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Off Key West, Florida (1), t; ire was report two oil tankers and a non-American submarine had been seen. Recently, two subma rines identified as German were reported as having put into Curacao (2), Caribbean Islands, for fuel. Mbs were also reported in the Pacific off the coast of Nicaragua (3). This map shows the method now in o r ue by U. S. Army airplanes for covering the Atlantic and Pacific approaches to the Panama Canal by daily aerial patrol* from Panama, Key West, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Clark Accuses FDR Os Seizing Powers j Not Rightfully His 1 .ou Gehrig Gets \. V. City Office New York, Oct. 11.— (AP) M ivnr LaGuardia today ap pointed Lou Gehrig, former New York Yankee star first baseman, in ainu ilated by a subtle form •>l paralysis, a city parole com tni'sioncr. The appointment, for term of slightly more than ten < ars. carries a salary of 56.000, a curia nt five percent pay . . I ih> commission is a five-man hoard, headed by the police and j correction commissioners, ex ult;, in. with three members ap pointed by Mic mayor. I believe he will not only be an able, intelligent commis sioner. but that he himself will he an inspiration and a hope to many of the younger boys who have gotten into trouble”, La uiardia said. oionists In laska Face rop Losses '■ il lll 1 ■ r, Alaska, Oct. 11.— (AP)— | 1 a list.-, in ihe government’s Mat- | aska valley project turned to I g team: and snow shoes today to j age what they could of their j op situation since the colony was ued more than four years ago. ihe mid-western farmers, who ■ here to escape dust and heat, ; unable to estimate the “un '■ damage” from the sudden and peeled snowfall of 12 to IS Sunday. The temperature ■ 1 re;l around ten degrees above and there was no let-up in * ' .'-G i i. by a small portion of grain f l been harvested; about 80 per ’ vas in shocks in the field or aeut. ' aimers expected the first snow ' ,u ld melt, but a sharp drop in perature froze some snow that d not melted, and a thin layer of ' began forming on the ground, Hctthcrsmt Datht ©tsuafrb SERVICE OP JHI ' AS.sot IATED PRESS. Missouri Senator, Op-j posing Arms Embar- 1 go Repeal, Also Ac-1 cuses War Secretary Os Attempting to In flame Passions o f Americans. Washington, Oct. 11.—(AP)—Sen-j ' ator Clark, Democrat, Missouri, an' ; opponent of the administration pro-i i posal to repeal the arms embargo, | contended today that President Roose j volt had exercised emergency pow i ers actually vested in him only when i the country was at war or in im | minent danger of war. Arguing against lifting the ban on I arms sales to belligerents, Clark also' : accused Louis Johnson, assistant sec- i rotary of war, of trying “to inflame, i the people as to the safety of our j i own shores”, and said policies of the i President himself had not been ‘re ! assuring.” The Missourian proclaimed in em phatic tones that a careful scrutiny of the President s recent proclama tion of a “limited emergency” show ed that it contained no limitations. “It is a proclamation e r "“t ; nnn' emergency without any limitations j whatever,’ lie asserted. “Under it, Uie I President can exercise all of the j powers of a national emergency, j (Continued on Page Three.) Barter Agreement By Britain, Russia On Rubber, Timber London, Oct. 11. — (AP) —The British ministry of supply and a Soviet trade delegation today concluded an agreement in Lon ' don for the exchange of Rus -1 sian timber for British rubber and tin. The barter agreement was called a commercial arrange ment, but the authoritative press association declared it was expected to have “important political as well as trade im pact's.” The amounts of timber, rub ber and tin involved were not disclosed. It was said, however, they would be about the same as involved in normal peace time trade between the two na tions. _ . J ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIT HENDERSON, N. C... WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 11, 1939 Defies the Soviet i gV I M n;x Mlm Jmmm ~~ Field Marshal Mannerheim Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, hero of Fin land’s fight for freedom from Rus sia after the World War, and cur rently president of the Finnish de fense council, is the recognized , leader of his country’s resistance i against Soviet demands lor b innish islands as air bases. I Neal’s Race Worries Road Commission Daily Dispalcli liureau. In The Sir Waiter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 11. —Entrance into the race for lieutenant governor of William Walker Neal, of Marion, may be good news to some folks, but there is no sign of loud cheering from the direction of the present State High way and Public Works Commission Reason is obvious: Mr. Neal is cer tain to make his unconcealed oppo sition to the present road set-up in North Carolina an open and sub stantial issue in his campaign. This despite the fact that campaigns for the lieutenant governorship are us ually singularly devoid of any de cisive factors except personal popu larity, ability to line up the poll workers and ability to swing onto the coat tail of the winning gubernatorial candidate. Not so many weeks ago the Mc- Dowell county man was here in Ra leigh on business connected with the roads of Western North Carolina, and while in this capital city he lost no j opportunity to inform his friends that' he regards the present highway set up as highly political and at widest (Continued on Page Three.) Three Dead 62 Hurt In School Bus Plunges Down 75- Foot Bank Onto Rail road In v West Virginia With 70 Passengers Aboard; Children On Way to School. War, W. Va., Oct. 11.—(AP)— A disabled school bus careened from a highway and plunged down a 75-foot* embankment today, killing thice stu dents and injuring 62 other persons, some critically. The big 70-passenger machine, carrying 64 students and the driver to Big Creek high school here, fell on the Norfolk & Western railway tracks and crumpled into a mass of glass, wood and steel. The dead were identified as Maxine Beavers, of Bartley; Lucille Mullins, of Raysal, and Ernest Wood, of Bartley. Physicians held little hope for sev eral others who were badly hurt. The three hospitals at Welch were jammed with screaming, and fright ened in j ured. Physicians were called from a half dozen mine communities to aid over taxed hospital staffs. The injured were rushed to hospitals in auto mobiles, trucks and ambulances. The bus driver, H. L. Belcher, of War, who may lose a loot, said of the wreck: “A spindle on the front axle gave way just as we started around the cure. The bus began to slip and I could not control it on the narrow road. The next thing we were tum bling down the hill a horrible jum ble. When the bus struck the Nor folk & Western railroad tracks. I heard screams from the inside.” H. M. Hour, manager of a War lumber company, and one of the first to reach the scene, said: “It was the worst thing I ever saw. I believe! there may have been one boy who (Continued on Page Three.) Stalin Butchered 35,000 In Russia In 1936-37 Purge Washington, Oct. 11.— (AP) —General W’alter G. Krivitsky, who said lie was in the Soviet i military intelligence for 17 years, told the Dies committee today that the 1936-37 purge in Russia resulted in the death of 35,000 members of the red army officers corps. In addition, Krivitsky related to the House committee inves tigating un-American activity, that Josef Stalin sent from 300,- 000 to 400,000 persons to im prisonment or exile, and “mil lions of the population to con centration camps.” Krivitsky said that he broke with Stalin over the purge. Answering question by Rhea Whitley, committee counsel, about his connections with the Soviet government, Krivitsky said that in 1923 he was sent i to Germany to organize the German revolution and prepare the manpower for the German red army. Finns Arm In Face Os Red Threat Russian Demands for Military Concessions Will Be Refused, Of ficials Say; Moscow Prepares to Impose Her Will, However. Helsinki, Finland, Oct. 11. —(AP) —Finland prepared today for any emergency that might arise in the trlks at Moscow on her respective place in the new Baltic Pne-up. Official sources said any Russian for military economic concession, such as the Soviets re cently obtained from Estonia, La- I tvia and Lithuania, wouid be met ' with firm refusal. Increased military activity and experimental blackouts of this cap (Continued on Page Three) Dies Office Burgled —•** y j liv Ml Dr. J. B. Matthews, special investigator for the Dies committee, in Wash ington, is shown inspecting the hole in the window of the office where committee files are kept. The office was broken into and the files disar ranged. It was asserted a list of spy suspects might have been taken. Explains Tactics - jM I llbsarlb 11 iL mu J|Pl|* jui K w m ms l ' sRHI Kenneth Goff Kenneth Goff, 25, who resigned from the Communist Party is shown on the stand before the Dies Com mittee in Washington. He asserted the names of President and Mrs. Roosevelt were bandied about by young Communists in promoting “Communist front” organization*. Stalin Sets Vast Program For Soviets i By CHARLES I’. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 11—Said a Wash ington diplomat I know’, summing up the Russo-German situation, “Adolf Hitler is suggestive of a small boy who teps up to a very large dog (Josef Stal : n) with the invitation, 'Take a sniff at this choice bit of beefsteak I just snitched’.” Our cap i t al’s corns of foreign experts, to be sure, don’t particularly sympathize with the small boy, though they’re sor ry for the beef- y JgL j§Bj§j§i Molotov steak. What perturbs them is the prospect that the big dog, his ap petite merely whetted by his initial bite, wall go on a regular rampage, seeking to gobble up several other beefsteaks that haven’t even been offered to him to smell. In fact, the critter already has begun his gob bling. He not only has swallowed more (Continued o~ Page Three) U)swih&A FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, somewhat un settled, somewhat cooler tonight; Thursday partly cloudy, slightly cooler in east and central por- Uv'ilS, PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. 1 Britain Has 158,000 Men In War Area War Secretary Ad vises Commons o f Expeditio n’s Strength; Churchill Says Submarine Men ace Is Already Mini mized. London, Oct. 11. — (AP)-—War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha told die House of Commons today that Britain had rent an expeditionary force of 158.90) men to France luring the first five weeks of the war. Just before Hore-Belisha spoke, Winston Churchill, first lord of the Admiralty, declared the balance now was in Britain’s favor in the war on nercnanl shipping. “From September 24 to October 9 we have lost by U-boat action 5,- 809 tons, and we have taken from the enemy 13,615 tons, leaving a balance in our favor of 7 806 tons”, Churchill raid. Meanwhile, Britain tried to track down cources of “defeatist propa ganda” on the home front, amid in dications of mounting sentiment j against talk of “appeasement”. I While press comment indicated I a growing desire to “get on with I the war”, Scotland Yard submitted Ito the home office a report on ' “make peace with Hitler” pam-> | phlets attributed to pacifists, l'as ! cists and communist elements, j Public opinion in general was j represented as insistent on flat rc ! iection of proposals from Adolf Hit -1 ler for what the British regarded as a peace at his own price—the partition of Poland. German Feeler Attacks May Presage Offensive ( Paris, Oct. 11. — (AP) —German I feeler attacks along the western i front, led, the French said, by i “suicide squads” of hand grenade i throwers, supported by automatic arms companies, were reported to j day to have been repulsed after sharp I fighting. The attacks continued through the I night, with the sharpest skirmishing south of Saarbruecken, apparently a ! continuation of thrusts which the Germans launched Sunday on a 35- mile front of the Moselle river. Mili tary men said the fighting indicated the increasing scope of the German assault. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Berlin View Is Favorable To Daladier Alliance With Britain Big Trouble With France, Germans Say; Reich Also Wants To Be Let Alone, I s Official View As Stated, BY LOUIS I*. LOCIINLR. Berlin, Oct. 11.—(AP)—Authoriz ed German sources said today that official Germany sees no conflict be tween the war aims expressed by Premier Daladier yesterday—security NORTH EUROPE NEUTRALS REPORTED SEEKING PEACE Moscow, Oct. 11.— (Al‘) Northern European states, es pecially Sweden and Finland, were reported unofficially to day to be urging Britain and France to end their war with Germany, so as to aid efforts to halt Soviet Russia’s military and diplomatic expansion. The northern states, said re ports in usually well informed circles, believed that if Ger many were at peace in the west, she could prevent the Soviets from dominating east ern Europe. defense of his country, guarantees for European peace—provided those are France’s real war aims—and the peace proposals of Reichluehrer Hit ler’s Reichstag speech. The German government apparent ly is willing to regard the French (Continued on Page Three.) Farm Bureau Will Seek Parity Price For 1939 Tobacco Raleigh, Oct. 11.—(AP)— E. F. Arnold, executive secretary of the State Farm Bureau Federa tion. said today that directors of the Bureau would meet at Kinston Friday night to discuss steps to be taken to try to in crease the price of tobacco. Many local bureaus, Arnold said, have sent in resolutions asking the Slate organization to launch a formal fight to try to get “party” prices, probably a ronnd 19 cents a pound, for far mers. “The farmers have to sell their tobacco now,” Arnold said. “They may not be turning tickets hut the price is low and gives them no profit. They need a higher price.” Tobacco is Holding Own As To Price Raleigh, OcL 11.—(AP) Prices on the Carobnas flue cured tobacco markets con tinued today to hold reopening day levels, which were slightly above the estimated SIS aver age prevailing at the closing in mid-September. The price averages ranged from $9 at Timmonsville, S. C., to SlB on several markets. All points reported an over flow of offerings. N. G. Blackman, Jr., Wilson (Continued on Page Three) Reports from the front, the French • said, give the impression of a coor ; dinated feeler attack along the entire ! iine between the Luxembourg bor i der and Saarbruecken. Activity of German patrols follow- I ed closely upon Premier Daladier’s rejection of the peace proposals made by Adolf Hitler last Friday. The German thrust appeared to be directed at French advance positions, although bad weather somewhat hampered operations. Some observers expressed belief the German attacks were the prelude to a large scale offensive, which might be expected before the end of the week.
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