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Tobacco Market Opens 1 Oth KFNOKKSI IN’S POPULATION 13,873 U ENTY-SIXTH YEAR SENATE GROUP APPROVES NEUTRALITY BILL ********** ******. **•;** ***** *** ******** Report British Cruiser Bombed; Expect Peace Drive T’i «i n Bailey bees Roosevelt About Crisis Senator Thinks Brit ish Buyers Will Re turn to Market; East ern, Middle and Old Belts Open Same Bay; Border Date Delayed. !> :ham. Sept. 28. (AP) T 1 sales committee of the To ; o Association of the l'A i State decided today to ■■;*en Eastern and Middle i t hacco markets on Tues day October 10, and to bejrin -ales on the Old Belt the same date. Tbs time for reopening of -Auth Carolina and Border Alt markets was not imme diately fixed. C : .attee members said the mar ia:' would resume regardless of the < : e of the October 5 crop eon t: 1 referendum. Six-Hour Selling Day. G rye Burton, of Rocky Mount, ssued the following state tlie meeting: s will be resumed Tuesday, 10. A six-hour selling day ■ e-pile selling limit per hour ru :wn will be enforced. Eastern, 3.1 idciie and Old Belts will open with a lull corps of buyers. South Car (Continued on Page Four) Hoey Calls Tar Heels To Religion Raleigh. Sept. 28. (Apt- Governor Iloey issued a state ment today urging North Caro linians to observe ‘.Loyalty days” September 30 and October 1 by assembling in Synagogues and < hurches to “re-dedk*ate them selves to the service of God and humanity, and to rekindle the spiritual fires in their lives.” The national committee for re ligion and welfare recovery has asked for a nationwide obser vance of the days, the governor said. “Many people are disturbed over the present conditions, and some even predict the collapse of our civilization.” Hoey said. “I do not share this gloomy view. I believe with proper dedication on the part of all our people to the ideals of our county, to the principles of our relieion. and to the purposes of God in the world, we may conceivably have a re birth of civilization.” Expect Reynolds To Vote For Arms Embargo Repeal; Fears Hoey’s Opposition Daily Dispatcli Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Sept. 23.—It’s quite a far ■fe, as the country fellows say, •mi Raleigh to Washington, with the ilt that reports reaching here n the nation’s capital may quite ly be garbled. There is so much going on in hington’s political circles now ays that even a whirling dervish ight well get dizzy trying to keep ■ : of the latest signs and por nts. Rut lor all that, this bureau’s Cap )l operatives report that North Cai ma’s gyrating junior Senator Rob t R. Reynolds will finally be found ied up in the neutrality fight with iose who favor a repeal of the pres d arms embargo and enactment of Hro&rrsmt Hatty Hfgjratrfj LKASED Wm E SERVICE OP lj,J A.S.m “ 1 ATKo DRESS. The War at a Glance NORWAY \ SWEDEN 1 A FINLAND . "7SF3 - / STOCKHOLM^— St* UrCOPENHAGoTiN ~V , iDENMARK H—LITHUANIA ( #7 *y> r' RUSSIA GERMANY \ J j HUNGARY J > RUMANIA y F WW BELGRADE* BUCHAREST /~ .. - ~ 5eA ITALY Yugoslavian P Norway (1) reports prolonged naval engagement off Skagerrak, Rus sian fleet (2) masses off Estonia. Red army (3) crowds Estonian border. France claims to have pierced Westwall (4). Germans reenter Warsaw suburbs (5) v Russian army (6) threatens Rumania. Soviet closes River Neva (7), connecting Lake Ladoga with Baltic, to Finnish ships. Latvia (8) fears Russia will demand Riga as a harbor. Sweden (9) protests sinking of her ships by Nazis and threatens to stop shipments of her iron to Reich. Hanes Becomes President American Bankers Group Winston-Salem Man Elevated to Office at National Convention "in Seattle; Other Southerners Are Also Honored. Seattle, Wash., Sept. 28.—(AP) — Two .southern bankers will be in stalled as leaders of the American Bankers Association today at its nnal general convention session. Robert M. Hanes, of Winston- Salem, N. C., president of the Wachovia Bank & Trust Company, will succeed Philip A. Benson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., as president. P. D. Houston, Chairman of the American National Bank, Nashville, Tenn., will step from the second vice-presidency to the first vice presidency and in 1941 will normal ly become president. H. W. Koerneke, president of the Security State Bank, Ponca City, Okla., was named unanimously yes terday by the nominating commit tee t<> become second vice-presi dent. The nomination is tantamount (Continued on Page Four) TRAYNOR QUITS AS PILOT OF PIRATES Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 28. — (AP) —Harold Traynor resign ed today as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, ja job he had iheld since June, 1934. No suc cessor was announced. a strict cash and carry statute which will enable the United States to do business here with belligerent coun tries. These reports are repeated and come from sources always “inform ed” and usually “unimpeachable , though it is .hereby confessed that from time to time there has been im peachment of the unimpeachable, something newspaper men will never forget since the Winston-Salem pap ers came such a cropper on their un impeachable story that “Farmer Bob” Doughton would run for the Senate last year. With that much of an alibi, it is repeated that the Reynolds vote is virtually “in the bag” for some plan (Continued on Page Six) HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 28, 1939 Winston-Salem Man Heads U. S. Bankers • . •:•'*•*•••** • i ROBERT M. HANES Long Talks At Moscow About Pact Stalin Sits in With Foreign Minister and Von Ribbenlrop Un til 2:30 a. m,; Soviets Report Second “Sub” Attack Near Estonia. Moscow, Sept. 28. —(AP) —The of ficial Soviet news agency Tass today reported the second attack in two days by an unidentified submarine on Soviet shipping near Estonia. The agency said the captain of the 967-ton Soviet steamer Pioner radio ed that an unknown submarine had forced him to run onto the rocks of a bank while trying to enter Narva bay. The bay is on Estonia’s north ern coast. A salvage expedition was dispatched to aid the Pioner, whose crew was reported in no danger. Russia said yesterday a mysterious submarine had sunk the Soviet steamer Metallist in the same general (Continued on Page Four) German T ale Is Ridiculed In London Expected German- Soviet Military Al - May Be Basis For Hitler Demand For Peace as Alter native t o Ruthless Warfare, Berlin, Sept. 28.—(AP)—The su preme army command, announcing for the second day a success for the German air force against Britain’s naval might, reported today a Brit ish heavy cruiser has been bombed off the east coast of Scotland. (A spokesman for the Admiralty in London declared this was “all popycoek.”) End in Poland. At the same *, time the command foreshadowed the end of the cam paign in Poland with the news that the fortress of Modlin, 15 miles north west of Warsaw, had offered to sur render, following the capitulation of the Polish capital. In describing aerial activity yester day, the command’s communique said a “heavy British cruiser was successfully attacked .off the Isle of May (at the mouth of the Firth of Forth) one air force lighting unit. One 250-kilo (550-pound) bomb hit the prow.” The announcement failed to assess the damage, but ad ded: “Os the heavy British naval forces which were attacked the day before (Tuesday) one airplane carrier was hit by a 500-kilo (1,100-pound) bomb and one battleship was hit at the prow and amidship by two 230-kilo bombs. No Hits Made. (Winston Churchill, first lord of the Admiralty, announced yesterday in the House of Commons that 20 (Continued on Page Four) Radio From Warsaw Now Is Silent Budapest, Sept. 28. —(AP) —Ex- cept ior strange sputtered signals, the wave length of the Warsaw ra dio was silent today. Apparently the station's epic tale was told, ended on the same de fiant note it struck during the 20 days it told the outside worid of the German siege. Its last message, broadcast at 3 p. m. yesterday, was a new challenge to the Nazi be siegers. “We will never given in while one of us is alive’”. But last night the Polish Tele graph Agency carried a dispatch dated Warsaw, which indicated de fense of the Polish capital had been abandoned. German announcements (Continued on Page Four) Four Navy Cadets Die In Auto Crash Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 28. (AP) —Four U. S. Naval Acad emy midshipmen, enroute to Annapolis for classes, were killed early today in a collision of their automobile and an apple truck near Braden, Tenn., about 35 miles northeast of Memphis. The dead were identified by G. S. Jones, undertaker at Stan ton, Tenn., as Britton C. Cole, of Tenn., as Britton C. Cole, of Bryan, Texas; Phillip L. „ See walk of Amarillo, Texas; Max E. McConnell, of Clovis, N. M„ and T. B. Orr, Jr., of Ardmore, Okla. All were around 18 to 22 years old. The group was due back at Annapolis for classes Septem ber 30. They left Gainesville, Texas, Wednesday. (jJocdthjLh FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Friday. Hunting the Road to Peace jjjjp| - .. ; Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada, chairman of the Senate foreign re lations committee, and Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, isolationist leader, confer on the problem of neutrality legislation. Influential Senate Democrats promised a decisive victory for President Roosevelt’s embargo repeal plan if he would keep “hands off.” (Central Pres*) Raymond Kelly, Detroit, New Legion Commander New Legion Head if, s£££&&, If- ft* Ai 'H ; m £ ' V." MWBMKhH Raymond J. Kelly London Says Subs Driven Off Sea Lane London, Sept. 28.—(AP) —Ger- man submarines were said in an authoritative statement today to have now been “driven from thick ly dotted shipping routes” around „he British coast. “In less than a month”, the state ment declared, “they have found the pace too hot for them and have retreated from “much-used shipping channels, and are now forced to operate much further out in the open sea, where the ‘catch’ is bound to be a much smaller one”. The ministry of information an nounced during yesterday and last night Royal Air Force aircraft car ried out further reconnaissance over Germany and the western front. “In spite of opposition”, the an nouncement said, “valuable infor mation was obtained. All aircraft 'eturned safely.” British sources, commenting on the contention that German sub marines have been driven out to sea, said: “The position now is similar to the one that existed at the end of the last war, when the U-boat menace was practically defeated.” Meanwhile, conviction that Adolf Hitler is working toward a spec (Continued on Page Four) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Choice Is Unanimous When Opponents Withdraw; Chicago Convention Asks Out lawing of Commu nists and German Bund in U. S. Chicago, Sept. 28.—(AP)—Ray mond J. Kelly, corporation counsel of Detroit, was elected national com mander of the American Legion to day. Kelly was chosen unanimously to succeed Stephen Chadwick, of Seattle, after two other contenders for the office had withdrawn. The new chief of the organization of 1,026,084 ex-service men has been head of Detroit’s legal department since 1933. He worked his way thro ugh the universities of Notre Dame and Detroit and served ten months overseas during the World War as a lieutenant in the artillery. Legislation to outlaw “the com munist party, the German bund and similar organizations” was advocat ed by the Legion. Delegates attend ing the final session of the conven tion approved the report of the Americanism committee urging such action. The pronouncement also asked con tinuation of the Dies committee in vestigating un-American activities, suggested registration of aliens, and requested the Legionnaires to aid in (Continued on Page Four) Roosevelt Thinks Hitler Outsmarted The Allies Ey CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Sept. 28.'—While no body doubts that Roosevelt’s and State Secretary Hull’s sympathies are entirely on the side of the Euro pe an democratic countries against the t o t a litarian lineup, it doesn’t follow that they do not think Prime Minis ter Neville Chamber lain of Great Britain and Premier Edouard Daladier of France have bungled their old world policies. * * ’ '-’ini Prime’Minister Chamlerlain* There’s no quotable authority ior it,, but Washington’s general impres 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Cash-Carry Bill Okayed By 16 To 7 Reynolds Votes For It To Get It Before Senate; Warring Na tions Take Title To Purchases and Then Carry Them Home. Washington, Sept. 28. (AP) —The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved today the administration neu trality bill to permit the sale of American armaments to belligerent nations. Senate de bate on the measure is sche duled to start Monday. Senator Borah, of Idaho, ranking Republican member of the committee, announced the vote as 16 to 7. He said sev eral of those voting for the measure did so to get it to the Senate floor for debate. They reserved the right to oppose it later. Senate Majority Leader Barkley, of Kentucky, said the committee had agreed to an amendment to (Continued on Page Six) Hitler Lauds His Submarine Forces For Their Action Wilhclmshafen, German, Sept. 28. (AP)—Adolf Hitler visited this North Sea naval base to day to congratulate submarine crews returning from cruises in “enemy waters.” Announcement of the fuehr er’s visit said he came to laud the submarine flotilla for “suc cessful trips” abroad. Munitions Blast Fatal to Fifteen In North England London, Sept. 28.—(AP) The ministry of supply an nounced that 15 persons were killod today by an explosion in a munitions factory some where in the north of Britain. The location of the factory was not disclosed beyond the fact that it was in the north. Four other persons were in jured. ' The communique issued by the ministry of information said in part: “The material dam age will not seriously inter-i sere with production.” sion is that the White House tenant and this cabinet chief regard these two government heads as having been completely out-smarted by Herr Hitler. And it’s said they haven’t much patience with such a couple of supposedly top-notch statesmen for being diplomatized half to death by Berlin’s presumably semi-nutty, for merly house-painting Fuehrer. It seems to be the administration’s ; theory that, had Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier stood pat against Germany a good deal sooner, there needn’t have been any war. Not Very Democratic. The theory seems to be that the j pair of them are mildly Fascitical I themselves. They’re anti-Communis ! tic, certainly. They’re not regarded I as having been even Naziistic. And j probably they weren’t out-and-out j Fascists. They’re suspected, though, (Continued on Page Four)
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