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GERMMS AGAIN ATTACK BRITAIN’S FLEET
Senators Threatened For Vote Upon Neutrality Bill
Charges By
Connecticut
Solon Heard
No Details Given by
Maloney, Who Fa
vo r s Embargo Re
peal; Others Oppose,
Declaring It Will
Bring War to U. S.
Shores.
: Oct. 17.—(AP)—
■■. hi lonov. Democrat, Con
• T ported today that he and
.s colleagues involved in
oxer neutrality legisla
received “physical
i.-sertion was made in a
vpa red by the New Eng
: •• announce his support of
■ -‘oration's neutrality pro
- ...luding repeal of the arms
other members of Con
g-e- Maloney said. "I have un
- re harsh criticism and ha\ - e
political and physical
threats."
He d:d not go into detail as to the
r. ’ v and sources of the threats,
. o nst whom, other than him
u wey had been directed.
Sir. tor Walsh, Democrat, Massa
. u.wtts. Maloney’s predecessor in
to. arvi an opponent of repeal
.■;? ' e arms embargo, told the
that the sale of ammunition
.M equipment by this coun
:-ht bring the European war
r,'' ’ ■ our front door”. He vis
'ubmarines and war planes
_ereri nations lurking off-
C to attack ships laden with
m ‘ ns consigned to the other
side.
As the twelfth day of debate
• ed. Senator Austin, Republi-
Vermont, assistant Republican
C i* of the Senate, who is sup
g the administration’s bill,
1 :. -'d that all neutrality legis
expire “when this present
over.’' He offered an amend
‘o accomplish that.
•b’.’’Leader Barkley ex
•d hope speech-making might
nd voting begin on amend-
V- fore the week-end, bu,*t
d it had been impossible to
•agreement to limit debate.
'ln. chairman of the naval
committee, urged that
ted States efforts be directed to
i building up armed strength
; uu LC'erving strict neutrality.
Dies Group
Has Threat
lo Defense
• ngton. Ocd. 17.—(AP)
ng that it had important in
ton affecting national de
*"• the Dies committee has de
to ask the House for “ample
to continue its investigation
t -American activities for
' hci year.
to the international situa
te committee has hundreds
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Elmer Andrews Quits As
Wage-Hour Chief And is
Succeeded By Army Man
ington. Oct. 17. (AP) —The
i<t:on of Elmer F. Andrews as
'•! administrator, to be suc
' ■< ay Colonel Philip Fleming,
' '■ ■*' : i'a.v engineers, was announc
' • by the White House.
• - 1 ’ resignation was effective
’* 1 ‘bay. In a short time he will
’/ ti>e staff of the Reconstruction
: ’\anrr Corporation,
r - r! ‘*ieg, who is now serving as
’ < ngineer for the army at St.
U; -oinn.. will be detailed to the
of labor. She will assign
oe assistant to an acting
' o administrator, # who, until
, ';>« > s ready technically to take
J “ onarge, will head the agency.
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Military experts believe Germany is preparing a great western offensive
as shown on this map. The four-army drive would move from Saarburg
(1), Saarbruecken (2), Pirmasens (3) and Landau (4). In defense,
France has blown up bridges at Plittersdorf (-5), Rhinau (7), Sasbach
(8), Breisbac’n (9), Nevenburg (19) and Wintersdorf (12). Bridges at
Kehl (6) hax r e been mined. At Kembs (11), France has flooded the Rhine
by closing spillways on French side, hoping to inundate part of Westwali.
Plane symbols marks airfields (Central Treat)
Neutrality Passage
Will Avert Battle
In 1940 Elections
Taft and George, of
Two Major Parties,
Agreed on Political
Effect of Enactment
Os Roosevelt Meas
ure, Favored by Both.
Washington, Oct. 17.—(AP) —Po-
litical aspects of the nutrality fight
were pointed up today by comments
of two senators —Taft, Republican,
Ohio, and George, Democart, Geor
gia—that enactment of the adminis
tration’s neutrality bill would elimi
nate the arms embargo as a 1940
campaign issue.
Taft put forward by friends for
Ihe Republican presidential nomina
tion, said that if Congress carried
out President recommen
dation to repeal the embargo, there
certainly would be no attempt to
reinstate it by either of the major
parties.
If repeal should fail, he declared,
an energetic fight might be made by
either the Republican or the Demo
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Andrews, former head of the
New York State Labor Commission,
organized, the wage-hour adminis
tration, beginning October 16, 1938.
Stephen Early, a presidential sec
retary, said that since he was an
engineer by profession, he probably
would have some kind of engineer
ing work with the R. F. C. That
agency makes loans which require
; checking by engineers before ap
proval.
, Fleming, a graduate of West
! Point in 1909, once was deputy ad
ministrator of the Public Works Ad
-1 ministration. He also served as dis
' (Continued on Page Five)
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA*
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 17, 1939
Says Goering Was
Firmly for Peace
London, Oct. 17. (AP) —Sir
Nevile Henderson's final report
on his ambassadorship to Berlin,
made public tonight in an of
ficial white paper, said that he
believed Field Marshal Goering
“would have preferred a peace
ful solution”, but that “it was
HitleFs decision which alone
counted.”
Sir Nevile added he believed
Joachim von Ribbentrop, former
minister and ambassador to
London, was regarded by Hit
ler as a second Bismarck, a con
viction which von Ribbentrop
probably shared to the full.
Finds Wages
Law Observed
In Carolinas
Daily Dispatcli Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct. 17. —D. Lacy Mc-
Bryde, attorney for the enforcement
division of the Wage and Hours Ad
ministration, is convinced that prac
tically all employers in the two Car
olinas are complying rigidly with
the wage and hours law.
He is also convinced from his ex
perience and observation that what
violations do occur are chargeable
in practically ninety per cent of
cases to “Yankees” who have come
South in the hope of being able to
exploit cheap labor. The native Car
olinians, he has found, are seldom
in the chiseler classification.
Mr. Mcßryde also believes that
there isn’t even approximately the
genuine and sincere opposition to the
wage and hour measure of the Fed
eral government that there is to the
National Labor Relations Board and
the Wagner Labor Act under which
it operates.
The Mcßryde opinions are worthy
of consideration and belief because
I he has now been for several months
in charge of the legal end of wage
hour enforcement, while prior to the
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German Offensive Along Saar
Breaks Down UnderHeavyFire
From Maginot Line Batteries
Over 60,000
Germans in
Engagement
Withering French
Fi re Halts Enemy
Advance; Berlin
Claims French Eva
cuated Position i n
Front of German At
tack.
Paris, Oct. 17. —(AP) —A smash
ing German offensive along a 20-mile
sector east of the Saar river has
broken down, the French reported
today, in the face of devastating
Maginot line fire. At least six Ger
man divisions were known to have
taken part in the offensive
in two attacks, one which carried 100
yards into French territory, military
dispatches said.
Allied army authorities estimated
the strength of each division to be
at least 10,000 men.
“Our fire stopped the enemy,” the
French general staff announced,
after explaining advanced French
outposts had been drawn back to
prepared offensive positions in the
face of the advancing Germans.
Military advices said the German
army threw a full division of more
than 10,000 men into its first assault
yesterday morning on a four-mile
sector in the Moselle river valley.
The thrust pushed forward a mile
and a half, then across the border
100 yards into the French village of
Apach near the Luxembourg border.
The second attack, said French dis
patches, put five German divisions
into action yesterday afternoon on a
20-mile sector east of the Saar river.
There the German advance was said
to have been stopped on “the line
foreseen,” still within German ter
ritory, and well in advance of the
main Maginot line.
This was described as the largest
and most bitterly fought action of
the war on the western front so far.
The Nazis drox r e hard across no
man’s-land in the Saar attack in the
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WASHINGTON MAN
TO HEAD DENTISTS
Elizabeth City, Oct. 17. (AP) —
The fifth district dental society will
go to Wilson for its meeting next
year, Dr. H. E. Nixon, secretary of
the society, announced today.
Officers elected by the group of
Eastern North Carolina dentists here
yesterday included Dr. Darden Eure,
of Moreliead City, vice-president;
and Dr. G. L. Overman, of Golds
man, of Goldsboro, a district repre
sentative to the house of Hel««qter.
Dr. A. T. Jennette, of Washington,
was installed as president for the!
coming year. '
Stalin Replacing Hitler
As World’s Big Headache
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Oct. 17.—1 s Russian
communism about to revert to old
fashioned czarism, with Josef Stalin
as the. new czar?
Diplomats in Wash
ington are asking
one another this
question, on the
strength o f latest
reports from Eu
rope.
Os course Com
rade Stalin is just
as absolute as the
original czars were
maybe more so.
However, the for
mer czars were a
dynasty, which
owned Russia;
Josef Stalin
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Another major naval triumph, torpedoing of the British battle cruiser
Repulse (bottom), is claimed by Germany. Berlin reports the warship
was severely damaged by the same submarine that sank the battleship
Royal Oak. The British mail liner Lochavon (center) was torpedoed and
sunk in the North Atlantic. Six passengers and the crew of 62 werp
rescued. Survivors of the sunk French passenger ship Bretagne (top)
report women and children were wounded when the attacking U-boat
fired on lifeboats. Several persons were killed, 400 rescued.
Another Navy Ship
Os Britain Struck
By German Bombers
“Iron Duke”, O1 d
Warship Now Train
ing Ship, Is Bombed;
British Admit R e
markable Exploit in
Sinking the Royal
Oak.
London. Oct. 17.—(AP; — German
bombers damaged the British naval
training ship Iron Duke in a raid at
Scapa Flow today, the government
announced, and also disclosed that
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| Stalin, at least ostensibly, thus far
I has been the Russians’ own choice
• as their leader, even as Herr Hitler
| professes to be Germany’s pick as
its fuehrer. Commentators generally
' agree that Joe and Adolf were lar
gely accidental to begin with: now
they’re not, but the fiction persists
that they were popularly selected.
! Even yet Adolf is given credit for
a sense of responsibility to the
Fatherland. It's beginning to be sus
. pected that Joe regards Russia as a
I piece of his personal property. It al
so is obvious that he wants more,
I not so much for Russia’s benefit as
’ i for his individual own.
, j ' Lenin Versus Stalin.
• j Comrade Lenin, who ushered in
i j Russian communism, is spoken of by
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Steamer Athenia
Loaded With Guns
Washington, Oct. 17. (AP)
An affidavit saying that the liner
Athenia, sunk September 3 en
route to New York, carried coast
defense guns for Canada, and
was to be outfitted as a raider
after completing its trip, has
been filed at the State Depart
ment by Gustax Anderson, of
Evanston, 111., a traffic bureau
operator. He was a passenger on
the Athenia.
The affidavit was drawn on
the basis of questions by three
congressmen, Case, Republican,
South Dakota; Brooks, Demo
crat, Louisiana, and Pierce,
Democrat. Oregon. Anderson
grew up in Pierce’s congress
ional district.
Anderson’s Statements were
based on information from Chief
Officer Copeland, of the Athe
nia, that there were “plenty” of
guns on the ship for coast de
fense at Halifax and Quebec.
Roosevelt
Sees Problem
Os Refugees
Washington, Oct. 17. —(AP) —Pres-
ident Roosevelt urged officers of the
inter-governmental committee on
political refugees today to speed ihe
task of helping 300,000 made home
less before the European war be
gan in order to be prepared to cope
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Planes Raid
Scapa Flow
Naval Base
Series of Lightning
Attacks Aimed to
Bring Britain to Her
Knees; U-Boat Crew
That Sank Royal Oak
Are Decorated.
Berlin, Oct 17. —(AP) —-Scapa
Flow bay, important British naval
base north of Scotland, was at
tacked by German raiders for the
second time today as part of what
oiticials called a series of lightning
attacks to bring Britain to her
knees.
Today’s raid was by bombing
planes. Saturday a submarine sank
the battleship Royal ' Oak in the
same bay, which is a base for Brit
ish warships operating in the North
Sea.
“After a week or ten days of this
uninterrupted attacking, Britain
\\ ill see what is left of her fleet”,
one highly placed person said to
night.
Commander Prien and the crew
of his submarine which sank the
Royal Oak, and claimed to have
torpedoed the battle cruiser Re
pulse, were awarded iron crosses
for their exploits. It was announced
that they had arrived today at an
unnhmed harbor, and that Grand
Admiral Eric Raeder hurried there
to extend the Reich’s congratula
tions.
Adolf Hitler also elevated Com
modore Doenitz, commander of the
German submarine fleet, to the
rank of rear admiral.
Britain’s first lord of the Ad
miralty, authorized sources said,
would “in such form as the Ger
man supreme high command thinks
desirable”, be acquainted with
photographs of bombing activity in
the Firth of Forth, taken yesterday
by German fliers. These sources
tauntingly asked whether the first
loid, Winston Churchill, would dare
deny the extent of the damage in
flicted in the light of the documen
tary proof, said to be in German
possession.
Turks Halt
Conferences
With Russia
Saracoglu Leaves
Moscow Toni gh t
With no Indication of
Next Move in Soviet
Effort to Influence
Dardanelles Control.
Moscow, Oct. 17. (AP) —The pro
tracted negotiations between Soviet
Russia and Turkey came to at least
a temporary halt today with the an
nounced intention of Turkey’s for
eign minister, Sukru Saracoglu, to
leave Moscow tonight.
Saracoglu has been in Moscow
nearly a month discussing with
Soviet leaders problems in connec
tion with the Black Sea and its out
let, the Dardanelles.
Coincident with the announcement
of Saracoglu’s leaving was the ap
pearance of an article in the gov
ernment newspaper Izvestia, which
asserted Britain and France could
not establish an effective sea block
ade against Germany because of the
economic aid the Reich would re
ceive from Russia and Italy.
There was no indication of what
the next move would be in Russia’s
negotiations with Turkey. Saracoglu
was expected to confer shortly with
Roumanian leaders.
It was considered significant that
in concluding recent pacts with
Baltic states, the Russians always
announced them before the departure
of visiting envoys.
Reports here told of an increas
ing flood of Jewish refugees from
German occupied Poland pouring in
to adjoining Polish territory now held
by the Russians.
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and
Wednesday; cooler Wednesday. i