'AvynKRSON’S
Population
13,873
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FRENCH SINK WEDGE IN SIEGFRIED UNE
Congress May Refuse FDR Arms Repeal Request
Average For
Tobacco Is
$14.10 Here
713,410 Pounds Sold
Opening Day, All-
Time Record Here;
Day’s Break Also Set
New High; Prices Re
porter! Steady Today.
of $14.10 per hundred
s made by the Hender
.,.n tol-jr-o market Monday for the
‘ -ening fb.v’s sale of the season.
r ; rd V> eil 'o. Tr.. sales supervisor,
named today.
Wid 1 "’.*5.410 pounds sold for
t.(iO..'Gti 00. the market set a new
• ”-tiire high for a single day’s
;'le. An estimated 1,500,000 pounds
r the market for the initial sale
n! the "f.K'on was also another all
tee reev'd for the market. The
rev ree ird' were set despite the
Kvchcv the impending “holi
er". : . wing clearing of the
v c- ioors Wednesday.
sale compared with
tf.-Wi ' nds sold on opening'day
!. -t y r for SI 16.432.56 for an
erage of $22.90 per hundred
pvnd-. and 433.008 pounds for
S! 11.253.81 for an average of 525.69
(.n opening day two years ago, .on
September 16.
Allen -aid farmers “appeared
highly pleased’’ over prices paid
Monday, due to the fact that al
t- .git considerably lower than
i • year, most growers had re
sitted themselves to a much lower (
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Prices About
15 Cents On
Middle Belt
Raleigh. Sept. 12.—(AP)— Check
of early second day sales on the nine
-Wth Carolina Middle Belt tobacco
markets =ho wed today prices con- j
t: nmg around a 15 cents a pound
kvcl. seven cents or more off 1938
opening prices.
Sales were heavy and quality of
' ::, mg air as farmers made an es-
Ri t tf> dispose of millions of pounds
biore a "sales holiday” of indefinite
duration goes into effect at 5 p. m.
tomorrow.
-\one of the markets, already glut
ted. accepted any ne wofferings. The
mics committee of the United States
moaceo Association declared Sat
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Imperial Co.
Helds Key
For Tobacco
£ rop Control Likely
Would Help Situation
V ery Little; Gover
n°r Giving Serious
Study to Situation,
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
in *hf Sir Wnlter Holpl.
:gi). Sept. 12. —Despite intense
' ’ f and efforts of many North
. '' a agencies, key to solution of
' f .' f '"i'i'ont tobacco crisis in North
. ■" 'du,;' remains in the hands of the
j : ' <1 Tobacco Company of Great
at least, is the apparent con
' , informed circles which are
[ "' n y the problem.
' ' nor Clyde R. Hoey told your
( . ,( " !>o.-,dent that he is making
' v '“fort to learn the Imperial’s
'' for withdrawing its buyers
, ’ t tar Heel markets. He is de
-’um iy convinced that nothing tan
, e C;, n be done to relieve the ex
lns emergency until that has been
u, )ne.
i. ‘ s Aate Board of Agriculture met
aight at the call of Commis
ner Kerr Scott. The Triple A, un
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SERVICE op
IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
French Adwnce Despite Nazi Counter-Attacks
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More than 350 square miles of German territory have fallen before the French advance on the Western
Front, reports from Paris indicate. Planes, tanks, artillery and motor columns participated in the attack
which “dented” the outer defenses of Germany’s famed Westwall, despite counter-attacks by Reich troopa.
British Government
Evacuating Staffs
From London Areas
State To Enforce
Leaf Scrap Levy
Raleigh, Sept. 12.— (AP) —A
group of eight or ten revenue de
partment deputies and officials
scattered to Eastern North Caro
lina tobacco markets today to en
force the $250 license tax on per
sons who buy scran tobacco from
producers and haul it to markets.
Revenue Commissioner A. J.
Maxwell said he had reports yes
terday that scrap was being rush
ed to market, and that his men
would see to it that it was legally
handled. Redrying plants hand
ling scrap tobacco have paid their
SSOO license tax in most instances
Maxwell said.
E. F. Arnold, Farm Bureau sec
retary, conferred with Maxwell
about the matter after receiving
complaints from many farmers
that scrap was being handled by
unlicensed haulers.
Growers Os
Halifax Ask
Referendum
Scotland Neck, Sept. 12.—(AP) —
About twenty of the leading tobacco
growers of Halifax county met in
emergency session here last night
and adopted a resolution urging an
early referendum on control of the
tobacco crop, and asking the
government to step in now and buy
the better grades usually taken by
foreign companies.
The resolution was telegraphed to
six members of a committee which
will confer in Washington tomorrow
with Henry Wallace, secretary of
lagriculture, about what can be done
to aid tobacco growers, since buyers
oi British firms have withdrawn
from markets, causing a “tobacco
holiday.”
FINNISH SHIP SUNK
ON STRIKING MINE
Coppenhagen, Sept. 12.—(AP) —
Fourteen men were killed today
when the Finnish bark Olivebank
was blown up about 105 miles south
west of Esbjerg, southwestern Den
mark. Seven men picked up by a'
fishing boat said the vessel struck a
mine.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
No Ministers Will
Leave Capital, How
ever; British People
Told Officially Their
Soldiers Are Now in
Front Lines in
France.
London, Sept. 12.—(AP) —The
British government announced to
day it was taking steps to remove
between 7,000 and 8,000 of the staffs
of governmental departments from
London, but stressed that the gov
ernment itself was not moving from
the capital. “There is no question of
the government as a whole being
evacuated”, said a statement.
“Not a single minister is leaving
and none concerned in the wartime
activities of the government is being
evacuated. The government itself
will not evacuate London if it can
possibly remain without loss of
efficiency.”
The plan for removal of govern
ment workers was described as a
sectional one, prompted by a desire
for some degree of decentralization.
It was explained that no govern
ment department was being re
moved entirely. Which departments
were affected and where the em
ployees were to be taken remained
an official secret.
The British people, ten days of
war, and ready for long years of it,
seized avidly on the first trickle of
news to tell that their men, guns
and planes once more were in France
to fight Germany on the western
front.
Official disclosure that a British
expeditionary force had crossed to
France was made in a communique,
which said troops had landed “but
are not yet in action.”
(French dispatches last week al
ready had reported British troops
had reached French soil.)
A communique .from the British
information ministry said: “For some
days past rumors have been "current
in this country and aboard that Bri
tish troops have landed in France.
The ministry of information is now
permitted to announce officially that
this is so.“
“The troops are not yet in action,
and no further details can meantime
be furnished. It is, however, the in
tention of the military authorities to
furnish further information from
time to time.”
The communique was at variance
with the information ministry’s an
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HENDERSON, N. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 12, 1939
On Eastern Front
Germany formally annexed the Po
lish Corridor and portions of west
ern Poland which belonged to Reich
before 1914. Polish territory in Ger
man hands is shaded. Poles, fight
ing desperately in defense of War
saw, claimed Nazis were repulsed
at Modlin fortress and denied the
invaders had crossed Bug River at
Wysckow, 20 miles from the capital
(Central Press J
Taxation Suit
Is Abandoned
By A. T. & T.
Raleigh, Sept. 12.—(AP'—Attor
ney Genera] Harry McMullan an
nounced today that the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company
had abandoned contentions it was
not liable for state income taxes on
grounds its business was entirely of
an interstate nature.
The company has sued in Federal
and Superior courts and paid the
tax levies under protest pending
court rulings. McMullan said judg
ments would be signed at once dis
missing all suits.
The tax levies aggregated $273,-
255.41 since 1927, but the company
will be refunded $6,848.56 due to a
recalculation of the amounts due,
McMullan' said, so that the levy
would be on actual receipts rather
than on the basis of system ratios.
DUKE AND DUCHESS
OF WINDSOR BACK
London, Sept. 12.—(AP) — The
British ministry of information an
nounced tonight that the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor have arrived in
England.
U)sialh&Ji
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Wednesday;
slightly warmer Wednesday in
north portion,
Real War In
Congress Is
Seen by Nye
Says Administration
May Try “Gag Rule”
Cn Debate, but
Thinks Senate Will
Block That; Declares
People Want No U.
S. War.
Washington, Sept. 12.—(AP)
m"" c ’-' it 4 “tv' —*.
Illinois, of the House Rules
•it predicted after a
White House conference today
Congress would be called to
meet in extra session around
October 1.
While asserting that Presi
d?nt had not committed him
self on a date, Sabath said it
would be around October 1.
Washington, Sept. 12—(AP) —
Senator Nye, Republican, North Da
kota, asserted today the administra
tion would “run into a real war in
the legislative field over an at
tempt to repeal arms embargo pro
vision of the neutrality act.”
Although Nye said he knew of no
present move for a Senate filibus
ter to block repeal, he declared
there would be “extended and
thorough” debate on the proposal
which many legislators say would
benefit England and France in their
war with Germany.
The neutrality law, which Presi
dent Roosevelt applied to the Euro
pean war theatre, prohibits sale of
arms, ammunition and implements
of war to belligerents. Proposed
elimination of this provision is ex
pected to furnish the principal con
troversy in the anticipated special
session of Congress.
Observing that administration
leaders appear to be considering
“invoking the gag rule’, Nye said
he did not believe the Senate would
vote for any limitation of debate.
He added the opinion that if Con
gress was call into special session,
it would remain so throughout the
winter.
Nye said he had found sentiment
in the Middle West strongly against
Hitler. He observed, however, there
also was a strong sentiment against
involvement of this country in war.
He said he thought the American
people should be told that The sale
of war materials to belligerents
would be likely to bring involve
ment.
Radio Firm
Is Cited For
War Moves
Station WMCA i n
New Y ork Accused
Os Intercepting and
Broadcasting British
And German Secret
Codes; Germans Rile
u. s.
Washington, Sept. 12.—(AP) —The
Federal Communications Commis
sion today accused the Knickerbocker
Broadcasting Company, Inc., licensee
of Radio Station WMCA, New York
City, of illegally intercepting and
broadcasting secret radio communi
cations sent by the governments of
Germany and Great Britain.
The FCC ordered the company to
show cause by September 15 why its
license should not be revoked “for
violation of and failure to observe
the provisions of the communications
act of 1934, constituting conduct by
said licensee contrary to the public
interests.”
The FCC said it had “information
in its possession tending to establish”
that the station “caused the intercep
tion of secret radio communications
sent by the governments oi Great
Britain and Germany, respectively,
containing orders to the naval or
military forces of said governments
to govern the movement of said
forces in time of v/ar, and thereafter
caused said messages to be decoded
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
British Troops Are
Rapidly Moving Up
Into Battle Region
Runs War Machine
rWv : -
Viscount Gort
Viscount Gort is in active charge of
the British army which is taking
part in the Allied assault upon Ger
many’s Westwall. He has been in
.service thirty-four years,
has seen action in India and China,
and played a hero’s role in the first
World War, winning the Victoria
Cross, Military Cross and Distin
guished Service Order-
Poles Claim
Germans Are
Now Haited
But Invaders Con
tinue Attacks at
Many Points, With
Three-Frcmt Offen
sive Launched
Against Poles for
Seizure of Warsaw.
Budapest. Sept. 12.—(AP) The
Polish general staff communique No.
11 declared today stout Polish resis
tance had brought the German plane,
tank and artillery attack at least to
a temporary stalemate throughout a
widespread territory.
(The Bug river flows from east to
west joining another river at a point
20 miles due north so Warsaw.)
The official . Hungarian ’ news
agency reported the Polish radio sta
tion at Lublin said the Polish Pre
mier Shladkowski had presided over
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Chamberlain, Daladier
Meet At Secret 4 ‘Spot’ l
To Coordinate Effort
Paris, Sept. 1. —(AP) —Prime
Minister Chamberlain met Premier
Daladier “somew r here in France” to
day at a meeting of the supreme
French-British war council.
A communique issued by Dala
dier’s office said two other mem
bers of the council also attended,
General Gamelin, commander-in
chief of the French-British armies,
and Lord Chatfield, British minis
ter for the coordination of defense.
The communique said the war
council “confirmed completely” a
firm British-French resolution to
“concentrate all their forces and all
their resources to aid Poland,
which is resisting a “brutal invasion
of its territory wbth so much brav
ery”.
Daladier was back in his office
at the war office at 6 p. m. where
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Defenses Around
Saarbruecken
“Slightly Turned”,
And Major Battle Is
Believed in Making to
Be Begun Very Short
ly.
Paris, Sept. 12.—(AP) —French
dispatches reported tonight that
French advance guards had driven
a wedge into the advance fortifica
tions of German’s Siegfried line east
of Saarbruecken. One section of the
attacking forces was asserted to
have “slightly turned” the defenses
of the great industrial city.
Artillery pounded German lines
urrounding the city from heights
m he forest of Warndt.
These reports of French activity
followed the war ministry’s com
munique for the morning, which
said merely that there had been a
“calm night along the entire front”.
Previously fighting on a 100-mile
sector of the western front between
the Moselle and Rhine rivers
strengthened the impression a major
battle was shaping up, an engage
ment which history may record as
the battle of the Saar.
British troops were reported
moving up into positions already es
tablished by '•the French. “Despite
enemy resistance, our attacks con
tinued to show serious progress on
a front of-some 12 miles east of the
Saar”, said last night’s war com
munique. This was taken to mean
the French were gaining at a point
some distance north of the French
border town of Saaguemines, in the
German area, between the Saar and
Bliss rivers.
Saarbruecken was emptied of
civilians days ago.
French military sources believed
the German army would soon fall
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| War To Smash
Tourist Trade
For Europe
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Sept. 12.—Shortly be
fore the last war (the 1914-’lB affair)
I wanted to take a trip from Lon
don to Constantinople (now Istanbul)
So I dropped in at the U. S. em
bassy to ask if I needed a passport.
“Yes, sir,” said First Secretary
William Phillips (our present ambas
sador in Rome), “you do. It seems
hard to believe in this enlightened
age, but there still remain in the
world two such benighted countries
■ that you have to have a passport to
travel in em—Russia and Turkey.”
However, I got my passport with
out any trouble. Today, if I wanted
to visit as semi-civilized a city as
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jhe conferred immediately with
Edouard Herriot, president of the
Chamber of Deputies.
MEETING HELD TO REACH
COORDINATION AGREEMENT
London,, Sept. 12.—(AP) —The
ministry of information announced
tonight the purpose of the Cham
berlain-Daladier meeting in Fiance
was to make possible a direct per
sonal exchange 'of views on the
situation and on measures to be
taken in the immediate future.
' “The meeting”, said a communi
que, “has fully confirmed the firm
resolve of Great Britain and France *
! to devote their entire strength and
resources to the waging of the con
flict which has been forced upon
them to give all possible assistance
to their Polish ally.”