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Southeast ASIA HEADQUAR.

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Handy, Ceylon, April %
R,-Allied forces hopping up the
Japanese invasion of India, have
overrun further enemy strongpoints
around Kohima, Allied headquar-
tiers announced today coincident
with a special statement declar-
ing that the invasion has failed
to delay completion of the Ledo
road or disrupt the overall Al
lied strategic plan in Southeast
Asia.
Instead of hampering construc-
ton of the new vital land supply
route, rather, the reverse has
taken place." said the statement
Had the Japanese concentrated
! against the Chinese army on the
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FIRE SUPPLY DUMPS
Nipponese Damage Troop
Supply Ship During At
tack On Aitape
BY FRED HAMPSON

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Sunday,
April 30.-(P)-Allied heavy and
medium bombers ranged west OF
the newly-won American land hold
ings in the vicinity of Hollandia,
Dutch New Guinea, to hit Japa-
nese installations at Wadke island
with 70 tons of explosives.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's COM
munique today said the attack Fri.
DAY set flames and smoke rising
from fuel and supply dumps ano
destroyed at least four enemy
planes on the ground.
Damage Supply Ship
The Japanese in retaliation sen
three bombers over Allied inva
sion positions at Aitape, on the
coast of Hollandia, in a night rale
which damaged troop supply
ship and wounded few men. Ont
Of the raiders was shot down.
One bomber was lost from Solo.
mons-based units which hit the
enemy bases at Truk and Woiea
island, in the Carolines, Thursday
and Friday.
A headquarters spokesman SAID
that II more Japanese were kill.
ed at Aitape Saturday, bringing
the total enemy casualties to date
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WAR OF NERVES
Nazis Say Invasion Air
force Is Now Actually
In The Fight
LANDINGS RUMORED
Romania's Black Sea Coast
Reported Ruled For
hidden Sector

LONDON, April 29-P)-
The Allied war of nerves to-
day Kept Germany tensely ex-
pectant of momentary land
ings on the continent, and
Berlin itself said "the inva-
sion airforce is now actually
in the fight"
Thus, for all practical pur-
poses, Berlin said, the inva-
sion began a week ago, when
the Americons and British
hurled great numbers Of re-
serve air crews and planes
into the bombing of the con.
tinent.
Perhaps illustrative Of the shat
tered state of Europe's nerves -
in neutral countries as well as oc
cupied and Germany 1tselI-Wa'
one rumor out of Finland that thu
fand assault was already in prog
ress.
The Helsinki newspaper Sanoma
said landings probably are il
progress at several places now.
It did not say where it obtained it
information. which many hour
afterward was without the slight
est substantiation.
Invasion Troops
Berlin quoted Allied airman
now prisoners, as saying they hat
trained years for the invasion
had been held in reserve, and I'm
til week ago had never taken par
CONTINUED on Page Two Col. 3,
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STATE DEMOCRATS
FAVOR BR0UCHTON
Advance Governor AS Pos
sible Candidate For The
Vice Presidency

RALEIGH, April 90 Up -Reso-
lutions endorsing governor J. M.
Broughton for the vice presidency
and President Roosevelt for a
fourth term were adopted through
out North Carolina today as coun'
ty Democrats gathered for election
of delegates to the state conven-
ton, alternates and county execu-
tive committee officials.
First reports reaching Demo
cratic state headquarters here IN
dictated that Broughton received
endorsement from SO per gent OF
all meetings from which reports
had been received. Advocatlon OF
Roosevelt for a fourth term usual
ly accompanied Broughton sup
port. :,
Headquarters indicated that all
county gatherings were harmonl-
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METHODIST YOUTH
ARMY SUGGESTED
Every Member Would Give
Year To The Church
And Humanity

KANSAS CITY, April 29.-R-A
proposal for a Methodist youth
Arny-an Army in which each
member would give at least a year
of service to ''the church and to
humanity been presented to
the quadrennial general conference
of the Methodist church.
p This memorial has for its chief
hacker, DR.. Murray H. LETTER,
professor of sociology and social
ethics at the Methodists' largest
theology school, the Garrett Biblical
Institute of Evanston, Ill.
Doctor LETTER said in an inter-
view today that his plan would
combine all the youth programs of
the church. Young men and women
of exceptional promise would re-
ceive special training for social
service, and then 60 out for year S
work in hospitals, city slums and In
rural areas where churches have
died for lack of preachers. Some
of the apter pupils, he thinks,
should receive intensive training,
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WEATHER

FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Sunday partly
cloudy and warmer followed by showers
Sunday night in the mountains.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 p. M, yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, so 1880 am, so 1880 pm, g.;
7:30 pm, 81.
Maximum 70; Minimum As Mean 81;
Normal Sc.
Humidity
1870 am, 70 1880 am, 70; l 80 pm, %;
1880 pm, SIS.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 pm,
GOO inches.
Total since the first of the month";
293 inches.
Tides for Today
From the Tide Tables published ny
u. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,
e'oAA 4:O2p 11:13r
Masonboro Inlet -------- d Iva a:oSr
Sunrise, 5:24 am; Sunset, o;o 'a, ~,
Moonrise, 1901 Pm; Moonset' la Asi''
! CONTINUED on Page Seven COL D
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Soviets Repulse Thrusts
Tn StanislaWOw Section

Berlin broadcast the Hungarian
bulletin and quoted military men
of that country as saying the Rus
SLAMS were massing men and ma
terials for renewed drive toward
ngarain-held territory.
Moscow several weeks ago an.
nounced that the Red Army had
reached the Czech border, since
then German and Hungarian an
nouneements have told Of Axia
counter-gs ms in the area.
A midnight Soviet bulletin said
the Red air force had destroyed 100
supply laden Axis trucks and shot
down % German planes in COM
bat and destroyed another II ON
the ground during Saturday in con-
tinuing attacks on German air.
field and troop concentrations.
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CALM IS RESTORED
Fundamental Issue OF
Unions Rights Laid Be-
fore NLRB Examiner

CHICAGO, April 20. -(R)-The
first note of calm agreement in
four days of turbulent controversy
appeared today in the Montgomery
Ward and company dispute with
the government and a CLIO union
Soldiers who took control of the
Chicago properties Wednesday
were withdrawn. Government pos
session under presidential seizure
order remained in effect but I'm
Ger a civilian manager, Wayne c.
Taylor, undersecretary of com.
merce.
The fundamental issue of wheth.
err the CLIO United Mail Order,
Warehouse and Retail Employees
union retains representation rights
for a majority of employees was
laid before Samuel H. Jaffee, ma
tional labor relations board trial
examiner, in a hearing which
quickly settled into the routine Of
taking testimony on disputed
points.
Agree
But John A. Barr, company
counsel, and Francis Heisler, I'm.
ion attorney, agreed orally before
Jaffee that collective bargaining
election to determine tho majority
would be appropriate if the NLRE
decides it should be held.
The union was certified as re-
presenting a majority Of Ward en-
ployes in 1910 and 1912 but aftel
the last contract with Wards ex
PRED last Dec. 8 Sewel L. Avery
board chairman, refused to extene
it, even on orders Of Preslden
Roosevelt, contending the union
no longer represented a majority
of $500 eligible employees.
That situation, with developing
bitterness, finally led to govern
ment seizure of the Chicago Ware
facilities by troops last Wednes
day. Thursday, when Avery re-
fused to cooperate with Taylor ant
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AMERICAN PRIEST
CALLS ON STAIN
Rev. Orlemanski Saws Re-
suits OF The Confer
ence Excellent
Rv HENRY C. CASSIDY

MOSCOW, April % Up MOS
cows official press today accorded
to the visit of the Rev. Stanlslaus
Or1emanski, Polls American
priest, coverage usually reserved
for the worlds most prominent
leaders, and the gray-haired cler-
gyman termed excellent" the re-
suits of his unprecedented confer
ence yesterday with Premier
Josef Stain.
The pastor told this correspon-
dent he planned to campaign Tor
Democratic Poland friendly to
the Soviet Union, and added that he
expected to do some speaking and
writing in America. He indicated
his idea was to work among Pol
ish-Americans in an attempt to
gain their support. His trip here,
he said, has been mste as a
private citizen.
"Stalin wants free, independent
and Democratic Poland" he said
after his conference with the So
Wet leaders, repeating formula
Stain himself has used in the past.
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LONDON, Sunday, April 30. -
R)-The Soviet high command an.
nounced early today that the Red
army had killed a battalion OF soc
to 1000 Axis troops in repulsing
cornterattacks southeast of Stanis-
lawow in former Poland yesterday,
and Berlin said steadily arriving
Russian reinforcements and in
creasing assaults on that front in
Dictated the imminence of another
big Red army push toward the
Csrpathian mountain passes
A Hungarian army communicate
told of violent Soviet attacks in
the area of Kolomyja, which is 80
miles southeast of StanislawoW and
the same distance northeast OF the
Tatar pass leading into Hungarian
held Czechoslovakia.
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General Marston Takes
Command At Lejeune

CAMP LEJEUNE, April 29-R
Mai. Gen. John Marston as
suned command today of the Ma
rine Corps base here, renewing
Col. Samuel A. Woods, Dr., actln5
commanding officer since Maj.
Gen. Henry L. Larsen was as
signed to another station last
month. ,
General Marston came here
from San Francisco, where he was
commanding general OF the de-
partnent of the Pacific. Earlier
he commanded the Second Marine
division in the Pacific, the Flrs1
Marine brigade in Iceland and
was commanding general OF the
Fleet Marine force in the San
Diego area.
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Soldiers Are Withdrawn
From Wards Properties
DAVIS STATES CASE
WLB Chairman Declares
Strike Had Epidemic
Potentialities'

WASHINGTON, April 20 In
Chairman William H. Davis OF
the War Labor Board declared to-
day the Montgomery Ward COM
pany strike at Chicago had "epi'
demic potentialities" that fully
Justified WLB in asserting its
jurisdiction in the case.
eve cannot expect to confine
strikes to non-war establish.
ments and keep war plants
strikeless, anymore than we would
let a fire rage unchecked in a
non-war plant on the theory il
might not leap the fence to the
war plant next door," Davis said.
Davis wrote Senator Byrd Cd.
Va), who seeks senate investiga-
ton of the government seizure
of Wards Chicago facilities, in
reply to Byrd's request for 'ful]
retails as to the seizure x y
and the legal authority you re.
lied upon for such action"
WLB ended its dealing in the
case, Davis reminded Byrd, when
it turned the problem to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. He added that he
assumed" Byrd desired to know
''the basis upon which the board
originally took jurisdiction of the
dispute, and the propriety of the
boards orders on the merits
The basis test of WLB juris-
diction as laid down by congress
is whether a dispute is one which
may lead to substantial inter.
ference with the war effort" he
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MISSOURI REACHES
FLOOD CREST PEAK
Mississippi Moves Toward
One OF Highest Stages
In Its History
BY The Associated press

The turbulent Missouri river
reached the peak of its flood crest
at St. Charles, Mo-, yesterday and
its torrents sent t h Mississippi
river rising slowly toward one OF
the highest stages in weather bu-
reau history.
The Missouri halted it's surge at
S6.5 feet, one-tenth of a foot under
It's 99-year record established last
May. However, rain was forecast
and there was danger the river
Would swell again to a new and
higher crest.
The entire northern half of St.
Charles county w a S threatened
with inundation by the Missouri,
which broke through the Cul De
Sac levee and sent it's waters roll
ing along an old flood channel into
The Mississippi Is miles north Of
ne normal confluence.
Burdened by the Missouri, the
Mississippi crept to 1876 feet a
It, Louis and maximum heigh'
IF 1873 was predicted for tomor'
low, only fraction below the
highest flood stage since 1874. Mel
!ner St. Louis nor the city of st
CHARLES was in danger.
Two towns, Portage Des Slou1
md v%st Alton, Mo-, both of 25'
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POSTWAR PERIOD
TAX PLAN OFFERED
Reeds Proposal Would Set
Up Incentives For Pri-
vate Enterprise

WASHINGTON, April 20. LIP -
Postwar tax legislation to put the
government on a pay-as-you-go ba-
sis and establish incentives for pri-
vate enterprise n d employment
was proposed today by chairman
Red R.N.Y.) of a house repub-
lican postwar tax study commit
tee.
Red announced he had appoint
ed nine sub committees to study
phases of taxation, including a
postwar federal retail sales tax.
He foresaw peacetime federal bud
gets running at about 100000, 000,.
900 annually;
The. N e w Yorker himself will
head a Republican subcommittee
Continued on Page Three Col. y
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BY D. HAROLD OLIVER
Associated Press Staff Writer

One of the most crowded week
" political calendars of 1914 will
unfold tomorrow with red arrows
ealllng national attention to four
senatorial denomination scraps and
= ,Roosevelt-Byrd delegate race IN
florida. New deal home front poll
ues are the main issues.
senators up for denomination
al with opposition-are Tydings
W-Md), Pepper DALAI, Hill Cd
MAJ end Quincy R-SD).
m addition, 80 more Democratic
ana 45 Republican national conv'en-
uoh delegates will be chosen; q
nouse members in Alabama, Flor
'aa, Maryland and Indiana ART
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T0UL0N BATTERED
by ALLIED PLANES
Stage Sharp, Concentrated
Attack From Their
Bases In Italy
Allied HEADQUARTERS Ma.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Ma
niles. April 29.-(R-American fly
ing Fortresses n d Liberators
spread flame S and explosions
through shipping, harbor installa-
lions and Nazi submarine pens at
the Great French naval base OF
Toulon today in a sharp, concen-
trated bombing from Italian bases.
Striking suddenly at a target
1000 miles west of the Balkan OBJ
jectives they battered last week,
the airmen poured many tons OF
explosives on the shipping lanes
which is helping supply German
troops in Italy. Between ESQ ana
500 bombers we're engaged IN the
attack.
Luftwaffe interceptors battled
the bombers and their escortlng
and Mustangs, and ar
unspecified number were destroy
ed.
Toulon, scene of the scuttling Of
a portion of the French fleet in
November, 1912, has been hit four
times previously by the Mediter'
ranean air forces, the last time
tn March ii by a fleet of Liberia
tors.
The stalemate continued on the
Italian ground front, although both
Allied and German patrols were
active.
In t h e air yesterday, medium
(Continued on Page IS; Col. 81
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Allies OVerrun EnemyS
Holdings Around Kohima

Ledo front instead of the British
Fourth Corps on the Imphal front,
the Chinese advance toward Myit-
kyina (main enemy base in north
Burma) could not have progressed
as far as it has done"
Despite the forthcoming mon
soon, work on the Ledo road will
be pressed vigorously, said the
statement, which emphasized
there is no reason to doubt the
success of the Allied campaign
in Burma and no cause for con-
Germ about it in the United States.
The daily communicate said pa
trolls tanning out of the Imphal
plain to the northwest, north and
northeast had ambushed and fur
Continued on Page Is; Col. u
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Requests That No Action
Re- Taken To Link Name
With Nomination
ISSUES STATEMENT
President OF N a ton a !
Clubs Says Organization
viii Drop Efforts
Nv C. YATES MCDANIEL

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD.
CHARTERS, New Guinea, Sunday
April 3O.-(P)-Gen Douglas Mac
Arthur, back from an invasion
which carried him 500 miles near.
or his cherished goal of return
Ing to the Philippines, stated I'm.
eouivocally today he neither de.
sired nor would accept nomination
for president of the United States
Noting "a widespread public
oninion that it is detrimental te
our war effort for an active mi
ltarx leader to be considered fol
the office, he said Il request thai
no action be taken that would link
nv name and way with the nomi.
nation"
81 do not covet it nor would
accept it," read his brief state.
ment concerning movements ir
the United States to make him the
Republican presidential nominee.
First Reply
II was his first unequlVocal anc
positive reply to individuals ano
groups who long have been urging
the general to either come out
into the open or to be a silent
but draftable candidate.
The flat statement capped a Sc
RES Of developments in which 6
Republican Nebraska congress
man had urged the general to be
silent candidate and Macarthur
had expressed appreciation of the
interest manifested but did moi
make clear whether he would &C
cept if drafted.
The complete text of the three
paragraph statement read:
Since my return from the Hol
landia operations, I have hae
brought to my attention wide
spread public opinion that it i:
detrimental to our war effort tt
have an officer in high position
On active service at the front con
sidered for nomination for the OF
flee Of president.
The Hollandia operations refer
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Senatorial denomination
Scraps Slated This Week

candidates for denomination, and
nominees for two governorshlps-
Florida and South Dakota - ana
various state offices will be
named.
New deal domestic policies face
their sharpest challenge Tuesday
in primary fights in which Sena-
tors t., Pepper D-Fla) and Hill d.
Ala oppose strong contestants. It
is a two-state battle marked by
open opposition thrusts and coun
ter thrusts on the issues OF ''bu
reaucratic government" rubber
stamp legislators. and under
cover and at times public 'sx-
changes on the negro question.
CONTINUED on Page Three Col. T.
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Davis Beds Ready
IOReceive Wounded
In Case Ship Calls Here

Fourteen hundred beds have
been made ready at Camp
Davis to receive wounded from
overseas battlefronts, in case
a vessel bearing the men should
enter port here, it was divulged
Saturday afternoon by Camp
Davis officials.
No assurance was given that
the wounded would arrive, but
all has been made ready should.
such an event occur, it was dis
closed.
Details on the matter were
lacking.
The statement is in line with
reports circulated in this area
recently that hospital facilities
at the nearby camp would be
utilized for returning service
men.
The Army spokesman dis
credited rumors that activities
at Camp Davis would soon be
curtailed or eliminated en-
tirely, and asserted that there
is every indication that the
camp will be here for the dura-
ton.
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1t Is true, however, that the
Officers Candidate school will
close with the graduation of the
Tooth class the latter part of this
month, the official said.
Officer Candidate functions
are being transferred to other
camps, it was pointed out.
The Tooth class is expected to
graduate approximately May
rs.
Principal reasons for the be-
lief that Camp Davis will be re-
tanned have been cited as in
volving the fact that the An
tiaircraft Artillery school and
the Antiaircraft Artillery board
are located there.
The war Department has an
investment of more than $780,
100000 in the camp proper and
at firing points at Holly Shell
ter. Sears Landing and Top
sail Inlet. This is expected to
remain a prominent factor in
determining whether or not the
camp will continue operation.
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Allied BOmbers Hit Jap
Installations At Wadke
Red Cross Exceeds
Big War Fund Goal

WASHINGTON, April 29-tR
The Red. Cross announced to-
night it had exceeded its $780,
600, 900 war fund goal for 1914
by more than $1,000, 900.
"The response of the Anleri-
can people has been magnifi-
cent" said Leon Fraser, ma
tional campaign chairman.
The 1914 campaign started
March 1. So far $3.50 of the 81
z49 Red Cross chapters have
reached or passed their quotas.
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use 1000 PLANES
Eighty-Eight German War
planes Destroyed Dur
ing Bitter Assault
ATTACKS CONTINUE
Many Great Fires Are
Kindled In Heart OF The
German Capital
LONDON, Sunday, April 80

AO4NOO1N, OuIludy, APA1l cO
- P) Two thousand u. S.
warplanes, smashing through
box-like stacks of hundreds
of German fighters in the
greatest daylight battle of
the war, cast a 2,500-ton tor
rent of exploding steel and
incendiaries on invasion-jit-
terry Berlin yesterday at a
cost of 60 bombers and IA
fighters.
A U. S. conmunique last night
said that SO German planes were
destroyed in combat, 70 by the
guns of the Flying Fortress and
Liberator crews, and Is by a pow.
erful escort of American Thun.
derbolt, Lightning and Mustang
fighters and Raj Mustangs which
also wrecked parked Nazi aircraft
and shot up 81 locomotives.
At midnight the German radio
indicated that Raj night raiders
were carrying the unprecedented
assaults into the 18th straight day
by warning that Allied planes
were over the Rhenish-Westphal-
ian industrial area of Germany.
The British Press association
said early today that the Raj
was out in strength over Europe
during the night.
Great fires were kindled in the
heart of the German capital which
was bombed usually through holes
in cloud cover. The communicate
termed enemy fighter opposition
determined" and declared "there
were many heavy air battles be-
tween our aircraft and the enc
my's."
Admit Vast Fires
The German-c controlled Vichy
radio in one of its most outspoken
broadcasts said fatty that vast
fires broke out in Berlin" The
Nazi-controlled Oslo radio said
'heavy damage and fires" were
spread in the heart of the Ger
man capital.
The German fighter force,
which has been refusing combat
during American raids on France
this week, engaged in what re-
turning filters described as the
greatest mass sky battles of the
war.
Despite the severity of the fight
ing, the loss of 63 American bomb
ers was not suite as costly as two
previous missions. 1t was less than
fell in the first mass assault on
Berlin March 6, and one less than
in the April II assault on Oscher-
sleben, Bernburg and Rostock. The
total of II planes lost today, how
ever, matched the total casualties
in the March 6 attack when 60
bombers and II fighters were lost.
A separate official announce.
ment said that Thunderbolt fight
er-bombers and fighters attacked
an enemy air field near Rennes
in northern France without loss.
Fierce Battle
The Berlin assault was declared
to be not only the fiercest air bat
tie ever fought at the Nazi CAPT.
tai: 1t was the fiercest ever fought
in the whole course of the war.
The Germans threw up their
new twin-engined plane, the Focke
Wulf 1879, among others, and Nazl
airmen unhesitatingly flew their
planes into their own flak-mak-
ing suicides of whole squadrons.
simultaneously another force Of
up to 500 Flying Fortresses and
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