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| HFvriKUSON’S "or!!! \TION 13,873 ; V. KX Y-SIXTH YEAR GERMANY TO SHOWER BOMBS ON ENGLAND Germany And Russia Discussing Fate Os Seized U. S. Vessel Next German Ruler? Dr. Hermann Rauschning London reports indicate a “right ful German government," similar to the Polish government-in-exile in Paris, may be established in London, with Dr. Hermann Rauschning as chancellor. The government, headed by exiles from Nazism, would be backed financially by Britain. Dr. Rauschning was once president es the Danzig senate. Webb Made President Os A.&N.C.I McMu 11 a n Casts State’s Majority Vote As Governor’s Proxy For President and Directors; Line Un der Lease. on, Oct. 25.—(AP) —W. M. Weob. of Morehead City, today was noted by the State for the presi dency of the Atlantic and North C . Ana Railroad. ." nev General Harry McMul < t the State's majority vote as O • < or Hoey’s proxy. 1 ft‘ '.ns were held as stockhold : d directors met to make ar - nts for final settlement of rolina’- operation of the 90- ' : n.e running from Goldsboro to d City. The road has been • d to H. P. Edwards of Sanford. was named a director and rU nt of the line to succeed H. P f owe]]. ’ T Jacobs was chosen to 1 a elf as secretary. Two '■•tors—L. B. Jenkins and O'B'-rry of Goldsboro—were 1 ■■!■(■ < c\ Tj. m. Cilbkin and R. Moore, both of Goldsboro, o'*her directors were re-nom- f r 'ontinned on Page Three) Elective Men Seek Thinning For Top Race Ihtii\ Bureau, In thf- Kir- Waiter Hotel ! i, Art.. 1'5.~ Those State of > ;-:fc the Tar Heel elec 'JV and practically.all ol' ■i< ij/ng that the guber '■< A g' i really and radi d mt. They are perfect * ' * much further than u A \A in its crop program te c ndidly prefer to three out of every four i candidates plowed un i - .-i in a campaign other ’ own little races is not im purely objective. Each -news full well tnat the ' • : • tes there are for gov • e opposition he is like in the primaries. true for reasons over and dnued on Page Three.) TintiU'rscni 9atln Dtsjjatrii ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA , WIRE SERVICE OP IHL ASSOCIATED PRESS. Berlin Tells U. S. En voy of Course Being Pursued in Case of City of Flint; Maps Misplaced in No r weg ia n Port, Is Claim. Berlin. Oct. 25.—(AP)—The Ger j man government informed the Unit ed States today it was discussing with Soviet Russia the question.of the American ship City of Flint, taken to the Russian port of Mur mansk bv a German prize crew. The information was given Amer ican Charge d’Affaires Alexander Kirk when he was received this morning by Baron Ernst von Weiz saeckker, secretary of state in the German foreign office. The ship was seized, inquires were told unofficially, because it carried war contraband. According to the German report, the City of Flint was taken into Tromzo, Norway, as “unseaworthy” because the American crew had put certain maps essential for navigation out of the way before the Germans | took charge. At Tromzo the prize crew attempt ed unsuccess!uliy to obtain the miss ing maps, informed circles said. The City of Flint then was taken to Mur mansk, where the German crew is being “detained” pending negotia tions between Germany and Russia. In German opinion, the prize crew should be released because it sought refuge in a neutral harbor for rea sons of safety, while navigating an unseaworthy vessel. ICC Hearing At Raleigh Fixed For Truck Franchises Washington, Oct. 25. (AP) —The | Interstate Commerce Commission an nounced today hearings would be ! held at Raleigh, N. C., on applications for motor transport licenses by North i Carolina firms. Joint Board No. 103 will hear ar guments November 28 on application of Albert Vance Medlin, Zehulon, N. C., for a common carrier franchise, and on an application by Carolina Coach Company, Raleigh, to operate between Greenville, N. C., and Wil son, N. C. | Fixing Damage In Blaze That Ruined Redrying Factory Farmville, Oct. 25.—(AP)— The owners sought today to place at an accurate figure the damage caused last night when a fire swept through the W. B. Lea Tobacco Company’s | redrying plant here. The blaze apparently started on ! the second floor of the tobacco-filled building, and in an hour all was a mass of embers. 1 Nearby storage plants were threat ’ ened and the Goldsboro fire depart l ment was called on for help. Surplus Os Cotton Will I Be Reduced Washington, Oct. 25. —(AP) —Fed- eral farm officials predicted today that the nation’s cotton surplus, which has been increasing in size despite crop control efforts, would be reduced at least a million bales before the 1940 crop is harvested. They based this forecast on a recent sharp increase in exports, expansion ! in production and consumption of cotton products and prospects that this year’s 12,000,000-bale crop would fall short of supplying foreign ar*- American needs during the crop mar keting season. , Surplus stocks of approximately • 11,000,000 bales are stored now un der government price-bolstering ! loans to farmers. • I When this year’s crop started mov ■ ing to market there was a record I I surplus of 11,123,000 bales of Amer » i CPn cotton in this country and abroad. . Agriculture Department omcialr expect domestic consumption of cot- i 1 ton this season to reach 7,500,000 I bales, compared with 6,737,000 bales j last season. HENDERSON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 25, 1939 City of Flinty Taken to Soviet Port Immediate inquiry was ordered in Moscow by U. S. State department concerning seizure of the Ciiy of Flint as a German prize. The ship, admittedly carrying contraband, was taken to Kola Bay, north of Murmansk by a Nazi sea raider. It wai to Murmansk that the German liner Bremen was sailed. Senate Votes Down Limit Upon Powers For The President Wallace Out For FDR’s Third Term ! San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 25. (AP) —War abroad, said Sccre- 1 tary of Agriculture Ilenry A. Wal lace today, makes clear the de sirability of a third term for President Roosevelt. Wallace, who said agricultural prospects were brighter than at any time in two years past, re ferred only briefly, in an inter view, to the 1940 campaign, say ing: “Since the outbreak of war in Europe, it has become apparent that this country needs the tal ents and training of Mr. Roosevelt not only in meeting the situation abroad but in handling domestic problems.” German Sea Raiders Are | Real Threat j t (By The Associated Press.) Great Britain confronted the pros pect today of weapening her North Sea blockade to combat vast and powerful German surface raiders ranging the Atlantic in the fashion of 1914. Already the United States freigh ter City of Flint has been seized, and at least four British merchantmen sent to the bottom, three of them apparently sunk under the very nose of a British convoy near Gibraltar. These losses raised the total of British and neutral vessels sunk to 99, of which 45 have been British, and the tonnage toll to 399.319—ex clusive of cargoes The known loss of life mounted to 1,774. Information from Norway, where the City of Flint was taken by her German prize crew before going to Murmansk, Russia, indicated at least two German warships had penetrat ed the North !sea blockade, and were roaming the Atlantic. They are the 10,000-ton pocket battleship Deutsch land and the 5,400-ton cruiser Em den. Rail Policy On Trucks Suit Basis Washington, Oct. 25.—(AP)—At torney General Murphy announced today that he had authorized filing ot a complaint charging violation of the Sherman anti-trust act against the Association of American Rail roads, its officers and directors and 236 member railroad companies. The bill of complaint charges, the attorney general said, that the railroads had combined to restrain trade by agreeing not to extend (Continued on Page Three) Refuses, 61 to 26, to Restrict His Discre tion in War Ruling; Election on Foreign War Proposed By La- Follette in Senate. Washington, Oct. 25.—(AP) —The Senate rejected today an amendment designed to limit the President’s dis cretion in invoking the administra tion’s proposed neutrality legislation. A proposal by Senator Johnson, Democrat, Colorado, to strike discre tionary language from the measure was defeated G1 to 26. In effect, Johnson asked that, once the Presi dent found that a state of war exist ed, he would have to proclaim in vocation of the law. As the bili now stands, invocation of the law is mere ly authorized. By the vote, the Senate approved retention of this provision, which Johnson said would permit the Pres ident to decline to invoke the act, despite the outbreak of foreign wars. Would Vote on War. Senator LaFollette, Progressive, Wisconsin, proposed today that the administration’s bill to repeal the arms embargo he amended to require that a national advisory election be held before Congress could declare an overseas war. His proposal came as the Senate rush toward a final vote on tb£ neu trality revision legislation hogged down in a fresh flow of speech making. Leaders of both sides in the arms* embargo controversy said the (Continued on Page Three.; Textile Head Warns About High Prices __ / New York, Oct. 25.—(AP)—Pres ident Claudius T. Murchinson, of the Cctton Textile Institute, said today there was decided improvement in the cotton textile trade, but caution ed against too great advances in prices. “In the past we have habitually climbed mountain peaks only to fall immediately over precipices,” he said, in a speech prepared for de livery to the thirteenth annual meet ing of the institute. “When we emerge from the price valley, which we are now leaving, we should like to plant our feet safe ly upon a broad plateau, bounded only by the horizon.” He suggested such precautionary policies as limiting production to “normal operation schedules, and 1 avoiding long-time contracts, since this policy is motivated by the ex- I pectation of price increases, and, therefore, is speculative in charac ter.” iOsuodthsih FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy and unsettled: scatter ed lie-ht rain in west and north central portions tonight or Thursday: slightly warmer in the i interior tonight. Sandbags in Paris Workers engaged In the serious business "’ of building a sandbag armor for the famed obelisk in the Place de la Concorde give Parisians a new guessing game. How many bags comprise the needle’s defense against German bombs? - (Central Press) Reich Troops Ask French To End War Peris, Oct. 25.—(AP) —Sporadic artillery fire boomed along the west ern front today as small infantry pa trols skirmished in ihe cold and mud west of Forbach, where French troops still occupy a narrow salient on German oil. Through the sullen rumble of the guns, loud-speakers in the German front lines blared a monotonous re frain: “Frenchmen, lay down your arms and shake hands. The Germans don’t want to fight.” The French soldiers shouted back: “Change the record.” Military dispatches said French machine gunners silenced one loud speaker, mounted on a truck behind the German lines. The French general staff summed up the situation in a terse com munique this morning, saying that “on the whole the night has been quiet.” The communique noted “pa trol and artillery activity to the west of the Saar.” The lack of action spurred those 1 at home to call for new steps to bol- : ster the morale of the soldiers. The: press insisted that radio stations | change programs to suit the j taste of the troops who have been; calling for more jazz music. 1 PUREISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Modified Offers By Russia Hinted Helsinki, Finland, Oct. 25. (AP) —A Finnish delegation en route home from Moscow was reported in authoritative quar ters today to be carrying modi fied Soviet Russian demands for consideration of the Helsinki government. Finns at large, yet without of ficial word as to the nature of tho “political and economic” talks at the Kremlin, and the foreign office were reported to have only a vague outline of the Russian demand-., eagerly await ed the arrival of their emissaries. The dePration was scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Big Federal Job Holders In Red Unit Labor Board and Maritime C o m m i s sion Men On List of, League for Peace and Democracy, Dies Committee Reveals. Washington, Oct. 25. —(AP) — The Dies committee investigating un-American activities, published a “Washington membership and mail ing list” of the American League for Peace and Democracy, and one of its own members promptly accused it of taking a “most damnable” and “most un-American” action. The accusations were made by Representative Dempsey, Democrat, New Mexico, who was absent when the list of 583 names was given out, soon after the committee’s morning session opened. The list made no distinction be tween those government employees named on it who might be mem bers of the Washington branch of the league, and those who might (Continued on Page Three) WINNIE RUTH JUDD, SLAYER, GETS AWAY Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 25.—(AP) —i Winnie Ruth Judd, trunk slayer- of | two women companions in 1933, has escaped from the Arizona State ‘ Hospital, Governor Jones disclosed i today. i Grange Head Urges Farm Cooperation Asheville, Oct. 25.—(AP) —Harry P. Caldwell, of Greensboro, master of the State Grange, in its eleventh annual session here, told more than 400 delegates this afternoon that “co operation must replace the autocratic rule of centralized ownership in the, United States if business and agri-1 culture are to prosper and demo- j cracy be preserved.” The annual address of the State, master was u high light of the after- j (Continued on Page Seven) j Crew’s Speech Indicates Jap Militarists Waning By CHARLES P. STEWART i Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 25.—0 f course Joseph C. Grew, Uncle Sam’s ambas- j sador to Japan didn’t make his extra- j ordinarily undip- lomatic speech in Tokyo a lew days ago without State Secretary Hu 1 l’s ; approval and that necessarily, m e ans President I Roosevelt’s back of it. J P a rentnetically, if anybody missed reading reports of his talk, Grew told the Japs that Am erica is “profound- Joseph C. Grew ly shocked” by their military men’s disregard of Yankee rights, by their 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Next Move Os War Is | Speculated English Planes M.ake Night Flights Over Berlin and Hamburg; German High Com mand Says Last Frenchman Driven Off. Berlin, Oct. 25.—(AP)—Ger many’s next war move probably will be to loose a shower of bombs on England, the authoritative news paper Nazional Zeitung, of Essen, said today. This daily is known to be especially close to Field Mar shal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, air minister and No. 2 Nazi. Hence, its editorials command special atten tion. “The moment has come when the war desired by England must rain down upon the British Isle itself”, ! National Beitung said. “The pa- I lienee of a people has limits.. In ! their boundless indignation, the j German people to a man now turn I against Inc British war inciters in older, by a fight which hereafter will be relentless, to create the nec essary guarantees for their security from such irresponsible machina tion.” The German high command de clared the last French soldier had been driven off German soil. An assault by German troops west of Voelklingen yesterday, a (Continued on Page Three.) Cotton Ginnings To Ofct. 18 Under Date a Year Ago Washington, Oct. 25.—(AID — The Census Bureau reports to day cotton ginned prior to Octo ber 18 totaled 8,874,814 running bales, counting round as half hales, and excluding linters. Ginnings to that date a year ago were 8.925,828 hales and two years ago 11,060,210. Ginnings to October 18 by states, with comparative figures for a year ago, included: North Carolina, 329,416 and 179,184. Italy With Opponents Os Soviets Budapest, Oct. 25 (AID The presence of Soviet Russian troops on the Polish side of the Carpathian mountains is forcing unity among Hungary, Yugoslavia and Italy, to prevent any march of communism into southeastern Europe, it was in dicated in authoritative quarters to day. It was said authoritatively that should there materialize any threat of a Russian advance into Ruthonia, the former Czechoslovak province, which Hungary occupied last March, Hungary would have the aid of Italy and Yugoslavia if it became neces sary for her to take up arms. These quarters said Hungary had (Continued on Page Seven) bombings, and by their general con duct on the eastern Asiatic main-' land. Ordinarily a foreign representative who expressed himself with such candor in the country he was assign ed to, immediately would make him self “persona non grata” and his gov ernment would be asked to recall him. But Grew evidently threw a scare into the Japanese He was just back at his ambassadorial post from a visit in the United States, his hear ers realized that he was speaking di rectly from Washington; also that he had chatted with plenty of his countrymen and was in up-to-date touch vrith sentiment on this side of the Pacific. Moreover, he spoke warn ingly; not threateningly. His whole tone was to the effect that we want (Continued on Page Seven)
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