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A Slip of the Tongue
Senator Tom Connally (left), of Texas, in Senate debate, said power to
declare war should be retained by the President, “whether he be Roosevelt
or Vandenbcrg." Above, he explains to the Michigan Republican that he
used hi* u*me merely as an illustration, though Vandenberg has been
reported as a leading candidate for 1940.
Atlantic Squadron To
Be Strengthened And Put
On A Permanent Basis
Wi.--: mgton, Oct. 28.—(AP)—Pro
po.-.ii.' to strengthen the navy's At
lanta- squadron and put it on a per
manent basis were shaping up today
ar.nng members of the House naval
committee.
Chairman Vinson, Democrat. Geor
gia. declined to discuss the question
but indicated he would bo ready
with a legislative program for the
navy in the near future.
Other committeemen talked, Aiovv
ever, of various possibilities ranging
ir w minor reinfircements for the
present Atlantic squardron to a “two
ocean" navy.
The present Atlantic squadron
consists chiefly so destroyers, al
though it includes three old battle
Czechs Clash
With Police
Oi Germany
Clash Occurs While
Czechs Are Cele
brating 21st Anniver
sary of Founding of
Their Republic;
Ni imerous Arrests!
Made.
':■ !(•. Oct. 28. CAP) —German
pal ice and Czechs clashed here this
on:'.'.?- while Czechs were cele
-1 lie Lventy-first anniversary
ei il.e l'umding of the Czecho-Slovak
republic.
Ii * • were numerous arrests. One
( t-ii'site war. given that 800 persons
1 taken to German police head
'il • as the result of this in-
C:fl “n’ and others in other parts of
thf city.
"M occurred in mid
noon whan Czech crowds broke
■ a a police cordon roping off
/■ ' ;■'•!* Square before the city
prevent demonstrations be
'' ' die statue of St. Wencleslas,
L'. r ' ,n saint of the Czechs.
•Su argument between German
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Italy Wants
To Build And
Go Forward
Act. 28. -(AP) —Premier
ji nking on the seven
adversary of the Fascist
, / 1 Come, told a holiday crowd
| ''■> ■ ' Fascism asked only the
‘ building and going for
ary of the evermore
- hirt revolution re
pact and strong as ever
! ' Alp to the Indian Ocean,”
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ships an dsome cruisers.
“Our naval policy has been pre
dicated on assurances of the British
navy if trouble developed in Atlan
tic.” said Representative Maas, Re
publican, Minnesota, “but the cur-
Irent situation shows we can no long
! er rely on that plan in an emergency.
Britain has her hands full in the
.North Sea.”
Another committee member, Rep
resentative Bates, Republican, Mas-
I sachusetts, already has asked the
navy department to send him de
tailed estimates of what it would
cost to duplicate the fleet now in the
Pacific as well as to provide the ad
ditional shore facilities necessary to
1 maintain it on the Atlantic.
Garner Boom
Rises With
Enthusiasm
‘•ln Texas down by the Rio Grande
There’s plenty of work for a good
cow hand,
There’s milk and honey and hot
tamales
And the sweetest bunch of O-by
gollies.
The sky is wide and high and blue,
And you say to strangers, How-de
do?
There’s room to breathe or to bet
a stack,
There’s the blue bonnet girls and
there’s Cactus Jack.”
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Oct. 28.—Yes, and
“Cactus Jack” Garner is going, in a
big way, after next year’s Demo
cratic presidential
Eg® x ' ’
gL * :vv :
John Garner again.
! Jack’s friends certainly have been
making the welkin ring for him of
late. The above little gem of poesy
is the initial stanza of a song writ
ten for him by Jack Foy and Rex
Lampman. Garnerites literally are
hollering it all over the capital, and,
I suppose, down in the Lone Star
state; maybe elsewhere. The chorus
goes like this:
“Cactus Jack, he’s a-riding straight;
riding straight for the White
House gate. .
Don’t look away, don’t look away,
you can’t look away from
Texas.”
Jack’s biography is out, too, a
handsome volume by Marquis James.
The song is entitled “Cactus Jack.”
The biography is called “Mr. Garner
of Texas.”
Bound to Run.
A Texan who speaks with a lot of
authority told me:
“Regardless of Franklin D. Roose
velt, regardless of Jim Farley, re
gardless of the war, regardless of
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gNLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
nomination. There
was talk in Wash
ington for awhile
to the effect that
the New Deal,
John L. Lewis and
the war had some
what deflated his
boom. But, be- j
lieve me, if it real- I
ly was deflated at
all, it shows plenty
of signs now of
swelling itself up
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, OCTOBER 28, 1939
flint still at murmansk
Arms Sales
To Europe
FI ® Q
begin boon
Administration Lead
ers Predict Congress
to Clear Way and Go
Home B y Next Week-
En d; Majority in
House Pu t At 30
Votes.
Washington, Oct. 29.—(AP)
Administration leaders predicted
today that Congress would clear
the vvay for arms sales to Europe’s
warring nations and go home by
next week-end.
They forecast prompt House pas
sage of the neutrality revision bill
which the Senate approved by a
vote of 33-30 last night after 21
days of debate.
One member of the House lead
ership said a careful count of noses
indicated that repeal of the arms
embargo—key provision which
many legislators on both sides of
the controversy agreed would bene
fit Great Britain and France—
wouid be approved by a majority
oL at least 30 votes. The House was
expected to take up the bill eariy
next week and send it to a joint
Senate-House conference com
mittee.
Congressional insiders generally
agreed that an administration in
clined conference committee would
make Rift of its work and would
write a compromise measure om
oodying virtually all of the Senate
bill.
Besides carrying out President
Roosevelt’s recommendation that
the arms embargo be eliminated,
the Senate measure would impose
restrictions on American credits,
shipping, and travel to belligerent
countries.
Harris Entry
Cuts Smith,
Taylor Out
Feeling Is That With
Harris In 5 Pat Taylor
and Erskine Smith
Are Likely Out; Har
ris More or Less Dor
mant Since 1933.
Baity Dispaccn Bureau,
In thp S'r llofeL
By HENRY AVERILL
Raleigh, Oct. 28.—With no guber
natorial expression of desire for a
short campaign to deter them, can
didates for North Carolina’s Number
two political post—the lieutenant
governorship—are multiplying with
the rapidity of guinea pigs.
The latest is, of course, Reggie
Harris of Roxboro who makes the
third bona fide and duly jproclaim
ed aspirant, but whose entry into
the field is regarded as likely to de
crease the chances that two other
prospects will get into the ring.
There is a distinct impression in
political circles here that neither
State Senator Pat Taylor of Anson
nor his colleague from the nine
teenth district, Senate President Pro
Tern Erskine Smith will make the
race now that the Person county
cotton manufacturer has tossed his
hat into the ring.
This is no certainty, nor is it be
ing passed along by our corrspondent
as “unimpeachable” information. It’s
just one of those currents which can
easily be felt and which more often
than not really do indicate the true
direction of any given political tide.
If either Taylor or Smith should
enter the chances of Harris will be
decidedly decreased, as his support
is quite likely to come largely from
the same group which might be ex
pected to support the Wadesboro or
the Albermarle senator. That, of
course, is one of the logical reasons
assigned for feeling that with Harris
in, Taylor and Smith are more than
likely out.
Os course, there’s never any telling
what the politically ambitious will
do,/however, and so neither Pat nor
Erk can be casually dismissed as
certain not to start. ,
First reactions to the Harris can
didacy were neither numerous nor
definite in trend. Raleigh takes its
political announcements with more
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Russia Stops "Drive to East”
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Pitler's “drive to the east” has come to a dead end, as this map shows.
Russia holds one-third of Poland, conquered for her by Germany, and
controls the Baltic states with the exception of Memel (1), which Stalin
is urging Hitler to return to Lithuania. Russian troops are massed on
border of Hungary (2), which is reported seeking aid of allies, Italy
and Turkey. Red soldiers also are concentrated along the Dniester River
(3) in threat to Rumania. At (4) Bulgars also threaten Rumania.
Turkey (5) has mobilized after Russian threats.
German Submarine Sunk
By French Armed Vessels
Taylor Is Chief
Os Raleigh Police
Raleigh, Oct. 28. (AP)
Lieut. T. G. Taylor, veteran of
15 years, was appointed chief
of the Raleigh police department
today by Commissioner of Pub
lic Safety Robert C. Powell.
Taylor was a patrolman until
he was appointed lieutenant last
May, by the late chief, A. L.
Bailey. The new chief is 44 years
old and a native of Wilson coun
ty. The appointment is subject
to approval by the Civil Service
Commission.
Drafting Os
Roosevelt Is
Very Likely
. . BY W. B. RAGSDALE.
Washington, Oct. 28.—(AP)—The
White House disapproval of Secre
tary Wallace’s third term proposal
emphasizes the likelihood of a cry of
draft Roosevelt will be ringing thro
ugh the leafless trees before winter
comes.
The frown might be taken as a
clear hint that President Roosevelt
has no present intention of being an
active candidate for third term nom
ination. Yet by no stretch of the
imagination does it bar him from the
running. It puts stress on the inept
timing of the Wallace declaration
even though made by a wholly loyal
member of the Roosevelt official
family. His fight for removal of the
arms embargo was just reaching its
critical stage in the Senate. Another
battle with a sharper division of sen
timent is yet to be fought in the
House. The Republicans had been
urged to forget partisan politics for
the time.
The whole story does not lie in the
arms embargo situation, however.
Some of Mr. Roosevelt’s closest
friends are convinced that he has
not made up his mind whether to
run again. These feel that whether
he does depends upon two things.
First perhaps it is the strength that
underlies any outside third term de
mand as convention time approaches.
Second, is the situation inside the
party next spring.
lO&aJJwA
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Sunday.
Much cooler tonight with freez
ing in the mountains and scat
tered frost in the interior. Coldpr
in east portion Sunday.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
Generally fair most of week
except for showers in southern
Florida; warmer at beginning
and colder about middle of week.
Bodies of Five Ger
man Sailors and Ger
man officer Found on
Coast, Report Says;
France Executes Two
For Espionage.
Paris, Oct. 28.—(AP) —Proof of
the sinking of a German submarine
last Thursday was said by French
military sources to have been es
tablished today coincident with
semi-official announcements that
French armed vessels and seaplanes
had been particularly active.
“Several direct attacks had been
carried out and it appears one of
these at least has been successful”,
the statement said.
Bodies of five German sailors and
a German officer were reported
found off the coast establishing
proof, the French said, of destruc
tion of the submarine which “ap
parently had been literally torn
apart by the explosion of a depth
bomb.”
Sharing attention with the an
nouncement of this naval success
were two executions for espionage
—the first reported in France since
the start of the war—by a military
firing squad carrying out the sen
tence of death on Dr. Karl Ptoos, 60-
year old Alsatian autonomist leader
and a soldier companion named
Lobstein, who were convicted of
treason and espionage in behalf of
Germany.
Six other defendants convicted by
the same court martial were sen
tenced to serve prison terms rang
ing from three years to life.
The French general staff, mean
while, continued to watch ostenta
tious German military preparations
in the Saarland which they believed
might be designed to distract atten
tion from a surprise move else
where along the western front.
Oil Truck
Wrecks, Burns
Two To Death
Asheboro, Oct. 28.—(AP) —Two
men werfe burned to death and a
roadside dwelling was consumed by
flames when a 3,500 gallon oil
transport wrecked and caught fire
in the Balfour community three
miles north of here today.
One of the victims was identified
by a chauffeur’s license as Jacob
Bay Robbins, 37, of near Ashe
boro. Investigating officers be
lieved he was driving the truck.
The body of the other was bo
badly burned identification was
impossible.
The Rev. R. E. Heath and Mrs.
Heath escaped unharmed from the
flames when the blazing cargo en
veloped the Baptist parsonage in
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Nazi Plane
Shot Down
In Scotland
British Fighters Bring
Down Ship During
Raid on Firth of
Forth; Hundreds of
Scots W atch Aerial
Drama Near Edin
burgh.
London, Oct. 28.—(AP) —Two
German airmen were killed, one
wounded, end a Nazi pilot captured
today ri an aerial drama of the
sky witnessed by hundreds of Scots
near Edinburg when British fighter
planes engaged and fought down a
German war plane.
The air ministry announced that
“a German aircraft, which was at
j tending reconnaisances, was forced
i down by our fighters this morning
east of Dalkeith (about 6 1-2 miles
outheast of Edin'oorough).”
The invader apparently was
headed for the strategic Firth of
Forth, objective of previous raids.
Immediately after ihe Nazi plane
was : ighted British planes went
aloft with a rare display of aero
batics as the German pilottried des
perately to shake off the attackers.
“Finally, the German plane came
down on a hillside and struck a
stone wall and even then the pilot
would not give up”, one witness
said, “he tried to get his machine
into the air again and ran along
the rough ground for about a half
mile before he had to stop.”
An air raid alarm in the Firth of
Forth area of Scotland lasted half
an hour.
France Well
Pleased With
Senate Vote
(By The Associated Press.)
France welcomed with undis
guised joy today tire United States’
Senate’s vote to repeal the arms
embargo while Britain indicated it
was “not dissatisfied and Germany
—where the news was withheld
from the public—maintained sil
ence.
Paris was informed by glaring
headlines in the morning newspa
pers.
Stirred by the possibility of ob
taining more American-made war
pianes—which apparently have
proved their defensibility on the
western front—the French con
sciously considered the Senate vote
prophetic of an administration vic
tory :n the House.
In Britain, the Senate vote
ceused some surprise in official
quarters which apparently had ex
pected a stiffer fight. They sug
gested that any comment before the
issue had been decided in the
House would be premature.
The British press was more out
spoken, seeing reason for encour
agement.
Industries Os
Britain Seek
Market Here
London, Oct. 28. —(AP) —Great
Britain was pictured authoritatively
today as driving her war regi
mented industry to increase sales
to the United States and other
American countries for dollars with
which to buy war materials.
The nation also is trying to keep
as much money as possible at home
through producing domestically
what formerly was bought abroad,
particularly food, and through
strict control of the export of for
eign exchange necessary to buy
American goods.
By buying less and selling ?nore
abroad, Officials hope for speedy
recovery of Britain’s business life
from the first shock of the war.
In the first month of the war ex
ports decreased 42 % through the
sudden dislocation of trade.
But now British manufacturers
plan with government help to cap
ture the markets of Germany
whose overseas efforts before the
war was toward increased trade
with South America.
They. see one big asset in the
shipping situation. The German
merchant marine virtually has
been swept from the seas. Britain’s
huge merchant navy, however, has
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Berlin Says
Boat There
For Repairs
Berlin Officially Says
Boat in Russian Port
for .Repairs; One Re
port Has U. S. Ship
Enroute to Germany.
Washington, Oct. 28.—(AP) —The
State Department was advised of
ficially from Berlin today that the
seized American steamship City of
Flint was still at Murmansk.
Alexander C. Kirk, American
charge d’affaires at Berlin, reported
he was told at the German foreign
office late this afternoon that the
crew was still aboard.
Kirk said he was told also that if
after completion of repairs the ship
were taken to another port, the
American crew presumably would be
kept on board to operate the vessel.
The American consul at Hamburg
reported to Kirk the State Depart
ment was advised that the German
prize commissioner there had receiv
ed no news of the vessel.
Meanwhile, Ambassador Laurence
A. Steinhardt at Moscow reported
that he again was unable to speak on
the telephone with the captain of
the City of Flint at midnight last
night (4 p. m. EST Friday), as he
had hoped to do.
Steinhardt advised the State De
partment that he had again been
given to understand that the crew
was well and that no illness had de
veloped.
BERLIN HEARS CITY OF FLINT
IS ENROUTE TO GERMANY
Berlin, Oct. 28. (AP) —News
reached Berlin this morning that all
was well aboard the United Statos
ov/ned freighter City of Flint as she
wormed her way through the British
blockaded North Sea toward a Ger
man port.
The freighter was being convoyed
by German warships presumably
both submarine and surface craft.
Aboard her it was believed were the
American crew of 41 and the prize
crew put in command last week when
the German pocket battleship
Deutschland captured her.
11 she gets through to a German
harbor, a prize court will pass on the
question of whether she was a con
traband carrier and decide as to the
disposition of ship and cargo.
Germany recognized tiie danger in
volved in the precarious job of slip
ping past British war craft. Bad
weather and low visibility, however,
were on their side.
The City of Flint sailed under
Soviet orders Thursday night to
leave the Arctic port of Murmansk,
where the prize crew had taken her
because she was—as the Germans
put it—“unseaworthy”.
The German high cr mini and, mean
while acknowledged that the loss of
“three German submarines must be
counted on in view of their long ab
sence.”
The high command also reported
that since the beginning of the war
at least 115 ships with an aggregate
tonnage of 475,321 had been sent to
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Bulgarians
Make Claims
On Roumania
Budapest, Oct. 28.—(AP) —Premier
Constantine Argretoianu, of Rou
mania, and Premier Dragisha Cvot
kovich, of Yugoslavia, conferred for
four hours today discussing, diplo
mats said, Bulgarian territorial
claims on Roumania, which they
feared might plunge the Balkans in
to war.
Fears that Soviet Russian backing
for Bulgarian claims on Roumania
might provide a spark that would
lead southeastern Europe to war
brought intense diplomatic activity.
Diplomats said Yugoslavia agreed
to warn Bulgaria that flirtation with
Russia may bring disastrous conse
quences to the whole Balkan area.
The two premiers met in the vil
lage of Vrsac on the Yugoslavia-
Roumania border. At Sophia, it was
reported the Italian minister was
closeted for several hours with Bul
garian Premier George Jiosseizanoff
ind expressed the Fascist govern
ment’s advice against allowing Bul
garia to come under excessive Soviet
influence.
The seriousness with which the
Russian-Bulgarian situation was re
garded was reflected in King Carroll,
jf Roumania, calling his ministers to
Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, and Yugo
slavia for urgent talks.
Immediately after their arrival the
king and his foreign ministers went
nto conference witli .the ministers.