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13,873 year PRESIDENT ORDERS ARMY. NAVY RECRUITING polish Army To Launch Offensive, Warsaw Says 15 < , .~4 #T : ,:>MpT' ' t -wm |p|| P#PIB—- : v rn^afefi' : i d :... IB W .vv':...T: Wgm m r m M 151 :y 8L '■■ ■* • rrirmr-nm ■ — n nrr Although the German authorities publish no casualty lists, the censor passed this photo, indicating that there are casualties. Hitler is shown •utering the car of an ambulance train to cheer German wounded. He French Penetrate West Front Northern Flank Re ported 7 to 8 Miles in German Territory; Tanks, Armored Cars Used First Time. Paris Sept. B. (AP) —The northern flank of the French a’.my was reported tonight to have drifted 7 to 8 miles with in German territory. This information, which was. received in official circles without confirmation by the high command, bore out other reports of fighting on the west ern front, which said the French advance on the sixth day of fighting had averaged from to 4 miles. » Tanks and armored cars were reported for the first time to have entered the con flict, supporting deployed in fantry in a give and take ac tion between French and Ger man troops in the no man’s land in the tip of the western frontier, where the French Maginot and German Siegfried lines fan out to a distance of some 25 miles apart. WILMINGTON PAPER DROPS SHIP NEWS __ % 'WI r ington, Sept. B.^(AP) —The W In ngem Star-News announced a n ;v that, in view of the warfare Going conducted against merchant ‘' ;: i>l • ! and in compliance with a' pint of the neutrality laws, wenm of ships of belligerent ! 11 " in and out of this port would i '" m !oted from the shipping col- Tobacco Prices To Drop Then Come Back Rapidly Daily Dispatch Curesin. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Ud'-igh, Sept. B.—Tobacco grow "Y<> arc already disappointed • j..'ices being received lor their ' °l' ' ill get no immediate comfort , oni a study of the past history of prices and European wars. ■■l they will learn is that if pre '; n,t u is followed this time prices I toboggan downward, and rapid 1f ’ for at least a year before com jt'g back. Then, again on the history ‘p ;. ; n g jt S el 1' theory, there will be •' 'iiarp comeback which will con -1 as long as the war continues. ir ! correspondent tried to get ' '■' ‘ ling resembling a prophecy as 0 ule course of tobacco prices out Hinthcrsmt Satin tl is patch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORIScAROLINA AND VIRGINuv L^um D wire service nw IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Hitler Visits Wounded on Polish Front Surplus Os FoodslnU.S. FDR Claims Declares There's Not Going to Be Repition Os World War Price Rises; Cotton Fore cast for 1939 Shows 12,380,000 Bales. Washington, Sept. B—(AP) — President Roosevelt told the Ameri can people through his press con ference today there was an actual surplus of all food stuffs and there was not going to be any repetition of price rises that this nation saw i:H World War days. He said that many well mean ing people in the last few days had found some food prices up and were limited to small purchases of sug ar and other staples. The President then went on to say there was an ample supply of food of every variety and no in (Continued on Page Two) TORPEDOED SHIP’S CREW IS RESCUED New York, Sept. B.— (AP) Radio Marine Corporation to day reported a radio saying the steamer Jeanjadot “advises saved crew 44 men of SS Re gent Tiger, British, torpedoed by submarine.” Lloyds Register lists the ship as a British tanker of 10,176 tons. of W P. Hedrick, State Department of Agriculture specialist, but he was far too wary for that and contented himself with sketching briefly what occurred back in World War days from 1914 to 1920. He pointed out that many of the same conditions exist today as existed then, but cau tioned that there are now present additional factors which were not present in 1914. These new factors, he pointed out, may upset the whole equation based on the past. Figures in his office, however, in dicate that the course of events this time is starting about as in 1914 when Europe blazed into hostilities. (Continued on Page Two) HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939 C. P. Radiophoto visited the battlefields where his army claims to have closed the bottle neck of the Polish Corridor. This picture was flashed by radio from Berlin to New York. (Central Press) Orders Issued On Sale of Tobacco Greenville, Sept. B.— (AP) James S. Ficklen, president of the Tobacco Association of the United States, through C. S. Carr, secretary-treasurer, today advised twenty North Carolina tobacco markets and nine South Carolina markets that “the 360-pile-an hour speed regulations must be strictly observed, beginning to day.” He explained that, “beginning Monday, September 11, the sell ing time on all markets in all belts will he limited to six hours a day,” and asked the cooperation of the markets in enforcing the regulations. * Young Demos To Fight For Freight Rates Charlotte, Sept. 8. —(AP) —North! Carolina Young Democrats, turning | their attention first to economics in stead of politics, endorsed the fight of the State and the South for a re vision of the nation’s freight, rates structure in the opening session to day of their eighth annual conven tion. * After open forum discussion, a group of delegates authorized Leßoy Martin, Raleigh banker who presid ed in the absence of Representative Lindsey Warren, to draft a resolu tion advocation readjustment of rates on a country-wide basis to eli minate what speakers described as discrimination against the South. About 50 delegates attended the (Continued on Page Two) Plans of Duke And Duchess of Windsor Are Yet Uncertain London, Sept. B.—-(AP) —The Brit ish Press Association said today it had learned that “the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will not return to this country today” and that plans for their home coming “are not yet complete”. When they do come it was gen erally expected they would go quiet ly to the former king’s one-time residence outside London. Dispatches from Cannes, France, had said the Duke and Duchess pro bably would leave today and indi cated they would travel across Frhnce to a channel boat. From there it was believed a British war ship would bring them home. U)sunih&A FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sat urday. Attack Upon German Area Is Reported Danish Sources Tell Os Thunder of Guns And Bombs at Island Os Sylt; Humming of Aircrafts Heard Dur ing Night. Copenhagen, Sept. B.—(AP) The thunder of guns and bombs last night and early today indica-ed an attack was being made on the German island of Sylt by airplanes. (Sylt is just off the southwest extremity of Denmark.) The island is the site of an im-< portant German anti-aircraft de fense fortification. The humming of aircrafts was heard clearly on the nearby Danish island of Roemoe. The first attack occurred at 10 p. m. Thursday. At 3 a. m. today a flight of airplanes dropped leaf lets on the Danish mainland. This was followed an hour later by the (Continued on Page Two) Elevated in Federal Shake-Up ■jfiT ' ■' isPw % jjp™ Kt Jp| w mm ■ Jg m i Jit"' Mm '■ jit ■ a Jacob Viner (left), of the University of Chicago, was one of three econ omists appointed by U. S. Treasury Department to assist in administra tion of U. S. war-time financial policies. Harry Slattery (right), under secretary of the interior, was named to head the Rural Electrification Administration, succeeding John Carmody, who was shifted to post of Federal Works administrator, (Central Press) . Retreat Has So Far Been A Strategy Germans Claim Three Armies Are Closing In Un War saw, and One Within Artillery Range; Ger mans Mining North he a Areas. Berlin, Sept. B. —(AP) —The German supreme high command announced today that a German army unit forced an entry into Warsaw at 5:15 p. m. (11:15 a. m. EST). The announcement called the unit armored troops (presum ably armored car formation). It was further announced that the troops forging rapidly ahead, had reached a point a 2 maos southwest of the Polish capital. (This would indicate the en try had been made by the Ger man column which has been driving on Warsaw ' from the north). Berlin, Sept. B.—(AP) The German army declared to day that three of its columns were closing in on Warsaw the north, west and south west, and that at least one was within artillery range of the Polish capital The report of the army of the east however, did not specify which of the three converging forces was in position to bombard Warsaw. An afternoon communique said the column advancing from the south west was making rapid progress, and had captured a town about 25 miles from the capital. An earlier communique today (Continued on Page Four) Netherlands Ship Sinks With Death Toll of 29 Persons Amsterdam. The Netherlands, Sept. B. —(AP) —Government of ficials announced that 29 of 51 persons aboard a 'NY»t,berla«rss mine sweeper were killed when an explosion sank the vessel off the west Frisian Islands, north of Netherlands. TJIP c-oirl f T *A sweeper struck a mine in terri torial waters and went down with |p - —’’rv- 1 - *' •> r* Three naval craft from thflj Helder naval base started a thoi- invesHfaiion , > ft p r partici pating in rescue work. The officials did not indicate whether . they established by whom the mine was laid or whether it had been placed or drifted into Netherlands waters. I -*> M yJL OX. • I |||p|' Wv- < “ * '-ty^' JsW , ! HR ! *■ //•;; PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Twice a Refugee immf Jgjy ''X&&™ i ' Hl&& • -., [fPjpmi |: jM|Bh r x® :- Daughter of a U. S. naval officer, 1 Judith Ann Acker, 3, was born in China and was a refugee of the Sino-Japanese war. She is pictured arriving in New York aboard the President Roosevelt, a refugee from the war in Europe. (Central Prest) Major Drive By French Likely Near Army o n Western Front Hammering Away at Siegfried Line and Making Progress, High Com mand Reports i n Communique. Paris, Sept. B.—(AP) —The French high command today re ported its armies progressing across the German fro r ‘ *rs through the wooded appi os to the Siegfried line. New “local advances” an nounced by the war ministry’s communique No. 9 this morn ing were strengthening the spearheads driven into Ger many’s Saar basin. Despite spirited German resistance and reinforcement of German troops on the western front, the French ap peared to be pressing their attacks to relieve Poland from pressure in the east. There the Poles were ex pected to take a stand along the river Vistula to defend Warsaw. The French army engaged in fresh action during the morning. The morning communique, usually issued between 10 and 11 a. m., was held until nearly noon, while the ministry awaited results. The bulletin which finally ap peared was the most encouraging to the French since operations start ed on Monday. . Althojugh the new advances were (Continued on Page Two) Pocketbook of State Hit By Higher Prices Raleigh, Sept. B.—(AP) —Rising prices due to the European war hit the State’s pocketbook hard today. The division of purchase and con ti'act announced it would buy 1,620 barrels of flour from one bidder at $4.60 a barrel, if the flour meets State specifications. That price is 57c a barrel higher than the average paid under the last contract, but it was 85c lower than the other bids received Tuesday. The division also ordered another 620 barrels with the top price being $6.34 a barrel. The average for the entire previous contract was $4.03 a barrel. A bid for . shortening which was sent in before the war declaration was accepted with the price $7.35 a hundred pounds. Bids submitted Tuesday included quotations as high as $10.25 and the last purchase was $7.88 a hundred. , 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Strength Os Defenses To Be Enlarged Full Peacetime Per sonnel not Called Now; President Will Call Congress if He Can Be Assured of Votes for His Neu trality Plan. Washington, Sept. B. (AP) —President Roosevelt to day proclaimed a “limited na tional emergency” to safeguard United States neutrality and to strengthen national defense. Emphasizing at a press con ference that under no circum stances would the nation be put on a wartime basis, the Presi dent said the proclamation would involve increases in the military branches, but not to the extent of the full authorized peacetime strength. The President said that four executive orders would be issued by the attorney general later in the day authorizing the following four steps under the proclamation: 1. Recruiting for the army and calling back first line reserves, to | increase the enlisted strength, but nowhere near the full 280,000 peacetime authorization. The actual increase has not yet been decided. 2. Increase the navy personnel, but not to the full extent of the 180,000 peacetime authorization. The navy now has between 115,000 and 120,000 men, and this figure will be increased to a total not yet determined. The increase also will affect the National Guard and Marine Corps, all to fill in what the President described as chinks and gaps in the military branches. (Continued on page two) Sub Sighted Off Nantucket Boston, Sept. B.—(AP) —An un identified submarine was sighted to day by the crew of the Pollock Rip lightship, which guards the westerly approach to Nantucket Sound, coast guard headquarters at Boston re ported. Those aboard the lightship said the submarine had no identifying marks and that she was headed in a southerly direction. Coast guards said there was no alarnf but that a report was made to Washington. It was possible, they added, that the craft was an Amer ican submarine. The United States submarine Sea Dragon and R-13 were known to be off of Cape Cod. The Sea Dragon is or*, trial. German Ship Is Sunk With 7 Men Lost Copenhagen, Sept. 3.—(AP)— Seven members of the crew of the German steamer Helfried Bismarck were killed today when an ex plosion sank the ship south of Ore Sound, between an island and Swe de n» Survivors said they believed the vessel, which went down in a few minutes, had struck a mine. The vessel went down in seven minutes. The vessel was loaded with salt peter. Earlier a vessel was blown up off a Danish island. Observers said 'hey believed the ship was a Ger man freighter, and that all of the crew perished. (More than TOO miles separate the scenes of the two accidents. Both areas are on the eastern side of the Danish peninsula. The area where the unidentified steamier has been blown up has been mined by Germany, but shipping authorities expressed the opinion that a shift 'rg mine was responsible, since the vessel was not in the charted mine Gelds.
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