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SSSSSS 13,873 YEAR • ffMUNS CAPTURE TWO RICH POLISH CITIES ********* #* h osevelt Issues Proclamation On U. S. Neutrality Regulations Designed To, Keep Peace Embargo on Export Os Munitions and War Implements to Fellow; Browder Tells of $250,000 Of fer in 1936 Cam paign. Washington, Sept. 5—(AP)— resident Roosevelt proclaimed Verican neutrality today. "fit d and Secretary Hull i '.ntiTsigi'.ed a proclamation of words establishing an L xU ">i'-t' list of regulations de .; od u> keep Americans from pro _ the United States into the tw'uptan '.ear. Another proclamation, to be is sued encier the 1937 neutrality act, v scheduled for consideration at a White House conference later in the afternoon. It will put into oper crion an embargo on export of arms, ammunition and implements of war to the combatant nations. The President signed his name on the document about one p. m. in the presence of Hull, Acting At torney General Robert Jackson; Sumner Welles, under secretary of state; A. A. Berle, assistant secre tary of state, and Stephen Early, preddentia i secretary. Earlier the State Department had initially halted travel of, American citizens io Europe. Earl Browder, general secretary <f the American communist party, told the Dies committee that the i’t.ty was offered 8250,000 by a £ up :>f anonymous individuals in 1936 to nominate President Roose vclt as it? candidate. The offer was r de to him as party head, Brow der testified, by a man whom he mew only as "Davidson”. Davidson, said, told him he was represent ing a group of six or seven Re ptoliccns. "The original proposition”, Brow told the committee, “was to i uiate Mr. Roosevelt as the candidate, but when I just laughed tout he made the modified 1 ■position of withdrawing in favor 01 the President.” ■' government began gathering 1: »ny to fix responsibility in inking of the liner Athenia or 300 Americans aboard. State Department announced American minister to Ireland, " n C tdahy, went from Dublin to * y and cabled from the latter m r that he had interview the cap -1 >i of the Athenia, members of the 1 an d a number of American ! j: '- engers. G. O. P. Claims Os N. C. Gains "Idle Talk” m Daily DispalcZi Kureau, In *hR Sir Halier Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL gb, Sept. s.—Grandiose ges- I v'- ,ji Republican leaders in North ,/ ’ such, for instance, sis Jake 11 tmd Charlie Jonas, might ow unthinking folks into a " ‘ ] dial the G. O. P. big wigs ,f y entertain ideas about con a North Carolina’s legislature ■' or at some other future date, facts from the past, how hi give some indication of |f 'h solid basis there is for - u < s thoughts. matter of fact the Republi ' never recovered from the ' ' they have come in the last oars to having real strength General Assembly. . J: 11 was in 1929, when they had ' •■■'osentatives and a dozen sen '(ji the result of the A1 Smith ' n Tar Heelia. Previously : ,1! T had sent 16 to the House in 20 in 1925; but when 1931 | l( d round the G. O. P. touched outturn to date in their legisla ‘'presentation, meagre five in • noose, two in the Senate. f < then they have done practi i.o better, with two their Con or '^ f ’ r:ate Quota and 13 their ab ! h>ps in the House, iiif,. over the legislatures ‘ ;j 2a, and including the assem (Continued on Page Five) -- ... ? of. C. Brniirr smt lUnlit tHsuatrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE nw IHE ASSOCIATED piu^ s OP F rench Enter German T err itory Trio Missing U. S. Planes All Safe -’N - ■ Christobal, Canal Zone, Sept. 5. —(AP) —Army authorities today announced three United States army planes previously reported missing over Costa Rica bad been found with all personnel aboard safe. The aircraft, pursuit planes of the new P-36 type, had become detached from a group of 30 being flown yesterday from March, Langley and Selfridge fields to Panama. Bad weather forced them to make emergency landings. First army reports did not dis close where the three planes had been located. Labor Day’s Deaths Total 373 For U. S. (By The Associated Press.) Violent deaths in the na tion over the Labor Day week end numbered at least 373. Traffic accidents were the chief cause of deaths, as usual. Brownings, shootings, train accidents and other causes swelled the list of fatalities. The naSon counted at least 49 drownings. The Middle West suffered the heaviest loss of life, con tributing more than a third of the nation’s total. Deaths by states included, North Carolina 7:, South Caro line 5, Virginia, 6. AAA Cotton Cards Being Speeded Up College Station, Raleigh, Sept. 5. AAA workers have speeded up the issuance of 1939 cotton marketing cards so that every North Cardlini producer should have his card by September 15, I£. Y. Floyd, AAA executive officer at State College, announced today. Two types of cards are issued, Floyd explained. The white card in dicates that a grower has not ex ceeded his cotton acreage allotment and therefore is free to sell ail the cotton he produces without penalty. However, a red card is issued to those producers who have ovei plant ed their allotment. All cotton said above their allotment will be sub ject to a tax of three cents a pound According to AAA figures, thee are 108,371 cotton farms in North | (Continued on Page Five) only daily newspaper published in this SECTIONOFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Take Their First Prisoners of War ' SS'SBBs!®fiswM»» ymraWlllliMlK iHIBff llfn , lnnftnrf^^^BfffHHnßPnr ! ■:X , X'j4REßSßnv.■■■•i Central Press Radiophoto In this picture, flown to Berlin from Warsaw and radioed to New York, by the Nazi censor and issued as propaganda for Germany. One result, Polish prisoners, captured by Nazi troops, are pictured hands held high, it has been reported, was to stiffen the attitude of Britain and France during the first day of Hitler’s undeclared war. This picture was passed who are in a state of war with the Reich. HENDERSON, N. Cl, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 5, 1939 Trouble Reported at Many Points in Ger many and Czech oslovakia; France’s Operations Shrouded Somewhat i n Mys tery, Paris, Sept. 5.. —(AP) —(via radio) —The French government announc ed today that French forces had made contact with the German troops on the western front and had penetrated into German territory. A semi-official Paris radio report ed trouble in Germany, and said there had been disorders in Cologne, Dusseldorf and Essen, as well as the areas of all Czechoslovakia. Dispatches from Copenhagen re ported naval fighting off the coast of Denmark. FRENCH OPERATIONS ARE HELD IN STRICT SECRECY Paris, Sept. 4. (AP) France pursued her second day of military operations against Germany today with the official announcement that “movements developed normally for the entire land, sea and air forces.” This was announced in the war ministry’s communique No. 3. Germany replied with an aerial invasion which brought an early morning air raid alarm to Paris. Later, an official military source said the planes had come on “a scouting trip” without dropping bombs. The three issued war ministry communiques have failed shed any light on France’s operations along her Rhineland frontier, be yond the fact that she has gone to the military aid of her ally, Poland. Official advices Reported “stub born fighting,” however, on the Ger man-Polish eastern front. France’s operations were understood to be testing Germany’s fortifications to seek the weak point of the Siegfried line and divert German forces from Poland. JONESBORO BOY IS GIVEN LONG TERM Wilson, Sept. S.—(AP) —Kenneth Cameron, 19, of Jonesboro, was sen tenced today to ten to twelve years in State’s Prison by Judge Leo Carr after Cameron’s plea of guilty to the hold-up robbery of W. A. Lucas, chairman of the * State Elections Board, and his wife a year ago. Cameron admitted in court that he stole the automobile and sll from Lucas and left the Wilson couple stranded on a highway near here. GERMANS DESTROY 2 BRITISH PLANES Berlin, Sept. 5. —(AP) —The of ficial German news agency, DNB, announced two British scouting planes were shot down over Ham burg today. The news bureau assert ed that four British planes appear ed over Hamburg during the after noon and were promptly engaged by German scouting planes. Call to Arms InH C- P. Radiophoto Just before the state of war was de clared in London against the Nazi Reich, the proclamation of general* mobilization, signed and sealed by King George VI, was read as pic tured above. Thousands Os Poles Fleeing From Warsaw * Warsaw, Sept. 5. (AP) Thousands of Poles and several hundred foreigners, including most of the Americans remaining here, left this Polish capital city today, leaving for the interior beyond reach of the German armies and German planes. There were reports that offi cials of the government itself might leave within a few hours. Anthony J. Drexel-Biddle, Jr., American ambassador, his family and most of the staff left dur ing the day in a motor caravan flying American flags. They headed for an undisclosed spot, where Biddle proposed to‘con tinue functioning as nearly nor mally as possible. Other Americans, including a number of Polish descent, oc cupied the extra seats in the Biddle caravan. As it was get ting under w r ay, bomb explosions and the roar of the “archies”, anti-aircraft guns, were heard in the distance. Markets On Upward Dash During Day Expectation of “War” Prices Pushes Quota tions of Stocks and Commodities to Fan cy Leyels; Wheat Goes Limit Allowed. New York, Sept. s.—(AP) —Wall Street experienced one of the most spectacular upsurges in prices in stocks and commodities in its history today as resumption of trading after the holiday found a feverish urge to buy in expectation of “war” prices. Stocks, particularly steels, non ferrous metals, oils, chemicals and machinery makers, jumped $1 to around sls a share. Wheat again bounded the limit permitted in a day’s trading of five cents a bushel at Chicago, Winnipeg and Minneapolis, and raw materials generally surged upward, both food and industrial. Production Chief For Plane Supply Is Dead In Ohio Dayton, Ohio, Sept. 5.—(AP) — Major Cobb Morris, 48, of Washing ton, D. C., died last night at the Miami Valley hospital following an oneration performed Friday. Maj'or Morris was attached to the building and planning section of the atr corps and had worked d'/ectly out of the air corps’ chief office for the past three months in connection with the expansion program now in progress. At the time of his death' he was making a tour of all the air corps fields in the country. Major Morris was a graduate of ■he University of North Carolina, and a veteran of the World War. Surviving are his wTdow, one daughter, one sister, his father and one brother. EDGECOMBE BOND'S ARE DISPOSED OF Raleigh, Sept. 5. —(AP) —The Lo cal Government Commission today approved issuance of more than $300,000 securities, including Battle boro school district, Edgecombe, re fundings, and Pinetops, Edgecombe, $7,000 refunding. (l)QjCtifWl FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Wednesday; slightly cooler on the coast to night. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Britain’s Planes Drop Propaganda London, Sept. s.—(AP) —The ministry of information announc ed tonight that planes of the Royal Air Force had dropped 3,000,000 additional pamphlets in appeals to the German people in extensive HieMs last ov°r the coal and iron districts of the Ruhr. The planes, the ministry said, returned safely without having been engaged by German pursuit planes. On a previous such pro paganda raid, six million leaflets were reported dropped. Submarine Sinks One More Ship Crew of 23 Saved From British Steamer Bosnia; London An nounces Sinking of German Ship Also; Crew Saved. Liverpool, England, Sept. .5. —(AP) —The Cunard Line announced to day that its steamer Bosnia had been sunk by a submarine and her crew of 23 rescued by a Norwegian tanker. A message from the 2,407-ton Bos nia, interrupted befSfe 'completion, gave her position as about 100 mlies off the Scottish coast. One death aboard the Bosnia was reported, that of a fireman. The Bosnia was set ablaze by gunfire and then torpe doed, the company announced. Meantime, at London, information was received that the German ship, Karl Fritzen, had been sunk and that its crew was safe. The announcement likewise re counted the already reported sinking of the German ship Olinda, sent to the bottom Sunday by the guns of a British cruiser. The Karl Fritzen, of 659 tons gross, was bound from the Nether lands for Canada or Buenos Ayres. Also, London reported the minis (Continued on page two) Cotton Sale Is Hampered. Washington, Sept. S.—(AP) — Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said today that the European war made the problem of disposing of American cotton surplus more ser ious. 4 . \'' HOG PRICES SWING TO SKYWARD LEVEL Raleigh, Sept. S.—(AP) —Hog prices skyrocketed upward at three North Carolina markets today, the Department of Agri culture reported, with tops going up 35 to 50 cents per 100 pounds. The Rocky Mount top at $7.50 was up 50 cents. Athenian Was Torpedoed And Shelled By U-Boat; Survivors Tell Tragedy _• Greenock, Scotland, Sept. 5. — (AP) —Victims of the war’s first great sea tragedy, 600 shaken and weeping survivors of the torpedoed British liner Athenia arrived on rescue ships today with tales of hor ror. Two hundred of those arriving here were injured. One survivor, John McEwan, of Glasgow, said a submarine torpedoed the Athenia and then twice shelled the vessel as her lifeboats were being lowered. (German authorities in Berlin categorically denied that a German submarine was involved. German Secretary of Str|2 von Weizsaecker told the United States Charge d’Af faires Alexander Kirk that “Ger man sea forces could not possibly have been responsible”.) An undetermined number of Americans and Canadians were among the injured brought here. A member of one of the rescue crews said the first SOS from the Athenia 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Government Might Leave The Capital % Menace of German Planes May Drive High Officials Fur ther Inland; Captures Give Germans Con trol of Upper Silesia. • Berlin, Sept. s.—(AP) —Germany today announced the capture of two rich Polish industrial cities, Katowice and Chorzow, near the Polish-Ger man frontier in Silesia. Both towns, on the direct route to Krakow, Poland’s ancient capital, virtually had been surrounded by previous attacks, where the German border bulges into southwestern Poland, but the final thrust against them had been delayed. Germans had said they feared the Poles would blow up inines and steel rolling mills, which they said were mined with explosives, but the Poles were said to have been surprised and fled without damaging the valu able property. Capture of the two towns would give Germany control of the highly important Upper Silesian industrial sector. A United States concern, the American Silesian Company, owns some zinq mines at Katowice. At the same time, German au thorities declared ten British bomb ers had been shot down yesterday when they raided the German fleet near the entrance to the' strategic Kiel Canal. Revising their previous statement that five of 12 British raiders were destroyed, German of ficials said more than half of the attackers were downed, and declar ed no damage was done to Nazi war ships, despite British statements to the contrary. (In London officials claimed “severe damage” was inflicted on two German warships.) Germany reported capture of the two Polish cities as Adolf Hitler, the Reich’s first soldier, followed his troops into East Prussia, and the Ger man news agency announced trium phantly that East Prussia had been reunited with Germany proper. WARSAW GOVERNMENT MAY LEAVE CAPITAL SHORTLY Warsaw, Sept. s.—(AP) —Reports were current today that officials of the Warsaw government might leave Warsaw within a few hours. German planes made two raids on the capital. (Continued on Page Five) ANGIER MAN KILLED IN WRECK OF AUTO Raleigh, Sept. 5. (AP)—J. K. Adams, 35, of Angier, Route 2, was instantly killed and Essie Mae Tant, of Raleigh, was seri ously injured early today in an automobile accident. Coroner Roy Banks said a truck operated by Adams col lided with a tree on a side road near here. was received at 10 p. m., Greenwich mean time, Sunday (5 p. m., eastern standard). “I saw the Athenia take her final plunge, stern first, the next morning”, he declared. “I saw a group of five boats and in the water a number of young chiktrlfn who had been drowned. The boats were full, some of them badly flooded, and some had people dinging to their sides.” Glasgow mobilized hospitals and nursing homes to accommodate the injured, while other planned to care :"or other refugees, many of them thinly clad and weak from exposure to the winds pf the North Atlantic. Perhaps the saddest sight of all was nine-year-old Roy Barrington, of Toronto. His mother, went down with the Athenia. As the rescue work went on, no (Continued on Page Five)
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