'TTgvpFKSON’S POPULATION 13,873 pVVENTY-SIXTH YEAR Senators Favorable For Ad j our nment On Enacting Neutrality Asks for Isolation I| 00 | s? Co! Charles A. Lindbergh W • sr: ;s mien. Col. Charles A. Lin . - . from Washington, D. C., i :• srs his views on neutrality. He '• J opinion that the U. S. must eventually insist on Great Britain's withdrawal from Canada, and cai’al for unrestricted sale of defensive weapons only. Fred Beai To Testify Before Dies Oct. 16. —(AP)- —Fred Er • Be;,!, former communist now e 17 to 20 years in North Car- State Prison for conspiracy to . a Gastonia police chief, will Washington tonight under ...•••(• • testily before the Dies con jert". : committee investigating a: - \ an activities. s Hoey announced today • ' Bt . would testify upon request mittee by his own agree v. :i with consent of the prison . s.. who have been seeking clemency for him. A .v.upaena arrived last night for Be 7 vi J. S. Brasswell. prison fugi • r. will accompany him. The • ill be paid by the Dies 0 -.ta 0. : - ed prison here in 1938. i : : unced in connection with i a (>. F. Aderholt, Gas chief. during a strike r >*. it: 1929. Ruffin Hunt, Near Louisburg, Killed In Crash of Auto a. Oct. 16. —(AP) —Ruffin ■if near Louisburg, was ' instantly killed late last ■ an automobile overturn -1 ' 1 orth of here on the ■■ r ’• -it oad. ; t. another passenger in f* d a broken arm. Paul d to have been driving, Gravely’s Announcement Likely To Break Log Jam Friends of “Big Two”, Broughton and Horton, Fpn ading Propaganda That M.aXwell, Smith And Others Will Never File. Daily DtspatcTi lsureau, In iJift Sis VVa!«-»r Hotel. 10.—Announcement te Senator Lee Grave ' if living” make “ap- ! governorship race prop' line” is quite likely Gif ; j;,rn started by Gov- V'tc iio'-y'. “no early an- Pt p. onounciamento. " 'ls. and in a phrase ' d by all the wise crack • o:i’t be- long now” until 1 flood of specific state bp authors thereof are caving the State in the ’ obi( f executive (salary 1 b< r with occupancy of on ewhat ugly, mansion ' Raleigh for four years). ! *l>aganda by “Big Two.” “ more likely in view of at partisans of what has 1 in some quarters as have for several weeks great gobs of propa bn- effect that other c« m . too Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (1) are under influence of Russia (2), which has pushed her Communist frontier deep into Poland. Hungary (3), Rumania and Bulgaria are within Russian sphere of influence. Yugoslavia (4) is tied to England and France and extremely close to Italy (5), which has chilled toward her former axis partner. Switzer land (6) is secure behind mountain fastnesses. France (7) and England are pledged never to make peace with Hitler. Luxembourg (8), Belgium (9) and Holland (10) are all neutral, backed by the Allies. Britain’s mighty navy has blockaded Germany’s North Sea coast (11). Denmark, Sweden and Norway (12) are neutral, backed by the Allies and their own mutual pledges to each other against aggression. (Central Press) Soviet Diplomatic Drive In East Europe Slowed Liquor Sales For State Increased Raleigh, Oct. 16. (AP) —The State ABC board reported today that liquor stores in 27 counties sold §610,629.25 worth of intoxi cants during September, a gain of $6,415.51 over September, 1938. Sales for the first quarter of the fiscal year were §1,742.845.44, compared with §1,586,883.65 in the period last year. September sales by counties in cluded: Edgecombe, §32,985.32; Franklin, §9,639.05; Greene, $3,- 624.55; Nash, §21.508.75: Pitt. $40,- 620.40; Vance, $16,789.50; Warren, §8,222.80; Wilson, 531,594.35; Dur ham, §88,755.75; Wake. $36,941.95. Air Raiders Chased At Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland, Oct. 16. (AP) —Anti-aircraft guns protecting Edinburgh went into action today, apparently against German aircraft which the air ministry announced had attempted to raid objectives along the Scottish coast. Firing started shortly after 2 p. m. (8 .a. m. EST). Unconfirmed reports said several planes had been sighted south of tne city in pursuit of other planes. A two-motored plane, presumed by ob servers to be a German bomber, was seen flying low between Edinburgh and Turnhouse, a small town west of the city. Machine gun fire greeted it and as the plane turned north to ward the Firth of Forth an anti-air craft shell burst near its tail. One report said three enemy planes had flown up the Firth of Forth, the great bay which dents the east coast of Scotland. Edinburgh is about 500 (Continued on Page Three) British Battleship Sunk by Nazi U-Boat ?AAA A-> . A ; » * A A | } ~ ~ y i, ' ' Sp& +<• atftlr i m w iMiNM f( £ cond large British man-of-war to be sunk by German submarines, the 29.150 tnn Royal Oak was one of the navy’s oldest battleships, built in Finland Willing t o Make Concessions but Balks at Outright Al liance; Russia Taking Advantage of Ger man War in West. Moscow, Oct. 16.—(AP) — Soviet Russia’s negotiations for strengthen ing her hand in eastern Europe had I slowed today, with foreign circles an- I ticipating merely compromise agree ments with Finland and Turkey and speculating on possible future Rus- I sian moves in the Balkans. ! Unofficial reports said Finland, re- I fusing to be drawn into the Russian j orbit, as have Estonia, Latvia and | Lithuania, would concede certain 1 Baltic islands for Russian naval j bases, but would balk at a military I alliance or concessions on the stra tegic Aaland islands. While a Hungarian diplomatic de legation came to Moscow for an un disclosed purpose, a Turkish mission j was believed preparing to depart shortly, possibly after signing some cautious agreement respecting cer tain safeguards on the passage of warships through the Dardanelles in to the Black Sea. Rumors have long circulated here that Russia intends to try to dom inate the Balkans, and, now that Germany is engaged in war in the west, may demand the return of Bessarabia from Roumania, which obtained that oil-rich territory from Russia in the postwar division. UNCERTAINTY ON RETURN OF FINNS TO MOSCOW Helsinki, Finland, Oct. 16.—(AP) A foreign office spokesman said to day a Finnish diplomatic mission would return to Moscow for further talks with Soviet Russian officials, but added, “I don’t know when.” The spokesman made his predic tion shortly after Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi, head of the mission, ar rived here bearing secret proposals which Finns feared might menace their neutrality, or even their inde pendence. Paasiviki, greeted expectantly by a city tense with repressed excite ment, went into conference with For (Continued on Page Three) British Battleship Repulse Has Been Struck By Torpedo, Berlin Communique Declares Arms Embargo Bill To Ban All Credits To Warring Nations Amendment Will Wipe Out Present Permit for 90-B a y Allowances on Pur chases Here; Will Gain More Votes for Measure. Washington, Oct. 16.—(AP) —The administration leadership in the Senate agreed today to amend the arms embargo repeal bill 10 pro hibit all credits to warring govern ments. Senator Pittman, Democrat, Ne vada, chairman of the Senate For eign Relations Committee, proposed the amendment. It would wipe out the present oill’a provision allow ing credit oi noi more than 90 days. This provision aas been criticized by many senators on Doth sides of the arms embargo controversy, who contended 90-day credits would provide an entering wedge for longer credits that might drag this country into 'die war. In a statement to newspaper men, Pittman said that, inasmuch as it was the intention of his committee to require settlement in cash or cash equivalents, as defined by the attorney general, he deemed it wise “to avoid any confusion or any misunderstanding” by striking out the entire provision. Other senators predicted that the administration leaders would not make a further change sug gested by Senator Taft, Republican, Ohio, and some other, that credit be provided firms in belligerent nations as well as to the belliger ents governments themselves be prohibited. The provision to be removed gave the President discretion tyi allow the 90-day credit. His com mittee had considered, Pittman said, that the presidential discre tion would be governed by an opin ion of the attorney general in con struing the Johnson act. The John son act, which forbids credits to nations which have defaulted on their war debts to this country, contains no such 90-day credit ex ception as that now being striken out of the embargo bill, the sena tor added. As a result of Pittman’s move, administration leaders counted upon picking up the support of a number of senators who favor repeal of the arms embargo, but who want a “cash and carry” system for oth er exports which would be more strict than that in the bill. Cotton Prices About Same New York, Oct. 16.—(AP)—Cot ton futures opened three higher to two lower. The list held unchanged to two points lower. October re mained at 9.12, and July lost two at 3.24. Price fixing orders in December and some local buying absorbed scattered hedging and liquidation during the second hour. October was down one at 9.13, and May was ahead one at 8.46. | 1916. The ship normally carried a crew of 1,009 to 1,146 men and officers. I The aircraft carrier Courageous was Britain s first major naval casualty. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. 140 Arrests Made Os Hungarian Nazi To Forestall Coup Budapest, Oet. 16. — (AP) Hungarian Nazis today reported police had arrested 140 members of the outlawed Ilungarist “death legion” to head off a coup against the government. Though there was no confirmation from official sources, Nazis said the mass ar rests occurred Saturday with the seizure of lame quantities of guns and ammunition. Flans for the coup, Nazis said, included the assassination of 17 members of Parliament. One lead er of the legion, a pro-Nazi fac tion, which is at bitter odds with other branches of the Hungarian Nazis, was said to have been cap tured in a Budapest air raid shel ter. Five other leaden were re ported to have escaped into Aus tria. Planes From Germany Ar e Driven Away British Air Ministry Reports Heavy Dam ages on Ships At t a c k on Scottish Scottish Coast; T o Halt New Submarine Offensive. London, Oct. 16. — (AP)—‘-The air ministry today announced that Ger man aircraft had attempted to at tack coastal objectives in Scotland this afternoon. A communique said Royal Air Force planes had engaged the raid ers and inflicted heavy casualties on them. Earlier, British officials had re ported the Royal Air Force made a successful reconnaissance over Ger many last night. The air ministry said British planes had flown over northern and central Germany. The announcement did not say whether they had encountered any resistance. At the same time, naval observers predicted the new German sub marine offensive, which sent the Royal Oak to the bottom and de stroyed three Allied merchant ves sels over the week-end, would be (Continued on Page Eight) (x)&aJthcJi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, not quite so cold in west and north central portions; scat tered light frost in west portion tonight; Tuesday generally fair, slightly warmer in central and east portions. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Submarine Back Safe In Germany British Admiralty Refuses to Comment; Germany Also Claims British and French Planes Downed on Western , Front. Berlin, Oet. IG.—(AP) —The su preme command said today that the same submarine which sank the Brit ish battleship Royal Oak also scored a torpedo hit on the battle cruiser Republic, putting her out of com mission The submarine was said to have reached the safety of German waters and a report from her commander was expected soon. (The Repulse, commissioned in 1916, and recon structed in 1936 at a cost of about $5,500,000, displaces 32,000 tons and has a complement of 1,181 to 1,205 men. Heavier than the 29,150-ton Royal Oak, which was sunk Satur day, the Repulse carries six 15-inch guns, 20 four-inch guns, including eight for anti-aircraft and eight tor pedo tubes among lesser armaments. She carries four aircraft with a cata pult.) In London, the British Admiralty declined to comment on the German communique. A spokesman said the attitude of the Admiralty was that it would not go to the trouble of “denying all these reports.” The German high command an nounced later in the day that two enemy airplanes, one French and one British, were shot down during the night in the region of Mainz and Frankfort-on-lhe-Main, and that two crew members were killed and five were taken prisoner. (The British air ministry announc (Continued on Page P'ive) French Guns Shell German Concentration Paris, Oct. 16. (AP) Heavy French artillery was reported today to have opened lire on German forces massing behind the western front in apparent preparation lor a general offensive. Military dispatches said the French were dropping a heavy barrage on German communication lines and troop concentration points along a 100-mile front extending from the Moselle river to the Haadt forest. The sector, on the French extreme left flank, had been reported ear lier in the day in a general staff communique as the center of great activity within the German lines. Supplementary military advices said a Nazi attack appeared imminent. French sources said that recent re inforcements had increased the Ger man strength opposite the northern sector of the Maginot line to between 700,000 and 800,000 men. The French said scouting parties sent into no-man’s-land had report ed that lights gleamed behind the German front throughout the night, apparently indicating that troops, tanks and trucks were moving up to “jump-off” points. Anti-T rust Cases Up In High Court Washington, Oct. 26.—(AP) —The Supreme Court agreed today to pass an anti-trust litigation brought by the government against mid-west ern oil companies and Chicago milk dealers. Decisions adverse to the govern ment were delivered by the lower courts. The tribunal also consented to review a decision denying the Amalgamated Utility workers a CIO affiliate, the right to press a charge of contempt against the Con solidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., for alleged violation of a national Labor Relations Board oi der. Arguments in the milk case were set for November 13, in response to a government motion to expedite ne htigaiion.