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f^NDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 pWENTV-SIXTH year West Poland Annexed By Hitler 4jr A M V **• * ********** *********** V AREHOUSES HERE TO CLOSE WEDNESDAY Bremen Buoys Washed Ashore f^i fPPPI: ** -i' M. I : ••'ififjjl^* ra«8& 'fe Kv sr H lUi I •>'■ &?»»: v. X'-i^'v' Central Press Phonephoto A. W. Lampson is pictured at Boston with one of two buoys washed ashore at Orleans, Mass., bearing name of the German liner Bremen. The buoys were water-soaked, indicating they had been in the water several days. German officials, however, denied rumors the liner had been sunk, declaring the vessel safe in a neutral pvrt. Army And Navy Hoping For 100,000 Recruits To Be Signed Quickly Hull’s Job Is Toughest In U. S. Now By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Wa-hington, Sept. 9.—Next to P * :ci( lit Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull is on the hotest spot of any official Cordell Hull ture. ■Sr< ' t;,iy Hull’s crisis is right on h ’ i n. When European fighting !( • get a-going he may get a ■ of rest, because he won’t o many incalculable possi tj ‘ to reckon with. ’tongs develop Acting Secre -1 hie Navy Edison’s worries •Ihply; the mess will concern y sooner than it will the d! ' Veil if the latter gets into it (Continued on Page Eight) Average German Did Not Expect Or Want The War h CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist ■ ■ hington, Sept. 9. Official v " •’ongton’s impression is that the r;, ge German not only didn’t v ar but didn’t really look for ‘ he was worried, of course. Yet, i accounts, he wasn’t so much d as the English and French • ‘ 1 lor the simple reason that his v censorship was so tight that * uugiy Ja e W as unable to keep in 0 . !,y ’’t of adequate touch with de "R ents. What he appears to have 1 dat w r as that Fuehrer ~ , U; ' get what he was demanding C‘ demanding it, without actually igrU;a S- Quite likely Hitler himself - ' &£NE>ersqw, si. u mvnuvt&ixn BmUt j&xspatch in Washington. Act in g Navy Secretary Edison’s, War Secret ary Woodring’s and Assistant War Sec retary Jo h nson’s responsibilities are very heavy, but their respective jobs are to be ready rather to the fu ture than to be dealt with at this immediate junc- ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTJPCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Wll tE SERVICE ov IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Total Manpower of 632,000, Sought i n Few Weeks; Anti- Profiteering Law May Be Asked of Congress. Washington, Sept. 9. —(AP) —The army and navy hopes to recruit within a few weeks most of the 100,000 reinforcements of the armed forces 1 called ior by President Roosevelt as a national emergency measure. The President, proclaiming a limited emergency yesterday, or dered expansion of the regular army to 227,000, the National Guard to 235,000, the navy to 145,000 and the Marine Corps to 25,000. He directed that the armed for ces be brought thus to a total man power of 632,000 “as rapidly as possible.” Other developments: The capital speculated as to whether the administration might ask Congress to enact anti profiteering laws at its regular ses sion in January if prices rose to an extent officials considered un justified. Present laws are inade quate “to do a real job of checking undue rises”, Attorney General Murphy said yesterday. He added he had about completed a study un dertaken after the government re ceived complaints against food cost increases since war started in Europe. Also, the Senate Labor Com (Continued on Page Eight) thought so. On the opposite hand, the English and French, -while rec ognizing the situation’s dangers, ob viously clung to a near-conviction that Adolf was onl% super-bluffing and that he’d lie down if called strenuously enough. Diplomatic ad vices were to this effect, anyway. \yashington believed much the same thing up to the last minute. At all events it vehemently hoped so. Even during the days of rival mobilizations and blackouts and rat ioning, the guess was to be heard from well-informed functionaries that the prolongation ,01' these pre (Continued on Page Eight) HENDERSON, N. Cl., SATURDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 9, 1939 Suspension Os Sales Is Indefinite Withdrawal of Im perial, Supposedly Due to War Con ditions, and L o w Prices Cause of Ac tion; First Offerings To Be Sold. Tobacco warehouses through out North Carolina will close for an indefinite period next week, it wag decided at a meet ing of tobacco company rep resentatives, warehousemen and growers at a meeting held today at N C. State College, Raleigh. Middle Belt warehouses will operate three days, from Mon day through Wednesday, un til 5 p m., on a seven-hour sales day basis, and will cease opera tions at 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon until further notice, it was decided. At the conclusion of the meeting in Raleigh late this afternoon, W. B. Daniel, Henderson warehouseman and president of the Middle Belt Warehousemen’s Association, tele phoned Fred M. Allen, Jr., sales su pervisor of the Henderson market, of the decision of the gathering. It was decided that Eastern North Carolina and Border Belt markets would operate through Tuesday aft ernoon to dispose of tobacco already on their floors, and then to suspend for an indefinite period. Action of the Raleigh gathering (Continued on Page Eight.) Floors Will Be Cleared Before End U. S. Tobacco Head Says All Markets Will Suspend Next Week; Quick Control Referendum Debated At Meeting in Ra leigh. Greenville, Sept. 9. (AP) —J. S. Ficklen, president of the Tobacco Association of the United States, announced to day that all tobacco markets would ’close next week. This action, he said, was the result of the announcement by the Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain that it was with drawing buyers from the Caro linas markets. Ficklen said the only ques tion to be decided was whether tobacco already on the floors would be sold or the farmers (Continued on Page Eight.) British Tank Ship Sunk by a Torpedo, But Crew Is Safe Amsterdam, Sept. O.—(AP) —A message from the Netherlands steamer Breedyk today reported that the 5,548-ton British tanker Kennebec had been sunk by a tor pedo, but the entire crew of 32 had been saved. The message from the Breedyk’s master to the owners of his ship, the Holland-American Line, did not give the location of the sinking be cause of war dangers. He said the tanker’s crew had been picked up by the Breedyk. The Kennebec was owned by the Anglo-American Oil Company. War Moves on Western Front 4 B ’ • BRITISH {REPORT GERMAN WARSHIP v -bombed and SUNK -HERE ../sb| wgtfc jV »r * (A\\ rt\ I I W | |) FRANKFORT TIFF <*L .nducSiai sector 1 - l l } JTllf JT bombed ey WWjfvsN# allies' +T f*lanes KMMI ipffl assSss® m& While Germany is busy driving through Poland, her enemies are taking advantage of the division of Nazi forces by striking hard in the West. Joined by British troops and planes, France claims to have broken through the supposedly impregnable Westwall of Germany. Frankfurt, first objective of the Allied forces, has been bombed, according to French reports. Eschweiler, Stolberg and Aachon were attacked by a fleet of 300 British and French planes. Britain Looks For Hitler Peace Offer On Seizing Poland British Planes Fight Belgians By Mistake London, Sept. 9. (AP) —The air ministry disclosed today that British warplanes fought with Belgian planes over Belgian territory last night. (Details of the encounter were not given.) The British planes, returning from a reconnaissance over Ger many crossed the Belgian border inadvertently, the ministry said. The British ambassador in Brus sels has been instructed to pre sent an apology to the Belgian government. During the reconnaissance flight, “made in unfavorable weather conditions,” the British planes distributed further copies of a note to the German people. It was the fifth such flight by British planes over Germany since the war started. Four Killed At Crossing Near Dillon Dillon, S. C., Sept. 9.—(AP) —Otho McDaniel, three, of Dil lon; Lawrence Hampton Mullis, 17, of Matthews, N. C.; Clifton Justus, 26, of Siler City, N. C., .and Edgar Bunn, Jr., 23, of Ra leigh, N. C., were killed at a grade crossing near south Dillon early today when their auto mobile was struck by a south bound Seaboard Air Line train. (OsaiJwi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight, slightly cooler in northeast portion; Sunday most ly cloudy. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Showers Tuesday or Wednesday, begin ning in northwest portion Mon day; fair last of week; normal temperatures, except cooler in north portion Tuesday and Wednesday, But Brit ia n and France Will Fight Until Hitler Is Over thrown and Poland Is Again Freed, Press of England Declares. London, Sept. 9. (AP) The British press discussed possibilities of a German peace proposal today with unusual unanimty and declared unani mously the British-French war on Germany “will cease only with the overthrow of Hitler and the restitution of all Po lish lands and rights”. N “Nazi leaders are basing their policy, and indeed their War strategy, on the belief that if they can over run Poland, they may conclude the conflict by inviting us to accept that situation, and promising again—how- ever purjured already they are— that they will make no further acts of aggression,” the Daily Mail said. It added that (‘the immense mo mentum of the forces we are gather ing will not be stayed by any offer of peace which leaves Hitler in pow er and Poland in chains.” Meanwhile, Britain increased her air offensive aimed at disrupting Germany’s internal economic and political structure. At the same time, (Continued on Page Eight.) Poles Ready To Fight To Bitter End Budapest, Sept. 9. —(AP) —The Warsaw radio tonight annourrCbd at V3O p. m., that, although the Po ish capital was “under constant jombing, we will not yield.” “We will hold out to the very ast”, said the broadcast. After broadcasting successive air aid warnings, with the wail of mens plainly audible, the Warsaw radio appealed for all railway workers to report immediately to tepair damaged tracks around the capital. Refugees pouring into the city rom the west were told to report ;t relief headquarters. A chorus of mixed voices then sang, “We will ill, men and women, young and )ld, fight f<""~ Warsaw until death.” PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. German Frontiers Are Declared Same As Those Os 1914 Gas Mask for P. 7 'fy. - •' itr: 'Vrwf IteaUM H wm H 7 ft i & • - -• C. P. Cablephoto Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain abandons his umbreila, along with appeasement, and is pictured in London with the substitute wardrobe accessory, a gas mask, which he carries in the bag hang ing from his shoulder. Photo cabled to New York. French Take Woods Deep In Germany Seizure of City Re veals All Sorts of De structive Traps; Re treating Germans Blast All Bridges Leading Across Riv er. Paris, Sept. -9.—(AP) —The French high command an nounced today the Warndt for est west of Forbach had fallen almost entirely into the hands of French troops. Communique No. 11, issued (Continued on Page Five) German Forces Now Hold A Most Os Western Poland Lwow, Poland, Sept. 9.—(AP) — (By courier to Bucharest) —Over- whelming German forces, led by strong motorized units, have oc cupied most of western Poland in a week of bitter fighting, and now are attacking Warsaw’ in what may be one of the decisive battles of the war. In an attempt 'to annihilate the Polish army before their British and French allies get into action on the Rhine front, the Germans ha’ve throwrn at least 60 divisions and an extremely large number of artillery and mechanized units into action for a sw'ift “kill.” (German army divisions usually have 0,000 to 12,000 men.) PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Annexation Brings 3,854,000 Populace Into Reich; Claim of Fall of Warsaw Re iterated a t Berlin; Air Alarm Rouses Berlin. Berlin, Sept. 9. (AP) —A German spokesman announced today that Adolf Hitler has placed Germany’s frontiers in the east where they were in 1914 and now considered such parts of the occupied sections of Poland as irrevocably Ger man. The announcement was made at the daily press con ference for foreign correspon dents. (It would mean that Hitler in tended to annex to the Reich not only Danzig and the Polish corridor, but also those portions of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Po merania, Posen and Silesia which were taken from Germany by the Versailles treaty and handed to Poland. The total area of these dis tricts is 17,810 square miles, the normal population about 3,854,000.) The supreme high command an nounced again that German troops had entered Warsaw from the south (an earlier communique said from the southwest) and reached the Vistula river, a major Polish defense line at four points, and had gained a footing east of the river at a place which is the center of the Polish munitions industry. The Polish munitions center is 125 air line miles south of Warsaw. (Continued on Page Eight) Goering Aims Sarcasm At The British Berlin, Sept. 9.—(AP) — Britain cannot defeat Germany either by military or economic weapons, Field Marshal Goering assured the Ger man people today. He declared that “we can hope the conquest of Poland will be completed 14 days after the beginning of the fight”—by Septem ber 14—“ that is what happens once the German sword has been un sheathed,” he continued. “Once drawn it destroys the enemy.” While Georing was speaking, a voice in his audience, of Berlin muni tions workers, shouted: “What about the Americans?” Goering answered: “They will be along later.” He hastened to add that America was all that Britain had left but that Germany does not need the United States —as a source of supplies.” Speaking with great disdain of Britons and Britain, the Nazi avia tion and economics chief scouted the British theory that Germany can be worn down and told an attentive na tion that “in the north and east we cannot be blockaded.” He intimated that supplies from (Continued on Page Eight) A lack of systematized official Polish information makes it impos sible to draw lines on a map of Pol and showing the cities and towns al ready occupied by German forces. As far as can be determined on the Polish side, however, German forces have advanced into Poland on the north, east and south, occupying most of the country except the slowly diminishing wedge which juts east from Warsaw. The capital’s fate depends on whether a gigantic German pincer movement is successful in nipping Warsaw off from its narrowing link (Continued on Page Eight.)
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