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f^vniKSON'S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-SIXTH year SENATE VOTES REPEAL OF ARMS EMBARGO %r ¥ V X X v HULL ANGERED BY ATTITUDE OF SOVIETS Washington Baffled In Efforts To Get Facts About ‘Flint’ Put Up Browder Bail Mrs.. Hester G. Huntington Mrs. Hester G. Huntington, middle aged society woman who put up $7,500 bail to free Communist lead er Earl Browder in New York, is the sister-in-law of Robert Minor, associate of Browder. Declaring she is not a Communist, she said the bail was put up as a ‘‘matter of principle.” Navy Is U. S. Big Defense, FDR States Best Way to Assure Peace Is to Be Able to Defend Sea Fron tiers, President Says in Navy Day Declara tion, •;'ngtnn, Oct. 27. (AP) —The and nost powerful Ameri i y ; n 17 /ears was iold by : < O m Roosevelt today that it nation's chief reliance to f the European war. ml promising way to pre i •■;.(•(' lies in the ability to o' ‘ ••■'! our sea frontiers”, Mr. < elt aid in a Navy Day let- Acting Secretary Charles "That peace we shall strive ■ ’ n by all honorable and means. With the world in ! t:.:- country is compelled, as *re. to maintain an ade-j id positive defense.” 1 ident's letter constituted die only official recognition ; ‘ d,.y. Officers and men them ■ e: o too busy with the neu- P Urol, with training recruits Iding new ships to celebrate. y Day found the fleet operat ui under virtual wartime con ■ Yi. tors were barred from and .-hore station. Movements ' ng ships on the Atlan - patrol and with the main ; ' ’ .in the Pacific were secret. et. however, that the " 1 number of ships is at sea the 1922 arms limitation mked or retired half the '‘■'■■id War navy. Paroles Are by Gov ernor; to Long-Termers a Oct. 27. (AP) —Three prisoners and one other ; ' a paroles today from Gov -1 ; fP„.y. : idod: .Jesse Andrews, ser to ten years imposed in in December, 1936, for i abetting in assault with ” . oauon. Htwtiterson Daily iltsimfrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTaTcAROLINA AND VIRGINpT WIRE SERVICE OF ASSOCIATED PR^sP P Berlin Says Vessel Is Being Sailed by Ger man Prize Crew from Murmansk to Ger many; Hitler Plans Western Drive. Washington, Oct.' 27.—(AP)—Sec retary Hull said today he was com pletely baffled in his efforts to get adequate information from the Rus sian government on the City of Flint, which to the State Department has become a veritable mystery ship. State Depai imeni officials were unanimous in criticizing the Soviet government for giving information on the City of Flint through the news agency some hours before it was delivered to the interested gov ernment, the United States. Hull said Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt in Moscow had tried three different methods of getting in touch with the American crew of the City of Fiint—telephone, rail road and airplane—and thus far had not been successful in any. He did not know whether the ship was still at Murmansk, Russia, or whether it had left, whether a German flag or American flag flew over it, or wheth er it had been restored to the Amer ican crew. All he had was a brief Russian news agency communique, saying that after the verification of the composition of the cargo on the freighter captured by the Germans, the maritime authorities at Mur mansk had issued an order to free the vessel, with the obligation to leave the port immediately. There was a note of bitterness in Hull’s voice as he recounted the ef forts of Ambassador Steinhardt. GERMAN PRIZE CREW IIAS CITY OF FLINT IN CHARGE Berlin, Oct. 27.—(AP) Official advices received here tonight said the United States steamer City of Flint was being sailed from Mur mansk to Germany under command of a prize crew from the German pocket battleship Deutschland. The freighter was reported some where along the Norwegian coast, heading slowly into the British blockade area. The vessel, seized as a contraband ship, and taken to the Russian port of Murmansk, was released last night by Soviet Russia. Advices reaching Berlin said the Germans lost no time in lifting anchor for Hamburg, where a prize court was planned to decide I on the fate of the ship and her 'jargo. Offensive in West. The impression persisted here, meantime, that the German high command contemplated an offensive in the west that would be launched soon, and that would be aimed chief ly against Britain. This seemed to be borne out by a ban yesterday on private use of telephones and tele graph services to foreign countries. It was indicated that Germany had precise knowledge of the stations of British troops in France, and that German air forces would try to strike terror in the British expeditionary force. Britain Gears War Machine For Winter London, Oct. 27.—(AP)—Great Britain, grimly tuning her war machinery for the winter campaign against Germany at sea and at home, opened her list today for volunteers in the first general call since the war began September 3. Enlistments only of specialized classes have been asked previously. Age limits were set at 22 to 35 in Great Britain and 20 to 35 in northern Ireland. Those accepted will be ordered to report November 15. Hints in the Nazi press of broad ening air attacks, which so far have been confined to warships at anchor or on convoy, and intensili cation of surface and submarine raids on Allied shipping, were re garded by the British as pointing the direction the winter warfare will take. In the belief that war on the western front would continue stale mated by mud, rain and cold weath er, British experts sa'd Germany I naturally would be expected to hammer at Britain by bombing ' raids and action against shipping. (The French, however, felt that i a German offensive might come i with any break in the weather.) HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 27, 1939 As Ribbentrop “Declared War on Britain” | iV ,Jlju Jr/* German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, speaking at Danzig on the anniversary of the found ing of the Nazi party nine years ago, declares that the guilt for the present European war rests with Great Britain. The foreign minister, who rarely makes a public address, declared Germany is prepared to fight Britain to the finish, and made a vituperative attack on Prime Minister Chamberlain of England. Photo flashed by radio from Beilin to New York. Soviets Deny an Appointment To U. S. Envoy on Seized Ship Pope Urges Peace i hat Will Last Encyclical Condemns Governments That Assume “ Absolute Autonomy That Be longs to God”; Denial of God Cause of Trouble. Castelgandolfo, Italy, Oct. 27. (AP) —Pope Pius XII today con dernned governments which assume that “absolute autonomy which be longs exclusively to • the Supreme Maker”, and offered consolation to dismembered Poland. In the first encyclical of his reign, the pontiff, after recounting the failure of his efforts for peace, also pleaded for settlements at the end of the present European war which would avoid the errors of past treaties, which failed to bring lasting peace. He blamed denial of “the author ity of God and the sway of his law” for the rise of governments which make the state “the last end of life.” “As we write these lines”, the pope said, “the terrible news comes to us that the dread tempest of war is already raging, in spite of all our efforts to avert it.” The pope appealed for peace treaties at the end of this war which would avoid the “sacrifices and suf ferings” which failed to bring last ing peace in the past. At the same time, he said, respect for treaties was indispensable to peace. Real Justice Is Urged By Bar President Raleigh, Oct. 27. — (AP) —The ad ministration of justice civilized man’s lone substitute for lights and combats —must be perfected if the world is to be led away from war, Charles A. Beardsley, of Oakland, Cal., president of the American Bar Association, said today. Speaking at the annual meeting here of the North Carolina State Bar, Beardsley urged American lawyers and judges “to improve, to make more workable and to make more attractive to the American people this thing that we call ‘the adminis tration of justice’.” Officers were to be elected this al ternoon. Richardson Negro Dies la Gas Cell Raleigh, Oct. 27.—(AP)—Willie Richardson, Negro, who didn’t know his age, but who was 21 or 22 years old, in the opinion of prison officials, died by gas at State’s Prison today for first de gree burglary in Nash county. The young Negro got only a package of cigarettes and an empty poeketbook in his robbery, but evidence at his trial was that he brutally assaulted the white woman whose home he entered. Richardson walked into the gas chamber at 10:07 a. m. He was pronounced dead 12 minutes, five seconds, after the gas machinery was turned on. Vandenberg Is Gaining As Nominee By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 27.—Senator Ar thur H. Vandenberg’s friends con tend that the Michigan solon’s Re publican presiden- tial chances have been greatly im proved by the po sition he took from the first, on the American arms embargo issue. The Wolverine law maker formidably opposed any mod ification, such as President Roose velt asked, of the neutrality act. He A Senator was of the sena- Vandenberr torial mino r ity group, to be sure. Still, popular op inion may be on his side of the ques tion. If so, it doesn't matter that the congressional majority has been a gainst him. Senators and representa tives don’t exclusively pick a party’s nominee in a national convention. As experienced politicians, they have a good deal to say about it, but the home folks’ delegates have a voice in the matter also. Senators Borah, Johnson of Cali fornia, and Nye, the strict neutrality law’s author, are Republicans who fought modification as vigorously as Vandenberg did. However, Borah and (Continued on Page Three.) (jJ&aihsui FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, probably showers in north and west portions tonight and Saturday, and in southeast portion Saturday; colder Satur day night and in north and west portions in afternoon. Steinhardt Unable to Contact Any High Official; City of Flint Reported Enroute to Germany; Russians Provide “Running Start”. Moscow, Oct. 27.—(AP) —It was reliably learned today that United States Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt had been unsuccessful in repeated attempts to gain an ap pointment at the foreign office in his quest for information on the United States-owned steamed City of Flint. The ambassador went to the for eign office last night, but failed to see any high official, and his ef forts still were unavailing today. The embassy had no information beyond that appearing in Soviet Russian newspapers, that the Amer ican freighter had been freed at the port of Murmansk, where she had been taken as the captive of a' Ger man prize crew. The embassy spent two days try ing to telephone the master of the Flint, or some other officer, at Mur mansk. One call got through to the port city, but that was cut off a minute later without conversation between the embassy and any of the Americans. There was no official word that the City of Flint actually had de parted, but well informed quarters said last night that she had left flying the American flag. Unofficial ‘British quarters ex pressed belief that the Russian gov ernment was keeping silent to give the German prize crew “a running start” toward a German port. This was predicted on a belief that the Germans crew, released from in ternment, was back in control of the freighter. Further international complica tions in the case were foreseen if the City of Flint were unable to get through the British blockade in the North Sea. It seemed probable that British warships would be lying in wait for her and just as likely that she would be under the guard of German submarines —assuming she is in German hands and headed for Germany. LAGRANGE MAN IS DEAD OF INJURIES Kinston, Oct. 27.—(AP)—Hugh Rouse, of LaGrange, died in a hos pital here today of .injuries he suf fered in a motorcycle spill last night. Road Projects In Eastern Carolina Allotted by WPA Raleigh, Oct. 27—(AP)—The WPA announced a highway and road im provemeLnt project today, including the following allocations: Wayne county, $27,591; Johnston county, $29,613; Greene county, $28,959. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Action Clears Way For Final Passage Or Neutrality Bill Duke-UNC Game Nearly Sell-Out Durham, Oct. 27.—(AP)—Ap proximately 43,9(10 ii' kefs for the Duke-Carollna football game, to he played at Duke Stadium No vember 18, already have been de posed of, and indications arc that t’'*' 3 , 'Trml 'Grs'c between the arch rivals will attra°t the largest crowd in s«vthern conference foe*hall history. The existing record of 49-000 was established last year when Duke defeated Pittsburgh in a snowstorm here 7 to 0. Germany Is All Set For Big Drive Tanks and Artillery in Attacking Positions for “Jump-Off”; May Wait Passing of Snow, Sleet and Icy Rain. Paris, Oct. 27. —(AP) —The Ger mans have moved tanks and rapid fire artillery into attacking positions on the Siegfried line, French mili tary observers reported today. French patrol reports indicated that the Germans, facing the Maginot fortifications, were in “jump-off” spots all along the northern flank, but an intense cold snap proved an ally of the French, who said they were all set for a German offensive. The cold and flooded regions in some parts of the front caused French observers to doubt that a German drive would be immediate, but they said they expected it as soon as a rift in the weather appeared. Reconnoitering units skirmished in snow, sleet and icy rain along the 100-mile northern flank last night, getting some artillery support as they wallowed in the ice-crusted mud. The sudden rigid control of Ger man communications with Belgium and the Netherlands also led the French to suspect that a big German push was imminent. CLINTON MAN LOW FOR POST OFFICE Washington, Oct. 27. —(AP) —The Public Works Administration an nounced today that Dan Brice, of Clinton, N. C., had submitted a low bid of $42,490 foi construction of a post office at Wallace, N. C. Danes Report Naval Battle In Kattegat Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 27. (AP) —Reports from Feiero Island that inhabitants there saw a naval battle involving planes and warships were received in Copenhagen this afternoon, but the ministry of marine denied there was any such action in the area. The ministry said it had telephon ed coast guard stations in the vicinity and learned nothing had been seen but a lone airplane which passed during the afternoon. Advices from Feiero island had said that inhabitants reported a naval battle had begun off the coast at about 1 p. m. (7 a. m. EST). They said they heard heavy can nonading and w a number of war ships, mostly idden behind clouds of smoke, ana about a dozen war planes. The battle was reported con tinuing an hour later. Feiero island is in the Kattegat, the narrow bottleneck between Den mark and Sweden, linking the North and the Baltic Sdas. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Complete Measure Expected to Pass by Nightfall; Sought by Roosevelt As Objec tive of Special Ses sion of Congress. Washington, Oct. 27.—(AP)— The Senate voted today to repeal the em bargo against sale of arms to Eu rope’s warring nations. The vote was 67 for repeal to 22 against. The action cleared the way for pas scage of the administration neutrality bill, which, in addition to ending the er .cargo, also would set up a limite i “cash and carry” system of commerce with belligerents. The repeal vote, reached on the twenteth day of the Senate’s his tory-n aking neutrality debate, came on a | roposal by Senator Nye, Dem ocrat, North Dakota, to discard the administration measure and substi tute a mil similar to that of the ad ministr. ition’s, except that it would maintain the existing ban on arms sales. Asked by President. Repeal of the embargo was recom mended 1: Y President Roosevelt when he called Congress into special ses sion last month. Although it was but one of his recommendations for re vising the neutrality law, it imme diately became the crux of the en tire foreign policy fight in the Sen ate. All sides agreed that the effect of the repeal would be to give aid to England and France in their fight against Germany, but proponents ar gued the present embargo is unneu tral. Opponents of repeal, on the other hand, argued that action would be unneutral. Driving toward final passage of the neutrality bill by nightfall, an over whelming Senate majority, mean while, turned aside an amendment to ban armed merchant vessels and sub marines of belligerent nations from United States ports. The proposal, by Senator Clark, Democrat, Missouri, lost out 65 to 26. Administration leaders predicted final passage of the measure late in the day. Dies List Is Denounced By Roosevelt Washington, Oct. 27.—(AP) President Roosevelt branded as “sordid procedure” today publica tion by the Dies committee of the names of more than 500 government employees on the “membership and mailing list” of the American League for Peace and Democracy. The committee charged that the league was a “front” for communist activity. Asked to comment on publica tion of the list this week, the Presi dent told a press conference he had not read enough of the details of that rather “sordid procedure” to comment. Trouble Man Is Expelled By Bolivia “3 LaPaz, Bolivia, Oct. 27.—(API- General Bernardino Bilbao Rioja, presidential candidate in the forth coming generai election, was expelled from Bolivia today on charges he at tempted to foment a revolution. A state of siege (modified form of martial law) was decreed this morn ing. A communique issued by Colonel Antenor Ichazo, chief of the army general staff, said that, in view of “plotting”, it had been necessary to clean up the army, and that Gen eral Bilbao Rioja had been removed from the territory of the republic.” Army headquarters said the entire country was calm, and expressed the opinion that the people would re ceive the news of the general’s ex 'pulsion as “an assurance of their guaranteed rights.”
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