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01 K SILVER vN v; vi: ksau v 1914-1939 |V. . ■ '.-SIXTH YEAR PANAMA REGISTRY OF 11. S. SHIPS HELD UP New Peace Proposal By Belgium And Netherlands Beheads His Bride of Week ~ Boc*ausL- he -had the urge to kill someone for two years,” stab-vd his 18-year-old brjde of a week, with whom he is shown, then draggi ■; her still alive into the bathroom of their Springfield, Mass., home sad dismembered her, according to Brattleboro, Vt., police, to whom he surrendered. (Central Press) Heated Congress Races In Half Os This State Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the S'r Waiter Hotel. By HENRY AVEKILL. gh. Nov. 7.—With the 1940 £■. i elections just a year away figuring on the Tuesday nf first Monday and not on the ;te date), and the primaries • tn seven months in the fu • e. it is now possible to forecast absolute certainty that there c real contests in the Demo primaries for at least six of ? ' Carolina’s seats in the Fed t House of Representatives. i the other hand, there are ■ the eleven in which there ; pears no likelihood of any t _ more than a pro forma or • J opponent to the incumbent. T: di tricts in which the present c ; • n.en apparently cun sleep nights, without nightmares of • ■ g m.sea ted, are the first, where L r.'i'.oy Warren is as safe as gov • :it bonds; second, where so Long Drought Causing Some Real Concern L CHARLES P. STEWART < cntral Press Columnist Lngton, Nov. 7. —The United '■ ‘‘ doesn’t realize how bad a ■'.T : t's had in recent months, Senator John H. Bankhead informs us. Why don’t we realize it? Why, says the Alabama solon, we don’t realize it be cause our news pa pe r s haven’t printed a n ything all summer except tuff about the Eu ropean sit uation K/ JJH Senator and, during the Bankhead autumn, about the ; *• neutrality debate, en rding domestic condi ' ' 11m re department agrees ■ . i Bankhead, o . depart. ; .ent’s story is that the (Continued on Page Four) British and Polish h arships Repulse Herman Airplanes i! ' \ov. 7.—(A?)—The said tonight light Bri- P . a‘tied by Polish de , ' '‘ had fought off an at v German airplanes in the . “ without suffering n, r^. ? - A communique stateld: - m morning, in the southern )! the North Sea, certain of iv ;Aht forces, including two v ■ At uyers, were in action 'mi rnan aircraft. No dam -1 done to any ship. Enemy 1 " !, s are not known.” Mtnuttßmx Hath* Duuut tth LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP 1 lllj ASSOCIATED cress. for there have been no reports of a rival to Judge John Kerr; the fifth, where smiling Lon Folger j looks as good as “in” again, and ! that without trouble; and the ninth, I where aged“ Farmer Bob” Dough i ton is a cinch to win as long as he i wants to. In some other districts there is i no announced opposition to the in ! cumbents as yet; but there are rumblings which indicate that all isn't going to be beer and skittles for the :it ting members. In the third, for instance, there is much talk of State Senator John D. Larkins, Jr., as an opponent for Congressman “flap” Barden, and it would be no surprise whatever if Jones county’s Kentucky colonel i should decide to make the race. Larkins is almost uniformly re garded as an up-and-coming poii (Continued on Page Five) Pensions And Betting Are Voting Issues (By The Associated Press.) Scattered state and city elections offered no clearcut test on national issues today, but referenda on ques tions ranging from old age pensions to pari-mutuel betting robbed the “off-year” balloting of its usual lethargy. Interest centered largely on old age pension proposals in California and Ohio. The California plan would give up to S3O every Thursday to unemployed persons over 50 under a law similar to one rejected there last (Continued on Page Three) GERMAN AIRPLANES AT THE SHETLANDS London, Nov. 7. (APt German planes, a repert passed for publication said today, flew high over the Shetland is lands, north of Scotland, to day and disappeared in the haze as J?"i(ish anti-aircraft guns opened fire. Negro Confesses Killing White Man At Clinton Oct. 29 Raleigh, Nov. —(AP) —Director Fred C. Handy, of the State Bureau of Investigation, said today that Zedekiah Smith, 29-year-old Samp son county Negro, had confessed that he killed' William Daniels, 62-year old white man, Sunday, October 29, near Clinton. Handy auoted the Negro as say ing he hit Daniels over the head with a brick and robbed him of sl6. Two State bureau agents and the sheriff of Sampson county .secured the confession, Handy The : Negro is being held in the Clinton jail, awaiting trial in the rebiuary i term of superior court. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA* HENDERSON, N. C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 7, 1939 Germany And Allies Asked To Consider Good Offices Ex tended by King Leo pold And Queen Wil helmina; Hope For Acceptance of Offer, Announced After Meeting. The liar,i?e, Nov. 7. (API Leopold, king of the Belgians, and Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, engaged today in apparently urgent talks, aimed, observers believed, at keeping their countries out of war, and protecting their vital interests. There were suggestions that the two lowland states lying between Europe’s great warring powers, were seeking to reconcile divergent foreign policies and present a joint neutrality front. King Leopold arrived laie last evening after a burned motor trip from Brussels and proceeded at once to the Noordeinde palace, where he conferred with Queen Wilhelmina. King Leopold followed up last night’s conference with an other hour and a half meeting with Queen Wilhelmina today. There was no official announce ment on the nature of the talks, but informed quarters said King Leopold was concerned over the (Continued on Page Three) Britain Seeking $1 Billion Credit To Carry on War London, Nov. 7. (AP) —Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer, introduced a resolu tion in the House of Commons today to empower the Treasury to borrow up to 250 million pounds (about one billion dol lars) for financing the war. The chancellor described the resolution as “similar to those given by the war loans act passed annually during the last war”. He said discussion of terms *for future loans would be against public interest, and that “for the purpose of large war borrowing, general author ity, such as the present resolu tion confers, is desirable.” R. H. Cross, minister of eco nomic warfare, told the House Britain had seized 420,500 tons of merchandise as contraband in the first two months of war. Figures for the amount of merchandise detained for in quiry were not available, he said. FDR Rather Facetious As He Ballots Hyde Park, N. Y., Nov. 7.—(AP) With a facetidous admonition to the election board to “be sure not to vote the gravestones”, “Farmer” Franklin D. Roosevelt cast his bal lot today at the white frame town hall of this Hudson Valley village. The President voted for county and local officials and on the ques tion of legalizing pari-mutuel bet ting on horse races in New York State. He drove up in an open White House car with his mother, his wife and his personal secretary. He pass ed beside Emma W. Crapser, the election clerk. “What is your name?” she in quired, although she must have had a good idea. “Franklin D. Roosevelt.” “Occupation?” “Farmer,” the President said. The President then warned against voting the gravestones. The election board roared. FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, showers in west and north central portions to night and in northeast portion Wednesday. As President Signed Neutrality Bill Central Press Phonephoto President Roosevelt signs the new cash-and-carry neutrality bill, lifting the arms embargo. U. S. ships are barred from combat waters and Americans are barred from belligerents’ ships. Present at the his toric ceremony are (left to right) A. A. Berle, of the state department; Sen. Key Pittman, Rep. Sol Bloom, Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Vice President John Nance Garner, Sen. Charles L. McNary and Sen. AlLer. Barkley. Germans, t rench Lay Claims ToMany Planes B ro ugh tDown French Claim to Be Holding Fast in Im portant Forhach Sa lient And to Have Re pulsed German Land Movement. Berlin, Nov. 7. — (AP) —The Ger man high command reported today that three Allied war planes were shot down in dog fights yesterday in southwestern Germany. (The com munique made no mention of a Ger man-French aerial battle as report ed from Paris, in which nine of 27 German attackers were said to have been shot down.) Two French planes, the high com mand said, were shot down at Saar lautern, four miles within Germany on the northern flank of the west ern front, and a British plane at Mainz, about 60 miles within south western Germany. (The British an nounced last night that one Royal Air Force plane had not returned from a reconnsissance flight.) Otherwise, the communique said, there was no noteworthy fighting ac tion, except minor scouting by troops and weak artillery fire on both sides. Because of the war, a traditional Nazi holiday—the November 9 an niversary of the 1923 Munich beer cellar putsch—has been cancelled. FRENCH HOLDING FAST ON WESTERN LINE, PARIS SAYS Paris, Nov. 7. — (AP) —Military sources reported today that French troops on the western front were suli holding fast in the important For bach salient, desnite intermittent German artillery fire. All Nazi attempts to penetrate the deserted city to remove the threat o? French guns dominating the Ger man industrial center of Saar (Continued on Page Three.) Reynolds Tobacco Answers Complaint Under Patman Act Washington, Nov. 7. —(AP) —The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, of Winston-Salem, N. C., one of the eight major tobacco manufacturing companies cited for violation of the Robinson-Patman act, has filed an answer to the charges in prepara tion for a hearing on Friday. Replying to the charge that it discriminated in prices between pur chasers of its products of like grade and quality, the company said its salesmen do not make sales to re tail dealers generally, and that “it does not sell its products to retail dealers.” The company said its salesmen called on retail dealers solely to seek “to induce such retailers to place orders for respondents' products with jobbers.” _ __ Says Britain Struggling Fer New World Order London, Nov. 7.—(AP) Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax today declared that Britain was fighting “for a new world” in which nations would be im mune from “insane armed rivalry”. In a broadcast on British war aims, Lord Halifax asserted: “When the challenge in the sphere of international relations is sharpened, as today in Ger many. by the denial to men and women of elementary human right®, that challenge is at once extended to something instinc- Aircraft Carrier Plane Lost In Sea Honolulu, T. H., Nov. 7.—(AP) —A naval observation plane burst ihto flames in diving practice and crashed into the sea off Barber’s Point today. The observer was missing, but his companion was saved. The plan° was from the aircraft carrier Enterprise. The pilot, picked up by a naval boat after he had managed to stay afloat 40 minutes, was Lieutenant Junior Grade W. R. Wallace. He suffered only slight turns about the face and fore arms. The observer was identified as Chief Aviationist’s Mate W. T. Rhodes, of San Diego, Cal. Surplus Os Cotton Not Much Lower Washington, Nova 7. —(AP) —The Bureau of Agricultural Economics predicted today that, despite recent sharp increases in exports, surplus stocks of American cotton next Au gust 1 would be little different from the record surplus’of 14,100,000 bales on the same date this year. In its annual outlook report for the coming year, the bureau said the European war was expected to re sult in a reduced consumption ot cottcn in the belligerent nations, which normally are among this coun try’s bast cotton customers. Emphasizing that reasonably ac (Continued on Page Three) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. live and profound in the uni versal conscience of mankind. “We are, therefore, fighting to maintain the rule of law and the quality of mercy in dealings between man and men and in the great society of civilized states.” The foreign secretary spoke of the war against Germany as against “the substitution of brute force for law”, and “aimed at repairing the dam age successfully wrought by Germany upon her weaker neighbors.” Soviets Show Might" In Big Celebration Moscow, Nov. 7.—(AP) —Soviet I Russia capped her celebration of the | twenty-second anniversay of the ! communist revolution with a dis j play of military might today as ! War Commissar Klementi Voroshi ]cff warned that, though qeutral, ! the nation “must oe prepared”. I Voroshiloff spoke briefly in Red (Continued on Page Three.; May Have Clue In Disappearance Os New York Justice New York, Nov. 7.—(AP)—Emil K. Ellis, attorney for the widow of the long-missing Supreme Court Jus tice Joseph Force Crater, said today a girl be bebeved was June Brice, a former Broadway show girl, was a patient at the Pilgrim State hospital at Brentwood, L. I. “If it is Miss Brice,” Ellis added, 1 “I believe she can tell us what hap pened to Justice Crater. The New York Post said yesterday that Mrs. Stella Crater Kunz, widow of Justice Crater, would seek to link ' the disappearance of June price with the vanishing of her husband Oc tober 6, 1930. Mrs. Kunz is seeking in Supreme Court to collect $60,000 double in demnity on the four insurance po licies held by the justice. Ellis has declined ter explain just - how the show girl figures in the case. 1 He made it clear he did not believe i Miss Brice had any connection with \ Crater’s actual disappearance. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Final Okay Withheld In Washington Permission First Granted U. S. Lines Deferred Ai Later Meeting of Maritime Commission; Cannot Carry Any Ameri cans in War Zone. Washington, Nov. 7.—(AP) — I The Maritime Commission withheld final approval today of a request to place nine American merchant ships un der Panamanian registry so that they could escape the new neutrality law and continue voyages to Europe. After commission sources had said yesterday afternoon that the Unit ed States Lines' application for the transfer was granted, the commis sion held an evening meeting and announced at midnight that it was HULL OPPOSES Washington, Nov. 7. (AT) Secretary Hull expressed today his opposition to the transfer to Panamanian registry of United States Lines ships, as impairing the integrity of the neutrality act. Hull said he had given his opinion to the Maritime Com mission. He did not indicate what the commission’s reaction was. . United States Lines applied for permission to transfer to Panamanian registry nine ships which had been in trans-Atlan tic service. After one member of the commission had said yes terday that the transfer had been approved, the full com mission issued, after a late night session, a statement say ing it was deferring final action pending an investigation of all the facts. At his press conference, Hull recalled that yesterday he had told the Maritime Commission there was no question of for eign policy involved in the transfer, but that his opinion was given in the absence of vir tually any of the facts. The secretary of state added that as some of the facts per taining to the application of the United States Lines for transfer of registry iiad since come to him, he did not feel favorably impressed with them. deferring action. The ships consisted of all but tv/o of those used in trans- Atlantic service by the United States Lines. If the application is used, they (Continued on Page Three) Germans On pn „ rw* 1 Hint iaken To Fortress Norway Removes Prize Crew From Mine Layer to Point Near Swedish Bor der; U. 3. Crew Put ting Ship in Order. Bergen, Norway, Nov. 7. —(AP) Seventeen German seamen, tho erstwhile prize crew of the Ameri can freighter City of Flint, were re moved from the mine layer Olav Trygvascn today to be taken to tho fortress at Kongsvinger, near the Swedish border-. The Germans, held when Norway returned the City of Flint to her American crew, were expected to leave on tonight’s train for the trip across southern Norway. An eighteenth German originally in the prize crew became ill, and was left at Murmansk, Soviet Russian port, at which the Flint stopped after her Capture by a German raider Octo ber !). The American crew, granted no shore leave, was busy putting the ship in order. This was not taken (Continued on Page Five)
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