Robesonian (Newspaper) - July 22, 1946, Lumberton, North Carolina thb It THE ROBESONIAN By Of Press NO No 158 OP A Drafts LUMBERTON N C MONDAY JULY 22 1946 SIX PAGES TODAY Country God ind Truth 5 1979 Of New New Pearl Harbor r Probe Is Planned By Senate Croup MARS IN STED TAKEOFF Mead Committee T o Investigate Engineer GOP May Conduct Own Probe By Washington July new but pinpointed Pearl Harbor investigation hove into view to day The senate war investigating its cue from voluminous report assessing responsibility for the Dec 7 1941 military debacle decided to re open its own inquiry into prewar delays in fortifying the Pacific bastion Senator Brewster RMe said a similar effort two years ago blocked by refusal of the house military committee headed by Rep May DKy to release a key witness to the senate group Brewster is a member of both the committee which delved into the blame behind Pearl Harbor and of the senates special war investigating commit tee now engrossed in an to summon May for testimony concerning his relations with a midwestern munitions combine Engineer In Central figure in the projected new inquiry is Col Theodore Wy man Jr army district engineer in the Hawaiian department when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor Five months later Wyman was as signed to the Canol Oil project in Canada That then headed by President Truman as a senator declared in a Dec 23 never should have been started Referring specifically to the Wyman matter the Pearl Harbor committee in its final report Sat called for ate or house committees to make a separate inquiry into delays in constructing Hawaiian defenses the Japanese attack Brewster said chairman Mead DNY readily agreed to have the war investigating committee pick up the thread of its inquiry Probe Association Both the house group and sub sequently the Pearl Harbor com locked into Wymans assoc with Hans Wilhelm Rohl a German who became a ed American citizen three months before attack Rohl was part owner of Hawaii Con work tors on the islands While the Mead committees in into the case promised to be the first new in of any phase of the Pearl Harbor incident the possi that congress might review the findings of the joint commit tee was not discounted who once suff gested that U might be nec essary for a Republican con gress to finish the job said that if GOP members win control of the house in this years election he would not be by demands for a new inquiry Praise FDR Cabinet The committee majority headed by Democratic Leader Barkley Ky praised the and foresight of President Roosevelt and his top cabinet members laying most of the blame for the Pearl Harbor surprise on military leaders in Washington and Hono lulu But Brewster and Sen Fergu son held in their separ ate report that The president of the United Slates was responsible for failure to enforce continuous ef and appropriate coopera tion among the secretary of war the secretary of the navy the chief of staff and the chief of naval op in evaluating tion and dispatching clear and po orders to the Hawaiian com manders as the growing imminence of war for and laws of the U S vested in the president full power as chief executive and commander in chief to compel such cooperation end vested this power in him alone with a view to establishing his responsibility to people of the US Somb Levels British HQ At Palestine 50 Believed Killed in Blast of Army HQ Which Recently Order ed Arrest of Jewish Leaders Report On Is Prepared For Truman HE COLLECTED HIS FARE Using 12 rockets in relays as an assist in the takeoff the flying boat Philippine Mars Has airborne in a test flight at Alameda Calif in about 40 pet cent of the time usually requir ed During the test the Mars weighed 70 groat tons AP Civil Liberties And Elections Are Promised By New Bolivian Govt Labor the street m T A t A Form New Govt After Revolt Kills Dictator Overthrows Regime Nestor Guillen dean of the Superior court assumed office as acting president but vowed to relinquish the office when Tomas Monje court president was weli to take his place called the regime a were revolutionists The situation was still confused today as the leaders of the revolt attempted to restore order after one of the most chaotic days in the history of this country where rev are taken almost as a Pearson Assails A Klan On Steps Ol Georgia Capital Declares Primitive Atti tudes are Nation Menace to Atlanta July f the army and a few of lieutenants escape the angry ci on an speech here yesterday Pearson spoke on the steps of Turn ment chosen by the people The revolutionary leaders promised that suppressed civil liberties would be restored immediately The rebels reported that par burned bodies of political prisoners of the Villarrael regime had been found in ammunition at police headquarters This they said was evidence of the severity of previous measures to repress the revolution Street fighting in which ap proximately 2000 persons were reported killed or wounded abat ed after the revolutionists paraded through La Paz with the battered seminude body of the president draped over an army tank Earlier the presidents body had been hanged from a lamppost in front of his palace At the con of the parade the body mobs and flee to the hills wa not immediately S thP V I hookup State j II saw dead men lying on Jerusalem July Palestine police communique said at least 50 persons were believed killed in the palatial King David of the British army and secretariat of the Pales tine government when terror ists exploded a bomb there to day Unofficial reports said about 60 were wounded by the blast which damaged the right wing of the hotel in which the secretariat was housed Military headquarters were on the upper floors A cordon around the area pre vented an approach to the scene j The only American to be injured was Richard New York Post correspondent who was reported to have receiv ted a broken leg when hit by a j falling stone as he was walking past the hotel Troops On Move Hundreds of truckloads Jand bren carriers moved the city A military officer who saw the attack said a small bomb first exploded a the hotel breaking windows This was evi dently a diversion Seconds later a burst from a tommy gun ripped open windows later a Tremendous explosion blew the corner of the in Truman to Make Deci sion to Sign or Veto After Studying Report Senate Leaders Decline To Say Whether New is Better or Worse Than Last Harry right had no trouble his fare from Lt Anderson 22 left of Sparta Wis and Miss Tippic Tripp 24 of Savannah Ga after the couple was married in Berns cab in Chicago in a race to beat Lt Andersons overseas shipment The cab was used for the wedding when no church was found open at AP j By Francis M Le May Washington July i OPA drafted a report to President j Truman today on economic con I sequences of the mised price control j presumably is In tended as a guide to chief executive i official in a position to know said Mr Truman already has indicated a decision to approve the meas ure reluctantly One of the biggest headaches for the administration is the like of at least another four week holiday from price ceilings on meats dairy products grains cottonseed and soybeans and their food and feed products Final determination whether these items shall be brought back under control August 20 is left to a board with power to overrule OPA on both decontrol and recontrol decisions This board also will decide whether ceilings shall be reim posed on poultry eggs food and feed products made from them tobacco and its products and pe and its products Werk On Analysis Teachers Students Labor ent in large The new government is cheers also interrupted the i ed of university professors and columnist at several his students labor union groups and broadcast i several prominent figures includ A crowd estimated at 2000 as the streets one eyewitness said There were several ATS British J army womens auxiliary girls j covered with blood from head to j foot One man was blown clear j T across the street and his body hit First official act of the revolu and quote Klan officials as saying the gide Qf thg YMCA building which calls law enforcement agencies in the institutional the Talmadge administration ing the dean of the La Paz super ior court to hear the critic o hooded order lambast the the Klan was to issue a communique calling for national and restoration would be Klansmen Gene Talmadge champion of of popular liberties which were white was suspended under ated in last weeks Democratic primary The Klan also supports white supremacy Pearson was introduced by Cov strong man rule The communique also said that was returned to the same m which Villarroel met post and strung up again along r death One source said that when with the bodies of three trusted subalterns Crowds passed silently improvised gallows in the shadow of the palace where the new government met to name all political prisoners would be freed and that all political exiles j Arnall depart be welcomed back in ia to collaborate in the restora tion of democratic liberties and guarantees Reports differed as to the man ment has filed suit here to revoke the Klans charter in Georgia The columnist said that his tory will ridicule and despise the fiery cross on Stone mountain i because the fiery cross breaks building Others accustomed faith with the cross of Calvary alarms remained As word of his crowds surged into the presiden tial palace slaying guards and sol by the diers who attempted to turn them back they found Villarroel hiding in the attic Another report said the president was wounded when Dear and Wounded Trucks loaded with women temporary officials and to set in ViG tried to escape motion machinery for what it dej palace corridors scribed as a democratic general election Electric and telephone service disrupted for the last several days was restored as the city began to return to normal Many members of military regime perished with their leader but most of the cas The YMCA building approx 100 yards from the hotel was blotched with a bloodstain one foot wide but apparently was undamaged Received Warning The telephone operator at the hotel said that 15 minutes before the explosion she received an anonymous call saying the hotel was to be blown up She ad vised to flee Instead she spread the alarm and many guests ran from the to of ri Mihe Sun Yatsen Says Opening Civil War To Incite War Between U S And Russia of Chiang Urges U S To Cut Off Arms Shipments to His Regime Help Avert Disaster By Spencer Moosa Shanghai 22 dame Sun of the founder of the Chinese republic and of its present leader Chiang said to day in a rare interview hat a desire to promote war and others throughout the city the United States and Russia ed giant crosses on the huge piece up the eerie howl motivates i A strict curfew was clamped j ment party reactionaries seeking on and traffic and pedestrians to stir up disappeared from the center of Stone mountain near here is j the mysterious call spread air the birthplace of the modern Klan raid sirens atop the hotel sound and the Klan has frequently burn of exposed granite in the home of Mr through the i and Mrs J E Carpenter are their son Capt J Earl Carpenter Jr Of tne capital who is stationed at Camp Kilmer Jerusalem and other Jewish parts N J and Miss Lois Wells of El The King David hotel was one picked up the dead and wounded Paso Texas They arrived the largest in the eastern Medi hospital and dispensary was day Miss Jane Carpenter daugh terranean countries It was from filled to overflowing Doctors ter of Mr and Mrs J E there that the British recently di rushed to La Paz sections of the country from all Early yesterday a plane swept Continued on Page 2 Col 8 ter has gone to Chicago 111 with I the arrest of Jewish agency her uncle and aunt Dr and Mrs j leaders in Palestine ordered the J H Judd of Fayetteville for a search of many Jewish settlements lo stir up civil war Inactive in politics for years she came out of to immediate establishment of a coalition government in the country now headed by her brother inlaw and to appeal to the U S to foster such a move by cutting off all military sup plies to China Local Citizen Participates In His First Radio Broadcast in 87 Years land the seizure of large quanti and ties of hidden arms and tang reactionaries were a civil war they cant win stav of 3 weeks I Mrs Frank B McGrath Malcolm Ernest re tion Army officials said the ar turned Thursday to their homo on rests and searches were aimed at cause North Chestnut street from Jewish terrorists Thompson Memorial hospital where the baby was born on July pk Madame Sun said that Kuomin Chamber of Commerce Honors Mr W S Wishart in Radio Inter view A man who has seen Lumberton tive secretary Jasper C Hutto as somewhat of a birthday party for this distinguished citizen Most young men are a bit frightened when they approach a microphone for the first time but Mr Wishart who made his radio j i debut just as calmly and just nj pass through all of its varied tran u i j 11 j sitions since Abraham as he would stroll down became president of the and who has watched Hls over the air perfectly and his answers to n advance from the i questions asked him were prompt to modern airliners i K tt v 11 concise and clear stop at the city s million 10 S Bristow Jr came home for the weekend from Furman university in Greenville S C where he is attending summer school He and Donald Bryan spent part of the weekend at Beach Lois Prevatte a 1045 graduate of Lumberton high completed training at Fire Hazards be they hope civil conflict in China will incite war between America and the USSR and thus at last crush Chinese ists Americans Must Know The American people who iro allies and long friends of China to disaster she said They must be toM that Amer ican reactionaries are teaming up with Chinese reactionaries each encouraging the other They must be told that the presence of U S armed forces on Chinese soil is not strengthening peace and order among the Chinese people They must be warned that loans should be given only to a reorganized and truly repre Chinese govern ment They must be told that if America makes it plain that she wont supply munitions or military assistance there he no spreading of the Chinese civil war As she issued her statement Chinese Communists claim ing a big triumph on the coastal plain between here and Nankins including the capture of 12000 government troops and the com monder of the governments i army Suns statement some observers thought might mark j her reentry into Chinese politics i In Tokyo today authoritative but unidentified sources said that aerial fighting on a comparatively scale ean be expected in if warfare comes American sources in position to said Chinese central government is fairly well equip ped American supplied bombers and me also with parts told weare now work jug on An analysis of the bills economic for mission to Truman Porter would not say whether would recommend another veto Chairman Spence DKy of the house banking committee leader in the administrations bat tle for a strong OPA commented I dont think it is a very effective but it is the best we can do I believe the President will sign it as the last recourse Spence nor his fellow Kentuckian senate Democratic Barkley would say ther the new Is better or worse one Mr Tru man vetoed three weeks The conference committee which finally agreed on the compromise Saturday night after a deadlock set an other meeting for today to re solve differences of opinion on had been done One moot point is whether the control board to be appointed by the president subject to senate has authority to re store before August 20 any ceiling on meats dairy products and grains Some committee members said yes others no The compromise measure will go to the house and tomorrow for showdown votes on acceptance There appeared to I be little doubt however that both bodies would approve it j In Detroit last night the execu tive board of the Independent Continued on Page 2 Col 7 Rare Type Blood Given To iih dium must be clearly told of this road bombs ammunition and gasoline coach dollar airport had a unique experience last afternoon man was Mr W S ond work today at Lumberton Sales j Co Her mother Mrs Maude j Mrs Bert I Fire Chief E JGlover today is sued a warning against the use of makeshift apparatus for heating and cooking stoves which are equipped for burning fuel oil and declared that the use of faulty oil j jets are very hazardous and dan to both lives and proper Registration For The Local College Center Will Be Concluded Tuesday and sisters Any persons using Wellin formed and having Friday j for knowing more history than perhaps any other living citizen Mr Wishart an Prevatte j stoves without the proper oil a attended graduation exercises at are violating the state fire I Three Students Register Today Supt Lobr Urges Others to Enroll tnc Wishart who celebrated his queries about thebom birthday on July 17 and the ex of Fort Fisher in the was the participation inCivil War and related that he a broadcast over radio station heard the noise of battle from The broadcast sponsored by the Lumberton Chamber of was by the chambers execu clash near Wilming ton He also told of Shermans trip through Lumber Continued on Page 5 Col 4 MASONIC MEETING laws and arc subject to the of their insurance the Three students fire chief said If a fire should j this morning for Die be a special com of StAlbans Lodge No 114 A F Tuesday at 8 Tm in the hall for workin the second degree occur as a result of improper oil on such stoves the insurance f tentatively to here r which is open hero companies might not pay for the by September 23 loss Chief Glover asserted Any instrument which is approved by the Under Laboratories Inc is safe stated One regis Supt of T Green nnd two students registered it the of fice of City SupL of Schools B E Other students are expected o intentions of enroll ing in the local college unit this and Tho will be concluded to all pro students who are t yiin admission to the rollers uiH universities to for is t here next iil THc which will be KIT will he of PAC 6 Col 2 Four Lumberton men among nearly 109 who to blood for Miss Winifred Rowland Lumberton teacher who under went a major operation at Charlotte Memorial hospital this morning flew to Charlotte Saturday and donated of the very rare AB They were E A Allen Jr Junius P Lennon James L Monk and Joe Bracey Jr who went in i plane offered for the purpose by Horace M Barries of Barnes aircraft and piloted by Crank Rowlands sisters Penelope Rowland and Mrs B P Shaw heard this afternoon that sho stood the operation well Her pastor Rev R L Alexander and tier cousin Eel B went to Charlotte this Mr son Or James G Of is our of phy attending Mis
