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'^PERSON'S pOITLATION 13,873 r\VFN T Y-SIXTH YEAR LEASED wire SERVICF of ID i- * ‘ 111 ASSOCIATED PRESS. urge British Battleship Is Sunk * **** **** x at at „ _ JL razier Says Britain, France Waiting U. S. Arms Vote Dakotan Is Fearful Os ij. 5. In War Repeal of Arms Em bargo Step in That Direction, He Tells Senators in Debate; George Favors Amending Measure Sharply. o. Oct. 14—(AP)—Great France were accused to < alter Frazier. Republican, \ o of "stalling” in their • Germany, until they can at kind of neutrality this c an*. • !1 adopt. sorted in a Senate speech dministration neutrality ;:ng for repeal of the arms , . _ .as a step toward Amer cment "in this European and that the Allied pro the war would he in : directly hy the decision on not to take that step, has not smashed the Al • Frazier said, “‘and if he is a .... enough to do so there will be unless the United States gives a dove of its willingness to back al of the arms embargo would ,-uch evidence, the North D.z ;a senator said. Be; re the chamber met at noon : us tenth day of debate on the ;-e.;e. Senator George, Democrat, Ge.rgi; , a supporter of the bill to repeal the embargo and make other unu.ges in the neutrality law, sug gested that the pending measure’s end;; provisions be overhauled. Gc rge proposed that belligerent :uu: r- purchasing arms in this coun try : • required to make payments : ,-h, but that they be allowed .:.-nths to pay for other pur er.-e.-. As the bill now stands, war rations could obtain credits of *■ > 9 i days on all purchases if the P.t .-.dent authorized them. Slot Machine issue Back In High Court Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Si; Walter Hotel. - i. Oct. 14. -The perennial <4* slot machines will bob in North Carolina’s Su i >ui t next week, when the State vs. L. F. Cox will be • sally before the seven jus (. which is making its sec up from Rowan county, will i i.\ criminal and thirteen ;■•■- on the court’s calendar, from the sixth district will ■ u Tuesday, and so the Cox eh is from the other dis • called, the fifteenth, will cached that day, but will be s’ on Wednesday’s calendar ti ‘ i c is an unfinished argu ' cn court quits Tuesday aft > n! the criminal causes are ap <Continued on Page Three.) Many Congressmen Are independent In Crisis *Vv ( HARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist hinglou. Oct. 14.—With the on ol the neutrality debate in the argument in the "i Representatives won’t last h'».‘ne of the members of lower enal chambers are just good ’ters as are some of the of the upper one for an ;i arms embargo. However ' obvious from the first that ‘"e sentiment is predomin orable to permitting our sale Us to any country that ' ‘ md get them for cash (or, of not to exceed a 90-day ! ' • and take them away in ' els. And the House rules '•it as prolonged ’a discus -1 pending measure as the rules do. that the lawmakers final v - • il be approximately what Hettitersmt ClatUt cltspnfrh Finns Delay Talks At Moscow, F aced By Difficult Demands Pleads for Finns jßp • W ■:A. Laurence Steinhardt Pleading the cause of little Finland, U. S. Ambassador Laurence Stein hardt presented the American view point on the ticklish Baltic situa tion to Premier and Foreign Com missar V. M. Molotoff, at Moscow. The diplomatic effort was attempted in hope of preventing Finland from following the Baltic states into the Soviet sphere of influence in Europe, Turks Sign Agreement With Russia Moscow, Oct. 14. (AP) —Tur- key was reliably, but unofficially, reported today to have signed an agreement with Soviet Russia pro tecting Russian rights in the Black Sea and its outlet, the Dardanelles. Announcement of the agreement, which was described as not as sweeping as the Moscow govern ment had sought to make, was ex pected :;oon, perhaps tonight. Observers believed the accord also would define Russian-Turkish relations with respect to their roles in the European war. While Turkish Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoglu was putting finish ing touches on pact in talks with Russian leaders, the Russian-Fin msh talks, which opened here (Continued on Page Three) U. S. EXPORTS HIT HIGH FOR 2 YEARS Washington, Oct. 14. — (AP) —Unit- ed States exports during the first month of the European war were the highest for any month since January, 1938. Secretary of Commerce Hopkins said that ~ $283,000,000 worth of American goods was shipped abroad during September. Cotton, airplanes, petroleum, chemicals and tobacco were among the principal items. President Roosevelt asked for. Some changes will have been made, but only in detail. The bill’s real managers have been Chairman Key Pittman and Sol Bloom, respectively, of the senatorial and representatorial foreign rela tions committees. Senator Alben W. Barkley and Congressman Sam Ray burn, the administration’s leaders in the upper and lower chambeis, have been rather overshadowed during the whole fight by this pair of foreign affairs specialists. Outstanding opponents of a modi fication of the absolute neutrality law have been in the upper house. Senators William E. Borah, Hiram W. Johnson, Gerald P. Nye and Ben nett Champ Clark; in the lower house Representative Louis Ludlow and Hamilton Fish, Jr., the latter a (Continued on Page Four) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA* HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 14, 1939 Russia Finding Way Harder; Scandinav ians May Unite With Finland to Resist; Hungary May Block Soviet Advance i n Eastern Europe. Helsinki, Finland, Oct. 14. (AP) —lndefinite postponement of fur ther Finnish-Soviet Russian talks in Moscow led diplomatic circles to believe today that Finland had been faced with proposals she would find difficult to accept. While the foreign office main tained silence on the progress of the conversations, reports circulated in the capital that Russia had asked the right to establish naval bases on certain Finnish islands in the Gulf of Finland. However, government quarters noted, with apparent satisfaction, that Russia’s negotiations with Fin land were taking much longer than those with Latvia and Estonia. Spokesmen said they did not think it likely the Finnish delega tion would return from Moscow be fore the Stockholm conference Oc tober 18, in which the kings of Sweden, Norway and Denmark and the president of Finland are to dis cuss their mutual interests. HUNGARY MAY BE BLOCK TO RUSSIAN DRIVE EAST Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 14. — (AP) —The belief apparently is in creasing among Hungarians that events may cause Hungary to stand against a Soviet push in eastern Europe, as she stood against the Turkish advance on the Occident in the sixteenth century. While Russia’s’ attention is di rected for the moment at the Bal tic and the Dardanelles, Hungar ians are fearful that her expansion ists momentum soon may be di verted in their direction. Soviet troops, including Mongols from Siberia, already stand on the Hungarian frontier, only a few hours from Budapest, a result of the Russian march into Poland last month. Between the Russians and (Continued on Page Three.) Autoposy Reveals Body Was Man, Not Woman, as Thought Newcastle, Pa., Oct. 14. —(AP) — An autopsy disclosed today that the body of a mutilated victim found in a “murder swamp” near here was that of a man and not a woman, as first believed. Coroner Charles Byers made the announcement immediately after the autopsy. It was explained that the headless torso, which had been burned on a wood fir/; after the slaying, was in such condition that it was mistaken for that of a wom an. Detective Peter Merlyo, of Cleve land, who came here to study the case Decause of the possibility that Cleveland’s “mad butcher of Kings bury Run”, might have changed the locale of his operations, withheld immediate comment. Newcastle, Pa., Oct. 14.—(AP) — Finding of the headless and nude body of a young girl in a dreary xmurder swamp” developed the possibility today that Cleveland’s mad butcher had claimed another victim. The coroner said the girl had been slain probably two weeks ago, then partially burned in an ap parent attempt to conceal her identity. A single stocking found nearby offered investigators their only clue. The head, severed cleanly, with a sharp knife or an axe, was not found in a hurried search of the desolate marshlands along the Pennsylvania-Ohio State line. Wsucdhstii FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and colder tonight; scat tered frost in west and north central portions; near freezing in the mountains; Sunday fair, colder near the coast. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Fair most of week except local show ers in Florida; rising tempera ture first part; cooler toward close of week. Nazi Armies Mass for Western Blitzkrieg 111 WjJS.. "|" issa-tfl | jsjl * Iy. 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The first field army headquarters is at Cologne (A) ; the second at Coblenz (B) : the third at Bingen (C), where it is believed Hitler and Goering v/ill take command; and the fourth at Stuttgart (D). Cross-hatched area is that seized by the Allies to date. Stippled portion indicates area into which Germany is pouring reinforcements from the Eastern front. (Central Press) Rhine Bridges Are Blasted By French To Delay Germans Flays 'War Spirit 99 (Blip*: mm*, mm ■HI *• ' W/S| I 11 ■ < -• ■ Senator Bennett Champ Clark, Democrat of Missouri, is shown! after his savage attack on the Ad-j ministration’s neutrality bill. In! the course of his attack he accused' Assistant Secretary of War Louis' Johnson of making an “idiotic, mo ronic and unpatriotic” attempt to inflame the public with a war spirit. Con Johnson Now Talked For Lt.-Gov. Dally DlspoXcli liureau, in ‘he Si> Via.i«-er Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, Oct. 14.—Con C. John ston, one-time department com mander of the American Legion and a former member of the House from Iredell county, is receptive, to say the least, in his attitude to ward becoming a candidate for lieutenant governor. The chairman of the 1937 House’s important roads committee, was in Raleigh on Friday the thirteenth, and while he would not admit that he is a certain starter in next year’s Democratic primary he left a very definite impression that he is more likely to run than not. “Whatever happens, whether I run or not”, he said, “things are certain to start popping politically before long.” The Iredell legislator did not mention either of the announced (Continued on Page Three.) Heavy German Troop Concentra tions Reported Near Front Lines; Large- Scale Drive By Hiller Believed Likely Any Minute. London, Oct. 14.—(AP) —French military advices said today the de struction by the French of three big railway oridges over the Rhine river was to forestall any attempted German surprise offensive into French Alsace. This action was taken after heavy German L roop concentrations were reported long the frontier from Lauterbourg to Switzerland, heretofore a relatively quiet area. Only two bridges remain across this portion of the historic river, both at Strasbourg, where they are incorooratod in the Maginot and Siegfried lines. North of the upper Rhine sec tor, the Germans were reported in French advices to have massed enough tanks and heavy artillery between the Rhine and the Moselle rivers to launch a large-scale offen sive at any rrioirent. French offi cers estimated the total German strength on the two main fronts, upper Rhine and Rhine-Moselle, and in close reserve, at 2,000,000 men. The Rhine-Moselle concentration, coupled with a sudden lull in per sistent activity of German patrols, kept French outposts on the alert, as rain and fog settled over the lines after a day of clear, crisp weather. Chamberlain Has Taken Dangerous Move, Garda Says Rom**, Oct. 14. (AP) —Vir- ginio Gayda, who often speaks Premier Mussolini’s mind, to day termed British Prime Min ister Chamberlain’s reply to Hitler’s peace proposals a “dangerous no.” The editor, writing in II Journalc d’ltalia, said, never theless, the “irreparable had not yet occurred”. “In the same speech of the British prime minister”, he wrote, “horizons of a new and more just \’ ur °P e appear faint ly.” Gayda contended that Hitler accepted Premier Mussolini’s proposals to negotiate the Po lish problem, and, therefore, “Hitler and Germany cannot pc blamed for the irreparable ” PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Farm Bureau Asks Tobacco “Parity” Kinston. Oct. 14. (AP) —Coun- ty Farm Bureau presidents and Slate executive committeemen of Eastern North Carolina passed a resolution here last night asking the Farm Bureau Federation to seek parity prices for 1939 to bacco. The officers also went on record in favor of allowing a grower who is qualified and who agrees to cooperate in the 1940 soil conser vation program to serve on county tobacco committees. E. F. Arnold, bureau executive secretary, said under the present rule only those who complied with the 1939 con servation program could serve. He added that if instructed to do so by all local bureau officials, the organization w'oultl confer with U. S. Department of Agri culture officials on the tobacco price problems. Hitler Waits Last Word Os Russia, Italy Berlin, Oct. 14.—(AP) —The lull ii, military activity on the west ern front is expected here to con tinue a little while longer—at least until Italy and Soviet Russia have ;poken. German conversations with these countries were said already to be under way. Only a few high rank ing Nazis, however, can predict Adolf Hitler’s next step, now that Prime Minister Chamberlain has rejected his terms for ending the war. Informed German quarters said that nothing more may be expected from France or Britain, but they expressed belief the door still i„s open for a neutral nation to step in as an intermediary. The only official comment on the (Continued on Page Four) Lindbergh Again Sounds Warning on Arms Repeal Plan Washington, Oct. 14—(AP) — Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s sug gestion that Congress split up the present arms embargo, retaining it lor offensive weapons, but exempt ing defensive weapons, prompted many senators today to question the practability of such an idea. Lindbergh made the proposal last night as part of a four-point pro gram which he submitted in a ra dio address. Lindbergh also urged that Amer ican shipping be kept out of belli gerent waters and that credits be refused to warring countries and their agents. At the same time, he presented as a matter of long range policy the idea that the United States must demand withdrawal of Eritain and other European powers from the Western Hemisphere. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY 830 Os 1,200 Aboard Are Likely Lost Royal Oak Was Vet eran of World War Rattle o f Jutland; British Claim Sinking of Three German U- Boats; May Mark Real War. London, Oct. 14. —(AP) —The Admiralty announced today the sinking of the battleship Royal Oak and placed at 370 the number ol survivors known so far of the total crew of about 1,200 men. The number of missing—830—far exceeded the 515 who lost their lives in Germany’s first major suc cess in the sea warfare, the sink ing September 17 of the British air craft carrier Courageous. First announcement of the dis aster by the Admiralty expressed belief the $10,000,000 heavily ar mored warship was the victim of “U-boat action.” 370 Survivors. A second Admiralty communique, issued this afternoon, said: at pres ent known, the nember of survivors from the Royal Oak is approxi mately 370. As already stated, lists of survivors will be published as soon as the names have been re ceived. The complement of the ship was approximately 1,200. The above figures include both officers and men.” The Royal Oak was a veteran of the World War, and its battle of Jutland. Where the sinking oc curred was not disclosed im nediately. The August, 1939, naval list showed that the Royal Oak tv»s * commanded by Captain W. G. Benn. Three IJ-Boats Sunk. With acknowledgment of the loss, responsible British naval sources (Continued on Page Eight.) LJ. S. Steamer Saves Crew French Ship New York, Oct. 14.—(AP)— The American freighter Black Hawk re ported today it had rescued 39 sur vivors of the French tanker Emil Miguet, destroyed by fire off the Irish coast Thursday. One was re ported dead. Captain Raymond Hodge wireless ed the Black Oiamond Line, owners of the ship, that he would ta ■> the survivors to Boston. He gave his po sition as 298 miles west of Bishop Rock, England. The President Harding, of the United States Lines, reported yester day she had reached the 14,155-ton Emil Miguet to find the vessel in (Continued on Page Three) U. S. Regards British Loss Severe One Washington, Oct. 14. (AP) —Naval experts here 'dewed the sinking of the battleship Royal Oak, as a severe blow to British sea power, but with more serious implications for the fu ture than for the present. If German submarines should be able thus to trim further the Brit ish-French six to one naval margin over the Nazi fleet, the sea blockade of Germany might be definitely threatened with collapse, experts said. They were as much interested in the manner in which the battleship was sunk as in the loss itself. A battleship at sea normally is safeguarded by a protective screen of light cruisers and destroyers, as well as her own armor and anti-tor pedo “blisters” along the hull. Ad ditional protection is provided by alert scouting planes. Sinking of the vessel gave the United States the lead over the world in the number and tonnage ol' capi tal ships (battleships, heavy cruisers (Continued on Page Four)