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VOL. XXV. NO. 75 ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE GREENWOOD, S. C.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 14, 1944 ASSOCIATED PRE8S FKATUKKS NEA FEATURES PRICE FIVE CENTS nn A. Ickes Lists Principles For America Isolation In Assam Feared Other Fronts in In Proposal Bi-Party Way Apparently Movement; Many do Better in Office Made By Senators Left Open for Draft Think General Would Than in the Field 1 Y. 3 v. ij (fa dia Report Japs Make No Progress By Charles Grttmieta New Delhi, April 14. -T-Jap-anese Invasion parties have been encountered In the vicinity of the Blsbenpore-SUrhar Jungle track southwest of Imphal.

further threatening the isolation of both the Manlpur plain and advanced Allied bases In Assam, a cominun lane from Admiral Lord Lou in Mountbstten's southeast Alia command said today. (A Domel broadcast from Tokyo aid the' "last remaining escape Cap out of the Imphat basin" for the British-Indian Fourth Army Corps had been cut by a flying Japanese column which took a height on the Itnpbal-Haochong highway 20 miles northweat of Imphal. The "flower of Mount batten's command la facing anni Dilation or declared an other broadcast from Berlin which quoted Tokyo dispatches.) Elsewhere on the Assam front. however. Japanese Invasion for ces were reported making no progress.

Only patrol A activity elsewhere In thp Imphal basin was announced, and one attack In the Palel-Tamu sector southeast of Imphal was repulsed with 100 of the enemy killed. To the north, around Kohlma, the communique said, Allied op "Solicitors Bearch S. Code fr all provisions relating to primaries wl lch the Oeneral Assembly ptuus to remove from the statute books in a special session beginning Friday night. The special session was recommended by a sub-committee of the State Democratic Executive Committee, fearing court action by Negroes seeking to vote in primaries. CAP photo 1 Gov.

Johnston Vill Have Governmental War Spending At New Peak Lawmakers Partisan Army Takes A Main London, April 14 (V-Troops under the command of Marshal rations to clear the road between JUnphsl and Dlraaparoa Ihe-Penr Jgsl-AMUrail lifeline, were pro- By Jack BeU Washington, April 14. The appointment of Oen. Douglas Mac-Arthur aa secretary of war was proposed by a Republican and a Demo-cratle Senator today as politician calculated the effect of correspondence which most of them interpreted as Indicating MacArthur is receptive tu a GOP presidential nomination. Chiefly by what he lt-ft uniald in an ekchbitge of letters iuitt made public by Hep. MiUer iR-Neto), Mac-Arthur apparently left the way open for a draft movement, and hearten ed supporters declared they would canvass couventlou delegates in an effort to persuade them to nominate the general.

Replying to suggstlons by Mill er that he nold hlnuelf ready for a nomination with wnjclt the Nebras-kau predicted Muc Arthur coulc carry every state, the general wrott that he did not anticipate fulfillment of these "flattering predictions." He did not say he would not accept such a nomination. F'swresscs Interest MacArthur expressed interest I vttucai appralsel of horn front conditions and warned against letting the nation "slip into the same condition internally as tht one which we fight Practical politicians took this mean that MacArthur would be willing to run. But some of thost not classed stnong his enthusiasts thought this word had eom to light too late to overcome the lead Gov. Thomas E. Dewey ot New York, has acquired in an equally unauthorised scramble for government delegates The draft movement thus far has given MacArthur only three, as against l-U pledged and claimed for Dewey.

(Needed to nominate: 630.) Senator Thomas (R-Idahoi, one of those who thinks It will be Dewey on the first ballot, said he would like to see the party's nominee announce that he would ask 'MacArthur to return home to replace Secretary of War SUmson, himself a Republican. Ilelp Effort "It certainly would help the war effort to have MacArthur In that cabinet post," Thomas told a reporter. Likewise, he indited a belief that Mac Arthur's popularity, as demonstrated hefty vote In the Illinois preferential primary, might thus be utilized by the Republicans. There was talk about the Republicans of nominating the general for vice president, but doubt was expressed thst he srould sccept. Most Congiessional DemocraU were critical of Mac Arthur's attitude, as expressed in his letters to Miller, but Senator Chaves D-NM said he thought his party ought tc bring the general home Immediately as war secretary.

Chaves, who has criticised Stun-son at timet, said he thought Mac-Arthur could be of more service In the cabinet than in the field. Senator Bridges (R-KU-. a mem-Page Column 7 greasing. YUlts Imphal The Japanese nrevloMly had i neen reoonea neneirauua wwi of the road both north and south ct Imphal but had not been en countered before on the trail lead- jt-' log to Slkhar. 70 miles west, of Imnhal and the terminus of a San Francisco, April 14 UO-Ownership and control of war plants by the men and women who served in the United States Armed Forces was wanested today bv Harold Ickes, secretary of the Interior, as a meat of providing maximum production and employment in the post-war period.

"if these plants are merely turned over to be quietly throttled In the interest of an economy of scarcity farce production, scarce opportunity and few Jobs we can confidently look forward to post-war chaos." Ickes said in a speech for delivery to the San Francisco Commonwealth Club. "On the other hand, continued fovernmeht ownership and opei-a-lion would be a negative answer. "We must make sure that the ownership and control of these Giants com to rest in the hands of those who are Interested their continued, full operation and have hopes of a rejuvenated and even more vigorous America. "I know of no better way to ac complish this plan than to vest the ownership and control of these government plants in the men and women who have served in our armed forces. These an the people, who, we can be sure, will be Inter piled maximum production and maximum employment.

Giving to each of them a share in the owner snip and control of a giant seg jtcnl of American Industry would amount to giving them a stake In he future of the democratic econo my of America which tney are lighting to preserve, this-would be a revised edition of the homestead cts and of the" land proviskm of the reclamation law. it would a-mount to living these ten million young people shares of stock in the America for which they have ricked their Ickes outlined a set of four prin ciples for a post-war America: "First, mere must be a world aide political and economic stability based upon the Atlantic Char ier. 'Second, the United State must supply what it Is best able to pro duce to satisfy ate needs of the world. XXX Third, the purchasing power of Americans must be maintained at high level. XXX "Fourth, private cartels and mo nopolies must be eliminated.

XXX Bong Probably Most Envied U.S. Pilot Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific. April 15. 0PV- Richard I. Bong, America's No.

1 ace, la prob ably ti most envied man In the U. A. Army Air Corps today because: 1. On Wednesday, he shot down his 27th enemy plane to become the top-ranking combat fighter pilot in American history. 3.

On the same day, the 23-year- old Poplar, pilot was promoted from captain to major. S. Be qualified for a case of Scotch whisky offered by Oapt. Ed die Rlckenbacker, America's World War I ace. to the first man to exceed his 25-aircraft record.

for France. Instead Oen. Charles de Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation la to be given control of the civil administration of liberated France, receiving "military recognition" as the official authority but not being granted diplomatic recognition as the French "government." Flan Worked Oat Details of the tri-power administration of Oermany are being worked out by the European advisory commission in conjunction with military chiefs, an, informant aaid. giving this picture of Allied plans: For some time after the armistice, as well as before Elsenhower as chief of the military government force will have direct control over an parts of Oermany occupied by the Americana and British, or other Allied troop except the Russians. Page ft Column 4 Prospect Of Fall Grips Russians By Fxhly ftllmore Moaeow), April 14.

Tbe nroMpoct of the fall of Sevastopol today the Russian orthodox Good Friday gripped the imagination of the Russian people as the Red army slashed through disorganised groups of German and Romanians, many of whom were urreu4ring by battailous. Red Star's, corresncne'ent. Ma. Vastly Ignatlev, said "the enemy has carcked at the with fleeing Axis, troop out of control and Ingreat confusion, as Gen. Andrei I.

Yeremenko's mar- (ice army and Oen. Feodor I. Tolbei khln's fourth Ukrainian army bore down on the naval base which resisted enemy attack for nine months in 1141 and 1143. Scores of German and Romanian battalion deserted by their commanders, raced for tHe port but It ippenred that even if they reached tbenase before the Red army link their escape would be Im-possible "Your tanks have made sheep af us," said German Lt. Wolfgang anAUlVe.r raf In to the but even jf we get there we have no to Those of US who do not surrender will be killed." The plain-speaking officer who was captured on the road between Simferopol and Sevastopol, made the statement to Red army offi cers, ia the presence of the corre spondent for lb Moscow newspa per Ixvestla.

The road from Hlmferopol. a 3 (-mile stretch, is all down bill, and parallels the central Crimean railway. Agnat ley said that he saw one entire hattallou surrender all Its weapons. Isvestla's corre-spondeat reported thst he witnessed the surrender without re-' slstsnce of two other bsttsilons, and said that the last effort by 'Page Column 6 FDR Jr. Plans To Go To Sea Shortly Miami.

April 14." V-Ueut. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Jr, Is plan, nine to out to sea shortl ss mm. msnder of patrol The president's third son com.

pleted six-week course at the euh chaser center yesterday and onicers ssaI he was awarded a command on the basis of "a very cred itable record Lt. Roosevelt was with a deetrov er group that saw action from Iceland to the south Atlantic before. he reported here Feb. t. Ue was wounded sllshtlv at Palermo 'durtrui the Invasion of Europe.

ed for minor injuries, had hoped to return, home with the plane in which he rod out his operational esreer. "I don't want to be a transport pilot but sure want to keep on flying," be bad said In the officers lounge the night before his last nibmlon. hope I csa get Into the business end of aviation after this war and the be able to take planes Bp everytlme I want." Ftoe Ft) lac 't Gentile did some of the fluent flying of bis esreer In lifting bis red-nosed Mustang off the turf of this landing field when be returned from that oiUnion and saved himself and a group standing In front of the operations hut, After the ersn be was tkn to the hospital and lii I after showing sixu of 7 1, Page I Cwtur.n i spur line from tne Bengal-Assam railway. Blshenpur Is 17 miles aouthwest of ImphaL Page Column Greece Forms New Cabinet To End Home Strife 4 Cairo. April 14 -Jn an effort to end factional strife nmong divergent political elements Inside and outside Oreeoe.

King Oeorgen has Instructed Sophocles Veniaelos Id form a new Oreek. cabinet truly t( representative of his people. who has been serving as navy minister, was recommended as the new government leader by Emraanuele Tsouderos when he re signed as premier April 3. Tsoodems baa been carrying' on as premler'at the King's request pending designation of a sucessor. In accepting the commission to form a new government Veniaelos promised he would submit the names of his new cabinet ministers within 34 hours, though It previously had been indicated that action would be delayed pending the arrival of representatives of various Oreek factions from the homeland CevennnenUl war spending reached a new peak ef In March, an Increase of IJ per cent ever the previa recent atonlh of February and the total eatlay for war to from the start af the defense July 1940.

The War Productive 3or4 released the figures. Third Victim Of boating Occident Manning, April H. Vlfc Clarendon M-ounty Coroner C. M. TbiRpen said today the body of the third victim of a March 1 lake iUrlon boating accident had been recovered by an employe of the South Carollus Public Service intee-Cooper) Authority.

1 The victim was listed as John Alien of Charleston who drowned ufter a boat capsized with hint and three other men on the an-tee-Cooper lake. Lulund and John Carroll Taylor of JoUnnouville and George Smith of Georgia clung to the overturned loat until they drifted to an la-luiid. Tha Carroll died later of expoHUre. Allan's lody was sought unsuc-etsrully jr several days by residents of the section and a detachment of coast, guardsmen from Charleston. Mrs.

Murphy Smashes Way To 'Freedom Charlotte, N. 4. (A ApiMirentl: tired of beln stared at. Mrs. Murphy, an lt-pound monkey, picked up a heavy china bowl and smasned her way out of the plate glass window of a feed store here today, then scampered ucwru the arret for a block and took retuge in a tree on the city Lall lawn.

C. E. Kale, her owner, warned strangers that Mrs. Murphy was of wuj uiopuuuua aud might try to chew the arm off of any one who got too near. He was not concerned about her geumg away, however, saying she'd come borne as soon ss she was hungiy.

Message For Columbia, j) Oeneral Assemblymen who will meet here tonight irt extraordinary session to consider repeal of primary statutes that party leaders feared might invite court action bringing negroes Into the state's Democratic party' wilt hear a detailed explanation from the governor and be greeted by prepared bills when they convene. Oovernor Olin D. Johnston said he would have a inexaage of explanation ready for the lawmakers and nine solicitors worked today to have ready bills to repeal primary laws whlcu they estimated numbered between 75, and J00. Tne governor called the special session the fourth since 1S95 Wednesday aft6. a sub-committee of the State Democratic Executive Committee bad suggested that primary laws be repealed "to keep our white Democratic primaries pure," Johnston said.

Forty-six Isws regulating Dem ocratic primaries were repealed in effective June 1 of. this year and "that met the contingency of a (U. 8.) Supreme Court decision in a Louisiana case." Solicitor Robert McC. Flag. of Charleston said.

"That affected only 'primaries for. selection of Federal office holders Congressmen and Senators' In particular. "But the recent Txai Jeclsion seems to mean that ar. selection of candidates held authority of state laws and which by law are In any way connected with the general elections, Is open to all comer; Y'v V- "Any repealing now done must completely separate' tie party and primary from, the state's code ot laws." Y' i.V He said that many the Isws whose repeal would suggested could be lumped In one bill "as they are general dealing with primaries generally. But where a law pots election of a cot ton weigher of one county In a Page ft Column 1 Montbatten Visits Garrison Of Imphal For Conference New Delhi April 14.

CV- Ad miral Lord Louis Mount batten, chief of the southeast Asia com mand, paid a surprise visit to the Imphal front Saturday and held a half -hour conference with the. commander of the garrison defending that important base against Japanese troop invading India's Manlpur (Inasmuch as land communications with Imphal have been reported several by the Japanese Mount-batten presumablly reached there br plane, although the dispatch was not specifle on this point- Accidents On Home Front More Than War New York, April 14 WV-Accidents on the home front are killing and Injuring many more persons than the war. Business Week reports In its current issue. Industrial accidents, the maga-. tine says, killed 7500 more persons In the period fiom Pearl Harbor to January of this year than died in the war.

Permanently and tent porarily disabled industrial workers outnumbered war casualties 60 to 1. -i' "This reco: -a due In part to peak emplojment, but the frequency of accident per man-hour worked in manufacturing industries also continued to mount showing a 26 per cent explains the magarine. "The causes ol the high accident "rate are apparent enough. The influx of inexperienced, crowded plant conditions, the rush to meet production schedules, and war nerves easily, account for the rise." The report notes that the frequency of accident dropped in December in tl shipbuilding industry, canning; and preserving. iron and stel foundries, slaughtering and meat packing and in industrial machinery.

The total rate was raised because of the large number of accidents In plants manufacturing military tank, parts, aircraft parts, heavy ammunition, food product machinery, bootc and shoes, and stamped and pressed metal product. Ace Pilot's Plane Goes Down In Channel. A United States Fighter April 14. OPt The Thunderbolt which Capt. Robert B.

Johnson of Lawton. Okls, flew while bagging most of the 29 German plane he I credited with destroying, crashed in the Channel on March 23 when one of Johnson's mates wss flying it on a Berlin The pilot of the plan was IX Dale Stream. 19, of Grant, Mich, described by Johnson aa "probably the best young fighter pilot I've ever seen for both skill courage." Other flier said they saw stream go into spin lia heavy cloud Announcement of the crash was delayed until today to permit notification of hi next of kin. Josip (Tito Bror, Yugoslav Parti san leader, have recaptured the town of Cazin, an Important highway Junction on one of the main cross-country routes between the Oerman-heut bast. Zagreb and Sibenik, a comm unique broadcast by the free Yugoslav radio announced Cszin is 58 miles southwest of Zagreb and miles north of Sibenik, Axis supply port on the Dal-mation coast.

The Paitlsam cleared the whole town of Cazin of German troops with the exceptun of the fortress garrison which Is now under siege, Tito bulletin said. Sixty-two mil south of Cazin reeinforced Axis forces stormed and captured the town of Oolubtc, eight north or Knin and 33 miles northwest of Sibenik. which had recently been taken over by Partisan troofis. Tito reported the whole western Bosnia north of Sibenik blazing into action as rival forces fought for control of the coastal communication lines, Tito added, with results still undetermined. Partisan troops, 1iover, sue-' ceeded In specking the Zagreb-8i-sak railway in several piacs, accenting to Tito'? communique.

Fighting of equal intensity wa reported from eastent Bosnia. Axis forces were still on the offensive in the Studenica river valley In Serbia obi Tito's troops were said to be reputttng all attacks with severe to the enemy, who has been reinforced by Bulgarian iroops. Sergeant Given Emergency Furlough To See 111 Baby Rahway N. April 14. Granted en emergency furlough to see his 18-months-old daughter who is suffering the dread blood malady leukemia, staff Sgt.

Elmer Truax is enroute from the South Pacific to his home here, his wife said last night. tijPThe wife. Alice, had appealed to' President Roosevelt to let the sergeant ccme back to see the baby Theresa again. She is reported in serious, condition st the Presbyterian Medical Center, New York. The father has been overseas since last September.

Mrs. Truer said she received a letter yesterday from Brig. Oen Robert 1L Dunlop. acting adjutant general, at Washington, saying her husband would arrive in the United States about April' Top US Ace In European Theater May Have Closed Fighter Career By Crash Defeated Germany To Be Governed By Joint AMG With Teeth In It A V. 8.

Fighter Base In Eogr land, April. 14. Capt. Don Gentile, top American ace In the European theater, may have closed bis operational fighter career with bis latest mission in which he was Injured slightly la a crash landing. The Plqua.

ace who baa 30 German plaues to his credit -23 shot down In aerial combat and seven destroyed on the ground-has long, since passed bis second quota of missions. He was going after the top European mark of 32 plane held by RAF Group Capt. G. A. Matan, hut had planned it to be bis Isst operational flight In any case.

"I'm going after aian's mark." he bad said as be leaned over the cockpit Jast before the take-off. Gentlte, now released from the base hospital where be was treat By Was Gallagher' London. April 14. V-Oefeeted Germany will be governed by a Joint American British Russian -Allied mUtiary government with teeth In It," a reliable source In cteee touch with Allied armistice proposals declared today. vv )4 And.

he added. Oen. Dwlght D. Elsenhower as supreme commander of the Allied western front forces will be given the greatest authority In history, even greater than that exercised by old Roman generals. Besides commanding all Allied land, sea and air forces, be will exercise direct and Indirect control over the civilian Ufa of aos of liberated Y' I plan for Oermany was disclosed in broad outline after It was learned last night that no Allied military government was Intended i WHITER FILKM HUT Xew Haven, April 141 4 Mra.

Helen Grace Carlltle, a SUmford writer, filed suit in federal, court today against Warner Brothers Pictures, and Ota ere, charging that the picture "Princess O'Koarke," which won the 1943 academy award for the best original screen play, was pirated from a novelette she wrote. Mrs. CarlUle asks $300,000 damages.