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I "opuLATION i 3,873 TWENTY-SIXTH year wizi Warbird Downed During Raid on Scotland " "7 ' 77 ~—:—^ — — . u . t - 'jm - - ■ Central Press Radiophoto 0- -of the four German bombing planes, that according to a British com- destroyer. The Admiralty admitted that the bombers had slightly dam i me, were shot down during raid on the Firth of Forth, Scotland, is aged two warships in the Firth. Photo passed by British censors, radioed mown on the water of the inlet as the crew awaited rescue by a British from London to New York. Says U. S. Must Defend Canada Beal Testimony Raises Issue On Soviet Russia Hider Hears Os Pact With Turks Berlin. Oct. 20. (AP)— Adolf Hitler heard u report on the Bri tisl I reneli-Turkish pact tonight itt n the lips of his ace diplomatic tpetnh'-shooter. Franz von Papen, uLlie leading Nazis insisted Tur kt \ no longer could be consider ed neutral. Yon Papen, German ambas sador sent to Turkey iast spring tn further Nazi relations with Germany's World War ally, ar rived today from Ankara, where the treaty was signed yesterday. Meanwhile, Nazi officials pro fessed to see a loophole in the pact--Turkey’s reservation against being drawn into a war with Rus sia—hut asserted the Turks had "chosen a dangerous route”. Business In State Held Up For Sept. Daily D»sp itcU liureau, [n Hip Si» Waller liotpi. i; Oct. 20.—North Carolina’s continued good in Septem ' . d‘ pde the forced closing of the c. imarkets, if tax revenue so foiiected this month is any in- Commissioner of Revenue A. -I. Maxwell commented today. i f \ enue department head said ■.- <■ early September “scarcity” • . caused by the outbreak of the in Europe and which sent retail <■' aiaring on some commodities, ■ biv had something to do with a :l he in is ted that on the whole ■ was without a doubt a steady (Continued on Page Four) Stocks Slow After Rise York, Oct. 20.—(AP)— Most took to bombproof shelters in dock market, and leading is d: : ted over a narrowly-irre range. Prices were well jum ■ 1 the start, and dealings slack s" ' : : art her after an apathetic open- Near the fourth hour a few ‘ ■ > preferreds were in demand. ; ' 'i ia-wt bus signs appeared, but m? : onal declines were plentiful. : “ lively aircraft climbers of yes -1 w',y remained on the ground. • ican Radiator 10 1-2 iean Telephone 165 3-4 wan Tobacco B 81 he Coast Line 25 1-4 Refining 24 1-2 Aviation 30 1-4 f a Steel 90 Go, Elec Ct 7 1-2 ! S'fivents 13 7-8 ' ted Oil Co 8 5-8 V.'right 73-8 Power Light 9 Eh Tri c 41 5-8 M -tors 54-1-4 : .Ayer. B 99 3-8 ■ y Ward & Co .... 56 1-4 '■ Tobacco B 37 3-8 Hailway 20 3-8 : Oil Co N J 48 -Acs 76 1-2 HntihH*smt Daily Dispatch! WIRE service op I HE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Dies Says Stale De partment Ought to Look Into Future Re lations With Kremlin As Result of Tar Heel Con vi c t’s Revelations. Washington, Oct. 20. (AP) Chairman Dies. Democrat, Texas, of the House un-American committee, suggested today that the State De partment should look into future re lations with Russia because of tes timony that a communist labor or ganizer, fleeing a North Carolina pri son sentence, found refuge in the Soviet Union. The testimony was given by Fred Erwin Beal, at present a North Car olina convict brought here to tell about various labor disturbances in which he said he participated a de cade ago. Resuming today the testimony he started Wednesday, Beal said that the communist party had financed a j trip he made to Russia while he was a fugitive from justice, and tiiat he entered Russia on a false passport with the knowledge of Soviet of ficials. "It seems to me that this ought to cause considerable concern down at the State Department about our fu ture relations with Russia,” Dies commented. When he returned from his trip to Russia, Beal said, "the communist party ganged up" to get him to go back. He mentioned William Z. Fos ter, present party chairman; Leon Joseplison, whom Beal identified ns "a communist party OGRU man in this country,” and George Maurer, of j International Labor Defense, as per- ! sons who argued he should return. "Josephson was of the opinion that I they should have shot me before I left,” Beal said. Refugee Ship Crew Almost Had Mutiny New York, Oct. 20. —(AP) —Stories of insolence and insubordination a mong the crew came 1 today from pas sengers aboard the liner Acadia, which docked last night after weath ering a hurricane described by the captain as the worst he had seen in 30 years. The Eastern Steamship liner, un der charter by the United States Lines, brought 520 passengers, in cluding 482 Americans, from Europe. Sixteen crew members and six pas sengers received bruises and other injuries during the storm. Ship’s officers confirmed passen gers’ statements of trouble with the crew, but said it arose from union disputes. They said members of the two rival maritime labor organiza tions —the National Maritime Union (CIO) and the International Sea men’s Union (AFL) —engaged in a dozen fights during the crossing. The hurricane that struck the 'Acadia Tuesday 300 miles southeast of Nova Scotia also swept one man overboard from the liner President Harding, expected to dock here to morrow with 72 injured among its passengers and crew. Captain Robert H. Allen, of the Acadia, estimated the wind velocity reached 150 miles an hour, and that he saved further injuries by order ing passengers to remain in theii cabins during the four-hour blow. HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 20, 1939 Dies Witness Fred Beal Fred Erwin Beal, former Commu nist organizer, comes up from a North Carolina prison to testify be fore the Dies Committee, in Wash ington. He said that the textile strike at New Bedford, Mass., in 1928 was organized by the Commu nist Party, which received its orders from Moscow. Europeans’ Holdings Are- Problem Here By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 20.—Senator Er nest Lundeen’s scheme for the Amer ican seizure of the British West In dies, in settlement of John Bull’s last World War debt to Unc 1 e Samuel made no hit in Congress, when the Minnesota Far- pro posed it a few days ago. Senator Tom Connally of Texas went so far as to call it a “coward ly” idea, which verges on being u n p arliamentary language. No other IB Senator Lundeen solon was quite as outspoken as the Texan, but the Minnesota statesman got no support from any quarter. Nevertheless, his opinion isn’t al together a new one. Long before the present situation in Europe develop ed it was mentioned in legislative debate that it would be nice for Bri tain to cede Bermuda, the Bahamas and Trinidad to the United States in cancellation of the English 1914-18 war obligations owed to us. The term “seizure” wasn’t employed in con nection with these hints, though. The British didn’t take ’em seriously; they wouldn’t. The fact remains that Britain’s (and France’s) holdings in our hem isphere are an infernal nuisance just now. The Pan-Americas have drawn a zone around themselves, within which they insist that overseas fight ers mustn’t intrude their belligerency "But,” say the British and French, “we have possessions inside that "zone which we’re entitled to access to.” So they have, historically. Paren thetically Holland has also, but the Dutch don’t matter. They’re not bel ligerents yet, and they don’t owe us any money, either. The British and French are belligerents and do owe (Continued on Page Four) (jOstaikoh FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; no decided change in temperature. Sen. Barbour Is Specific In Argument Interprets Obligation Under Monroe Doc trine; EUender Asks Wh o Cares About Offending Hitler; Lindbergh Attacked. Washington, Oct. 20.—(AP) —An argument that repeal of the arms embargo would lead the United States into war was answered in the Senate today with the assertion that Ihis country must defend Can ada under terms of the Monroe Doctrine. Senator Barbour, Republican, New Jersey, said that the United States cannot help its northern neighbor under the existing neu trality law, and contended that “an attack on Canada not only would violate the Monroe Doctrine, but would force us into war.” Barbour spoke after Senator Johnson, Republican,, California, 73-year-old veteran of the League of Nations fight 20 years ago had labelled as an “idiotic assumption” that arguments for repeal of the arms embargo that Hitler could conquer Europe, and “we will be next.” Repeal, Johnson said, would be the “first false step” and would “place us in the shadow, walking down the bloody path of war.” What Do We Owe Hitler? Senator El lender, Democrat, Louisiana, advocate of repeal, an swered those who contend that the action would offend Germany by saying: “What do we owe this mad dic tator, this insatiable despoiler of men and nations, this violator of treaties, that we must tread on tiptoe to spare him displeasure?” The arguments of administration supporters favoring repeal, reduced to its simplest terms, Johnson told his colleagues, was “that if we don’t stop Hitler now, he will con quer Europe, and we will be next.” “What an idiotic assumption”, he declared. “And yet earnest and honest men repeat it. If we were not afflicted with a war psychology, we would not listen to this appeal for repeal of the arms embargo for one quarter of a second. Hitler will never conquer Europe. It has never been done by any one yet. Count less efforts have been made to es tablish hegemony by force, and none have succeeded. The closest approach to any way by Napoleon, (Continued on Page Four) 4 Quiet Night” Reported In Western Battle Area Paris, Oct. 20. (AP) —French ar tillery today shelled the German road from Perl to Sehndorf, just across the frontier near Luxembourg, in an effort to break up troop con centrations at the point where the Germans spilled over onto French soil earlier in the week. The latest military information said troop action was slow because of heavy rains and German reorgani zation of the lines, which they seized when the French went on the de Germans Claim “Joker” Exists In New British-French Accord With Turkey For Mutual Help Baltic Area Fears Grab From Hitler Germany Unlikely to Let Soviets Issue All Invitations in North ern Europe; Rumors In Stockholm Excite Scandinavians. Stockholm, Oct. 20.—(AP) —Ru- mors of German demands led dip lomatic observers to express belief todav that the northern countries would be dangerously optimistic if they assumed that Adolf Hitbv would let Soviet Russia issue all the invi tations in the Baltic. A sour witticism in Stockholm just now, in the wake of the conference of rulers of Sweden, Norway, Den mark and Finland, was: “We shall soon know whether we Swedes are Germans or Russians.” The conference ended yesterday with a joint statement of the unity of the four nations, but no specific mention was made on the Russian demands on Finland, which prompt ed Sweden’s King Gustav to call the meeting. Indications were that the struggle to preserve northern neutrality and national integrity had just begun. The rumors ol' possible German demands on Norway, Denmark and Sweden were not confirmed, but aloofness of official Berlin to the fate of Finland led to speculation. Hoey Urges South Fight Rates Alone Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 20.—(AP)— Caution against merging all regional efforts for freight rate revision into a single case was voiced today by Governor Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina. Hoey was a delegate to the Southern Governors Conference. One of the questions for discussion was whether the southeast should ask the southwest and other regions to join it in the $20,000,000 rate case it launched before the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1937. “Os course, we all should cooper ate,” said the North Carolina gover nor. “We want freight rate justice for all. But I do not think we should merge all of our efforts into one single case.” The conference was called by Gov ernor E. D. Rivers of Georgia, who is chairman. He asserted manufac turers and shippers in the south east alone were penalized “in excess of $20,000,000 a year” by rate dis criminations in favor of tne rich northern industrial region, known as the “official” rate territory. The assembled governors were challenged with a statement that even Canada has lower rates into the northern United States than the South and other sections. Cotton Price Holds Steady New York, Oct. 20. (AP)—Cot ton futures opened two points lower to four higher. Around midday, scat tered price-fixing by trade accounts held prices steady at net advances of three to six points. tensive and withdrew from territory in front of the Siegfried line. The general staff reported last night had been quiet, as rain con tinued on the western front and only patrols were active. In announcing a pre-arranged with drawal along a 22-mile northern sec tion of the front, for distances up to six miles, the French high com mand said its losses were light, and that the line still was “far in ad vance” of the permanent Maginot fortifications. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Aid Rushed Ships L:■ A .JOHNS :/ BLAIRBEQ^ ‘ • i/WV HARPING Z' SAdLE IS. cs& z Zi/izJrTC o #• Loaded with medical supplies, the Goast Guard cutter Hamilton sped northward to the aid of the New York-bound U. S. liner President Harding, on which at least 20 per sons were seriously injured during a violent North Atlantic storm, and the Scottish steamer Plairbeg, which was reported to have lost her rudder chains, leavi.’g her at the mercy of the ss*s. (Central Press) Britain Not Stepping On Soviet Toes Care Taken Not to Bind Turkey to Fight Russia; Pact With Poland Had No Ref erence to Aggression From East. London, Oct. 20.—(AP)—Diplo matic circles noted with keen inter est today the fresh indications that Britain was carefully avoiding step ping on the toes of Soviet Russia, de spite the latter’s close ties with Ger many. They pointed to the protocol to the British-French-Turkish mu tual aid pact, signed yesterday, which frees Turkey from any obligation to fight Russia, and to the statement of Foreign Under Secretary R. A. But ler that Britain’s military pact with Poland did not apply to any Rus sian aggression. Butler told the House of Com mons yesterday in reply to a ques tion as to whether the pact was in tended to cover the case of aggres sion by powers other than Germany. “No, sir. During the negotiations which led up to the signature of the agreement, it was understood be tween the Polish government and His Majesty’s government that the agree ment should only cover the case of aggression by Germany, and the Polish government confirm that this is so.” Diplomatic circles emphasized in discussions of the newly-signed Bri tish-French-Turkish mutual assist ance pact that it avoided any attempt to “stir up trouble between Russia and Turkey.” Diplomatic quarters said that the treaty with Turkey might tend to bring the Balkan States more closely together and lessen tension between them. U. S. Ponders Mail Protest To Britain Washington, Oct. 20. —(AP) —Sec- retary Hull said today the State De partment was considering whether to make representations to Great Bri tain over the seizure of American mail enroute to Germany. Hull said the department had just received reports that in some in stances ships carrying American mail addressed to Germany had been stop ped by the British, the mail censor ed and return to this country. Earlier post office officials said they were routing all mail to Ger many byway of Italy, in the hope of escaping the British blockade. Re turned mail also will be sent to Italy for re-shipment. The department said it hoped that the change would per (Continued on Page Four) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Nazi World * Is Stunned By Treaty Repercussions in Bal kan Countries An ticipated, With New Situation in M ed iterranean Also Af fecting Italian I n terests. Berlin, Oct. 20.—(AP)—Authorized Germans pointed today to the pro tocol to the Freneh-English-Turkish mutual air treaty, which provides that Turkey cannot be forced to fight Russia as a “joker”, which will pre vent Turkey from giving the Allies the help they expect. It was evident, these sources as sumed, that Russia and Germany would continue to work in close col laboration in international affairs. Authoritative quarters said Germany viewed the agreement with “critical eyes” in the fear it might hold the spark for a general war. However, they were quick to point out Turkish-Russian conversations lor a similar pact were still consid ered open. On a whole, the Nazi political world appeared stunned by the treaty which made Turkey Germany’s World War ally a partner of Britain and France. Some officials looked for repercussions of the Anglo-Tur kish pact in the Balkan countries. But how far Balkan neutrality would be affected was not yet clear, they said. The new situation in the Mediter ranean was viewed with greatest ap prehension in informed circles, in asmuch as Italian and Soviet Russian interests were regarded as directly (Continued on Page Four) Air Alarms Sounded On Scotch Coast • Edinburgh, Scotland, Oct. 20. (AP) —Two air raid warnings were sounded and “precautionary meas ures” were taken against the threat of Nazi bombing planes over the im portant Firth of Forth today, but the air ministry said no bombs were re ported dropped. An air raid warning also was given in the south of England later in the day, but within eight minutes the all-clear signal was sounded when no aircraft was lighted. The communique for the second bombing menace in the Edinburgh area in five days, and the fourth menace to Scotland, including two at Scapa Flow, said: “Precautionary measures were (Continued on Page Two) Territorial U. S. Waters Are Flexible President Reiterates Stand in Efforts to Protect United States From Belligerent Operations During War. Hyde Park, N. Y., Oct. 20.—(AP) —President Roosevelt took the posi tion today what the limits of United States territorial waters are flexible, varying from three to hundreds of miles, depending on the circum stances under which the limits are created. In the case of belligerent sub marines, which have been barred from American ports, or territorial waters, the President said at a press conference that the limits of such waters was three miles. In the case of the neutrality patrol, (Continued on Page Four)
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