FRENCH PROTEST
NEW MEAT TAX
4CiviI Disobedience’ Cam
paign ‘Just Beginning’
Vichy Group Told
BY CHARLES S. FOLTZ, JR.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 19.—
(3>)_Thirty belligerent butchers in
.the little French mountain town of
Belley, went to jail today, giving
the first definite hint of a civil dis
obedience campaign which for some
time has been reported spreading
through France.
Publication of the official version
of the Belley battle in censored
newspapers throughout Southwest
ern France showed that authorities
were acutely conscious of the im
. plications. Belley is in unoccupied
France near the Swiss border.
The butchers, it was reported, met
Thursday night and decided the
Vichy government’s new meat tax
was the last straw. The next day
every butcher shop in Belley was
closed.
When police ordered them to re
open, they refused. This morning
;) they all went to jail.
“This is only the beginning,’’ they
announced from their cells.
Signs are sttll posted on their
• butcher shop windows, “No more
meat.”
Citizens, already disgruntled at
shortages of sugar, cheese, choco
late, eggs and milk, appealed to tjie
authorities, who said army butchers
would take care of the trade twice
a week. They said the butchers had
meat on hand, but rebelled because
they saw their profits vanishing in
the new taxes.
Friends of the butchers, however,
were reported beginning a boycott
of the army butchers. ^
NAZIS THREATEN
GREECE, TURKEY
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indicated in Rome, however, that
such demands might he ;-upend
ing. The weekly said 1+ulian in
fluence in the Balkans and Medi
terranean hereafter would be un
restrained.)
“Why should we put any country
under pressure?” The German
commentator countered to the in
quiries of foreign correspondents.”
It is already evident, with the in
exorability of a natural law, that
the new order in Europe will be
determined by Germany and Italy.
Whoever sees that and arranges
his nation’s affairs accordingly can
lead a sovereign existence in peace
and quiet once this war is over.”
Then he warned:
“But nobody who remains aloof
from throwing in his cause with
the Azis need be surprised if he
finds, afterwards, that he has mis
sed the boat.”
The commentator expressed be
lief that the Greeks —“a clever,
wise people”—realize “what a
transformation Europe is under
going.”
As for Turkey, non-belligerent
ally of Britain, he said: “there
is no indication of any kind that
Turkey intends to play a role simi
lar to Poland’s.”
Reports that the British war sec
' retary, Anthony Eden, might pro
ceed from Egypt to Istanbul drew
this:
“We can only smile at such an
ignoramus.As if we could
be influenced in any way by such
a maneuver!” 3
EDEN INSPECTING
NEAR EAST FORCE
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preparedness throughout the area
. and Sir Miles Lampoon, British
; ambassador to Egypt, conferred
: with Egyptian Premier Hassan
Sabry Pasha.
One rumor arising fro: - unusual
British diplomatic activity was that
a Near Eastern bloc including
Egypt, Turkey, Iraq and other
countries was being formed to join
Britain against any attack from
the north. There was no official
announcement, however.
While officially not ■ t war with
tile Axis powers, despite Italian
occupation of a strip of her soil,
- Egypt’s leaders assert that the na
tion will act swiftly ii its independ
* ence and security are menaced.
Five thousand tons of coal for
* Egypt’s railroads arrived from
South Africa and it was disclosed
that Egypt is scheduled to get all
the coal South Africa agreed to
supply Italy in Ethiopia before the
outbreak of the war. 1
JERUSALEM, Oct. 19.—UB—Air
raiders approaching Palestine’s
coast in brilliant moonlight gave
the Holy Land its first night air
raid alarm tonight but no bombs
fell._ 1
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World
Bulletins
“DRIVEL”
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—</P)—
A charge that New York City
WPA employes were being in
timidated by democratic party
workers was termed today by
Lt.-Col. Brehon B. Somervell,
local WPA head, as “drivel” and
“another stupid communist
dodge” to avoid dismissal from
WPA for memDershlp in the
communist party.
RATIONED
BERN, Switzerland, Oct. 19.
—(/P)—S w itzerla nd, famed in
peacetime ior her milk prod
ucts, was told tonight by the
war economy office that butter
henceforth will be rationed un
til the end of November and
that cream will be withheld from
sale until further notice.
DONATION
TORONTO, Oct. 1?.—m—'The
Canadian Red Cross announced
tonight the receipt of some $35,
000 from Katharine Hepburn,
Ruth Draper, Robert E. Sher
wood and other theatrical per
sonages.
DEMONSTRATIONS
SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 19.—
(/P)—Thousands of leftists and
rightists staged opposing politi
cal demonstrations here today
and soldiers stood by machine
guns ready to quell any disor
ders.
LOST
LONDON, Oct. 19.—(m—The
admiralty announced today that
“H. M. auxiliary patrol vessel,
Girl Mary, acting skipper F. B.
HlBskitt, K. N. K-, has been
lost by enemy action. Next of
kin of casualties have been in
formed.”
BODY FOUND
ELKHORN, Wis., Oct. 19.—(/P)
—Tlie body of a mail identified
by cards in his pocket as that
of Bennett Baines d’Aubrey, 3»,
of Chicago and Hollywood, was
found in a woods near here to
day.
ARGENTINA
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 19.—(/P)
—The Argentine government is
considering a plan for “family
salaries,” similar to that recom
mended in unoccupied France,
in an attempt to correct the
country’s economic ills created
by the European 'Var.
CANCELLED
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Oct.
19.—{/pi—A chamber of com
merce announcement tonight
said the Paraguyan government
had ^decided to cancel negotia
tions for a trade agreement with
Japan. No details were given.
DOUBTS
NEW YORK. Oct. 19.—(/Pi
General Hugh *S. Johnson said
tonight he doubted “if our boys
were drafted one year for train
ing” and declared that “I think
they were drafted for the dura
tion of a wholly unnecessary
war.”
NEGRO GOP
CHICAGO, Oct. 19.—</P>—Ne
gro republican leaders from
about 30 states adopted a resolu
tion today charging that the
New Deal had ‘‘used the gov
ernment to subject the colored
man to the most thorough-going
system of segregation and dis
crimination which ever has been
witnessed in America.”
EPISCOPALIANS
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 19. — (A>)
—The Episcopal church in a pas
toral letter adopted at the filial
session of its triennial conven
tion today expressed abhorrence
for “all regimentation, all totali
tarian schemes of mass contra!,
all claims of class or racial
superiority and all economic in
justice.”
PANIC
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—(/P)—
Democratic National Chairman
Edward J. Flynn said tonight
that President Roosevelt’s deci
sion to make a series of political
speeches had “deepened the Will
kie despair into panic.”
SPAIN
BARCELONA, Spain, Oct. 19.
—OP)—Flood waters in the East
ern Pyrenees smashed homes
and factories, disrupted tele
phone and road communications,
and took an estimated toll of 250
lives, relief officials said tonight.
LANDON
QUINCY, 111., Oct. 19.—i/P)—
Alfred M. Landon, republican
presidential candidate in 1936,
asserted tonight that if President
Roosevelt is reelected, “we can
expect . . . un unlimited term
as chief executive, the gradual
destruction of congress, of the
judiciary, and of the freedom cf
the press.”
MUSIC HATH CHARMS
EVEN FOR THIEVES
KEYSER, W. Va. - Music
hath charms, two thieving coal
truckers learned, particularly
when coming from a mechanical
phonograph.
They borrowed a coin and put
it in Restaurateur A. C. Rine
hart’s nickel-in-tbe-slot” machine,
then looted the cash register wjiile
listening to the record. The music
drowned out the noise of opening
the register, Rinehart reported, and
also permitted the pair to escape
unnoticed while he was in a rear
room. 2
YUGOSLAVIA SIGNS
PACT WITH NAZIS
(Continued From Page One)
ous Balkan reports indicated such
demands may be under consider
ation.
Continuing Turkish defense
measures on the Europear side of
the Dardanelles was indicated by
a report the Jewish colony at Adri
anople, near the Bulgarian . and
Greek frontiers, had turned its
school building over to the Turkish
army for a base hospital.
(In Istanbul, {he newspaper Yem
Sabah called for a “united front”
in southeast Europe to face the
Axis, and said the “entire Balkans
are now in danger from Germany,
which is baiting' certain countries
with insignificant rewards in order
to gain mastery over them.” Anxi
ety lest Bulgaria join the Axis was
reflected in other Turkish press
comment. 1
BY J. WEST GALLAGHER
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Oct. 19
-Declaring “our collaboration
is not only economic but politi
cal,” Foreign Minister Alksander
Cincar-Markovic tonight announced
the signing of a new commercial
pact for 1940-41 with Germany, de
spite authoritative reports that
Germany is unable to deliver cer
tain manufactures because of
bombing damage.
Hailing the pact as evidence of
a “political collaboration” which
has preserved peace for Yugosla
via, the foreign minister said “this
policy should be continued.”
Fence Mended
While the reich’s latest economic
fence mending in the Balkans came
at a time when the capitals of
Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and
Turkey were active with reports of
Axis plans for further penetration
of southeastern Europe, authorita
tive sources disclosed the reich ,is
meeting difficulties in keeping her
barter engagements in the Bal
kans.
One source said that in the nego
tiations here the Germans had ad
mitted that because of laber and
material shortages a strain is be
ing placed 'on the barter system
and that they are unabl- to de
liver many of the manufactures
badly needed in the Balkans.
Among the manufactures which
Germany was understood to be un
able to deliver except in small
quantities were chemicals, which
are largely manufactured in Frank
fort, Duesseldorf and other Rhine
land cities where it is reported
British bombing has been partic
ularly heavy; electrical instru
ments, largely manufactured in
Berlin where it is reported Brit
ish airmen have paid particular
attention to electrical factories,
and agricultural tools manufac
tured at Leipzig and Hamburg,
which also have been listed fre
quently as British bomb targets.
However, the inability to deliver
certain goods was said to be un
likely to halt the flow of Balkan
raw materials to the reich, com
mercial observers said.
They said the Germans were of
fering other goods in exchange,
particularly paper articles, and
wri also offering credits for fu
ture deliveries, presumably after
the war. 1
TURKISH RADIO
ANKARA, Turkey, Oct. 19.—UP)—
The official Turkish radio in a
cryptic radio broadcast tonight
called Balkan reports that British
War Secretary Anthony Eden is
coming here “a German - Italian
lie” and added:
‘‘Turkey’s road is her own.”
“Mr. Eden is not coming to An
kara,” said the commentator.
“This is a lie spread by Germany
and Italy who wish to put on it the
interpretation that'he is coming to
persuade Turkey to enter the war.
Turkey’s road is her own. She is
confident of her right, she is. strong
enough to enforce it. Turkey does
not need dictation from anyone.” 1
FOOD HOARDED
BUCHAREST, Oct. 20.—(Sunday)
W—Disovery that huge quantities
of food recently have been hoarded
here and in other Rumanian cities
was announced in a communique
today.
It said government agents had
located caches of supplies, alleged
ly hid away for speculation. The
foodstuffs were confiscated but the
communique did not mention what
action was taken against the hoard
ers.
IL DUCE BUSY
ROME, Oct.* 19.— (/P) —Premier
Mussolini put on his goggles and
helmet for another flying inspec
tion of his armies today amidst
editorial smoke in the Fascist Jfess
indicating the Axis is about to
build a fire under Greece and Tur
key.
For the second time in 10 days
II Duce headed for the eastern
frontier to look over his troops
facing Yugoslavia, next-door-neigh
bor of Italian-occupied Albania and
pro-British Greece.
The rising press tirade against
Greece and Turkey took on a more
serious complexion with the inti
mation by the authoritative Fascist
weekly, Relazioni Internazionali,
that the two friends of Britain soon
would be called upon to line up
with the Axis.
IT NEVER RAINS
BUT IT POURS
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.—
—When a stranger walked in
and handed W. R. Absher $30 he
said he had owed for 40 years,
Absher’s partner, E. M. Black
burn, thought it quite rare.
The next day Blackburn received
a letter containing $35 from a man
who. advised that he had intended
paying for a suit ever since he
purchased it in 1911. 4
X 11 Ti
weather"
(Continued From Page One)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—(ff)—Weath
er bureau records of temperature and
rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 p.
m., in the principal cotton-growing
areas and elsewhere:
Station High Low Prec.
Asheville, clear---- 62 39 0.00
Atlanta, cloudy_ 78 44 0.00
Atlantic City, rain —_ 44 33 0.00
Boston, cloudy - 45 31 0.00
Buffalo, cloudy- 38 23 0.00
Charlotte, clear - 63 46 0.00
Chicago, cloudy — 62 43 0.00
Cleveland, cloudy- 39 37 0.05
Denver, cloudy- 74 45 0.00
Detroit, cloudy _ 42 38 0.27
Fort Worth, clear__ 93 57 0.00
Jacksonville, cloudy - 79 43 0.00
Kansas City, cloudy - 80 52 0.00
Little Rock, cloudy - 89 54 0.00
Los Angeles, clear — 99 76 0.00
Louisville, clear _ 67 47 0.00
Memphis, cloudy_- 83 50 0.00
Miami, clear - 81 68 0.00
Mobile, clear-;- 84 42 0.00
New Orleans, clear —- 80 56 0.00
New York, cloudy — 44 33 0.00
.Norfolk, rain-- 54 ^2 0.03
Pittsburgh, snow- 38 33 0.08
Portland, Me., cloudy 44 30 0.00
Portland, Ore., cloudy 78 61 0.00
Richmond, rain - 48 30 0.03
St. Louis, cloudy- 78 48 0.00
San Francisco, cloudy 82 59 0.00
Savannah, cloudy- 75 47 0.00
Tampa, clear_ 82 54 0.00
Washington, snow — 46 36 0.36
Wilmington, cloudy - 66 44 0.00
NORTH CAROLINA’S
DRAFT QUOTA SET
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condition of entry into the ser
vice.”
‘‘In a spirit of mutual respect
and cooperation,” Marshall wrote,
“the army of the United States
must now proceed with its high
purpose of welding from the ele
ments of the American democracy,
a disciplined, seasoned fighting
force, capable of defending the
nation.”
State quotas were announced,
for the 800,000 trainees to be call
ed by July 1, and also for the
March 1.
They were tentative, and were
based on estimates of the number
of men who will be classified as
fit and available for immediate
service, with tentative credits for
the number of men each state was
estimated to have furnished to the
armed services already through
voluntary enlistments.
More exact figures will be sub
stituted when it is learned pre
cisely how many fit and available
men last Wednesday’s registration
disclosed in each state, and how
many volunteers each state actual
ly has contributed.
Under the regulations, state
quotas will be allocated among
local draft boards by each state’s
selective service headquarters.
Secretary Stimson has announc
ed that the army will call the
first 30,000 men for training on
November 18. Thereafter, as soon
as housing, hospital and other fa
cilities are ready, commanders of
the army’s nine corps areas may
requisition troops, within the limits
prescribed by the Y.'ar department,
from toe governors of the states
in each area. At least 21 days’
notice must be given for such re
quisitions.
xu oc rmcu uui>
As far as possible, units of the
National Guard will be filled out
with men from their home states,
or at least from their own corps
areas. However, officials . said
some transfers from one corps
area to another would be neces
sary.
Of the 400,000 men to be inducted
by March 1, it was disclosed that
364,266 would be whites and 35,
734 negroes.
These figures do not represent
quotas for whites and negroes, but
were based on the army’s present
facilities for making use cl them.
The war department already has
announced that the proportion of
negroes to be brought into the
aifmy will be the same as their
proportion to the whole copul? tion.
Of the tentative quotas, New
York’s was the largest, 114,796,
and Nevada’s the smallest, 624. 3
While the tentative quotas in
cluded credits for the men each
state already has contributed to
the armed forces through volun
tary enlistments, those quotas will
be reduced according to any future
voluntary enlistments there may be.
Such enlistments might include,
for instance, youths from 18 to 21
who may enlist for the regular
three-year periods, with parental
consent.
POPE ASKS U. S.
TO AID MISSIONS
(Continued From Page One)
eve of the observance of "Mis
sionary Sunday” by the 118-year
old Catholic Society for the Propa
gation of the Faith.
In speaking of “the kingdom of
God on earth” for which Christians
pray, he said “this kingdom of
peace . . . between peoples and
nations of the world is based on an
equitable adjustment of differences
and on that union that comes with
right and order.”
“At the present hour men are
far removed from this peace,” the
popg continued. “The intimate
sense of common values, both in
the natural and supernatural order,
threatens to abdicate from many
hearts to opposing principles.
“So much more comporting then
and inspiring will be your effica
cious fidelity to the Catholic mis
sionary spirit.”
He called upon Americans to
open up their purses' liberally to
“help rebuild what has been dam
aged and to reassure those who
are discouraged.”
Regions involved in the European
war, the pontiff ■ added, would
“await with confidence” the Amer
ican response.
INVASION PORT^
BLASTED BY RAF
(Continued From Page 0ne)
ded, British airmen plastered
heavy cargos of explosives also on
the naval base of Kiel, commercial
docks at Emden and Lubeck, and
many olher targets inside Ger
many, including a big aluminum
mill at Lunen, near Dortmund,
the river port of Duisberg in the
Ruhr, railways near Schwerte,
Dortmund, and Osnabruck, and an
airdrome at Stade.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—(#)—A
centuries-old castle at Kiel hous
ing a priceless German library
was virtually destroyed in “sense
less destruction” by British bomb
ers early today, the German wire
less reported tonight.
Three years of determined ef
fort by perfume manufacturers
produced only 600 ounces of the
rare Bermuda passion flower per
fume.
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