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| SILVER | * n -\'IVERSARY 1914-1939 ;r i: i V-SIXTH YEAR HIRED AT FUDERAL OF MUNICH VICTIMS New And Better Peace Urged Roosevelt At Armistice; Lays Wreath On The Unknown Labor Leaders at White House The plight of American seamen thrown out of work by restrictions of the new Neutrality Act was stressed by John L. Lewis (left), CIO chairman, and William Green, president of the AFL (right), both shown arriving at White House for a conference with President on the flag-swapping issue. Both suggested that Congress provide some kind of employment for the idle seamen. Tomb Os Unknown Is Scene Os Further Pledges For Peace “We Want No More Long Rows of Graves/ ’ Navy Chief Says; Roosevelt Pays Tribute Also to Men Who Died to Save Peace. h:ngton, Nov. 11. —(AP) — On ' c : peaceful sunlit Virginia hills, v ::ore America’s Unknown Soldier . arid fields studded with the v:.:?e crosses of the nation’s war trad, President Roosevelt paid • n tribute today to the men who g: e their lives to establish perma : ■ ‘ peace in the world. "he chief executive himself did not •: ■ but other who particopated a- ceremony united in expressing ' ! hope that while a new war in E pe had shattered 21 years of ; * . the effects of America’s sac • in the last war would be to o the nation out of the present one. "We want no more long rows of aid Charles Edison, acting ‘ yof the navy. “This country practically unanimous in its fer desire to maintain peace. In her ' disillusionment ox .the shattered ’■ • and ideals of those who sur • d the Great War, thexre is a a 1 gain in the inspiring fact ay keep faith with the dead : ' ? ng every effort to non-in i' C ■ mtinued on Page Seven) (jovernment Loan l pon New Cotton Is Lifting Prices 'Wv. ')i c-ans, La., Nov. 11.—(AP) bombshell of a loan program the new cotton crop jolted the ' ’ r cotton industry out of its tie week, and put the in the driver’s seat of the E ' f r- , ing band wagon. p -f d to deep ’oy mediocre spot ' ' rre trading, which followed ce ?.< mpanying the out he E ropean war, the cot came to attention when w.ent announced it would a ha ic loan of 3.3 cents _ the 1939 production, es ;i! 11,845.000 bales. '<■ concentrated in early ' on the belief that official of acute shortage of —cotton available for Wang channels would oat a sharp price increase. ■ lure deliveries in New ■ ; -d 9.5 cents a pound, < rage at ten southern L rhod 9.39 cents. the mce early September. BiuttTrramx cLulit tHspafrli D a o wire service op IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Here’s Debt For First World War Washington, Nov. 11.— (AP) Armistice Day was observed at the Treasury today by re-com putation showing European na tions still owe us $14,497,161,340.- 22, as a result of the World War. The computation was made in ac cordance with funding agree ments. With both principal and inter est, here’s the bill: Great Britain, $5,497,669,379.- 48: France, $4,180,628,819.88; Italy $2,024,150,441.19; Germany, sl,- 259,870,431.25; Finland, $8,233,- 157.56. The others are in smaller amounts. Farm Income On Tobacco Down Sharply Daily IJispatcH Bureau. In Ihe S*lr Wat ter JloteL By HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh, Nov. 11. —North Carolina farmers had received up to Novem ber 1 approximately $25,000,000 less for their tobacco crop than on the corresponding date last year, it can easily be figured from the Novem ber warehouse sales summary of the North Cai'olina Department of Agri culture. Based on poundage and average prices given in the summary, com putation of the total amount receiv ed shows that farmers had received almost $75,000,000 up to the first of this month (the exact figures $74,- 390,457.19) against a total of slightly more than $100,000,000 (exact liguie $101,355,520.09) up to November 1, 1933. . » This decrease in cash receipts came about in the face of the fact that poundage has been heavier than last. The department’s figures indicate that up to the first there had been sold 480,369,148 pounds of produc ers’ tobacco, as against 433,143,281 pounds to November 1, last year. This increase is the more remai'kable, in view of the fact that all the mar kets were closed from September 12 to October 10 on account of the withdrawal of its bidders by the Brit ish Imperial Tobacco Company. The tobacco of 1938. however, had sold at an average price of $23.40 (Continued on Page Three) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTa CAROLINA AND VIRGIN Lv HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 11, 1939 Laying Down Weapons Os Hate Asked Message Sent to V. M. L On Its Cen tennial Day; Gather ing At Arlington Thankful Armistice Still Lives For United States. Washing* 'in. Noy. 11.- (AP'— President Roosevelt asserted today that the world needed a “new and better peace” than that at the end of the last World War —a neace that would cause men to “lay down weapons of hatred”, and forego “the purposeless ambitions” which have created fear. The chief executive set forth his peace aims in an address to the ca dets of Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., on the 100th anni versary of the school. He spoke from the White House here by long dis tance telephone. It is fitting, he said, to remem ber on this Armistice day that the only object of arms is to “bring about a condition in which quiet peace under liberty can prevail.” The President made the speech shortly after returning from Arling ton National Cemetery, where he led wreath-laying ceremonies at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. “In this season”, he said, “we have been used to celebrating the anniversary of the armistice of the "World War. Now we need a new and better peace, a peace which shall cause men at length to lay down weapons of hatred, which have been used to divide them, and to forego purposeless ambitions which have created fear—ambitions which in the long run serve no use ful end.” The President said he had sought and still seeks “in all sim plicity to try to find the road to ward this peace.” “It must be the goal not only of men trained to arms”, he added, “but of all of us everywhere whose dearest desire is a quite peace un der liberty”. A peaceful wind-swept slope at Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomoac river from Washing ton, was the scene of the President’s annual wreath-laying tribute to the World War veteran “known but to God”. Thanksgiving that the Armistice still lives for this country was high in the minds of many who gathered in the marble amphitheatre. Congress May Ask Details On New Ships Washington, Nov. 11.— (AP)—Con gress may ask the Army and Navy to demonstrate that they are getting full value out of defense dollars, some legislators said today after a disclosure that the Navy had had to correct structural defects in its new est class of destroyers. Senator Norris, Independent, Ne braska, who only recently l'eversed a lifetime habit of voting against “big navy” appropriations, said he thought that appropriation requests should be examined minutely to de termine that there was no wastage in defense expenditures. “We certainly can’t afford to waste any money now, and I don’t believe the need for construction speed is so great that we can’t have a check on these things,” he added. Senator's Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, and Holt, Democrat, West Virginia, said they thought the naval committee, of which they are mem bers, would want full reports on con struction problems before they would support pi’oposals for expanding the fleet. Chairman Scrugham, Democrat, Nevada, of the House Naval Ap propriations sub-committee, already has" served notice that he will in sist that the navy furnish expert testimony on the value ol battleships in view of submarine successes in the European war. 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Troops stand in readiness. What next? Netherlands And Belgium Are Preparing For Eventualities Peace That Didn’t Last Is Observed In England London, Nov. 11—(AP) The peace that did not last was observed in Great Britain today under war time restraints which cancelled fa- miliar ceremonies. For the first time | since the Armistice which ended the World War 21 years ago today, the j nationwide silence at 11 a. pi. today : was omitted because the sirene sig nalling the time might be mistaken for an air raid warning. For the first time also the memor ial services at the cenotaph, the na- Soviets Say Finns Won’t Compromise Moscow, Nov. 11. —(AP) —Charges that the Finns have intensified “their irreconcilability’’ in the Moscow negotiations, and also have increased their forces on Russia’s border, “thus demonstrating their uncompromising attitude” were made today by Tass, the official Soviet news agency. The statement on the Kremlin par leys, arising from Russian demands for territorial and strategic conces sions, declared the Finns had lailed to meet the minimum Russian terms. It said: “The English newspaper, Daily Ex press, published a report of an Ex change Telegraph (British news agency) l'eport from Halsinki tothe effect that ‘Stalin again rejected Fin land’s latest concessions’. “Tass is authorized to declare that the report of the Daily Express does not correspond with the facts. No ‘latest concession’s have been made by the Finns, in view of which Stalin could not reject that which does not exist at all. “According to the information of Tass, the Finns not only do not meet (Continued on Page Seven A (xfszaihsLti FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Sunday; followed by showers in the mountains Sunday; some what colder tonight. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Fair near beginning and end of week; showers about Wednesday or Thursday: temperature will be near normal. tional monument in White Hall was abandoned because the large out door crowd might have meant a risk of life in case of an air raid, j In King George’s wreath for the cenotaph this year French flowers were entwined with English poppies. Traditional observances, unaffected by the war, included a remember ance service in Westminister Abbey, where Britain’s unknown soldier is buried, and the sale of poppies to aid disabled veterans. Pope Pleads Capital-Labor Peace In U. S. Vatican City Nov. 11. —(AP)— Pope Pius XII, in a special encylical today, appealed for the application of the “Christian spirit” toward so lution of the conflict of capital and labor in the United States. The en cyclical was addressed to bishops of the United States on the 150th an niversary of the founding of the Catholic hierachy in that country. (Continued on Page Seven) Legion Resolved Not to Allow U. S. To Fight Abroad Raleigh, Nov. 11.—(AP)—The men who fought the “so-called war to erd war,” are “firmly re solved” that “never again will America, under any circum stances fight in a war across the seas,” June 11. Rose, of Green ville, State commander of the American Legion, said in an Armistice Day address here to day. “To properly keep faith with the Unknown Soldier who sleeps in Arlington, and all the un known who sleep around the world, we should see to it that this country of ours is properly armed for an adequate defense from the maddogs of Europe,” he asserted. “Regardless of who wins this war. or even if there is no win ner, we are still faced with the problem of defending this coun try. Therefore, there should be a conserving of our manpower and our natural resources.” PUBLISHED EVERY AFTF DON EXCEPT SUNDAY Belgian Cabinet De cides Its Course If Holland Is Invaded; Netherlands to Ask German Probe of Border Incidents Thursday. Berlin, Nov. 11.— (AP) Authorized sources declined to day to comment anew on rumors of an intended German march in the Netherlands. They said the German govern ment had declared it would re spect the neutrality of non belligerents as long as they ob served neutrality. This was the last word on the subject, it was stated. Amsterdam, Nov. IT.—(AP) —The Netherlands and Belgium squeezed between warring powers and the seas prepared today for any eventuality. Indicative of their forebodings were the following developments - The Belgian cabinet, in a night session, was believed by observers to have decided its stand should the Netherlands be attacked. It was re ported that the Belgian frontier would be closed if took any action against the Netherlands. The United States Consulate said it would advise Americans today to remove their wives and “dispensable staff members” from the Netherlands Foreign cori'espondents were warned by authorized sources at The Hague to limit their dispatches on defenses to materials appearing in The Netherlands papers. The government planned to request a German investigation of Thursday night’s border incident, in which one or two persons were reported shot on Netherlands soil, and carried with several others into Germany by oc cupants of a German automobile. Militai’y measures not officially ex —t (Continued on Page Seven) German Planes Swarming Over France And Belgium Paris, Nov. 11.—(AP) —Military sources raid German reconnaissance planes swarmed over northern France early today, many of them Hying over Belgium. Paris was placed on the alert by a 70-minute air raid warning. Re ults of anti-aircraft fire were not determined. The alarm, coming on the 70th day of the war, and on the 21st an niversary of the World War Armis tice. was the sixth for Paris. Military sources said that yestcr 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Lays Wreath On Caskets Os 7 Killed Rudolf Hess, High Nazi, Says Tears of Joy Have Filled Ger man Eyes That “Our Fuehrer” Still Lives, Despite Plot. Munich, Germany, Nov. 11.— (AP) —Adolf Hitler attended fun eral rites today for six men and a woman killed in a bombing of which he was tne intended victim, and then went to the site of the blast— Buergerbrau hall, where his abor tive 1923 putsch started. Hitler placed a wreath on the casket of the seven victims after ar riving in Munich unannounced. After his visit to Buergerbrau hall, he. heard a report of the com mission investigating the explosion, and called at a hospital to visit the 68 who were injured. While cannon boomed a salute, the fuehrer paid his respects to the “martyrs” of the explosion which last Wednesday wrecked the fa mous beer hall where veteran Nazis wi re celebrating the anniversary of the 1923 putsch. Flags flew at half mast through out Germany and the nation ob served a day of sorrow as a state funeral was held for the victims before the field marshals’ hall. Rudolph Hess, deputy leader of the Nazi party, who delivered the eulogy, described the bombing as “one of the most dastardly plots in history.” “The last thought of the victims,” Hess said, “was of Adolph Hitler. Their deaths brought to the full (Continued on Page Three.) Barge Sunk With Overseas Planes At New York Pier New York, Nov. 11.— (AP) A barge loaded with two Lock heed bombers consigned to the British Royal Air Force sank early today in quiet waters while tied up at Pier 12, Staple ton, Staten Island. The barge was awaiting the arrival of a British vessel to transfer the bombers for ship ment overseas. Switzerland Authorizes Full Force Berne, Switzerland, Nov. 11.— - (AP)—The Swiss government today empowered General Henri Guisan to call all able-bodied men to the colors whenever he decides a de fense of the nation requires it. The federal council’s action fol lows yesterday’s action calling an unstated number of troops to duty. Henceforth, Guisan has the right to call up troops himself without first obtaining governmental permission. Heretofore, such power has been granted to a commander only when Switzerland was at war. Officials said the move was “purely precautionary”, although foreign observers noted that its par allel defensive measures by Bel gium and the Netherlands at the other end of the western front be tween Germany and France. Switzerland has been in a state of mobilization since August 28, hut an unspecified number of sol diers had been released after that date. ; day German mass flights aided a j German artillery barrage on a mile ; long front in two undisclosed sec tors of the western front. These | were followed, they said, by infan | try attacks, reaching the French second advance lines before French counter attacks regained the posi tion, and inflicted numerous losses on the Nazis. The French general staff today, however, reported in a communi que: “Reduced activity on the front during the night.”
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