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Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-10
N. G. STATE ALUMNI
VOTE ON OFFICERS

Raleigh. April lO.-North Caro-
Ina State College alumni Will begin
voting for officers 10 hcaG the Cen
eral Alumni Association as soon as
they receive ballots. which are be-
ing printed in the April issue of the
State College News. monthly alumni
publication. it was announced today
by Alumni Secretary II. W. pop)
Taylor.
Polls will open upon arrival of
the magazine and will close Monday,
May Is. at i.3O y. IN. Only active
members arc eligible to vote. The
ballots viii be counted. and the re-
suits will be certified by three mem
oerS OF the Executive Committee.
who are not candidates for re-elec-
ton. Announcement Of the results
will be made on or before the an.
nual meeting Of the association in
Raleigh on May 2G, Taylor said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-10
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
BY Shepard Barclay
"The Authority Authorities"

The dcCiar"rs who we're set then
decided TO play West for the dia.
mord q as part of TIE strength
for his heart bid. They lail down
the diamond 4 and then led. in.
tending To tincSSc When West dis.
cardcd a heart. they realized they
would have to lose Il trick to the
diamond . and accept defeat.
\ few Of the dcClarcrs made the
contract by guessing Last for tn.
diamond q and leading the J from
dummy toward the a. The better
ones. however. eliminated all
gucSswork. After winning the
fourth trick with the club X and
dropping trumrS. they scored the
club y and ruffcd the club 6. When
West followed suit to all three
club rounds. he marked himself
definitely as having held six
hearts. thre" spades. three clubs
and consequently only one dia-
mond SO those d"Clarors knew en-
aCtly how 10 play the diamonds.
whining with the l. and then
leading through the Q. which
they knew was held by East.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-10
TEST THE SITUATION

BEFORE deciding which dircc-
ton to take i iiresse that can be
tried cithcrl way. a declarer
should always. If possible. try TO
find out about II. Frequently the
playing of other tricks first will
enable him TO get q count on ore
OF the defenders hands. or at least
n very strong indication as TO
which of them holds the card
which worries HIM BY doing this.
he can often eliminate GuCsswork
entirely or reduce It 10 Il mini
.lu.l.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-10

Everybody in duplicate played
this deal nj the same contract Of
4-Spadcs. but not everybody made
It Several wern set because they
played the diamond tinessa in the
wrong direction and lost a trick TO
the Q.
Several tricks we're exactly the
same at all tables West took the
heart X ard \ and led n third
heart. which East ruffci The
club J vas returned 10 tho * ard
three spades Grcw the outStard.
!rg trumps
Distributed h. King
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-10

dealer North. Eas: Vest vul.
reratleD
If West had bid both rcd suits
and wound up in 2-riamcnds.
doubled by South. what should
North lead Why?
eaturcs Syndicate. Inc.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-10

ia'' !!r.-.- -. 100 ,iJic!
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MAYOR CAMERON
SLIGHTLY BETTER

Mayor Bruce B. Cameron had
"a very good day" yesterday and
his condition had somewhat i'm
proved over that of the previous
day, his physician, DR.. c. l..
Brown of Philadelphia's Temple
university hospital. reported to the
Star in a telephone conversation
last night.
DR.. Brown said that the mayors
speech was still affected although
i. was becoming clearer, and that
his right arm was still paralyz-
ed.
Mrs. Cameron was taken to the
same hospital Saturday to have an
arm fracture reset, DR.. Brown
said. The mayor was given a room
directly across the hall from his
wife, who was reported "getting
along fine
DR.. Brown told the Star, "sev-
eral members of the family are
here, and 1 think they're all quite
happy. Ma. or and Mrs. William
E. Echols arrived in Philadelphia
from New Orleans Monday night.
Mrs. Echols is Mayor Cameron's
eldest daughter.
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DANISH STRIKERS
ORDERED TO WORK

STOCKHOLM, July 4.-tR)-Den-
marks liberty council directed the
Copenhagen population to resume
work tomorrow after a five-day
general strike and street rioting
which wrung concessions from the
German occupation authorities,
the Free Danish press service re-
ported today.
The Danish capital was return
ing gradually to normal following
a German promise to meet these
demands from the aroused Danes:
l. Withdrawal Of the so-called
Schalburg corps from the streets
and negotiations on disposition Of
the group which the Danes charge
was responsible for many recent
disorders.
2. Lifting Of the curfew in the
near future.
3. No reprisa1s because of the
strike.
4. Copenhagen transport system
to close nightly at p. m. instead
of II P. NJ, at the request of tram.
way workers.
S. Fire not to be opened on
crowds unless weapons are in evi.
dence.
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The Nazi offered particularly
fierce opposition along the west
coast, where an American infantry
combat team stabbed to within five
miles of Livorno Geghorn) and
within % miles of the edge of
Pisa.
At points the Yanks were report
ed within artillery range Of the en-
emy's Gothic line defenses, rum
ming from the Pisa area across the
peninsula to Rimini on the Adria-
tic.
The Eighth army mopped up the
entire area Immediately north Of
Lake Trasimeno in hard fighting,
with some Nazi units resisting to
the last man and the last round, :"
an Allied spokesman said. Mag
lone, on the east side Of the lake,
was taken after a bitter struggle.
In advancing to. within eight miles
of the inland communications Gen.
ter of Arezzo, on a main highway
to Florence, British and other
Eighth army troops inflicted upon
the Germans what were officially
announced as the heaviest losses
since the Hitler line was broken.
It was in this immediate area
that Hannibal annihilated trap
ped Roman army of $1,000 men
more than 2,100 years ago.
From historic Siena, occupied
early yesterday almost without a
fight, French colonial infantry and
American armored units pushed on
toward Florence, 81 airline miles
away, after pausing only long
enough to raise their flags over the
city. Only a small garrison was
left in Siena.
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FBI INVESTIGATES
DYNAMITE BLAST

BEDFORD, N. H., July 4.-(P-
Agents of the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation and local officials
sought today to determine the cause
OF the explosion of seven and
half tol.s of dynamite in a ware
house last night, creating a panic
IN nearby Manchester and causing
damage to windows over a 70-mlle
radius.
State guardsmen and police pa
trolled the area where the explosion
ripped a hole Is feet deep and l5O
feet square, making a shamoles
OF the warehouse, owned by the
JohA B. Varick Company.
fhere were no reports of serious
Injury but more than a dozen per-
sons were treated at nearby hospl-
tails after being cut by flying glass.
The force of the blast appeared
to mushroom upward and then set
tie toward earth. Although there
was considerable property damage
reported in Bedford, Elm street,
the main throughfare of Manches
ter, four miles away bore the brun1
Of the Notwithstanding concus
sion. Police Chief James F. o.
Neil of Manchester estimated win
dow damage there at $25, 1000.
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jap Sub Rams Lifeboat;
Machine-Gur1s Suruiu0rs

Drechsler, junior assistant ell
gineer, Whiteside, N. Y, was
credited with saving the lives
of some of. the 80 men crowd
ed into lifeboat built to accom-
modate only 81. The still prov
ided enough drinking water to
allow each man seven ounces
daily.
The Richard Hovey was in
The Arabian Sea, home-bound
from India, when attacked.
Purser James F. O'Connor, Mi
ami, Fla, reported the mach
ine-gunning of the lifeboats be-
gan shortly after the ship went
down from two direct torpedo
hits and surface Smelling. The
sub then rammed the lifeboat
in which O'Connor was a pass
enger, Japanese on deck laugh
ing at and photographing strug-
Cling survivors, VISA said.
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WASHINGTON, July 4.-P)-
Their lifeboat machine-gunned
and rammed by a japanese
submarine that sank their ship,
80 survivors of the American
freighter Richard Hovey have
been rescued after 16 days
adrift under a blistering Ara
bian Sea sun and landed at
Cochin, India, the War Ship
ping Administration ANNOUNCE
ed today.
Four men were killed in the
sinking of the Liberty ship sew
eral weeks ago. The vessels
master, Capt. Hans Thorsen,
and three of his seamen were
taken away on the submarine,
and Is other survivors were
picked up three days after the
sinking.
An improvised still fashioned
from odds and ends by John
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HOLIDAY DEATHS
CLIMB TO 329
(Bv The Associated Press


Violent and accidental deaths
mounted to 1923 yesterday as the
four-day Fourth of July holiday
weekend drew to a close.
Traffic accidents, as in previous
wears. represented the. largest sin
Gle death cause with toll OF l4o
persons, although the number OF
fatalities was below that OF the
pre-gas rationing years.
In addition IS persons drowned
and 81 died from a variety OF 9TH
err causes.
Four of the holiday deaths were
the result of the wrecking of the
westbound Santa Fee Chief near
Flagstaff, Ariz., late last night.
In New York authorities describ-
ed the holiday observance as the
safest and sanest'' in the city S
history.
While exceeding by small num-
Der the total for the three-day In
dependence Day weekend last year
holiday deaths still were below the
1000 estimated predicted by the
National Council of Safety.
Illinois with 81 accidental deaths
led the nation, followed by Califor-
MAS % and New York's 20. Calf
ornia had Is traffic deaths, the
largest number reported for any
state.
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intercepting Japa ese fighter
planes. Sixteen others probably
were knocked out, and "a damag-
ed or destroyed on the ground.
Two is only 755 miles southeast
of Tokyo and 727 miles north of
Saipan.
Marines and doughboys on the
east coast of Saipan accelerated
their drive and reached a point
within four miles of Inacsa point,
at the northeastern tip of the is
land.
At the center of the shortened
and Strengthened battle line cross
ing the island, 9th Army division
troops fought through mountain
ridges and ravines to encircle
Atchugau village.
In 10 days of fierce fighting the
American forces have won seven
eighths of Saipan. They have back
ed the Japanese into narrow neck
of land at the north end of the
island.
Nimitz reported 1872 Japanese
dead had been buried. Many other
casualties had been buried or hid
den by the enemy.
Capture of bomb and shell wreck.
ed .Garapan and the northward
thrust to Tanapag put the Amer
leans in control of Tanapag har.
Dor, Saipan's only sheltered port.
Use of the port will sisalify the
problem of supplying the forces
pressing for quick conquest oil
the island
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GREAT AIR FLEET
BLASTS GERMANS

. LONDON, July 4. -(P- In a
great Fourth of July resurgence d
air assaults, nearly 5000 Allied
bombers and fighters ranged over
France from dawn until dark blast
ing away at scores of targets in
close support of the new American
and British-Canadian ground drives
in Normandy.
Operations continued late into the
evening. Toward dusk American
Marauders droned across the chan
mel toward the Pas de Calais rock
ct bomb area.
The incomplete score of the days
operations showed Is Allied planes,
including two heavy bombers, lost
against six German planes shot
down.
In addition to thousands of indi-
vidual attacks by fighters and
fighter bombers, both American
and British heavy bomber fleets
were out.
Up to 500 American heavyweights
from Italy bombed an oil refinery
at Brasov, Romania, and a bridge
and railroad shops at Pitesti, in
the same country.
An equal number of Fortresses
and Liberators from Britain cele'
brated the second anniversary Of
the first American bombing of Eu-
rope by hitting German air bases
in northern France.
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EXPRESS TRAIN
BADLY WRECKED

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., July AZ
The Santa Fe's Chief, speeding
15e passengers toward the west
coast eased over a mountain hump,
rounded a slight curve and headed
into long straightaway last
night, then suddenly piled up In
a spectacular wreck.
Company officials said four per-
CONC. the fireman and three pass
engers, were killed and more thar
80 injured, some Of them critically
ta1tlc on both tracks was TIED
W more than II hours.
The engine, one of the lines larg'
est mountain-type, and II of the ex'
e trains IA coaches let the
track.
-..e four mail and express carr
catapulted over the locomotive,
which toppled astride the track
The fifth, a sleeper, smashed into
the wreckage with such force ii
was necessa : to cut one end away
with blow torches to reach the
QedQ ana injured.
With Indians tending bonfires to
provide light for rescue efforts, Ar
my and Naval personnel aboard
the train took charge. Some OF
these were doctors. Other physl-
clans, nurses and ambulances were
sent to the scene from Williams,
Winslow, Flagstaff and the govern
ment hospital at the Navajo ord
nance depot at Bellemont.
In spite of calm directions from
the military, Deputy Sheriff +. L.
Shanks, one of the first to reach
the scene, said most of the pass
engers, suddenly awakened, milled
about in confusion. He said most
of them were too excited to tell
what happened.
Victor F. Dunsmore an execu.
tive of the Los Angeles Herald and
Express, telephoned his office that
he was walking through car Wner
the luxury train 'buckled up with
a horrible screech.'
sSteam from the wrecked loco:
motive shrieked out and seemed
to cover the whole train," he con
tinued. "Some of the passengers
who were thrown from the tram
were burned"
Dunsmore said there were
screams and cries for help. Unln
iured passengers began pulling 9th
ers from the wreckage.
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AID INVADERS

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS New Guinea, Wednes--
day July 5.P)-Parachuting troops
have reinforced the American peri
meter on Noemfoor Island, head
quarters announced today.
The island off Dutch New Guinea,
invaded Sunday, has no seaworthy
approaches and aerial reinforce
ment was the most efficient meth
cd available.
Headquarters said japanese
positions east of captured Kamlri
airdrome we're being hquidated
with the help of tanks. Troops
which captured Kamiri two hours
after the landing are driving to-
ward the islands two remaining
airstrips.
Southwest Pacific bombers also
raided zap Island in the Carolines.
dropping 80 tons of explosives and
destroying four Japanese air
planes.
On the Dutch New Guinea main
land in the Sarmi-Maffin bay area,
the Allied perimeter was being en-
larged against weakening resls-
lance.
Much japanese equipment was
captured. The Sarmi airdrome was
taken only last Friday after SIX
weeks of slow, difficult jungle war
fare.
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BRITISH CAPTURE
JAP STRONGHOLD

SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Handy, Ceylon.
July 4.-R-Fighting in monsoon
rains at the India border BRUSH
imperial troops have captured uK.
hrul, japanese stronghold north OF
Imphal, it was announced today.
American troops in North Burma
annihilated an enemy force at
tempting to penetrate the man
airfield at the besieged Japanese
base of Myitkyina.
A communicate from headquar-
ters of Lord Louis Mountbatten
said that three japanese attacks
southwest of Hyitkyina had been
repulsed with no important change
in the battle line in that area.
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Saipan Capital Falls
To American Invaders
Seven Eighths OF Island
Won From Japanese
In 18-Day Fight

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harboc, July q
-lR- American Marines and in
fantry have captured Garapan,
capital of the Marianas islands
and swept a mile and half be-
yond to overrun Tanapag, Adm.
Chester w. Nimitz announced to-
day in reporting a general ad-
vance that promised an early de-
cision in the bitter battle for Sal
pan.
The communique also reported
fast American carrier group
struck Two island in the Volcano
group Tuesday, shooting down SO
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Naziis Lose
Last City
In Russia
p0LOTSK CAPITULATES
Great Offensive Moving
At Tremendous Speed
In Eastward Drive

LONDON, Wednesday, July
5-(P-Indomitable Russian
troops completed the capture
If Polotsk in White Russia
Yesterday after hours of
handto-hand fighting. while
other Red troops drove 81
miles west of previously an
nounced positions and point
ed a spearhead directly at the
ancient Polish city of Wilno
Wilma Moscow said today.
With German defenses crumbling
all along the 3O0-mile front, the
vanguard of Gen. Ivan Bagram-
ians first Baltic army burst
through the sparsely-settled lake
country southwest of Polotsk and
occupied the railway station of
Konstantinov, 48 miles northwest
of Wilno.
In this spreading offensive, Bag
famians army also captured more
than 300 other places, one of which,
the district center of Myeri was
within 10 miles of the Latvian Dor
der
Polotsk. already left far in the
rear by the westward rush of the
Red armies, was entered Monday
by Bagramian' troops and was
the scene of bitter street fighting
with bayonets and small arms dur
ing the night.
Moscow said that the Germans
brought up reinforcements and
fought fiercely to hold the city OF
r. 1000. their largest remaining foot
hold on Soviet soil. At least Is
counterattacks were made by the
Nazis striking from their block
houses and entertainments behind
barbed wire, but none of these stop
ped the relentless advance of the
Soviet tanks and infantry.
The end was inevitable and the
German radio finally announced
that the Nazis had evacuated the
city even before its capture was
announced by Premier Marshal
Stain in a special order of the
day.
Altogether nearly 900 places were
captured during Tuesdays fighting,
the Russian nightly communique
announced.
The official army paper Red Star
said, The Red army is moving to-
ward the German frontier like an
avalanche. Our offensive now is
moving faster than ever. White
Russia is the scene of debacle
unprecedented in history"
Observers in both Moscow and
London reckoned that at the pres
ent rate of advance, the Russians
should be within shooting distance
of East Prussia within week.
Russian and British sources =
London estimated that of some 522,
900 square miles of prewar Rus
sian territory that the Germans
held at the time of their largest
occupation, they now firmly re-
tanned less than one-tenth.
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Wilmington Has Quiet Fourth

pendence Day dinner party
was held at the Surf club;
dances were held at the Lumina
and the Plantation club; and
a skating party was held at
the Second and Orange USO
club after an address by Judge
John J. Burney.
Esta blishments observing the
holiday yesterday were the city
hall, courthouse, customs house
banks, retail stores, liquor
stores and the post office.
Probably accounting to some
extent for the smaller-than-ex-
pected crowds at the beaches
and the Observation-Disclosures
Sunday crowd in the city was
the fact that public utilities the
North Carolina Shipbuilding
company, the Tidewater Con-
struction corporation at the
Naval Drydock, and the Ethyl
Dow Chemical company ran on
regular schedule.
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Wilmington, emptied Of the
thousands Of holiday bound
travellers and employees OF
local establishments who re-
ceived a Fourth of July holt
day, wore an air of tranquil
ty yesterday as residents and
vacationists journeyed to the
surrounding beaches or spent
a restful day at home.
Attendance at Wrightsville,
Carolina and Kure Beaches did
not supply the answer to the
sparse sprinkling of people in
the city, for police officials
at the beaches stated that the
holiday did not bring the ex-
pected crowds to the resorts.
s'Today is just like Sunday"
was the beach report.
Police also disclosed that the
usual independence Day acct
dents did not occur-no one
was pulled out of the surf,
children were not lost, and
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flanagan Selected
To Represent F. D. r.

CHICAGO, July 4.-P)- Plans
Tor the 29th Democratic National
convention starting July 10 in Chi
cago were all but completed today
with word from party officials that
PRESIDENT Roosevelt's interests
mere would be represented by Ro-
pert f. Hannegan, 40-year-old De-
Mocratic national chairman.
Hannegan, strong fourth term sup
Porter who has predicted the Pres
Icent'S denomination and accep-
lance, will fill the places occupied
at the 1910 convention by those
New Deal observation-disclosures F.
bbyrneS and Harry L. Hopkins.
Byrnes was the Roosevelt floor
manager four years ago; Hopkins
me man at the telephone linked
With the White House.
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La Hayes Fall Imminent
AS New American Offense
Skaters German Forces
CANADIANS GET
| TOWN, AIRPORT
Great Artillery Barrage
Touches Off Fireworks
On Fourth OF July

SUPREME HEADQUAR-
TIERS ALLIED EXPEDI-
TIONARY FORCE, Wednes-
day, July 5. - (P - U. S.
troops, supported by an artil-
lery barrage greater than
that which shattered Marshal
RommePs Elamein defenses in
Egypt, yesterday captured
the last ridge overlooking the
tottering German west Nor
mandy anchor and six-way
road junction of La Haye du
Puts.
With the fall of La Haye regard
ed as imminent, Canadian troops.
springing forward in their first
major action since mid-June, cap
tured Carpiquet and spilled across
it's airport only three miles west
of the imperilled German eastern
anchor of Caen.
1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Am
erican First Army commander,
himself pulled the lanyard of one
Long Tom rifle at noon yesterday
as hundreds Of guns sent shells
crashing into selected German tar
gets in the biggest Fourth Of July
fireworks ever touched off by one
army.
A dispatch from Associated Press
Front Correspondent Don White
head said the mighty "serenade"
was more powerful than that used
by Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
cry in breaking Rammel's 1912
line in Egypt at the beginning of
the Allied North African conquest.
Heavy fighting was raging along
a 20-mile front from Carentan to
the sea on the west side of the
Cherbourg peninsula as the Amer
leans hammered out two-day gains
of two to four or more miles. Four
more villages fell to the Amer
leans, one of them only one and
a half miles from La Haye.
Headquarters disclosed that st.
Jores, road and rail point six miles
east of La Haye, had changed hands
since the Americans took it Mon
day. The Germans again were
thrown out of there today, front
dispatches said.
An Allied communique issued at
1880 pm. told of Substantial
gains around La Haye, including
the capture of dominating heights
outside the town, and also ANNOUNCE
ed the fall of Carpiquet and said
fighting was raging for possession
of its airport.
Vicious hand-to-hand fighting &C.
Cured between the Canadians and
Germans around hangar at Car.
piquet airport, front dispatches
said.
British rocket-firing Typhoons
supporting the Canadian advance
fired on the Germans at point.
blank range.
Verson had been abandoned by
the Germans after a deadly Brit
ish artillery fire, dispatches said.
British artillery was Smelling the
small, desperate band of Germans
clinging to hangers at the Carpi-
quet aicfield, and British staff
officer in the field summarized
capture of the town thus: We've
driven one stage nearer Caen. To-
day was a good beat forward. The
Boche still is very strong within
his ring of dug-in tanks before
| roop homevern