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f^JDEKSON’S POPULATION 13,873 - vEN ty-sixth YEAR Icy Camouflage for Barb* of War AfejSfe i ‘ \ From News of the Day Winter comes early to the lofty French Alps. The narrow mountain passes are guarded by heavy tangles ©i barbed wire, but even at this early Winter date, the barricades are coated in a sheath of ice. French poilus are seen on patrol. This picture was passed by French censor. Grim Battle Looms In House « Over Passage Os Neutrality Fish Charges “Gag Rule” In House Neutral Fight Washington, Oct. 30. —(AP) —Re- presentative Fish, Republican, of New York, declared in the rules com mittee that procedure under which the Democratic leadership proposes to bring up neutrality legislation in the House was a “gag”, “the most vicious we have had in this Con gress.” Fish's charge was disputed by Chairman Sabath, Democrat, Illinois, of the rules committee, who said he was "getting fed up on this political buncombe.” Fish countered that unless the pro- 102 Vessels j Sunk Since War Started List Swollen by Four New Casualties, Three of Them Brit ish; England Alone Has Lost 56 Ships at Hands of Germans. (By The Associated Press.) Sinking of four more ships, three i of them British, today sent to the known loss to all nations to 102 ves sels with a gross tonnage of more than 408,110. Loss of five seamen aboard the 7,976-ton Cunrad White Star Line freighter Malabar from which 70 were rescued, sent the death toll to at least 1,850. England’s known losses rose to 56 ships, with the Malabar sinking and destruction of the fishing trawlers El. Nidan and Lynx 11. (Germany claimed last Saturday L have destroyed at least 115 mer ehant ships.) 7he crew of ten on the 250-ton hshing trawler Lynx II was rescued, the crew of 15 on the trawler S- Nidan, 565 tons, both destroyed in the North Sea. An unidentified Norwegian steam san f k in the North Sea yesterday ‘‘ ter 30 of her crew were saved. It }; r(S Ht'otral Norway’s ninth loss in >e current war and the 30th suf eied by neutral countries. Open Tobacco Farm Building On W ednesday Daily Dispute!* Bureau, p, . In the Sir Walter Hotel _ ; jgh, Oct. 30.—Four federally v.' • Uc ted buildings costing SBO,OOO at T °.“ °Pened for public inspection 1 Wpj or) 'j CCO Farm at Oxford Heyday, November 1, Commis (Continued on Page Three) Mntitersmt tlatht Dispatch leased wire service op I HE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ■ I cedure was liberalized, he thought : the House itself would “beat the rule” and open up the Senate-ap -11 proved neutrality measure to House ; i amendments. 1 1 The House leadership has asked j the committee for a rule which would ■ provide that the bill, which sub j stitutes a cash and carry plan, for r j the present arms embargo, he sent , to a joint Senate-House committee : to composed differences between the 11 two chambers. The House approved | a neutrality bill in June which pro ■ I vided for only a limited embargo. Unemployed Fund Now $16,500,000 Raleigh, Oct. 30.—Receipts for the North Carolina Unemploy me n t Compensation Fund through October 27 reached 528,- 744,348.82, including 828.163,- 202.98 in contributions from lia ble employers and 8581,145.84 in interest on the balance in the U. S. Treasury. The benefit pay ments were 812,217,250.61, leav ing a balance of 816,527,098.21 in the fund. Bridges Is Said To Be Communist Washington, Oct. 30.—(AP) — Harry Bridges, CIO west coast maritime leader, was described as a communist before the Dies com mittee today by a man who said he himself once belonged to the Com munist party. William McCuiston, 38-year-old seaman of Frederick, Md., made the .statement as he described the part the party played in a rally for seamen at Madison Square Gar den, N. Y., during a strike in De cember, 1936. After McCuiston related that communists financed the rally and arranged "or Bridges to comes from the west coast to become the “key speaker”, Rhea Whitley, counsel for the committee in its investiga tion of un-Americanism, asked the witness how he knew Bridges was a communist. “I know it because leading mem bers (of the communist party) said he was a communist”, the witness replied. He added that ?ince party leaders could “guarantee” his ap pearance at the rally it’ demon strated the party’s “control” over Bridges. A decision is now pending in Labor Department proceedings on whether to deport Bridges as an undesirable alien. (jd&aihsJi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy tonight, preceded by rain in east and central portions this afternoon; Tuesday general i ly fair and copier. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA HENDERSON, N. C„ MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 30, 1939 Senate Bill • Offered by Administra tion Leaders On “Take It Or Leave It” Basis; Narrow Favor able Margin Is Looked For. Washington, Oct. 30. —(AP) —Of- fering the Senate neutrality bill to the House on a “take it or leave it” basis, administration leaders took sharp issue today with demands of arms embargo advocates for a chance to revise the legislation. This question of parliamentary procedure, important to both sides for tactical reasons, was laid before the House Rules Committee. It was a skirmish heralding tomorrow’s de bate in the House. The administration forces, confident of duplicating their Senate victory for embargo repeal and a “cash and carry” trade pro gram, wanted to prevent amend ments being offered from the floor. They insisted the House vote on the original Senate bill. But Representative Fish, Repub lican, New York, leader of the anti repeal bloc, contended the House had a right to alter the measure as it saw fit. He served notice that he not only would fight in the rules committee for that privilege, but also would seek at least three days of House de bate. Repeal chieftains tentatively suggested two days. Although * administration lieuten ants claimed victory by at least 30 votes, Fish disputed this statement and estimated the margin for either side £t less than ten votes. Repre sentative Boland, Democrat, Pennsyl vania, the Democratic whip, was tak ing a poll to ascertain the views of all party members. Judge Sea well Celebrating 75th Birthday Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the S«r Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 30. —His name seldom hits the headlines and on no occasion has he ever sought the glare of pub licity, but quietly and without os tentation one of North Carolina’s outstanding citizens will ha*e his seventy-fifth birthday party today. To look at him, nobody would be lieve it; to talk to him, his mental alertness would enter a point-blank denial; but the records show that Justice Aaron Ashley Flowers Sea well, of the North Carolina Supreme Court, made his first plea (probably for attention and a bit of milk) near Jonesboro in Moore county on Oc tober 30, 1864, while Tar Heel moth •ers were scaring their babes with threats that Sherman would get them. Dressed on the subject, he will ad mit it. “Yes, it’s so”, he confessed, “every year when I walk down street and see ghosts, goblins, pumpkins and other Hallowe’en decorations in the five and ten cent stores I know an other one has come around, and this time it’s the seventy-fifth.” Even so, it’s hard to believe that he is the father of four sons and two daughters, all but one of whom has passed the age of attending the University of North Carolina; and not only that, but he is almost uni versally known as the father of Lee (Continued on Page Three.; Germans Are Quiet About Flint’s Trip U. S. Freighter Is Quarry in Game of Hide and Seek in North Atlantic Along Coast of Norway; German Crew Be lieved in Command. Berlin, Oct. 30. (AP) —The American freighter City of Flint apparently was the quarry today in a grirn game of hide and seek somewhere in the North Atlantic, according to the best available in formation here, but German of ficialdom was quiet. Unofficial sources said the United Siates government-owned vessel still was in the hands of a German prize crew attempting to dodge the British blockade on a run from Murmansk, Russia, to a German port. But officials said that until the City of Flint docks, “there, will be no information about this ship.” The -American crew, which was taken- to the Soviet Arctic port with the City of Flint after its cap ture in the Atlantic, was said prob ably to be still aboard, but as “passengers” without any respon sibility for navigating her. In London, naval experts said the British navy would be handi capped by nature in attempting to intercept the City of Flint. In the authorized British view, the Ger man prize crew could readily sail her down the Coast of Norway to Germany, thus taking advantage of territorial waters to prevent the British from stepping in. Pendergast Again Indicted With Pal In Missouri Probe Kansas City, Oct. 30. (AP) —Tom Pendergast, one time boss of the Kansas City Demo cratic machine, and R. W. Malley, former State insurance superintendent, were named in indictments returned today by a grand jury investigating set tlement of the Missouri fire in surance rate case. The county jury indicted Pendergast for bribery in con nection with settlement of the $9,000,000 fire insurance rate case. O’Malley was charged with accepting a bribe in con nection with the compromise. Both are now in Leavenworth penitentiary serving sentences for federal income tax evasions. Flint Leaves Norway Port, Swedes Hear Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 30. (AP) —Reports from Norway today said the United States freighter City of Flint, released from a Sov iet port to her German captors, hud departed from Tromsoe, Norway, late this afternoon. These reports were the first clue of the where abouts of the American vessel. The City of Flint was said to have sailed at 4 p. m. (10 a. m. EST) from Tromsoe, the northern Norwegian port, where the cap tured ship halted briefly on its northward journey to Russia more than a week ago. In Norfolk, Va., Mrs. Mary Rob erson, of Norfolk, said she had re ceived a message reading, “All well, don’t worry”, from her husband J. V. Roberson, third assistant en gineer aboard the City of Flint. The message was relayed through the Department of State from Trom sce, Norway, where it was sent October 21. $50,000,000 Os Claims Against Germany Okayed Washington, Oct. 30.—(AP) —The German-American Mixed Claims Commission today awarded ap proximately $50,000,000 of claims against Germany arising from the Black Tom and Kingsland, N. J., sabotage cases of 1916 and 1917. The commission last June 15 found Imperial Germany respon sible for the munitions disasters in the New York port area prior to United States entry into the World War. Today’s action made the def inite award to the claimants. Damages of $21,157,227, plus five percent interest estimated to ap proximate .$50,000,000 in all, was or Weather Clears As Both Sides Resume Patrol Activity Along Western Front For Big Drive Answers Roosevelt Rebuke I < H y iL, 'iiiiiMii mWWmiW & ifii g/ > • In vigorous oratorical pose, Representative Martin Dies, of Texas, chair man of the committee investigating un-American activities, addresses the New York City Federation of Women’s Clubs. Answering criticism by various Congressmen and by the President as to his tactics in reveal ing names of more than 500 Federal officials on mailing list of Com munist-sponsored organizations, Dies said, “The Administration is scared. I have only scratched the surface.” No Prospect For Peace, London Says Documents Made Public on Savagery of German Concen tration Camps; At titude of Germans Called Non-Concilia tory. London, Oct. 30.—(AP) —The Brit ish government indicated tonight that there was not the “slightest prospect of reaching any settlement” with Nazi Germany in a statement dealing with German concentration camps. An introduction to the statement containing a collection of affidavits which Britain said showed Nazi “savagery” in “the treatment of Ger man nationals in Germany 1938- 1939”, declared: “These documents were not writ ten for publication, and, indeed, as long as there was the slightest pros pect of reaching any settlement with the German government it would have been wrong to do anything to embitter relations between the two (Continued on Page Three.) FINNS TO REFUSE RUSSIAN DEMANDS Helsinki, Finland, Oct. 30. —AP) — Authoritative political quarters today intimated that the Finnish government, in a final answer to Russian de mands. had taken the position that Rus-ia needed no con cessions on Finnish islands in the Baltic. 4 The Finnish delegates to the Moscow negotiations planned to leave tonight for continuing the negotiations at the Kremlin. dered paid to the claimants. Ger many has a special deposit account at the United States Treasury of be tween $23,000,000 and $26,000,000 to meet the award. The treasury also holds about $500,000,000 “pa per value” in German republic bonds. * Germany, however, has denied the jurisdiction of the commission. Dr. Victor Huecking, the German commissioner, walked out on _ the deliberations prior to the decision last Tune, and the German govern ment has protested against making the award. The German side of the council table was vacant today. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. German Airplanes Meet British Navy London, Oct. 30. (AP) —The Admiralty tonight announced that British destroyers and German planes had met in battle today off the Dogger hank in the North Sea. An Admiralty communique said: “This morning, off the Dogger bank, a flotilla of our destroyers came into action with two Ger man bombers. There were no casualties in or damage to our destroysers, and it is not known whether the enemy suffered dam age.” FDR Hunting ‘Slicker’ Man In Navy Post By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 30.—Why Presi dent Roosevelt has been so slow about naming a successor to the late Claude A. Swan- son of the navy is by no means clear. During the months following Swan son’s death Char les Edison has been acting secre tary. For that mat ter, he was, in ef fect, head of the department thro ughout the period of his superior’s long last illness. It's the consensus Charles Edison that he’s handled the job very euiciently. When Swan son died the general assumption was that Edison would be appointed to fill the vacancy. But he hasn’t been. He’s remained simply “acting.” Today it’s reported that the White House will make a selection “after (Continued on Page Five) To Probe ‘Fixing’ Os Harry Thomas’ Six Boxing Bouts Springfield, 111., Oct. 30—(AP) —Governor Henry Horner said today he would order the Illi nois Athletic Commission to in vestigate thoroughly charges by Harry Thomas, former heavy weight fighter, in a published story, that he participated in “fixed fights” with Max Schmel ing and Tony Galento. The story was published by the Chicago Tribune, which said it had affidavits by Thomas, which charged that thje results of his match with Schmelling in New York December 13, 1937, and with Galento November 13, 1938, were pre-arranged. Schmel ling won by a technical knock out in the eighth round, and Galento won by a technical knock-out in the third. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY French Say Enemy Raids Driven Back Heavy German Troop Concentrations Main tained All Along Front; France Warned Not to Rely Too Much On Help From America. Paris, Oct. 30. —(AP) —Both Ger man and French commands were reported to have sent out scouting patrols today as storms over the western front lifted after more than a week of winds, rain and snow, which paralyzed military operations. Skies cleared during the night and a dry cold set in at the start of the ninth week of war, which some military experts believe may prove to be a turning point. Skies cleared during the night and a dry cold set in at the start of the ninth week of war, which some military experts believe may prove to be a turning point. The French morning communi que said several German raids had been repulsed. A German unit de tected throwing up earthworks east of the industrial city of Saarbrueek en was reported dispersed by French mortars. Military dispatches said the Ger mans were maintaining heavy troop concentrations along the front. Mili tary men said several days of dry weather would still be necessary, however, to harden the soaked ground and permit large scale oper ations. Premier Daladier conferred with Air Minister Guy Le Chambre on the state of Allied defenses against a possible German aerial offensive. A French deputy warned France against depending too heavily on (Continued on Page Three) War Planes Drive Enemy From, England London, Oct. 30.—(AP) —British fighter planes went up to investigate the presence of unidentified aircraft off the Essex coast today, and a German plane also was seen over the northeast coast, the air minis try announced. Air raid signals were sounded in j London by mistake. The ministry j issued two communiques, the first saying: ' “An air raid warning which was given in the cast Kent area this morning was due to the presence of unidentified aircraft off the Essex coast proceeding south. British fighter aircraft went up to investi gate. As announced, the all-clear signal was sounded ten minutes | later.” The second communique said: “An enemy aircraft was observed off the northeast coast of England (Continued on Page Three.) German Bund And Kuhn Are Investigated New York, Oct. 30.—(AP) —The German-American Bund and its leader, Fritz Kuhn, are being in vestigated by Federal authorities, United States Attorney John Ca hill said today. Cahill declined to divulge the na ture, but said “very serious” allega tions had been made against the organization. James Wheeler-Hill, Bund sec retary, has been before the Federal grand jury several times, it was learned. Kuhn, under indictment in New York county under charges of grand larceny and forgery, will go on trial November 9. His attorney moved today to have all bund rec ords seized by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey’s office in a raid last May returned to him. Kuhn, who is charged with theft of $14,000 of bund funds and for gery of bund records, contended the seizure violated his rights under the 1 State Constitution.
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