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Tobacco Control Approval Forecast
Fanners Will
Vote On Three
Issues Today
.— —
Are Offered One-Year Or
Three-Year Programs Of
No Control At All
150,000 WILL BALLOT
Harry Caldwell Urges AH
Flue-Cured Growers To
Take Part In Vote
RALEIGH .July 19.—W—Predic
tions that farmers would favor three
year crop control for flue-cured to
bacco were made tonight by state
and federal agricultural leaders, on
the eve of a belt-wide referendum on
acreage quotas.
Flue-cured growers throughout the
tobacco belt will go to the polls to
morrow to decide among these three
propositions: whether control should
apply to the 1941 crop; whether con
trol should apply to the 1941, 1942 and
1943 crops; or whether there should
be no control.
Floyd’s Prediction
E. Y, Floya, AAlA executive offi
cer at N. C. State College, said he
believed North Carolina farmer?,
would give three-year control an 85
per cent majority. Approximately 95
per cent of the Tar Heel farmers will
favor either one-year or three-year
control, he added.
J. B. Hutson, assistant AAA ad
ministrator, also predicted that three
year control would carry.
Three-year control will become ef
fective if it is approved by two
thirds of the voters participating in
the belt-wide referendum. If two
thirds of those voting do not favor
three-year control, but if the com
bined vote for three-year and one
year quotas is more than two-thirds,
one-year quotas will become effec
tive. If less than two-thirds of the
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DUTCH OFFICIALS
SEIZEDBY NAZIS
[Taken In Reprisal Against
‘Mistreatment’ Of Ger
mans In East Indies
AMSTERDAM, July 20 — (Satur
day)— UP) —(via Berlin)—A number
of persons connected with the Dutch
colonial administration have been
taken into custody, it was announced
officially last night, in reprisal
against what German authorities de
scribed as “mistreatment” of Ger
mans in the Netherlands East Indies.
At the same time, all mails to
Netherlands overseas possessions
"ere stopped.
A German spokesman yesterday
aad intimated that Germany would
act against persons now in German
occupied Holland because of alleged
®'streatment of Germans in both the
- ctheriands East and West Indies.
Tile spokesman, saying German
authorities regretted being “obliged
,act’” declared, “East and West
muan authorities are responsible.
ey don’t understand how Euro
cans in the colonies have to be treai
and don't appreciate the good
treatment (by Germany) of Dutch
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“Said The Governor of North Carolina ...”
The famous old legend that gave us the line “It’s a long time between drinks,” was reenacted at the
Democratic convention in Chicago, when Gov. Clyde R. Hoey, left ,of North Carolina and former Gov,
Olin B. Johnson of South Carolina drank to each other’s health. But their beverage was more innocuous
than the one in the famous story.
Good Business Expected
By Advertising Leaders
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MEETING AT BEACH
Believe Volume Of Adver
tising Will Be High For
Remainder Of Year
Newspaper advertising execu
tives of the Carolinas, meeting in
opening session for 1he annual mid
summer convention of the associ
ation at the Ocean Terrace hotel,
tVrightsville Beach, last night ex
pressed the belief that business in
the two states will continue to set
a high pace for the remainder of
the year.
The advertising men predicted
that the volume of advertising will
ae high, with indications that gen
eral business will enjoy a rapid
rise between now and the winter
months.
Group Meets Held
A record attendance was on hand
for the opening session that includ
ad a buffet supper on the ocean
Iront of the hotel. Several group
meetings were held, preliminary to
:he general sessions scheduled to
iay.
The highlight of today’s meeting
vill be an address by H. H. Kynett,
"ormer president of the American
Association of Advertising Agen
:ies, at the morning business meet
mg starting at 9:45 o’clock.
Mr. Kynett will arrive in Wilm
ngton at 8:15 o’clock and will be
met by a special delegation headed
ay R. B. Page, publisher of the
iVilmington Star-News, and officers
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MASTER PRINTERS
OPEN CONVENTION
Board Of Directors Dis
cusses Association’s Busi
ness During The Year
The North Carolina Master Print
ers association opened its annual
neeting at the Ocean Terrace hotel,
Wrightsville Beach, yesterday after
loon, with a short informal session
following the registration of dele
gates.
The old board of directors met last
light and discussed general business
>f the association over the past year,
delegates yesterday afternoon golf
id at the Municipal course.
The registration of members will
iontinue this morning at 9 o’clock,
md the first business meeting will
je held at 9:30 o’clock,' with W. M.
?ugh, of Chanel Hill, president of
;he association, presiding,
iddress of welcome and Joe J.
stone, of Greensboro, will give the
response. The president and secre
;ary will present their annual re
*
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Many Greet Wallace On
Return To Des Moines
DES MOINES, la., July 19.—
(/P)—More than 300 friends and
neighbors of Henry A. Wallace
greeted the democratic nominee
for vice-president when he ar
rived from Chicago for a short
vacation at his home.
Cheers for “the next vice
president of the United States”
were heard from the crowd as
Wallace stepped from the train.
Shaking hands with some of
his neighbors, the secretary of
agriculture said “this thing”—
the nomination—would require
him to leave for Washington next
Tuesday or Wednesday.
“I had intended to take a long
er vacation,” he explainted, “but
this thing came up and now I
must go back and see the Presi
dent.”
AMERICAN WRITER
BEATEN BY JAPS
Hallet Abend, Correspond
ent For N. Y. Times, As
saulted In Shanghai
SHANGHAI .July 20.—(Saturday)
—(IP)—Hallet Abend, correspondent
for the New York Times, was as
saulted in his apartment last night
by two Japanese who seized several
pieces of manuscript after demand
ing ‘‘all his anti-Japanese writings.”
U. S. Acting Consul-General Rich
ard P. Butrick protested today to
Japanese Consul General Yoshyaki
Miura, demanding an apology, com
pensation and assurance against re
petition of the incident.
Abend said that two Japanese,
armed with pistols and with their
hats pulled low over their eyes, in
vaded his apartment in Japanese
occupied Hongkew, beat him on the
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HULL TO PROMOTE
XOMMON CAUSE'
Secretary Of State Leaves
Miami For Americas'
Parley In Havana
MIAMI, Fla., July 19.—(*>—Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull left
United States soil tonight to pro
mote among American republics a
“common cause” which he said
was “wholly divorced from any
thought of aggrandizement or dom
ination” and was open to any na
tion willing to cooperate on that
basis.
Before boarding an over-night
boat for Havana to attend a meet
ing of foreign ministers of the 21
American nations, he summed up
the aims of this country as a desire
“that the calamities of other parts
of the world may not reach our
they have through the dislocation
shores to any greater extent than
of trade and commerce and of
free interchange of things worth
while.”
It was the 68-year-old secretary
Of state’s first trip out of the coun
try since the European war began
and his first visit to Cuba since he
went there as a captain in the
Tennessee volunteers during the
Spanish-American war.
Greeted upon his arrival by train
from Washington by a group of
Miami and Miami Beach officials
late today, Hull set out in a brief
talk the purpose of his delegation
to the Havana meeting.
To the other American republics,
he asserted they were “all friends
in a common cause” having as its
purpose promotion of friendship
and cooperation “among nations
wholly divorced from any thought
of aggrandizement or domination.”
And this, he said, “applies not
only to the American republics but
to every nation of the world that is
willing to meet us on that basis.”
The Havana meeting, called at
the suggestion of the United States
to consider vital problems of hemi
sphere economy and defense after
the German invasion of the low
countries, opens Sunday afternoon
with an address by the president
of Cuba. 1
T* -'
Farley Plans
To Quit Post
Within Month
President Expected To Con
duct ‘Portico Campaign
For Third Term
CONFERENCE PLANNED
Miss Beatrice Cobb Named
Member Of Group To
Confer With President
BY RICHARD L. TURNER
CHICAGO, July 19.—W—James
A. Farley, who managed Presi
dent Boosevelt’t 1932 and 1936 cam
paigns, arranged to leave national
politics behind today and turn the
direction of Mr. Roosevelt’s third
effort to win the presidency over
to another.
Meanwhile it became clear that
the president would conduct a “por
tico campaign.” There are two of
them at the White House, instead
of the usual porch. Pressing for
eign and domestic problems, it was
said, would keep him in Washing
ton and prohibit any extensive cam
paigning.
Conference Planned
The question whether Secretary
Henry A. Wallace, Mr. Roosevelt’s
running mate, would undertake a
vigorous schedule of traveling and
speaking, in the president’s stead,
was left to a conference between
the two nominees next Thursday
in Washington.
With Farley presiding, the Dem
ocratic national committee met in
the great Stevens Hotel and at
tended to the convention’s last
piece of business. It reluctantly
accepted Farley’s decision to con
tinue as its chairman for only a
month longer.
The genial New Yorker- was an
opponent of the third term—a 1
though he is now supporting the
ticket—and is leaving, he said, to
accept an attractive offer in pri
vate business. While he would not
confirm it, this was generally as
sumed to be the presidency of the
New York Yankees.
“Who’s going to win in Novem
ber?” a reporter asked him after
ward.
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on that point to my successor,”
he said.
“Will the Yankees win the pen
nant?” another inquired.
“I’ll leave that to a conference
of sporting writers,” Farley said,
grinning.
Question of Succession
The question of Farley’s success
or is to be taken up with President
Roosevelt on Aug. 1 by a com
mittee under the leadership of Dd
Flynn, democratic leader of the
Bronx, N. Y. It was understood,
meanwhile, that Mr. Roosevelt de
sired Frank Walker, former demo
cratic party treasurer and former
head of the national emergency
council, to take the party chair
manship, but his acceptance was
uncertain.
Farley said he set August 17 as
the date for his retirement from
the national chairmanship he has
held since the beginning of the
Roosevelt administration because
he wanted to go to New York and
“see the campaign organization pul
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HITLER FOLLOWS NEW
MOVE WITH EXTENSIVE
AIR RAID ON ENGLAND
OFFERS LAST CHANCE
Fuehrer Does Not Outline
Conditions Of Peace In
Talk To Reichstag
NO TIME LIMIT IS SET
Says Answer To British
Raids On Germay Will
Terrorize Millions
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER
BERLIN July 19.—Adolf Hit
ler the conqueror of France and
the controller of a continent to
night offered Great Britain a last
chance to withdraw from the con
flic or see destruction of her world
empire and terror for millions.
He spoke for an hour and thirty
five mViutes before the reichstag
to offer “still another appeal—this
time the last—to reason.”
He did not outline the conditions
for a peace hat will end a conflict
which her said it* is senseless to
prolong. But he made it perfectly
clear that any peace must be on
the terms of Germany.
No Time Limit
He set no time limit for Britain’s
answer to this "last” appeal and
gave no clue to the conditions un
open peace talks.
In this respect his “peace ap
peal” was simply an appeal to the
British to come to their senses
and sue for peace before it is too
late.
He emphasized that “I am not
the vanquished begging favors but
the victor speaking in the name
of reason.”
Hitler’s every word every ges
ture suggested the supremest con
fidence as he warned Prime Min
a fight to the finish “I prophesy
ister Churchill that if he insists on
destruction of a great empire an
empire it was never my intention
to destroy or even harm.”
With a stab of his hand Hitler
swept back the lock of hair which
regularly falls over his forehead'
and continued:
“Possibly Mr. Churchill will
again brush aside this statement of
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BRITAIN SEEKING
ACCORD WITH U. S.
Takes Steps To Keep Nazis
From Getting Assets Of
Invaded Countries
WASHINGTON, July 19. —{IP)—
Great Britain is seeking an agree
ment with the United States, it was
disclosed today, to assure that no
assets here of the invaded nations
will find their way to Germany.
After a formal, joint statement
had announced consultation between
British and American representa
tives about “frozen assets” of Euro
pean countries, Sir Frederick Phill
ips, undersecretary of the British
treasury, admitted to reporters:
"Naturally we (the British) don’t
want these assets to get under the
effective control of Germany.”
The statement said only that “the
controls by the two governments, as
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Great Britain's Navy
Faces Heaviest Task
As Nazi Drive Looms
LONDON, July 19.—(IP)—'The
threat of invasion which weigh
heavily tonight on all Britain’s
fighting services is heaviest on
the royal navy which has assum
ed new duties giving it a vital
share of the defense of Britain
not only at sea but also in the
air and on land.
A tour shows the service liv
ing up to its tradition of tackling
“any job, any time, anywhere.”
Officers are quick to remind
astounded landlubbers that this
is nothing new. The navy, they
point out, operated armored cars
in the defense of Antwerp in the
World War and naval infantry
brigades fought in the low coun
tries and at Gallipoli.
Many coast defense guns are
naval and naval operated. Naval
experts have loaned their ex
perience to army artillerymen
faced with the problem of fight
ing ships from the shore.
BROOKE TO HEAD
BRITISH DEFENSE
Succeeds General Sir Ed
mund Ironside As Chief
Of The Home Forces
LONDON, July 19—UP>— Lieut.
Gen. Sir Alan Brooke son of a
northern Ireland family known as
"the fighting Brookes” became
commander-in-chief of the British
home forces tonight succeeding
Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside in a
move to strengthen Britain’s de
fenses.
Sir Alan is a World war hero
who won additional fame as com
mander of the second corps of the
British Expeditionary force in
France in the present war.
A military figure at 56 he is an
expert on gunnery and machinery.
He played a large part in mech
anizing the army.
Sir Edmund was elevated to field
marshal and kept on the active
list it was explained reliably “to
be available either in an advisory
capacity or in command.”
For him it was the second shift
in less than two months. Lieut.
Gen. Sir John Dill replaced him
May 26 as chief of staff a post he
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JAPAN SHARPENS
FOREIGN POLICY
Expected To Lead To Bet
ter Association With The
Rome-Berlin Axis
TOKYO, July 19.—UP)—A new and
sharper Japanese foreign policy, one
expected to lead to closer association
with the Rome-Berlin axis, was
formulated today by the inner gov
ernment of the new totalitarian
type regime of Premier Prince Fu
mimaro Konoye.
Prince Konoye declined details of
a long conference of cabinet leaders
but those closely watching the ef
fects of Europe’s war in the Far
East held it certain that Japan, be
fore taking any expansionst action,
first would seek an understanding
with Germany.
This was held to be particularly
true of French Indo-China and the
Netherlands East Indies.
(In German-occupied Amsterdam,
a German spokesman declared that
mistreatment of Germans in Dutch
East and West Indies “obliged"
Germany, with “regret’ ’to act in
reprisal.)
Konoye said today’s conference
touched on relations with the United
States, Great Britain and Soviet
Russia and that "complete agree
ment was reached.”
This statement followed the asser
tion of Yaichi Rosuma, foreign of
fice spokesman, that Japan wanted
more friendly relations with the
United States but would not be dip
lomatically humble to get them.
RAF BOMBS GERMANY!
At Least 11 Of Aerial In
vaders Downed By Brit
ish Defense Forces
OFFER WAS EXPECTED
English Navy Confronted
With Threat Of Fresh
Sea Raider At Large
LONDON, July 19.—MV-Britain
scorned Adolf Hitler’s peace offer
tonight as unworthy of reply ex
cept in the easily understood lan
guage of bomb blast and gunfire.
The German dictator gave point
to his threats of total destruction
by launching one of the widest and
heaviest air raids Britain ever has
experienced.
But the Royal Air force ranged
far over Germany and German
subjugated lands to bomb factories
and military storage places, includ
ing the Krupp plant at Essen, and
the royal navy sent to the bottom
of the Mediterranean the Italian
cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni, a 40
knot warship rated as one of the
worid’s fastest.
Eleven Planes Downed
The British defense forces shot
down at least 11 of the Ger. an
aerial raiders—four bombers and
seven fighters, at a cost of five
British fighter planes.
More than 150 German and Brit
ish planes participated in two big
battles off the southeast coast this
afternoon. Nearly 70 Nazi bomb
ers arid fighters were engaged in
the first, and more than 50 in the
second.
Britons, both of high and low
degree, took the attitude that Hit
ler’s latest peace overture had
been answered in advance five
days ago by Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill’s declaration:
“Be the ordeal sharp or long, or
both, we shall seek no terms; we
shall tolerate no parley.”
Gesture Expected
Though Hitler is well aware of
this consistent Churchill stand, and
doubtless knew in advance what
sort of reception his peace scheme
would get, the British had been ex
pecting him to make just such a
gesture ever since the fall of
France and the determined British
actions which kept him from lay
ing hands on the French fleet.
The general opinion was that the
only surprising thing about it was
the lack of anything concrete or
even novel.
Of Hitler s threat to destroy the
British empire, the ordinary Brit
ain scoffed: "Let him try it.”
There were many to recall that
this is the 352nd anniversary of
the Spanish Armada’s arrival off
Britain, and that the only Span
iards to land then were prisoners
of the British navy.
Tired of speculating on when the
German attack will come, the Brit
ish did not even try to guess wheth
er the Hitler speech presaged an
immediate attempt at invasion.
At the same time the British
navy was confronted with the
threat of a fresh German sda raid
er “at large in the Atlantic” when
it was announced that two British
merchant ships, had been sunk
near the West Indies.
The 5,069-ton Italian cruiser Bar
tolomeo Colleoni was sunk by the
Australian cruiser Sydney off the
Greek isle of Crete, the admiralty
announced.
Another Flees
Another Italian cruiser was put
to flight by the six-inch guns of the
Sydney and the smaller artillery
of accompanying destroyers, the
admiralty said.
The scene of the battle was near
that which began July 8 when the
British reported chasing the Ital
ian fleet into the Ionian sea.
It was that action, which served
notice that Britain is contesting
Italy’s line of communications with
North Africa.
British aircraft, meanwhile,
made repeated daylight attacks on
barge concentrations—apparently
being prepared for attack on Brit
ain—near Rotterdam and Bou
logne.
Other targets, the air ministry
said, included warehouses at La
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VANDENBERG SAYS DEMOCRATIC TICKET
PRODUCT OF ‘TOTALITARIAN’ MEET
WASHINGTON, July 19.—OP)—
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich)
asserted today that the Roose
velt-Wallace ticket was a pro
duct of a “totalitarian conven
tion.’'
Declaring that a “political
dictatorship” had reduced the
democratic convention to the
“status of a ditto mark,” Van
denberg told reporters:
“The national defense of de
mocracy against totalitarianism
in Europe is a military prob
lem but the national defense
of democracy in the United
States against totalitarian Ro
osevelt is a political question
which must be settled next Nov
ember." ..
As for he third term issue,
the Michigan Republican said
it “instantly throws all other
issues into bold relief."
“It emphasizes all the haz
ards, mistakes and errors of
the new deal because it pro
poses to perpetuate them in the
personality which is their trade
1 mark," he said.
From Senator Burke, Nebras
ka democrat who pledged his
support yesterday to Wendell
Willkie, the Republican nomin
ee, came a forecast of a na
tional organization of democrats
opposed to a third term.
This, he declared, would be
“an inevitable development.”
Burke said he had received
scores of telegrams congratu
lating him upon his stand. One
from James W. Mellen, Los
Angeles, said California had
an organisation of “Jefferson
ian democrats” and suggested
a conference at some central
point to form a national anti
third term democratic group.
Through the Republican na
tional committee here, Stephen
p
Chadwick, former national com
niander of the American Le
gion, issued a statement say
ing he would support Willkie
because he considered a third
term “a danger to our dem
ocratic processes.” Chadwick
was one time democratic nom
inee for Congress from the
first Washington Congressional
district.
Roland Hill, youthful auditor
in the government’s general ac
counting office and 195 presi
dent of the Washington Junior
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