up to four long term prisoners who escaped from Anson cgunty Mon day by overpowering a guard men are armed and desper Chief Prison Inspector Matthews warned cornered they will At first it was reported only three men escaped Matthews return ed here today after a personal inves tigation however and revealed that four made their getaway He listed Goss 25 of Kannapolis sentenced in Cabar rus in 1939 for 10 years for high way robbery ft is ft irst Possibility Is Knockout Blow To China RUSSIA SEEN AS THE SECOND BET ft 7 774ft 7 May lushed with' their conquest in Burma and the Phil ippines the Japanese war lords were expected by military strategists to day to turn in full fury on China in an eiiorr lo xnocx out tnat Unite Nation force 7 7 The war in the Pacific entered the sixth month and the military experts pointed out the headlong rush had carried them to the point where they might turn in any of several directions The possibilities in order of occur ence as viewed by the experts are: 1 Pincer squeeze on China' 2: Attack on Rttssia' 3 Assault on Australia itself iuuqs in lorce ix nov iuu scale attacks against either Hawaii or GERMAN Newton May 5 It was learned here Monday that Young of Rev WC hrcDflic USe'XLTft' of two children is itrangtr in this coun a member of the A 4 4.